So earlier this year I made a video talking about how much I really enjoyed the Nemo file manager and Nemo is great It's been my main file manager now for the end that entire time It's fast. It has a lot of features that I enjoy especially dual pane mode Which I just can't seem to live without and it's well designed and it's updated frequently and all this stuff It's it's a great little file manager and I know what you're thinking Matt File managers don't really matter all that much just use one How often do you visit a file manager? And that's true for most people most people? Probably don't give two craps about you know what file manager they use they really just don't and That's fine for most people for me the file manager is one of the tools that I use most during the day I Have that thing open constantly on one of my workspaces and I use it all the time whether it's to drag files back and forth between Katie and live or OBS or Audacity or to the browser or all over the place and you know I use it just all the time and it's one of the apps that I have open all the time so You can tell that I'm probably a little particular when it comes to my file manager and For the longest time I've been using Nemo and Nemo's like I said is great But there was a feature that I was missing One of the things that I do in the file manager that is really you know kind of unique to the file manager I don't I don't use tabs a lot in like the browser like I very rarely have more than Seven or eight tabs open in a browser. I okay yesterday I watched an Epos Fox video the one about stream labs and he has like a hundred tabs open It was blowing my mind, but I don't do that in the browser But I do kind of do that in the file manager when I have a file manager open I have two pains and then each pain has five or six or ten tabs open to different directories that I'm always going to back and forth and I Like that functionality and Nemo does a good job of it But the problem is once you close Nemo and reopen it it just opens up at a default location It doesn't remember where you were what I really wanted was to have a file manager that would remember Position like when you close it and you reopened it it remember it would remember where you were When you closed it It's not a feature that is very prominent in file managers Let me tell you I've been searching far and high for file managers that do this and There aren't that many dolphin does it but dolphin comes with half the KD plasma stack and it's not that great Because I really don't want to have to download all that stuff If I'm not gonna use plasma, you know as a desktop environment Something called index does it it's based on Maui kit, but it's very very new. It doesn't have a ton of features in it so you can't I I might try it again, but wait until it's been developed a little bit more and something like Double commander seems to do it, but I didn't care for the double commander UI at all like it has it had your connected drives your mounted drives at the top and On both sides of the I'm both pains and I couldn't you can't get rid of it So it was kind of a deal-breaker for me the UI was just bad and the settings that for double commander is just I mean I'm all for customization like I love Customization give me all the settings like that's why I like KD so much But the settings for double commander was just a total mess so the bottom line is is I've been searching for a file manager that Would allow me to do this and nosy on my discord server recommended an app called crusader now if you don't know what crusader is crusaders actually The file manager that Katie used Previously as far as I know and or maybe an alternative file manager I'm actually not sure, but I know it's developed by the Katie guys or someone who is associated with the Katie guys as you Can tell by the name it's spelled K. R. U. S. A. D. E. R So obviously it's meant to go with KD plasma and it's similar to dolphin in that it has a Absolute crap ton of dependencies like there's just a ton of them And it doesn't even come with all of them pre-installed if you want a whole bunch of features that should be kind of default You actually have to install those separately and I'll talk about that in a minute But out of the box crusaders actually kind of cool despite the fact that it has a ton of dependencies And it seems to have at least all the features that I'm looking for except for one and I'll talk about again that later So first let me just show you what my install of crusader looks like This is crusader now as you can tell it's not the prettiest application out there and a Lot of times the superficial stuff matters to me a lot like I want my applications to look good But in the case of the file manager, I truly don't care I do want it to be functional have a ton of features that I care about and In this case crusader seems to have quite a few of them that are really good So for example, it has tabs you can see down here along the bottom. I have a ton of tabs open I like I know people think I'm crazy, but I really do have this many tabs open all the time And this is usually a minimum usually I have about double this amount. It's absolutely insane like a Like right now I'm editing Or I just edited the three cast which is my other podcast so have that open I have the the folder open for the podcast that Tyler and I just recorded today So I mean I have all the stuff open all the time like I don't want those things to go away I mean, I could just reopen them when I want to but I like having them just open It's kind of like a to-do list that so I remember that it's there But the point is it has tabs and if I close this and Then reopen it as you can see it remembered where I was that is fantastic It's like the number one feature that I would request out of any file manager It's I think they should all have that because I mean you close your your applications all the time or you'd ever reboot or something Like that and you want to come back to this and it'd be a pain in the ass to have to go through and reopen all these tabs One by one, which is what I had to do in Nemo and so this is fantastic for me So the tabs thing and the resuming of the session is really good for me It also has a ton of settings just like you'd expect any Katie application to have But it's not as much of a mess as something like double commander was that it this is just basically a Katie's You know settings panel and it has a ton of you know a ton of Settings and stuff like you can add now when you first start up crusader You'll get a couple notifications saying here are some things That are enabled or disabled based on the things that you have installed So for example out of the box you can't manage bookmarks in this application like at all You have to have a separate application under do that and it will tell you what applications You need to install in order to do these certain things now That's a really weird way of doing things I would prefer you just just install the stuff that I need in order for it to be a functional file manager That's what I prefer but I can understand I mean there'd be like even more dependencies pre-installed if they did that so I can understand at least giving you the choice So it's that's kind of good, but some of the things are the bookmarks seems like you should have that functionality built in But it's not it's not a huge deal. I just downloaded the thing that I needed to you know install Now here's the thing For the most part, I'm in love with this application. I like it a lot a lot a lot as I've been tinkering with it now for a whole day And there's just a ton of stuff here that I haven't even got into yet that I that I'm going to over the next week or so And I love the features that are Important to me like I really enjoy the resumable features. I love the dual pane mode by default I love the tabs. I figured out the bookmarking system so that I can get to the folders that I use most often You know, I figured all that stuff out and it works fine The one feature or excuse me the two features that are missing that don't seem to be able to be enabled at all like even with another dependency our Single-click to open so single click to open seems to be something that Katie removed from all their apps And they put that in the Katie plasma settings so that if you want to actually use single click to open You actually have to have plasma installed which is it's It seems a little user user hostile because I want to use some of these applications outside of plasma and now I can't change that which is Really disappointing. So if I if I show you here Selection mode we see that double-click selects is an option here, but there's no Alternative to that. There's no single click to select option and that's really, you know kind of disappointing Like I said, you can't change it. It's just something you'd have to change in Katie settings and I don't have Katie installed So that's one feature. I'm so used to single-click to install to select or to open I guess a single click to open that you know, I'm gonna miss it But I think that I can go back to the old way of doing things and use double-click. It's fine I got I'll move past it. The other one is much more of a deal breaker for me I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to get past it or not And that is image previews as far as I can tell and from the searching that I've done Crusader does not have image previews at all now It has an option up here in the view menu called show previews and you click on that And then you change like to a different tab Sometimes this goes away. Sometimes it stays and it doesn't really seem to matter whether it's on or off because there's no actual previews here. So if I go to my Pictures folder this has all pictures in it. This is just logos for things that I use for thumbnails There doesn't seem to be a way to actually see what these things look like if like for example if you were in Dolphin I think you can go through and enable a pane for previews or in some file managers You can hit spacebar and it will go through and bring up like a like a pop-up of the of the thing You have it over There's no there's nothing like that here. There's no preview pane There's no none of that stuff. You can't make you can make this stuff bigger, but it just I mean as you can tell it Just it just shows the icon so it doesn't actually show the picture which is Like I said, it may very well be a deal-breaker for me because Believe it or not. I have No Like I did it memory. I can't remember what like some of these things are well named like this here I know that's the discord logo, but for example like if we go down here to the else I have a lot of Linux logos, but there's one logo that I prefer that I use for most of my stuff here It's like a very modern version of tux and the name of I named it very creatively Linux And I actually have two versions of it Linux when Linux 2 The problem here is that I have a whole bunch of stuff named Linux I also have several things named tux so figuring out which which is which is kind of Hard because I don't know the names for everything that I've you know saved over the years like I have probably a million photos and a million images saved on my computer and like I said I don't know all of them and it gets it it gets even worse if I go here to the Screenshot folder I have these like these are by dates like seriously How am I supposed to know what these things are now? I could I Could if I wanted to go through each of one of them and rename them to something descriptive But that's just just sounds like a waste of time to me So the fact that this doesn't have image previews may be a deal-breaker for me if I I Don't want it to be because I like this so much I don't want it to go. I don't I don't want to have to go away because there's no the thing is here Folks is that this is my last option when it comes to these features like if I can't get this to work There doesn't seem to be another solution for me That does the things that I want to do namely have really good tab support and also have the ability to remember the session And that's really important. I really really want that now. I could download Dolphin But and I did done actually did download Dolphin yesterday The problem is it doesn't play very well with a tiling window manager This will crusader does a way better job of actually being a good citizen in tiling win in DWM in For for Dolphin it just it was broken like things weren't working properly And also they've taken a lot of settings out of Dolphin and put them in the KD Plasma settings application And I don't have Plasma installed. So that was a mess, too.  I think if you use cinnamon use Nemo I might have to switch around. I don't remember if you use gnomes use Nautilus You probably don't even know it's called Nautilus because they just call it files You know, so most people are like that for me. It is important because I I Desire these features like I could get by without them like I could but I don't want to I don't want to have to in a Ideal world I would have a terminal based file manager that I could drag and drop from easily even though It probably wouldn't have the same functionality that I prefer in a GUI. So it would be harder to have like Ranger has tabs, but as far as I know it doesn't have a dual pane mode something like mender midnight commander is I don't know if it has tabs, but it has a double dual pane mode Something like a vifm has dual pane mode, but I'm not sure if it has tabs So finding the perfect one in the terminal would be hard for me too Plus I use drag and drop a lot and somebody's gonna point out. Well, why don't use dragon dragon is broken for me I don't know why it doesn't work for me. I have it installed for Ranger. It just doesn't work It just flashes the screen. I'm assuming that I'm missing a dependency somewhere But the instructions for dragon are like here copy this code make it and install that's the the Entire amount of documentation that dragon seems to have unless I'm missing something which is I mean always possible. So anyways That is it for this video if you Have a suggestion for me in terms of getting either crusader to work better in terms of image previews Maybe you know the way to get image previews in crusader. I would love that. I would give you a heart for that I mean, I give I give those hearts out, you know, pretty liberally anyways, but I'd be really Really appreciative if somebody knows how to get image previews working in crusader Or if you have other options for file managers that have the things that I'm looking for I'm looking for a good tab support I'm looking for resume functionality where they'll resume they'll remember what Session I was in beforehand and I'm looking for obviously image previews and so look at instability like it has to like there was a It was something like double commander, but I don't remember what it was it was something that I was trying out before when I was looking for dual pan file managers and Maybe it was called has maybe had word space in it. I don't remember it doesn't matter But that had all the features that I wanted but it crashed and it was abandoned So I prefer something that's being actively developed so in case something does go wrong again At least have a hope that it might get fixed So if you have any of those things leave those in the comments section below if you want to follow me on Twitter You can do so at the Linux cast you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast before I go I'd like to take one thing my current patrons Devon Chris east coast web gen 2 is fun to petrical primus markets makelyn jackson If tool steve a city Mitchell art center amitas Merrick camp Joshua lead a dog on the bsd rock Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time You


In this second step, we are going to activate Tracex. For the ones who do not know, Azure-RTOS Tracex is a Microsoft host-based analysis tool that provides developers with a graphical view of real system events, and enables them to visualize, better understand the behavior of the real-time system. So with Azure-RTOS Tracex, developers can see clearly the occurrence of system events like interrupt and context switches that occur out of view of a standard debugging tool. So the most important thing is this slide is to understand that we are going to see this behavioral view of our system using an external tool, which belongs to Microsoft and it's called Tracex. You should have already installed it and as it was present in the installation pack that we provided. Another important feature that maybe can anticipate some of the question is related to the fact that Tracex allows a post-mortem analysis. So it means that it's an offline analysis of the sequence that is running on our microcontroller. So here you have the steps needed to make Tracex work. You need to activate the feature in firmware. We will allocate the memory. It will be an SRAM memory. We then need to execute the firmware to fill in the trace in the memory and then basically, we save the content into a file with a specific extension we are going to see, and we will use the Tracex application on your PC to display the results. Now, we are going to see all of these in practice. So I will come back to our code, which was in running mode and we go out from debug. So we click on the red square and we terminate the debug section. Now, we should be back to our .ioc file. So the configurator for our H7, we now need to go to software pack, select component, and we need to activate Tracex support. We activate Tracex support, we flag the related line, and we click okay to validate. We go to software pack, stmicro, xcube is RTOS H7 2.0.0. You see there is a new tab called a trace that we enable right now. We have to go into that and enable the event trace. You see that there is this time source. This time source is an ARM core register, is the DWT register precisely, so data watch point and trace unit, from which we are going to take the timestamp source that we'll use for the tracing. At this stage, we only need now to generate code. So another way to generate code is to click on this yellow wheel, wait for a few seconds until the code is regenerated. Okay. So as you saw from the part one, the entry point is uptrend.c, and we are going to work mainly on that for the Tracex enabling part. We are now at slide number 54 of the presentation that you got. The first thing we have to do is to allocate a specific section in SRAM to save our tracing buffer. So we have to go to our linker file, which is STM42H723ZGTXflash.ld. You see that here we specify the different memory areas of the microcontroller. We are going to put a dedicated section in SRAM D1 for the trace buffer. So at line 1 to 2, around line 1 to 2, so after a flash definition, we define a new section. We can cut and paste from the slide or follow along from the sheet sheet, and we define, we basically place a section to AXI SRAM. So now the trace buffer location will be known and location will be the starting address of SRAM D1, which you see here is 2460s. So now what you can do is close the flash.ld and save the file. Perfect. So now you can go back to your uptrend.c, which as I promised is the main file that we are going to work on for the whole morning. And we basically have to define the buffer use for trace and put the buffer to a specific RAM section. And this is exactly what we are going to do. So right after the definition of the thread pointer in this section, use code begin PV between use code begin and use code end PV, we are going to define the trace buffer size. The trace buffer here is calculating, is calculated knowing the TX trace header, the TX trace object entry and the TX trace buffer entry. Then we are going to basically define the trace buffer, which is an array of length 64k, and we put them in the section we have just defined before. Now we have to enable the trace and to enable the trace, we move to uptrade init function. And right after the TX thread create, in section user code begin uptradex init, we are now going to add the TX trace enable. So here we have defined the trace X enable. This is our trace buffer, this is the buffer size 64k, and this is 30 is the amount of trace objects in the buffer. So we are actually going to use just four rows in total, which are the thread scheduler and the idle task, but you may want to see more. So we allocate up to 30 trace objects for this instance. Okay, so this is all we have to do before building and flashing our project. So at first we are going to click on build, so on the hammer and we compile the project. This may take some time. We click on run debug. Okay, so now we are in debug mode and in order to see the trace buffer fillet, we need to open the memory view. So for opening the memory view, you should have this cylinder picture right above the TX list in your debug perspective. Or alternatively, you can enable it from window show view memory. As a first thing, we need to add a memory monitor for the variable that we have just defined, which is tracex underscore buffer. And we click OK. Okay, you see it's correctly and we're not surprised it's positioned at the beginning of the SRAM, XC SRAM, at the same address that we defined initially. Now we have to fill this buffer with relevant information. So it's very important to remember that we need to run the project and see the LED blinking for a certain time period before suspending it. So in fact, we see that the value in the memory monitor are changing, so it means that the buffer has been correctly filled with the data that we are going to use as an input for the tracex. So now we have some data here. We just need to click on export button, which is this arrow pointing on the top of your screen. You see you should have row binary format. The start address should be untouched. You should put the length 64K, which is the one we defined at the beginning, select again row binary and select the directory in which you want to save the file. The important thing is to give the file an extension dot TRX, otherwise you cannot open it with tracex and give it a name, okay? I call it the log number 20, okay? Because I have many in that folder and I click on, okay. Good. Now we are gonna move forward and for a few minutes we are gonna use the tracex application. So you should have tracex installed and please open it, okay? So you should have a blank view like this one. You shall click on open file. Open file is this folder with the error that goes into it and you're gonna click on your log. For me it's log 2.0 to differentiate from previous ones. Okay, so it's working exactly as expected. It could pop up an error mentioning error opening custom event file. You can just click okay and move forward. So we are now seeing something very interesting that I'm gonna explain. So this is basically the sequential view mode. This is actually the default mode and in this mode events are shown immediately following each other. So regardless of the elapsed time between them. It basically shows the event from the beginning to the end and it definitely gives you a good overview of what it's happening in the system independently from the time that has elapsed. So it's definitely very interesting just to understand how our application is behaving. You see that we are running the thread and when the thread is asleep the control passes to the scheduler and the system goes in idle mode and you see the interrupt line. The interrupt line is actually the timestamp so it's actually the tick we selected the beginning. You see here that again this is not timestamp it's just a sequential view of what is happening inside the system. Another important thing I suggest you to look at is view threadx legend. If you click on view threadx legend you got the legend to be able to understand what all of these letters inside the block meaning. For example IS is thread suspended, IR is thread resum, R is thread running which are the most common you will see in our demo there are many more, TZ is thread sleep. Okay so this is definitely not all that we wanted to see because we would like to see how these events are behaving into the time domain and to do this we use the time view. So please click on time view tab and the first thing we need to do is to select the right scale. So a good number is 550. You can choose another number but basically this 550 gives us a pretty good scale so it means that every microsecond is actually 500 of, 550 is made of 550 blocks inside the viewer so it gives us the right granularity to see the events we want to see. First thing you notice is that actually our thread is running for a super short time. You see we are quite all the time in idle task. Actually you couldn't see quite anything in my thread. You have to zoom a lot. To zoom a lot you have to select a vertical line and zoom. You see that actually in fact we are executing but we stay in the thread for just a few microseconds. This is expected in fact because our thread actually is really running only during GPIO toggle and during sleep the scheduler passes the control to the idle task. So this is completely expected that we see the GPIO toggle only for a few microseconds. Okay so let's change a little bit the behavior and let's try to come back to our uptrend.c to see how we can spend more time to see the thread running for more time without passing immediately the control to the scheduler and the idle task. So a good way to do this is try to run some operation inside the thread entry. So in order to simulate some activity inside the thread entry we are gonna use a HAL delay. So maybe some of you will like to write us in the chat which is the difference that exists between HAL delay and the TX thread sleep. Okay just to do a small checkpoint to see if we are all aligned with this. So in the meantime I'm gonna write HAL underscore delay and then to auto compile I'm gonna click control space and I'm gonna put 500 here and semi column. In this case you are expected to have something like this. So the HAL delay running for 500 milliseconds and the sleep running for 200 milliseconds. Let's see if this is the exactly what we were expecting. So we can launch the debug session. Okay, so we should actually make exactly the same thing we did before. So we should run the code, break after a few seconds, go back to memory monitor and click this time you have already the trace buffer selected and you click on X integer.  So again, please click on export. Everything should be set exactly as before. So you should have a row binary length of 64K and please give it another name. I'm gonna call it log 21 and click okay. Now if you have trace X open again you have to click here on the open file select your new file. In this sequential view there is no much difference as expected but actually if you go in the time view and you zoom out a little bit, okay. You see that it's behaving as expected. So we stay the thread is running basically for, you see here 500 milliseconds and we stay in the idle thread while our main thread is leaping which is 200 milliseconds. So it's exactly behaving in this step and we have seen how to change the behavior and see basically the thread properly running. There is another nice view that you can use in trace X which is execution profile. If you click to view execution profile you can see that in percentage the time is split between 75% of my thread running and 25% of idle. So for a total let's say typical profile of 700 a typical cycle of 700 milliseconds we spend 500 milliseconds with the thread running and 200 milliseconds in idle.


Okay, very good morning. It's just gone past 7 a.m. Now in London on Friday 18th of September First things first a little bit of a different look to the briefing this morning As you can see as always really appreciate it if you could subscribe and join us on the AmpliTrading YouTube channel I've had some really great engagement as usual throughout the week and obviously I love answering questions If I can help in any way I always will but I've got a special guest with me today Sam, how's it going? Hi, and yeah, no really good. Thank you. It's great to be back like the old days a throwback to To the simpler times, but yeah, no very well. Thank you and you know looking forward to this Yeah, so what I'll do is we'll go back to the the back to back routine so I'll do the warm-up and then you're the main event and You can go over the charts and you can look at things from a more of the technical I guess implementation. I'll talk a little bit more about the general sentiment on things And then go through some of the headline news stories in focus. So start off then. Let's have a quick look at the the charts and They're not really too much to report in the way of major significant use that developed overnight I mean in terms of the actual closes on Wall Street all negative across the board Then as that underperforming a touchdown around one and a half the other industry S&P down about 8 tenths of a cent down that half a percent So not too much to speak of I'm sure Sam will look at the S&P a little bit more detail in a moment Obviously the briefing yes that I was talking about It was the 50 DMA holding up as a pretty decent level of Support that as I said, he can you can look back in a moment. Otherwise in terms of the other asset classes The dollar index is pretty flat So any of those gains that we're seeing Really in the Asia session not last night but the night before all of that's been taken back in Actually any of the the Fed did mainly has been reversed now. So turns into major currency pairs then Now that that dollar has pulled back It's just provided a bit of a moderate support tone to euro dollar and cable and the major effects pairs Cable obviously has been on a bit of a roller coaster and yesterday, of course, we had the The Bank of England come out and they gave their strongest signal yet that they're considering using negative interest rates They said that they will work with bank regulators on how they might implement such a policy So if you actually track the Bank of England Kind of rhetoric over the course of the last couple of months. This is the actual When that announcement came out They basically started to ramp up the the timings of preparation work for if it's necessary It's kind of ready to go as a potential policy tool and obviously this comes with October being particularly important months for the uk as we know the kind of trio of of events Ranging from the cobit developments, which I'm going to talk about actually in quite a lot of detail in a moment To brexit and then the uk government's fiscal plans with things like furlough Coming up for exploration, but as you can see though that that selling pressure was relatively short-lived. They had a really big Wick here on that candle print And that did come amid then some of the latest brexit updates But before I get to that quick look at some of the other charts gold minor positive this morning of about 10 bucks at 1959 and a half again technically it was quite interesting here in terms of A retest up at the overnight Asia-Pacific highs, but there was also a low point and there is support through Periods of the last week going back to Tuesday Wednesday And then in crude I'm going to talk a little bit. I'll give you an update on opec in a moment, but wti continues to claw back Some of those recent losses that we've had of late I'm just going to quickly look on a daily actually haven't done so in a while And you can see here from a technical standpoint and coming right up to that Cluster of activity the 50 dma being the red line Is where we're trading so we reclaimed a 41 dollar handle for the for the time being But look, let's get into some of the headlines. Sam will go over those charts again In more detail they said so I'll just transition my screens So should be able to see now some news articles And the first one I'm going to talk about is is brexit remember I just showed you that pound chart after the Bank of England comment about kind of preparation of negative rates The pound fell but then we saw a big pop on the ups and reversal after an ft report That came out From citing the eu commission president talking about that there's still a prospect of a deal with britain being done The uk government has now said that a round of informal eu trade talks this week was useful Obviously following that comment where? Uh Vandalion said that she's convinced the deal is possible Negotiators in terms of timing of course are kind of working over time now trying to come to an agreement by mid october Is that tentative timeline to provide time then for the deal to be ratified before year end and the end of the transition period? So not too much really to add here other than You can expect the brexit headlines to remain Quite a constant feature. I think of british press going forward However, that could well be superseded by an increasing issue confronting the nation And that is this Reports this morning and we've already had The health secretary matt hancock. He's already been speaking 7 a.m. This morning So he he definitely is trying to get ahead I would say tactically from a pr point of view A lot of the papers are running this as a major headline this morning So he's already been out talking about it And that's the prospect of the uk heading potentially for a second national lockdown This comes after as it states here some advice has come from some scientific Um advisors and what's happening here is that they're suggesting the uk government should impose a two-week national lockdown in october to coincide with the october school half term the number of positive COVID-19 cases is doubling every seven to eight days in england at the moment And so This is what that looks like at the moment in terms of on a nationwide basis very much situated in the in the north West for the time being but there has been also areas now in the northeast Which have gone into kind of localized lockdown. So New restrictions have come in in areas in newcastle northumberland North t timeside south gates head county darin and sunderland and this means now that the current imperial college london ipsos mori data Again doubling every seven to eight days in england and covid cases putting an r right now at around 1.7 Uh, which Yeah, it's definitely not as high as obviously the peak of where it was in initial first wave But certainly would indicate then a further increase is to come in this Now a couple of things here Cases is one thing hospitalizations and deaths are another. So what does that look like? Well, this is the actual A number of infections per day in the uk. So just wanted to give you a bit of context So you can see here we printed yesterday at three thousand three hundred and ninety five when we were peaking up at around north of six thousand If we go back to the main part of when the the country was in the first national lockdown So here you can see this is the highest clearly the rates that we've been on a number of infections Going all the way back to to april maytime From a hospitalizations point of view. It's been fairly minimal This has been one of the things why the market has been fairly Comfortable with what has been what we're looking at here in the uk very much mimicked in other mainland european countries But the point is though that these numbers are starting to rise and once they do Um, they can rise very quickly and in terms of hospitalizations in the uk here You can see a bit of a uptick that we've had Over the course of the last kind of two weeks or so One of the things that You might have seen me on twitter commenting on was i went for a walk down south bank in central london along the river Last weekend and that sunday marked then the commencement next the next day this week's monday of the gathering numbers dropping from like 30 to 6 And and absolutely what i saw was a a heck of a lot of young people out in big groups well in excessive six Just drinking and socializing and and certainly not really adhering to social distancing rules and that obviously has been one of the main demographics which has been Hit the hardest in terms of the the new case rates. So hospitalizations It looks minimal on this chart But actually if you actually look at it comparative if i had my excel sheet up with all the numbers This is increasing a fairly rapid pace And in terms of deaths i went on the nhs website this morning and tried to look back to some of the data As far as i could see is as of monday There was only one person in the uk that died Of covet 19 as of the most recent data in the last 24 hours that number has gone from one to 20 so again 20 is not in the grander scheme of things comparative to where we were previously A big number but going from one to 20. It's a pretty rapid acceleration. So What's happened this morning? The health secretary matt hancock has come out and said the national lockdown Is the quote he said we never take a national lockdown off the table But it is the last line of defense obviously This is this could be the worst possible situation not just for the uk government But for anyone who adopts a nationwide lockdown that is the most economically damaging Absolutely, even just for a two week period would have a significant impact on this kind of Speed and shape of the economic recovery Certainly would be one of those things then would lead markets to believe then that the bank of england really compounding with brexit risk You know more qe More negative rates the markets probably going to start pricing that in more certainly if we actually do See a second national lockdown. So yeah, it was keeping an eye. I mean Sam will look at the pound I mean, I've just got the chart in front of me and there's quite a good area of resistance in sterling over the last 24 hours and actually There's a there's a heck of a lot of headwinds For sterling at the moment and Ultimately, we have a little pop yesterday on that positive kind of eu comment about the potential for concession negotiations on the brexit front But if this national lockdown starts to get a bit of traction The other kind of indirect implication is can have economically is if the press really run with this narrative Think about what that does then for the public psyche and general consumer confidence You know one of the big things about the first lockdown which I think was kind of underplayed to a certain extent was fear Not so much actually contracting or dying of this virus but fear of that Then can have massive reverberate or massive repercussions on then the economic performance because ultimately You know we are a service-driven economy And if the consumer stops spending and then you start throwing in the fact that there could be millions of new layoffs coming At the end of furlough as well in the coming weeks. It's hard to try and Try and not be bearish at the moment for sterling. So It'd be interesting to have a look at That technically when Sam comes on but yeah, hopefully that makes makes some sense what I'm saying here is that I believe that the uk situation on covet. I think Case numbers will start to increase quite rapidly I think we're already starting to see it but hospitalizations and deaths will then start to increase as well The tipping point here is what does the government say? And how far away are we from going from localized to national lockdown? If talk starts to move to national lockdown intensifies pounds can get hit In the first instance any any feeling that that's becoming a higher prospect Is going to be in the in the intraday environment quite a big negative short term And that again, it gets further exacerbated by the fact that the only thing the bank of England can do at this point Was in just ease further In in as per they were kind of signaling yesterday Okay, a couple of other things to quickly mention On the u.s. political front The democrats weigh next steps after trump backs a bigger stimulus, you know one of the things that drone power was quite sure of In the press conference earlier this week was about And the usual central bank stance that fiscal policies got to accompany Monetary policy for it to have a real potent impact on on the overall broader economy And I was just I was just kind of figuring out in my head this negotiation And if you think about it the democrats started at three and a half trillion Republicans at one trillion that was the original kind of starting post of this this latest round of potential u.s. fiscal stimulus Swing district democrats now want 2.2 trillion. Okay, so we move that down a little bit By partisan group of house lawmakers put forward a 1.5 trillion Yesterday that got welcomed by trump because that's near into the trillion Of which then the republicans originally wanted but remember the republicans earlier this week put forward 500 billion So we're getting a little bit closer But polosian senate democratic leader chuck schumer has said they want 2.2 trillion So the democrats have gone from three and a half All the way down to one and a half But the people that really matter have said they want 2.2 Trump's gone from 500 up to 1.5 now. So for me There is going to be a stimulus. It's in both political parties interest to provide another stimulus, right? This isn't about blocking trump or blocking The democrats this is about coming across as in you are further assisting people in their jobs in their livelihood You're boosting the economy and so it's a positive in both cases. So for me This will happen. I guess it's about who's going to get the win You know a bigger number the democrats can bark if it's a little bit more controlled But I think trump could spin it any way that he's giving more to the people So net net I think it's coming and that's why I think that The market's not that bothered by the fact that it hasn't been that forthcoming Because I think ultimately it will And as long as markets believe that then I think it's it's a bit of a moot point of this particular juncture Okay, moving elsewhere. Just wanted to quick mention about oil I'm sorry. I'm sure sam will look at the chart, but with oil Yeah, we've continued to just just push higher and certainly some games were seen yesterday Saudi Arabia showed its determination to protect the recovery at the OPEC plus committee meeting the jmmc Basically criticizing members that have cheated on production quotas.  Iraq and Mrs. Olivia and mr. Nigeria They're kind of quaking in their boots and there's all these Saudi contingents saying if you don't do what we're saying There's going to be repercussion and and certainly that seemed to be the tone From what I was seeing in the headlines yesterday basically Saudi are just getting a little bit more Assertive with just taking it by the scruff of the collar and saying look you need to sort this out. We're all doing it. We're all in it We're having no Flexibility for uncompliance and the reason for this is because the EIA report which came out earlier this week Showed that the UAE Almost entirely disregarded its commitment to the quotas last month While tanker tracking data showed that Iraq is exporting more crude so far in september We're only halfway than in the entire month of august So I don't find that that surprising Iraq is always the culprit of Non-compliance, but Saudi trying to put a little bit of the pressure on them And I think the market responded to that as in that ultimately Saudi's Got the resolve to see this through and if they have Um, and Saudi also warned short sellers not to challenge its resolved Dropping clear hints that there could be a change in direction in production policy Before the group next meets in december. So they even went as far as kind of You know shooting one an arrow across the bow saying look Don't don't think that we won't do it. I know we've we've kind of loosened the depth of the cup We go back And and that seems to be enough for the market to have Responded to that because of course this comes with Quite a lot of that recent dip in oil being down to faltering demand that we've been seeing in various different metrics. So All in all, I would say Saudi did a pretty good job Uh, it was kind of akin to a little bit like a central bank Meeting in the way that they're trying to talk the market back up How long that will last though? I guess it's a question Uh, we're all yet to be seen on the oil front as well So obviously being super busy in the Atlantic in terms of developing weather systems the one that just to bring on your your Weather system radar so to speak is uh, 22 which is down here Obviously in close proximity to the gulf tropical depression currently And 22 is expected to strengthen though to a tropical storm and possibly a hurricane And the reason for that to keep an eye on or at least be aware of Is that while moving slightly over the western Gulf of Mexico during the next few days? So obviously these weather systems are subject to changes in direction and any shift more east Would then be very sensitive to that particular geographic region. So it's a little bit early But I think this could garner a little bit more interest as it develops over the weekend perhaps All right, calendar wise. What have we got? We've already had UK retail sales come out No real impact on markets on the back of that Month of month 0.8 against 0.7 x fuel number 0.6 against 0.4 So Again, I think the bigger challenge here and overall what people are focusing on to trade sterling right now Is really what's coming in the near future Not so much in the rear view mirror about what retail sales was like In august so no real reaction on that going further forward then in towards the rest of the day It's relatively quiet. There's no one major data coming out of the states today in the 130s But you do get the preliminary september university of michigan Three o'clock oil traders baking huge rig count as per normal a couple of speakers ECB's de gwindos 1015 feds bullard non-voter But is speaking on the coveted 19 recovery challenge at 3 p.m. London. So 10 a.m. New York feds schnabel 3 p.m. feds bostic again non-voter at 5 p.m On midday New York Final thing is you can see here a big chunk of expiry is happening. So I did tweak this out Again my handle here just search my name or awm chung But it's quadruple witching So for any new traders if you just go on my tweet What this refers to is the date of which stock index futures index options stock options and single stock futures all expire simultaneously When this day occurs it generally leads to quite a big spike in volume Not always Consequently volatility, but it's definitely something to be aware of particularly at the expiration of these these contracts You tend to see quite a flurry of activity just before The expiration so just to be aware of that if you're trading the index futures But yeah, that's it. So I'll hand you over sam and he can go over some of the charts now so Over to you Cheers and thank you. Thank you very much. That's good to be good to be back. So let's just share my My screen we'll start off by having a look at the pound I think the best place to start following that it's It's set up very nicely going into the end of the week and and like you said, there's a lot of negative Headwinds at present and the second lockdown could well be the tipping point to send it further south However, where we close the week is going to be key So do look out for that video that I'm going to shoot this sunday This is the pound on that daily chart and and the reason why I'm saying it's so key where we finish is You have these lows that really gave way after we closed below on the 8th of september Yes, this down move started a bit before that, but we're retesting them now We've had one two three four including today five days where we're knocking on that ceiling Something has got to give do the sellers take over do the bears send price action downwards And back down towards the 128 or do the bull step in we close above 130 We close above the the the moving average the 50 day moving average and and then we start to actually push on It's it's so key. I think at the moment I'd rather be in the camp with the bears And potentially looking for shorts how we finished this week But that said above the 130 on the daily close And more importantly, I would say the low that we had here on the 24th 130 57 I wouldn't want to be short anymore And I think you would get quite a good relief rally as that short squeeze takes place Much like we saw back in may here where we had exactly the same sort of price action break the lows Retest it works for a couple of days. Once you get that close above that leads to Another big rally so keep a keep a close watch on that how we close not just the pound. There's plenty of markets A very well set up going into the last trading day of the week the pound on that lower time frame Then these are those levels transitioned on to a 60 minute You can see the importance now. We really range down funnily enough after the Bank of England yesterday over the last Two and now whatever we traded today seven hours 45 minutes worth of trading. What is going to give I I'd almost be You know slightly patient and wait for either the 130 handles come in or one Nearly just low 129 probably a moving not a moving average a sort of line in the sand around the pivot 129 43 Have a bit of patience and and you know wait for The triggers you would want at those levels, but very well set up going into The euro I'm just going to bring this in on the longer time frame for me if you remember from our live coverage that we had with the The FOMC the rate decision we were talking about how It it looked like it would push down and then we have this trend line on which is worth having on It's also of course the lows that we had from the 21st of august that gets hit the 50 day moving average Actors support and we're now back higher. You can see the importance of these daily closes I would still say for those that are sure you're happy to be sure especially if you got in from You know lane's comments on the sort of the 120 Uh, you'd be happy to stay sure along as we stay below the 10th of september high for me That comes in on the futures around 1915 As long as we're below there. I think you'd be pretty comfortable, but decision time has to come either Literally at the low that we had yesterday or the high from the 10th and also the 15th So the euro liked the pound very well set up going into the close of the week And someone's got to give right now the euro just trying to get a close above This high that we had back on wednesday evening. So I'd be watching that like a hawk Probably for a bit more confirmation given the sort of the the quietness of the calendar Probably an hour closed for confirmation before I'd be looking for a push towards the high that we had on wednesday And on the flip side if we were to break the low below sort of 118 64 that's when I'd say you're more than uh, well, you potentially be looking for a move back down towards that pivot Move into equities like amp said at the beginning of the brief and 50 day moving average has Being talked about as an area of support and you can see why both Yesterday but also on the the 11th and the 9th of september It acted very well as it had done in previous months as well So daily close below that it doesn't look too good You'd probably also want to see the low go as well 3300 3290 And that's when you might start to see a bit of panic However, for me, I would say you probably would want to see this previous high here go on the 23rd of july So that makes it an incredibly big area of support That the the bears would need price to to get below at the moment. It's finally set 50 day moving average the I think there's some of this check is to make sure yeah, the 21 day moving average above there and if you remember of course on wednesday I was talking about 34 24 As the level if we close above I think all-time highs come pretty quickly I stand by that completely and that's why daily closes are so key Yes, they saw a decent push to the downside fifth day moving moving average held things up quite well I'm patiently waiting from a personal point of view to get long above that Rather than getting in now, but that said, you know, uh, this this whole area 32 84 Decent price action there could well lead to the longs quick look over at the nasdaq You can see it looks pretty similar that that 21 day moving average and those highs of recent times are capping the upside And we had a triple bottom yesterday Really really key level we close the week below there And I think things could then start to maybe get ugly next week But at the moment it's held well and it's not the first time we've seen a triple bottom In equities that have led to a rally higher. So if you're not in a trade I don't think there's any harm in being patient, especially the quadruple witching Especially the last day of the week in saying I'm only going to get involved if we can get back above The highs that we've had from the 10th the 14th and the 21 day moving averages or sure below if we break that triple bottom In between there's obviously going to be Some interday trading opportunities, but for those bigger moves That's how I would look to to play that quick. Look at the dow before we have uh oil and gold to wrap things You can see the dow Certainly, you know It's got another sort of clear top albeit, um, you know above it's 21 day moving average So I think the nasdaq and the s&p look a bit cleaner Then the dow does right now, but that said the 50 day moving average Has been respected for the dow as well. So yeah nasdaq and the s&p for a bit more of a Cleaner trade in my opinion, but if we were to get above 28 347 on the dow You know, I think you then see 29 000 come in and if 29 000 comes in What's stopping that all-time high and donald trump tweeting? again Let's have a quick look over at oil Like and said all those moving averages Really coming into play right now and it's had a had a decent week. It really has I mean these these rallies at the beginning of the week sort of went a bit unnoticed We closed wednesday bang on a very key level support that we had on the third of september That then broke through thanks to some comments from from opa yesterday and of course, you know stops getting triggered It's now coming into the next key level for me the sort of next key resistance point where it has to hold here at 41 49 if it doesn't then I think you get back to the high that we saw around 44 bucks And that is a trade that i'm looking for medium term along above 43 71 to then go to 50 dollars With a stop, you know, two dollars below 50 Sort of marking a sort of psychological level as well as some previous resistance. I think that could be a good opportunity However, daily clothes, you know, again below the 40 dollars And I think the opportunity for a short here looks good as well So you can see the the two currency pairs we've gone to pound and euro very finely set up something It's going to give soon as with equities as we boil just have a quick look over at gold on that intraday Chart just to wrap things up and you can see it is trying to drift higher. I'd have the Resistance level. We have pretty much marked us up on today's high You can see some decent price action over the last sort of couple of sessions around this point Also going back to the 11th and the 14th. It's it's fairly well respected Given the time of the day right now our clothes above that for confirmation from a push to the upside To the downside if we were to move back below 1955 these triple tops that we had then I wouldn't want to stay long Any longer, but looking at that it's a range bound market over the last few trading sessions at the moment So we're taking it sort of step by step level by level I actually do quite like the look of gold and silver to come slightly bit lower before getting in looking around 1900 on gold 26 is on silver I like them as more medium term longs with good price action around those points because I appreciate they've been Tested a number of times, but yeah, that's uh, that's my sort of daily morning wrap there for for you and Obviously guys feel free to head over to my twitter throughout the day. I will be posting the charts as and when mute getting used to the the zoom delivery with Doing it live like this, but um, yeah, don't forget to subscribe to the channel And we got plenty of content coming. I know eddie's dropped a few videos as a big IPO Company called snowflake if you've never heard of it. It's actually generating quite a buzz This morning in in in the in some circles. So definitely check that out He puts out single stock stuff sam will drop a video as well over the weekend Where he'll look at exactly what he's just done there But for the entire week ahead and he normally puts out on a sunday So we've got to do is just find us amplify trading hit subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified as soon as we go live But yeah, thanks very much sam and I wish everyone a great weekend. Stay safe and see you monday okay guys


First question is from Neum's fit. How can I get more definition in my arms? I feel like my arms are just pure mass with no tricep or bicep definition. Yeah, you got to just get leaner You know, there's two parts of this because arm blobs Yes, if you get lean or no matter what you're gonna have definition But if you have muscle underneath that body fat Then you don't have to get as lean to see as much definition. So it is two part The whole myth of spot reduction is just that it's a myth So you can't choose to burn body fat from area and then just train that area. I don't care I know people are like, oh, there's one study that showed maybe okay if there is an effect. It's so negligible. It's not true Also, there's other studies that show that doesn't work. So don't waste your time with that But you can get leaner overall That's what gives you definition and then if you develop the muscle underneath you don't have to get as lean To look like you have definition because there's muscle that gives you shape There's not much really to add to that.  This is the look. I don't know what you're working with.  Maybe it's you know, the triceps knee more emphasis But you know to be able to even see those lines. I think is the first step I do what I do want to add this that I and I don't know if there's this just a Correlation between the timing when this happened in my life or not But you know, we've talked before on the show about how like lifting heavy gives you that kind of granite look Yeah, like dense muscle. I noticed that Because I didn't I was very like the first like I don't know maybe eight to ten years Tricep maybe maybe the heaviest loaded kind of tricep exercise. I did was like a skull crusher Everything else was cable pushdowns rope things and like machines like crazy. I really didn't do a lot of dips I didn't do any in close close grip bench press When I introduced those into my training my arms blew up and then I also noticed that they they just Maintain the size like I even when I haven't lifted my arms in weeks I still have those the tricep lines when I see from the side of my body I didn't have that in the first like ten years of lifting and I was training very hard and consistently and so I Attribute that to those types of lifts that put on more mass to my arms totally I had to say I had a really crazy experience with my midsection. So I you know like you Adam I was Ectomorphish right so I just kind of always lean and I would try to bulk to gain and at one point I said, okay. I want to try and see if I can get like a nice six pack, right? I was gonna go to Italy for the summer and so I got my body fat down to 10% Which is for most people will have a six pack now in the mirror if I really flexed I could kind of see it But if I was a lot relaxed, I couldn't see it. So I'm like, oh, I want a six pack While I'm relaxed. I had to get my body fat all the way down to I think was like 7% for that to happen Which is really hard and really low For most people definitely for me now later on I Started to realize that the abs in the core muscles were just like any other muscle and the way I trained them before was like the You know what you we read in the bodybuilding magazines, right? Which is like oh core abs high reps right lots of reps no rest periods That'll make them look better more sculpted and like well, they're a muscle if I want to build them I should train them like I would if I wanted to build my shoulders or my legs or any other muscle groups So I started training them with higher tension more resistance Lower repetition. So now I'm doing 8 to 12 reps higher tension So like decline sit-ups and Roman chair sit-ups and you know flag what are they called dragon flag exercises? And I started to build the muscles of my core now as they built I started to have a six pack that was visible without flexing at 10% body fat You know because the muscles were bigger and more visible so building muscle also Increases that that I guess that the look of definite definition Less muscle means you got to get way leaner in my opinion to look like like it like my arms are gonna look leaner At a higher body fat percentage than somebody who it doesn't have much muscle on their arms at a lower body fat So just more muscle there So there's two parts to that right build the muscle, but you also got to get leaner So my my generic specific advice I would give this person is that okay? Get leaner than you've ever been in your life So it reveals where you're currently at then when you go back into a bulk make sure you're doing things like dips close grip Bench Supinated pull-ups for your arms Do these exercises that are gonna build mass on your arms and train them that way train light if you've never done And maybe you're somebody who trains higher reps and the and chasing the pump like I was do some good strength building Exercises for the arms on your bulk on the way up and hopefully that makes a difference Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe


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So I was flying in Indiana in United States, then before flying there was some time the pilot didn't come then I was just going around seeing all their photographs and records and things. This club has been there for over thirty years and they have a good record and all this. Then I asked, how many have died? This had only seventeen people. In the last thirty years only seventeen people. I said, okay, then today being eighteen the chances are low. But it's possible, it's possible. Then the pilot comes late and he says, I'm sorry, I'm sorry and jumps into his suit and does all those things in such a rush. Then I wonder, the guy who is tying these knots, if he also has come late and tied it up in a hurry, then it's a issue. So you're jumping off without anything.  So that last moment, will this open or not? Just one string, strings attached you know? Only one string. Like this if you do, you can't pull it and test it because if it opens up here you can't jump. So you're not supposed to test it. You're supposed to believe somebody who tied the knot and believe he has done it perfect. We do not know if he is putting the knot for the first time. Thirteen, fourteen thousand feet, a plane flies, usually it's a rickety old plane. When I went, the plane was making such horrible noises, it was easier to jump than stay in the plane. Ah, good job there. In the state of Ohio Shankaran Pillai went to learn skydiving. So he's about to jump and the instructor said, when I say you pull the string, only one string. There's no backup string, only one string. So Shankaran Pillai asked, suppose it doesn't open the parachute, how much time do I have?  Your entire life is now.  You cannot live on yesterday's stuff, isn't it? One day if you stop all this, one minute if you stop all this, life starts going down. Don't believe what I'm saying, just check, check with your life. Let me live so many days, all these years I've been breathing, let me live one night.  No, no, I love somebody so much and she's gone right now.  Stock market crashed, I lost all my money, I want to die, try.  Yes or no?  This is the question because life is very brief, but death is very long, hello? People who died have died for a long time, isn't it? People who lived just lived for a few years. There is no long life, only a miserable person has a long life. Otherwise there's no long life, where is long life? Even I'm becoming old.  Yes or no? I bless you with a brief life, not in terms of time, but in terms of experience.


Christopher Eglestone is the Chief Executive Officer of ALIX Resources Corp. Christopher, you don't need any real introduction to the Investor Intel audience. You're very well known. Welcome via Skype to the Investor Intel Studio. Good. Thank you very much. You've recently been appointed the Chief Executive Officer of ALIX. I think you were on the advisory board for some time, so you know the story well. What's going to be your focus coming into the CEO chair? As a project generator, we can roam far and wide in looking for projects to develop, and that's what we're doing. We've got some projects already, some more advanced than others, and we're going to be looking to add some more on and then thinking about the ways that we can generate some value from them in the future. With the portfolio approach, what's in the portfolio now, or why with the different properties chosen? Well, our first property of note is the Mexican property, which joins both the north and south ends, the Sonora project of Bacanora, which has attracted a lot of interest because they announced that they had a deal potentially for the offtake from that to Tesla. That's made the area a bit hot, and we've got, fortunately, the extensions about the north and the south of that. We're developing that with an ASX list of company called Lithium Australia, which is also known to the investor intel audience. They are paying to earn in on that property, and that's our main prospect at the moment. But our wholly owned properties consist of several in Quebec, one in Ontario, and then there's another property farther west that we haven't done any work on at the moment. But it is interesting because it's not just Lithium, but it's a number of other minerals as well that we picked up for previously been worked on by TANCO, which is a well-known company in the TANCO space. Beyond exploration, does the company have plans to do other things with Lithium? We would wish to develop a presence in the value added chain of Lithium, and interestingly, people think of that as being involved in the presence of making the batteries. In fact, we want to go beyond that. We want to get involved in this space after the batteries are exhausted and start working with the recycling of Lithium batteries, because it's not just the Lithium itself that's in these batteries, but we also have that other obscure objective desire of the recent times, cobalt, which as a conflict mineral, in fact, one of the few non-conflict sources of cobalt will actually be recycling. That's very exciting. What should investors be looking for in the way of news flow on that subject? Well, we're going to be announcing that we're moving into this space with a very well-known operator in the specialty metals area, and they will be helping us in moving forward a move to really a demonstration plant in the short term, because we do not want to spend a long time on this, because I believe in many of these specialty metals that the advantage goes to the first mover, and we want to be a first mover in Lithium recycling. Well, that's very exciting, and we look forward to seeing the news and following the story closely. Thanks very much, Christopher. Thank you.


Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of A's at update. I'm Anthony Bartolo join as always by Sarah Lee and Sarah. How's it going? I'm good. Thanks, Anthony. I'm good. How are you doing? Good. Good. You know, it's going to be a good show when you have audio guy Steve already calling you out to see how are you going to mess up the show today. So at least, you know, we have that comical intent happening on. I hear you got nice weather out by you right now and you're waiting, you know, to go outside and enjoy that fresh air. Yep. Yep. I've been watering my garden all week because we've had no rain. So Scotland does sometimes get no rain for people wondering. Yeah. A lot of us in Toronto went out and already started to put some seed on the lawn and to address some patchy spots and then it snowed. So it snowed a foot and I guess that's helping out the lawn because it's watering the lawn. But sure, it was a very interesting week this week. Off the bat, I wanted to get started with this really quickly. How has your work life balance been over the last year? I could tell by that face in regards to, you know, everything that's going on, right? You hear the term a lot. You're, you know, living at work. But now, you know, it's not working from home. It's living at work. How has it been for you? It's definitely been a challenge. I think the boundaries have been pushed just that bit more because everybody knows you're at home and they know you can't go off to the cinema or you can't go out for dinner and stuff like that. So you aren't able to give those excuses like you used to when someone tried to put in a 6pm meeting. So the boundaries have definitely been pushed and I definitely think that my meeting, I've got no stats to prove this. Absolutely no stats to prove this, but it definitely feels like I am in more meetings than I have ever been in my entire career over the last year, which is not always a bad thing because some of the meetings are awesome. Like this morning I caught up with two colleagues and we just had a coffee and just, you know, talked about what the week's been like and stuff like that. So those were really good. But yes, definitely the balance is tipping in maybe the wrong direction, although I hope my boss isn't watching this. Here's the thing. So everybody working from home has provided a lot more connections to people that you don't usually talk to only because it's something where you can just do it now. You can have that ability to make the request. There isn't any travel required. Trust me, a lot of us are excited for when we can safely do the traveling again and do the in-person handshakes and what have you. But I wanted to really quickly call attention to what the Outlook team actually did in regards to the initiative to help balance our lives a little bit more. It's a really interesting idea and it's a simple idea. It's actually a PowerShell module or command line that you would enable on Outlook. That would, when you're scheduling out your meetings, it will put in automatically a 10-minute buffer, again, based on your requirements if you want to do it before or after, so that it allows you that break. You know, I don't know about you, Sarah, but you know, I've had certain things, a lot of days where it's been back to back to back to back, and then you look at the clock, it's four o'clock and you haven't had lunch yet, let alone breakfast, right? So I think, you know, it's a small thing. It was launched this week. I just wanted to bring it to everybody's attention because it's an interesting thought process in terms of, you know, using the tools that we have to schedule out our lives to have breaks so that we do take time for ourselves, right? Yeah. I think it's a weird scenario because, like you say, we've been back to back with meetings some days, and I actually think when I look at my calendar for Monday, I'm going to be back to back after lunchtime. But if we were doing that in person, Anthony, there'd be a chance for us to run for a bathroom break between the meeting rooms. And a meeting would never start on time or, you know, nine times up to ten, it probably wouldn't because people would be grabbing a coffee as they walk by the tea station or they'd be grabbing a bathroom break. We don't do that virtually now. Like one meeting ends and I go into the next one. There's not any chance for me to often, you know, knit to get a coffee refill or whatever. So I think it's important to sign build that in because we had that back in the physical world when we were all meeting. We just didn't know we were actually doing it because we were doing it unconsciously, if that makes sense. Well, that's the thing, right? So now we rely on technology to put those breaks in for us because we're just, you know, it's the norm back to back to back to back, right? So it's interesting how technology is being used to help alleviate that. I've actually put it into the chat, the link to the blog post because it came across my desk really late. So I wasn't able to put it into the blog post. But it's interesting just to check out and it's interesting the logic that's being shared by the Outlook team as to why it was included and how they're, you know, it's something that they're trying to put their best foot forward to help out everybody to alleviate that. Because that's the other thing too, if you're doing back to back to back and you're doing it, you know, five, six, I'm having meetings Sunday night sometimes right now too, right? Because of time zones, you probably experienced the same thing. You know, it's something that we all have to take into consideration with everything going on to be able to take those breaks and to, you know, give back to yourself in terms of everything that you've done in your hard work. So I know it's always interesting. I've got one of these smartwatches that kind of measures what they class as my body battery. And you can see on the days where I'm back to back to back, the body battery drains quicker than the days where I don't have any meetings.  But yeah, so it's a good, good additional need to have a look and see if I can enable it on my machine. Yeah, and I try to actually schedule all the time just to go out on the bike, right? When there's not snow outside to just there's trails by where I live and it's a good break in terms of everything going on. I actually put that into my calendar in terms of just scheduling the time off. Producer pairs in the chat room talking about taking breaks in Redansk. That does occur as well, especially with the new season three that's upon us right now. So we've been having a lot of fun with that. Shall we get started with the news? Yes, let's do. All right, you're up first, Sarah. Me, me and first. So something that's when generally available this week is the Azure application gateway ability to rewrite your URL header or your requests coming in. And I think this is actually super interesting for me because I've been learning about some of our load balancing technologies and I didn't realize this wasn't a GA feature. So it's timely that it's came out because I was telling people all about it this week. But it basically allows you to be a bit more granular with what's happening with your traffic. If something comes into a certain URL, you can then push it somewhere else. And you know, there is an example on the screen here that Anthony's shown. You know, you're pushing the external URL could be like control.com storage, but internally what it's actually pushing it to is an Azure website or one of the static website. So you're not necessarily having to expose that website or that static storage within Azure storage to the internet traffic. You know, the application gateway is the external point. And then you can change that. And then if you do some maintenance to that back end application and you change the location or you change where it was, you wouldn't have to change the external point and redirect everybody to that URL. So lots of scenarios here that they can be used on. So definitely an exciting feature. And thankfully it's went to you this week after I told everybody that it was a feature that was available. Perfect timing. That's what I call that right. So we talked a little bit this prior to the show. It's very interesting use for this. There's a plethora of uses that we can implement this technology into. But the one that struck me right away was our documentation we have in docs.microsoft.com. It comes in a multitude of languages. And sometimes when we share out those links and it's blog posts or on social, we forget to take out the ENUS, which other parts of the world obviously doesn't work for them. And they want it in their native language. And that's available in their native language, of course, on docs. So you can actually have this service be intelligent enough to know that if it's going to this specific URL that includes the ENUS for the language for that documentation, but it's coming from another part of the world that has a different language, let's say Brazil and we would need it in Portuguese. It could be, you know, set up so that it's intelligent enough to understand that the request is coming from Brazil for a US site. Maybe it should go or it should provide the link to the Portuguese language portrayal of that document as opposed to the English one. Yeah, yeah, lots of scenarios, lots of use cases. So definitely a cool feature within the application gateway. So let's continue on with the news. Next up is a notice from Microsoft in regards to Ubuntu. If you have Ubuntu virtual machines or clusters set up inside of your tenant, it is time to update. As of the end of this month, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will no longer be supported by Ubuntu. That means that no other updates, no other support for that offering will be made available. You can, however, still go to Microsoft Azure because there is the understanding that the requirement around the use of Ubuntu is still needed for specific applications. It is a challenge to have applications moved off older platforms because that may require a rewrite. In those instances there, you would require, you know, the ability to spin up that resource is still available. But do note that there is a disclaimer right on the page itself inside of Marketplace that Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS will no longer receive security patches beyond April 2021. And especially in this day and age in regards to everything that's going on, it is important to have your VMs and your services up to date, especially around patching and what have you because a lot of us are remote working. And so gaining access to resources like this and patching no longer being available, that does then become a concern in terms of your footprint to be attacked on, if not service properly. What do you think, Sarah? I actually can't believe this is going kind of in a life, this operating system, because I think it was released in what, 2015 or something, and I remember it then. I'm starting to feel old with all of these operating systems going end of life and then we're having to upgrade. Yeah, but there's several versions that have been out since 1604, so hopefully it's not massively impactful for a lot of organizations. I say that with a pinch of salt. But yeah, it'll be interesting to see how people cope with the fact that it's going end of life and find solutions for those legacy applications that are probably living on it. Now the suggestion is for migration from 1604 to 1804. So you don't have to go to the latest flavoring of Ubuntu. It is also a smart thing to go through and make sure you do the testing and spitting up the new resource in 1804 or higher to make sure that your applications work. The hope is that you've done that prior to this point. If you have not, as you can see, 1604 is still going to be offered, but the disclaimer is at the end of this month, security patches will no longer be made available. So it is, hey, you need to start testing out 1804 or higher to make sure that your solution still works and to migrate your solutions that way. The documentation that we've shared on the blog post today is actually the steps for migration from 1604 to 1804 or higher. So it is a less of a disruption for your services when you're moving to the newer service. And producer Pierre, thank you. He's sharing out the link for today's show. Everything you can find is on aka.ms4.com. Next up, again, Sarah, for the news. So I'm talking about one of my favorite products because if you've ever heard me talk or watch my blog and stuff, it's always about migration in Azure Migrate. This is a new announcement. I think I actually missed this because if you'll notice the date on the blog, the team released this at the start of the month. So we're a bit late in announcing this, but it's an interesting one because with Azure Migrate, if you're migrating your workloads from your on-prem data center up into Azure, when Azure Migrate was first released, it did all that kind of migration traffic over the public internet. And a lot of organizations that's absolutely fine for, but then when some of the other customers with compliance needs came along, the team had to build and support using ExpressRoute and ExpressRoute with Microsoft peering. And that's an important caveat because if they use the ExpressRoute, it wasn't going over the public internet. It was on the Microsoft backbone and it was a bit more protected from attackers. This gives you even more protection because it's enabling the use of private endpoints. So again, you can start to secure that traffic much more when you're trying to migrate. If you're going to potentially like a no-trust or a zero-trust environment in your Azure environment, this can be enabled in there. So yeah, it's just one of those cool features that potentially a lot of customers might not need, but there'll be some use cases where people want to migrate and are going to, like I said, that zero-trust kind of infrastructure or design and private endpoints and private link are something that's built into it. So yeah, that's there. And I believe it's just easy to kind of enable when you're setting up your migrate projects. Just a little tech box that you tech that you're using a private endpoint and point it towards that private endpoint and then Azure Migrate will do all that for you. So yeah, pretty cool. Pretty cool to see them implement these little features that actually can make a big difference to our customers and enable them to use a product in their environment and make their migration path a lot easier for them. So yeah, pretty cool. Oh, this is huge. Like I already know in terms of oil and gas and finance and health care, there are so many facets that could utilize this type of enablement. It's something where, you know, I love the fact that we're again forward-thinking and understanding what people's needs are, organizational needs are to keep even ISO and certification standards in play, the inclusion of ExpressRep. I know especially for oil and gas and the remote locations that these services lie. It's where, you know, having this type of capability right now to use the ExpressRep for that private endpoint from a security perspective, it's a big deal. Yeah, yeah, it's a big deal. I kind of got it that I missed it earlier in the month and didn't announce it sooner, but it's there now, so make use of it. Oh, no, it's awesome to, you know, to share it out and that's why we do what we do, right? Because we hear from our audience what's important and then, you know, we jump on it, which is really cool. So definitely thank you for bringing this up. Next up, working with the team at HoloLens, our team was able to go forth and help with the steps and process around securing and deploying your HoloLens devices. Believe it or not, HoloLens is a Windows 10 device and that means that when you're deploying it at an organization, you still require the security policies and management capabilities in play to manage these devices. It's a hands-free Windows 10 device that, you know, projects holograms into real-world scenarios or real-world instances that you then interact with, and it is still a computing device and thus it can still be attacked or it can still be used for malicious use. So a lot of organizations, again, that have ISOs or certificate standards that they have to adhere to, these devices too have to be managed. So it was a great opportunity to sit down with the HoloLens team and just, you know, build out what documentation is currently available and make a, you know, a recommended best practice in terms of, you know, these are the steps that you should look at, inclusion of Azure AD for end user authentication, inclusion of endpoint management, specifically for the device for the deployment, the use of Windows 10 auto-enrollment. So when the device connects to the infrastructure for the first time or boots up for the first time, it's automatically loaded with all the tools and the needs for the device to operate. I learned something too in the fact that you can actually put the HoloLens into kiosk mode. So if you're not familiar with kiosk mode in Windows 10, I can actually set the HoloLens to only have a specific experience and do nothing else. So it limits the, you know, if there's confusion or, you know, I want to use this device to play games on instead of doing work that I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you can limit that to have only that purpose or, you know, we're seeing a lot of these devices show up in amusement parks for experiences in terms of, you know, enjoying the ride and what have you. So now if it's only in kiosk mode and it's managed to run that one application and nothing else, it's even easier for management to go through and, you know, ensure that the end users are only using it for what it's specified for. And then, you know, not, you know, fumbling around with the settings or changing anything on the fly to do other things, right? Sarah, what are your thoughts? That's pretty cool, Anthony, because I actually naively didn't think of HoloLens as something you would have to put into device management. I didn't realize it ran Windows 10. I was just, I'm going to say just another PC that you have to manage and do it. But I didn't realize those capabilities were there. So that's actually pretty cool. I'll need to have a look at what you've done in terms of the video and educate myself a bit. So that sounds interesting. This is the thing, right? And I've been in the vertical of mobile device management for a long time and I date myself, you know, back to the BlackBerry devices and the Windows mobile devices that we had originally. It's something where, you know, we don't think of it. It's another device. It's touching your architecture. It's accessing your data. It too needs to be secured and it too needs to be managed, especially if there's the ISO certifications. I work with a lot of organizations that are implementing HoloLens from an engineering perspective, right? And understanding the schematics of a construction site that's going up or understanding the engine in a vehicle or in an aircraft. It's, you know, this is sensitive information that if it gets out there, it can cause a lot of damage. And so, you know, awesome. And what's crazy is that the documentation exists. It's there. It's just, we don't know, right? So it was something where can, you know, in helping the HoloLens team build out this story, including a lot of the documentation that already exists to build out the path that, you know, IT departments can follow in terms of deploying these devices, making it easier for the end user to even use the devices because you just boot it up and you log in and all your information automatically populates the device like your laptop or desktop, right? Which was cool. It's like you said, you don't think of it as a PC, but it is, right? And then just have that enablement. And so it's a great program, you know, that our team is participating on. And there will be more down the road. We're doing more in terms of ensuring that this documentation is being available. So do check out the blog post and we will have more information down the road as well. Shall we do a quick shout out to the chat room? So we have Paul Jensen is here. Audio guy Steve, Jared Shockley is here. Andrew McCollum is here. How's it going? Robert Jr. all the way from South Africa has joined us today, which is awesome. Great to see everybody. And of course, producer Pierre is lurking around sharing his insights and everything that's going on. And then Sarah, you're in there chiming in as well. I can't even tell you're watching the camera. You're into the chat. I always get, you know, heckled for, why do you look at your keyboard while you're talking? Like, what's going on? What's going on? What's going on? What's going on? What's going on? So it's a bit of a challenge to do that. Shall we chat about the upcoming events that will coming next week? So my background is Maltese and the Maltese community reached out and said, hey, would you mind talking about our event? I said, sure, it's breaking on down, right? So Saturday the 24th of April, there's multi-day Saturday that's occurring and it's going to be talking about data, everything from your back end to how you place it in the cloud, how you provide access to it. It is a free conference. And because we're all online, you can join from anywhere in the world, right? So we have the link that's inside of the blog post for you to go and check this out. I do hope to go speak on the island one day. That is something that I'm trying to make sure that it's feasible down the road, not just going to do it for the sake of doing it, but definitely a great opportunity and it's interesting. There is a big tech mecca in Malta. A lot of the casinos operate their operations out of there, which is really cool. So a lot of data resides in Malta and in the cloud that they manage. So definitely check this out. I've seen a couple of videos that they've had and it's pretty in-depth in terms of their capabilities around data management, which is really cool. We also have the Toronto Azure Group has also reached out to bring some visibility to their event. So this is an interesting one. It's specifically around transforming pipelines to solve complex data problems inside of banking. So if you're in the financial industry and you're an IT professional looking at the infrastructure that's there and you want to ensure that your data transport is secure and it is done in a way that achieves the certification standards that are required, definitely check out this meeting. Again, it's online. So anywhere in the world you can participate in production, which is producer Pierre and audio guy Steve, which will have their event today. Producer Pierre, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm bad with time zones. It's noon, right? Eastern Standard Time? He's shaking his head, yes. So noon Eastern Standard Time, I got it right. If you go to twitch.tv forward slash patch and switch you can check out testing and production. I know producer Pierre has been busy behind the scenes to get ready for this one. He's got a lot of custom work that he's done that he'll be showcasing today. So definitely check it out. And of course, audio guy Steve will be there as well. So they're both there at this show. He'll be chiming in on the chat room now saying, what did you say? What's going on? And last but not least for events, Hello World is a daily news event that occurs on Learn TV alongside us and other shows. But what's great about this one, it's the human aspect of everything that goes on in regards to technology and how we enable one another to do more within what we have and especially the times that we're in right now. It's great to see just familiar faces talking about how they adopt technology and what resources are available to do so, which is really cool. Wow, that was a lot. All right. There's a lot of events going on, right? And this is the thing, right? Right now, I know build is coming up. It's coming up in May. This is the time where, when we were doing the travel, a lot of the travel happened during these months. This is the busier time of the year. And so it's great to see that community is still thriving. I know out by you, there's the Azure community out by you as well that they're still having their events online. I've said this numerous times. I love the fact that for the ability to connect to the Scotland Azure user group, right? I don't have to be in Scotland. I can actually go in and observe and watch. I love to go out there one day and meet everybody in person. And trust me, that's still something for me in terms of having that handshake. It makes it personal. It makes it, you know, to connect with people, which is really cool. But just the observation of how technology is adopted around the world and how the doors have opened. I hope that that continues on past when we're able to go see people in person again. It's an availability that you can go out and watch what other people are doing in terms of the sharing of technology is really cool. Your thoughts, Sarah? It's been pretty cool because we had Donovan Brown speaker, the Glasgow Azure user group last year and trying to get a hold of Donovan normally would have been impossible. And I know the Welsh user group, the Azure user group had Scott Hanselman speak at their user group. I think it was last month. So again, trying to get a hold of these people, normally, if they were physically, you would never get a chance to do it unless their travel schedule mixed in with the user group. So it's great to be able to have that. It's great to be able to have that range of speakers and share that knowledge and get access to people that you necessarily wouldn't have been able to get to. So yeah, hopefully it will continue. But I'm definitely looking forward to getting back to having physical meet-ups and sharing a beer and a pizza and sharing videos and all that fun stuff and not having a camera anywhere near me. You know what? I'm interested to do, you know, we do AZIT Update on the road and we're in, you know, Country X for whatever event that it is and we're doing this on the road and having, you know, others participate, you know, inside of the community and having, you know, I can't wait to see what this will evolve to once we're outside of this and we're all working back out there with people. But again, I love the fact that I can attend the Malta data user group remotely from my home and, you know, participate as required. Now, producer Pierre Flash on the screen the email address which is another way to reach out to us directly if you have any questions or any feedback or any inquiries. We love your feedback. That's something that's very important for us. It guides what we do in the show it guides what we do in terms of creation of tutorials and instruction and blog posts and what have you based on what you are letting us know that is important to you so definitely, you know, let us know in regards to what we can recommend or what we can build if it's not existing already. Let's talk about the Microsoft Learn module of the week because we have three minutes left. So this one was an interesting one develop a security and compliance plan. This is around the AZ 400 designing and implementing a Microsoft DevOps solution certification the reason I bring this out though is it's interesting premise. It's not just about the technology. It's about the people that also utilize the technology and how the communication across an organization supports that enablement for the organization to move forward and it's something where, you know, understanding the premises around the, you know, the security aspect and how that affects the end user, how it affects the business decision maker how it affects the developers. The management capabilities, the deployment capabilities it's a very well rounded learning path is 11 modules to complete. So it's a pretty substantial you know, the average time on this to completion is seven hours. Sorry, almost eight hours and it's something, but it's something where it takes into consideration more than just the technology. Also, what does the organization need to accomplish, which is pretty cool. Yeah, I think I talk a lot about migrations and how it's not just about the technology. There's also a lot of culture and people involved in it. And I think when you're doing a kind of DevOps culture and you're going down that kind of CI CD pipeline and things like that, then, yeah, there's technology involved, but there's also that people element. So it's good to hear that the modules including that as well. So we got two minutes left, Sarah. If people want to get ahold of you, what is the best way to get ahold of you? You can find me on Twitter at Techie Lass and yeah, I'll probably be posting lovely pictures of Scotland this weekend. So make sure you follow me there. And I'll be jealous because it's absolutely beautiful where you are right now. I send a picture on Instagram of my biking habits and everything is still gray right now. It's turning green, which is nice. If you want to get ahold of producer Pierre, you can do so at Pierre, sorry, at Wire Connect on Twitter. He's laughing in the background because I messed that up. And if you want to get ahold of me for some reason, you can also get ahold of me on Twitter at Wire This Life. Everybody enjoy your weekend and we'll see you all next Friday.