I didn't have a master plan to become an astronaut. I viewed myself as somebody who was inspired early on by the space program, but I knew that I wanted to serve in the military and that I wanted to be a military officer. My career evolved in this order. I was a soldier, then I was a physician, and saw an opportunity to apply to be an astronaut with no expectation of ever being selected. One of the most important things that I have learned in my military career is how to be a good teammate, how to build a good team, and how to work through problems together. Who is so thoughtful that it's fantastic to work with somebody that is so careful about other people, so conscious, and at the same time it makes me feel bad that I'm not as good as he is. Oh, that is untrue, untrue. Life is a team sport and being able to do that well, it makes life more enjoyable and in the end it will make you more successful. Luca really pushes me to strive to be better and better because he just performs at a high level in everything he does. He challenges me in new ways, so I have a really good teammate. And we're looking forward to this six hours underwater together. Yep, that would be fun. A lot of prep work happens up front and it's preparing not only myself, making sure that I'm trained and ready to go to go do the mission, but also to make sure that everything is taken care of at home. When you have the support of your family and everyone's behind you, and you have the emotional support of the family unit behind you, you can do your job better because you can focus on that. I wouldn't do this if I didn't have the support of my family. I know the toll that my career had taken on the family prior to me being selected as an astronaut, and then the demands of being an astronaut are no different and greater in many respects.  There's nobody that I could have done this without my wife, Stacy.


The next item of business is consideration of business motion 8084, in the name of Joffice Patrick, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, setting out a revised business programme for today and tomorrow. I would ask any member who wishes to speak against the motion to press their request to speak button now, and I call on Joffice Patrick to move motion 8084. Formally moved. Thank you very much. No member has asked to speak against the motion. The question therefore is that motion 8084 be agreed. Are we all agreed? Yes. We are agreed. Members may wish to note that decision time will be at six o'clock this evening, just to make sure that everyone is aware. The next item of business is topical questions, and we start with question number one from Sandra White. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government further to the statement issued on 16 September what its response is to the violence that took place during the independence referendum in Catalonia. The Scottish Government is very concerned about events in recent days in Catalonia. The violent scenes that were witnessed on Sunday were shocking and unnecessary, and this is a view that is shared amongst the international community. The Scottish Government is particularly disappointed by the response of the UK Government to the violent scenes. Yesterday, I wrote to the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urging the UK as a friend and ally of Spain to issue a more robust statement, unequivocally condemning the use of violence by Spanish police to suppress the peaceful expression of political views in Catalonia and communicating in the strongest possible terms our serious concerns. The Scottish Government now hopes that there is a process of dialogue that will allow both the Spanish and the Catalonian Governments to find a way forward that respects the rule of law, respects democracy and also respects the right of the people of Catalonia to decide the future of their country. Sandra White. I thank the cabinet secretary for her reply and do agree with all that she has said. Cabinet secretary mentioned the fact that she has written to the foreign secretary in Westminster. Can he ask the cabinet secretary if there are any further meetings being put forward and what would be discussed at those further meetings in regard between dialogue and has she had any correspondence with the Spanish and Catalonian Governments as well? On the latter point, there has been no correspondence, although I had a brief opportunity to speak to the Spanish consul general when he was here in this Parliament last week. The importance of dialogue, communication and mediation are absolutely essential. If you look at the comments from across the European Union, from foreign ministers from across the European Union, their message has been one of desisting on violence and progressing on dialogue. There will be responsibilities, particularly for European institutions but also for other international bodies and I think that that is the best way forward. Certainly we can express our views but we have always said that we understand that the constitutional situation and the legal situation in Spain is different. However, that is a basic issue of human rights and democracy and fundamental rights of democracy and the ability of people to express their political will and their political views without fear of violence is something that all of us, all of us as internationalists and most importantly as Democrats must uphold. Sandra White Thank you very much. I certainly agree that dialogue is essential as do the Catalonian Government as well. Cabinet Secretary, having witnessed the horrific violence by Spanish police against innocent civilians exercising a democratic right to vote, can I ask the Cabinet Secretary if she agrees with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights when he said that I am very disturbed by the violence in Catalonia on Sunday, with hundreds of people reported injured. I urge the Spanish authorities to ensure through independent and partial investigations into all acts of violence and I call on the Government of Spain to accept without delay the request by relevant UN human rights experts to visit Spain. I do indeed. I think that the intervention from the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights was welcome. I think that it was appropriate and it was also measured. It is also a reflection that abuses of human rights wherever they take place must be investigated and to respect the international perspective on that and the importance of respecting human rights as part of the UN Charter and their responsibilities therein. I think that that is one of the ways for particularly to address what has shocked so many people across the globe is the scenes of violence and very brutal violence by the Spanish police under the instruction of the Spanish authorities on people going about what all of us in this country can take for granted, which is democratic exercise of the right to vote. It is not our job to tell the people of Catalonia how to vote but they most certainly should have the right to be allowed to vote. I think that finding a way forward that respects the differences that are here where you have a clash between the rights of fundamental rights that are expressed by and desired by and should be exercised by the Catalonian people with the constitution and law of the Spanish state. These are not irreconcilable but it will take international measures and that is why I think that particularly either the EU institutions or the UN must have a responsibility to try and take this forward. Jackson Carlaw Does the cabinet secretary agree with me that whatever the thinking of the authorities and government of Spain, there was clearly little rational about it and that whatever the intentions they may have had, their actions will have proved to be wholly counterproductive? Does she agree with me that this is deeply damaging potentially to the reputation of Spain, a country for which many of us really have the fondest and most high regard? Cabinet Secretary I do indeed reflect and respect and agree with Jackson Carlaw's comments. I think that the actions by the Spanish Government has done themselves in the service and I think that they will eventually prove counterproductive and it is important that they address that and indeed engage in that dialogue that we have been discussing in my previous replies. It is absolutely essential that this situation cannot be allowed to pass and will not pass and I know that there have been diplomatic statements made but I hope that in the quietness of the private conversations that can and should be paid place, Spain can be brought to more of a common sense and respectful position than it has clearly up until down. Christina McKelvie We have seen from the violent scenes on Sunday perpetrated by the Spanish Government's civil guards. There seems to be little regard for the upholding of civil liberties and human rights. Does the Scottish Government agree with me and with article 2 of the Lisbon Treaty that we are all bound to the fundamental principles of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law and respect for human rights and that those principles should always be the foundations to which we uphold the rights of European citizens? Christina McKelvie The member is indeed correct. In this place, in this Parliament, where we are embracing the importance of human rights right across a number of committees, not least the one that the member convenes, those messages of our recognition—that is one of the aspects of article 2—are one of the strengths of the European Union now is a time when people are looking to the European Union for some leadership that expression and understanding of those rights in this context could be best served by mediation or negotiation and some involvement by the EU institutions in resolving what currently is a very intractable situation but one that must be resolved by dialogue and of peace and of democracy. Daniel Johnson What is its response to the reports that there are almost twice as many under 10s being prescribed stimulants than there were in 2010? Michael Matheson The Scottish Government has worked with a number of organisations to help to reduce the stigma faced by people with mental health problems. As this stigma has fallen, it is welcome that more people and families come forward for help with mental health problems. We believe that it is a positive sign that people feel more able to come forward to get help. The rise in prescriptions for ADHD is reflective of the general increase in demand for child and adolescent mental health services. The majority of young people with ADHD are not receiving medication as part of their treatment, instead receiving alternative support as set out in sign 112 guidelines. The most important consideration is that people with any mental illness should expect and receive the same standard of care as people with physical illness. Any prescribing is a professional clinical decision for a patient's doctor with them and should be appraised on a regular basis. Daniel Johnson Can I thank the minister for that response? I received my diagnosis of ADHD late in life at the age of 35. My diagnosis and subsequent therapy have transformed my life, but the most important element of that therapy is the medication that I take on a daily basis. My only regret is that I did not receive that diagnosis and, indeed, that therapy earlier in life. The minister will have seen the coverage in yesterday's Herald, which is part of a weekly series that it is running on Scotland's supposed over-reliance on drugs. The Royal College of Psychiatrists is clear that, if anything, we are probably under-diagnosing children with ADHD, but the rate of prescribing is roughly one-third that of the children with the most serious form of ADHD. Does the minister agree with me that such sensationalist coverage and comments from the Conservatives are unhelpful and that we should be seeking to promote understanding of this condition, not stigmatising children who take medication for ADHD and, indeed, other mental health and neurological conditions? I thank the member very much for sharing his experience of ADHD with the chamber this afternoon. He is absolutely right that more people have children and young people have ADHD than are coming forward, and fewer people are prescribed drugs and more people alternative therapies. I thank him for showing that medication has an important part to play, but I would re-emphasise that it is in consultation with the person's GP and, hopefully, that they can be reduced if that is the right thing to do. I totally agree with him on his observation of the Opposition Benches. I again thank the minister for that response, and I quite agree in the need to emphasise the importance of medication. Responding to the coverage, the Scottish ADHD Coalition stated the need for better training of our teachers and access to CAMHS. We know from the Education and Skills Committee recent work that teachers are not adequately trained in additional support needs, and while in schools across the rest of the UK there are councillors, in Scotland schools there is no guarantee for such provision. Will the minister outline what steps will be made to improve training for teachers in dealing with children with ADHD and other additional support needs? Will she meet my party's call for every school to have access to a councillor? As the member will know, and I thank him for his question, part 1 of the 40 actions in the mental health strategy is a review of PSE and schools. Some schools already provide access to school-based counselling, others utilise the skills of pastoral staff and liais with educational psychology services. We want to make sure that all children and young people get the support that they need to reach their full potential. The Additional Support for Learning Act prelaces on education authorities duties to identify, provide and review for additional support needs, but we are taking forward the PSE review as expeditiously as possible. Miles Briggs, is the minister confident that families across Scotland are always being offered access to high-quality behavioural therapists? What additional action is the Scottish Government planning to take to increase the number of behavioural therapists available to support parents and primary-age children and to reduce waiting times for that therapy? As I said in my answer to Daniel Johnson, there are access to services available through school. The Scottish Government has worked with Education Scotland to produce a psychological therapies matrix, a guide to planning and delivering evidence-based psychological therapies in Scotland. The matrix dedicates a section to ADHD. Drugs for ADHD are prescribed in line with good clinical practice under on-going supervision and where appropriate. As I said, they are used alongside other treatments such as counselling and psychological therapies. Clare Haughey, I thank Daniel Johnson for sharing his story of diagnosis and treatment. It is vitally important that those of us in the chamber break down the stigma surrounding mental illness at all ages. What has been the change in the number of CAMHS professionals under this Government and, in particular, what has been the change in the number of CAMHS psychology posts? Under this Government, the number of CAMHS psychological posts has more than doubled and the overall number of CAMHS professionals has increased by 65 per cent to almost 1,000 whole-time equivalent staff. Brian Whittle, to ask the Scottish Government, in light of the health secretary's comments in June, when she said that the country's stillbirth rates and neonatal death rates continue to decline. What is the response to the recent report by the National Records of Scotland, which suggests an increase in the rate in 2016? In my statement to Parliament in June, I highlighted the findings of the Embrace perinatal report on the 2015 data that had been published a few days previously on 22 June. The report highlighted the lowest ever stillbirth rates for Scotland and also the analysis of variation across the United Kingdom at national and health board level. The provisional 2016 data from NRS shows a rise in both stillbirth and neonatal death rates in 2016, and while that is disappointing, it is against a long-term trend of reducing rates. NRS data for the last 10 years shows that, since 2006, the stillbirth rate in Scotland has fallen by 19 per cent and the neonatal death rate by 16 per cent. That represents good news for families and good progress by the hard-working staff in maternity and neonatal units across Scotland. Brian Whittle, I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. Perhaps I can ask her to explain that, given that the NRS report was available to her at the time of her statement, why she chose to use the Embrace report from 2015, given that the Embrace report does not include such statistics as multiple births and home births? First of all, the Embrace perinatal report on the 2015 data was just published a few days previously on 22 June, so it was the most recent Embrace perinatal report, which of course is the gold standard of reports that compares rates across the UK and between health boards. The provisional 2016 NRS data was first published on 8 March, but the data remains provisional for a full year because there is sometimes a delay in data being reported and sometimes the data needs cleansed. The data becomes finalised after the end of a year, next March 2018, and will feature in the Embrace perinatal surveillance report to be published next summer, which will be based on the 2016 NRS data and will provide an indication of the relative rates of stillbirth and neonatal death across the UK. I hope that that provides an explanation to Mr Whittle. Mr Whittle, in case that concludes the topical questions, we will now move on to our next


Hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2019 battle series I hope you're all doing well. We kicked off this week with this Suggalio Xigar team that you can see on your screen And as I said at the start of the week what we want to try and do is go through this week's games and Analyze the team see and make out what things we're struggling against and then tech against them going into next We can put our own spin on the team and make it a really solid finished article with our own twist on it come next Friday so hopefully it'll be a lot of fun going along and doing that as we go through the matches this week We've had some incredible games so far to kick us off this week if you missed any of them I'll put a card up here for you all so you can go and check those out and Without further ado, we'll just get into it today guys. Let's put some music on and hop on to the battle spot ladder But as always if you do enjoy this sort of content Make sure that you do drop a like on the video make sure you do subscribe to the channel So you don't miss any of these daily episodes as well as a guide series a flinch squad circuit And add live streams that we have and just to let you know as well I have mentioned this already this week, but we are currently working on our ultra series guide So they will drop at any point after the ultra series kicks into effect very soon So we've got a first opponent of the day, and I think it's a repeat from earlier in this So it's like a game three isn't it against a dog who can and he is playing a team of a zernius Kyoga Cortana and mungas ludicolor and incinero, so hopefully we can have a more success again against this team here We need to utilize the toxa croc for sure It's so good in this game against the Kyoga the Cortana even the ludicolor and the zernius it does so much work We need to protect ourselves against the mungas with its Rage powder and it's spores so the spores the one thing that really does give us a lot of issues Um, I think I probably want to bring do I want to bring incinero as well for the double faker because incinero can be good against Cortana, but again, we've got sogaleo to kind of fall back on in that situation if we need to so um I think we'll lead tap of any And we'll go sogaleo We'll bring the toxa croc and then zygote in the back and go with that same for Hop straight out of team preview and wait for our opponent to pick their team Um, but yes, so it's been a lot of fun with this team so far I'm looking forward to maybe making some changes up We did say in our previous episode that the venus all slot is one thing that we could look at maybe changing We're not bringing it. You're not really thinking about it too much even in team preview So it is a bit of a dead slot at the moment. It does have a lot of utility Um, but one of the things I would say is where it was very good at checking ground on It's maybe not so much anymore because of the the popularity of volcarana now pairing with that ground on And hopefully we can bump into a few of those teams to see how we can match up against them And going into the the later stages of this this um, this testing phase with the team So we're going to see coyoga and ludicolor come out for my opponent We are going to see the rain activated and then we've got tap of finny out on the field with our sogaleo here So I think what we'll do is straight away. We will go for a What do we want to do nature's madness? into coyoga And switch into toxic rock This one's a quick one. We might get three games today. You never know So let's see what my opponent decides to go for here with this fast offensive need that they've got I just feel so comfortable with toxic rock in the back, especially with tap of finny I'm gonna see a fake out coming out and it is into that toxic rock slot Which reveals actually a life over and a thunder now coming out from coyoga I'm gonna attack straight hard into that tap of finny now and do some good damage to it Taking it down to 50 health, but we are going to get nature's madness into that slot and Pick up some good damage in return trade blow for blow here as you take it down to about 50 health A dry skin activating on that toxic rock So healing up all that health and I think it's probably a good time to get in as I got And go for a poison jab into that ludicolor because if we see another thunder come out from this coyoga It's going to be into that tap of finny. We want to try and protect that for later in the game Get as I got in resist that thunder Um, it's just if we see for some reason my opponent predicting that and seeing again I like going for an ice beam into that slot Oh, even a water spout wouldn't be ideal or a hydra vortex into that slot This is I got here wouldn't be the end of the world, but it's it's losing resource It's not early on that we don't need to That wouldn't be great, but I think we'll probably be quite safe So we'll get zygote onto the field activate that misty Seed get that special defensive boost We're going to see a knockoff actually come out from the ludicolor into the toxic rock here I'm going to say I'm going to target down the toxic rock with a thunder this turn We'll be able to remove this ludicolor though And there's no threat of us getting paralyzed from this thunder from the coyoga here as It does do a chunk of damage. I mean a critical hit there is really unfortunate for us That's like the one thing that we don't want to be seeing right there Um, which is really frustrating, but never mind Um, we do get some dry skin health back though, which is always useful. We have lost our Saltfest the knockoff tech there is really nice on the ludicolor Um, it's good for getting rid of assault vests on things like toxic rock and eveltals and other things so on and so on We are going to actually see cartona come onto the field now, which is an interesting pick for my opponent as we can just go I think we'll just go for that a thousand arrows and Do we switch back into type of finny here Yeah, I want to keep so the layer if I can because I do feel like the zonius is probably lurking in the back Although the zonius was there. You'd feel like it comes out now Put a lot more pressure onto the zygarde Let's see a smart strike though from the carton and this might be enough to get the finny We're gonna be spooked. Oh, we survived. We survived the calcs I'm coming in clutch For our finny here. We are gonna see Oh war terri mz No, we want to see no I don't know if zygarde takes this plus one. I really don't I really don't know if we do take it the cartona is gonna be a bit scary to deal with as well I mean really critical hit Oh, there's no words is there. There's no words I want to do the calc on that actually I'm gonna just quickly do it. I'm gonna see uh, kayoga Zygarde, might make me feel a bit better Against plus one We're pretty bulky. Yeah, we take that we take that 100% of the time So that crit did matter doesn't make me feel any better now though, but never mind And we've got the fake out we can go for the fake out I think and just an icy wind into that cartona and kayoga and slur if you think down We're gonna see the kayoga switch out now The moonga's coming to the field. So We need to make sure that we are We are keeping that terrain around for for the moonga's and to deal with that because That thing can become quite scary if we don't deal with it properly We do get the icy wind onto the cartona and the moonga switch is nice get some more dry skin Health restored here, and I'm gonna go for a drain punch Into the carton. I'm gonna switch in so go now Hopefully you target down the type of finny here But I imagine you probably target down the toxic rock because of how easy it has a time against the the kayoga. We're gonna see A rage powder Leaf blade it is gone for the finny. So that's fine. I mean we get away with that this term No, that's just general damage Drain punch. I mean any health here is good health, isn't it? So toxic rock we need to try and keep we'll get some rain has stopped so no more dry skin No more dry skin inch Um, okay, so we'll bring in teppie finny toxic rock get this terrain back up in effect. Um I can't go superpower yet.  Yeah, it's just gonna continually rage part of the moonga's. It's a bit of a pain There's a smart strike. Oh, what? Okay Not so good. Not so good. Not so good. Um, okay I mean if we can swagger soga layer, uh, we're just gonna have to send steel strike the moonga's I can't bring in toxic rock here. I just can't Yeah, it's just gonna rage part of again. Hopefully this moonga's doesn't have like one of those super varies Because we're likely to proc it here, which will take even longer to take it down Which makes it even more difficult to deal with this cartona Because it's gonna get a beast boost regardless. Okay, we don't proc yet It's just going for the smart strike the longer it's not going for this knockoff into our soga layer on the bed I really um It does get the beast boost of course But we do have an opportunity now where we can fake it out and go for the sun steel strike into the moonga's And get rid of this moonga's once and for all Does it open in the door for the kayaga to come back in? Okay, cartona actually revealing detect, which is quite interesting So good job. We didn't fake out and double target into that slot There was considering it thinking that it was potentially gonna have The assault vest, but it definitely doesn't And it doesn't have knockoff then which is which is also very very good for us Still gonna be very very difficult to close this one out um Because we potentially we really need to fake out now Um, and we need to utilize wide guard toxic rock is not taking Um, I mean one thing we could do is good to go sucker punch into the kayaga and then go for The z move into carton And hope we don't see an origin pulse while we actually outspeed cartona. No, we don't this is the cartona. No we do Did we get nice? What? I don't understand this This means toxic rock has a free free ring now As long as I But I don't oh this is I'm confused I'm so confused There's a thunder it's gone into toxic rock. This will probably take us down Well, it will take us down Yeah Because it's just always critical hitting. It's like the ultimate kayaga never stops critting Ever ever stops critting. Well super power that should be enough to get the kayaga from this range Um, and that should steal up the game and somehow like I honestly thought we'd lose this after that critical hit hydro vortex into azai god, but Um, we actually managed to survive. So that's that's really good for us really good Huh good game to my opponent and um a bit of an exciting one for us to kick off with today And even though the rng gods were not shining down as very kindly in that match We managed to still come through and that says a lot about a team. I think so very good Right, let's get into our next one super quickly and brush off that that old rng and um Get into our next one. It's gonna be exciting. So yes Nearly 1600 now it's only taken half the week to get up to this point But um, I'll be playing streams and stuff in between now and next week. So we'll be we'll be Well up high by then. So yes, but like I mentioned earlier in the week as well We've not got long left in the moon series So if you would like to see any sort of teams calls or anything like that played Before we do end up and go into the ultra series Make sure you do drop your comments down below and let me know what you'd like to see played So we can arrange that for the last couple of weeks in the moon series, but we're gonna next opponent ban And ban is playing a qr code team. It consists of kai auger ludicorla incinero lunala ferrathorn and Tepicoco We're not seeing hardly any groudons these days. Oh, yeah, I wonder if they're all just further up the ladder I wonder wonder wonder, but what are we gonna do here? We've got kai auger lunala is the restricted pay here You've got that combination of ludicorla there with a fake out supporter Support and be very fast and offensive with that kai auger that's potentially scarfed Yeah, you've got the incinerole. It's also got fake out support and good switching for lunala You've got a trick room check in ferrathorn and the tepicoco there. I do feel like Um Zygarde is going to be very good here We need to be very careful around the ludicorla kai auger But we can bring toxicoco to try and check that to a certain extent. I definitely want I really want incinerole in this match if I'm really honest because we need it for oh, we don't need it It does help out against the ferrathorn quite a lot where we could rely on so go leo a bit more I think what we'll do is lead off with so go leo and finny toxa croc And zygarde like we have been doing and finding a lot of success with that kind of combination We'll get into this next one And see how we get on it's been I am really enjoying this team though. I really do love zygarde We haven't seen as much of zygarde as I would have liked A bit unfortunate in that last one might have seen a bit more of it, but I do really like zygarde I mean still go leo with the phytonium z is kind of stealing the show at the minute Lunala's a little bit of a difficult matchup still for us We just need to be very careful with what we're doing in front of lunala and make sure that we are um approaching it correctly because losing so go leo In this matchup it's not going to be great for us at all and z move could come out I'm an easy pick up the kill so I think straight away we want to um to try and get around that if we can problem is though um We haven't got incinero to help us out here, which is a little bit tricky And we could bring in zygarde And we could go icy wind Yeah, I think that's not a bad play and then if we can get the icy wind off get zygarde And we can heal pulse the next turn if we see z move into that slot power construct should activate if we do see that as well Hopefully see the figure into that slot no it's into the finny That's not what we wanted to see until we got but that's not the worst that is not the worst at all Okay, um Do we coil I think we just thousand hours here just to get some damage on stuff and I think we swagger as well There's zygarde I don't feel comfortable going for the icy wind now with the tail wind up because it's kind of pointless if my opponents which is Something in here or you turns out Um, they're still going out speed is the next turn so it's almost like a dead turn almost for us because We do break the shadow shield on the lunala, but at the same time We're not really gaining much momentum by going icy wind might have been better going for nature's madness than a thousand hours into the Lunala, but at the same time I kind of want to just get as much damage off as I can with this tap of finny We're not going to see a switch out. So likely we're going to see you turn From this incinero, we are going to see the z move though from this lunala Whereas it can be into we know that finny takes this pretty comfortably and we'll have to cut out this guy So can it is into the tap of finny here? Can we take it that is the big question? We should be able to Oh, we take a 12 hp just hanging on so we are going to be able to get this swagger And thousand hours off as we see the incinero now go for the u-turn Into the zai god It's going to reposition itself But as long as that swagger hits anything coming in it's not going to enjoy this plus 2000 hours from our zai god So that is a big big bonus for us tapu koko of all the things Normally you'd be like, yeah, this is great. This is great. We didn't want to see thousand hours, but because it's swagger It's not a misty terrain anymore Oh There's always a chance that we could hit ourselves in confusion. Come on zai god pull through do it for the team We did it We did it We'll take down the koko and do some nice damage to that lunala in the process Wow, okay Not so ideal really Um not having the incinero on this match is Proving to be very difficult for us because we really need a switching for whatever this lunala is deciding to do Kyogre now going to hit the field with this electric terrain up as well. It is extremely threatening. So Um I'm going to protect zai god I'm going to switch finny out and bring in toxa croc It could be the crocs of our game here, but I mean we've got to do something to read just this point and I think I don't know if we see a side shock into tapu finny I mean we might do but I feel like You probably want to concentrate more on getting the zai god off the field right now At least that's what I'm hoping and I'm convinced in myself. That's what the the the best play is, but it's not And we're confused as well, which is really difficult. Okay, we get through it I mean the reduced chance of confusion now hitting yourself is so much better Lungeis beam coming out it is going to be into the toxa croc. We do take this um Better than a side shock for sure And whatever the kayaga throws out if it is a thunder it's something good. It's a nice beam. Okay, so we're just just kind of Keeping up feet on the ground here. We've got sucker punch though that can really help us out against this lunala and I think what we'll do is go for Can we switch into tapu finny here? Because we could just sucker punch I'm going to extreme speed the kayaga and sucker punch the lunala It's got to know that we've got sucker punch The kayaga we're going to switch out. We're going to see incinero coming. It's going to get the minus one Okay, probably lose toxa croc here if I'm honest Oh, we hit ourselves a confusion that's not what we want to see sucker punch. It's not going to be enough at minus one I don't think no we needed the just yeah the intimidate there being huge my opponent Okay, we are going to lose toxa croc, which is a little bit unfortunate But their tailwind does pitter out. They've got a perfect opportunity to get it set up this next turn now Um, but I'm going to bring in sogaleo now And I'm going to go for this thousand arrows And I'm going to go for this unsteal strike into the lunala so we can we can double tap that slot You can only fake out one thing And if you go for the tailwind, that's fine But we get we take down the lunala, which is the big thing hindering a sogaleo at the minute But we can definitely stall out these tailwind turns just the ice beam on the kayaga It's a little bit awkward to deal with isn't it fake out coming out into Sogaleo We're gonna see tailwind. Yeah, hopefully we snap out of confusion. I feel like it's a turn we do snap out of confusion No, come on zygarde do for the team Yes, we do it for the team. Do we take down the incident? Oh, we do probably plus one So close Oh, if we'd taken that down as well, that would have been insanely good for us Never mind. We just proc a berry. So that's all right It goes back up to full health Just about anywhere half over half health. I should say And then the kyle is gonna come on and now our job is to stall out stall out As I got the z move I mean, we could play a bit safer just to just to see if it has switching finny for sogaleo now We do lose access to the wide guard By switching it out, but at the same time if we wide guard and it's a moves. I can't z move Lunala have the z move. Of course. Of course. Of course What am I talking about? Losing my mind here. I'm losing my mind. I'm sorry guys We are getting the misty terrain up and getting rid of that electric terrain is useful We do eventually snap out of confusion as soon as that misty terrain comes in is that a coincidence or what? And there's a what's bad. So we could have wide guarded there The finny goes down here if you see a knock up and knock off into that slot. Yeah, okay. That's perfect I mean, we're gonna get sogaleo back in Um, that's fine We can't my god. We can't my god here How many turns of tail wind have we got left? two, okay It's a thousand arrows NY guard And we got to hope that that coyote is locked in And it doesn't deviate from the water spout Yeah, it's got water spout excellent. Perfect. So that's it now Knock off. Okay into zygarde. That's fine We'll get the incident. I'll do so much damage to that coyote. It's not gonna matter anymore Uh, we can just extreme speed z move it this next turn and that will be fine As the rain does stop anyway and that should be game for ourselves Which is excellent news for us guys As we're back to old winning ways Well, we haven't really stopped loot and winning have we so and there's a forfeit so that wraps it up for today guys I hope you've enjoyed today's episode. It's been really great Thank you so much to my opponents in today's episode and good game for both both players there It's been a bit of an up and down one But we managed to come out on the good side of all of them and we've had some tough matches as well So we'll go into tomorrow and after tomorrow's episode was when we reevaluate for the weekend And we make some changes coming into next week and start tweaking things to our liking a little bit Even though most of the spreads while all of the spreads in on this team on my own The movesets I've chosen my own Obviously, uh, there are the standard ones out there, but I have put this together It's just a common six that you're going to see normally played together But I do feel like the venus or slot is the one that we can get rid of sorry venus or But yes, um, if you've got any suggestions, don't let me know and we can totally take those forward with us But we'll end it there guys. Thank you so much for tuning in. Have a great evening morning afternoon and night Whatever time of day it is wherever you are take care of yourselves and we'll see you for the next one Until then


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Mickey a nice win with the white pieces against a vengeance the opening. How did it go? The a4 idea is quite rare here Yeah, I played it before I don't really know You know she started thinking that she played this b5 move which looked Well, very risky at least it may looked pretty bad to me. Actually I don't know. Maybe she had some chances to get back into it after that, but in the end I managed to win pretty easily Right now yesterday you beat who you fan who is the number one player from China and today Another player from China seems like you're quite on a it's been a really good start for you Yeah, I got a double white win. I wasn't well, I would have been happy to be one of them, but it's great to beat them both It's nice to win a game a bit quickly as well. I had already three games over six hours So a shorter game was welcomed today with a good result yesterday was quite a marathon as well Yeah, I don't know I mean I was going to give it up as a draw But then I was sitting there for a while and I was sort of noticing this this end game with the extra night I mean it looks like it should be a draw because blacks pawns are so far advanced, but it's Very very complicated and then I realized that practically it's very very difficult for black at least Right very enterprising play from you Mickey throughout the tournament as of now and just coming back to today's game Now when you played a4 and she goes b6 this idea with a5. Did you feel after b5? It was completely I mean you were very happy with the position because it seemed after the d5 pawn is gone It was all but over No, I mean I b5. I was very surprised. I thought it looked you know really bad and Yeah, I mean it was a bit strange. She played b6 quickly I think she intended to play Queen c7 Which is another common move and maybe she mixed the move order because I don't think she was happy after But I mean a5 maybe Bishop b7 or b takes a5 I mean there are the moves that b5 the pawn on a6 is really really strong That's that's the big problem and also I have the idea to play rook a5 very often So these two factors, you know really I mean otherwise it might be a great position But these two additional themes make it really unpleasant for her for black Right now Mickey just give us a little insight into how the preparation works for you when you're playing against someone like vengeance who's having a great tournament, but definitely over the white pieces you Want to try to win this game the psychological aspect of the preparation and how would you prepare for such a round? No, I didn't prepare so much No, I mean I really didn't prepare so much today I didn't consider she would play the French at all more or less I checked my French notes like for one minute because I saw she started playing recently But she played in so few games. I thought probably she would play. Well, okay I thought she would play something else maybe Maybe Petro for Sicilian. She was playing a lot. So I thought probably she would choose one of these two options, so so all my preparation time was wasted, but there wasn't too much of it Right now making my last question that I want to ask you is that why is it in the chess world that you're known as the spider? Well, I don't know a very strong player so that about me once so I took it as a compliment But my wife is not very fond of spiders I can tell you All right, well, we wish you all the best for the remaining rounds. Thank you very much. Thanks a lot


Headline News Update. Welcome, folks. We have the Dow Industries trading up $3.48. NASDAQ is up $182. S&P's are up $40. Bottom line, folks, watch this close, man, because this is going to get interesting. And the reason I'm saying that is this, is we've already had the spy fail on price and volume. Now, if you take a look at this, the spy is up $4.13. You get a gap higher. You're gapped higher than your downtrend that was established out here, well, the down day of the 28th. $4.38.04, no, I'm sorry, $4.40, $4.40, $4.04. That you close underneath that, bottom line, you're going south once again. My take is that we're going to go south right into the close here, because that S&P has given it up so tremendously. NDX100, we take a look at the 3Qs. We're taking a look at the 3Qs. It's $367.37. That's the number to keep your eye on. And what that is, that's actually a lower number. And you can see how the Qs are actually still weaker than the spy, even though the spy gave it up more than the Qs today so far, because the spy got up to that $4.41, $6.08, you got into the bar, you got into the big bar, where the Qs did not get into the big bar at all. Gold, gold contract up here, building cars for higher price. You get the gold contract, you're down to $17.52, you're trading at $17.56. We get volume out here, inside this gold contract of $134,000, so you got light volume trading sideways. King dollar, what do we have a king dollar out here? King dollar right now is trading down 59 ticks. You get a sideways move. King dollar more than likely wants to go back and try to test this high. Yes, they almost got to the high. We got to the 91,447. The high that's looking to test is this 94,505, and then if we go into the note and bond market, what you have with notes and bonds, you're down 10 ticks. Now this is anemic, man. I mean, the bottom line might take notes and bonds to a higher price. You're down with 1.1 million contracts. You are down 10 ticks, which is a big move. That being said, guess what? You need a lot more sellers down here. The last time we were down at this level, you had 2.4 million contracts. Right now you're only at 1.1 million contracts. So that's telling me we still want higher price, lower yield. Yes, pretty wild. Stay right there, folks. Come right back. We have the Dow industrials right now trading up 368. NASDAQ 147, S&P's up 43. We'll come right back.


Are you still there? Hi Jasper, I'm still here. Okay, good, good to know. Sorry about that, I was just, I was just preparing the insights, which I'll try and do. Oh, okay, yes, we don't have a spare man for insights and Twitter updates this time, do we? Yeah, okay, let's try and multitask. Yeah, so I'm going to, I was just getting the post-organized as best I can. Well done, that man. Okay, let's skip through these. So we'll try and do that. So if we hear clicking in the background, that's what I'm doing. Clicking and furious typing. I'll try and keep it quiet, but sometimes the keystrokes pick up. Yeah, if you hear it. Anyways, I'm ready to start at any time you are. Okay. Yeah. And guys, if you hear a kind of whimpering sound, that's Colin's trade not working out. Okay, so we're going through the risk warning here, we've got our Canada risk warning on the screen here for our Canadian clients involved, and that's about it. So there we are. We've got a 13 minute countdown happening here for these, what I should say is all these numbers that really count Colin, what do you put in the most emphasis on this time around out of the figures, the headline? Yeah, I'm looking at the headline number and the average earnings I think will be really important because one of the things we're looking at here, I mean we've had a lot of Fed speakers out the last couple of weeks and they're basically saying, you know, the US is approaching full employment, which has been increasingly clear for quite a while. The inflation also is starting to pick up and one of the places that I've been noticing inflation pick up both in the US and in other countries is in wage pressures and the Fed's kind of been downplaying it, but the truth is that wage pressures are stickier inflation, like inflation driven by oil prices or commodity prices. It goes up and it goes down, but wage prices are stickier.  So that's what I call real inflation. So that's one of the numbers we're really keeping an eye on here. And the reason a lot of people are focused on non-firm payrolls today in particular of course is because we've got the big Fed meeting coming in a couple of weeks. Number of Fed members including some of the big ones like Fisher and Dudley and Yellen was a little more balanced but still and Mester and some of the other regional presidents have been saying that September is potentially a live meeting for a rate hike. Why? Because the Fed didn't raise rates in June. If you were looking at every six months they missed June because of Brexit even though they blamed it on a soft non-farm number. And it was really all about Brexit. And so this would be the catch up in September and then perhaps they could go again in December or in March. So the options really are Fed raises in September or Fed signals September for December is probably what we're looking at going forward. But the non-farm number will tell us which one is more likely. And so we've been running above 200,000 this summer since we rebounded from the week May number. And so what I've been considering is that if we get another non-farm number above 200,000 we'll probably see the Fed raise rates this month. If we're between 100 and 200,000 and it's 50-50 maybe they will maybe they won't. If it's below 100,000 then the Fed will probably use September to signal for December. One of the other things that's been going on lately and it's been coming from Rosengren and Dudley and a few of the others is the Fed has been talking down the threshold for non-farm payrolls needed to raise rates. So people used to think well they would need maybe 250 or 300 to actually put through an increase and they've been saying depending on the Fed member somewhere between 50 and 150 as being okay and indicating a decent steadily growing job market. And it makes a lot of sense because if you're approaching full employment you would expect as anything else that the rate of increase would slow. You would expect job was non-farm payrolls to grow to slow as you approach the it's not a physical barrier but let's just call it a psychological barrier of full employment wherever it is. Sure, you get to a point where there's no more people left to actually take the jobs when you reach 100% employment. Yeah and back to your point about wages obviously that you know it's a good market to be to be switching jobs at the moment because you know less people available for work you know employees have to bid up how much they're offering to those who are left and those are in other places of work. Absolutely and that's why we want to be looking at the average earnings as well because that's another sign that will show us we're getting close to full employment is that you see the payroll growth slow and the wage growth increase. So is 100,000, is that the sort of low bar for you on this one? Plus 100k you still think December is on the cards? Yeah I think so I think that plus 100k and I think plus 200 September is probably still in the cards because it just feels to me like the Fed is ready and wanting to do this I think they've reached a point where they're when intrigues me though about it is that the the elections coming and in a couple of months and so usually the Fed tries to stay away from election campaigns so we we can pretty much forget anything happening at the October meeting so it's either now or December really is what you're looking at but usually they stay away from it and it's interesting that they're even talking about it which I read is one of two things either the the Fed wants to show that the economy is good and certainly that would that would favor anything like that would favor the Democrats because they can say well look we've been managing the economy for eight years and it's doing great on the other hand if you hold off because the economy is poor then that favors the Republicans because then they of course have been going around saying well we need to fix America our economy is broken and and and so on and but if you do make a move then the the other part of which is well maybe the election is not so close after all it's it's hard to say but there's different ways you can read that and I think looking at this non-front payrolls report you'll probably also see some political spin try and come out of this as well this one and the next one and perhaps even the one to follow because we got today in one or two more before the election and I think they'll probably both sides will be trying to spin that depending on how the numbers fall out sure sure yeah below 100,000 expect the Donald to be tweeting a lot 200,000 Hillary's and yeah that makes sense well I guess another thing to make notes about this August number is that August is reportedly the most volatile of all the months also the most hard to predict and also the month that gets revised highest in subsequent revisions so often this number that we're about to see is a lot lower than what we eventually find out it is two three month one two months down the line so maybe that that's a reason to believe actually we do undershoot this consensus which is you know 180,000 still still pretty reasonable so I think so and it's pretty much in line with what we got from ADP on Wednesday you know any I'm just going to quickly have a little quick look at gold if I may Colin just because I think we're a bit of a I think you even tweeted didn't you that someone did that we're a pretty key juncture in gold and this is so this is my my daily chart here so this is this is kind of like a weekly swing point I suppose you can see it easier on the the weekly chart here where we're obviously making higher highs here little falter here but pretty much making higher lows but at this point we're trying to make a lower low having just made a lower high at the top here below the one three seven five peak we made this year so we're basically below this previous low and we're at this this previous peak we've had a good rebound off there this week but depending on this number it's probably going to determine whether we finish above or below that pretty much that one three hundred mark it's quite an important pivot for gold so I would say you know maybe a scenario that we're looking at here is if the the number does come in a bit weak then you know that you would assume that would be just immediate positive off this off this off this chart for gold yet and that'd be an immediate rally point if it does come in strongly well then we're looking at challenging this one three hundred then it's a matter of whether we break down through it or whether it just turns out to be another fake out and we can push higher still that will be you know the reaction this chart and and some of the major currencies will give us a good indication of where the kind of market is interpreting things for the likelihood of a rate hike any charts that you're looking at particularly Colin yes I wanted to if you could just put up the the Dower the SPX whichever one because I think you'll see treaty is going to be focused in two areas one will be gold at primarily because is the US dollar and so we'll see big moves in gold and other currencies what's going to be important also is how to stocks react to the news and the reason I say that because there's two ways that the markets can react they can look at it as a liquidity play where bad news is good news where if you got a miss that might mean the Fed holds off on interest rates and upgo stocks or if you get a huge win then then the Fed goes hogglish and downgo stocks so there's a liquidity aspect but then there's also the earnings aspect where a big miss could mean a weak economy and we saw this yesterday following the miss on the PMI it actually sent stocks down initially because people went well gee if the economy's not doing so well then the corporate outlook for corporate earnings goes down as well so it'll be interesting to see which side to stock traders take because it's for most of the last since the financial crisis really traders have gone mostly playing markets on liquidity where bad news was for the economy was good news for liquidity and up goes the stock market and vice versa but we have seen that points over the last year year and a half where traders kind of have gotten beyond that and focusing more on corporate earnings in which case then they should be in gear with the with the economy so we'll see what happens with with that today but I think it'll be important because we're looking at stocks in general US indices have been looking pretty tired here I remember historic September is historically the worst month of the year for stocks we often get a big correction between mid August and mid October the July bounce was right on schedule in terms of seasonality so do we get a correction here of a downward style correction or are we going to get a sideways correction where we see markets just kind of churn out for the next six weeks and of course we've got the election effect in there as as well so today should give a better indication of that whether we're into a sideways consolidation or whether we could get a sharper pullback yeah in the markets yeah I mean just just technically here sort of trying to show my chart that you know this is the weekly chart for the US that you can see that we've we've broken that previous record high but we really haven't gone too far since and we're at the moment a bit like in gold it's at a bit of a pivotal level we're basically we've tried to break down below that previous record high on a couple of occasions including this week if we get a close below that previous record high to my mind that that's what will open us up to that that bigger that bigger pullback which which could just stop at this previous peak here but I have a feeding where it would be a me it would be a challenge down at 18,000 again yeah I think over I find it interesting because I see a lot of people calling for the market about to to fall apart and things like that but in actuality when you look at it and you look at the the economic environment things are actually starting to are looking like you know this could be a sideways consolidation but more of a mid-cycle pause before we go up again it'll be interesting to see but actually one more quick one if you could just pull up before we get the numbers could you pull up either the Ibex or the Italy plays because I just wanted to show something there with on the incontinental if you're able that would be fine is this the the European markets that have been lagging so so we've seen the US do well we've seen the UK do well we had a golden cross in the Dax this last week but if you look at things like Spain and Italy and France that have been really really struggling throughout the year they actually look like they're getting ready for a breakout so that's something also that's that's quite intriguing here and I'm interested this year you're going to get a bit of a reversal in performance where some of these have some some catch up room but still the point is if the things are about are these things a leading indicator that things are about to fall apart or these things getting ready to catch up and I think that's another thing we want to be watching here and we're down to less than a minute to go here less than a minute to go so we already said a bit of a reaction goal here see that little push got my I've got another thing to push these over here one other thing I should note is you've got everybody is really focused on this number but also it's a long weekend in the US and Canada this weekend so I think what we'll see is probably a huge amount of volatility right off of this and then of course around 9 30 when the exchange is open but by but by noon things will probably settle out because people will start taking off early to go to the cottage and wherever else are going yeah so we're getting some dollar weakness going on here with about 20 seconds to go you know maybe an assumption of a week ahead line here goal pushing higher your efficient is that a squeeze before it goes the other way you know certainly some some tight stops would have been taken out would drop any other way taking the stops on the downside now it looks like we just this is what you've got to be careful with these these data oh there we go it's a bit weaker than a hundred fifty one and the wages lower as well Colin what do you what do you make it out so you were mentioning the wages so that that that wage element and the unemployment rate bit of a shocker there particularly and we're getting to dollar weakness is following through yes so it is seen a little bit come in as division takes a bit of the pressure off of the Fed to raise interest rates in September so we could see them I think they might then use September as a signal for what they might do in in December with the non-farm payrolls if you factor out the 20k increase here would be a 171 so still a little bit below the the street private payrolls had a big upward we're actually came in even more disappointing 126k versus 180k so the government must have propped things up and and overall the things were attached soft on inflation so yeah I think we're looking at a little bit more of a of a dovish read to this let's see what are the can you bring up the US 30 here Jasper it looks like we're getting a minute next we're probably seeing a little bit again a bit yes so this is a this is the one-hour thing yeah we've tried to push up to the top side yeah mark a bit undecided what to make this maybe that that stock reaction is symbolic of what's about to happen in the dollar because if as you're saying really the Fed still in play but just a little bit delayed maybe maybe this this dollar weakness is going to be used as an opportunity to to buy it up the the language from the fed is enough to go ahead no I was just going to say that the you know the the language from the Fed here is the difference maker and you know you can use that you know discussion we're having about that the stock market to say that whether the stocks react positively or negatively to what this you can say is maybe bad news ish is dependent on the language of the Fed and if the Fed are talking up the chance of a rate hike that's good you know and then we see bad data that that's the markets reaction as we saw yesterday PMIs was well we don't want the Fed hiking if the economy is looking like the signs of a weakening so that you know maybe that that plays into it here we're getting a bit of a pullback Collier what do you think when do you think this this market I think we're seeing mixed reaction here because like the data is a little bit disappointing but it's not terrible I mean it's not it it's not an awful report so by any means the it's just kind of middle of the road and I think you'll probably see that it's it's not bad enough to to rule out a rate hike this year you certainly still could get one in December September is looking a little more iffy now but but it's not a it's not going off the rails either so and and hourly earnings up 2.4% you know maybe slightly but but there's still a 2.4% which is still running above the above the Fed's 2% inflation target so it's more of a I think it moved this this and probably what we're seeing it in the stocks especially is this just kind of muddies the water and leaves things uncertain it's kind of like yelling speech last week where you could read into it and I think in a lot of ways you could read anything into this particular report as well and I suspect that each side will will find a way to spin it the way they want coming out of this I'm just going to see if there's any changes to the on the Fed fundside so we were at 36% on before the numbers came out and now it's 34% for September and 58% chance of a hike before the before the December meetings so overall like this the the the bond traders are taking this as neutral to just slightly dovish and I think that's what we'll probably see in the in the markets as well so so based on that we could see some chopping us through the morning and I'm just looking here while we're at it at the at the trade figures which also came out at the same time and are also getting we'll get overshadowed of course but we can mention them so US trade balance 39.5 billion deficits street expected 41 and a half so a little bit better than expected Canada trade deficit was two and a half billion dollars Street was expecting 3.3 billion deficits so that was a little bit of an improvement there for Canada so those were those were the other data we've got out this morning at 10 a.m. Eastern time we get US factory orders which which also could create some interest if there's if there's any kind of a significant surprise the streets expecting 2% after one and a half percent decline last month and here's just dragging in work as you were mentioning before so chance of a hike column was mentioning pushed up a little bit 34% what was it I'm not sure what it was pre-meeting I think it was more the region of 30% has that gone up it was at 30 but yeah it's still up it was at 30% right after yelling talk to be for fishery it had this interview hmm and and it was at 36 this morning right before the numbers came out so it's still sitting right in that kind of middle of the road and then we're in the sort of approaching 60% chance the market's pricing for a hike in in December as we currently stand so you'd imagine that the Fed is going to be aware of market expectations and they're not going to try and raise rates into a 40% chance unless they really try and change that percentage in the next few days following this report but as you said this report you know have this report been a real blowout they might have really tried to push September but you'd imagine that probably the the talk is going to be a bit more orientated towards just lifting the chances in in December in the following days all that into my mind the interpretation mark yeah that's what I'm thinking so we're seeing the gains extended at the moment so no sign of them of a an immediate backlash the other way but two considerations are as Colin mentioned the fact that you know in the US they're heading off their holidays in a couple of hours if having if not having done so already and the other thing that if this is still generally okay for the Fed you know Colin was talking about 100 K is a base few people talking about 150 K so it's obviously to pass both of those in terms of a sort of lower limit for what's acceptable for the Fed then actually you know this this move could fade for both of those reasons so be be savvy to that that's right and so we could still see some choppiness today and then something that I know some people have our traders have pointed out recently as well as that where we've seen over the last few it's a lot of late-day reversals in the in the market as well as though you kind of get one move directly related to whatever the news of the day is and then quietly at the end of the day then you see things settle out but I think today really the end of the day trading might be more like noon rather than rather than between three and four because I suspect that that a lot of people are going to shut down this afternoon and then whoever's left of course is the usually on the desk is of the just sit there and don't make any waves here yeah write it out to to a home time any any questions any questions from any of the attendees here any kind of queries you have on this data or just any particular charts you wanted to look at in the sort of final seven minutes we've got here in this this webinar if there are if there wasn't a thing you had in mind send it through to the the Q&A box or actually if I've got the chat window open there we go yeah if anyone wants to send a chat message or Q&A message either to the group or to me or Colin personally feel free to do so and we can we can get into that so we're seeing spike in the euro column but also Germany 30 pushing higher as well so not necessarily a sign of the European markets not necessarily reacting to the spike in the euro here as you said maybe just a sort of long-term belief here that actually this is just a hiccup in the road in the euro can head down as the Fed pushes towards a ray hike in December yeah I still think yes they're probably looking towards a ray hike in in December at this point but I think September is probably out I think that I think what I think a lot in a lot of what was happening with Dudley and Fisher was that we had gotten to the point where the probability of a hike was getting down close to zero and the probability of a December hike was yeah getting down close to I don't know if somebody ever said anything and I think what they were trying to do in a lot of ways was keep the street from getting carried away and I think that's what they saw was that and then you know people were starting to push out no ray hike till you know well into 2017 when and so I think they started talking that way to kind of bring the market back in and the Fed will probably be happy with this 30 to 40 percent September and around 50 to 60 percent for for December on the Fed funds is probably where they want to be because they don't want to get boxed in by the market they're still the central bank and they're supposed to be the world's premier central bank and they're supposed to tell the market what to do the other way around and I think sometimes that some people get ahead of themselves and they they think that the markets can tell the Fed what to do and then is every so often the Fed has to come out and remind them who's in charge yeah yeah although of course in doing that they are putting their own credibility at risk because obviously they tried to do the same thing in in June but then as you as you mentioned that that poor NFP report came along a bit of soft US data and obviously Brexit and they had to just pull back so they made a bunch of noises that a June rate hike was on then it never happened so bit of a similar sort of thing going on here for September so I guess they have to they have to match up adjusting expectations but you know but still keeping it realistic I think but I would agree at the moment it is realistic to to height rates in December that seems like where they're going to position the market for now I got a couple of questions here Colin I don't know if yelling speech from yeah go ahead no sorry I was going to say we've got a couple of questions actually two separate questions on dollar yen and then another one just on on is sterling affected by the Fed against a basket of currencies well you know when you're looking at sterling against a basket of currencies obviously the biggest component of that basket is the dollar so it's going to have the most individual effect on the counter to any kind of UK economic news but obviously Brexit has kind of increased the kind of pound impact on you know on particularly sterling dollar but also the the the pound basket so you've got to say what's happening domestically in the UK is probably the biggest driver of the pound against the basket of currencies but you know if you're looking for the the outside influences certainly the Fed is it's well up there for for a multitude of reasons absolutely and I think we're seeing that on balance the pound is starting to recover now and and even if we leave out cable for a minute because of the US the US effect but if you start looking at pound against the yen pound against the euro in particular it's it's starting to break out and and we've seen a good bottom form in in the pound over the summer and it's now starting to recover so I would say against a basket of currencies it's definitely looking looking like overall the the worst is behind it and it's starting to recover on the flip side of that then we'll go into I'll mention the yen versus a basket of currencies which is that the yen is generally weakening whether it's against the dollar the euro the the loony the pound you name it the yen is is starting to weaken because Japan's economic data hasn't been that great the Bank of Japan members Kuroda and others are still talking stimulus and the Bank of Japan has a meeting this month and a lot of people are starting to speculate that they might it's been long enough that that now they might be ready to start to do something else in terms of stimulus so that's why you're seeing particularly in that all this particular movement in the dollar yen because you had the speculation that well you could have the Fed going one way and a week later you could have the Bank of Japan Kuroda again the Bank of Japan going the other way and and so we're starting to see that play out but but we're also getting the the pound yen as has been quite active on the recovery and sterling so yeah those are a couple of the more active yen pairs at this point yeah I just pulled up the the euro yen pair just because I um why I like the RSI I know you do as well Colin we're just quite a fairly distinctive down trend line in the the weekly RSI on euro yen um getting a little bit of a break out here and we're getting RSI pushing up to 50 um corresponding with a low around a long term support level around 110 and a seeming a higher low here if we pull out to the the monthly chart on dollar yen we can see that there's been some big time tests this one 10 level in the past it seems like this this decline um in the yen pairs and obviously appreciation of the yen seems to have stalled out that obviously coincides with dollar yen which we've just had a few questions about at the key 100 level it's looking a bit like we could be on for a uh a double top here in uh sorry a double bottom here in in dollar yen and on top of that something to consider is that as we see for example you know at the beginning of the year we had all these fears about China and through the middle of the year we had all these fears about brexit and and a lot of that is subsiding as well but that's a lot of the things that reasons that that that defensive play is like the yen and gold got driven up so much in the first half of this year and now we're seeing gold has rolled over and starting to come down and now we're seeing the yen start to break as well so had a few questions on um you know how what what was the indication here that that uh you know that dollar yen would drop and uh and euro rally going into this obviously no one knows the the data beforehand um but uh but technically you can start to spot some kind of signs of weakness and we ran into that 104 level yesterday and then saw a pretty sharp reversal and you can just see on the daily chart we put in this shooting star bearish reversal here and so having retraced i would say that's probably ends up being about 50 percent of that daily candle uh if i'm able to accurately draw that enough on there then we drop down in terms of time frames okay you can see it was the 61.8 percent retracement of that oh well was it yeah there we go see that's um you know that's uh technical analysis working quite well for you there giving a little bit of an even if even if this level hadn't played out you know as it was a kind of decent risk to reward ratio if the if the data came in weak for those selling up in this region uh to push down to the lows with only just the the risk up here to the previous high so um some technical basis for uh for uh going shut up the dolly yen before this we get you know we're not getting quite the follow through we're getting starting to see that snapback that we said was um was a possibility here Colin some of these losses and dolly yen being given up whether we can close below this support in my mind is probably the determinant whether this down moves gets any follow through in the in the short term because uh as we were just saying it kind of seems like these yen pairs are popping to the upsides and maybe even though we're due a bit of a bigger correction the downside doesn't seem like the most favorable one to be on at the moment did you have any interest in looking at um a dollar CAD we don't obviously have the canadian employer that um uh but why not sure let's bring it up yeah we didn't get we don't get candid till next week this time so it's a it's often fun to be able to compare the two when they both come out uh simultaneously and uh but what we're seeing a dollar CAD's been getting mostly knocked around lately by the ups and downs of the oil price yeah and uh and so we had a big pullback in oil yesterday and it was kind of stabilizing today and I believe from your brand chart it was looking like oils picked up a little bit off of this as the US dollar ease is back so uh but and and so we're seeing that rollover in the dollar CAD as well so some resistance came in around 131 and 131 20 and it's rolled back under uh under 131 now but the 130 level is a biggie it's still the uh the 50 day average and the uh sorry I'm just gonna bring it up on my charts here it's got a there's a whole pile of indicators for at rate of 130 it's the uh there's a big round number there there's also the uh dollar CAD so a big round number of 50 day uh a retracement level and the 50 day moving average all right near 130 so we're dipping back towards that but that's really the key support for that one if we see dollar CAD as start to break 130 we'd actually also being also indicative of a bigger correction in the in the US dollar as as well and I see we've got the dollar index back to 90 back under 95 50 the big level for the dollar index really though is still 95 we've seen uh uh 96 kind of tried to break above 96 and it's kind of failed so this tells me as you ease back towards 95 that again it's this kind of neutral fed level where yeah they probably won't raise in september me but they they probably will still signal that they're that they're ready to go in december yeah so more data watching to come after this yes um it'll be interesting too to see I guess is as we look at some of this data coming through over the next month or two is whether the just as we saw the brexit vote in june had a bit of an impact on some indicators in the UK is does the US election have an impact on on some of the data in the United States absolutely and that'll be hard to measure unfortunately that's something that we probably won't know for sure until three months after the fact when we've all moved on in it doesn't do anybody any good but it's just something you can keep in the back of your mind I'm actually glad we pulled up this um dollar CAD chart because I think again going back to this well how do we how do you trade non-farm payrolls you know um I mean just the the result itself today is evident that the economists have very little idea or you know what the numbers are going to be the the consensus being 180 000 you know is actually 151 so off by nearly 30 000 jobs um I've certainly said bigger misses than that in the past but obviously difficult to predict but you know this dollar CAD pair is a good example of where we've got a pretty well established zone of resistance up here in uh in dollar CAD we're coming into this non-farm payrolls release we've had two candles stalling into this previous resistance zone um and then you know then as it happens the data comes in and confirms it um you know it's not always going to be the case but I think the the idea here is that you know if you're at a kind of low risk area on the chart as in you're you're selling at the top half of the zone of the of the the price range you know hoping for a drop down towards the middle of the bottom of the range you know if if you're selling close enough to the top your your risk is limited but your potential gain is a lot more so uh you know there's these kind of economic announcements uh the kind of thing that trigger these these moves to take place off these technical levels payrolls is it's often there's big surprises in it because it's a figure that's quite volatile it's a figure that's revised quite a bit and uh and between the two that it is hard to guess and when you look at something like this I try and when they look at non-farm to factor both the headline number and the revision because that's important so for example like last month you had a 20k upward revision so your bar's been raised so if you factor that back in and the revision back into the headline number you'd be at 171 versus 180 and it's important because some months I mean this month it was 20 000 but some months it can be 50 000 in the revision so it it makes it difficult to read in terms of how do you do it it's already coming out there so it always means for great trading action and I didn't take long and but when we go on on twitter we have non-farm payrolls guesses and I think guesses for a lot of people is the word because it's pretty hard to come up with anything definitive but it means a great great market action that's for sure okay so I guess that's it we're overrunning a bit here so thank you very much for everyone for attending I hope you've got some some good trades off there we've got a good you know goods across the board kind of weak reports well weaker than expected report which has pushed the the dollar low so because it doesn't seem like there was any real conflict all of it was a bit weaker we're seeing that that kind of dollar weakness hold for now and and the stock market gains hold for now but obviously bear in mind the US are off on holiday so you know don't necessarily expect these gains to extend too far into the close thanks a lot colleague thanks probably see you choppy morning today and that's oh thank you jasper thanks everybody


Hey, everyone, welcome to this event. Data-driven starts with intelligent infrastructure. I'm your host, Lisa Martin. ATOS is shifting its entire IT operations across data center and multi-cloud to one cloud operating model. And the benefits are cloud experience and cloud economics for workloads that are distributed anywhere for a future that's nimble, that's climate neutral and more efficient. Please welcome my guest for this segment, Adam Lewis, the global CTO of ATOS. Adam, it's great to have you. Thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you. It's great to meet you and it's a pleasure to be here today as well. So let's have a quick chat here. ATOS set up to shift its entire IT operations. We're talking across data center, multi-cloud to one cloud operating model. Talk about that process, some of the challenges and expected opportunities that drove that massive change. Absolutely. So ATOS is an organization of over 110,000 people globally. We support clients in over 70, more than 70 countries and we've got thousands of customers. As an organization, we have been around for many, many years. And if you trace our history back, it's over 50 depending on which part of the business we've required along the way. So we've been part of the IT evolution for multiple countries and for multiple customers for a very long time. We recognized we're listening to our customers working very closely with them that the way that we've been operating our business for many years, the way that we've been serving our customers, the way that we need to deliver our services needs to shift to a new paradigm. That new paradigm needs to be built around and understanding that the data center that we've been supporting for many years is changing in nature. The continuum around cloud isn't just around supporting core data centers, but of course, the movement to hyperscalers, public cloud, maybe sovereign cloud in the future and of course, edge clouds as well mean that we need to do things differently. So we need to be able to service our customers in a consistent way, giving them consistent experience wherever their workloads may sit, being able to deliver for them a consistent set of operations while still delivering on those service levels that they've known us there for years. And we have to do that with the customer at mind really helping them to enable to embrace our services and consume those services from our marketplace or a set of APIs that are enabling them to get the services as and when they need them in their real time. And also for them to get ability to get real-time data about the way that their services are performing so that we can continue to support them and enhance their operations. So listening to its customers to deliver consistent services and experiences is obviously key to Actus. I know that Actus works as a partner with Hitachi Ventura, but you're also a customer of its infrastructure solution. So let's focus on the customer side for a moment. Talk to us about how you've worked with Atachi Ventura to help with that transition that you just talked about, maybe address some of the challenges that you still expect to see in the future and some of the results that you've achieved so far. It would be a pleasure. So we've been working with Atachi Ventura for many years and they've supported us in different types of industries or whatever the industries are. Again, multiple countries around the world. It started off as a really great partnership and I think for that trusted partnership, it developed into us being as a customer as well to be able to consume and understand where they're investing in their innovation so we don't have to. It's our job as a system integrator and an outsourcer to be able to get the best of technologies from whatever of our ecosystem partners we have and be able to glue those together in a way that allows us to serve our customers as mentioned earlier in the best possible way. So what we started to do with them is work in a much closer way, much earlier in the process, in the CTO to CTO capability. Understand the emerging technologies they're investing in and embed that as part of our core services that we're transforming. We're moving to a model delivery framework where we need to have embedded as the foundations of those capabilities. All of the components that allow us to continue to serve our customers but also with a view to the future. By that we mean moving from the cloud to a multi-cloud environment, understanding what true hybrid cloud means, enabling what we'd call elasticity to be able to scale up and scale down on demand, enable things like visibility of on-demand-based pricing, consumption-based, whilst retaining the SLAs that we've been famous for and can guarantee in those services that consistency of service, the consistency of deliveries that our customers expect from us. And it's actually have never let us down and we're really pleased that we can continue this journey with them. I've been a partner with them for many years, but also as a consumer of their services, we need to be able to have someone who moves with us. And one of the things that's really important for us as a customer is our journey to net zero and in particular areas around things like sustainability. And we know that's really high up in their agenda as well. So there's a perfect alignment from that perspective. So it sounds like it started out with a great partnership, as you mentioned, it sounds quite collaborative. So talk to me a little bit in our final question here, Adam, about how Atlas has worked with Hitachi Venture to solve issues for your customers. Maybe give us some examples of business outcomes, tactical outcomes that your joint customers are realizing. We work together to plan our own focus on the business outcomes and the value we can deliver for customers. And that doesn't matter which particular industry, but we focus on various different industries to allow us to continue to build the momentum there and to grow the capabilities and skills that we've managed to create over the years, the IP that we were able to deliver together and the service capabilities that we want to continue to build upon. One of the things around the partnership is to build on things like the optimized power systems that Hitachi Venture will give us. Where we are supporting, let's say, governments or organizations in managing buildings, managing cities, delivering infrastructure for railways or providing secure data foundations for the businesses of the future. And one of the reasons why we continue to do this, it's easy for us to train our people up in the necessary tools and technologies that as they are emerging with Hitachi Venture and we continue to invest in that space and they support us not just to make sure we've got the right competencies and capabilities available when we need it, but also in our joint go-to-market activities to make sure that we understand the solutions that we need to be able to push out and those industry solutions that we continue to build upon are able to be supported in the best possible way, but also continuously advanced from an innovation perspective going forward. It's definitely a journey, Adam. It sounds like it's a great collaborative, really deeply integrated partnership that Actos and Hitachi Venture have. Thank you for talking with us about the partnership as well as how it is for Actos as a customer at Hitachi Venture and ultimately, how you're working together on the transition Actos has been through and helping your customers to become truly data-driven. Adam, it's been a pleasure to have you on the program today. Thank you. Thank you so much. Nice to meet you. Likewise, this is Lisa Martin on behalf of theCUBE and Hitachi Venture. We want to thank you so much for watching. Stay tuned for more great content coming up.


Rhaid, ddweud i chi i'n ddechrau i gael ei wneud o'r golfgolfa ar ymweld, amser yn ysgrifio Tenerife, ym Mhwyr of Eistaf golfgolfa. Roeddwn ni'n cael ei cherdd o'r golffau ar y gwrth o'r golfgolfa a'r gweithio gyda'r hynny. Ond yng Nghymru, ddod ddim yn cael ei ddigon, ddim yn cael ei ddweud. Ond wedi gael ei ddweud i gael ei gael ei gweithio gyda'r newydd, mwy o'r mwy o gwaith, ac y pwysigodd oedd yn y rhagor yn y gofyn sydd y rhan o'r ddigon ac mae'n gobeithio gŵr o'r ddrae'n pollo iawn. Ond ydi'n meddwl, arall y gallwn yn nodi ar hynny mae'n gweithio'r rhagor yn jion, ond yn mynd yn y rôl, mae'r mwy o ddydd yn y ddweud ac yn mynd yn darparu am eu bod yn colli ac yn jion hefyd, mae'n mynd ei gymryd y dyfodol yn gweithio cyffrithau bod yn i nid. fel ddweud y oedd! Ie dweud maelodhaf ar y bodor hwn wahanol Felly mae'r ysgol hwn yn ddod y madoch ac mae'r red yn llisell ac mae'n dweud bod o'n mbloddoch ac mae'n ddim yn referwys ac mae'n bwysig o ddim yn argyrch armell, ac mae'n canol Ac mae'r ddweud o'r pupr ddatblymu ar dwy'n hunrwy felly mae'n adreweru gyda phas o'r adreweru ac mae'n ddweud o ddweud ac mae'n dylabol ac mae'n ddweud o'r cyfnod Mae cychwyn o'r cyflogfyrd ymddangos, a mae yna unrhyw sydd yn rhan o'r cyfrwyr ymddangos, ond mae'n gwybod i'n gwybod i'r fawr i'r holl. Ond yw'r cyflogfyrd yn ddiwedd yn bwrdd o'r holl i'r holl, ond mae'n gwybod i'n iddyn nhw'n gwybod i'r holl. Ond maen nhw ddim yn rhoi'r texbech. Yn i chi'n gweld y modl yma, sy'n gwybod i'n ddifenni ddechrau o'r holl o'r hwn? Felly mae'n gweithio i'r UK i gyfnogi'r gyda'r gyfnogi ac mae'n gofio ar y ping. Felly, y dyfodd y dyfodd y gallwn ni wedi bod yn ymweld y cwbl a'r system cyfnogi'r cyfnogi ar y ping yn y dyfodd. Felly, dyfodd yn y dyfodd y dyfodd, ond ond mae'n gyfnogi, ond mae'n gyfnogi a'r dyfodd yn y dyfodd. Felly, y dyfodd y dyfodd y dyfodd, mae'n gwneud ar y ffordd i chi, mae'n gweithio'n ymweld, three positions fade neutral and a draw bias. Basically what Pinga saying is that the 16 gram tungsten weight in the different three locations that you can put it in can make a considerable difference to the draw neutral fade bias. Basically they're saying 20 yards between the draw and fade position. That'll be interesting to see what happens out on the course very shortly. As you can see from the top of the crown dragonfly is no longer visible from the top of the crown it's built within the body of the head now. We see a forged face in this again and there is multiple positions in terms of being able to fine tune this driver to fit yourself. It's available as an SFT model, numerous shafts available as well but I think that's all we need to say about the actual make-up and the technology in this club. I think it's really what you want to see its performance so let's get back over to Tenerife. Right so there's a tech spec the waves are crashing it's blue skies I just can't get out weight now to get and hit this thing and that's all that matters. I've already got dribble data but we're going to play it in and around this golf course. I'll see what tweaks and changes I might make with it and we'll see where it all finishes up in a summary at the very end of all this. So a couple of drives off this tee and again I'm not really I've not hit anything pure just yet but what I'm also finding is that the normal shot my normal swing the type of shot shape that I like to hit. I'm really struggling with the current setup so I'm going to make a few tweaks and changes. I'm going to try it literally from we're in the neutral position I'm going to change it into a draw and then maybe again we'll end up trying this fade position as well to try as many options as I can to try and just get a little bit more performance I'm not quite getting out this driver just yet at least anyway. Not sure how much of this tee position you can see from the shot tracer but it's an absolute stunning tee shot a real risk and reward right over the corner but it's pretty much into the sea and the cliff tops to the left and I've gone left whether it's a long enough carry I don't know but more importantly what do I think of the strike it was a lot better strike I've just changed this into a draw bias and for whatever reason it could be purely all in ahead it's a lot more comfortable a position and I feel as though I'm getting a lot better strike from the clubface as well but um we'll see how it goes in this draw setting it's a few more balls like this I think right so it's summery time you've seen the shot tracers you've seen my opinion around the golf course I made quite a few changes uh ended up having the club in a draw bias is what I favored a little bit confused because um same cb altar stiff shaft as what is in my ping g400 max but in terms of head shaft combination they felt nothing like I talk about feel as well it is a very hard sound out of the clubface which again I wasn't particularly keen on I'm afraid uh look superb but at this stage I'm really starting to struggle let's have a look at dry ball data numbers and see what it did there so here's a numbers in screen up on screen for you now 142 ball speed 16.4 launch massive variables in there 136 ball speed right the way up to uh what is it 144 ball speed 145 almost 146 um 25 spin massive variables 1700 right up to three and a half thousand spin 241 overall carry distance average that is but again variables 231 up to 253 so as you can see there massive variables that I kept mentioning in dry ball data and those massive variables out there in a course I tried to make more changes out in the course like I said I used this weight shift and put it in a draw bias I took one degree off and knocked it down to a 9.5 head um but for me I just could not get on with it I couldn't produce the canon numbers and confidence really that was the keyword and never at any point in any of the setups stood over the ball out here on the course and felt confident and knew what I was doing with it I really did struggle and it could well be it was just a case of I've been in it in the ball maybe uh or putting the swing uh with this club together on ball not too great over the last couple of weeks since I've been testing it but I don't know it's an odd one and in the interesting video for me is two things is when I put G400 max which I've got with me now I'll put them very much in their heads ahead with the same swing that I've got on that day and also it's all about what team averages opinions are as well I'll be great to get the five handicaps together let them all try it out in the different shaft head combinations I see what their overall opinion is of this ping G410 driver but for me I have to say just a little bit disappointed and I never quite got that combination right with this driver and it have to be right now it's it's a bit of a thumbs down I'm afraid anyway as ever I try and make it as honest as I possibly can but your comments greatly appreciated stick them down below thumbs up if you like the video I'll see you soon I'm going to carry on I've got plenty of videos to come from Boone of Easter both of the course and we're carrying on with the ping G410 fairway and hybrid let's hope I get on a bit better with those two