I know he likes to play tennis. He likes to ride your mountain bike, but only a bit dry weather. I don't like rain. I guess you don't drive it very much either. That's right. That's good. Is it a good practice riding a bike for walking? Not really. It's a total different movement of the body. So stow away your bike for now? It is. It has already stowed away because it's fall. I don't know if you've seen the weather outside this morning. He's not going to ride it very often. He's a very active member of the WordPress community and did the plans about the subject of your talk? Did it start in Belgrade or before that? Before that. Even before that? You knew where the next WordPress camp was going to be? Some people accused me that I knew it was going to be Berlin, but I didn't know. But he has some big plans for next summer and he's going to tell us about it. So give it up for Marcel. Thank you everybody. I have some big plans. As Birgit told in the presentation, if you have big plans you have to take small steps. I'm going to take a lot of small steps in May next year. I will tell you more about this. I'm going to tell a bit about myself. Before I'm going to tell you something about myself, I want you to reach out to your phone and see if you have a QR code scanner on it and try and scan this QR code. It's also on that side. No worries, there's nothing scary going to happen, but if you use that QR code you can donate money to the good cause that I'm going to walk for next year. That QR code will be there during the whole presentation. I only headed up on the last slide before I got up on stage and I thought I'm going to put it on every slide so everybody has time to use that QR code and maybe donate some money. So that's that. As Karen already said, I'm the owner of Nostromo.nl officially. It's a WordPress agency on my own. I work together with a lot of people and build amazing things and support my customers in that. I do everything in that business. I'm a business owner, developer, project manager, treasurer and well every other role you can imagine that there's there in a company. I try to do it myself. For the WordPress community I have done a lot and I'm still doing a lot and sometimes I tend to accept a lot of voluntary business and I want to help out and I know because it gives me energy but taking too much is going to drain your energy. So I had to take some step back at sometimes and then another WordCamp came along and just had to get involved and I helped organize again so I'm very bad in saying no but sometimes I just have to do it because otherwise there's no more time left to do my work for my company and help my clients and that's not going to work in the end. What I do for the community is I moderate the WordPress support forum for the Netherlands and help out of course. I see bad things happen there and moderate that. Translation editor for WordPress in Elements and what that means is that everybody can work on translations for WordPress and there have to be some people or a team who approve the translations to just be sure everything is correct, everything uses the same kind of language and I'm in that team. I was a co-organizer for WordCamp Europe in 2013. It was in Leiden who was there. That's great to see a few people here. I helped out for WordCamp the Netherlands 2014-2015 and also in 2016 which was the last one as we know. It might happen again if you want to join and help organize something like that. Well, please contact me or check us out on Slack and see if you want to help out with that. And I'm lead organizer for WordCamp Rotterdam last year and at the closing of WordCamp Rotterdam last year I announced that I was going to take a step back and do a little less in WordPress community but again I failed and I'm going to be lead for next year in 2019 so keep an eye out if you want to go to Rotterdam somewhere in March, April, maybe beginning of May we still have to set a date and keep an eye out for that. Before I'm going to tell something about my walk to Berlin I'm going to try and tell you how I got to the idea. If I know it because I don't really know where it came from but I think it has something to do with contributing to WordPress. WordPress as a project is big, it's not only the software it's the whole community around it, it's the translating it's the documentation, it's the support, it's the design, everything and everything is done by people like you and me. Most of it happens in spare time or is voluntary some of it is sponsored by companies who hire people to work full-time on the WordPress project which is great because without that sponsoring and without the time that people put into WordPress it could have not been what it is right now.  So why would you contribute? Is there anybody here in the room who has not contributed to WordPress right now and don't feel sad or I see a few hands there, excellent. Well, not excellent but there's room for improvement there because contributing to WordPress is not only to make WordPress better of course in the end that's what we all want but it's also to improve yourself and not only to improve yourself in the skills you have but also broaden your skills. If you're a developer, a PHP developer now might be a good time to start looking at some JavaScript or React stuff or help out in the Gutenberg project or test it and report bugs and all those kind of small things is part of contributing to WordPress. You can share your knowledge. Like a lot of people who are here on stage or doing workshops in the other tracks share your knowledge about what you have learned about WordPress and inspire other people to start doing that themselves if they want that, of course. And the last bullet point here what makes it most important for me as a person is have fun and make friends, new friends meet up with people you've met on other WordCams and share your experiences and see what can happen there. I'm not going to talk about how you can contribute to WordPress and what kind of areas you can contribute. There's a lot of information on make.wordpress.org there's a lot of teams, 18 teams if I remember correctly so there's 18 different parts of the WordPress project that you can contribute to. So take a look at that website make.wordpress.org and read along if you're interested in contributing to WordPress. Anyone not familiar with Slack? Everybody knows Slack? Well that's great. So you can find all the teams in Slack you can join the channels and you can well see when they have meetings and see what's happening there and if you might want to be a contributor to that too. So what about the walk to Berlin? This was the original tweet I tweeted out on June 4th of this year it was about two weeks before WorldCamp Europe in Belgrade and I don't know where it came from I had the idea of walking maybe I was looking at the TV at somebody walking I don't know I just had a brain wave which told me maybe I should walk to WorldCamp Europe next time didn't know that it was going to be in Berlin yet and first we had to go to Belgrade for WorldCamp Europe in 2018 about a week after this tweet I got an injury on my knee from out of nowhere as if it was a sign from somewhere, whatever you believe in telling me you're not going to walk to Berlin that's crazy, don't do this stuff so I was in bed for a week and a half trying, well I couldn't walk with my leg I had medicine for it and I got cured and I can stand and I can walk again so that healed perfectly and then at WorldCamp Belgrade was announced which I couldn't attend I had to cancel all the travel plans I was going to go there with my wife and she was going to do some sightseeing I was going to do well WordPress things couldn't go there, I had to cancel everything which was pretty sad in the end I got a strong feeling that this whole walking to the next WorldCamp I didn't know it was going to be in Berlin then was going to be something I had to pursue not just for myself but maybe I could do something more for the WordPress community so I was going to think why would I want to go to Berlin and because of the attention it might give me which I'm already very happy with with the attention I'm getting also with all you guys here in the room I'm going to raise awareness for a good cause because that's a perfect idea to raise awareness and tell people about my walk and raise awareness for a good cause and I'm going to raise funds for that and the good cause is DonateWC and DonateWC is a foundation which has 4 crew members right now 5 crew members right now and the DonateWC foundation helps people go to WorldCamps and support them financially so if people want to go to a WorldCamp and be an attendee, be an organizer, be a speaker and they don't have any financial means to do that the DonateWC foundation can help people with that and of course they need money to help those people and I'm going to raise money for that good cause also why I'm doing it is rearrange my comfort zone because looking at this picture your comfort zone is a defined space and a lot of cool stuff happens outside of that comfort zone one of the things also was speaking for me I like to share my knowledge in a small group of people on a table in a small space and being on stage I might look natural and relaxed here but actually this heart is going pretty fast inside and every time I go on stage I'm nervous, I have the feeling if everything is going to go alright but wait, let's just do it take small steps and you'll get there and of course I'm going to meet new people I need places to sleep on my walk to Berlin because that's going to take me 30 days in a few stages and I need places to sleep this is my route to Berlin you can see here it might not be readable for everybody but I have Rotterdam and a small place called Berkel and Rotorice is up there, that's where I live and I'm going to leave there on May 19th and I'm going to go all the way to the Netherlands to the beautiful Velu all the way to Eastern Netherlands and all the way back to Germany a piece of the hearts how they call it and in the end I'm going to Berlin this map is on my website also and you can see little beds on the route those are the places where I'm already staying at people who from the community who told me okay you can sleep at my place I was actually featured on a radio show last Saturday on 3FM where people picked up my tweet and they sent me a message and asked if I want to be in their broadcast to help find the last 3 places in the Netherlands and within an hour people have sent their details and that was all covered and the Netherlands is now 100% complete for the places where I'm going to sleep the next challenge is Germany so if people know radio stations in Germany please give me a call and we're going to try and get on the radio right there to get some more places so how can you help of course use the QR code that's there you can donate money and all the money that has been raised is going to go directly to the WC Foundation you can follow my hashtag which is on my shirt also on Twitter you can go to my website which is build and WordPress surprise which is walk2wc.eu you can donate there or you can donate directly on the link that's here on the slide another thing I need is sponsors because I'm going to leave my company my laptop and I'm going to walk 35 kilometers a day and then try and work along the side that's not going to work and I have to tell my customers I have multiple, thank God you cannot call me before 4pm because I'm walking the whole day and after that you can call me if there's anything wrong that's not going to work, my clients are not going to like that so I need someone to help me support my company so if you have any ideas about that what kind of company you would like to sponsor me in return for some nice perks on the website and on Twitter and in my daily vlogs I'm going to do please contact me and the last slide is of course the slide that people always have on the last of their presentations are there any questions about this crazy adventure I'm going to do there are late between walking and also boats booths now there is the question was there was a link between Marcel Bootsman and walking but now there is and I think I like it walking has been something I've been doing we have a dog at home so I tend to walk one and a half, two hours a day with him and I like being outside it clears your mind and if I'm developing stuff and I'm stuck in something I just close my laptop and I go outside with the dog sometimes within four or five minutes outside I have a bright idea and how I should solve those kind of things so walking is something therapeutic and I hope those 30 days are going to show me who I am what I'm going to do in the next years and maybe it's going to be a big change let's first try this challenge thank you for the question other questions about my adventure or about contributing to WordPress right in the back Anton but okay I'm going to repeat the question in English the question of Antonis is asking is what am I going to do to keep or to be mentally challenged during walking because it might be very, I don't know for failing what's the English word I'm never bored so I don't know the word in English sorry I've been training for about four or five times five times now and been walking about 30 kilometers that takes me about five and a half, six hours and I'm not bored a moment during walking I see new things you discover all kinds of new things that you haven't seen even around your house and in your own town or you go in the car and you drive off and you never see those things so I don't think I'm going to get bored and I will meet people along the way I will meet people in the afternoon or in the evening when I arrive at the places where I sleep so I don't see that as a problem okay any other questions great great timing I was just about to jump on stage time applause for myself there's going to be a very short break now just to get the next speaker ready and we'll be off


what is going on guys today I am back with another destiny video and today we're going to be opening the weekly crucible looting package thingy thingy bub bub which I'll show you guys on screen now these things right here which show up you the wars of all kinds but before we get into the video guys if you do enjoy leaving a like is much appreciated on my behalf so yes let's start with the unknown rewards why not here we go the ruin wings not bad and a 2020 am r7 a sniper rifle I've had about a trillion times which I've got no use for oh the water star that's not too bad oh the spare change please have a decent role on you please each new day which I've got with a perfect role already I'm actually quite lucky um fusion rifles at the minute side of the visual just can't be you can't be that the hex caster why is the key give me that rubbish um if somebody's are going to my postmaster which is all good um and I've also got a crucible package down there which hopefully will get some decent out of which will open in a quick second okay so I've got the winged word which I've had a billion times I've got the havoc pigeon which we'll check out um not great not great okay what we've got an ideal breaker the old school crucible also rifle which is garbage because it's got no stability at all just redunculus and we have the proud spy shotgun with you see we've got final round on it all battle runner we've got lightweight or casket mag and we've got small ball or bridge frame and yeah do not need a shotgun at all to be honest I've got my conspiracy fear which is just an absolute monster which is right there what's on this 2020 long view ambush we've got an unflinching explosive rounds snapshot perfect balance and mulligan could be quite decent for pvp could be quite decent if I could snipe that'd be great but I can't there's me each new day which is badass um on this one no get rid of it don't need it straight away I can see already um the water star we've got reinforced and range finder I'm not sure if these drop with the exact roll every time because I don't think I've had this before but yeah oh my life I'll check it out I'll check it out oh head seeker hand loaded reinforced and no stability though I'd never get I love the sight as well but no stability I'm that is getting dismantled okay on this hex caster which is a garbage weapon without stability and it's going to get dismantled straight away see you there see you later now we're going to go all down to the um well Lord Jackson hopefully I get something good something I need Lord high fixer please that would be me a very very nicely indeed okay let's go the hero formula that is it that is it yeah okay so we've got outlaw and third eye who's next high caliber rounds hand led stuck and third eye it's got stability which it needs because it shoots pretty quick but yeah I've got perfect rolls of that don't like it um and what was on that class I'm actually let's quickly check that out 32 22 intellect discipline not the best at all but what we're going to do now guys is um I forgot the room wings that's not bad discipline strength though and I'll keep him because well actually I've forgotten they so have a gun there they've got a better stat roll the ones I just got um but yeah I'll compare them after I compare them after all voice this video is going to go on for months um so I'm going to guys is I'm going to switch to my hunter and continue the video from there okay guys so I'm on my hunter so let's get opening let's get opening what's that down here that's the blue hand gun okay so we're going to start with the unknown rewards first obviously actually we do them last I always do them first and I never get anything decent so we're going to do them last so let's go with this right here point and shoot oh my life did I just get that weapon again seriously oh what's going on I keep getting the same rubbish revelator Jesus the clever dragon yes but as I said let's split shift the pro even and the glass parameter really what the hell is that chaotic neutral I'm just getting an absolute garbage here I really am havoc pigeon oh seem to be a hell me it's still Oracle oh I'm going to get another coupes package I'm going to lose one if I don't quickly go and open this oh dear dear dear dear dear dear dear I want a Lord High Fixer for that please Lord Shaxx okay so whatever I got went to my postmaster um actually you know what I may as well just quickly open this other package while I'm here saves me running back does it not yes it does here we go here we go here we go okay so I've got the skyburners annex and I've got another package please please please melting points okay so what have we got inside my postmaster I've got a lot of legendary marks this episode I know that for nothing I know that for nothing okay so I've got the event horizon which normally comes with every week with a decent roll with hidden hand skip runs snapshot triple tap with a life support with a hawk eye short gaze and ambush so yeah again decent roll but that thing it's constantly getting decent rolls and on the Anton's rule we got hidden hand fade stock cascade mag mulligan army of one true sight fast draw and quick draw okay so nothing marvelous to be honest nothing marvelous is well it's going to leave me gobsmacked so I've got this and I got that but yeah don't really need them and what else did we get just garbage okay so hex caster glass half fall in the third eye we've got an instability oh we've got hand-lead stuff but then we've got no range oh dear this is where you want burst room I don't even know you can get burst room here but yeah oh dear well we'll take a double look at that it could be okay it could be okay oh we've got I'm this we've got outlaw lightweight reinforced feather mag we've got mulligan true sight fast draw and quick draw not too keen on that archetype of hand cannons to be honest though they're clever dragon oh okay so we've got small ball or brash frame which drops magazine size to 18 it's pretty bad I don't know what small ball drops it down to but brash frame drops it down pretty low quick draw that's just ruined it's ruined because of low mag size so you can go and to be honest you can go as well yeah okay so on this we've got the split shifter pro we've got spray and play quick draw brush frame I'm a piece of rhymes and no don't need you because I have my beastly uh saline's visual ambush eagle eye we've got a new performance bonus quick draw snapshot and injection mold with it in hand that's actually quite good the glass pro monitor is that say promontory um yes I might keep that actually let me just lock you just in case havoc pigeon okay so here we have short shot not bad surrounded hot swap speed reload quick draw and feather mag oh dear goodbye goodbye proud spire final round quick draw painted mag hammer forged oh dear I don't need shotguns and I definitely don't need them rules like that and I think I've got three things yeah okay I'll take neutral which is a vanguard heavy perfect balance counter balance and take a knee imagine that you know what that's going to be a beast I'm gonna like that oh dear oh oh oh oh oh tripod field scout grenades and horseshoes although it don't it ain't as good as it used to be that's actually quite decent the vast it is low so it'll take them about a week to get somebody after I've shot them but I could probably would have preferred tracking here but grenades and horseshoes this isn't too bad at all yep keeping you it's not bad at all I'll keep that thank you very much and not an end in deluge which is a beastly pvp heavy which I've got with the best rolls I don't know if I've got one on me here I've got one there there you go range finder counter balance don't need you um sorry about that but but and we've got engrams there so yes not amazing number hunter but now I'm going to switch to my warlock hopefully I'll get better look on him so I'll catch you guys in a quick second okay guys so I'm on my pretty pink warlock and let's see what we have to open I'm not sure I've got as many packages on this dude as I have what I had on my others no I don't but here we go let's just go let's just open him oh Paddingham not bad who spare change have it pigeon again screw you what was that then was that was that uh even I I don't even know oh well steer all the color game hold up a minute yeah just just just double checking I don't lose a pvp package there so it's quickly open you and so I've got lawyers in my postmaster let's see what we have in my postal master okay so we have a winged word sniper rifle again with unflinching life support snapshot hand-loaded perfect balance injection mode so not bad not bad hups scotch pilgrim counter balancing glass half full oh gee maybe you know what I've got the the perfect role of this um better than this even better than this even so that's going to get turned into legendary marks I am afraid matador 64 we final round a final round single point sling quick draw oh my dear dear days no range at all watch aim zero day dilemma let's go okay so we've got persistence hand-laid stock rifleed um rodeo close and all personal um so probably use rodeo here actually three stability perks but then we have two stability perks and crazy range you know what I'm going to keep that let me lock you because I will delete you without even locking I've got a habit of doing that dismantling things that are very very good okay so you guys seeing this true sight sure shot quick draw got the last resort or outlaw small ball or casket my oh dear what are you doing to me game to be honest though I've never had a palindrome with small ball looking at chamber which reduces magazine size which more or less causes a looking chamber to prompt more quickly that paired with outlaw which gives me extremely fast reload speed especially paired with a gauntlet which increased reload speed of hand cannons because I've got amazing palindromes don't get it twisted I've got this one here and I've got the exact same role but instead of range find I've got looking at chamber so I've got badass um palindromes but I'm going to keep that actually because that could be undercover gem and I've said this to you guys before I play my my playstyle with hand cannons is that I'm in your face range yes makes kind of like that the box around the head bigger but I'm in your face with a hand cannon anyway trying to get you at range and I certainly don't quick sculpt you with my sniper and switch my palindrome cross map in one hit yeah I don't do that so if I'm in your face this the range ain't going to make too much of a difference so yeah oh dear why game why game I still I've never had a perfect role to spare change it just it's never happened to me unfortunately you're going bye bye um havoc paging oh reinforced hot swap crowd control that could be quite good I'll keep that and try it out because you never know and what's on this here cluster bomb could draw single point sling fields go and army of one yeah not the greatest to be honest not the greatest by a long shot okay so we're going to go to the crucible quarter well we're going to go to lord shucks now hopefully he gives me a little high fixer you know perfect draw one cannon I've never really had a decent role of please give it to me no stupid game ah not even have to look at yeah I don't even have to look at yeah well should we get was that it go show nope not even a perfect start all day but it's 57 I think it's probably tier 12 compact but that's about it but yes guys that is it for another package opening video if you enjoyed it leaving a like is much appreciated on my behalf if you're new around here and enjoy daily destiny videos make sure you subscribe if you never want to miss a video I upload make sure you hit that bell button next to that subscribe button to turn on email notifications of when I do upload but thanks as always for stopping by and I will see you on that next one


I'm Stratus, and I'm Gez. And today we are going to be talking about ask selection, which is just another option similar to getResponse. So basically it's a way to have a list of objects that are being read to the user and ask them which one they want to choose. And with that I think we'll get right to it. So we're gonna take a look at the init file here. Unlike last time where we kind of inserted the lines there aren't very many to add this time so we went ahead and added them in advance. The first one that we added is a list of three things to hold your ice cream in whether it's a cup, a regular cone, or a waffle cone. The rest of the toppings validator doesn't change so we're moving down into the handle the shop ice cream. For the keen observers you'll notice that after the toppings that we covered in the last video we now have a speak dialog for the holder request. And then we've got this holder equals ask selection and so that's what we're gonna kind of deal with today. So I don't think we need to talk too much about what's happening with the speak dialog other than to say the holder equals self ask selection. We'll just simply read out the list of the holders that I showed you right at the top and then it will prompt you for which one. So in order to give it some sort of introduction we have Mycroft saying a short dialogue what would you like to have your ice cream in. That I think I'll hand it off to Chris and he can kind of walk us through some of the options for ask selection. So ask selection is a way of getting a response from the user in a very controlled very specific way. So it's probably easiest if we just go through the arguments here. So the first argument is gonna be a list you know in our case it's that that list of three strings as you just said Mycroft is gonna read those that list in order and place an or between the last two. So it's a list of two it'll say red or green if it's if it's our list of three it'll say A comma B or C and if it's only one thing then it will probably just read a single item but I don't know why you would be using it if you're only giving people one option and so once it's read that it's then gonna read the dialogue in the second argument this is an optional argument so if you don't put anything there it just won't say anything it will just read the three options and then open the microphone. The data object is specifically related to that dialogue file if there is any just like we speak dialogue if there's any dynamic data that we want to populate in in the dialogue file then we can do that. If we stopped there that would work in 99 percent of the cases. The remaining two arguments is it fourth one there minimum confidence so the way that our selection works is that whatever the user says it's gonna perform some fuzzy matching to see how likely is it that it's one of these options. If we used it with our toppings example before where we had things like nuts or whipped cream if someone said cream it's not gonna match exactly but there's gonna be a confidence level that it is the same as this other item and so we can we can change how confident we feel we need to be for that to match so obviously if you make that a really big number like closer to one it's gonna require it to be very close to the actual option and closer to zero means it's gonna match anything still gonna return the highest confidence levels so that's that's useful but anyway so that's minimum confidence anything under that like if no option you know meets that minimum confidence level then it will return none because the user didn't make an appropriate selection and finally we have a numeric argument you know by default it's false if you turn it to true it's gonna add a number in front of each of your options so rather than saying cup regular cone or waffle cone it's gonna say would you like one a cup to a regular cone or three a waffle cone that may or may not make sense in different scenarios so we turned it off by default but at a fair if you want to use it it's also a little bit helpful because you know most of the time people are gonna respond to a selection request by using the name of the thing so you know they'll say can I have a cup you know whatever but they can also use what's called an ordinal or you know a number the number of the the item in the list they said which of these options would you like and I said I'll take the second one then you would know that I'm referring to the second option that you read out and and mycrofts understands that as well so it's just gonna take whichever the second item in that list is and select that one the numeric argument is really just about the dialogue that's spoken and whether whether those numbers are added in or not but yeah that's it like it's it's a pretty straightforward one but it's a lot cleaner than get response if it meets your needs it's more constrained but it means that it's a bit easier to use and it's it's certainly cleaner in terms of code but maybe we should go try it out absolutely so through the magic of the internet we're going to trigger the skill and make sure that it works properly and we'll be back with that and you can see here what would you like in that and that's our dialogue file and then it gives us our choice and in this case we're gonna go with cup you get a match and the reason why it matches because we put in the confidence level there so I did put cups but it got close enough to the cup argument that it was able to figure out what it was that we wanted so we end up with a chocolate ice cream cone and a cup with nuts perfect and I mean the confidence level is useful you know in this in this example you look at regular cone verse waffle cone and so if someone just said cone then we wouldn't want to match with one of those we'd want to make sure that we know which type of cone that they want whereas if they said waffle then we could be pretty confident that they're choosing the waffle cone and not the regular cone was ask selection it was pretty simple I don't think there's too much to wrap up here you have a it will read a dialogue file if you need to it has a list that you feed in for the options that you give it and you can specify things like a confidence level to make sure that the match is more or less strict and you can also have it read out as a list so would you like one an apple to an orange three a banana but that's off by default and aside from that it's was pretty straightforward I think we added three lines of code and we got a similar a similar outcome as get response so I think that's kind of it for that unless there's something else you'd like to add now I'm not sure if I mentioned the even the the ore that is placed between the final two options will be translated so it's going to use the localized version of that string for whatever language the user is in but yeah it's pretty it's pretty straightforward hopefully hopefully that's helpful I think I'm really interested to know whether people watching along finding these slightly deeper dives on specific methods useful or if there's some other content that you're more interested in us diving around microsoft development what's going to help you get the most out of your voice assistant did you see Tony's comment from last time he left a comment asking us to cover something specific and I said you know we will definitely take a look at that one once we've cleared our docket so that's a good example of people trying to put things on our on our radar that they'd like us to cover cool thanks Tony all right well until next time until next time ciao


Item number SCP-008 Object Class, Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-008 samples have been deemed Class 5 Extreme Biological Hazards, and all related protocols apply. Incineration and irradiation measures will be deployed in the event of political or military action, which may result in the facility being dismantled, a power failure, or zero communications from operatives or outside channels during any given eight-hour period. The quarantine period for operatives leaving the facility is four months. If a breach has occurred, incineration and irradiation measures shall be deployed. It should be the policy of all G2 sites to not prepare an evacuation procedure. Description SCP-008 is a complex prion, samples of which are stored in each of the known G2 sites. Research into SCP-008 is highly classified and primarily aimed at preventing research which may lead to the synthesis of SCP-008 in the distant future. Traits of the SCP-008 prion include 100% infectiousness, 100% lethality, transmission through exposed mucus membranes and all bodily fluids, not airborne or waterborne. Symptoms of infection with SCP-008 manifest no more than 3 hours after exposure and include flu-like symptoms with high fever plus severe dementia in later stages. Coma onset approximately 20 hours after first symptoms appear and 12 hours after noticeable dementia. Coma onset will be considered onset of death. A period of sporadic cellular necrosis occurs which comes to resemble gangrene. Surviving tissue assumes its original function and is highly resilient. Red blood cells greatly increase oxygen storage capacity, resulting in slower blood flow and increased muscle endurance and strength. Nervous and muscular systems are unaffected by total organ failure for several hours. Metabolism may decrease to extremely low levels, allowing subject to survive for over 10 years without nutrition. High blood viscosity results in negligible blood flow from gunshot, puncture and slashing injuries.  Animals experience excessive brain necrosis and are inactive. Subject can adapt to its damaged nervous systems but is limited to basic physical activities including standing up, balancing on two legs, walking, biting, grabbing and crawling. Subject will energetically move towards sights, sounds and smells it associates with living humans. Subject will attempt to ingest living humans if physical contact is made. Neutralizing fully infected subjects require significant cranial trauma. There is strong evidence to suggest SCP-008 itself did not form naturally on Earth since variants of similar complexity would have displaced much of the ecosystem. In 1959, a short collaborative effort with the USSR to locate G2 sites and eliminate SCP-008 was negotiated following their discovery. The status of SCP-008 in Russian custody since collaboration ended is unknown. Addendum 008-1, SCP-500 has been found to be able to completely cure SCP-008 even in the advanced stages of the disease. Item number SCP-16, Object Class, Keter Special Containment Procedures SCP-16 is to remain within the confines of a 5x5x5 meter room at all times, maintained at a temperature not to exceed 0°C. SCP-16 itself is to remain in the Petri dish in the containment cube at all times, unless directed otherwise by level 4 or 05 personnel. Full documentation of experimentation with SCP-16 must be submitted before and after samples and duplicates of SCP-16 may be taken. Failure to follow these procedures will result in termination or reassignment as Class D personnel. Finally authorized personnel may be permitted to obtain samples of and experiment with SCP-16 under BCL-5 containment conditions. If an outbreak does occur, despite following the aforementioned procedures, directive-based personnel are to implement a code-sigma lockdown and containment plan. Infected personnel are to be terminated on site by security forces wearing standard mission-oriented protective posture or MLPP, anti-biological and anti-chemical equipment. Should the infection not be contained after 48 hours, the on-site nuclear device is to be detonated. Remaining personnel are not to be evacuated under any circumstances. SCP-16 has been shown to survive for up to 6 hours on hard surfaces and up to several minutes in air. High-intensity ultraviolet light and high concentrations of orthothelialdehyde solution have been demonstrated to be effective in disinfecting non-organic surfaces. Description. SCP-16 is a blood-borne pathogen recovered from a mine worker and who injured himself while working in a deep coal seam. Said wound became contaminated with coal dust from the mine, possibly infecting the worker with dormant spores. Over the next several days, SCP-16 proceeded to infect the remaining employees at the mining camp, as well as the CDC crisis team dispatched to deal with the epidemic. Foundation personnel then took over the investigation and terminated all affected personnel. Patient Zero was brought into captivity and the mine shaft was collapsed by an explosive device. SCP-16 has an incubation period ranging from 24 hours to 2 years, depending on the presence and number of other human hosts in the area. First symptoms resemble the common cold and include itchy eyes, runny nose, coughing and bodily aches. Phase 2 begins in 48 hours and consists of a controlled form of hemorrhagic fever, as the organism causes a small amount of blood to become aspirated in the lungs, creating an aerosol effect. During phase 3, the host crashes and bleeds out, bleeding profusely from every bodily orifice, including the nose, tear ducts, anus, skin pores, mouth, urethra, and in case of females, vagina. Blood pressure skyrockets during the final stage. Hosts have been observed projectile-vomiting blood to distances of over 5 meters. Should the host survive this near-total exsanguination, the pathogen will become dormant once more, returning to incubation phase. What distinguishes SCP-16 from other strains of hemorrhagic fever such as Ebola and Marburg is its unusual response to high stress. Should the subject undergo a high stress situation, such as a life-threatening crisis, the organism will change its survival tactic from rapid reproduction to the rewriting of the host's DNA and stimulation of rapid cell division. Major physiological changes occur within the first 24 hours, with complete bodily reconstruction occurring within two weeks' time. Most hosts do not survive the process due to the heavy demands made on the body. Due to their similarities as fatal contagions that stimulate the production of excess organs, a possible link to SCP-1801 is under investigation. An interesting side effect of the transformation is an increased aggressive urge. It is believed that this may be an attempt to maximize the spread of the virus in a manner similar to rabies. On another note, subjects who undergo bodily transformation no longer appear to exhibit SCP-16's hemorrhagic properties. However, subjects infected by transformed hosts will still undergo the normal SCP-16 infection process. Addendum, experiment log of SCP-16's transformative properties. Subject D-16-1, D-class personnel infected by SCP-16. Upon first showing symptoms, subjects' quarters were slowly flooded with water over a 24-hour period. SCP-16 mutated into a teratomorphic state, transforming subjects' lungs into gills. Subjects survived for two more weeks as SCP-16 transformed its limbs into fins, caused its eyes to atrophy, and enhanced its sense of hearing into a quotation type echolocation ability. Subject was terminated by draining all water from its quarters, causing it to asphyxiate. Body was subsequently cremated without autopsy. Subject D-16-2, D-class personnel infected by SCP-16. Upon first showing symptoms, subjects' quarters were slowly flooded with water over a 24-hour period. SCP-16 mutated into a teratomorphic state, causing subjects to undergo rapid muscular growth and increased bone growth on knuckles. Subject then attempted to escape from confinement by punching through the reinforced steel door. Subject was not successful, and died by drowning. Note, same situation, two different responses. Interesting. Dr. Brough. Subject D-16-3, D-class personnel infected by SCP-16. Subject was previously a chemical engineer who poisoned his wife upon discovering her adultery. Upon first showing symptoms, subjects' quarters were slowly flooded with water over a 24-hour period. SCP-16 mutated into a teratomorphic state, causing subjects to grow an unusual organ on his chest, consisting of a chamber and two separate tubes. Organ continued to take in water and swell in size, until Foundation personnel, realizing what SCP-16 may be attempting, terminated the subject by gunshot.  Subject D-16-4, D-class personnel infected by SCP-16. Subject was told to concentrate on forming wings. No stress was applied. SCP-16 did not mutate into a teratomorphic state. Subject died of exsanguination during phase 3. Subject D-16-5, D-class personnel infected by SCP-16. Subject was told to concentrate on forming wings, and placed in an acrylic box, suspended 305 meters, or 1,000 feet, above a mine shaft. A timer was placed outside the box, which Subject was told indicated the time to release. SCP-16 mutated into a teratomorphic state, causing subjects to grow a tentacle-like organ on his left wrist similar to a spider's spinarets. Subject extended said organ through one of the box's air holes, and extruded a strong silk-like substance, which it then used to secure the box to the cable. Subject was terminated when the countdown reached zero, and the bomb detonated. Item number, SCP-149, Object Class, Keter. Special Containment Procedures, SCP-149 in any of its instances, is to be kept inside a sealed plexiglass box for observation. Oxygen, and a nutrient mist, are to be released into the containment cell every two hours. If any instance of SCP-149 escapes its cell, Protocol 42-Charlie is to be brought into effect on any and all contaminated personnel, by order of O5-12, after Incident 149-1. Description SCP-149 is a breed of mosquito, which carries a strain of retrovirus, herein referred to as SCP-149A, that mutates regenerating human cells into fertilized mosquito eggs. SCP-149A is injected directly into the bloodstream when SCP-149 feeds. The SCP-149A quickly works on the nucleus of the cells, warping the DNA. The first set of cells bred from these changed instructions, closely resembles cysts, and are concentrated in the lining of the esophagus and the sinuses. One dissection, however, these cysts are revealed to be filled with SCP-149's larvae, the cysts acting as a protective casing against external forces. SCP-149 appears to go through its maturation cycle in a matter of hours. By the time the subject is able to feel any effects, the first generation of SCP-149 has already grown inside the subject's body. SCP-149 primarily achieves exodus through the mouth and nostrils, occasionally being diverted through the sphenoid sinuses to escape through the eye sockets. Infection by SCP-149 is fatal, and chance of infection has been estimated to be 50% from one bite. Addendum, Incident 149-1 An incidence of SCP-149 escaped, and infected multiple Class D subjects, the majority of whom did not report SCP-149's contact with them. Within five hours, SCP-149 had matured in these hosts, and burst out of them, infecting several staff members. It was only thanks to the quick thinking of Dr. Brown, who sealed sub-levels 12-15 that the entire site was not infected. As a response to this, O5 Command has created Protocol 42 Charlie to be used if SCP-149 escapes confinement.


Hi, I'm Scott Nasella. I'm here for three reasons really. One, I think the Windows DevOps use case in enterprises vastly underrepresented. Two, I'm asking my engineers to do some scary stuff. So I need to be able to role model doing scary stuff too, hence being on the stage. And then three, really giving back to the community, I think is a hallmark. About us were Microsoft server, 3000 plus servers, lots of VMware, all on-premises. So, enter Gene Kim. I was an accidental attendee at one of his talks, the three ways bringing DevOps to the enterprise. And I walked away feeling very burdened, like what am I going to do about this? And he could almost have said that, okay, so enter Jeffrey Snover. So I've used Jeffrey Snover as our engineer whisperer at Columbia, sending some tough love to the engineers. So then we can have a conversation with the engineers. Hey, your job is not really preparing you for the future. So how do we have a collaborative conversation about creating that win-win scenario where we can concurrently benefit the business, becoming less fragile and benefit the engineer in terms of helping their career progression, start going too fast. Okay, so you're going to get a lot of reservations and a lot of pushback from the Windows crowd. And you can see some of the examples here. One of my favorites is, hey, they have a SSH, RDP tip jar, that's crazy. So out of that conversation, you should be able to find some early adopters that want to go on this journey with you. After you find the early adopters, then you ask them what they need to be successful. They could be someone that's frustrated, etc. So we use the minimum viable process to good effect. So instead of trying to build that super complicated burger on the right, build the simple thing, build it well, and then you can add the complexity a little bit later. Taking the top five predictors of IT performance, we said, you know what? We're going to focus on version control. I challenge the team to go from zero to 250 artifacts under version control in 2015. So what you're looking at on the right side, in case you don't know, is PowerShell. So we have a way to measure how we're doing in terms of our artifact count. So this is, I ran this a couple of days ago. So we hit like 500 in the first year and we're like 700 now. Okay, so now we're going to talk about Kanban. So we want to have a way to visualize the work, minimize WIP, and actually know what we're working on. So on the right hand side is TFS Kanban. And we created PowerShell script to be able to put it on there easily. So we have metrics to reinforce the flow. So we take the Kanban board and we can actually schedule our reports to further visualize the work. And then we have a PowerShell script to kind of see what we've done. So we've got version control. We've got scripting Kanban. Now we're actually ready to do the DevOps that we've heard so much about. And you're going to probably have some bumps in the road. Stay with it. Okay, so we started small. We started simple. What you're looking at is a PowerShell script that enables us to provision from script servers onto our VMware environment. So we're talking about the data center, et cetera. We made it a little bit harder. We added domain joining, et cetera. And as you're going to see on the next one, we figured out how to bootstrap Chef. So we have a full-end versioned artifact in our production control system. That way it describes everything that is important about that server. What we're working on now is actually brown-filling all of our existing servers. So we're going to actually exploit the data off of our vSphere environment to build those files, check them in, et cetera. So now we're working on building curious people. So we have stacks of books. I replenish them pretty frequently. You can see Lean Enterprise, Phoenix Project, Beyond the Blame, et cetera. We've had a couple of book clubs that have been super awesome and they've been facilitated by the members of the team. This is a recent podcast series. Three engineers did something scary. They got up and they talked about three podcasts that they picked. So in summary, it's all about minimum viable process for us, including the Deming Cycle, finding a win-win, both for your enterprise and for your engineers, and then making it easy for your new adopters to join.


Good morning and welcome to CMC Markets on Friday the 3rd of August and this quick preview of the week beginning the 6th of August What are the last two weeks told us about the direction for equity markets? Well, that's a decent question But I think the last two weeks haven't really been any more instructive than the last two months if we look at the FTSE 100 Since May we've pretty much traded sideways and ultimately I think while there's this significant amount of trade uncertainty I think it's going to be very difficult to get a clear indication of The next directional move Herding season has by and large been fairly positive. We've seen Apple once again post bumper numbers For Q3 they are now the first US based Trillion dollar company and they have to some extent helped hemorrhaging stopped the hemorrhaging of losses That we've seen in the US tech sector, but Apple on its own I don't think he's going to make the concerns that some investors have about the growth models for some of the more highly elevated tech stocks So what are we looking at going forward? We look as if we're probably going to see a negative week Which I think has offset the positive week that we saw in the wake of the Yonker Trump meeting Trump meeting Trump Donald Trump meeting at the White House. I think now attention has turned to escalating trade tensions with China Hence the rather sharp declines that we've seen here in the FTSE 100 over the past couple of days Reversing the slow gains that we've seen over the course of the past few weeks It's a similar sort of story with respect to the German DAX and if we look at this weekly chart here I think there's a I think there's a case to be made that we could be starting to see what looks like or what could be a potential diamond top Now this is a weekly chart and we've still got some way to go to determine how this piece of price action pans out But ultimately I think what we need to look at is we need to look at the trend line through the tops here and The trend line through the base here to determine the next directional move Now what could be the driver of that next directional move? Well, obviously the primary concern for the markets at the moment has been the big declines that we've seen in the Chinese Currency over the course of the past few weeks and at the moment That is front-end center of market concerns about what could happen next. We've already had the US administration Threatened to up those 10% tariffs on 200 billion dollars of Chinese goods up to a 25% tariff And I think a large part of the reason for that increase has been as a result of the sharp depreciation that the Chinese authorities have Allowed the one to decline by ultimately we've seen a big decline from the lows that we saw in June And I think there's a distinct possibility We could look at retest the levels that we last saw all the way back at the end of 2016 and 2017 So I think the weakening of the one I think has offset or mitigated some of the more negative effects of the 10% tariff that the US has implemented and The 25% the 15% increase that's being touted is is a mechanism to try and offset that So what are we looking ahead for over the course of the next few days? Well, we haven't had the non-farm payrolls data as yet But by the by I expect that to be continued to be fairly positive We've had a whole host of central bank rate meetings this week the Fed stayed unchanged the Bank of England the Bank of Japan tweaked its monetary policy As it purchased program by widening the your curve slightly and we've seen the Bank of England raise rates though you wouldn't know it to see where the where the cable is right now and We're going to start with the cable because we've got UK GDP coming out next week It's the first iteration of Q2 and One of the rationales behind the Bank of England raising rates Was the fact that the UK economy had improved from the disappointing first quarter to be honest I think it would be harder to do much worse But ultimately I think we could still see a fairly decent number from Friday's Q2 GDP numbers Expecting a number in the region of 0.3 0.4% a significant improvement on the numbers in Q1 We've also got Chinese trade I come on to that in a minute, but at the moment. I think the key support on the cable Currently comes in around about 129 and a half Which was the lows that we saw in June But I think there's potential for us to come a lot lower as we can see from this chart here What I've done with this particular Chart is take the lows that we saw Just after the Brexit vote around about one nineteen and a half one eighteen whatever you want to call it projected the move to the twin peaks around about one forty three and a half and At sixty one point eight percent retracement of that moves at one twenty eight eighty So I think there's potential for further sterling weakness towards one twenty eight eighty Now that may not be as a result of a weaker pound It could just be as a result of a stronger dollar We're certainly seeing the dollar continue to push higher pretty much across the board on an expectation That we're going to get two rate rise two more rate rises this year one in September is pretty much nailed on and The the data that we see over the course of the next few days will dictate whether or not that continues to be the case Certainly President Trump is very uncomfortable with the strength of the dollar But ultimately the reason the dollar is so strong is Directly as a result of the fact that ultimately the US economy Continues to enjoy the significant fiscal boost from the January tax cuts so moving on we've got Chinese trade numbers and these will be the numbers for July and I'll be looking in particular at whether or not the Recent tariffs have affected the Chinese export data So look I'm going to be looking very closely at the effects of the tariffs and whether or not they've seen a significant slowdown in the Export data for China trade and they are due out on the 8th of August We've also got the RBA rate decision not expecting any changes there The Australian dollars taken an absolute battering over the course of the past few Few weeks as we can see from this chart here It's in a distinct down trend looking to potentially retest the lows that we saw in June and if If the Chinese data continues to disappoint and commodity prices continue to remain weak then the Australian dollar will continue to bear the strain of That downward trajectory What up other things to watch out for this coming week are Trading updates from snap Q2 Not been a particularly great Few weeks and months for snap since its IPO and ultimately given I think the weakness that we've seen in terms of Facebook and Twitter I fear that we could be in line for further losses on snap We've also got 21st century Fox Q4 earnings city world first half and intercontinental hotels first half So that's it for this week. Thank you very much for listening. So Michael Houston talking to you from CMC markets


When I was a kid, I used to love watching Saturday morning cartoons. I lived for them. When the original funic-tunes started appearing, I quickly fell in love with them, and decided that I someday wanted to work for Nickelodeon. In early 2002, I got my wish. I applied for and got a job there at the studio, as a janitor. Okay, so it's not quite what I wanted, but I planned to get a more involved job later, and in the meantime I considered it quite a treat, just to be there. One day, I was told to replace a dying light in the vault. This got me extremely fired up. I would finally get a sneak peek at all those inered shows. As it turns out, the vault was little more than a room with some shelves.  The shelves held rows of film reels, labeled with the names for various shows and movies, that for whatever reason, were never aired. Most were unfinished, some words considered funny or entertaining enough to be shown. At the end of the room, was a small cardboard box sitting on the floor, containing about 50 flash drives. When I had finished changing the light, I decided to take a look at them. They were all white, and labeled with black sharpie. I had flipped through about 10, and of those had found two, that interested me. The first was something called, Cry Baby Lane. The other was titled, Rugrats Dill. I had never heard of the first, but I loved the Rugrats, so I slipped it in my pocket, and decided to take it home with me that night. I'd return it in the morning, and no one would know. As soon as I got home, I plugged the drive into a USB port and opened it. As I had expected, it contained an AVI file. I double clicked, and the show began. Unlike other episodes, it had a cold opening. Surprisingly, it was animated in the same style as the first movie, very high quality for the show. Oddly, the house seemed darker than it should have been. The windows were boarded up, and there seemed to be a layer of dust over everything. Tommy was sitting in his high chair, and his head was resting on the tray. He looked up slightly, and his eyes were horribly sunken in. His stomach was swollen, and he was dangerously emaciated. Poor Tommy hadn't eaten in days. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, the scene switched to the living room. There was a weird looking image, displayed just before the switch, which I print screened. It's attached at the top. Diddy was sitting in a rocking chair, cradling a bundle. She seemed to be singing a soft lullaby between subs. The camera turned to reveal what she was holding.  Diddy was holding an empty bundle to its mouth, and continuing to sing that lullaby. It went to the normal credits at that point, though the text was in Cyrillic, and I couldn't read it. The song was also slowed down a bit. The next day, I took the thing back, and never brought it up to any of the staff. However, after work, one of them approached me. He never explained to me how he knew I had taken the drive, but it was obvious that he did. He told me that in the mid-90s, they'd had a female writer known to them only as Susan. She'd written a few decent scripts, though most were put away for later in favor of other scripts. She had a very young son, and she'd taken a leave for a second pregnancy. However, it was stillborn. The resulting drama destroyed her relationship with her husband, who left her. Weeks later, people had gotten worried, and called the police to go check on her. The officer who arrived at her home, found that she had hung towels up over the windows. Investigating the house with a flashlight, he found that Susan was dead in her chair, cradling what remained of the fetus. In the kitchen, the high chair was covered in a mass of flies. It didn't take an expert to know what was under them. According to my new friend, the episode I saw was the last one she had written before her leave. Apparently she'd stayed up all night doing all the animation herself. I continued to work there for several years, until some new opportunities came along. But until my last day on the job, I never went in the vault again.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan, accompanied by Congressman and Mrs. Lago-Marcino. Mr. President, Mrs. Reagan, Congressman and Mrs. Gallagley, and of course our own Bob and Norma Lago-Marcino. Mr. President, it's always exciting to welcome home a local boy who's made good. We in Santa Barbara are certainly honored to have you in our neighborhood again. It is my distinct pleasure and privilege this afternoon to introduce a man who has devoted much of his life to public service, service in his hometown of Ohio, service in Sacramento, and service in Washington, D.C., and the service that has touched and improved our area in many ways, environmentally as well as economically. His peers have called him a hardworking legislator, an adept and intelligent veteran politician. But most of all, he is one who will continue to provide us with the solid leadership that we need in Washington to carry out the programs that have been so successful for the last eight years. I think what is most significant about Bob Lago-Marcino's work is that in the Congress of the United States is that he represents all the people in this very diverse district. I'd like to give you a personal insight to this man. One of my daughters, Colleen, was fortunate enough to work as a summer intern in Bob's office in Lago-Marcino while she was a college student. And if you know teenagers, you know how critical they can be of adults and how they rate them on their idealistic scale. I want to tell you when she finished that summer, Bob had her respect and admiration and it was the highest and still is. And one incident, I think, shows the type of representation that he gives. One of Colleen's assignments was to research and to make draft replies to constituents who had asked for some information from the congressman. One particular letter she set aside for a few days because she felt she had to do something else that was more important. Well, she did get the letter to Bob's desk with the others where he does revisions and checks the draft. But in a short order, the letter came back to her with a question from congressman why this constituents reply had been delayed. And that's the kind of representation that we have in Congress. And that is why not only Republicans but Democrats and independent voters as well have put him back in office again and again. And I'm constantly amazed how often Bob makes that 3,000 mile trip to meet his constituents. And they know that they don't have to show their party affiliation or registration to get his attention and his concern for their interests. It's given to those who back in politically as well as those who do not. Bob is a key player in Washington. He serves on the House Interior and Foreign Affairs Committees. And of course, as a member of the House Republican leadership, he meets weekly with the President while Congress is in session. That kind of seniority cannot be replaced in Washington, DC by someone who will need on-the-job training in the nation's capital. It is my honor to introduce you to the man who has served us for 13 years in the state Senate, the past 14 years in Washington as our congressman, and who will serve at least the next two years as our representative in Congress. Congressman Bob Lagomacino. Thank you, Gene. If it wasn't for the hot sun and the fact that my face is probably red from it, you'd see me blushing after that introduction. Mr. President, Mrs. Reagan, my good friends, the Galaglis, my very close colleague, Elton Galagly, and the House of Representatives, and Janice, as I say, are very good friends in Washington. Norma, my wife, I couldn't do it without her at all. Probably wouldn't even try. And thank all of you, all 1,000 of you for coming today. This is absolutely incredible. And of course, the committee for putting this all on. Now, I've been, as Gene told you and most of you know already, I've been around a while, been in the state Senate and then the Washington on the Washington scene for 14 and a half years now. So I'm not so much of a novice that I think you came here to hear me. Although you can do that from time to time. Our next speaker, in fact, is the reason you did come. A man I've had the privilege to know now for over 24 years. Hard to believe that that has been that long, but it has been. I was already in the state Senate at the time 1964 when I first met him and introduced him to a crowd in Ventura County. But I recognized immediately, as many did, that here was a man with a gift, a gift for leadership, for persuasion, and for integrity. I thought to myself, this guy will go far. If he ever decides to run for office. Well, history has borne out that thought more than I could have anticipated. And more perhaps than anyone could have anticipated. It wasn't long after that first meeting, not even two years that Ronald Reagan became Governor of California, defeating a two term incumbent to boot. The rest, as they say, is history. People in the state legislature, and I was there, didn't know what to make of this new governor. Some of them saw him as a flash in the pan.  He won't last, they said. The press underestimated him as well. Still do. But anyone who knew him would not underestimate him. Ronald Reagan brought a breath of fresh air to Sacramento that was long needed. He was easily reelected, beating a man many considered to be the smartest politician in the state, if not in the nation, Jesse Unruh. It was during his second term as governor that he really began to shine. That things really began to happen. And I was privileged to be able to work very closely with him on a number of major bills. It was a watershed time in California politics, and he really literally rewrote the book on state politics. Some even talked of higher offers for this man. Others didn't take it too seriously, again. In 1974, when I had the opportunity to run for Congress, I went down to that corner office and I asked Governor Reagan what I should do. And he said, well, we're doing pretty good here. Do whatever you want to, I'll help you, but I just soon you stayed. We're doing okay here. And I remember saying to him somewhat irreverently, well, why are you trying so hard to go back to Washington? But I did run. He did help me. He did encourage me, and I have been there ever since. It actually took another six years for that to come to pass when he, with a twinkle in his eye at that same meeting said, see you in Washington. But in January of 1981, I found myself, Norm and I found ourselves, at the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan. My prophecy had come true. A lot of things have happened in those almost eight years now. An assassination attempt, a miraculous recovery, a tax cut, even more of a miracle. Another election, and the Russians at the peace table after six long years. You know, this president, this president who people, some people said was not interested in reaching agreement with the Soviets reached the best agreement we've ever reached with him. You did it, Mr. President. The Reagan years will go down in history as a watershed event in American government. You brought a common sense approach to government. You brought back pride in America, and you brought us the longest stretch of peace and prosperity in modern times. I have to keep rewriting my speeches. I used to say 67 months, 68. Was it now over 70? As I said, I was in elected office before you, Mr. President, and God willing, I will be in it after you leave. But only because the Constitution prevents you from running again. Mr. President, you have brought our nation safely through one of the most perilous periods in history, and you and Nancy did it with humor and good grace and masterful leadership. God willing, your legacy will continue for the next eight years, and I hope to be there with George Bush to do it. Thank you, Mr. President. Robert, I thank you very much. Councilwoman Norma, Deleglies, and my roommate. Well, I thank you all today. I realize, looking around at the neckties, that I'm out of uniform. But you have to, if you haven't been informed, we have just come from another fundraiser down of the San Fernando Valley there raising money just generally for the party, which is always useful to all of us concerned. And there, the uniform was prescribed. So I brought a coat along so that I could put a coat on afterward. And since in Arizona, a bolo is legally now a necktie, I figured that I can get by. Well, we're here today because we support an outstanding congressman, our congressman, and that includes me, because I'm in the district too, Bob Lagomassino. The job that Bob has done these past 14 years, believe me, has earned my vote this year. Sure, he has a tough race, his toughest ever. But I'm confident he'll win. We Santa Barbarians know that Bob didn't go to Washington to make big government ever bigger, or to mess around with our defenses. He's in Washington to help build a stronger and sounder America. And that's why on November 8th, we'll choose George Bush for president and Bob Lagomassino for Congress. Now, it's no secret that when I'm strolling down the street in Washington, the House of Representatives isn't the friendliest house on the block. But it sure would be there if there were more people there like Bob Lagomassino in it. He's a stand-up guy, and he stood with George Bush and me time and again for what's right when too many of his colleagues turned away. The freedom-loving people of Nicaragua know Bob. He's their champion. He knows that they thirst after the cool waters of liberty. And he's made heroic efforts to satisfy their thirst by working to aid the freedom fighters who want to free them from communist domination. Well, I don't know about you, but when it comes to freedom in Central America, I like a stand-up guy like Bob. Bob's also a dedicated supporter of America's quest to free itself from the shadow of nuclear assault time after time and year after year. He has voted for the Strategic Defense Initiative. That is a defense plan that kills weapons, not people. But while Bob was standing up for our space shield, the House leadership wanted to slash away at it so they could find more money to spend on their pet projects. Well, I don't know about you, but when it comes to national defense, I like a stand-up guy. And that's Bob. Some people say it's time for a change. Well, I agree. For 52 of the last 56 years, the House of Representatives has been in the hands of the other party. 46 of those 56 years, the other party has controlled both houses of the Congress. Now, I've heard a lot in this campaign from the other side about the evils of deficit spending, and I'm responsible. Well, Congress is the only one in government that can spell and spend a dime. The president can't spend any. Congress makes the budget. You bet it's time for a change. We can solve our spending problems, and let me tell you something else about that more than half a century, in which every 10 years, they have been in charge when it came to reapportionment of the districts throughout the country. And in 48 of those 56 years, there were deficits, each one of those 48 years. Four of the eight years that there weren't deficits were in the term of Dwight Eisenhower, who for two years had a Republican Congress in both houses. The only time that a Republican president has had that, well, I was fortunate I had six years of my term with a Senate. And I have to tell you, I don't think we could have gotten what we did, and the reforms that we did had that not been true. But now we're back in that with both houses on the other side. We can solve budget problems. When it comes to Congress, the American people know that if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. And the solution is to reelect Bob Lagomassino and elect 434 others like him to the House of Representatives. That's a tall order, but I have a good feeling about this year's election, particularly after seeing a speech last week that I found moving and yet inspiring. I don't remember when I've ever been as impressed with an orator, and I know he's going to be an even more impressive president, George Bush. George spoke about completing a mission, the mission that he and I began side by side eight years ago. And look how far we've come since then. 17 and a half million new jobs, hundreds of thousands of new businesses, a greater proportion of Americans that worked than ever before. I had to go to Washington in this job to find out how the statisticians determine figures about employment and unemployment. Did you know that the considered potential pool of employables is everybody, male and female, from 16 years of age and up?  And that pool includes all the young people that are still going to school and in college and so forth, the people that are retired. But that's the percentage of that overall segment of our society. Then there's the restoration of our national defenses, the recovery of our national pride, an INF treaty that abolishes an entire class, as Bob has told you, of US and Soviet missiles. And just a few years after the liberation of Grenada, the Soviets are pulling out of Afghanistan. Now, I want you to know that I know that some people have expressed a fear that maybe I'm being taken in. And now that I'm just not looking at them as plainly as I should, well, I want you to know that I have made the general secretary very familiar with the stalwart American term. Trust everybody, but cut the cards. I want to ask you a question. Is this a record we can show proudly to our fellow citizens in California? Well, we've done a lot, but as George said the other night, the mission is not complete. There's more to do. Appointing more judges who know the difference between criminals and victims. Shutting down the drug trade. I have a special assistant in that. But more work for the cause of freedom around the world, including in Central America. And of course, developing and deploying a technology that will protect humanity from the specter of nuclear war, the Strategic Defense Initiative. And how about a furlough for the Pledge of Allegiance? And yet, we must not forget that all we've done and all we are on the very threshold of doing can quickly be lost. We Californians saw it happen in the years of the last liberal administration in our state. Things got so bad that we had to rise up and say no more to the soaring taxes that were strangling economic growth and crushing the budgets of ordinary families. So Proposition 13 was passed. We don't want to have to go through that again nationally. And there's one way to make sure we won't. George Bush is going to America with his own proposition number one, no new taxes. I have to say one thing here that must be said. If you remember back there when we were getting on our feet after the father who preceded the son as governor, and we began to accumulate surpluses, and some of you will remember every time we accumulated a surplus, we gave it back to the people. And the last one we gave back was $850 million. And if we need a difference between the two parties, I will always remember a very reputable leader on the Democratic side of our Senate who stormed into my office after my announcement about giving that money back. And he said, giving that money back to the people is an unnecessary expenditure of public funds. Well, make no mistake. Our economy and our national defenses are strong, but they're also under threat. They're threatened by those who want to use the law to engineer the changes in our nation that the American people do not need and do not want and that would hurt. Our liberal friends seem to love to fiddle around making big government even bigger, but they never seem to achieve their goals. And so they fiddle around some more, but they still don't get anywhere. And then before you know it, they fiddle around so much that they've sent the ship of state into dry dock. I know George Bush knows, and after all, we were called in to get the ship of state seaworthy again. And the way to keep it seaworthy is to have a crew of Republicans in the Congress and George Bush at the helm. Now, Bob will be critical in that effort, and so will a great senator who will continue to be a great senator after the dust is settled on November 9th, Pete Wilson. And let me add one other thing. Our statewide election this year is also critical. In two years, it will be time for the 1990 census. The results of that census will determine the composition of California's congressional districts. Now, we all remember what happened after the last census. The opposition controlled the two state houses and the governor's mansion, so they redrew the map. And what did they do? They shattered the state of California. Each congressional district looked like a piece of broken glass. But we can make sure such a travesty doesn't happen again by working with our state legislative leaders, Pat Nolan and Ken Maddy, to elect good Republicans to the state assembly and the state Senate. That's vital. I'm going to do my part, and I know you will too. Every once in a while, I feel we should all be reminded that one of the great secrets of the success of this country is that we are a federation of sovereign states. And our opponents over those long, 50 years, odd years when they were in control have tried to usurp and take away from the states more and more power to reduce the states to administrative districts of the federal government. Well, we've been having a program for almost eight years now called federalism, in which we have been restoring as much as we can the power and authority that properly belongs to the states and never should have been taken from. And doing all these things, I'm going to do my part, and I know you will too. Yes, there are still promises to keep. There's the promise to keep America strong. There's the promise to expand the frontiers of freedom. There's the promise to continue freeing the creative, enterprising energies of the American people. And with our help, on November 9, George Bush, Pete Wilson, and Bob Lagomassino will get to work on keeping those promises. So now let's us get to work on getting them to work. I don't want to be even those last few weeks there without Bob Lagomassino in the Congress. Thank you all for all you've done, and God bless you all. I have a t-shirt I'd like to present to you, Mr. President. Look on the back. Congressman Bob Lagomassino, I'm backing Bob. Since I'm out of uniform at this event, you suppose maybe I could be out of uniform and wear this at the first leadership meeting when we get back? Sure. I hope so. Thank you.


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Okay, very good morning to you. Hope you are well. It is Wednesday the 27th of May. Just before I begin, just a reminder that our next advanced trading program starts on Monday, the 1st of June. So do give us, we'll get in contact, give us a message or check out the link I think I've got at the bottom on the red bar of this video and you can get more information. This is our intensive one week program where we use our own proprietary software with Zoom video technology and we work with a small group of individuals to really help advance their trading knowledge and expertise alongside the team. So I won't say any more than that, just check out the website if you're interested in more information. But let's just have a look at the charts this morning and a few things that are going on. And we had a little bit of a seesaw session at the end of Wall Street yesterday. And this came after we were generally moving higher, remembering the briefing I was talking about, a number of different things, namely about central banks continuing to offer further assistance, whether it's the ECB, the PBOC, the BOJ. You then had coronavirus for the moment still relatively controlled at this point and that's leading to further plans for economies worldwide to reopen predominantly in the lights of mainland Europe, the UK and in the US. And then hopes of a vaccine, I feel slightly misplaced in terms of how quickly the belief is that they'll come to market, but that's still also in the mix. And that's somewhat overshadowing a lot of the trade war tensions that are being brewing. Some of the comments we saw yesterday, of course, where it looked a little bit more passive in terms of any immediate retaliation from China, but I'm going to update you on that shortly. So that led to a generally positive session yesterday. I saw a really strong move in terms of weakening in the dollar. Subsequently, then we saw equities move higher and tea notes lower, oil generally firmer on the session. But we had a little bit of a wobble going into the final half an hour or so of trade on Wall Street. You can see that here with the dip that occurred. This is really the final half an hour of trade in the US before then we've ramped back up and even higher during the Asia Pacific session. So any of that nervousness that had come about and as I'll go into some news about US weighing further sanctions on China and their officials has been wiped out already. But on a daily continuation, you can see these were the levels we were kind of looking at in yesterday's briefing. We've got that area which we'd identified from the summer of 19 highs that also retested in the September period and support in late October, early November for the eventual push up to all time highs. And that area there acting as a point of resistance to this meaningful rally that we've had and we closed above 3,000 yesterday. This was the 200 DMA I've got marked up on the S&P future here on the daily chart and actually just below that point was the close. We're above there at the moment. So I know there's a few people just keeping an eye on that for the time being. So same rules apply I guess from a key levels of significance on the upside. That 30-26 we're trading about 12 points away from there at the moment. Any move above that and that was that other level we were looking at at 69.5. But we've obviously come a pretty decent way. So to see a period of consolidation between really perhaps the 26 and the 29-65 might well be on the cards until we see a kind of fresh catalyst to see a break of either direction. And with that then, why did we dip overnight? Let's get into some of the headlines. So US is considering a range of sanctions to punish China for its crackdown on Hong Kong according to people familiar with the matter. Treasury Department could impose controls on transactions and freeze assets on Chinese officials and businesses for implementing a new national security law that would curtail the rights and freedoms of citizens within Hong Kong. Other measures also being considered at the moment include visa restrictions for Chinese Communist Party officials according to two people familiar with these discussions behind closed doors at the moment. So yeah, still tensions are brewing as I said before and it definitely warrants monitoring. But at this point it seems to be a lot of threats. A lot of this is kind of weighing these decisions. They've obviously got to go through a degree of congressional approval before they get implemented. So nothing is of an immediate nature as yet. And one of the key points here is that China is not immediately and forcefully retaliating in kind as yet. And that was one of the things that really epitomized that period of 2018-19 was that it got to a point where wherever the US went, China quickly came back and matched it. But China have been less reluctant verbally from the official channels to come out and kind of counteract what the US is saying. That doesn't mean though that they're not kind of going through the back channels which is that Global Times editor is a huge in the chap who tweets that very much is the voice piece on the western platform of Twitter that we hear and he has been critical of the US and their tactics. So definitely continue to monitor the situation. Trump basically as a timeline has said by the end of the week he's going to unveil more information. So definitely to be watched until that point because I'm sure he'll be drip feeding in little hints about what he's going to be doing before we get to that point in time. However as I said markets have recovered and despite that slight move or correction we actually gave up about half of the days gains in US equities in that final half an hour of trade on the back of those headlines. However it has recovered and some of the things that have happened overnight are this is one basically Japan has come out and they've said that they're going to compile a new 1.1 trillion dollar which would be equate to around 900 billion pounds stimulus package includes significant direct spending and this of course in order to counteract the how deep the recession or the large economic recession that they're likely to see in some time. So again more ammunition being thrown at the pandemic situation which has been received somewhat positively by markets and that continues to take place. The other things of a similar nature are a lot of question marks of course had come about when the German Constitutional Court ruled about the legitimacy of the ECB's bond buying program but quite interestingly the FT had an exclusive and you know it's not a coincidence that a lot of these comments from ECB officials are starting to ramp up because next week I think it's the 4th of June we've got the ECB interest rate announcement and so this is very normal you start to get them then offering a little bit of guidance going into this to get markets positioned in the right kind of way and I guess one of these is counteracting the notion that the ECB are going to be unable to continue their bond buying program and as we've heard from officials over the weekend and yesterday and this one more notably because it's a German ECB executive she acts as the I believe chief economist Isabelle Schnabel and she only started at the ECB at the beginning of the year but she's basically shrugged off that court ruling and she says the row does not directly affect the central bank and she basically says the Bundesbank she does not think will be forced to stop participating in the program so again just link to put to bed any of those potential concerns that may have read their head going into a decision where it looks like whether now or at some point in the future the ECB is going to expand upon its quantitative easing program and these are important mechanisms to help support general market confidence because that's what it's built on at this point particularly given how strong the recovery has been thus far in markets after that initial volatility we had in March the other thing what we're looking out for today as well and again you can see this is a kind of blend of monetary stimulus but also fiscal and on the fiscal side we're looking out for some more information in regard to the European Commission president to unveil the commission's recovery fund proposal there is no set time as yet although it is expected today and it will require unanimous backing in order for it to pass now this is what the headlines are saying in the Italian press Le Publica this morning Italy could be designated could be designated a country hard as hit by the coronavirus outbreak and ensuing recession and thus that they could then get some 20% of the funds envisaged in the EU's recovery plan that number obviously is particularly large that's actually more than what the plan originally in the Franco-German proposal was for this 500 billion euros fund and so definitely I'll be keeping an eye on things like euro, BTPs or Italian bonds it would be worth watching and consequently the spread over German bonds today because again if it is more tilted than all the more favourable it is for Italy if that is that report in Italian press does come to fruition so yeah no set time but signing to keep an eye on otherwise that is pretty much it I mean there's not a great deal else for me to comment on oil markets if I just go quickly over to the WTI crew chart we've kind of stabilised if anything this area here more recently in the overnight session which is just around Pivot as I said 337780 up to the overnight highs around 3432 which is also the high seen lately in the US session we're kind of just stuck around that price point at the moment couple things just knocking price just off the highs from yesterday that people were looking at was some comments out of Russia saying they're planning to start easing supply cuts from July obviously needs must in order to get prices as they were off the floor Russia key component of that OPEC plus and kind of G20 energy producing nations cutting supply dramatically and quickly however now prices have somewhat stabilised and we recover back up to north of the $30 handle they obviously would prefer not to be cutting supply so drastically given the impact that that has on the ability to generate revenue off that product so yeah the first tentative signs then potentially that Russia easing off and we've also had of course when we're thinking of simply demand and supply with oil then the trade war tensions escalating could have a negative connotation for the demand part of that equation as well so I don't really over interpret those things at the moment I mean oils come such a long way in such a short period of time it hasn't really moved too much but perhaps a couple of things here to cap the upside which if anything means then that these kind of levels here now which were 3466 in the July contract so it was the high we printed back yesterday and that was the high we had back on 21st in the prior week and so perhaps that's going to act as a pretty decent level of resistance now on the upside just giving some of the fundamental developments there from a calendar point of view what have we got today well we've already had the industrial profits out of China from overnight and in fact also helping a little bit with that overnight recovery Asia-Pacific session in terms of sentiment wise that data came in in Chinese industrial profits for April showed a decline of 4.3% now that obviously doesn't sound great it's a negative number but the prior month was negative 34.9% so definitely has improved considerably from where we were in March which is taken as a little bit of a relief in that sense otherwise as we go through this session it is particularly quiet on the calendar full today nothing major coming out of the UK and Europe this morning and really nothing major coming out of the US session either you've got Feds Beige book that's that kind of reserve bank levels if you like so a more closer examination of these more localised type economies in Philadelphia and Chicago, San Francisco, New York and so on but can be quite interesting in the context of the fact that we're we're trying to ascertain then what is the depth of the current pandemic situation in terms of its economic impact and just generally get a bit more of a granular look at different things like inflation and employment and so on otherwise you've got the API infantry numbers coming out aftermarket as per usual and then this EU commission presenting the recovery fund proposal time to be confirmed as yet will be something that could be meaningful as well to account for the candidate here does know that the commission president is going to be speaking from just after midday London time onwards so could well be that's when we'll hear the details on that proposal in the early afternoon UK time speak wise Christine Lagarde does speak is at a European youth event and so maybe unlikely to comment on anything more explicit on monetary policy or the economy afford guidance but nonetheless worth keeping an eye on remember if there is any surprises to come out of the ECB when they have their meeting next week then generally what you tend to see is as we get closer toward that event all the more that these officials need to kind of put out these various hints to get the market fully prepared and priced then for the eventual outcome if in fact they are going to make any types of changes so once these officials tend to go into their kind of more formal blackout periods when they're not allowed to speak that's where you've got to be keeping an ear out an eye on the press and the news wires for any potential sources and leaks and things like that typically source reports about these types of things tend to come close to the actual event in itself otherwise to Gwendoz speaking later as well this morning and then you've got Angela Merkel holding a news conference on COVID-19 could be quite interesting at 2.15 and then Feds Bullard non-voter these days but quite a vocal member of the Federal Reserve speaking at 5.30 in the evening and then from the supply side you've got skill auctions coming out in the UK and then you've got a five year note coming out of the US this evening at 6pm so that is it I'm not going to go any further than that I'll leave the charts for you guys to look at obviously Sam is available on Twitter if you just look for Sam Norris if you have any questions on the technical side I'm sure he'll be more than happy to help but otherwise any questions just feel free to leave a comment don't forget to subscribe to the channel and I look forward to catching you guys tomorrow alright thanks very much take care