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For those in the audience who are starting out who don't have great bosses presenting norms and are completely confused what are your ground rules as we just go through phone communication, texts, Slack and email that you think should be a go-to guide for those of us who are completely confused in this digital landscape. Yeah, so I think let's go through each and every one of them. AJ you said phone, email, Slack and text is that right? Right. So we'll put phone and video together, right? And so the first is just general calls. My general rule of thumb with calls if you wanna set up a call with someone you must have an agenda in advance or a clear purpose send it in advance. Also know when you need a video call otherwise offer a phone call. And we kind of have lost the art of the phone call. It was so amazing. And we kind of now it's an exception not the norm.  This will also avoid a lot of distractions of people worrying about how they look on camera versus actually engaging in the content. Now let's go to Slack. So with Slack I like to say if you use Slack or another like instant messaging tool set some norms within your team around when you email and when you use these tools. If you added Slack you should set a standards that we will no longer email internally about these topics. Everything goes on Slack make it the informal place for internal discussions maybe external discussions or by email or there is a clear cadence otherwise people are using both of them for the same information where people don't know where to go to for what and even in Slack just making sure you're clear on what are the channels what's the purpose of channels to if you want to chat have a separate channel called Watercooler for that to chat so that you can get to work in channels as well and use simple norms whether it's tagging or searchability so people can find information. When it comes to email I like to say in today's world we read email like we read websites have a good subject line like get to the point in the subject line don't have RERERE or no reply, right? And in the email remember to think about the body that have bullet points subject clear bold and underlined headings clarify what you need from the other person within the first two sentences and make sure if you're on the two line it's to people who need to respond if they're on the CC line they just need to read it and hopefully it's better if they don't respond and make that clear unless they have a question and then last but not least text I like to say text is urgent don't be a serial texture for things that aren't urgent maybe within the hour within three hours or maybe with close friends or where there's a high trust relationship so knowing some of these rules and when to use each of these tools will help all of us I like to say a phone call is worth a thousand emails knowing when to switch from a video call to that simple one-on-one exchange can make someone's day and last but not least be thoughtful of not being a serial texture maybe like my dad again who will text me five messages saying call me when it's about how to fix a fax machine and it's not urgent I love all of those and especially the moment of making sure that the subject you're getting to the point your emails are concise make sure what it's about is in the headline I myself with the work that we do at AOC we're looking over newsletters I'm also on and Twitter certainly hones your messaging and I've also know the things that I have on Twitter now go into other communication and it drives me nuts when others are not following that and to even expect them to be adapt to that sort of messaging is that's a day just on my end to expect that but however I'm still accustomed to it within a year we're all gonna be writing in a copy that's right I mean I think in many ways I grew up as an Indian immigrant in the US and I struggled to find my voice and so much of it was learning the cues of traditional body language now we're all immigrants to digital body language but like each channel is different countries with different accents and dialects and we're not gonna be able to learn all the accents and dialects perfectly but what is important is to set some norms so that we can move to clarity not confusion So I know that there are some listeners myself included who have done some faux pas in these different channels going through that rundown I've recognized maybe that wasn't the best way to communicate how do you handle that when you have made a mistake and you have gone outside the norms in a way that doesn't impact your reputation that allows the other person to feel good about that miscommunication because let's be honest as we just talked about it's getting more complex every day miscommunication is gonna happen but I know that's a point of anxiety for many which is leading them to not communicate at all because they don't wanna make a mistake and they don't know how to handle the mistake so if we have stepped in it how do we handle that? So when it comes to making mistakes I like to say in these situations speed matters just as much as substance so taking the time to fix it quickly is important maybe it's a quick follow up thoughtfully or maybe it's opting for a phone call to reduce the miscommunication in a situation maybe it's sleeping on it overnight but not waiting too long and then coming to it with a thoughtful response these are things that can make a big difference in resolving especially mistakes or when you're rushing and you send something where you don't actually answer the question and you don't look good, right? Like this is our presence today this is how we build trust with others it's frankly not eye contact and good physical body language anymore or it's not for a while and so at the end of the day if you take the time to respond quickly also ask yourself is this the right medium to respond and to make sure that you're responding in a way that in the channel that the other person will value not just you, so not just saying oops with a smiley face but calling them and saying I'm sorry I messed that up here's what I'll do met next time will allow others to feel valued in that situation versus you just covering your own insecurity Well you hit the nail on the head this is our new first impression we drop great content each and every week and we wanna make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that you're gonna have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell and if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends So many of us are not meeting face to face so having me on a CC instead of a BCC or not including the attachment is the first impression these mistakes being rushed and being on a shot clock and not thinking through thoughtfully in our communication when you're on the receiving end of that especially as a stranger or someone who doesn't have much trust or know you that gets perceived in a very negative way that I don't wanna do business with this person I don't wanna give this person time on a phone call I can't meet this person up in person if that's how they're handling their digital communication and not valuing my time So we have to really be thoughtful in the speed of the communication that we're having because yeah, multitasking, answering that email on phone while stuck in traffic on your way to dinner thoughtlessly not including the emoji or the emotional context with that message as we know from our first impressions in the real world it can be very hard to change someone's first impression of you and if digital communication is that first impression we don't wanna leave the wrong one that's absolutely right another thing even the meeting calendar invite is like the new first impression when you're setting up a meeting did you have an agenda in there where you clear what the purpose was we all know research shows within the first seven milliseconds we're making a first impression face to face this is the opportunity to make sure you're upgrading it in a digital world Absolutely Our last question for you we ask every guest in obviously writing this book and putting together all the research around communication you've recognized the things about yourself strengths and weaknesses and we'd love to know what you consider your X factor or what is that unique skill set and ability that's made you successful not only in your communication but in work I think as a kid navigating different cultures and languages I developed a good observation skill about not what people were saying but what they were really saying being able to read that dynamic in a room and it's allowed me to bring the skills around collaboration to financial executives at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley but it's allowed me to also connect with women of color and communities talking about social injustice but and it's also allowed me to talk to Silicon Valley and tech managers and I think that it all starts by understanding that we have so much more to learn from each other than to antagonize each other it also starts with understanding that we have different not only traditional body language but digital body language styles and that the answer is not connecting in the way that you like to connect but connecting in ways that others like to connect and last but not least I think the final aspect of that X factor is I realize that the best thing I can do is be myself so sometimes that's getting my audiences to Bollywood dance or because I love to Bollywood dance or making everyone laugh by sharing my biggest digital mistakes that I've made these are things that will allow us all to build connection with each other and allow others to be willing to be vulnerable as well. And I think your book is incredibly important because it allows all of us to stop and think about where all of this is heading and making sure that we don't solve problems with the wrong answers for instance I had saw an invention that is a camera that goes on your head so that when you're walking down the street with your phone it will alert you if you're going to walk into anything that is not the type of solutions that we need and I'm old enough to know that my generation sees that and laughs but the younger generation goes, oh that's perfect now I won't trip. This is perfect. You know it's so true Johnny I have another one for you there's actually a new invention where you can put a camera in the middle of your monitor so it can show like you're making eye contact on video calls. So I think that's actually a better upgrade for even some of us that are not that young anymore but I think these new innovations are here to stay. I know you have a digital body language toolkit where can our audience find more about the book and the toolkit if we've realized that we need to improve our digital body language. Yeah so you can find the book at dblbook.com or available everywhere Amazon, Barnes and Noble's Audible. I also have a new course on digital body language it's at dblcourse.com and you can get a special gift for listening today which is a digital body language toolkit on my website at ericadouan.com slash dbl. Thank you so much for joining us Erica. Thank you so much for having me.


Live from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE. Covering ServiceNow, Knowledge 17. Brought to you by ServiceNow. We're back in Orlando, Dave Vellante with Jeff Frick. Pat Casey is here as the Senior Vice President of DevOps and more at ServiceNow. Pat, good to see you again. Yeah, absolutely. It's fun to be back. Been quite a week, hasn't it? It has been quite a show. Yeah, I think 15,000 people give or take. And first time in Orlando, I was also just really shocked walking the Expo floor. It was crowded down there. That was fantastic. And obviously, the next chapter of ServiceNow, and you've seen them all, it felt like CreatorCon today, that people were really excited to hear what you had to say. Sort of the cultural link to the roots of ServiceNow. I think the common theme that's always been there at ServiceNow is it's always been about making it easier to do things that used to be hard. Fred started that way. He wanted to make it easier to build business applications. And I think he really, really hit that ball really out of the park. And then we built all the applications people know and love, incident, problem, change. But it's not enough these days. So we're trying to bring that same sort of approach of simplifying to today's problems. You still have a time series database. It's big time IOT problem right now. You saw the machine learning. So it's really about making stuff accessible, but keeping that kind of ServiceNow vision of regular people. We hear tons of talk about platform, right? What makes a platform a platform? Oh, I actually have a slide I do on that. It's a picture of an oil rig. It says, is this a platform? And it sort of is. I guess so. The way we define it, and I'm gonna sound like I'm reading a definition, but it's a good place to start. It's the software and hardware that builds fundamental services that people use to build applications on top of. So it sounds less like I'm reading from a dictionary. It's the underlying stuff people use to build applications as distinct from the application itself. So it's UI, it's persistence, it's workflow, it's business logic, it's storage and retrieval. It's all those underlying guts. You have all that, the world's your oyster. People are gonna build cool stuff. The part that I love, it comes up again and again with you guys now at the machine learning is complex buzzword. People talk about it all the time. You find really simple ways and elegant ways to integrate that functionality into what are relatively straightforward processes that are mundane and painful. And it's the value delivered compared to kind of the sexiness of the application, if you will, is so high in categorization. And some of these things that you guys are attacking.  And that's fundamentally where we're at as a company. We're not a hype chasing company. We're not a marketing driven company. We're a delivery driven company. We wanna deliver products that our customers can turn on and use. And if you look at a lot of the work people do in the service management space, there are parts that machines can do. The routing, the assignment, the categorization, the prioritization. And they won't be able to do all of it because the technology's not there. Hey, if I can do 50% of it, think of what that frees up humans to do.  We can work on higher value things. And that's really where we see the push in the service management space over the next, call it five years. It's around getting that better efficiency, getting the boring stuff out of there and letting people focus on the more important stuff. Well, we've been trying to bait you guys to talk about big data for five years. And it really didn't seem to be a relevant topic of conversation. Now the big data hype cycle's kind of over and now you're talking about sort of applying machine learning to a really hardcore big data app, which is, as Jeff was saying, I love the practical example there. And my question is related to the dogma of the platform. And I don't necessarily mean that in a pejorative way, but you guys are pretty OCD about making sure it's in the platform. And other platforms, you see a lot of bolt-ons and talk about your philosophy there and why it's so important for customers and developers. I've done it both ways. In my engineering career, I have run companies or been fairly senior in engineering where we grew by acquisition and we integrated with PowerPoint. And what I found out was that it worked great for about 18 months and then your customer started complaining. They said, do you sold me this suite that's not a suite? It's five distinct things that you then have to pay professional services or an Accenture or somebody to wire together for you. Why should I do business with you as a unitary entity? I could just buy piecemeal and get the same outcome. And as an engineer, that was really sort of depressing. It was a little bit of a kind of Bernstein Bears moment. Like I know now how not to do it. And Fred went through the same thing with me, frankly, because that was a company we both used to work at. At ServiceNow, we had a very, very strong vision that we wanted one platform and we have made the decision that when we buy technology, we will take the hit. We will say, hey, look, we bought DS Continuum and we're not going to sell it right away. We're going to take the time and the energy to re-platform it so that when we do take it to market, it's a really good integrated solution on platform. It's not a bolt-on to use your phrase. And yeah, it may delay our time to market in some cases, but we think the ultimate value is certainly offsets the delay. Well, I mean, are you wondering these days, talk about first mover advantage. There's so many examples of first movers who didn't get the advantage. I hate to even ask this question, but is time to market overrated or is it overrated in a situation where you have a platform that's installed with a bunch of loyal customers? I would say, honestly, somewhat contextual, but I think you get time to market. It also, especially because we're in the enterprise space, at some level it has to work. So if you're there first, but it doesn't work, it's not a great situation. And maybe the archetypal example of this is years and years ago eBay was just dominating, they're growing, it's before they're quite the colossus they are now, but they don't dominate in Japan. And oddly enough, they were delayed six months going into Japan because they had to spend all their engineering resources basically making the stuff they'd already bought and sold work. And that six month delay let somebody else, actually a local Japanese company, really take over the auction market in Japan. So for us, it's really key that anything we release, it has to work. So we'd rather be second with a working product than first with the PowerPoint deck. So the other thing Pat keeps coming up, especially some of the older customers, is customization versus configuration and how much of best practices are represented in what you guys deliver out of the box and making upgrades easy. And it's interesting because a lot of the early people built their mods and how they're telling us, all that stuff now is stock out of the box and we purposefully don't want to do mods anymore. We want to do configs to make upgrades easier and to presume that you guys, because of your breadth of experience, so many customers are baking in best practices in the standard out of the box processes. So it's a great opportunity for you guys to help them do better out of the box, but more importantly, as upgrades come out, execute those at a much faster rate. Yep, well, we definitely have heard the same thing from the customer base, and I think you've got two kind of related dynamics working out there. One is absolutely that we're expanding the breadth and the depth of our application. So there's more there. So our customers have a, oh, there really is an out of box solution. Whereas 10 years ago, we were just before we even IPO'd, you bought a pretty skeletal app and you had to customize it. I think the second piece of it though is the part of the market we're selling to has shifted. Early on, you sell to early adopters. Early adopters will fix your installer for you and mail you a patch. They really, they enjoy being part of a technology journey with you and they like configuring. That's a benefit to them. Right now, we're right in the middle of kind of a center of the marketplace. We're selling to companies who are not early adopters and they've generally said, hey, look, we want value in the platform, but we're buying an app. We want value not just in the configurability, but also in the as-shipped functionality. And for our old customers who have got all this customization, a lot of them are actually running projects to unwind that. And that's something we're very supportive of. We can help do that, but there's no magic bullet. You took your work to get it in. It's going to take your work to get it out. Probably less, but some. So I got to ask you kind of a personal question here. Sean Convery was on the other day saying, you know, his inspiration was when he was a kid.  You know, that's how he sort of got into the security business. Jeffrey Hammabacher, you know, quips that the greatest minds of our generation are trying to get people to click on ads, right?  You gave all those names today. And you're somebody who has the capability of changing the world and you're changing the world. The world you're changing is, you know, don't hate me for saying this, but it's kind of boring, but really important. But service now seems to be this platform that's permeating virtually every company and type of company in the world and you're creating new ways to work. And what are your thoughts on your ability to affect your customer's ability to change the world? When I was a kid, actually, I wanted to build physical things. And I went to college as a mechanical engineer. I thought I was going to build like, you know, caterpillar tractors. In my head, I wanted to build earth moving equipment and dams and buildings and bridges. And I kind of realized a couple of things. One was, at least in the US, we don't build a lot of that stuff anymore.   You don't touch it with your hands. It's more done with extreme math, with computers. And, you know, the world of kind of creative production, the world of actually engineering things to change people's lives, I do think a lot of it's shifting out of the physical into the kind of the software world of virtual. And for me, I found that I was feeling more fulfilled writing software than I was, you know, trying to build a new digger blade on a caterpillar tractor. This one reason is simply it's faster.  You can iterate on software in 18 minutes and get that immediate feedback from the customers, like, wow, that's better. And like, okay, I'll keep going that way. So I always felt like I could get a better outcome with software than I could with physical. I will admit at some level, I go, I visit like the Hoover Dam and I look down and things massive. I like, man, I really wish I had built something this tactic, this visible that I could take my kids to. So I wanna ask you as well about something we talked about the other night at the analyst event, which was the impact on cognitive machines replacing humans. You're concerned about it, I'm concerned about it. And we were talking about education and it's kind of a bromide. We need education. But I always tell my kids, learn how to code. It helps. Can't go wrong, don't know how to code. But I wanted to give us your thoughts on that. I mean, as a society, we're seeing cognitive machines for the first time replace humans. You've expressed some concern about that privately. What can you share with our audience about that? And is there a prescription in your mind? Well, the short answer is I'm not sure. I mean, the longer answer is if you look at relatively modern, I'll call it cultural history, we've gone through a couple of major shifts that were super disruptive to society. You know, one is clearly the Industrial Revolution. It moved people off of farms and into cities. And it was very, very disruptive. And as a society, we eventually got through it.  It was a lot of work as a society to get through that. I do think we're going through a similar and equally disruptive change right now because we're starting to see technology displace a lot of people's jobs. And the utopian will point out accurately that, yeah, there's seven and a half million people in the United States looking for work. There's six and a half million open jobs. So it's just, yeah, the jobs haven't gone away, they've just moved. The pragmatists though, I don't think we can expect magically, especially at today's rates, for people who used to be truck drivers to suddenly say, hey, I'm going to suddenly develop a passion to write code and go back to school and four years later be a software engineer. It's not about intellectual ability, it's just they spent their life doing one thing, not going to go their way immediately. So to me, I'm not a utopian, I'm also not a doom and gloomer, but I do think we as a society need to expect to invest time, energy, thought and resources into managing this transition because I think we're right at the beginning of it. If we don't get ahead of the curve, it's going to be bad for collectively us. So I do think it's very important for us not to view technology as an abstraction, it has impacts on society and getting that right is just as important as getting the technology right. And just hearing you talk about that example of the truck driver, but I feel like the answer may be in software. That truck driver is not going to be a coder potentially, but he or she is a domain expert and that expertise could be applied to improve some kind of process or invent something even. So we're not going to solve it here on theCUBE, obviously. You talked about three other big trends. Timelines are compressing from years to months and sometimes even weeks. The second was the data explosion. You have a great infographic, we talked about it earlier, so we don't have to review it in detail. And then expectations, this notion of thinking machines. So how are you sort of service now at the core looking at those trends and how does it inform you and what can we expect going forward as a result? I think the super macro trend that I think we're seeing is that we're moving out of a structured data era. You know, human beings, this is a non-structured interchange. We're talking organically, it's language, it's imperfect. Computers like perfect data. They like you to give them structured data and they're extremely good at managing it. And we as a society, at least as an industry, have probably spent the last 50 years trying to force society as a whole to act like computers, fill in the form, put the data in the field. And once you do that, the computers go off and do wonderful things. I do think that the real benefits to the average human being for automation is going to come from removing the need to use that kind of structured format. If you can just tell a machine, hey, my laptop's broken. And they say, oh, we'll send a technician to fix it in 20 minutes. That's a radically different experience and better for you than having to fill in a form, a device that is broken, category, desktop hardware, in a time on set of event. Right now, why do you need to ask me this? So I do think that getting out of the structured data and into an unstructured interaction with machines, I think that's really the future. And I think you're going to find that there's going to be an intermediate layer of technology that abstracts between humans and between the computer systems we know today. So that you will interact with free form text, with voice, potentially even with gestures, but you'll interact as a human and we won't try to force you to interact as a machine. And if you have to be me, I sort of work well with forms. I may still choose to do that, but I don't think most people will. And I don't think I should make the world work the way I work. We're just seeing the very beginnings of that, right? With Alexa and Google and Google Assistant and those kinds of things, which are fun to play with because they still got a long way to go, but early days. It is the camel's nose under the tent, but it is coming. Well, you gave the example today at CreatorCon that you've never sort of denied that maybe a Spence report or some kind of approval ever. It's always been, I mean, you look at them because you have to. I'm a good corporate citizen. I read them. Guys, I do read your Spence reports. But machines can probably figure that stuff out. They can. And they already are in a lot of cases. The technologies are out there and we're seeing our customer bases start to roll them out. For me, it's really about making it easier to apply those technologies to more and more use cases because right now they're somewhat specialized. You get one that's really good at approving a Spence reports. It's not so good at approving travel requests. The next step up on that will be more general solutions. All right, Pat, we're out of time. Thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. It was really great to see you today. Absolutely, it's a pleasure. All right, always a pleasure. Thank you guys. Keep it right there, everybody. We'll be back. Day three, Knowledge 17. This is theCUBE.


Some of you may wonder in sitting in the audience, I mean, this is a workshop dedicated to synchrotron imaging at the end. So why are we talking about all these other imaging modalities all the time? I'm sure there's at least one thinking that. And the reason for that is to, I mean, at the end, we want med max at max four. And we have to find arguments for that. And one argument, I guess, is to engage with different pharmaceutical companies to promote the funding of med max. And to do that, we have to offer them something they don't really, they don't already have. So that is kind of why we're having this stop of the workshop and the working group to make a common knowledge of what they actually already have and which they don't want to pay extra money for. And you see, I pressed the button. So we're making progress in many respects here. So this graph again, as Leif pointed out, there is many imaging activities going on in the pharmaceutical companies. They have their own equipment. They can set up their studies as they do. They have a very skilled personnel to do the imaging. So on the shrink control, we need to do something quite different. And in order to know what is quite different, it's my duty to learn or to teach. You can say what we do with the normal, normal or if you can call it the standard model imaging modalities. And the reason why we have imaging at all in the pharmaceutical industry is because they are adding some value which other method doesn't do, like astrology, for example. So one very important point is that it's in vivo. And I know if we talk about synchrofront imaging, obviously there's lots to do ex vivo. And once it comes to in vivo, everything gets a little bit complicated. But that is what this working group is kind of aiming for, the complicated in vivo phase. Because you don't have to kill the animal which can make these studies to be longitudinal. And also the imaging provide this three dimensional data. So you get a lot of data at the same time. And if you want a good imaging modality, it should both be able to assess and classify disease on animals and then on patients as well. If it's good and also the treatment response so you can see the effect of new drugs. Try new drugs, see the effect. And the translational aspects mouse to man. So I'm starting with the three different modalities to kind of show this is what we can do with normal imaging equipment. So this is just the micro CT. And the micro CT provides contrast like X-rays, but tomographics to get the three dimensional volume. In this case, we see just a one slice out of that. And obviously there is high contrast in the bone and there is high contrast in the lungs. And then there's no so much difference between the different soft tissues in the CT image. So bone is something which looks very great and have the high contrast. So that can be explored with micro CT. In this particular study, they have a spatial resolution of 18 micrometer, which is quite good. So if you wanna do something better, it has to be certainly higher spatial resolution than this. And what they do is to measure the force of the mouse and then they extract the bone. And by that we can measure the volume of both the soft tissue and the bone in this region. Why would you do such a thing? Because there are one disease called rheumatitis where there is growing bone and it's a very common disease. And maybe this is the thing is you want an animal model to replicate what's happening in you. And that they have. So this is the scar and then different weeks after they introduce the disease because this is kind of typically, you have when you buy animals, they are healthy. That's the point of course. And then you have a disease model or a disease mechanism that you introduce.  Then you can see that it's going worse in the bone. And it is all measured by procedure. So what is the study then? Well, you measure the volume of the bone and you can see it's what a naive mice, nothing happens. They're just healthy. In the sick group, you get the bone volume goes down in the base of this disease. And then when you start the treatment, you see that there's a difference between the treated group and the un-treated group. And if this was a study in the pharmaceutical company, there would be a fork, which is the new drug which you compare them with, is that better than traditional, which is steric? If you look at the literature, you can of course never find these studies where the fork is unknown for the drug is because that is seldom published. It's a few one, but then it's long after the drug is being explored. So that's how you do. And this is quite efficient with a simple micro CP which you can have in-house, which is of course a lot cheaper than the synchroforms. So with this example, I would argue that you can do all these things from, it's in vivo, you assess the disease, the treatment response, and it's obviously longitudinal. So that's the micro CP. What's the limitation then? What can we do a lot better? Obviously there is the spatial resolution, which in the micro meter range, that can be improved a lot with synchroform. Limitation as such is that from the CT, it's only anatomical data and not functional. And then sometimes the radiation dose is a problem. In this particular study, it was one grain, which is a lot, but it was only to the feet. So it doesn't really matter that much. But obviously, if you irradiate the whole animal, like in the stomachs of the lungs, you have to keep it the dose of less than one grain, till the 50 for mice is about 4, 6, 5, so to give you a point. Then we have nuclear medicine. So nuclear medicine is something we do with pet cameras and spec cameras and the idea is that you have a radio-nuclide, could be many different ones, and that gives you the signal, the thing you measure. And then you have the probe, which you attach on that radio-nuclide and the probe decides where the radio-nuclide go. And then you get these images, uptake of the specific probe, what that is going. And very common applications are, of course, the glucose of 18-4 chlorine that goes to, actually, anything that consumes energy, which tumors do a lot, they like the sugar, so you can see that. But it can be a lot more specific. So a probe like the analyte that goes into your brain can be used in studies of Alzheimer's disease, or a chol-A1, which, Karin, did you, did you show that? No, I didn't. No, you didn't, okay. That goes to chol-A1, which can be interesting in fibrosis study, or PSMA, which is a prostate-specific membrane probe that goes to tumors in the person. So by selecting the probe, it can be very specific. And also, it shows the function. What it doesn't give you is the anatomy. So you combine it with a CT in order to know where the uptake is going. So one example I would give here that we have been working with, although I will show images from a paper, is the peptides, which is specific for chol-A1. So which is something which show where the lung, in this case, lung fibrosis is building up. So instead of looking at something where the fibrosis is already there, we can look at where the fibrosis is building up. But this is how that works. In the left-hand graph, they gave the probe, but it's a healthy animal, they consider it's no uptake in the lungs. Then they have a gliomycin-exposed animal, which have inflammation and fibrosis going on. And then you consider it's a great uptake. So how do you use such a model in the drug testing? Well, here's one with the antibody therapy. So again, there is the gliomycin with probe, a lot of uptakes. And then they treat with antibody therapy and there is low uptakes. So this is another example of how you can assess the disease. You can, oh, I forgot this one. You can also do this in the human. So here's the CT, you can see the fibrosis. Similarly, the uptake of this compound here. So about PEP, then again, PEP is functional. It's not anatomical. That's one of the main differences. And it also provide all these, not that you wanna have from in the human level, assess disease treatment and so on. And what's the limitation of the nuclear medicine techniques? The radiation dose to the animals here is not really an issue, but the injecting volume is an issue also because you want high activity in to make images, but you can't inject milliliters into small products, which is a challenge that you need very high specific activity. Also, of course, you need the supply of radio-nucleides. Many of them you can buy, if it's a spec, but if it's PEP, you have to be close to someone who produces them. And if you wanna do funny stuff like this probe for Colleen 1, you need a radio chemistry. So that's a challenge. And also the spatial resolution is not that great, but since this is a functional measurement, maybe the resolution is easy. So, look, a lot of good news or good facts about the nuclear medicine, but there's also certain limitations. And then we have the magnetic resonance imaging, which always is a little bit more about the complicated one because you can do so many different things. And it played over the show picture of the mouse heart. We can measure the reaction fraction, but you can really appreciate the soft tissue contrast to get in the abdomen of the rat here, to distinguish the different organs that wouldn't be possible with this way. Or you can use a technique to make angiography of the mouse brain with rather high resolution. And in this particular case, you can see the mouse here going into the magnet. And then I will show some older slides here from my former career. We started inflammatory bowel disease and had a mouse model for that. So this is the colon, the small ring here in a healthy mouse. And this is the colon in a mouse which has this particular disease that we introduced. So instead of work doing, well, we are competing with this. So obviously this is a dead animal because we have the colon outside and we can measure the stiffness, the edema, the bloodiness and the thickness. And that is very operator dependent. So if you want to say, is this animal sick or not sick? Well, it's too late because we have taken it out. So we don't, that's too late to make a study. But that's one thing we can do. We can actually, by using imaging, say, that we have animals with the disease in our groups, which is important. And you can also do contrast and house MRI. So this is now the coronal region of the mouse. So this is the colon. And you can see when we have injected contrast, it's brighter. So, okay, now we found what's over, now it was. So we can actually assess different kind of inflammation in the mouse with acute front and healthy. And what is fun or not fun, what is good is you can do this in humans as well. So it's an incorrect way. So summarize MRI in pre-clinically. You have all these possibilities that we want from a 3D pre-clinical method. What's the limitation with MRI? Well, there is no radiation dose. So that's not an issue. But the spatial resolution, it's really hard to say what it is because you can kind of decide what spatial resolution you want, just by measuring longer time, other equipment, special coils. But if you're not gonna spend too much time on each animal, you're probably in this range here. So if you want higher resolution, it's really long acquisition time. No sensitivity in the cells compared to pets when it comes to looking at different molecules. So ultrasound, I'm not gonna say too much about that, but what differs ultrasound from many other techniques is that they all often have to tell what you're looking at for an audience that are in depth. But this is a beating heart. Which is not healthy. But it gives you the anatomical information and it's direct functional. I mean, cardiology can say how the function works when developing these pictures and they can also do different kind of mission. It's not the technique if you want really high spatial resolution. And again, it's a little operator dependent. And one thing about doing animal is often that you have to shake the animal in order to get good contact with your probe. And that can check how you set up the study because they particularly don't like that. And they don't want to be used for me to know. Okay, optical was shown this morning. The real good thing about the optical is that you can design a very specific probe and put on these molecules that give you in the sense. So that I would say is the benefit of optical. The resolution can be high depending on how you do your measurements. If you want to do in vivo of the whole animal the penetration of the light can also be limitation. So that's a drawback. So to sum up, we hope we have functional imaging. It's the patent specs. They are direct functional, low resolution MRI is indirect functional. You can measure function but not specifically. Spatial resolution is also a limitation. And we have anatomical imaging. We have this excellence of contrast of MRI. Spatial resolution limitation, micro CT gives you anatomical imaging with very high spatial resolution, I would say. But it's also only anatomical data. So if we look on this graph, we have nuclear medicine techniques here with their resolution going down to CT. About this range, 0.01 millimeter. And then we hope to have synchro form out here. So we need experiments that need high spatial resolution, I would say, or something which need to be very, very quick. Sensitivity on contrast media obviously that's packed with our traces. That's sensitive to me. But I guess you can use very many non-aparticles or whatever probe here with in combination with synchro form to make it very sensitive for experiment.


J.R. Slager, SoundClick, New Jersey, J.R.A.D.H.D. Don't flop! Two boy big team, Mr. Shalaka Boo, Mr. Boo Block, in Canada, Mr. Boo. Ding! Took my left, introduce yourself. Introduce yourself. Introduce me, mate. Chris Lee! Yeah! What's up? Yeah, dawg, I'm from Manchester. Ah! Happy birthday, Don't Flop. But this is the situation that happened to Dislike. I went from bonding in two champs to battling shit, guys. Everyone got an international this time, and here's mine. Cheers, guys. When we get to battle at the pre-... Bird doesn't want my birthday presents. Then you won't see my name on the card. I can't wait till my birthday. Shit. There'll be proper sweet. Crates of beer, grams of coke, lots to eat. You can arrive the night before and it's fine if you want to sleep, but when the party starts and my real friends come, you've got to leave. I'm an artist. I'm like an OAP at the gym. I'm only doing it to stay active.  Literally. Your first name is John.  Your mother sure seems like an imaginative one. Americans call John the English, refer to him as Boggs. He'll be more waste than one. You're something I'm shitting on. Can you call yourself Jay? Arslander.  Damn straight. When Ice Cube said put your arse into it, he didn't mean your rap name. Repping that New Jersey. Mate, props. Jay's block space hop. I'm repping that New Jersey too. 40 quid from A-Song. Question, I guess I'm just unsure. Why do American dads always call their sons sport? You've got a sister called Table Tennis and a brother named Football. Question, I don't know. I guess I'm just unsure. Why do American dads always call their sons sport? You've got a sister named Table Tennis and a brother named Football but they called you doughnut because that's all that you've run for.  And speaking of football, you guys are confused and daft. The clue's in the name. It's something that you should grasp. Use your feet to kick the ball.  If Uno wanted a foot job, you wouldn't use your hands. And you could diss our legal tender but that isn't really fair. Americans say pounds instead of kilograms.   And it's no secret. Your mom's got a crack problem. She doesn't do drugs. Just most of her pubes have crabs on them.      No wonder the word had to have a pause in it. Yo, you know what rhymes when he's only coming back verse shoddy or soul?  I guess people don't treat you with a lot of respect. I mean, I don't know exactly what Shoddy had said or what had gone through his head but he's got some nerve turning down Chris at such an awesome event to battle some random guy named Charlie instead. You used to be bubble and take and matches above all the main attractions when he slumped you and laid you flat and you'd be stuck with the same reaction as when you suffered that famous lashing. You want a scuffle, let's make it happen. I have you buckling, shaking after I'm crushing your frame to ashes. You're going to need the muscle of Canaan back of a couple of trains attached to a truck with amazing traction to pull my knuckles out of your nasal passage.  Yo, it's easy to make them root for me.  This man's become Shang Tsung.  And root for me how unanimous surpassed him in a big way.  And things changed but you stayed in the same spot because this man doesn't travel. What you think you're international because you had one Canada battle?   I never battled Uno so I really can't relate to you. I thought the Jawa family, I guess you really are a snake. It's true because a snake always has to shed its kin while it's making moves. And aside from the blatant politics, without her you would not exist.  That's the reason I can't rock with Chris. Still think you top and list?  You battled two title holders and couldn't bring either Champagne. That's the reason you ain't popping, Chris. Look, you had your chance as I did. You lost the shot you was giving.  Just stick to music, babe. Miss the blueprint. You're no longer one of the best in England. Remix. Time. Calm down.  Someone offered you a pamphlet or a mouldy tuna sandwich, you probably jumped through a hoop, do some dances, manoeuvres, backflips, nuked gymnastics and shout, whoa, this dude's fantastic!  I just think you barbed as an unprofessional arsehole.  Bepe de marco. You come from a country of unintelligent benders who rearrange the date format to pretend you clever. If we had this battle yesterday, you'd forget your agenda. Instead of the 12th of November, you'd arrive on the 11th of December. It must be dyslexic. I ain't taking a piss. You rearrange the letters in lips and ended up with a lisp. Everything. Everything you say is so hard to understand when you say it like this. I thought your surname was Flanders till I read the title under your vids. Could you have trouble pronouncing words that are terribly essy? Imagine him in his bought direct door trying to buy them a lethy. It must be embarrassing watching breaking bad and cheering for Jesse but this battle's like Heisenberg's camper van because it's about to get methy.  But it's a shame because with that lisp, exercise is easier done than said.  I reckon you singing thong song could get awfully repetitive. If you wasn't so massive and fat, I'd say you dabbled in crack. Teeth like big teeth. Massive and black. Problems when you're having a snack because you misunderstood the term platin and plaque. And the job interview is you should pray that your mouth stays shut. You're the only guy on earth that will benefit from DNA's look.     I ran Apple devices. The second part's all in the bars.         It's wildly unimpressive.    He's not the guy you want to bring to the movies. I'm not saying he'll put roofies in your drink but ladies he might put some drink in your roofies.   Cosby and chill. And if you keep showing up at their door before with that chloroform then they probably will. Now we could go joke for joke or toe to toe and prove who's a more ruthless rapper. We could battle on the roof and I'll let you climb down as long as you admit that it's a losing matter and there's no excuses after. I'll toss you from the top and you'll get bruised and shattered. I'm suggesting you could either choose the latter or you could choose the latter. I mean come on Chris. Double time is the only thing that makes you unique and maybe you're thinking it's making you greater than me but I'm afraid you would need but I'm afraid you would need to exchange I'm afraid you would need to get paid to receive a retainer or fee. I'm afraid you would need to get paid to receive a retainer or fee. Come on. I'm afraid you would need to get paid to receive a retainer or fee. I'm afraid you would need to get paid to receive a retainer or fee.  I was attempting to do a crazy scheme for you because I'm trying to teach you. It's all a lie, you're blinding people, your whole styles deceitful, trying to disguise your feeble, rhymes behind a 40 bar double time set up with one line that's lethal, you have a problem with efficiency, finding Nemo. I wanted to get you out of there.   I'm trying mate, I'm trying.  Give me one second mate. You're joking. You came to this event feeling a little afraid, so you probably need Uno Labos and his gimmicks on stage. If he wants to help out, I'll pay the kid of a wage, give him a spade and he can start digging your grave. For years he wanted to be Uno's best mate, so you drink tequila, wear flip flops, use words like comprende, eat burritos, then play insane in the membrane, Jay, you're not down with the essays just because you wrote one in 10th grade.  You heard one, you heard Jamal.  I bought a gang of mates in J-Gain, pass round like a pack of rastas blazing, buying bought no ratchet, Jay, now mate, no cotton spraying, won't open call, lift your cap in the air faster than graduation.


Next you're checking out the fourth episode of should you read and this one is the unbeatable squirrel girl Should you read the unbeatable squirrel girl in? Simplistic terms. Yes. Yes, you should read the unbeatable squirrel girl. I'm sorry Two episodes ago I did spider-gwen and I was on the fence about that one and We're doing this other Marvel property, which is the unbeatable squirrel girl And so this one I was more on the yes side It had one thing in common actually Squirrel girl unbeatable squirrel girl and spider-gwen both have lesser Artwork in a sense. I mean just more simplistic more Kind of I don't want to say juvenile because it's not quite juvenile But like less clean less sophisticated more simplistic artwork Actually in this case for unbeatable squirrel girl. It's mark more cartoonish than it is comic Which honestly it was okay for this for this particular character because tons of comedy It's like kind of straight comedy although there is some actual like fighting involved and stuff like that But the even with the fighting there's a lot of comedy to it And that's one of the big strengths with the unbeatable squirrel girl I will say that initially my friend Rich had said to me I was asking him because he's big into comics and I was saying, you know What comic should I should I get into what comic should I check out and he's like look this is gonna sound like a terrible idea Just like a really bad recommend, but the unbeatable squirrel girl. It's really cool. It's really fun And I was like okay like that character sounds terrible like whoever came up with the concept of a squirrel girl Which they have green lit for a movie so and and it's already been cast so at least the titular character of squirrel girl has been so I Mean there had to be something to it. So I checked it out This the story is fun like it's fun. I don't know if some people can get past like the very cartoony artwork That's a personal thing you'd have to ask yourself But it's fun. It's just like super fun lots of comedy to it There is the superhero element so you do get the fighting you do get a lot of superheroes showing up That you already know if you're familiar with superhero, especially Marvel realm of heroes You see a lot of reoccurring villains too that you know about some big some small and You know it's squirrel girl just bumping into these people But the whole premise is squirrel girl is just trying to have a normal life But she's the superhero so she's trying to balance that She doesn't really want people to know so there's a lot of comedy in that The other cool thing is she has a squirrel that's her main squirrel She speaks with and is her friend called tippy toe tippy toes a lot of fun. They get it get into some really interesting stuff honestly and I was very impressed with the Creativity behind the storyline and actually the dialogue as well Excuse me, and that's one of the biggest things is That's such an awful concept for a character and there was so many There was such like an endearing aspect to the character and the storyline and so much creativity that I'm like How can you not like this honestly? It's really nice stuff. So anyway Based off of that Like I said in the beginning. Sorry. I'm gonna dry mouth, but I'm doing a bunch of these in a row if you can't tell But saying that should you read the unbeatable squirrel girl? Yes I believe you should read the unbeatable squirrel girl now. It's not the most phenomenal comic It's just fun light good stuff. So With my rating kind of shows that so with comic psychology. They give you out of five stars You can do I gave it three stars, but it's a solid three stars if they were doing halves I would go with three and a half. So that kind of gives you an idea, but definitely read it It's a lot of fun unless you just like serious comics Then it's definitely not for you, but I would say read it very nice Anyway, if that wraps this up if people have ideas of comics you want me to review You can email me at brutal battle podcast at gmail.com and brutal is spelled B. R. E. W. T. A. L You can also throw in stuff if you want me to do reviews on TV shows or movies and I'll see what I can do But this has been should you read and it's the unbeatable squirrel girl Thank you everyone for checking this out brutal battle podcast at gmail.com and until next time keep it brutal


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Okay, very good morning to you. It's Thursday the 27th of August I'm just gonna kick things off with a heat map of the S&P 500 from the clothes last night And as you can see as you probably already know US equities just pushing to fresh all-time highs again in regards to the Nasdaq Continues to lead the way for the likes of the S&P to follow The mega cap tech stocks once again just dragging that index higher Facebook up another 8% so just thinking about the gains that they made today before as well So you're talking about a 10% move or so in the space of just two sessions are quite phenomenal really one of the big standouts of course was Salesforce and obviously we know that there's been a tweak as well in the Dow composition that was announced earlier in the week But sales force came out with some earnings and guidance about what they think about the future and basically they were up 26% 26% on the session for sales force their ticker CRM Their earnings beat expectations and they raised their full-year revenue forecast and that dragged some of the other Cloud-related stocks higher adobe workday Splunk these other types of firms as well saw pretty sharp gains on the back of that But yeah, let's have a look at things and how they reside at the moment obviously yesterday as well We had the US dribble goods orders that were more than double estimates And everyone waiting for the next evolution of Fed Strategy that's gonna more on a dovish side. So combination of these forces have all been supportive of equity markets And if we do look at the the NASDAQ just briefly here After surging late in the the US session into the beyond the close in the futures We basically hit 12,000 to the tick pretty much and then profit-taking We just drifted lower during the Asia session with nothing great deal to speak of really so such a powerful move though that we've had through the course of yesterday's session it really did fly and You know looking on a daily continuation since we've broken away from that kind of key area that was around 11 to 83 the price has just rocketed up to this new level of 12,000 Similarly with the S&P 500 as well if we put that on the daily we're into a period now of consolidation It's all about wait and see now for for right now ahead of power speaking in a few hours time But again on the daily, you know the extension on the break of that previous high that was seen Back in February and around that 3400 level price now, you know 3500 is now in sight So it's been an awfully quick move and the one thing I want to say here than is There's a bit of pressure now Markets expect and power's got to deliver. It's having a bit of a chat with Alex and some of the other traders on the advanced trader program at the moment and we were talking about what to expect from drone power today and Yeah, it's kind of it's going to be interesting. I'd say the biggest trade of course is we get a rerun of the FMC minutes What if they come out and they're still in deep debate and they've not been able to come to a conclusive End result of what they want to do with this monetary policy review And therefore there is no average inflation targeting unveiled today. And if that is the case I think these markets are susceptible to a really aggressive pullback in the equity space If that does materialize now, I don't think that that will happen I think strategically the timing here with the You've got the Jackson Hole now happening power speech And then you've got that as a nice kind of event to prep it up for the mid September then unveiling officially of these This just changed. So for me, it makes a logical sequence of events, you know The Fed doesn't like to shock and surprise It likes to build in these these things so when policy changes do ultimately occur The market receives that in a fairly controlled manner. So if they are going to make that September change They really do need to be he does need to unveil it really today So that doesn't come as a shock later on down the line Also as well, you know, if I think about it as well in terms of what is happening right now I mean it just Really does instill that kind of fairly bullish mindset at the moment. Sure. There are some Ongoing kind of tail risks in the form of the US China trade situation I can update you with that in a moment But obviously there's a few things to monitor and then you've got the risk surrounding the US election But even with those things being said, I mean from a Federal Reserve's Perspective even if we are expecting volatility on the back of the inconclusive US election given the mail-in ballot system And that's inherently going to create some uncertainty in markets Well, why not try to get ahead of that and why not implement some of these tools now? In order to then safeguard the fact that if there is any Uncertainties in the future then the market is reassured by the fact that you would allow inflation to run over target for a period And so on and so I actually think that there's good reason now For for this to happen and obviously as well the Fed are mindful of the fact that they've been guiding us in this kind of direction and so from a Coordinated communication point of view and they really haven't done a very good job if they are not going to roll this out today Because that would be a big disappointment to how I feel markets are primed now Positioning wise for this outcome So, yeah, I guess the payoff if it does come out and he kind of goes down this route that most people are expecting I guess we might see a little bit more underpinned in in equities But I'd say a lot of it's been priced in which was yesterday really and before that And so I'd say the upside is fairly limited the downside Obviously if he doesn't deliver is what would be the more interesting trade because I think that would be much more violent in its price Movement in that case you would expect not just equities to come down But teen notes would probably drop quite sharply as yields would spike the dollar would spike So by major currency pairs come on some pressure as well So definitely going to be an interesting one for sure And one thing just to bear in mind as well if I just quickly flip over and use them that as a header is you know, don't forget to Bear in mind that You know today's event is such a big deal that likelihood is it's going to be very quiet now for the next couple of hours So if you are new to trading this is really not optimal conditions because a lot of people be sitting on their hands Awaiting this major event and it doesn't actually happen until 10 past 2 p.m. London time So you're going to have to wait and be patient for the next six or seven hours until that event Unfold so do keep that in mind This is the the big one that everyone's been waiting and the best of the market moves might be yet to come Not just this afternoon, but depending on what actually happens could well carry on into Friday's session and into the close of the week So yeah, I quick look at these headlines What are people expecting? well Bloomberg talking about the likelihood to keep short-term interest rates near zero for five years possibly more after a Adapts and adopts a new strategy for carrying out monetary policy in his recent review of strategy So the new approach which could be unveiled of course as I said in mid September And this is kind of like the prepared preparatory meeting to get that underway It's probably going to involve then policy makers becoming a little bit more relaxed towards their view of inflation Even to the point of welcoming a modest and temporary rise above 2% target to make up for past shortfalls I E known as AIT or an average inflation targeting. So this is looking back since when that 2% Kind of rule of thumb was adopted more formally and you can see here that nearly always inflation has resided quite substantially below that target and so the having a bit more of a looser More averaging out rather than a definitive fixed figure. It means that if in the future Whether it be the size and scale of monetary or fiscal stimulus is creating these Concerns about future surge of inflation that later on down the line while markets will be somewhat eased in those fears by the fact that the Fed will allow inflation and to run over target for a period And not then look to immediately alter and start lifting tightening rates So IE being a dovish kind of tweak to their policy The other thing here is about the Fed is also expected to codify a change in its approach toward achieving full employment So remember the basic mandate of the Federal Reserve is kind of like a dual mandate. It's about inflation Stability and maximum employment. So on the employment side In the past officials shied away from pushing joblessness below What was considered as long-run neutral rate out of concern that it would lead to too rapid inflation? so You know that that idea then that as the the labor force titans There's less available pool of people workers. So people companies need to compete. Therefore wages start to go up There's wages go up disposable incomes increase people's ability to spend goes up and consequently inflation starts to emerge So again the Fed being a little bit more flexible on that side of things as well as then inflation On an averaging it out as a target is what we're anticipating things like yield curve control That's kind of secondary to this. I guess there's a kind of sequence depending on how severe and long-lasting That the the economic recovery is the more assured then the lesser need to be Putting in these additional other measures at the moment. It's all about average inflation targeting as far as today is Concerned. So yeah, that that pretty much is the summary of what we're anticipating. So We're going to be covering this all live At the time not on the channel here, but for our traders and on amplify live So yeah, look forward to delivering that elsewhere looking looking at the energy markets Oil oil edge up edges up after traders assessing US Gulf hurricane impact So everyone's talking about Laura at the moment oil still sitting around a five month high for the time being It is currently a category for hurricane now. So that is particularly aggressive and disruptive At the point of where there is real risk of loss of life given how strong the winds are It's going to hit the US Gulf Coast early Thursday local time So in a few hours from now eighty four point three percent of all out put in the Gulf of Mexico Nearly three million bowels of all day of refining capacity has been shut now ahead of the storm's landfall Overnight though just looking at the map here Laura did shift a little bit further east and it's likely to be significantly There's less likely to be significantly disruptive for refinery and ports in the Houston area You can see here. This is that Houston port area You can see that slight in terms of geography indentation in the land Composition and you can see everyone is situated around there Galveston Bay Deer Park Baytown Houston and so on so actually Laura has taken a slight turn to the right which would be alleviating at least some of the worst-case scenario that could have impacted that particular areas essentially bear in mind The storm is though also upending flows of oil and products about 64 crude oil and refined product tankers in the Western US Gulf are Waiting on Laura to pass according to ship tracking data So it'll be interesting next week to see the infantry situation and how impactful this has been But yeah, first and foremost anyone within this area. I hope you stay safe and sound Elsewhere on the US China trade front. This was an ask all this morning in Bloomberg I just quickly and briefly wanted to mention China increases key purchases with US targets still far off So what this was talking about is particularly soy beans China is set to purchase a record amount of soybeans this year According to people from the liver the matter. They're already placing large orders for soybeans and corn One of the things that this article in Bloomberg was looking at was that Irrespective of the fact that China have been reaccelerating their purchases of certain agricultural energy products That they remain nowhere near reaching their their pre-agreed phase one target, which of course was for $200 billion in a composition of manufactured Agricultural and energy goods as you can see here broken into these these three distinct kind of areas So dominated by manufactured goods now the moment as of July was standing They were currently purchasing at about 28 percent of target And this article is a little bit Skeptical about how far away that they are from actually achieving this now. I think that's a misinterpretation personally Bloomberg are kind of talking up the the negatives of the fact that they're way off Meeting the the predetermined target, but for me I think to have expected any type of size purchasing of American goods Imports through the period of January February and particularly March in China I think is in very wishful thinking When they were in the midst of a epidemic at the time with the origination of the outbreak in in Wuhan So I think for a starter they've got a little bit of leeway on that point and that if they're Accelerating now, well, that's the earliest they could argue that they could have done having now experienced a period of economic stabilization after what was Particularly disruptive as is what we've witnessed in the Western world during the period a little bit lagged of course Until the virus took pandemic status and move globally during the period of April and May so I don't think It's nice. I think it's a bit of an illusion the idea that they have to hit 200 I just think that the purchases need to continue to accelerate in a fairly consistent fashion and need to be there need to be signs that they are willing to continue that pattern and I think as long as that happens and as long as the farmers can be reassured Of that that will continue Then I think they'll be happy so I don't actually I think this is a little bit making a mountain out of a molehill of a Story this morning, but I just wanted to talk about it It does come though with US China tension still remaining fairly tense yesterday Well this morning the US Defense Secretary Esper said that Beijing Has repeatedly failed to keep promises to adhere to international laws And this comes after that situation yesterday where there was reports that China launched two medium range missiles in the South China Sea Which was touted as a warning to the US so obviously there's lots of You know components if you like to this trade deal that go beyond just the purchasing of actual goods There's lots of kind of proxy events that are happening and and perhaps involving other countries as well if we look at on global level But for now, I think I don't see any real risks surrounding this This narrative it definitely is something that could move the markets for sure But I think for the time being I don't see it being a particularly disruptive for this type of headline Looking at the calendar for today Obviously everyone's Waiting pal, so I do think you need to bear that in mind There's not a great deal coming out if anything major at all from economic data point of view in UK and Europe You do have the second reading of US GDP and initial jobless claims coming out the states both at 130 Initial jobless claims has been a little bit erratic We did see a period of quite sharp Improvement only to jump back up above north at 1.1 million last week So we'll be interested to see where that comes out and if I'm a GDP perspective This is the second reading of that biggest ever one-time collapse that we saw of of negative 32.9% for the advanced Q2 reading the revision is expected to be Minimal and the point being is when I look at this calendar Second reading of GDP initial jobless claims will have no real definable impact on markets Most likely because within less than one hour's time You're going to get the main event which is drone power speaking at Jackson Hole and so I Think the data really is of little consequence for the trading session ahead But would you want to be in a position? No for twofold There is going to be a degree of course a fluctuation in price over the release But also no one's going to be in a position that close to power They'll probably clear the deck. It'll be probably awfully quiet at that point Waiting for the storm to hit the storm being that of Jerome power Otherwise speakers you do have the Bank of Canada governor and also easy these lane They're both speaking in the event at Jackson Hole virtually After power delivers the opening remarks and again providing a monetary policy framework review So it is a self-entitled thing the market is awaiting with high anticipation for that delivery today Okay, that is Pretty much it. So we're going to leave it at that And any questions at all, please do let me know happy to help always just feel free to find me on Twitter My handle is here or just drop a comment on the video if you're watching this on YouTube I will always reply to everyone throughout the day. Okay guys. Thanks very much. Have a good session and good luck for Jerome power later on today