Good morning everyone. First thank you for the opportunity to present some of the work that we're currently doing in that's currently ongoing in Mozambique. Today I will talk about reaching the 90-90-90 target and the role of community antiretroviral therapy groups or CAGs in Mozambique. So the UNA 90-90-90 target as Dorogest first already discussed was adopted in 2014. The aim of this target is that by 2020 90 percent of people living with HIV should know their status. 90 percent of those patients who know their status are retained on art and then 90 percent of those patients who are on art have a suppressed viral load. So today we will focus on the MSF project that's currently ongoing in TET Mozambique. In TET the HIV prevalence is about 7 percent. The majority of the population is living in rural areas and the Mozambican health system can be described as quite weak. This includes large human resource shortages as well as a limited infrastructure. MSF is currently providing support in 10 facilities, 10 art providing facilities within two districts, Shanghara and Morara, in both in rural areas. So as is the case in many countries in the region in Mozambique many of the many barriers have been identified for accessing ART treatment. So this includes a distance from this facility associated transport costs and a lack of general knowledge about HIV. Additionally in Mozambique one month ARV refills are provided for treatment. So that means that each patient must traditionally attend the facility once per month to pick up their drugs. So to reduce patient burden self-forming groups in TET started in 2008. So the idea behind this group is that one representative for the group attends the facility picks up the ARV drugs for the rest of the group and then comes back to the community and distributes them to the rest of the group. The next month it rotates through to another member of the group who then is the representative. These groups also are seen as a way to provide peer support as well as create an openness that comes with being in a group. So so far what we've seen in Mozambique is that and as well in other sites is that they've reduced patient and facility burden. So the evidence is that the appointment that the number there's a decrease in facility visits and there's also a high retention in care among patients in GAGS. So the in recent analysis done in TET for instance they found that 97 almost 98 percent retention in care 24 months after eligibility for a GAG among GAG patients compared to 82 percent among individual care patients. So GAGS haven't then been rolled out nationally as well as regionally in the in the in surrounding countries. So what we decided to do was take the recent adoption of the 1990-90 target as a nice opportunity to explore what role the GAGS could have in meeting this target framing it through then the HIV care continuum and the activities that are going on in the project. So first we will take a look at community HIV testing and the associated linkage to care. We'll frame that through the idea that of testing context of GAG members. So this is one aspect of what goes on in HIV community HIV testing in Mozambique and then also to look at peer support and facilitated linkage to care that goes on to strategies that are used in community HIV testing. The second aspect that we will focus on is viral suppression. So the uptake and as well as adherence among GAG members and among non-GAG members. So to explore these areas we retrospectively analyzed routinely collected community-based HIV testing data from the first three and a half years of implementation. So from July 2012 to December 2015 included in the routinely collected information was some basic information about the contact information about how how we reach these patients. We additionally retrospectively analyzed virological outcomes from patients receiving ART for more than six months from December 2013 to December 2015. So the first two years of routine viral load implementation in Mozambique. So community testing was introduced in July 2012 in in Cengada and Marada districts. This was in response to low observed linkage to care. In the first phase so in the first couple of years of community testing the primary strategy was using an index case testing strategy. So we tested contacts of the GAG members. In the second phase it was a more general it expanded to more general population testing. Testing was traditionally done by lay by trained lay counselors. Additionally there was a small small number of tests done by trained GAG focal point members. So in the end almost 26,000 people have been tested in the program. That's more than 10% of the population there and with an HIV positivity of 4%. For regarding facilitated linkage and peer support I will get to that in a few moments. So first it's important to note that in the initial although it's not shown here in the initial implementation of community testing in the first year we saw quite a high rate of HIV positivity. So in the first couple of quarters 31, 13% and then it plateaued after one year of implementation and we see about 3 to 5% HIV positivity across the board. So here we can see community testing by contact method. So what's important it's broken down by if it was an immediate GAG family member so a mother, sibling, a spouse by other GAG contact. So if it was a friend or a neighbor of a GAG contact and then by non-GAG contact. So if it was through community leaders and other types of contact with the community. What we can see clearly there's two points that jump out right away. Of course adults have a higher HIV positivity than children across the board and within each group. Additionally we see that immediate GAG family members have a significantly higher HIV positivity than other GAG contacts and non-GAG contacts. Neither one of these is too surprising in context. What's important is that that relationship holds up for both adults and children. So we can see that perhaps that we're capturing through the immediate GAG families many children that were missed in the PMTCT part of the program in the facility but we were able to test them in the community. Excuse me. What's also quite important to note about this slide though is although the HIV positivity was higher in the immediate GAG family members the total number of positive people that we found was much higher in the non-GAG contacts and as well as other GAG contacts because there were so many more of them that were able to be reached. So when we look at linkage-to-care by contact method we can see actually there's a high linkage-to-care overall 77% and there's no significant differences by contact method. So people who tested positive in the community in Shangara were immediately offered membership into a GAG regardless of so from the beginning of the this strategy this was implemented so everyone had this opportunity to reap the benefits of the peer support of the GAG membership. In the first phase of the community testing so when it was done primarily through contacts of GAG members there was more informal facilitated linkage-to-care so because we tested through GAG members there was this follow-up also by the GAG members to ensure that patients were linking to care. In the second phase it was more formalized follow-up or facilitated linkage-to-care so this means that the counselors that tested them were then following up for patients who did not immediately link to care. So although the linkage is not significantly different across the different contact methods we do we can say that in the second phase we needed many more resources health facility resources and the health system to ensure this the same linkage-to-care. So now we move to viral load so routine viral load testing is not available widely in Mozambique it's just excuse me it's only been available in Shangara and Marata districts since the end of 2013 so what we have seen in the first two years of implementation is that among GAG members the coverage has been much higher than among non-GAG patients however almost 40 percent of patients overall have a viral load above 1000 as Dodo previously mentioned in his slide with no differences in viral load by GAG or non-GAG members. So the conclusions are index case testing through GAGs is a simple way to identify a high-risk population both for adults and for children although the saturation can be reached quite quickly through testing through GAG contacts. Regardless of contact method high linkage-to-care was observed with with the strategies of peer support and facilitated linkage care there's also a possible reduction in stigma due to the long term GAG presence in this area. Regarding the third 90 we conclude that GAGs facilitated improved viral load coverage. The high failure rates though among the GAG and the non-GAG patients in Mozambique especially when compared to other sites are very are quite wearing and actually they indicate the importance of high viral load uptake in order to ensure that all the patients have access to enhanced adherence counseling as well as to second line switch. So further work is necessary to maximize the benefit of differentiated models of care, differentiated testing and art delivery models across the 90-90-90 target. So before I finish up and take any questions I would just like to acknowledge the patients of Shanghara in Marata, the Ministry of Health in Mozambique as well as the the wonderful team MSF team in Mozambique and in TET.


My best tip for individuals applying for the New Colombo Plan Scholarship is to have an idea of what they're hoping to achieve whilst in the Indo-Pacific, as well as how what they're hoping to do overseas will contribute to their future careers when they return to Australia. A good tip for people wanting to apply is just talk to people in your university who've been through the process and put a lot of time, really think through your answers, think about what the program will mean to you. So it's deep to actually know who you are and what you want to do.


Mark how you doing I'm great Michael how you guys we're doing great is this just a fan thing or is it the Yankees really really don't want to see the Red Sox celebrate on their turf it's more of a fan thing honestly when you know I've been on the field for you know different points whether you whether a team clenches a playoff for or whether whether you lose a playoff series so they're clenching that and celebrating you run off the field and in 30 seconds as a player you're done so it doesn't I mean it hurts losing as a player you never want to lose the game any any game you play but it is way more of a fan thing could you imagine 50 000 especially because it's a close game right you know two nights ago if the Yankees would have blown that lead at the end with Britain throwing the ball around that would have been a gut punch to Yankee fans you know 50 000 people watching the Red Sox you know spraying champagne on their field so I think it's definitely more for the fans it's amazing I'm trying to think really in any sport Mark and you follow sports that you can have a picture like David Price is really really good but the bigger stage the harder he falls whether it's the postseason whether it's the Yankees and let's face it Yankee Red Sox people are paying attention to that he flat out cannot beat the Yankees especially at the stadium it's got to be psychological right yeah I think there's some sort of mental block when when he gets onto the mound at Yankee Stadium and you know baseball is such a confidence sport you have to be confident when you're in the box you're on that mount you're in complete control of the game but if you're off a little bit especially Yankee Stadium you're leaving balls out over the plate those right handers are hitting home runs the other way it can spin out of control quickly and you know Price actually looked pretty good the first few innings but you know the the the demons of Yankee Stadium got to him again and you got to think that with the season that he's had he's had a really good season it's mental with the Yankees Luke Voight got him twice ports them twice is Voight for real and do the Yankees now go into next year thinking Voight's their first baseman and not Bird isn't that crazy just just here yeah Michael is crazy but if you think about it you know people look at a big strong Luke Voight you know you're not very fast not you're not necessarily a five cool type player but he's got a nice short swing and he's not a guy who's just kind of squinted for the fences you know strikes out every you're every other at bat he puts together really good at bats yeah he's going to strike out because he's got a pretty good eye but he's gonna walk and he's gonna hit those home runs to right field and you know he's he's as strong as anybody in baseball and if you actually give him 500 at bats heck he could hit 30 plus home runs you know I worry a little bit about him getting overexposed a little bit like what happened with Austin Row Mind this year you know Austin Row Mind still been really well for Gary but when your book gets bigger in in in this game they will find your holes and when you only have a couple hundred at bats you know one or two hundred at bats under your belt the big league level you know those at analytics department doesn't have enough information on you I would be interested to see 500 at bats if Luke Voight's holes works goes a little bit more do the analytics tell you how important Neil Walker is to this team he's so important you know that signing uh one of the most underrated signings of the off season it didn't pay off for the first four months it really you know Neil Walker he didn't have a he didn't have a spring training he's behind the eight ball he wasn't getting consistent at bats he was playing multiple different positions but he handled it like a pro every step of the way and now when I go into the playoffs and I'm you know you're going to have interesting situations come up whether it's a defensive replacement whether it's a pinch runner needed you know whatever it might be he fills a role for this Yankees team in the post season that is super valuable and um obviously the big three are on home or the other night the guy can hit he's a professional hitter he's going to put up good at bats um and and he's been big for this team the last few weeks now one of the guys on this team that was an ex-team made of yours and I'm sure that it's a very very difficult thing for Aaron Boone to do but it looks like Brett Gardner is now a bench player because they like what McCutcheon has done and the fact that he did not start Gardner against Evaldi spoke volumes to me and you know moments ago when he met with the media they asked what McCutcheon would be in the playoffs and Boone said he's going to be a dude for us and that's Boone speak that he's going to play a lot how tough do you think this is for Gardner and for the Yankees to do this to Gardner you know what I don't think it's as tough as it sounds Michael and this is why Brett Gardner has been the ultimate kind of grinder warrior type player since the since his rookie year he's never been a guy that you know the Yankees have uh had to lean on for hey you're going to carry our team this week or this month he's just kind of fit the role wherever you put him and I think because of that he's going to look at this opportunity you know what do I wish I was starting absolutely but I'm going to get some at bats in the postseason I'm going to I'm going to get you know maybe a couple pitch running uh appearances I'm going to play some outfield here and there and I'm going to do everything I can to help this team win he's that type of guy this is this is much different if you had to sit you know remember when Alex Rodriguez got best during the playoffs in 2012 totally different situations here and I think Brett Gardner is is enough of a professional I think Aaron Boone is you know when he comes and talks to Brett Gardner about his role I'm sure those are great conversations and Guardi's saying all right Booney whatever you need from me I'm going to be there for you now they'll bench Gardner they've benched Bird they've taken and do her out for defense late they really don't play that game with Sanchez is that right Mark do you think that they're treating him a little bit with kid gloves do they think that maybe psychologically would bother him if they were to bench him or take him out late for defense well I think the reason that they're doing that with Sanchez is that his ceiling is still the best catcher in baseball and after this season you may have to kind of to relook at at his career and maybe reset those expectations but Gary Sanchez is ceiling when healthy is can be the best catcher in baseball and I don't think Greg Bird's ceiling is the best first baseman in baseball I don't think you know Brett Gardner's ceiling is the best left dealer in baseball and so I think that the Yankees are probably doing the right thing here saying hey Gary we think you're great we're gonna keep you in there show us that you're great now we ask you this every Thursday and it's a fluid question that's why we ask you every Thursday and I don't know if you feel this way I thought that Severino looked as close to vintage yesterday as he has since the since the all-star break who's your wild card starter it's still Tanaka it's still I just I just feel really good about that you know I watch the games on yes you know almost every night and you guys always talk about it listen this is going to be a bullpen game for the wild card anyway as soon as whoever the starter is as soon as there are you know a few guys on second third four you know whatever inning it is early innings and Booney and Larry Rothschild think that it's time to go to the pen they're making that call so I still like Tanaka's upside Tanaka to give you three or four innings you know throwing that split down in the dirt and not giving up any hits whereas you've said you've seen he can blow up you know in a couple innings I think half is probably your game one starter and I almost rather have that type of of backup where half can now go twice in the in the first round if he has to because you know he's been second half this season since the Yankees have gotten them he's been their best pitcher yeah we talked like Tanaka for yeah I like Tanaka for a few innings that's that's what I that's what I see for that wild card game now we talk about the unfairness of one game and done in the wild card right well last year's third place wild card team was under 500 Tampa Bay is going to win 90 plus games Mark and miss the playoffs so it's just I mean how how would you feel in that organization if you're cash if you're the guys that play for Tampa how much pride can you take in a non-playoff season you can and I'll go back to the 2004 Texas Rangers we were expected to be a last-place team it was the year that you know Alistair Rodriguez gets traded to the to the Yankees all of our veterans they're either signed somewhere else or get traded we had a bunch of young players and then a bunch of old guys that were at the end of their career and we went out and won 89 games we were in it until the last weekend of the season and we left that season feeling good about ourselves feeling like hey you know what we're building something here now we ended up not being able to capitalize on that and kind of went back to a 500 team the next year but this Tampa Bay team knows that they're good they know that they have talent they know that they can you know they can win close games and so yeah are they are they as talented as the Yankees or Red Sox they're not their payroll is half of what the Yankees and Red Sox spend and they can still feel good about this year these first two games and this is not like overreaction Monday or Tuesday in football and I've watched them all year I think the Red Sox are a great team but there's a flaw in this team mark to me that can rear its ugly head in the postseason they have a very rickety bridge from starter to kimbrill I'm not sure that this team as great as it is is a world series winning team because of that I agree and I've gone back and forth between the Astros and the Red Sox like who's the best team in the American League and I think we can all agree that the body of work that the Red Sox have put together this year is really impressive you know anytime you win you know 100 you know 110 plus games you're a great team but in a seven game series with the right-handed pitchers that the Astros have versus the Red Sox with the amount of damage that the Astros can do as you said Michael late into a game you know what I still think the Astros are a better team and the Yankees if they win if they have a home game against the Ace they win that game now you got ja half going you know game one in Boston and the Yankees have some momentum from winning that first game and the Red Sox haven't played a meaningful game in three weeks it could be advantage Yankees I mean I would not be surprised if the Yankees went into Boston and won one or two games there to start that five game series I look at it this way mark with the Yankees if they get past a wild card they're in as good a shape as if they won the American League East because of the fact they're built for the postseason they have three really good starters and they have an outstanding bullpen if Chapman is what Chapman is you're exactly right the only caveat is it is they they it would still be great if they had home field advantage we know how good the Yankees were at home last year they seem to not be able to score runs on the road you know so um I would say that the Yankees on a neutral you know all things being equal they're as good as anybody but to have having to go into Boston and then either you know Cleveland or Houston might be a little bit tougher for them they feel a lot better there at Yankee Stadium for four out of seven or three out of five oh it's all with Mark to share his weekly spot on the show mark I've got some text messages for you this is from Gene he says I'm usually a cashman fan but I think he missed on the stand and trade his numbers don't justify his contract stand is signed until 2027 he has a full node trade clause and might only accept the trade to the Dodgers should the Yankees look to trade him this offseason it's a really good question I think the I think Brian Cashman has proven that he's always open for business and if the Yankees feel that you know Bryce Harper could come to New York or they feel that there's some other opening that they can they can trade stand they might look at it but the fact of the matter is is young Carlos Danton is still one of the best power hitters in baseball anybody's first year in New York is usually a tough transition you know I got lucky that you know I got on a good role in May and and you know had a really good season we won the world series but that's not typical you know most most guys that go from a small market like the Marlins to New York there's a little bit of an adjustment period and I think Stanton's handled handled himself fine the contract will be judged in the last few years and everyone's going to say ah it was a terrible sign why'd Cashman do that but the fact is if the Yankees win a world series with John Carlos Danton in that lineup it was worth it and and everybody knows that that lineup is better right now with Stanton in it um we've proven it the Yankees have proven that they can win games without air and judge and one of the reasons is because Stan is still stuck this is from John from Oakhurst can Gary Sanchez's defense be corrected does he need his eyes checked at this point as he misses strikes as well as balls in the dirt I don't I don't think it's his eyes because this is one of the best hitters when he's right um but you know why not let's let's make sure we get Gary you know an eye doctor but I just think this is one of the this is such a tough year for Gary for a lot of reasons he's going to have to really work hard this off season and attack some of the issues that he's had and go into next year with kind of that eye of the tiger um a lot of people talk about his low motor and blah blah blah he needs to come out next spring training almost feeling like he has to win a job almost feeling like he has to prove himself again because no matter how he finishes the last week and a half this season the numbers are going to be ugly offensively and defensively all right before we let you go on this date September 20th who are your world series teams at this point you guys love doing this to me oh yeah it's the Astros in the Cup the Astros in the Cubs and and at this point in the season the reason I say that is they are both relatively healthy and on paper talent wise they have the best rosters so I can't tell you who's going to get hot on October 1st or 2nd but health and talent right now go the edge goes to the Astros in the Cubs great stuff we'll talk to you next week Mark


OK, welcome everybody. Thank you for joining us for this session. We will talk today about enterprise applications running on OpenStack, the experiences that we made in onboarding them and running them on OpenStack. My name is Gerd Pussmann. I'm cloud architect at Deutsche Telekom. And I'm since three years with Deutsche Telekom. And I led the development team that developed the first production OpenStack platform for Deutsche Telekom. Thanks, Gerd. Can you guys hear me at the back? If not, please come forward. It was a trap. Yeah. Well, I'm Shridam Subramanian. I'm founder and principal cloud specialist at Cloud Don. Cloud Don is a SI research and analysis firm. It's a combination of services. But we primarily started as a deployment service provider on OpenStack. And then I branched off to give you more analysis and market analysis kind of services too. So I've been involved with OpenStack communities since the Diablo days. I started early on as an operator. Between Diablo days and now, we have done more than 50 deployments, small-sized, medium-sized deployments, reasonable variety of workloads. What we're going to present here is, Gerd is going to focus on the enterprise workloads that they've had success with. What are the challenges they faced? What is the journey around getting them successful on OpenStack Cloud? But before that, I want to set stage around what kind of workloads that people have been running on OpenStack. So by show of hands, how many have workloads running on production on OpenStack? Very few. Dev test? About the same. What kind of workloads that you're running? What do you run? Dev test. OK. Someone showed production. What do you run on production? OK, good. Very good. The reason why I'm asking is, I don't know if you noticed the most recent user survey, and still web services, databases, and dev tests are the top three workloads, between, it is a bit historical. And then, if you compare the last November 2014 user survey and then most recent user survey, predominantly, those are the workloads that people have been running. And the good sign is, more cloud deployments are moving into production, but still, there's a large question of, OK, I have the infrastructure up and running. What is a good workload that I can run successfully on OpenStack? What is the something that I should not take? And then, if there's a specific workload that I have interested in, what are the steps I need to take to migrate to an OpenStack cloud or cloud? How many of you run SAP workload on OpenStack? OK, don't raise your hand, even if you do. Good, thank you. So the agenda here is that I will start with a brief history, walk through some of the workloads, and then follow up with what are some of the methods people were running or people are using to get their workloads up on OpenStack cloud. And I will keep it generic. I won't focus only on enterprise. It could be DevTest, could be a combination, and it could be anything. But just looking at the history and reading from a lot of use cases, keynote presentations, talking to developers, our own experiences. And then, some high-level lessons learned. Again, it's going to be more generic. But then, pass it on to the GERD, and he's going to talk specifically about their infrastructure and then some of their workloads that they have been running. Going with the history, right? Obviously, very early stages, people are looking for spinning up and down the VMs. Naturally, a lot of workloads that are around compute intensive, a lot of computation. Typically, your DevTest is a good case there. And then, again, at the inception, ServicePro was a large use case for OpenStack. Not necessarily having a large storage backend, but still like a center backend, but primarily around a lot of VMs. So around the same time, users like CERN picked up, a lot of HPC workload, high-performance computing workload, a lot of computing applications, right? Along the same time, very early adopters like eBay, PayPal, you might have seen the keynote today. Right now, they have 100% of their PayPal transactions running on OpenStack Cloud, right? So when they begin with some of the web services, some of their shopping cart experience, those kind of applications, more of compute, kind of independent workloads that they were having. Around the same time, Swift was relatively mature among all the projects. So people have had success in storing a lot of objects, a lot of files, a lot of media applications, right? You could say Conquer, DigitalTree, a lot of use cases that you'd have seen in the past summits even until now, right? That's been a very large, successful use case. Sorry, you got a question? Sorry. And then, once things got immature, I'm talking about the days where we didn't even have Neutron, still there was no network. And then, we were in a mess of quantum, right? But then, we got into the Neutron mess, and then Neutron got better. And then, overall, the products started getting better. We started having monitoring, orchestration, and those kind of other features, right? So then, around the same time, there was interest around, OK, let's try to have compute intensive plus a lot of storage requirements, right? Like big data analytics or bioinformatics, right? So those were some of the applications that people have had success with. And then, right now, if you look at it, kind of, I want to see this. I'm seeing there's a service provider version, too. There's a large of interest from the telcos. There's a lot of noise about NFE applications, right? Comcast mentioned that they have a lot of NFE applications on their OpenStack cloud. So this is kind of a generic layer of the land, right? I'm not going into what is the stack of application? What languages, what are the languages, right? What is LAMStack, or is it Java-based application, or is it WebRTC? I'm not getting the details here, but just kind of giving you a context of what kind of applications that people have been having running on OpenStack, right? So around that time, I mean, sorry, not on, along these times, right? So how do we get an application, right? If I have an ERP application, if you have a CRM application, if you have an email server, can I move it to OpenStack cloud? Does it make sense? Or am I going to write, I have a new kind of applications, can I write them on OpenStack cloud? So those were some of the questions here, right? For those who are lucky, who have so-called cloud-aware, cloud-native applications, what I call as the unicorns, like there's no question, right? It's very straightforward for you. They use programmatic APIs, they are fault tolerant, they are stateless or nearly stateless. So there's no question, I don't even have to talk about this, you'll have success there. But for the majority of those that don't have those kinds of applications, what would you do? You can port, you can rewrite, you can have a complete rewrite or you can have a partial rewrite. What's more interesting is like, GERD will give more details about a specific application and then what are the parts that they rewrote, what are the parts they retained. So those kind of decisions are case by case, but again, these are one of the techniques or few of the techniques that you need to follow. Other than rewriting, porting, right? There are other ways you can move your application. Maybe you can package it smartly, right? You have containers technology here, you can probably split your tiers, you can move some of them into VMs, some of them into different VMs. So that's what I call a smart packaging, but it's gonna be a trial and error or it's gonna be more, unless until we have the application in hand, it cannot be a generic technique, right? You need to have experience with the application and then you do that.  Don't run your cabal, don't run your, even SAP, I wouldn't recommend, but people have been running it there, right? So these are the high-level techniques that people were using it, you know? There is no one hard and fast rule here. I cannot take one big hammer and say, okay, I'm gonna rewrite all the applications to move into cloud or I'm going to port everything. So that's not gonna happen and it doesn't make sense. So I'm kind of summarizing these things, right? So if you look at your application and your infrastructure, a lot of early adopters or a lot of people who made the mistake is, okay, I wanna go into OpenStack Cloud, okay, I got it now, and then I have my application, maybe I can move everything into OpenStack Cloud, I need to move everything into OpenStack Cloud. So there's some people burn their hands with that, right? We don't want to do that. So the better approach would be like, I have this application full, what kind of application it is? What kind of infrastructure it needs? If it needs an OpenStack or a Cloud infrastructure, it makes sense to move it over, port it over or migrate it, right? If it doesn't, just leave it alone. It can be running on your, or Solaris server if it needs to be, right? So you can do that. And I've had clients, I've had people who are having a combination of their applications, some of them run on Solaris and it needs to run on Solaris. There is no way I can move it out, right? And second thing is, there is no one rule that I can apply, as I mentioned before. It's all case by case, take the application, you know the application better. What is the nature of the application? There are high level principles, there are high level patterns that you can apply, but you know, again, there is no one single rule. You need to go case by case. And few other things, not just to OpenStack, right? People who don't understand the cloud architecture well.  That doesn't make sense, the economics won't work out and it's not even like cloud, right? So, I don't expect people to be doing that mistake here, but there are cases where people have tried doing that, don't do that. And finally, it's okay to leave something out. As I mentioned, if an application is not fit for to be run on cloud, let it run there. Let it run on bare metal, let it run on virtualized environment, whatever it is. So, summarizing back, take your application, start from the workloads, what is the infrastructure that's suitable for that workload, go with that. I want to stop here and pass it on to Gerd. He's going to talk more about what I did was more theoretical and then kind of anecdotal evidences, but you will see what are the applications that they're running, what is the stack, what are the lessons learned, what are the steps they took. Thanks, Gerd. The enterprise applications we are talking about today are running on the business marketplace of Deutsche Telekom. The business marketplace is a web portal where end customers of Deutsche Telekom can order and book software applications, seeds of these applications, one seed, 50 seeds, for example. In general, this is a software as a service offering. The software offered on this platform is either from ISVs, from software partners of Deutsche Telekom or from DT itself. And the target group of these applications is small and medium-sized enterprises. Deutsche Telekom has around 3 million users of this size or customers of this size currently. The platform, the cloud platform below the business marketplace, below the web portal where the applications are running is based on open source technologies only. So we are using OpenStack, Ceph and Ubuntu Linux, for example. The project to set up this platform started in 2012 and we were able to set up the platform until the Q1 in 2013. And since then, we are in production with this platform. And as of today, this is the first OpenStack production system of Deutsche Telekom. But it complements other platforms that DT has, for example, big, huge enterprise platforms based on VMware, for example, SAP HANA. We are running a 2.9 million users SAP HANA platform. And it complements also other OpenStack platforms that are currently either in setup or already running. For example, Cisco InterCloud or OpenStack-based platforms for research, internal IAS offerings, or an NFE platform, for example. This is an overview of the applications or the workloads currently running on this platform. So we have enterprise social network and enterprise cloud storage. I will talk about these both applications in a few minutes, more into detail. We have ERP systems, CRM systems, enterprise content management, a lot of different workloads. And as you can imagine, all these applications are completely different from each other. Not only with respect to the business case because it's a different application for a different target group, but also with respect to the technologies used to create this software, to run this software. The size of the tenants is different. The resource usage, we have tenants with only five VMs, for example, up to tenants with 100 virtual machines running. These applications are the ability to scale or scale elastically is very different as well. And the number of users on these systems is also from a few users up to thousands of users. And one important topic is the efforts that you need to spend or to invest in these applications to run them, to operate them, and to maintain them is very different. And they have a different level or a very different level of cloud awareness. So some of them are really pet applications and some of them are more cloud-like or cloud aware in some cases. For these applications and ISV, we offer in general two different service models. The first one is the managed model. And this model, our operations team is responsible for the tenant, for the resources, for the platform and for the software and the application as well. So the operations team will also do the upgrades and the installation of the application of the ISV. In the second case, the hosting model, the operations team is responsible up to the level of the operating system of the virtual machine, to the upgrades, security upgrades, for example, of the operating system of the virtual machine. And from then the ISV is responsible for the application updates, maintaining the application and restart the application, for example, if it fails. Obviously we are offering the cloud resources via the cloud, the tenants and all the virtual machines. And we also provide the ISV with reference tenants and production tenants. So the ISV is able to test his application, his software first in the reference tenant before it goes to production. To be able to run these applications inside of a tenant, you need to provide support by different services like VPN access points, for example, load balancers, proxy servers and kind of these services. We offer different databases to the clients, to the customers, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, for example, and in one case Informix. And very important backup and monitoring. Monitoring is very important for the operations team and for the ISV as well, but backup is very important. Who are the tenants here? Who are the tenants here? Who are the tenants, internal customers or? No, external customers, so the tenants, we create the tenants for the ISV, but the customers are external customers. And we offer individual support for onboarding because without our help, the ISV wouldn't be able to integrate his application on the cloud. At least that's our experience. The first workload I would like to talk about is a business cloud storage. It's comparable to Dropbox or Box. This application was developed by DT and it's an enterprise secure online storage located in German data centers and applying to German data security and data privacy laws. It offers a web app in general and mobile app and as well as a PC sync line. So the customer is able to synchronize the local files from his PC or mobile device to the cloud and doing backups, for example. This application is integrated in some other applications on the business marketplace from other ISVs so that a customer who ordered one seed in one application and another one in the other application would be able to save the data in one application and open it up in the other again. This application is currently bundled with every mobile business user contract of Deutsche Telecom in Germany. The application consists in general of common services applications, for example, Apache web servers. In the core, it's a Java application web, a Java application server. It uses messaging servers and transcoders, for example, for uploaded images. We generate thumbnails or different sizes of the image. In the back end, we have a MongoDB server and we have load balancers in front of the application. Before we onboarded this application, it was installed in a traditional data center in a traditional hosting data center on huge servers. It was a traditional three-layer installation with few web servers and the application servers and a MySQL master slave database server in the back end and it used DRBD for application in the back end. It consumed very expensive storage appliances and it didn't use any configuration management so if we wanted to scale out this application, we had to manually install a server, bring up all the software, the application and then connect it to the rest of the system. So it was not dynamically scalable. After the onboarding, we had a dynamically scalable tenant on OpenStack.  We deployed the application on default KVM virtual machines and put a multiple MongoDB servers in the back end of this application. All persistent volumes in this application are hosted on Ceph RBD back ends and we replaced the NFS shared storage that was used in the past with a Ceph S3 back end. The configuration is now managed by Puppet so when we start up a new VM, it's automatically configured via Puppet. So what's the toolbox that we used at the end to bring this application to the cloud? It was necessary to rewrite a part of the application. So for example, the part of the application, the functions that were responsible for storing data on the file system, we had to rewrite them to use S3. We introduced the MongoDB in the back end. We had to change parts of the application to achieve this. We introduced the load balancers, so we deployed the application differently and we introduced automatic installation. So when the VM comes up, the application will be automatically installed on the virtual machine. Very important is the scalable and highly available storage in the back end. This application is the biggest consumer of our cloud and uses an important or big part of our Ceph cluster. The result at the end was a scalable enterprise application on OpenStack. The second workload I would like to present is very different from the first one. It's an enterprise social network application developed by an ISV and it's in fact a private cloud offering to companies, small, big sized companies and it's installed normally on premise in the data center of the customer. So the ISV needs to make a lot of customization on this application when he installs it on premise for a customer, for a company, because the companies have a lot of individual requirements to this application. So what he did is he uses multiple single instances of this application for private cloud customers, now on our platform. And it's just one VM per tenant, per customer tenant inside of this application. Each VM contains all the applications and services necessary to run this application and it has access to the databases and the Ceph cluster in the back end, for example. So every new customer gets a new tenant, a single VM. What we did to onboard this application was partly the same like for the first application. So in this case, the ISV implemented the changes necessary to access S3 cluster in the back end. We introduced the configuration management with Puppet and the ISV developed kind of a small service, a cloud manager that reboots single VMs. So for example, if an end customer locks into the system, the VM will be started of this tenant and if the last user locks out of this system, the VM will go down and will stop. This cloud manager and this concept is portable to any cloud platform. It can run an open stack, it can also run on other cloud platforms as well. So the toolbox in this case was to partially rewrite the software to introduce, to adopt the S3 storage, for example. Additional development was necessary for this small application, the cloud manager. And we did the smart deployment with a kind of containerized virtual machines that contain all the necessary services and applications. And we accepted the limitations of this concept. So scalability and availability are not that high like in a distributed deployment with many virtual machines, obviously. So this VM, one of these VMs starts in one minute, less than one minute, and that's acceptable for the ISV and the customers as well. So what are the lessons learned? During three years of onboarding, this kind of applications, I'm pretty much convinced that there are no kettles in enterprise applications. This is only about pets. So if you want to onboard this kind of applications, we are talking about pets, in every case. You can say cattle is a sport only once a day, so you're done for the day. Maybe we have kind of species in between. So the first application I talked about, the business online storage, it's scalable now. Maybe it's more cattle with a burden. It's not really cattle. So for example, the MongoDB servers are running on specific servers to be able to run the huge VMs. So there is kind of a burden in this case, but at the end it's mainly all about pets. And this is specifically true for the sector software, software for specific branches. These software, these applications have a specific target group of customers. And this is a limited number of customers, and a limited number of users. These are not the Googles and Facebooks of this world. So they are not offering their services to millions of users worldwide. So cloud has a very different meaning for them. Cloud native for these ISVs means a lot of investments necessary to rewrite their software to adopt all the cloud technologies to be a cloud native at the end. And there's no business case for this, so no return on investment. They will not do this. And this is true for example, for applications from Deutsche Telecom as well. I saw recently a list of internal systems around 500 systems in Deutsche Telecom, and we will never rewrite all these applications to bring them on the cloud. That's not, we will not have the money to do this. The majority of these applications are not well prepared for the cloud. You could onboard them, but you must be prepared that they are stateful, not really cloud aware, and that they are not using dev ops technologies. So in general to onboard these applications, you have an increased overhead. You have to put a lot of efforts into this. You need a project to set these applications up. Together with the ISV, you need to know how from the ISV and the ISV needs you know how to bring this application on OpenStack for example, or on the cloud platform. From our experience, a good tool set is to at least do a partial rewrite of the software to adopt some of the technologies, to change the deployment and the architecture of the structure of the tenant and the application, and especially introduce configuration management and automatic installation to this application. And you have to change a lot of processes, especially the processes of maintaining these applications because normally the ISV has its own operations team and they installed this manually on premise for example for a customer. So they have to learn these new processes as well. With this, I hand over to Sriram again. So good, I have a question for you. So after you did all these things, did you guys disable our blog Dropbox in Facebook? No, good. So we were trying to give you an overview of what applications that real enterprises running, right? So keynote after keynote, summit after summit, we hear a lot of use cases, right? I don't know about you guys, like I always have questions like what do you mean by web service, what exactly, what are the applications that you're running, what is the language stack, what is the stack there, what is the architecture, right? So our hope was to give you a preview of this kind of a take on the application that an enterprise is running and the journey that they took, right? Believe it or not, like there are some customers who are running .NET applications. So the point here is that there are some techniques here. You also, what we want you to take away from here is that there is help here, that have been successful use cases, that have been successful case success stories. If you want to have more help here, there are two work groups that you can reach out to. App ecosystem work group, you might have seen the app catalog getting released in the keynote, right? So you can reach out to the app ecosystem work group to kind of learn more about cloud-aware applications. The Win the Enterprise work group is doing a lot about what are the best practices, how do you bring in the enterprise features like HA and more resiliency into open stack. You can always refer to the super user website, you can learn a lot more about what are other users doing and then of course there's the Unicon, there's a white paper on cloud-aware applications, but in bottom line somebody is that don't be scared. If you have an application, think about take the application, think how you can migrate to open stack workload and you can always reach out to the community to get more help. Thank you. You can ask him more questions or ask us any more questions if you want. A question for Harit. The first enterprise application you spoke about, you obviously went through the effort of cloudifying the application to get it onto open stack. Did you consider or did you evaluate putting it in a public cloud versus a private open stack cloud and if so, why did you choose to go private with open stack? It's for him, for you. We put it on the private cloud because this was the concept of this production system. So we are offering software from ISVs on this platform and we don't have a public cloud. So this is the system that we have and this is the portal that we have. So it was the easiest way to onboard the system on this application and we could use the different other systems that are connected to this system like the portal itself, provisioning systems, identity systems and all this stuff. That was very easy for us to leverage this. I wanna add one more thing. I think this is the bigger debate of private cloud as public cloud, right? Actually, we are the summit and then we would, I would want you to be in an open stack. But as I mentioned earlier, what is suitable for your workload and if public cloud is the best one for you, please go with that, right? You don't have to be, philosophically, personally tied to any infrastructure. Okay, good. So everybody's happy with the workloads. Good, thank you everybody. Thank you very much. Thank you for staying very late. Thank you so much. Have a good night.


It hit the five day it rolled over it hit the five day again, you know to be determined, but I yeah I'd like to see Amazon confirm higher, right? Well, I mean here's a couple names Welcome to access a trader the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success profitability and longevity Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge Master your process and own your future Hey guys, good morning, everybody. Welcome to another edition of the access a trader calm week an update show Hope everybody is doing well. Hope everybody had a good trading week a lot of carnage along the board We'll get to that in a second. Just a reminder Monday the equities markets are Are closed? Okay are closed in the celebration observance of Juneteenth If you are trying to log in on Monday, you're probably going to have a very very tough time So enjoy your three-day weekend get some rest put in a bunch of work Again, we are all students of this business It doesn't make a difference if you're trading for 20 years or 20 weeks. It's it's a never-ending journey Remember, there is no finish line. There is no trophy at the end There is no time to breathe and kind of sink it all in the markets are constantly changing Technology is playing a big part in its role And the most important part is you know as much as you think you got it you figured it out It's all good, right? There's a big curveball that comes along and really takes away your confidence and as traders And all we have is our confidence so continue to work continue to be a better friend to yourself Have some me time but the most important part is like we say every single day Especially towards the end of the video continue to stay in business and buy your time Especially if you are a new trader. So let's talk about the week So Wednesday, we had the 75 base basis point hike. This was something in the previous Six sessions that pals said wasn't going to happen, but they feel like well indeed it to happen That was rumors gonna happen and da da da da da if I only happened On Wednesday the good news. Well, I guess good news bad news going forward. He doesn't see Another aggressive Aggressive hike. He said maybe those hinting there's maybe one coming in July But the most important part is they feel like this is the more this is the most of the aggressive Moves from the Fed the most important part is our fearless leader. No names, right? Our fearless leader continues to tell us how great the economy is. Okay, we get it, right? It's it's the market continues to be great The the employment numbers are great. Everything is great gas prices are great Inflations are great the cost of living is great Apparently that somebody didn't tell that to the equities markets if you look At what we had as our final scoreboard towards in the week, you know, you saw some pretty big moves Yeah, S&P Plunged 5.8 percent. This is the biggest move down Since the pandemic March 2020 lows. It's kind of a big deal The Dow and the S the Dow and Nasdaq lost A little less than 5 percent. That's kind of a big deal and considering that we rallied on Friday. Those numbers would have been even More uglier I think the bigger, you know, if you're looking for direction if you're looking for some sort of light light at the end of the tunnel It's not gonna it's not gonna come this weekend. Let me let me tell you why I think for any market I think we could all agree with this whether you're trading for two minutes or or or 50 years I think that the hottest thing about a hot market or even a market that is going higher Is speculation, right? I think we could all agree when you see a stock, for example, go from two to 50 and people are chasing it That's called good, right? It's called feet. It's called the greed. It's called Speculation that's where the speculation money. So no market that ever is gonna have a stock going from two to 50 every single day Is going to be considered a capitulation market So when you have when you take right now Realistically the last what five years the biggest Speculation market out there, which is the crypto market, right? The stock market has been here for years and years and years, but the real crypto market from the mass public has been, you know Pretty popular. I would say probably the last three to five years Bitcoin Ethereum and all these alternative coins not that I am by far. I'm probably most less novice Speaker about the subject but but again Bitcoin represented Speculation money, Ethereum and all these alternate coins and NFTs and the metaverse all represents Speculation so there is not speculation especially from the demographics remember keep this in mind The majority of people that are investing or speculating in NFTs You know NFTs crypto and the other I'm saying majority that's in all but the majority are in that in that demographic from like 16 to 25 I think we could all agree on that and if if that market is being liquidated right now and right now I'm talking. I'm just looking at my phone right now. You have Bitcoin right now at 19,170 Ethereum dropped below a thousand and there is rumors that there are funds out there And this is kind of a no the most important part There's rumors that out there that there if there is a forced liquidation by the key quote unquote players in the Crypto market and these things can really take a very big hit again I don't know anything about the market these markets again. Don't shoot the messages I'm just kind of just what I'm reading this morning and that and again that will take out money from other places again If there is no speculation money flowing into the most speculative space speculative asset class that's out there Well, how can you be? How can you how can you turn around and say well the markets is gonna bottom out this week? Everything will be fine. It's all about the speculation money It's all about people wanting to get in something badly the FOMO. There is no FOMO right now There's no FOMO anywhere right now and the most important part is the key questions And this is where investors and especially new traders that start in the last three four years They continue to ask the question. Well, where's the bottom? Where's the bottom? And again, I have to remind everybody every single week especially in the weekend update This is the only video you watch throughout the weekend that this is only again. This is only month six, right? This is only month six of this decline and this decline has been pretty orally You could say what you want about the three to five hundred point days The eight hundred point days on the Dow the thousand point days in the Dow If you traded in this bear market versus the bear market from 2007 to 2009 You know, there's an extreme difference between this market. This market is very orderly. Okay? Very orderly very methodical. Yeah, you'll have its days It's aggressive sell-offs into the close but all all and all it's pretty organic, right?  It's a little bit different that we have now Yes, we could be bleeding a little by little But you weren't having major banks going out of business on a daily basis like a Bear Stearns Lehman brothers So forth and so on so it's a lot different and oh by the way the updates, right? You're going to have one day a week, you know two days out of two weeks that you're gonna have some pretty good updates as well Like we saw on Friday, which is which was a nice orderly kind of a melt-up on Friday. So it's different It's a lot different when I talk, you know, you know You're talking about apples and hand grenades here anybody who's traded through 2007 2008 and filing out the generational bottom of 2009 We'll tell you that market was incredibly tough compared to what we're seeing now But if you don't trade from the bear side if you don't trade from the you know From the quote-unquote dark side a lot of people like the point that you're gonna have a troubles either way because at the end of the day No matter how much we rally we're rallying underneath supply and that's the most important part So if you look at any single rally for the exception of the rally that started on 314 right, this is the biggest move in the last six months this three-week channel and ultimately it got stuffed at the Top of the channel and rolled over but once we lost the 50 day once again You can see here every single rally kind of ended the same way and even when the bulls got above the 20-day moving average That they couldn't do for three months, you know, it was a two-way consolidation gave it all up here But the common denominator is happens what happens in the short-term cycle and you can see this every single time They get stuck at the five-day moving average no matter how impressive the run was from the previous day They kind of roll over so this is the last one we had What three days ago right on the Fed it tested the five-day moving average rolled over and we had a pretty good rally on Friday You know pretty good for a rally on Friday got rejected off the five-day moving average if you guys remember the Wednesday video I said look, you know despite this, you know despite this move and I'd like to see a second They run remember I'd like to see a second. They run doesn't mean we're gonna get it Well, the most important part of that video was I'm kind of very I'm kind of skeptical, right? That's kind of simple because again, we got rejected Wednesday off the five-day moving average You could take literally that recording and take it into today.  How can you feel all good inside of it again? If you if you have documented evidence all across the board, especially Getting rejected anywhere look look at the five-day moving average anywhere off the five-day got rejected here Got rejected here got rejected here. How can you turn around say? Oh, I'm definitely bullish on Monday. The market is great. The economy great crypto is rallying. Everything is great, right? You can't that's the most important part and again, we we try to let's say we I try to record this video Based on a non buys, right? It's just again. I'm not a bull. I'm not a bear I'm just I'm realistic I trade from both sides of the market and when the market is above supply, right or above demand you go long Right you go long and risk is on when you're below demand, right or below supply, right? And we are way below supply. Yeah, you can have days at the market rallies But again, I said this time and time again There's a difference between a stock moving up like we saw a bunch of stocks going up on Friday Then the stocks going high right big difference because if stock goes from 100 to 70 and one day go from 70 to 73 Is it going higher or is it going up? Right? You follow what I'm saying here. So my point is going into this week It's me very very tough, especially if you have any type of forced liquidations in the crypto market And again, that does represent Speculation money flow. It's gonna be very very tough for the market to turn around and be like well Speculation money is coming out of this asset, but it's gonna go roll into the stock market It's me very very tough to kind of convince Longer-term investors or short-term traders then that's the result. Is it possible? Remember, it's always possible. We could have a follow-through right and again like like the same thing I said on Wednesday is the same thing. I'm gonna say today I would like to see a day to follow through right because again the problem is When you do have a rally in a bear market, okay? The next day remember the rally was the stocks are closer to their upper channel for the previous day than the lower channel So it's gonna take an extra day for them to get back to the lower channel to get massive values They could break daily lows. So if you look for example names like Amazon, right? And they all look the same, right? If you look at Amazon, would you like to see a day to rally? Of course, because again, look what happened last time it hit the five-day it rolled over it hit the five-day again You know to be determined, but yeah, I'd like to see Amazon confirm higher, right? I mean, here's a couple names. Let me just show you guys a couple names of what I'm kind of referring to so Let me show you guys a couple of names that I'm referring to bear with me a second Right, so you got names like Amazon. Is it possible to have a day to run? Yes, and I'd like to see Amazon confirm the five-day moving average and test this area here. Nvidia, you know same thing, right? It's the all of these are gonna have exactly the same charts You don't have to go through a thousand different charts and say this one looks good. That one looks okay That one looks good. They're all gonna look exactly the same They all are going to mirror the NASDAQ 100.  It means Facebook or meta is gonna look like this as well So it's it doesn't take a lot if they if one go they all go if one sells they're all gonna sell So this is a more of a of a reference point that if we are going to rally on Monday and again I'm incredibly skeptical of that but again at least I'm prepared I want to be in the names that if they do rally I want to have being the names that could rally for four five ten fifteen dollars and not forty fifty sixty eighty cents And that's why again names like NVIDIA if we confirm I'm interested names like Amazon if we confirm although Amazon is not the You know, it's not the fifty sixty dollar mover anymore like fifty cents is like a it's like a herculean effort It's like it's like passing a kidney stone. That's what it feels like to get fifty cents on Amazon these days But at least if Amazon could go you could take obviously larger size And if it starts confirming above the five-day moving average Maybe have a day two a name like meta that had a lot of really good option flow come in on Monday A little bit longer term expiration but really aggressive six and seven figure bets again same chart If it gets above the fifty the five-day moving average again, maybe we have a day to run So again watch that as well. There's one couple of cool looking little smaller charts I want to kind of bring to your attention guys.  Look at the volume surge on this thing, right? Look at any nice looking chart here. Look at the weekly view on this thing Right. Look at the weekly view on this allo I don't know what the hell this thing is before you guys who trade non beta keep an eye on this thing This thing starts building above this weekly channel. Maybe this thing could go also a recent IPO That looks interesting Look at this beat lco. Obviously, it's not going to be a weekly view. Obviously, there's nothing good about that But if you look at the daily view right at it it premiered or debuted at $20 went all the way down to 13 Maybe needs one or two more days, but if it could get above this channel here Maybe it gets a run to 18 19 dollars if again if the market is pretty good continues to add good Tesla all over the place here some good long some good shorts, but again, you could see the downward bias here Again, same play here as amazon the video meta apple Anything right it stopped at the five days. So if it confirms the five days, it's going to go higher If it confirms this macro channel, there's a lot of room down some pretty aggressive put buying came in This week they came in for the 600s. They came in for the 500s for the 550s So again, it's going to be very very interesting. So going into this week I do like a lot of things long if they confirm again, I'm very very skeptical They will but if that happens at least we are prepared But if they start losing their bottom channels, obviously, I will have no hesitation Start taking down the bottom channels and resume the downtrend. So that's it. That's it Sometimes sometimes you have to be a little bit more thought provoking Sometimes you got to look at the chart as a realist But the most important part is look at the market from the market that you have Not the market that you want guys stay blessed have a great great rest Enjoy the weekend and I will see you all on Tuesday. God bless. Take care


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Good morning friends. I hope you're all doing well.  All of them running in conjunction with the Pokemon World Championships. So we're going to take a look at all of the details for these upcoming events in today's video. Now the Pokemon World Championships will be running from the 10th till the 13th of August. All of the action from the championships will be streamed via their Twitch and YouTube channels. But alongside this, we are going to be seeing a bunch of mystery gifts that are running in correlation with this event. The first one that we're going to look at this morning was announced this morning by Cereby and it will be for another shiny Pokemon. It will be for a shiny Grim Snow. A shiny Grim Snow is to be distributed through a code hidden on a special Pokemon World Championships website. And this will be starting from the 20th of July. If we go over to the details on Cereby, you can see a little bit more information here. The new distribution has been announced on July the 28th 2023 to August the 18th. A special code to get a shiny Grim Snow will be hidden on the official website in Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines. This Grim Snow is based on the Grim Snow used by the champion of the Thailand Championships in 2022 and comes with the ability prankster and the moves Thunder Wave, Spray, Break, Reflect and Lightscreen. So this event will be starting a week tomorrow. So this is very soon for the chance to get this Grim Snow. Obviously the hidden code will be on one of their Pokemon websites from Singapore, Thailand or the Philippines. But as soon as we do know that code, we will do a video covering it so you can get it easier so you don't have to search around online. So make sure if you are interested in picking up this Grim Snow that you do hit that subscribe button because as soon as it does drop, we'll make sure to do a video so you can get yourself a shiny Grim Snow in your games when that event is running. The next one's to mention as well, of course with the World Championships, there will be a mystery gift running alongside the stream. The code will be put out as soon as the broadcast goes live at the very beginning of the show normally and it will run for the entire weekend. Normally it will run for a day later than what Worlds runs for. So Worlds finishing on the 13th, it'll probably run until the 14th but all of the details for the event and how long it runs for will be put up as soon as that event does start and obviously I will be casting the event so whether or not I'll be able to cover this event when it goes live will be questionable. If I can of course I will put a video up but I will put information up on the channel as soon as I am able to about this event but this Gastrodon will be given out during the live broadcast of the Pokémon World Championships beginning on the 10th of August. So this is the Gastrodon that Edo won the World Championships in his team with in the 22 World Championships last year in London. So really nice gift to get a hold of and commemorative item from last year's Worlds and also it is a blue Gastrodon so the best Gastrodon of course. And the third mystery gift that will be announced is the Tatsuguri but the Tatsuguri I think is only accessible to players in attendance at the World Championships. So if you are planning on attending the World Championships you're going to be able to pick up this stretchy form Tatsuguri when you're in Japan in Yokohama over the weekend of the World Championships. You can see the details here for this. It has been announced that players who attend the World Championships will be able to receive a stretchy form Tatsuguri. This Tatsuguri comes with the Commander ability as well as the moves Draco Meteor, Muddy Water, Helping Hand and Celebrate. Holding a big nugget, the first 10,000 participants in the Worlds Fantasy Team will also get it. We'll bring more details as it comes as of course we will hear on the channel as soon as we do have a bit more information about these mystery gifts. We will be putting videos up in correlation to them so we can make sure that you can get these if it is possible. The Tatsuguri might be the only one that you're not able to get unless you are attending Worlds but if there are ways around that and you can get that from home then we will obviously put an update on the channel but these are three very cool mystery gifts that are coming to the Games very soon. Of course you don't want to miss getting yourself a shiny Grimstall. It is a free shiny Pokemon so that one running from next Friday is very exciting and of course we will put an update as soon as that event does go live with the code that you can use to get it in your games as well as that Gastrodon when the World Championship starts later next month and then the Tatsuguri if there's any additional information on that of course and you would like to get a hold of that one. With that special move Celebrate then we will put up any information for being able to get that if there is any way around it other than being in attendance at Worlds but it does look at the moment like you have to be at the event to get that one but the Gastrodon Grimstall everyone's going to be able to get that so sit tight and wait for those events to come. Let me know down in the comment section below what you think of these events are you excited for that shiny Grimstall and the Gastrodon and we'll wrap things up there so thank you so much for tuning in to today's video friends hope you found this update useful if you have please drop a like do subscribe to the channel so you don't miss these events when they go live with the codes and information that will allow you to get them in your game and I will see you all in another video very soon so until then friends take care of yourself and bye bye


T. F. N. N. headline news update. Hi everyone, Basel Chapman, the host of the Tiger Technicians Hour coming up straight off to this T. F. N. N. Update. Here we go. This is noon time. It dowsed down 360 points at 25,606. Hit the 25,517 level this morning when you consider that just on the 23rd of April we were at 26,695. This is a pretty serious drop. And what we're looking at also is that the weekly chart has gone under the 14 period exponential moving average. We're waiting for this whole tariff news. I'm not sure it's going to be resolved only one split second at midnight. My thinking is that there's going to be a real give and take. And part of it is that China has to give something, but they might include a bunch of tariffs that we weren't expecting that could be a little problem here. Oversold. Look at the volatility index. The VIX index is screamed up to the 23,38 level trading now down from that high, still up $1.85 at 21,25. If you look historically, we've had the big spikes to the upside. I would suggest you that we're getting pretty close to some kind of a reversal in the market, but it might just be a short term reversal. Look at the S&P. The S&P right now is down. It is down 32 points at 28,46. It's just started to fill that gap that was made on that big push to the upside on the 1st of April with a low of 28,67. Today's low is 28,36. So it's gone right into that gap. The QQQ, the NDX 100 is down 2.65 at 183.10. Looks a little bit better than the others, but we might just be seeing a slow rollover because a lot of those tech stocks are very overboard. We'll see what happens here. This is very important. The gold is up 5. Let's see if it's able to break this really long-term downtrend line and get to the 20, so the 12, yeah, let's call it the 12.95 area. Right now it's at 12.86. And the dollar is holding pretty well, well, it was holding pretty well. And it's down 28 pips at 97.34. So pretty good considering that it is in the 97s with gold holding steady anyway. What we are looking at is that the IWM has been holding a little bit better than the others. It's down 1.61 at 155.15. Right on the 200-period moving average trying to bounce. I'll do a lot more of this as we get into my program coming up straight after these messages. Later on there's Steve Rhodes, Dave White, Tom O'Brien. Have a great day. And guys, I'll see you in a few minutes for my show.