From London, England, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, Cover, Discover 2015. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in London for HPE Discover, HPE Enterprise news show here, part of the new split of HPE Enterprise. This is theCUBE's SiliconANGLES flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, my co-host Dave Vellante. Our next guest is Majod Nair, VP of Products, Converged Data Center, Infrastructure. Welcome to theCUBE. Thanks, Dave. Great to have you on. I'm John, that's Dave over there. So we've got him all right. We've got him laughing already. Product management, big part of your job. You run the software side, you run all the product management for the Converged Synergy and all the other products, which is the hot set of products here at HPE. Not the hardware, which is Neil, Michael, all of those guys. Software is where the margin is. That's where the money is. And also manageability is a big part of it. Give us an update. What's going on in your group? What are you guys working on? What are you guys talking about here at HPE Discover? Sure.  We announced that at the last Discover in Vegas. As the first proof point was just around software-defined operations. And that was really part of OneView, opening it up, integrations with the ecosystem API, so integrations with folks like Docker, Shaft, Puppet, VMware. We just announced Microsoft yesterday. But that's been the starting point where we believe the first stage of that composable journey starts with the software-defined management and intelligence that OneView brings. So in the show here, we have just talked about the next phase here, where we have built the first platform, designed ground up for composability, which is HPE Synergy. And OneView is the engine and the heart of that intelligence now embodied, combining that with the platform advantages that Synergy brings, right? So it's really bringing, instead of defining infrastructure traditionally, a software, you know, storage, compute, network, it's an infrastructure-building block. We love DevOps. We love infrastructure as code, so it's music to our ears to hear those kinds of words coming out of you guys. It's good to see Docker here. Do some deep integration there. What's your role with Docker? They're here at the show. Do they fit into this equation? Absolutely. So Docker is one of the core partners, design development partners we've worked with as far as the composable infrastructure. They are one of our ecosystem partners. And if you think about what Docker is trying to do for DevOps, typically people are using containers. They deploy it on a public cloud because it's very easy to define the underlying infrastructure. And developers really don't want to think about infrastructure and all the details underneath that. And you know, to do that on-prem was much more complicated. How do I specify all these different things that infrastructure requires? And that's something that for Docker, that's the advantage where we've jointly built a Docker machine driver that understands composable in one view. So you can just deploy one click Docker containers on the infrastructure. And developers don't need to understand the details of the infrastructure. So talk about the ground up development process. I mean, that means a whole new view. No legacy, understanding legacy one thing, but I'm not saying you're not understanding it, but you want to take advantage of the new market trends cloud native and cloud and big data, all those things that are adding value for developers. What do you guys, does that part of the memster, Neil talked about that it was, you got the machines not shipping yet, but this is the beginning of the thinking. As you guys integrate the design process of software hardware, can you share some color into that roadmap without giving away any secrets? But like, just give some color to what does, from the ground up mean? From a software perspective. I think part of what from the ground up means is that we are really figuring out how to not think about these as different elements that you get the typical layers of management. I got a management platform for compute, I got something for storage, and then I got something for network, and let me put a manager on top of those managers, then I put a director on top of those managers of managers, right? And that's the layer cake problem we're trying to solve. So part of it is fundamentally rethinking this and thinking of what is an application need? What is a cloud native app or traditional app needs? And it just needs to express those things in terms of the app needs and workload needs rather than compute storage and network. So that's part of ground up, starting to design infrastructure management in terms that applications are expressing their requirements rather than the piece parts of infrastructure. As far as roadmap goes, we announced a multi-stage roadmap when we started this journey in June earlier this year. Stage one, as I said, was a software defined management, stage two synergy, just with the final, in an ounce of the show. I think the next few waves you're really taking that software automation that comes on the synergy platforms and the composable platforms to the next level where automation and orchestration become much more integrated. So not just infrastructure management, but how do I do the layers about that to fulfill the vision? Application centric infrastructure management rather than the reverse. That's what we're doing. It should be agnostic, right? Application doesn't care. It just works. Exactly. It's like how does the application actually offer infrastructure needs? That's really what we're trying to do. Sorry. Yeah. Just jump it in. Help yourself. It's great. I mean, he's got his hands on the keys to the kingdom. Product management on the software side where the value will be generated. Not 100%, but that's where the margin will be. Certainly in a software defined world. Absolutely. There's a lot of value there. So I got to ask you, where are your priorities?  Certainly roadmap drives a lot of the guiding principles, but what are your priorities now? I mean, in the short, medium term, are there certain things in the stack that you want to knock down? Can you share some color on, just globally, generically? What are your priorities? Yeah, so taking that roadmap journey forward, the number one priority is, how do I make infrastructure simple to consume, right? The public cloud, I think, has defined and shown people what infrastructure simplicity can be. It is done with armies of developers and side-diperskill cloud providers. Our enterprise customers are saying, how can I do that in-house? And that journey is really the priority for us. How do I make consumption of infrastructure much more simple? How do I make management much more of an easy button experience? So that's the journey we're on, right? So HP has a lot of software assets, for example. HP has Helion and its cloud platforms. You know, a much more holistic integration across all of these different capabilities. So it's just, you know, app needs X and, you know, allow my workload to move to the best platform, right? And that's the vision that we're on, and that's the journey. So let's talk about the reality of where IT is today and where we want to take them and how we get there. So you have this layered stacks, storage, hypervisor servers, database, separate teams for each, like you said before, different management interface for each. And people are not prone to sort of swap out pieces of the stack and slot in new ones. Essentially, you're trying to reduce or eliminate the dependencies on that stack and make it easier to sort of just have that composable infrastructure called beautiful. What's the friction to doing that? And how do we get from point A to point B? The friction has always been there. We saw it with the first wave of our conversion offerings and solutions. And what we see that our customers who understand the journey that they're on and they're thinking about an end state vision, a three to five year roadmap. And I can see a lot of the C level customers, VPF infrastructures I talked to are starting to think about that infrastructure journey. When they think of that, they think of the kinds of solutions we're talking about with composable as the journey they need to be. And what we're helping them with is how do they take the journey without having to do a full rip and replace, right? So with Converged, we started offering the ability to gradually ease in the Converged offerings rather than having to replace all elements at the same time. And the same thing is going to happen with composable. Our customers think about, hey, what's the next new workload? What's the next new refresh cycle? And then with some of the combination of our financing and flexible capacity, we make that friction, which is one of the things is, how do I make this budget flip happen? We take that friction out of the system. The second one is how do I transform my people to so that they're not just siloed operators? And one of our big customers I just talked to said, look, I broke down all the silos. Eventually, I didn't get rid of the people. The people are still there. Now they're cross-train and they're a lot more productive because they can do a lot more with the ease of the software management that one view brings to the table. And so those are a couple of the big friction points that we have some good ways to help our customers for that. Talk about ripping a place.  And it's more than that. It's not just the asset on the books. It's all the processes and skill sets around it. And so it's hard to get people to change. So are you seeing examples of winning strategies where you've got a leader who says, okay, like you started talking before the three to five year plan. Add some color to that. What is it a successful example of somebody who comes in with real leadership and says, okay, we're going to do this. Take that hill. Yeah, absolutely. I think the big opportunity that customers now see is how do I eliminate operational complexity? This whole concept of the idea economy is a big change driver. IT is becoming the core of the business rather than just supporting business process. And a lot of startups and companies have disrupted traditional industry, have actually taken advantage of technology to do that. That's become the big driver for change inside most of the large enterprise customers. Saying, why can we not leverage technology to get much more analytics, much more intelligence, targeted offers for our users? To do that, CIOs need to have a technology roadmap. And those are the ones we see the most success with, wherever they're saying, I have decided I'm going to become an enabler of the business, a contributor to the business beyond just supporting business processes. So that's at the highest level. And the next click down is okay, now you pick your couple of first success stories. And every company that I know of, and I personally ran a big portfolio that my own developers wanted to go to the cloud. And so you go to your IT department saying, can you offer these things? So those kind of examples, I'm trying to do the next generation application. I'm a customer, I was trying to do a mobile storefront, pick those examples as places to actually start deploying your new platforms. And over time, we have built a platform that can do both old and new. And so that makes it easier for people to do the transition. And we haven't talked about explicitly, but automation, right? And a lot of times, the goal is to automate so you can scale your business. But IT oftentimes is not aligning with that goal. They're afraid of automation. They love to turn the knobs. What are you seeing in terms of the automation holy grail? Sure, I think it's more about this. There's fear of automation because a lot of automation is automation without intelligence.  And IT knows the pain of something breaking. So I don't think it is the fear of automation as such, but it's the lack of, you know, intelligence of that automation. And I think that is one of the things where we're saying, look, we understand the underlying infrastructure. We're going to make it much more easier. You automate on the basis of what the applications need. And that automation understands the underlying infrastructure, takes care of it. Talk about the team internally. What's the vibe at like the new HP? What kind of tech are you guys working on? You all have big screens. What's the developer environment like? Share for the folks out there, a peek into the new HP. I have a lot of excitement, you know. The split in some ways was exciting in terms of a lot of celebration, but as far as working teams goes, it was very seamless, so very well done. You know, you don't want to see any friction for the developers. We, you know, there was some moving around, some buildings and all that. We have a very open development environment, at least, you know, our group out in Palo Alto. We get to see the Sanford Clock Tower on one end. Are you on Hanover Street? Yep, on Hanover Street. So it's, you know, the new building that you see in the ads now, and... Who got the HP Labs building up on the hill? I think Labs are still there, but HP Inc is part of that, and then I think some part... You know, we did a CUBE event, CUBE broadcast. Yeah, that's a beautiful look. They got a lot of bandwidth there. Yeah. 150 mega. Anytime you guys want to do a CUBE event at HP Labs, we'll be happy to come back. Yeah, so absolutely, you know. Great campus, open environment.  I love it, you know. I think courageous interaction. Yep, lots of... Great place to work. You get the latest of hardware too, to play around with, right?  Big screen, double screen. Manoj, give us the final word here on the show. What's going on here? What are some of the conversations that we've been involved in with customers? And what are you going to take back to the ranch in Palo Alto and share with the folks back home? The customer vibe is like, look, this is different. This is a different conversation that we're not hearing from any of the other vendors in infrastructure. You're talking about applications, you're talking about, you know, how to make things simple, and it's a paradigm shift. Now I'm pretty sure that a lot of competitors are going to come out saying, oh, sure, we do that too. I think we have defined it in a very clear way. Our customers are educated enough, I believe, that they're going to be able to see the difference. The biggest takeaway is, you know, accelerate the journey, and get to that end goal of how do I make it easier for applications to consume infrastructure, you know, make the infrastructure intelligent, and help IT in becoming a business partner.  Absolutely. Giving an example? We're drinking our own champagne.  RID guys did a very cool thing. You know, they actually, you know, put some growth pros on their heads and showed how to go all the way from a rack that is boxed up to deploying applications and developing applications against the new infrastructure in like, you know, a matter of hours, right? So rack to actual doubt meant a matter of hours before lunch they were done. And that's, you know, so the RIT partners are actually been testing this out for the last few months. And using integrations like Docker to build some of the new apps that we have been, we as employees of HP get to use on our day-to-day, you know, on our mobile apps and all that. And that's been dubbed on-site. You know, a lot of people don't know how awesome HP IT is. I mean, even going back when I worked there in the 90s, first intranet, first, one of the first domains on the internet, hp.com, you know, when Mosaic browser came out, just everything that they did really, really stayed in the art stuff. It's fantastic to all of them partner, you know. So that is great to have, you know, such a, you know. And it's still like that today. Yeah, absolutely. It's better if any, right? Well, we got to talk to get some of the CIO on, get them on theCUBE next time. So HP IT, you're invited on theCUBE next time. Thanks for watching. Thanks for coming on. I appreciate you sharing the insights on the product management vision. Absolutely. Software is the competitive advantage, obviously big data, a lot of big data coming up here on theCUBE next. Couple of segments, you'll see a lot of big data. Stay tuned. We got more coming here, live in London, after this short break. 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What a beautiful day. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, perfect to go outside. I just had a 15 minutes meditation and not one single thought crossed my mind. To go see a doctor and get a professional prescription is never a waste of time. I fell asleep in like two minutes last night. I lost board. So when we look at the sky and we find two clouds together, it means that you will cross your destiny with your soulmate any time soon. And if they are three, you have to start putting attention to all threes in your life because the angel of the three, three, three is looking out for you. That makes sense. Team sports are so important when you're growing up. Like it teaches you so many values. No one has sent me any messages today. I think I will talk to them. I know exactly what this is for. I am so bored. Who can I call? Ball games bring people together. Party at my place at 10. I'll send this to all of my contacts. I have so many. Thank you, bye. That social interaction turned out so well. Lily, do you want to see my wand? Not really.


The following is a presentation of TFNN. Good morning, market kickoff with your host, Tommy O'Brien. Good morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN Thursday morning just after 9 a.m. Eastern time. We got about 24 minutes to go until the start of trading.  Tonight we continue the action with Amazon, Intel, Snapchat, among some others. It's been a pretty spectacular week for the tech companies, right? Microsoft, Google, you get meta earnings. Now we come to Amazon earnings, Apple one week from today. We get a Fed decision six days from today. Markets sitting at $4,100 on the S&P, it was quite an acceleration yesterday man. You were trading at a higher price. It's taken a look. Now Microsoft had quite the banner day yesterday, right? You trade from $2.75, you close out at $2.95, closed up $20 in the positive. Google, much different story. In terms of the action you got Tuesday night, you spike higher on the numbers, just going into the action we had from yesterday. Pretty interesting folks when you put this on a Fibonacci basis, where did we spike to the 1 to 618, right around that level. And I know you ballpark anything, you can find a level. But it is remarkable how many times even when you look into a 1 to 1.618 expansion Google got up to about 107 yesterday. You gave up almost 3 full percent almost into the close. You closed it out at 104.50. Today we're basically flat again. Google, spectacular numbers, okay? Markets still a little skittish on Google. Maybe losing that ad revenue for being the search giant. They dominated it like 90% of the search market. Seems like that's going to go away to some degree. They're going to be an active player. But controlling the internet search market, 90% of the searches and you think they've been doing it for 20 years. You don't have to go back far in history, folks, to see how even the best companies around that dominate lose their top post at some degree, at least 90%. I mean, the internet is the future. The internet is the world. They control 90% of it.  Google, pretty flat numbers on their numbers. Now, meta, not the case, man. This thing is rocketing even higher. Check it out. We're going to be up $30. Meta's going to jump up 15%. And you're talking about a company that had about $18 move priced in. So you're going to open up $30. That was $18 in either direction. So if you were buying an at the money put or a call last night on Meta shares, I always want to say Facebook, coming into the close at about $210. If you were directionally correct, you had to make about $10 to break even. Well, you've tripled that, man. But you can see how even in options, right? When there's huge volatility priced into inequity, folks, this move is mammoth. A company like Facebook, now going to be up 15%. I think this number is calculated. You're talking about a $621 billion company. You've got 2.5 billion shares upstanding. So what are you going to add? $75 billion in market cap overnight. But meanwhile, you paid 10 bucks. And let's jump over to it, all right? Because we jump over to the options that expire Friday. And you scroll down to where this was. We got to open it up last night, because these are priced. Options do not trade, most at least. There's some nuances in terms of the SPY options when they trade, et cetera. But individual equity options trade during market hours. You back it up to where it was last night at about $210, OK? And you can see the bid ask for a call just above $9. The bid ask for a call put just above $9, all right? Now, what's remarkable is that you've gotten a mammoth move, man. Number one, you had to be directionally correct right away. That's a 50-50 chance you lose.  And even when you get moves like this, you only triple your money. And I say only triple, folks, because there's going to be so many times that right away, one out of two times, you're going to lose everything. In theory, OK? Now, you have a market bias. And we're deviating here a little bit. But it is important to realize when you see this type of a move, you said, man, I wish I had crushed it last night. There was a lot of volatility priced into this equity, man. Meta had almost a 10% move priced in either direction. Well, that's basically what it did after hours. You've accelerated higher than that, but it moved 10%, OK? So keep that in mind when you're talking about options, folks. If you check out the program Fast Market at 12 o'clock, they do a great job. But it just is important to keep in perspective here. Because yeah, you would have crushed it out of the park You would have put up $9. And as of right now, man, you're making at least, what, $20, $22 on that at-the-money call. But right away, you would have lost half of the time. So one out of two times, you lose. Because in theory, a trade is lower. And some X percentage of the time, right? This thing is going to be moving $3 to $5. Maybe it has a Google day, right? Google's reaction yesterday. Now, Google only had about a 4% to 5% move priced in. But you see the action in Google. Google is basically flat over two days from where it was two days prior. You're going to get moves like that. Very rarely do you get moves like this. But guess what, man? If you called it, you called it right. They seem to be turning things around. We'll get into meta shares and their numbers later in the program. But boy, it's going to be a big day for Zuckerberg, man. And you take a look at this thing longer term. You're going to open at $241, folks. You're going to be above the 50%. I mean, next stop seems like, what, $275? You're going to open at $241. And the lower boundary of early last year is pushing about right there. $244 was the lows in January. But we chopped around between about $250 and $275. So you're going to probably come into that area. We'll see if we can get some resistance. But yeah, you're talking about almost a triple bagger from where this thing was at the lows. And I remember, man, longer term basis, the PE ratio on Facebook, we were talking about it. It's down to like $11 or $10 or something like that. Just staggering numbers. You had to step in front of the train to a certain degree. But keep your eye on some of those when they get there. Now, the argument for that PE at the time was, they're not going to make any money if Zuckerberg is just pouring money into AI. There is certain truth to that. Okay, no matter how much money they make off Facebook and Instagram, if he's taking all that money and he's plowing billions, which he is into AI right now, doesn't matter what their future PE is, because the earnings could all go away because that is going to be a endless hole of money in terms of what you can spend for AI. Because think about it, folks. He has the Oculus Quest 2, right? Metta, they make the headset. They are going to be in the wearables department in terms of transforming a video game into a real human life experience. And I'm telling you, folks, it's coming. You're going to be able to wear a suit, jump into a room in your house. The floor is going to move so that you can literally run one way or the other and you're staying in the same space. Maybe the floor is moving, right?  It's going there eventually and that is an endless money pit when you think about it. So that's the fear there. But with that said, advertising, still coming in, man. And that's been the big theme so far, right? Google crushed it in terms of what they were expecting. Metta, Facebook now crushes it in terms of what they're expecting. We get to see if Snapchat is an anomaly. They were a couple of times in terms of this sell-off they've had, in terms of, boy. You know, yes, they deal in advertising. So they got quite a pop coming into the opening bell this morning. They're up by what, 30 pennies, 35 pennies for Snapchat. They have their earnings after the bell and you jump over. You want to talk about a move, folks? How about a 16% move priced into their numbers after the bell tonight? Since we're doing it, let's jump over to Intel shares. Intel, it's quite a move as well. $1.73 for a $29 stock for Intel. And of course, we got Amazon, not quite the same volatility. Amazon catches a bid last night as well on those meta numbers, $6.23. There's your action on Amazon. Up almost 3% in the pre-market. Stay tuned, folks. We'll come back. 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There's no catch or added costs when you join our community of traders. Sign up today and become a part of this educational community of traders. Just visit the front page of TFNN.com. Welcome back, folks. We get the S&Ps up by 22 points right now, trading at 4,098. Let's jump over to our man, Kevin Hinks, TD Ameritrade Network folks every day at 12 o'clock with the program Fast Market right here on Tiger TV. And we got our host, Kevin Hinks, Tom White, and they are broadcasting live from the Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago for a few days. Kevin Hinks, good morning. Good morning, Tommy O'Brien. A lot going on here this morning so far. You know, Tommy, it's interesting how this week has set up. Positive in the morning based on good earnings and negative in the afternoon based on macroeconomic data. And I think, at least to start the day, it's playing out exactly as it has all week. Tommy, we're much higher on meta's earnings, but if you look at some of the economic data, it's concerning. GDP, that personal consumption expenditure is a 3.7%. That was a big beat, Tommy. Household purchases, both durable, non-durable goods and services, much higher than expected. And you saw the bond sell off and yields took higher. You saw the US dollar go from negative on the day to positive on the day. And you saw Crudewell rally, all based on that personal consumption number. That along with jobless claims that were lower than expected and lower than last week, this is gonna be another interesting day where the earnings have to win over the macroeconomic data. So far this week, Tommy, it hasn't. You laid it out great, man. I would say you beat me to the question almost in terms of the market. Just really shakes off all that, man. We were coming into those numbers you just mentioned at around 4,100. We did get a little volatility of about 15 S&P points and we're within about a point where we were. Meanwhile, you mentioned, I pulled them up on the thinkorswim platform as you were talking about, man, the dollar index quite a spike, quite a spike in yields as well. Pretty interesting. You have the dollar and the yields moving market. Hasn't really moved from where it was. You mentioned some of the numbers. What did you think of the action in Google in particular yesterday, Kevin? Because I found it so interesting. They had some pretty good numbers and they actually ended the day almost flat, very volatile day. But I found myself saying, geez, what if they didn't come in where they come in? I know they had declined somewhere, but overall, even after the market on Tuesday, pretty strong numbers. And as you're speaking of really weighed down yesterday and we're basically right where we were coming into the numbers for Google, meanwhile, it's been pretty spectacular, I'd say, so far for the tech companies and their numbers. My knee-jerk reaction, Tommy, when Google Alphabet's earnings came out was pretty good, but here's the thing. If you look at Microsoft's numbers and they jump up in their search numbers, right? If any company starts increasing their market share in search, there's only one company they're taking away from, and that's Google Alphabet, right? So if OpenAI, GPPT that Microsoft is investing heavily in, if that starts, excuse me, if that starts chipping away at Google Search Market Share, which is north of 85%, that's gonna be a big problem for them going forward. I mean, digital ad spend and YouTube, that's a concern going forward. So yeah, I think part of the good news that Microsoft was concerning for Google Alphabet, I don't know if that turned the stock, but overall expectations were high for some of these companies, Tommy, and you really had to blow the numbers away like Microsoft did, like Meta did overnight to have these stocks rally. We'll see if the overall market, yesterday's question was, can Microsoft elevate the entire market? The answer yesterday was no. Can Meta do it today? We'll see, Tommy. They're trying again in the pre-market, like you said, man, and we get to find out in about eight minutes where we go from there and some great points on Google, man. I found myself, Kevin, I've mentioned to you that I have tried out ChatGPPT, it's amazing technology, kind of blows you away as everybody says, but I did find myself going to Bing, the search site for Microsoft for the first time and probably forever, right?  And right away I said to myself, well, there's the shift, there's the shift alone. It's no longer, I just went to a website that why would I ever go there previously? And guess what? I pulled it up, man, and I got on the waiting list because why not? And amazing that Google has had a monopoly for about 20 years of searching the internet. That's a very good- No, it's not a monopoly, Tommy, we all know it's as close as you can possibly be to a monopoly. Yeah, and I tried it, it's just, and they had it because they were the best and boy, it's tough to keep control of technology for decades on end, man, as things accelerate and we're seeing it with AI. With that in mind, I know you guys are live today, Kevin, you guys have been broadcasting from the Morningstar Investment Conference at McCormick Place in Chicago. What are you guys talking about on the program at 12 today, Kevin? Good news, Tommy. We're actually back in the studio today. Albert Renek is still at the conference. Tom White and I are back in the studio today. We'll, obviously, we'll be talking about Amazon today. That'll be the focus of the show. We'll look at Intel, we'll look at Snap. We may touch into ExxonMobil or Chevron that we're earning before the market tomorrow, but you can bet we've got big names after the bell today.  Can you give us a little teaser on Amazon for a minute, Kevin? I got it up almost $3. $3.50 almost in the pre-market, man, pushing the highs of the week. Pretty lofty numbers for them as they report after the bell. What do you think of Amazon? Yeah, it's been strong for two reasons. Digital ad spend is showing up in Meta's numbers and cloud, intelligent cloud in Microsoft's numbers, all give the hope that Amazon will deliver in AWS and in, like I said, they now also rely on digital ad spend. Those two things, if those are getting better, then that's good for Amazon, Tommy. It's pretty interesting when you come second and third in the earnings lineup, your competitors beat and now the pressure's on Amazon after the bell. Kevin, I appreciate the time on a busy morning, man. As always, we'll be watching at 12 o'clock today and you have a great weekend. We'll talk to you next Tuesday, man. Thanks for having me on, Tommy. Always a pleasure, folks, check it out. We got Amazon up here on the Thinkorswim platform. And yeah, I was watching our man, Oliver Renek, early this morning on the TD Ameritrade Network out of Chicago and they're going back in the studio for 12 o'clock today. Tom White, Kevin Hinks, check it out, folks. Earnings season bonanza and it continues after this week. We get Fed week next week. We get Apple earnings May 4th. Many other companies coming out with their numbers in May as well, but tech earnings, pretty decent numbers. And yeah, Amazon, they're gonna be dealing with some lofty expectations, as Kevin mentioned. Number one, Microsoft's doing really well with the cloud. Well, Amazon better be doing well also. Number two, ad spending at Google and at Meta. Stronger than expected. Better be stronger than expected at Amazon too. I tell you, from the amount of ads I see when I pull up Amazon these days, it seems like they're selling a lot of ads because you gotta fight through the ads to find the top search item that is not paying to be there, right? Little bit of a different user experience and that's a different conversation as well. The price conversation that Amazon on the retail sector, it's pretty funny, right? What's not in focus? What everybody knows Amazon for? Selling retail products, every single good available online. That's their bread and butter, but AWS is where they make their money. Advertising is a new area of growth for them. High, high margins on that number as well. Those are the areas where growth is gonna be able to vary widely in terms of expectation versus what they come into. Yeah, we find out today. And as I pulled it up before, you're talking about about a 6% move for Amazon shares and boy, Kevin talked about it, man. We get to find out, okay? Where the market goes on the open, but that is a strong dollar, folks. And the market has not liked a strong dollar recently. So we just got a huge acceleration on those economic numbers that Kevin mentioned from about 103.50 to 101.68 at the same time. We saw yield spiking, okay? So we got high numbers for inflation. Yet again, we got a strong dollar. We got higher yields and we got market. Hanging on to gains right now for some of those tech earnings. Will it be a replay yesterday? The opening bell in three minutes. Don't go away, folks. Stay tuned, we'll be right back. Building wealth trading in the stock market seems impossible to most people. They think it's too volatile and risky. 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For more information, just click the Think or Swim banner on the front page of TFNN.com. Welcome back, folks. We've got markets open. You're looking at an S&P up by about 24 points right now. Back to a short-term timeframe. Check out the chart and where we are, man. You put this on an S&P futures contract, okay? Pretty well-defined channel line. We're bumping up against it at 4,100 right now. Things vary a little bit when you pull up the spy, which is interesting. Now, this is the same date range, okay? This is going from the highs of 4,198. We're bumping into the higher boundary line. You take the spy, it lines up a little bit different with the spy only being open during market hours. Little bit of a different lineup. Not quite back up to that point. You could make the case that a little linear regression actually brings this point down though. You don't want to back yourself into a technical formation, but you could see how the highs that we're reaching here even in the after hours versus when the ES contract, but nonetheless worth noting, pretty close to the upper boundary. And yeah, we got out of this channel line, but boy, when we broke back into it, still an area of support on the downside. We'll see if it turns into an area of support on the upside. And on the end cues, you jump over to the cues. This thing just slammed right through the top of that one, which is a little bit worrisome if you're on the short side because yeah, that is quite a move. We'll see if it holds today. We had similar moves yesterday to kick things off. Let's see how meta is starting the action off. Up $28.60, not bad. We're about five bucks off the high that we got just now on the open, but nonetheless, you're up by 14% on meta shares. We jump over to Snapchat up by about 3% on meta numbers last night, Amazon up by about 3% right now. Let's see how Microsoft's doing on the second day, digesting the gains from yesterday. Microsoft basically flat this morning, Apple the big dog, everything caught a bid yesterday and check out Apple catching a bid man up by one and a quarter percent for Apple shares. And this trend line here is longer term. Check it out. You're talking about a trend line from the high where this was at the beginning of 2022. And you touch that high in April, you touch that high in August and we are at that high yet again. But Apple today catching a bid as this market holds on. Let's see how who will straighten today up by about 2.10% right now. What else do we get tomorrow? We got Intel down about 25 cents right now, trading at 28.80. And let's jump over to some of those economic numbers. So GDP 1.1% is the numbers. The economy slows, that's the annual rate. Resilient consumers to face high inflation and rising interest rates, but nonetheless. Now these are the forecast they're looking for, okay? Yeah, basically flat man. You're talking about barely above positive. This is the journal forecasts, the next quarter, third quarter you're talking about negative and then fourth quarter, you're talking about barely positive and you add them all to up, all three of those up and you get negative 0.05% or something like that. So over a three month period, you're talking about basically a stalled economy. We come in at 1.1%. Seasonally adjusted 2% growth in the fourth quarter is what we had. We're now at 1.1. Yeah, 2.6 was the number there, 3.2 the one before that. We had two quarters of negative. That's where all the quote unquote discussion began of whether with the true definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters is what a lot of people use. But then you said, ah, this one's a little bit different is what the contrary argument was. Yeah, and look at personal spending, okay? Contributions to quarterly change in GDP, personal spending, 2.5 percentage point growth in personal spending, that's the problem man. That's the quarter. Other was a decline of 1.5. Consumer spending, the primary driver of growth and hiring were surprisingly strong at the start of the year. Yeah, so we'll see where we go, but that was the number. We also got PC numbers, we'll get into those as this market holds on to the game so far this morning. All right, what else do we got in here? Let's take a look. Yeah, let's talk about some of those inflation numbers that I had pulled up. So we talked about GDP, but what the port also showed was personal consumption expenditure. This is the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, okay? Increased 4.2% ahead of the 3.7% estimate, high inflation and slow growth is sometimes described as stagflation. We got inflation heating up while we got growth going to negative territory. Yeah, and stocks did react little, but boy, this is quite a day if you hold on to these gains, man, because keep your eye on the dollar index and it's remarkable that the market doesn't even care right now that the dollar just moved from 135 to 175. Usually the market cares when you get that type of a move and maybe it will care eventually as we move through the day. We're only five minutes and 40 seconds into the trading day right now. You jump over to yields and we're pushing lows right now in terms of where we are and you jump over, we're talking about a 10 year right now at right at 3.5%, right at 3.5%. Okay, and you look at this on a longer term basis, folks. Yeah, you're rolling over from an area that's been resistance, right? And what's so remarkable is you back this up, that's where we bounced around this area. You go back to June of 2022, you accelerate through that into November and since then we've been in a range of about 111 up to the highs of about 116, 12 and we just rolled over from a price point yesterday of almost 116, 115, 30, we're at 115 right now. We get the 10 year back at 3.5%. Basically at session highs as the market holds on to these gains, man. And if you think this is rolling over, folks, that's what the channel line looks like in larger contexts in terms of where this market has been. Did you really get a rollover? We're talking about 200 points to the 3,900 on the S&P but the market has been resilient to say the least, man. We are now a solid what? 35 points off of the lows last night. You're basically to where we were in the beginning of the day on Tuesday. But again, what I'll say is that was the beginning of the day Tuesday, folks. If I told you all the numbers we're gonna get, right? Because we didn't have Google. We didn't have Microsoft. We didn't have meta earnings yet. We didn't, we had none of that. If I told you Tuesday morning, S&Ps of 4,100, here's the numbers that we're gonna get. Microsoft, Google, meta. Where's the market gonna be Thursday morning at 9.35 when we open? You'd probably say above 4,100, okay? We got some economic data in the mix as well but nonetheless, markets trade higher and the VIX worth mentioning back on the decline. Lower than anything we were at yesterday and where are we? Right back to where we were at the beginning of Tuesday, right? Now, dollar index, somewhat similar, right back to where we were at the beginning of Tuesday. Okay? The 10-year? Yeah, you've went up and you've been pulled down. Pretty comparable though when you look at this action but nonetheless, we've gotten the numbers and the S&P right at that area. What would happen if some of these companies were missing, man? Because they got some strong numbers, right? We got some strong cloud numbers. We got some strong advertising numbers. Consumers have a lot of strength in there but inflation still persistent. We have a Fed meeting six days from today. The interesting to see if this market transitions to caring again about the Fed versus looking at the economic numbers because that's a hot PCE man and it hasn't even mattered to the market yet but guess what? It's mattered to rates. It's mattered to rate expectations and that always matters to the dollar as well as we're pushing $1.0175 right now in the dollar. This market just loves it though, right? Nasdaq 100 up a solid 1.2% right now. See how meta is faring. Up 14%, Amazon up almost 3%. They're gonna have some lofty expectations for Amazon, man. Amazon from Tuesday morning is up like four or five bucks let alone where you finish the day on Tuesday. Okay, but Tuesday morning you're up three solid dollars, 3% on Amazon as they deal with higher cloud numbers and higher advertising. Stay tuned folks. We had a lot to talk about. 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As my dad was saying, I was listening to his program last night, probably gonna keep cutting cut in half every single day until somebody finds a bidder, what was the story out last night, that the Fed is thinking about closing the discount window on them, reclassifying the risk, that would close some of the avenues to cash that the Fed has opened up. And that seems to be the writing on the wall. Man, so even at this equity, I remember talking about this Tuesday morning, when it was double the price it's at right now, so this company's probably valued at $1 billion. There it is, because I knew that, because guess what? It was valued at $2 billion 48 hours ago. Let's say, what's the point of value in something at $2 billion? If it's not gonna cease, it's gonna cease to be a business. What's going on here is some of the big banks, they don't wanna take on the bad parts of their book. And the only way that they can gain access to the good parts of their book without getting access to the bad parts of their book is by waiting for the Fed to take receivership of the company, and then they can sparse out what they'll take and the Fed gets left with the rest. And so that's what's going on here. They already put $30 billion in there, so be careful. All right, we're gonna jump to a little real estate. Speaking of commercial real estate, you're talking about in the den right, rightfully so.  I mean, this is where you have to have an opinion to be a trader, okay? Because guess what? The market is priced for all opportunities right now, rightfully so. It's got risk to the upside, risk to the downside, right? Unless there's arbitrage opportunities, which maybe there are, that high-speed computers are taking advantage of, you have to have some type of market bias or opinion. Otherwise, without any market bias or opinion, all risks are priced inappropriately in the market. With that said, I mean, I love channels, man. I love channels. I love Fibonacci and I love volume. And with the dollar index, keep your eye on the dollar. If you're in this market, okay, but my dad's been talking about it, I should pull up his Twitter account. Man, what's he been tweeting? Does anybody know? We'll pull up his Twitter account this morning. But the dollar's running, okay? And that's gonna weigh on the market. It is, folks. So, you know, what you could do here is, you get into this trade of 4,100, okay? You get a run. You could easily get a run 30 points to the price point of 4,070, the lower part of this range it's been trading in. All right, and this goes back about 10 days. We're pushing right now even on the 30 minute. That's to the highs of last Tuesday. So you talk about seven trading days or so. But you see the types of moves this get. S&P's moving 30 points every other day, sometimes twice a day in both directions. At least you have your back against the wall. You make a trading plan, okay? You push it over to the spy, as I mentioned. And similar stuff going on with the cues, but you can see how we broke well above that channel line there. So maybe you come back and retest it at 314 on the cues in terms of where that channel line lines up. But that's an acceleration through it, man. On tech stocks, S&P just bumping up against it. You take a look at the spy. We also just hit that on a tail in terms of where you put that. Now, the spy very well could have a channel line that's a little bit higher. Maybe that's your area lining up from last Wednesday and last Thursday. The point being, this market, as even Kevin mentioned, hard to deny that we're getting bounces and we're getting sell-offs, right? We're at 407. Maybe you scale in with a couple contracts at this point. Maybe you scale in with one. Maybe you give yourself one more entry to a scale in when you hit that upper point in the spy. And then you got to close, though. You got to close. Maybe you give yourself room to 407.50 to 408, something like that in the spy, because this market really gets out of hand. Then yeah, you got to have a stop, folks, because save your capital, because this market is moving in very large moves. For a VIX right now, that is pretty affordable. At under 18, that VIX at under 18, the rule of 16 is it's pricing in a 1% move every one out of three days. So we're slightly above that level right now, right? Now, 1% move would be about 41 points in the S&P. Well, I think as of Tuesday, right? There had been 22 trading days without a 1% move in the S&P. Seems like that's changing, man. We got to sell off Tuesday. We got to sell off Wednesday. We've had bounces both days. We're now 100 points off of the highs. That's 2.5% almost in the S&P. And we've had a spectacular earning season, man. I don't think things are gonna went any better. I mean, Kevin pointed out some tough numbers for Google. They're gonna be dealing with that forever. They have a monopoly. Like he said, they say they don't. They have a monopoly in search. I remember, check this out. I remember sophomore year. This is even amazing. Now, because it's 2023. Sophomore year of college, probably 2000. Graduated high school in 98. So, yeah, you're coming back for your sophomore year. No, you're coming back from your sophomore year in 99. Yeah, so 1999, sophomore year. My roommate, my best friend now. I've talked about who lives in Switzerland. Very bright kid in Guy now in technology. And he told me right away, don't use anything else besides Google. That's it. It's the new deal. You wanna search the internet. Forget about whatever it was. Was it Netscape? I forget what even, that's just a browser, right? What was, what did you search before Google? What did you search before Google? Isn't that funny? Nonetheless, back to 1999. They're gonna be dealing with some woes in terms of losing that monopoly. Webcrawler? Yeah, I don't know. Okay, nonetheless, 4100 in the S&P. I just like the fact that it's right at that price point, folks, all right? There's a couple areas in this chart's worked out. When you've gotten back into that zone, where did you accelerate to the bottom line too? You did get below it last night on the close. Maybe that's a little bit exacerbated. You know, channel lines can be fluid, okay? You break above it, it's an area that's been testing. And boy, if this channel holds, man, you're gonna talk about lower prices because you see that we just went down 100 points in about five to seven trading days within that channel line. It's a steep one. Okay, let's talk a little real estate because that ties into everything. Profit margins are sliding for Americans who sell their homes. Talk about an obvious statement, right? But check it out. Lost profits from the recent market slowdown affecting homeowners, your profit margin peaked at 56% back in June of last year is down to 44% in terms of the numbers and your profit margin for what you're selling. And yeah, it's gonna matter, folks, and this is gonna matter for some time. Now, it's a weird environment when you think about home builders you're probably gonna have it made, man, because there's gonna be very little reason to sell your home if you own it. Folks, I would encourage you to everything you can to keep that mortgage that's at three to 4%, okay? Rent out your home. You're not gonna get the ability to take on debt at that price level in a home that's backed by it. And in most markets, rents may be weakening a bit, but because of people not selling their houses, okay? In a lot of areas, it's gonna get even more difficult when there's no land to build on for home builders, right? That's where things get difficult because out here in Lakeland, they have developments like I've talked about with 1,400 houses coming online. And I tell you, man, as somebody in the business talking to my dad about it, say, man, it's gotta be incredible to be trying to sell these 1,400 houses right now when rates just went up to 6.5 to 7%. I take Tommy through there, we go for bike rides, we go for walks, and they are just selling them like hotcakes. There's new families moving in. Every single time we're over there, it feels like, and they're just still building them out as they go. But why? Because who else is selling their house right now?  What are you gonna do?  We'll talk a little bit more about these numbers in real estate. We'll be right back, stay tuned. TFNN has just launched their new trading room, the Tiger Zen, hosted at Discord. 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For more information, just click the Think or Swim banner on the front page of TFNN.com. Welcome back, folks. Market's pushing higher. Looks like the spy's on its way to 408, man. 407.62 right now. You jump over to the S&P Futures. You're trading right now at 4106, just climbing a little bit above that channel line. You really break away from it, saying maybe if you were going short, maybe 408, 408.10, this is an area you get above there. You're probably breaking above that channel line. But we'll see. As the market's showing no weakness whatsoever right now. You jump over to MetaShares. Up by 14.7%. Amazon's got a lot to report for today. They're at $108 right now. Up $3.00, up 2.86% for them. Microsoft catching a bid back above $300. Check it out, right? Apple shares up 1.1%. And that is all in the face of a dollar index that's still sitting at $101.70. And you have higher yields as we're now sitting at a price of $114.31 to $10.00. You're back above 3.5%. But the market persists. Let's see how Snapchat's trading ahead of their numbers. Well, they give back some of it. Snapchat's its own deal sometimes, man, as well. In terms of if you're advertising everywhere, you're advertising on Facebook, if you're advertising on YouTube, you probably don't have to cover the board with Snapchat if you don't want to. You can probably reach who you wanna reach outside of that. Maybe there's a select niche in there. And that's the perception from somebody approaching their mid-40s. But Snapchat only up 1.2% on some pretty strong numbers for Facebook. So the market's saying the same thing. Yeah, we like it, but let's see Snapchat put up. Intel's been tough recently, man. Yeah, trading down right now on positive everything else. Intel down about 6.10% right now. AMD off 1.4% right now. Taiwan Semi is up about half a percent right now. All right, let's see how gold's trading as we finish up. Yeah, we got a strong dollar. We got gold trading back with weakness. Below 2,000, you're at 1,989. Gold down about seven bucks. And how about Bitcoin, man? You talk about volatility. Bitcoin, you talk about volume too. You see the volume spike on Bitcoin when it traded lower last night? Down to 27.5, just like that. We're back at 29,000 in Bitcoin. Thanks so much for starting your trading day off with me, folks. Stay tuned. We got our man, Basil Chapman with the Tiger Technicians Hour coming up next. And don't forget, folks, Basil's got a webinar coming up next week right on the front page of TFNN. Check it out. Stay tuned for Basil. He's up next. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow, folks. Have a great one.


Stevenson with a 4-3 loss to Brockport here at home. I'm Christian Taylor with head coach Dominic Dawes. Coach Brockport found a way to tie it up late, but take us through that final overtime period. I mean, yeah, it's not the overtime. It's the puck management through the game.  I mean, we try to slap backhand with three minutes across ice, three minutes to go in the game. Don't get a puck deep when a simple play and puck ends up in the back of our net. But it's not even that one on the walls. We got just lost too many battles. We had no energy.  We didn't do it. And we were flat. And that's not how we've had success early in the year. So we can't handle adversity. And we've kind of beat it into their heads and talk about it every day. Things are going to be tough. Things are only going to get tougher. And we let the game run away from us when we get into trouble. And until we kind of click that in, that's kind of the Achilles' heel. So, see. How do you look to grab or help this team with adversity when they go down in the future, if possible? I mean, it's just something we've got to work through and figure out on our own in terms of growth. We've got over the hump here a couple times in the first semester. And we talked about it. We had meetings all week. And that's kind of what we talked about, was how are we going to handle it. At some point here, we're going to hit a little something.  And we cave to it. And you're going to get calls. You're not going to get calls. You're going to get goals. You're not going to get goals. All that stuff kind of comes and flows. That's part of the game. But I mean, we just, we're beating ourselves. And that's too bad. Tonight we'll at least beat ourselves. So now what do you tell your team as you move forward the next weekend? We're going to grow up. Just going to grow up and keep plugging away. I mean, we're still 10-3 hockey team. So we're still in good shape. We're getting back into league play here. We're hitting the road at Lebanon Valley and Elmira. And they'll both be ready to go. We haven't seen either of them. We had an exhibition against LVC. But we just got to find our way here through the week to kind of get some confidence, make some plays, and get back to work. Because tonight we weren't good enough. Coach, thank you very much. Good luck next weekend. Thank you. For Head Coach Dom McDaws, I'm Christian Taylor on GoMustangSports.com.


Ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States and Mrs. Reagan Well, thank you all very much and welcome to the White House Won't be saying that long will we Well, then you'll just have to drop in the ranch out California Well, you're standing as I'm sure you know in the East Room where the White House historian tells us that Abigail Adams used to hang her laundry to dry Things haven't changed too much now. We have we have press conferences in here and display our dirty Well the East Room of course has also been the location for the PBS broadcast of in-performance at the White House boasting some of the finest musicians and performers in the world including a couple of comeback performances of my favorite actress Nancy singing you're the top All of you at PBS deserve our thanks for doing such a wonderful job With the in-performance series You've brought high-quality entertainment to the nation and perhaps this is selfish But just as important to me a sense of gaiety and sparkle to the White House Beverly Sills Hitchcock Perlman Leonton price Marvin Hamlet's just to mention the masters and mistresses of ceremonies Give a feeling for the quality and variety of in-performance during those events the This palace of politics is transformed for the week for the evening into a world of culture bringing a bit of Broadway classical concerts jazz and dance In a sense, I suppose it's politics way of paying tribute to the finer things in life the things of joyousness and love of mind and spirit When auntie introduced the young artist in performance at the White House Series here at that series in this room. She quoted a line from Henry James It is art that makes life makes interest makes importance and I know of no substitute Whatever for the force and beauty of its process Well, you've brought that life Interest and importance and a great deal of fun too gracing us gracing the airwaves and homes across the nation with It's force and beauty and for that. We're all very grateful So let me just say for all of us. Thank you very much and keep up the good work and then I think I have to conclude a little bit by Harking back to you're all here by virtue of entertainment. So I'll try a little entertainment I finish it and as Henry the eighth said to each of his six wives. I won't keep you long Just the other day I found an occasion to tell a experience of mine back in the early days when radio was the latest thing. I was a sports announcer at W. H. O. Des Moines Amy Semple McPherson the noted evangelist came to our town. She was holding a series and revival meetings across the nation Enterprising public relation fella our studio thought it'd be a good idea if she were Interviewed on our station Why they picked a sports announcer to interview Amy Semple and I never know What I did and I asked her several questions and then she suddenly went into a very fervent plea concerning the success of her meetings And I sat down Until I happened to hear her saying good night to our radio audience and I looked up and there were four minutes to go by the studio clock I Didn't know enough that I could put on the air about Amy Semple and person to fill four minutes So I got up and did that usual thing on radio. I Motioned to the fellow in the control room and I saw him pick up There was always a few records lying around for things of this kind Pick up a record and put it in the turntable and nod and I said ladies and gentlemen In my most dulcet tones We conclude this broadcast with the noted evangelist Amy for Semple McPherson with a brief interlude of transcribed music. I Expected nothing less than the Ave Maria The mills brothers started singing many the moochers wedding day She didn't bother to say goodbye. She just slammed the studio door on her way out but you know Now of course Entertainment has a different flavor if I attempted any more I've become a collector of stories that I can actually Certify are told by the Russian people among themselves, which reveals they've got quite a sense of humor But reveals also that they have a little cynical attitude toward their government and their system and One of those stories that I collect them as I say I certify that there that's where they're from And this one was a story that's kind of typical of theirs in which they have an American and a Russian arguing about their two countries And the Americans said look I can walk into the president's oval office And I can come the desk and say mr. President. I don't like the way you're running our country And the Russians said I can do that America says you can he says yes I can walk into the Kremlin the general secretary's office pound the desk and say mr. General secretary I don't like the way president Reagan's running his Then there's another one that's really based on You know only one family in seven in the Soviet Union own an automobile and to buy an automobile there It takes ten years you have to wait ten years for delivery So a fella'd finally gotten the money together and he could buy his car and he went through all the process and finally signed the last papers and Gave him the money In advance and then the fella behind the counter said all right come back in ten years and get your Eurotomobile and the fellow said morning or afternoon The man behind the counter He said well What differences it'd make ten years from now when he said the plumber's coming in the morning I just I just saved one more for the get off And then it is it is getaway time this when I told to Gorbachev And he he left There was an order went out because you know most of the automobiles are being driven by the bureaucrats there But an order went out that said anyone caught speeding gets a ticket no matter who they are And one morning Gorbachev came out of his country home Knew he was late and getting to the Kremlin told his driver to get in the back seat He took the wheel and down the road He went past two motorcycle policemen one of them took out after him in a few minutes He was back with his buddy And the other one says well, did you give him a ticket and he said no Well, he said why not we're supposed to give anyone a ticket. He says oh not this one He was he was too important. Well, he said we were supposed to give him to everybody. He said who was it? He said I couldn't recognize him, but his driver was Gorbachev That's the way it is around here with summits and everything just a barrel of laughs Now I know that Nancy has another engagement. It's waiting for her It really isn't an engagement. It's an assignment And so we're going to have to say thank you all for being here and God bless you all


Okay, let's upgrade your Moodle. So you're logged in to your current Moodle as an administrator. By the front page, you're going to go to Server, Maintenance Mode, Enable Maintenance Mode. There's optional messages that you can leave there for your non-admin's who won't be able to log into the site during maintenance mode. Ideally, you've given everybody advanced notice and you've probably chosen a period of low activity to take your site offline. So it's now in maintenance mode. We're in a position to back up a few things before we proceed with the upgrade. So you're probably using, depending how you're hosting your Moodle on your servers or somebody else's, you may be using Control Panel like C Panel or Plesk. When you've logged into your set account, you should be able to get to your databases. So PHP My Admin's a fairly typical way to access your MySQL. And you'll want to grab a copy of your database. That'll be the first thing in SQL format. So save that on your computer somewhere away from the server that's hosting your Moodle. So that's the first thing you do. That will be a .sql file. Back over to your Control Panel. You'll also want to grab copies of the Moodle software and the Moodle data directory that contains all of your courses and associated data. You config .php file, which is contained within the Moodle software directory. And certainly any third party plugins and custom themes and the like that would be overwritten by an upgrade. Okay, so you'll want to have those things, put them aside, and you're certainly going to need some of them to be able to carry across your upgrades successfully. And certainly you'll need all of those things in the event that you've got to roll back to your currently old Moodle version. All right, so all is good there. Let's presume we've downloaded and we've got our backups safely put aside. Over at Moodle.org, you've got to the Downloads section and naturally you choose your preferred flavor of Moodle. You're going to select a current stable release, most likely. There's older stable builds. It's indicated by the version numbers. And then you've got the latest upcoming releases. These aren't stable or necessarily production ready. They're more for developers and people looking to test Moodle in a non-production environment. So we've done this already, but we've downloaded the latest stable current release of the Moodle software to our computer and then uploaded it to the public HTML folder, or the web root, or the HT docs, depending on what you call that area, and your Moodle server. So it's sitting there as a zip file at the moment. What you'll want to do now before you proceed is rename your current Moodle folder in the public HTML directory. Out of something else. Okay, so we've renamed that folder. Let's extract the latest stable Moodle release that we've just downloaded, and then the FTP to this location. So that's being extracted as we speak. Okay, and again, we'll name this new extracted folder Simply Moodle. We'll just navigate to that folder. At this point in time, it won't have a config file. This is the new software. We'll want to upload the config file from the old Moodle instance with the database settings, the user names, password, web root, data directory, and the like as part of that configuration. So those things should remain unchanged. So back over at our Moodle instance, there will be a case of running the notifications page or your Moodle address forward slash admin, and we should be in a position to move forward with the upgrade. Okay, so we're running through that now. You can check the status of your environmental settings there. If there's any red flags, you won't be able to proceed.  Again, we can see potentially some third-party plugins that were left behind. Okay. They needed to be copied across into the new Moodle data directory. Activities and blocks. So bear these things in mind. You may in fact not want to bring them across, but if you do, be mindful not to leave them behind.  Hopefully it's all green lights. It should be success. Continue as we just move forward. There's some new settings, configuration settings that need to be set with the upgrade. We could certainly leave the defaults if need be and revisit these at a later stage. So there you have it. We have upgraded our Moodle to the latest stable release.


So I just finished Pariah by Bob Fingerman and I really really wanted to start this video off with just reading off one or two lines from this book like just completely out of context so that you could all feel the dawning horror that I did when I cracked this piece of crap open but I would get demonetized if I said that too early in the video so you're just gonna have to wait with me just for a minute please don't click away just stay here for a little bit and we'll get right to that because I promise you whatever you're picturing it is worse this is the introduction song it's not very good but it's not too long this book is one of the worst things that exist it's one of the worst things I've ever read period like if I were to put this in my top 10 somewhere and admittedly it's been like three years since I've updated my top 10 most hated books I should probably do that sometime but like if I were to put this uh somewhere on that list I think I would put it right above the fifth sorceress so like somewhere in the middle of the top 10 because this is a little bit worse than the fifth sorceress in a lot of ways like it's just more unpleasant to get through but at the same time the fifth sorceress is way longer and in the second and third books it gets way more boring so that was overall just a worse experience for me I really mean that like I'm not going to do a long in-depth review on this just because I I just don't feel like it it's not going to happen but this is worse than many of those that I've done like significantly worse than a lot of those okay now that the demonetization time frame has passed by now I'm just gonna read you one line from this book and I think you will understand what's so wrong with it Ellen's body even dissipated still held some attraction for Ellen okay it was a sort of hot emaciated supermodel bukenwald sort of sexiness but she still had that kind of certain indefinable something that put lead in Alice Ellen's pencil burn this all copies destroy I hate that line more than I hate the existence of cancer and I have lost loved ones to cancer you know if I had a nickel for every time I was reading a book for this channel and it seemed mostly innocuous up until the narration just suddenly mentioned bukenwald completely out of nowhere I would have two nickels I don't want two nickels I wish I had zero fucking nickels take these nickels back okay so I've gone on a little too long I haven't actually said what this book's about yet so pariah is a it's a zombie story you know it's about these people in New York they are in an apartment building and then there's an outbreak most of the city is overrun and destroyed and so there's just a couple of people that are holed up in this apartment building and they are slowly starving to death because they can't go out and get any food and then one day a girl walks past their building and the zombies aren't touching her like it's not just that she's getting bitten and is immune or anything but like she will walk through a crowd and the zombies will like part out of the way to avoid her and then they'll go right back to where they were when when she passes like that they don't it's like they simultaneously don't notice her and are trying not to go near her and then the story such as it is unfolds from there I put quotes around story because like there isn't really a plot or conflict here now I think that's a cool idea and I did like the cover as well like it just has this city street at night bathed in this harsh red glow there's some zombies stumbling around and then there's just a girl walking through the scene very casually it's like it's a cool cover I'll admit and I was just looking through the bookstore several months ago when I saw this and thought why not I'll pick it up because see a lot of zombie stuff does deal with immunity of one or more characters right in fact that's almost a cliche at this point but usually it is just like one person it's super super rare if not unheard of and it's just if they get bitten they won't turn but like that famous line in the last of us you aren't immune to getting torn apart you know whereas this takes it a step further it's like the zombies won't even touch her she can just walk through completely unmolested and later on in the book they find out that it has sort of an umbrella effect so that if another person walks next to her they also won't be bothered and that's a cool idea it makes me wonder like okay why does she have this ability how exactly does it work what are they going to do with it I don't know like even after reading and like there's no sequels or anything which further explore those questions and explain what's going on by the way like this is a standalone book and we never find out exactly what caused this we don't see them do anything all that interesting with it it takes over a third of the book for the girl her name is Mona by the way it takes over a third of the book for her to show up and just that's it so like even that cool idea they do nothing with it so the first third of this book it spends a little bit of time explaining how the outbreak happened but I mean very very little like we learn almost nothing about the broader strokes of this like what's happening outside the city all we know is the city is overrun because the characters watch on the news for a little bit and then it just cuts forward to months later when they're all half-starved and holed up in this building and that's it for the first third and some change then Mona shows up and then she just like very boredly decides to help these people out like it is kind of strange the way she acts like she's just walking around and then people call for help and she like casually walks up to the window and is like hey what do you need you know hey can you get us some food and she's like okay sure and then she goes and helps them and then decides to just stay at this apartment with them and Mona gets like no personality she she has no nothing to her like we don't find out or rather we find out very very little about what she was up to before the world ended we don't find out why she is completely untalkative and barely ever converses with anybody she just kind of sits around and has headphones in and blasts music all the time we know nothing about that she gets like the tiniest bit of development at the very end and by very end I mean like the last three freaking pages but that that is it there is just nothing to her there's nothing to any of these other characters except that they're assholes and like I said there's no real story here there's no conflict like these people are trapped in this building like what are they going to do about it like nothing like that they're starving for a while then Mona shows up gets them food and then that's it like after that it's just them hanging around and like at the last minute they do make one of the human characters a villain but it's not exactly a twist you know we already knew he was kind of evil from the beginning and like he doesn't have any grand plan or anything he's just does something really bad near the climax and then he gets killed for also there's gonna be spoilers here I don't freaking care but if you if you want to leave now then do that I really really cannot stress to you how much of this book is just like being inside the inner worlds of all these characters and just them complaining and just them being assholes like I can understand them being stressed out and being kind of jerks given the difficult circumstances sure but that is really just the entire book is just them thinking about how they're all twats and how they're all assholes now to this book's very very little credit that is at least partially on purpose and what I mean by that is that there is a character named Eddie who is like the kind of sort of villain at the end and from the very beginning when we first meet him he's just a very unpleasant awful person like he's super racist and homophobic and he's just a jerk to everyone around him and then later on he graduates to being an outright rapist and murderer like we're clearly not meant to like this guy and in the climax again he is he is the villain he is the antagonistic force for like four pages so we're not meant to like this guy we're supposed to hate him so in that regard it is on purpose the problem is that every other character is almost as unlikeable as he is like for example there's a guy named Alan who I read that weird book involved line with with him he's like a painter and he wants to have sex with this lady whose baby and husband died and then they have a sexual relationship and then he constantly thinks about various things that make him horny and just that's that's it like he's just kind of a selfish asshole who constantly thinks about things that make him horny and doesn't do a whole lot to help people except the very end like I gained the smallest fraction of respect for him during the climax because during the climax he actually does like rush through a crowd of zombies in order to save Mona and it's like okay cool he did one good thing but when 98% of his time in this book is just being trapped inside his mind with him and him just constantly whining about how unfair life is and hating just oh god I can't I can't I can't do it I can't do it I hate every character is like that I swear to god every character in this book is like that like I out of this entire thing there's like maybe three percent of the entire book that is anything else than just sitting with these characters and seeing how they're all cunts part of the reason I hate this book so much is that again I like the concept you know that the whole zombie shield thing that's that's a neat idea I haven't seen done before and they go nowhere with it it's not really explored or explained all the characters are either assholes or well okay the one non asshole character is Mona and she's just boring because there's just there's nothing to her like I said there is no plot there's just a brief climax and spoiler alert what happens is uh Eddie goes off with Mona to try and help one of their friends who got trapped outside and you know the zombies won't bother them because Mona's there and then while they're there Eddie is just all hopped up on many many drugs and then he decides not completely out of nowhere because again he's already a rapist and a murderer he's decides he's gonna try and rape Mona but he can't and so he just beats her up and then leaves but I guess he just forgot that he's not immune to zombies so the crowd notices him and swarms on him and tears him apart and then Alan just has to run through a little while later by himself and finds Mona and she like she's okay she's very badly hurt but she's not gonna die and then he helps her go back and there's that's it that's the end of the book I really just can't explain anything else about why this book is so awful so I'm just gonna read some lines for you and I want you to keep in mind that the entire book is like this like everything from cover to cover is all written like this and it is the most one of the most miserable experiences of my life going through it Alan had suggested that he document her pregnancy with some tasteful nudes but again the answer was no even though she thought it a good idea at first that was a real pity her breasts had gone from admirable to astounding during those months and then stayed that way for quite a while he'd never seen her nude back then that would have been a thrilling experience now he routinely saw her in various states of undressed and it was tragic Mona was barefoot and once again Alan was attempting to not be aroused by Mona's sumptuous calves and now of all things her well-turned feet most feet he'd encountered male or female were functional but unattractive collections of jutting tendons knots and joints often rough and calloused Mona's were just the opposite their top smooth and dull like almost like a doll okay this is just the author's fetish shining through for a minute here Mona sure she was alive but in spite of her fetching appearance she lacked vitality her eyes communicating no more than those of the undead outside reptile eyes insect eyes and yet still the hard on persisted Alan tried to will it away thinking of disgusting things but what was more disgusting than his waking life in the old days if he wanted to suppress a boner he'd think about maggots and rotting car cantaloupes and roadkill all of which seemed rather quaint now i'm jerking off to paintings of a fully clothed girl's ankles wow i'm so fucking great i can't stand it i am the man i am the greatest living artist and this is what it comes down to and i had issues about doing wank it working material for eddie i'm pathetic pathetic i know i just love that line but i'm not rereading it killjoy he sneered then swung the hammer in a graceful arc and knocked the jaw clear off the female bullseye he gaffaud at the female's hands jerked up to her ruined face and astonishment there goes your modeling career eddie scoffed well pleased and so much for that blowjob too although the zombies tongue lulled stupidly in the jawless opening between her upper teeth and gullet this isn't a huggy moment ellen said voice flat it is what it is and all without the hassle of pro-lifers to complicate things that's pretty all all right i call that progress what do you think the pro-lifer stance on a boarding a fetus in a dead world would be would that still be so bad not that it matters but we're making conversation while we put off abes expulsion from the building i'm ragging on you don't give me that look he has to go neighbors who will eat their fellow neighbors are not to be permitted i think that's in the charter what what's that look no one talks like this as they trudged on slowly deliberately he felt the insistent surge of blood into his groin yeah like moses his fucking staff and here's the final line of the book you ready he entered the living room opening a jar of salsa the chips were already on the table he took his seat and dipped a chip like he thought the author thought that that was a line to end on i don't know what anyone would see in this book okay like it has positive review quotes from both max brooks who wrote the world war z and the zombie survival guide and robert kirkman who wrote the original walking dead comic both of which are pretty good like these guys are good writers they've done good zombie stuff and good stuff outside that i do not know what they saw in this book but it makes me question a lot about them i so wish that i had not read pariah like i wish i didn't know it existed but i have to live with that knowledge now like everything contained in this book is going to stay buried in my cerebellum until my last neuron stops firing like the rest of my life it is going to 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And for the third year residents took the streets around the country for the annual Women's March on Saturday. Organizers of Bemidji Women's March say the movement stands for a variety of things such as inclusion, safety and celebration of all people. This year the route started at the Boards building at Bemidji State University and then it went to Paul and Babe and back. The local Women's March always coincides with the National Women's March movement on the same day. Support for this march today has been tremendous. We've had a wonderful committee working together, a very diverse committee and the friendship and the relationships that we've been forming through the past three years of Women's Marches are amazing. The 2019 Bemidji Women's March was co-sponsored by the American Indian Resource Center, Psychology Department and Social Work Department at PSU. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.