I'm going to talk about a company that could 30x in the long term. I'm going to talk about the catalyst that could make this happen as well. I'll go through the information, a lot of the information about the company, some research about the company, where I think the company is going to go and where I think that you should potentially look at getting involved with investing in the company. I've got to say I'm not a financial advisor. I'm a business teacher in my daily life but I'm by no means an expert on the stock market and if you could leave the video live that would be much appreciated but I'm going to get right into the information just to respect your time. Through the information and as always with penny stocks the volatile, they're always up and down, you know one minute they might double up the next they may be down so it just happens at times really with these penny stocks they're very volatile. So what is it? So it's called MySize okay this particular company and we'll go through the actual charts in a moment. I just want to talk about a bit about the stock as well and then we'll get into the price predictions into the information where I think there's a buying opportunity in the charts just a bit later but let's go through who they are. So MySize was founded in 2014 by Ronan who grew frustrated with the common troubles of online shopping from size and certainty to the hassle of returning items that just didn't fit. After realising size selection as a big part of consumers overall shopping experience and returns are a huge blur to retailer bottom lines he decided to come up with a solution that will benefit both sides. MySize was created to increase buy satisfaction and reduce costs for online retailers by giving them a tool that will standardise sizing and help consumers find the sizes that fit them. Okay so what is it? Essentially it's a tool that can be used a digital tool that can be used to find out what size you are in terms of clothing but there's more to the stock there's more applications that they've got that can be used for their technology here. So it's a consumer technology in big data company with a proprietary sizing and measurement technology okay it generates highly accurate measurements used in a variety of consumer friendly everyday uses such as online apparel, shopping, logistics, courier and home DIY. Okay so this is an industry that is growing okay so you've got the e-commerce apparel market which is estimated to be £332 billion global market in 2016 that's only ever going to increase as people switch to shopping online more and more and they have its change. £8.4 billion at e-commerce of power returns are size related so what does that mean? It means that there's a lot of companies out there that are losing a lot of money based upon the fact that people are ordering products that are not the right size they then return them and that losing money they're losing £8.4 billion all the collection in terms of the industry. Now that's a lot of money there that could be saved and this is a tool and technology that tries to resolve that problem to make sure people are buying the goods the right size is not only is it good for the consumer because there's less hassle of having to send stuff back and forth they're more likely to buy it but on the other hand it's good for the companies as well because it means that they're going to get less returns and they're going to save a lot of money okay and this is a company that's essentially solving a problem and like I say the best companies out there just think you know do a bit of homework what are some of the companies that solve problems and you'll notice that there's a lot of companies out there that are very successful but are built upon solving a problem solving an issue which is what this is doing right improves retailer revenue and lowers their operating costs whilst improving the consumers shopping experience as I say there broad domestic and international patents and patent pending applications for measurement and fitting so they have got some patents already so they've got some IP intellectual property meaning that they can't just competitors can't just copy their technology essentially so that gives them a competitive advantage and that is really powerful in itself just having that I mean that that that is really big if they if they say that they've got patents for this it's just a matter of time for the revenue to grow so the retail industry okay so 8.4 billion in size related returns and this is interesting 67% 69% e-commerce shopping cart abandonment rate in fashion now some of that abandon abandonment rate in fashion might be to do with the fact of people thinking I will this fit me will it not and then people might second guess and not decide to purchase the product because of that well if they've got this tool okay they could you know if they work with supplies with this tool then there's more likely that they will actually go ahead with a purchase because they feel more confident right okay and it's about reducing returns so the markets here they've got a parallel DIY courier and utility we'll go over to some of the other products in a minute big big data analytics and it's it's it's based upon sensors cloud and algorithms and it's a proprietary and patented measurement algorithm okay and so this is my size this is one of the aspects we'll go through some of the other aspects of the business because you've got that market where they're trying to sell to the fashion industry you know solving a problem here so again my size some of the direct benefits what are the benefits of this increase customer confidence increasing conversions by 30% so sense that people go on the website and if they've got this tool okay they're more likely to purchase okay improve efficiencies reduce return volumes by 50% massive improve customer service experience and increase brand loyalty valuable big data reduce cart abandonment so ultimately this is driving revenue and profitability and reducing inefficiencies for a company so this is very effective i've do got to say before i move into the next part of our analysis on this stock and the information i've got to say thank you for everybody for the support on the channel we are growing massively just yesterday i said oh can we get to 3000 subscribers by the end of january well it looks like we're um on track to get 3000 subscribers within the next couple of days or so so thank you for everybody who continues to like the videos and support them as long as you obviously keep supporting them and liking them i will continue to to make them particularly on these penny stocks okay and i will be making videos on growth stocks and other stuff as well and facts but um this is what i want to go through today this particular stock so thank you for everybody who's subscribing thank you for everybody who continues to like the video you really are supporting the channel it really does help me out let's get right back into the information now so some of the current retail partners so they're building up a portfolio of retailers that they're using this tool with okay they're using some of the tools that they offering that their tech tools and and they're building up their partnerships with these uh okay but they really need to they're one big catalyst away from blowing up right because if they can get a really big partner involved that could be a massive catalyst for the company and the share price okay so there's a lot of catalysts to this so accurate measurement this is another area where it's it's looking at getting into its terms of measuring boxes as well accurate measurements combined combat industry inefficiencies 12 percent of shipments arrive at logistics centre with inaccurate measurements okay and this is in terms of this app this tool can be used to measure the boxes more efficiently and effectively billing errors can cost freight company three to seven percent in additional costs and inaccurate measurement measurements lead to 20 sub utilisation of warehouse space okay so what does this mean so one click measurement what that this is what they're doing so it's called box size and then measures all three their tool measures all three aspects free access of a axis of a package or any 3d object by only one movement of the mobile device cut down the time it takes to measure a package by 50 percent so this is saving time this is reducing inefficiencies by using this tool and again so you've got the retail market you've got the um that's kind of packaging market there as well and here we've got an interesting article this was in recently december 31st so my size delivers over 12 million size recommendations in 2020 okay so it's it's gave 12 million size recommendations okay and the CEO here says more than 12 million sizes were recommended by my size id this year and we will anticipate continue growth into 2021 as a result of a great e-commerce transformation this year on various pricing plans with our customers are generally uh so they've got the pricing plans there it would be interesting that they could charge a bit more pair my size doing the my sizing tool it'd be better if they actually maybe increase the cost of that something increase the profitability but ultimately as they build relationships with companies partnerships strategic partnerships they are going to grow this company is going to grow in line with that it's about b to be this is about this company working with other businesses in the fashion sector getting them to use this as their tool and that is going to be a catalyst if they can get really really big partners on board for this this could be massive but again if they just keep getting just continue the partnerships and building of the relationships with businesses this is going to grow as well it also says here recently they're actually moving into another area so it's actually uh my size is added to add highly accurate online footwear sizing to e-commerce solutions as well so it's looking at footwear now as well so that's an expansion into the market uh and doing this for footwear now as well also so they're expanding in all these different areas okay so what are the benefits so because they're expanding in you know they've got the my box they've got the my size they've got and they're now going into doing shoe sizes they've got this technology that is quite diversified and can be used in a lot of applications right and in a little a lot of different industries so many of it uh has patents as well so they've got intellectual property so nobody can copy what they're doing um to to exactly what they've got so that gives them a competitive advantage diversified technology with patents it solves an important issue okay solving an important issue and there's a good unique selling point to the product as well okay my only concern my only concern is the lower revenue the revenue revenue is not great at all it's quite low so that's one of the concerns that i've got with it um there but what i'm thinking is that the the growth to the future does this product solve a problem yes is this product have a lot of potential yes so i'm thinking into the future there's a lot of potential growth for this revenue so we'll go in we'll go into the chart here so it's currently sat at one dollar 41 okay it's on a bit of a dip at the minute what i would say is if you can get this anywhere around one dollars to one dollars twenty i would say that that's a buying opportunity i would start to average in your price i wouldn't buy all at once just buy a little bit and then a bit more on the dips so that you can average down okay but i think it's got a lot of potential here it could double within the next three to six months okay on its current price point uh if you can get it at one point two i think it could reach up to two dollars forty two dollars sixty but i certainly think in the long term this is a potential thirty x stock i think that this has got what it's doing the product itself has got a lot of potential all they've got to do is build up those relationships now with businesses that's what they need to focus in on they've done the research and development they've got the patents um some of them now the application is to try and reach out to as many businesses as possible okay and that is where the revenue is going to come from and that is what they're now focusing on i think that you know when you look at the stage processes right you've got your research and development product concept building the product and then you've got to take the product to market and do the commercialization they're starting to move towards the commercialization side of it it seems like and then as from that that's where the revenue is going to grow so you want to get in before the revenue is going to explode so that you can get it a good price but with a penny stock as always you've got to be careful do your own due diligence do your own research and have a look into it okay you've got to be careful penny stocks are up and down all the time right so i would hold this long term personally but like i say there is a potential to swing trade it as well so that's what i've got for you today please leave the video a like if this stop if this was any point a sort of helpful anyway so then do leave a video a like and don't forget to subscribe to the channel where we'll cover more penny stock information okay and i'll see everybody in the next video


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Thank you very much. Good evening. I see many familiar faces. And I have come to get addicted to you guys. It's difficult to say this is the last time I will have the great honor to be with you. And thank you to you for inviting me. And since it's the last night, I should also mention that I feel honored to be the person who started this lecture series. I have the highest respect for Professor Yashater. Although I never had the honor to be her students, but he was my mentor. And he continues to be. So today, we are going to wrap up our conversation about Furuf Arosad. Just two minutes of wrapping up everything we have done so far together, we talked about her life. The difficulties she confronted as a young woman, perhaps the physical trauma. We read some of, we did a close reading of some of her poems, some of the letters to ask the question, what was this question? What was this secret that Furuf Arosad wanted us to decipher? In the second session, we discussed some of the major tropes in Arosad's poetry. Love, of course, the proximity to death, and of course, freedom of movement. We said that this freedom is really at the basis of several other kinds of freedom in a sex-segregated society. Yesterday, we watched her master film, master really work of exception, quality, one of the 10 best documentaries considered by many in the world. And we discussed how it indeed is a model for life narratives. And today, I want to discuss with you how Furuf Arosad redefined the very definition of family in Iran and the significance of that in the culture in which family was the unit. And according to her, at least the way I read it, and in my view, it's really a mirror and a reflection of the larger society. So if defying age-old patterns of gender apartheid is the central trope of Arosad's artistic universe, advocating, but more importantly, mirroring the shifting lines of power within the family is its most consequential outcome. Not much has been written about this important aspect of Arosad's poetry. Yet what she has done in redefining the family unit is truly exceptional and pioneering. Obviously, Arosad, who developed by leaps and bounds in the very short 13-year literary career she had, changed her views and her perspectives on family, on motherhood, on gender relations. Let me give you one example. You might remember the poem Wedding Band, Halqe. It's one of her first poems. It was published in the collection Captive at Sea. If you recall the poem, the poem is made of two sections. In the first one, there is a young, vitacious, energetic woman, young girl, very happy, full of questions. She's asking, what's the secret of this band that is around my finger? And in the second part of that same poem, the young woman is now an older woman, and she has come to the sad conclusion that this band is the band of submission, submissiveness, and bondage. Bandye Bardigi talks about Halqye Bardigi's bondage. So I have not come across any Iranian writer of the modern era. That had so fundamentally questioned the very construction of family units in Iran. Now, we know gender relations in Iran is a very complex, very fascinating issue. I want to take a few minutes to talk about some of the expressions we have. For instance, we call the group, the night of his wedding, Shadamat.  And it's no coincidence that Salite and Sultanat, a shrew, and kingship, and Salite dominance come from the exact same root. It is no coincidence that one of our most popular, at least when I was growing up in Iran, proverb was about wedding night, was Ghorbaru Bayat Shabe Hejle Koshd. You kill the cat at the nobchol night or in the nobchol chamber. Does anyone know the story behind this very popular and famous proverb? And yet we use it all the time, right? We still use it. So it took me a long, long time to find the story. So I'm going to just take a few minutes of your precious time to tell you that story, because it's so fascinating. So very similar to the taming of the shrew of Shakespeare. There is this young woman who is a shrew, comes from a good family. And of course, nobody wants to marry her. The father finally comes up with an idea and proposes a good dowry for the daughter. And this man says that I'm going to marry her. And everybody tries to tell her, but you can't do that. You don't want to do that. And he says, don't worry. I can handle her. So he marries her. And when they entered the nobchol chamber, he had arranged ahead of time to have a cat in the nobchol chamber. So as they get in, husband and wife just newly wed, he looks at the cat and he says, go get me a glass of water. Well, the poor cat didn't know what was going on. He got me out and was happy. Two minutes later, he said, didn't you hear me? I said, you go fetch a glass of water from me. I'm thirsty. And the cat didn't again. And the third time, he took his dagger out and he beheaded the innocent cat.  I'm thirsty. Please go get me a glass of water. And the wife, of course, did. And the pattern was set because in most relationship in the first few minutes of that relationship, a pattern is set for the relationship. So a neighbor heard the story and said, my god, why didn't I think of such a simple thing? So he got, they had a pet, a cat. He went and he got himself a nice big dagger. They went to the bedroom and he looked at the cat and he said, go get me a glass of water. Nobody said anything. He repeated it. But the third time, the wife looked at him. He said, the one who killed the cat was in the nobchol chamber, not 20 years into the marriage. You want a glass of water?  And by the way, get me one, too. So, but to get you a glass of water. You don't want any chances. You're not taking chances. Not, not chances. Lent your water, no cats. So in other words, if we call our brides, king bride, on the day of their wedding, it's not for no reason. It's not coincidental. Fouro Farrokhzad revised that gender relation. I'm not claiming she's the first one who did that. We know that many had already started doing that in their families. I say that as a Muslim woman. I know that, for instance, in the Bobby fate, especially in the Bahá'í fate, gender relation was of utmost importance. But when it comes to our literary production, I don't know of any poem, of any novel, of any short story, like the one I will read for you. I can't read the whole thing because I've promised a few of you told me you didn't get enough time for Q&A. I would like to leave a lot of room for Q&A today. I think many of you are familiar with the poem. I will read a few lines of it so you have a sense of the music of it, of course, in English and with my inefficient translation. But I will perhaps read a few lines of the Persian too. It's one of Furul's most anthologized poems, for sure. And I think one of the most radical. So in Persian, it is. So the crow that flew over us, and sunk in the anxious thoughts of a vagrant cloud, its cry crossing the horizon like a short spear will carry Artea to the city. Everyone knows, everyone knows that you and I caught sight of the garden through that cold, grim opening. Everyone knows, everyone knows that we picked the apple from that say distant branch. Everyone fears, everyone fears. But you and I merged with the lamp, the water, and the mirror, and we did not fear. It's not a matter of two names grafted feebly to each other on the old pages of a registry.  What matters is the intimacy between our naked bodies, rolled, glittering, like fish scales in the water. So you know the rest of the story. It's a man and a woman. They see the apple inside the garden, and they enter the garden. And then it's after they enter the garden that with their hands, with holding their hands together, they make a bridge overnight. And at the end, Farrokh Zod tells us that it's not a matter of whispers in the dark. It's a matter of daylight. It's a matter of telling it as it is. So at the time, Farrokh Zod was a divorced woman with a child. She was denied even sporadic visitation rights with that child. And the man for whom this poem was written, we know it because she says it in the book. E.G. Ibrahim E. Golestan was the man who had hired her, as we talked about it, when she was 24 years old. So in this story, in order to change gender relations in Iran, Farrokh Zod goes to the beginning of creation. The garden she enters is the garden of Eden, of course. And the man and the woman are at the man eve. And in fact, in one of the letters published in the book, she says it specifically, that you are my Adam and I am the Eve. So we know for a fact that this poem is indeed more than only autobiographical. There is a connection between the poet and the woman inside the poem. But the story of creation is completely revived in this story, in this poem. If picking of the apple caused the downfall of Adam and Eve, if the children of Eve were denied immortality, because what is the characteristic relationship of all paradises that we know? Death dies in paradise. There is no death. And it was after, in many versions of the story, when Eve picked up the apple and suggested it to Adam, that the children of Eve, all of us, were kicked out of paradise and doomed to mortality, not in this poem. In this poem, Adam and Eve see the apple, enter the garden. The temptation, the tree of knowledge, leads to their paradise. In fact, they reach eternity by picking the apple, by accepting knowledge. That's one thing that is fantastic. That's an acknowledgement of love and sexuality as a passport to paradise, rather than as a kicking out of it. But in most versions of the creation story, it's Eve who is held responsible for tempting Adam in the Judeo-Christian version and in the popular versions in my country of birth, which I love, Iran. It's still Eve who is held responsible for the temptation and for deceiving and therefore being the cause of all that. I have to add, parentetically here, that not so in the Quran. In the Quran, it was not Eve who tempted and who deceived Adam. But even some of our best theologians have disregarded that in favor of the Eve who is the temptress. In this poem, every time a decision has to be made, if they have to enter the garden, if they have to pick the apple, she never uses the pronoun we. It's you and I. Manu to. The two pronouns are repeated several times in that poem. So this Eve is completely a different Eve. She's not the temptress. She's not the cause of our fall. And she is proud of doing what she does. But she is also blessed with a companion who doesn't need a scapegoat. She is blessed with a companion who is not going to hold her responsible for tempting him. And she also acknowledges that. And at the end, she tells us it is with this kind of a gender relation. It's with this kind of a man and a woman that we can create paradise. And we can bridge and build light over darkness. And indeed, as we know, she has created this poem, which is considered by many one of the masterpieces of Persian modern literature. So quite clearly, the rapture of tradition, especially when it comes to this redefinition of family life, of gender relation, has been the most difficult for a group of more traditional minded people to accept in Iran. What I find fascinating and what I have believed in and have consistently argued for. And I do that as a feminist, and I'm proud to be one. I say, it's not only the changes that women brought about. Men were also instrumental. That's why I call it a gender revolution. I don't believe in us or them. I believe in us and them, as did Furukh Farrokhzad. Now, you can cherry pick a poem here, a message there in which Farrokhzad is upset about a relationship. But generally speaking, what she has done to gender relations in Iran is unique. Now, this was about gender relations. I want to take a few minutes of your time to talk about what she has done is considered dangerous in Iran, even of today, 60, 70 years later. In a minute, I will talk about Farrokhzad with her biological son. This is Kamiyar Shahpur.  And we need to discuss these issues. We need to request a change in our laws, in our custodial rights that make not only the mother suffer, but also the child suffer. So I was, this, you know, is, I'm very grateful to Khanumeh Sorayosh Akibayi, who kindly gave me all these pictures that I don't think we had access to. This is Farrokhzad in the leprosarium. And you remember that when she went to make that masterpiece of a film, the house is black. She's the woman sitting there. And you see out of respect for the population there, she's wearing a scarf. And you remember that we talked about the reason that film is a masterpiece partly is because of the relationship she could establish with the inhabitants of this ostracized group of people. And here is another one, Farrokhzad, and the five men who accompanied her to the leprosarium. Oh, I went to the back. And this is, if you remember, the scene in the film, in the classroom. And the son she adopted is the second son, sitting right there.  Motherhood is a privilege. A mother can be denied her right of motherhood. And indeed, she was. So these are some of the pictures in the last five, six years of her life after she adopted Hossein. Hossein Emansuri is there. She's here. And this is Farrokhzad, one of her very happy moments playing guitar with a broom. And the woman next to her is her mother, Turand Khanum Farrokhzad, who was a most delightful person. This is Farrokhzad and her adoptive son, another picture. And you see all the family pictures are also with Hossein. And you never see Kamyard in any of them. This is the woman in green is Farrokhzad. And that's the father. And the woman sitting next to her is Gloria. And the young man is the younger brother who unfortunately passed away. I wanted to tell you about how things have changed in Iran and how threatening these changes are for the other Iran. I think we really can say that Iran is a land of paradoxes and that there are two Iran's. I'm hoping there will be more and more communication between the two. And surely there is. It has started. But we still have a long way to go. Four books in the last few months, few years, have been published in Iran with these amazing titles. You know, Zanzalil, the other one, Nasir Eddinshah, Zanzalil, Penn Hechtman, what do you say? Penn Hechtman, as Arnold Schwarzenegger would say, a girly man. And even Nasir Eddinshah, the epitome, the king who ruled Iran for 50 years, he is now considered Zanzalil. And then these are the pictures. These are the covers of these books. They are fascinating to read. It is really about the fear of this rampant matriarchy that is going to deprive Iran of its culture, that is going to make men prisoners of the home. You know, if in a few years four books that I know can be published with the title Zanzalil, Penn Hechtman in it, we should understand then why Fouroh Farrokhzad was one of the first poets to be banned after the Revolution. And now that finally her poem, because people love her, because she has become an icon, because she's considered a cultural hero, her books are published, but in a most mutilated form. And if you compare the published books in recent decades in Iran, in the last decade in Iran, with the original ones, you will discover something fascinating, that the poems that have been excised, that have been cut, have disappeared from the face of the page, are generally speaking in one form or another about family relationships. You know, we talked about how there has been about 82 or 3 letters of Farrokhzad that have been published so far. We don't know who has censored them. There are exceptionally few, if any, that have not been censored. So I have a few of the original letters that I also have the censored for, published and available in Iran. So I compared them line by line, word for word. Even in the letters, the sections that are cut relate to family. So does it surprise us then that even before the ratification of the constitution, even before the Islamic... the Republic of Iran had turned into the Islamic Republic of Iran, the one law that was immediately resented was the family law. And it's not like they completely overhauled everything. They gave some custodial rights to the mother. They banned polygamy. Divorce was no longer a unilateral right. That, more than the law regarding the veil, was the first one. The Islamic Republic of Iran knew very well, or at least thought very well, that to build an Islamic country you have to revise the family structure. Hence the family law was completely... was the first one to be resented. I find this quite a telling phenomenon. Now, how much more time I have, OK, doctor? You know, I also wanted to talk a little bit about... because it's such an important issue to me about the issue of adoption. Farooq Farooqzad went to a leprosarium at a time when it was thought leprosy is a contagious disease, and she adopted a son from that leprosarium, brought him home, and stayed with him. Took care of him at times when he was traveling. He stayed with the mother.  She never quite succeeded. We know why. It's not an easy thing to do. You need leisure. You need economic independence. You need what Virginia Woolf said, a room of your own. And I love Virginia Woolf. Her work has really had an impact on me, and I want to add to a room of one's own that, yes, you need a room of your own to be able to become a writer. But more importantly, you also need the permission to leave that room and to enter it at will. Otherwise, that room is going to turn into a cell, or a prison cell. That's a definition, another definition of sex segregation to me. It denies you that freedom to leave at will. That's central to Farooq's poetry. When Farooq's adopted Hossein-e-Manseurie and to this day, we do not still have a Persian word for adoption. The words we have are derogatory.   How insulting can that be?  Adoption was not. An option. When Farooq's adopted Hossein-e-Manseurie and we know for a fact that she did talk to Mr. and Mrs. Manseurie and it was with their permission that she adopted Hossein-e-Manseurie. It's true that five years after the adoption of Hossein after Farrokhzad passed away, that's pre-revolutionary time, for a few years they changed the law of adoption. If a husband and wife could not have a child for five years, they could apply for adoption. But even then, a single parent could not adopt a child. And Furuq Farrokhzad adopted Hossein-e-Manseurie as a single parent. So, I want to stay within my time limit and end with what I think is the other side of the coin of what Farrokhzad wanted to do with the family. As you might recall, I said one of the most endearing things to me about Farrokhzad was a number of things. The two that we discussed in the last three sessions was one that she knew telling the truth is her obligation but she didn't stop there. She also argued that hearing the truth is her right. And in a culture that for over thousands of years our motto has been to tell the truth, of Doreniq. That's not a small deed. And I'm not saying she never lied, but Furuq herself has said repeatedly in her letters that Furuq is not infallible. She might have, but her ideal was to be as honest as she can be. And I think most of the time she succeeds. The second thing, and we talked about the role of Farrokhzad in modernity, in Iranian modernity, her fight and struggle from early childhood, in fact, for freedom, all kinds of freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of movement. And we talked about to have a voice, to own her body, to fall in love. But even there she didn't stop there. She always argued that with freedom comes responsibility. You cannot ask for freedom and not accept the responsibilities that come with it. You remember the first poem she published was a poem beginning with I sent. That was after the coup d'etat of 1953. All the fingers were pointing at someone else. It was the American government. It was the Tudeh party. It was this, it was that. And here's a woman, just barely 20. She comes and breaks that discourse by screaming and saying, but I am the one who sent. And she always did that. She accepted responsibility for the freedom she sought. She did the same with family. And I want to end with one of the poems that is anthologized over and over again. But I want to look at it from a different perspective. It's the poem, I feel sorry for the garden. De la m'barreau, je bords je me sous elle. So you know it's a woman, it's a poet who sees the garden that she loves. That obviously is a metaphor for the country. Is dying. And she holds every member of her family responsible for that death of the garden. First, let me read a few lines of this poem to you that was published in the 1960. I think the first time this poem was published was in 1963 or 64. I want to suggest this is the first and the most prescient acknowledgement of an upcoming revolution in Iran. I don't know of anybody else. In prose or in poetry, who acknowledged death and destruction. Let me just read a few lines of it. I hope you will read the whole poem. It's really an amazing poem. All day long, the sound of blasts and explosions can be heard. Instead of flowers, instead of flowers, our neighbors plant mortars and machine guns in their garden. They store gunpowder in their covered pools. The kids in our neighborhood, the kids in our neighborhood fill their backpacks with little bombs. And then after this prediction of bloodshed, of death and destruction, she talks about the father who is reading Nasekh-e-Tawarikh and Shahnameh Ferdozi, old glories of Iran. Books about Iran in its glorious days and is not feeling responsible for the death of the garden.  And the flower, the brother, the intellectual, she tells us her anguish and her despair is so small that every night he can go to a bar and drink it away. And the sister, the sister every time she comes to our house is pregnant and she covers herself with perfume so that the poverty of the garden doesn't touch her skirt. But again, she doesn't stop there. And she says, I know this garden can be taken to a hospital. And she insists three times, me donna, me donna, me donna. I know it. I know it can be cured. I know it. I often wonder what would have happened to our history, to all of us, had our politicians listen a bit more carefully than what was written in this poem. And others like it. This is the first one that I've come across and this is the one I absolutely love. So I want to end with a happy note. I have argued for the last 12, 13 years because we constantly talk about two revolutions in the modern Iran. The constitutional revolution of 1905, 1911, the Islamic Revolution of 1979. But in fact, a more important revolution has also happened in Iran. A gender revolution. A bloodless revolution. Surely it does not match the traditional definitions of revolutions. But if our other two revolutions only managed to replace one tyrant for another, one tyrant who was educated in a house in which democracy did not rule, in this revolution we are changing the structure of power, not in the halls of power, but in every single home, in every kitchen and in every bedroom. That's how I think Iran is changing. That's the hope for our future of Iran. And I hope that we will all see that happy day where equality and justice rules at home and in the country because you cannot have democracy and justice in a country if there is no democracy and justice at home. Thank you.


Okay, welcome to my presentation Dumbo Jumbo in Delirium, parallel authenticated encryption for the lightweight circus. This is my name is Bart Menig and this is a joint work with Tim Beine, Yulong Chen and Chris of the Braumlich. The presentation is in fact about Elephant, which is a submission to the NIST lightweight crypto competition. For the design of a new authenticated encryption scheme, the first question this raises is what is authenticated encryption? Well, in a nutshell, it's a cryptographic scheme that provides both encryption of data, meaning that no outsider can learn anything about the data, as well as authentication of data, meaning that no outsider can actually manipulate encrypted data. Mathematically seen, authenticated encryption is just a deterministic function. It gets its input a key, it gets its input associated data and message, and it gets its input a nonce. The message is encrypted to obtain a cypher text. The associated data and the message are authenticated with a tag t, and the nonce is there to randomize the scheme in such a way that if you authenticate and encrypt the same associated data and message twice, you still get independent looking cypher text and tag, and this nonce is optional. Authenticated with this function is also an authenticated decryption function, AD. The AD function gets its input a key, associated data, cypher text, and tag, and the nonce that was used for encryption. And the goal of the scheme is to verify whether the tag is correct, and if this is the case, return the original message. So it needs to satisfy that if the tag is correct, the original message is disclosed. And if this is the tag is incorrect, then the message, nothing about the message should be leaked. And finally, this function needs to be correct, of course, which means that if you encrypt a message using a certain nonce and associated data, and then you decrypt the message again with the same nonce and associated data, you should retrieve the original message back. The next lightweight competition is about a lightweight authenticated encryption scheme. And when we talk about lightweight authenticated encryption, there are various things we can optimize for, various choices we have to make. So for instance, what's the best primitive, what's the best cryptographic primitive we can take for building our lightweight authenticated encryption scheme? And beyond this primitive, how do we combine this primitive in the nice mode to get a secure mode? Do we want to target a scheme that is very easy to parallelize, or do we want to have one that has a minimal state size? Do we focus on hardware-oriented designs, or designs that can be efficiently implemented in software? Do we want to have an efficient nonce-based scheme, or do we want to have a scheme that is secure even against nonce reuse, or that is secure even in the release of an verified plaintext setting? There are various different design decisions that we can make. And the goal that we actually set for Lightweight Crypto kind of determines the scheme we want to make. And for Elephant or Goal was to minimize the state size and the complexity of design, so getting as simple design as possible, while still maintaining, while still meeting the expected security strength of 2 to the 112 and the limit on the online complexity of 2 to the 50 bytes as prescribed by the NIST call for proposals. So this is our goal, a scheme with a minimal state size and a scheme that is as simple as possible. The first step, the first decision we have to make then is which cryptographic primitive to use. We know many popular primitives, like 3-core block ciphers, block ciphers and permutations. But all of them have their differences. So if you start with a block cipher, the block cipher is basically a function with a data path. So it gets some data in and some cipher text goes out. But there are also some data coming in from the side. So you have a key coming in from the side and a tweet coming in from the side. And that of course needs to be done in a secure way as well. Likewise for a block cipher, you also have a data path going in and out. So message going in, cipher text going out and there is a key again coming in from the outside, from the side. So again you need to be careful with constructing this primitive. And think about this for a permutation, a cryptographic permutation is the simplest possible way. We don't even have a traffic sign like this. So we have just an input to the permutation that's cryptographically transformed to an output of it. And if you think about it from this aspect, the permutation is clearly the best choice. And in fact it's a highway, it's the most efficient way of building a cryptographic primitive. Now if you fixed our primitive, namely cryptographic permutation, this next choice is which mode to use. And the established mode for permutation-based crypto is the duplex or the sponge. So you have a permutation, you have some input going into the state, you permute, you get some output, etc. So it's a very popular way, especially for lightweight hashing. Many lightweight authenticated encryption schemes and lightweight hash functions are based on the sponge. But it is a very sequential. And if you want to go for a minimal state size, it turns out that a parallelized approach is easier. So our approach is a parallel evaluation of the permutation. So we have a permutation that's evaluated multiple times in parallel. And you get some input in 1 and 2 and 3 in this picture going into the permutation and you get some output. And the input and the output are masked with a certain mask. Of course, this requires a proper masking. In addition, we only want to evaluate the permutation in a forward direction. So this also requires a proper mode of use. And if we do so, looking ahead, this turns out that we can minimize the permutation size, even up to a smaller size than what you can achieve in the sponge for meeting the NIST security parameters. For the masking, we use a simplified version of the masked evan monster construction of Granger at all. The idea is that you take a fixed LFSR phi 1. You define phi 2 to be phi 1 plus the identity. And then the masking gets its input, the key, and two counters A and B. And the masking operations follow. So first you commute a subkey, basically, from the key. So the key is appended with zeros and then permuted. And then you evaluate phi 1 to the A, phi 2 to the B. And A and B are counters that will be used actually to indicate the location of the masking in the scheme. I will come back to this later. And first about this masking, the advantage of this masking is that its constant time is very efficient and is very simple to implement. It's more efficient than the alternatives. Now we've set the primitive and the mask, we can go to the mode. And this is the elephant authenticated encryption mode. So on the top left here, I copied the definition of the mask from the previous slide. And I will go through the picture from top to bottom, starting with the top, of course. And in the top, we see the encryption. And the encryption gets its input A nonce.  So without a counter yet. The counter is in the mask, just like the key. So the key is in the mask, of course. And we have a counter in the mask, namely, A, B is 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, up to lm minus 1, 0, where lm is the number of message blocks. So we take the counter value A ranging from 0 to lm minus 1 and B, we keep 0. This gives a key stream, which is added to the message to get the ciphertext. Now for authenticated encryption, for the authentication part, we do the first path following input. So we get the nonce and the associated data, which were not encrypted, but will only be authenticated. We concatenate them with a 1. And we pad it into N-bit blocks and an integral number of N-bit blocks lA1 up to ALA. For the ciphertext, we take the ciphertext coming from encryption, we append it with a 1, and then we pad it into an integral number of N-bit ciphertext blocks. And then we do the same procedure, basically. So we have a permutation with a mask. So the inputs are now fed through a permutation with a mask. And the mask is slightly different now. So mask A, B, in this case, we get 0 comma 1 up to LC minus 1 comma 1, where LC is the number of ciphertext blocks. So the A value in the mask still serves as a counter, counting from 0 to LC minus 1. But now B is 1. Here to 0, here it's 1. This is done for domain separation. Likewise, we have A running as a counter here, and B is 2. So this also gives the domain separation. Otherwise, you can trivially attack it. Anyway, all these blocks are fed through the primitives. The outputs are all added, and then truncated to get a tag of t-bits. The mode at a high level can be seen as an encrypt than mask design. And this is known as the most secure version, because this gives ciphertext integrity. So you don't authenticate the message, but instead you authenticate the ciphertext. At a slightly lower level, we see encryption consisting of counter mode, which allows for inverse free decryption. So you don't need B inverse. The authentication can be seen as a Wigman-Carter-Schup authenticator. The entire elephant authenticated encryption mode is fully parallelizable. It only uses a single permutation P, and it only uses P in a forward direction. The masking is chosen in such a way that it can be efficiently updated. To see this, suppose we compute a mask, for instance, mask 0 0, or in this case, mask i minus 1 0. Then the next mask, mask i comma 0, can be computed as simple as follows. Just evaluate phi 1 on the mask. There is another feature in the mask, namely that if you would encrypt this vertically, so blockwise, so you encrypt to get key stream c1, and then you authenticate c1 on the fly, then these two masks, so mask i minus 1 comma 0, mask i minus 1 1, add up to mask i comma 0. And this might be useful as well. And for security, we prove that the elephant mode is secure against any adversary. Secure up to about four times sigma times P divided by two to the n, where n is the permutation size, and we consider any adversary that makes an online complexity sigma, which counts the number of associated data and plain text blocks, and offline complexity P, which counts the number of primitive calls. This proof is given under the assumption that P is a random permutation. Phi 1 has a maximum length, and in addition, this condition holds, so we don't have collisions in the masks for any two values to mask A, B, and A prime, B prime that occur in the scheme. And A is assumed to be a non-respecting adversary. Most importantly, this proves that we can actually instantiate elephant with a 160-bit permutation and still meet the parameters required by the NIST lightweight call. And this is not possible with a sponge. And this brings me to our instantiation, so we have three instantiations of elephant, namely Dumbo is the first one, Dumbo is elephant with a sponge and 160-bit permutation. This is the minimalist design. So it has a time complexity of security up to a time complexity of two to the 112, and a data complexity of two to the 46 blocks, which roughly corresponds to two to the 50 bytes as prescribed by the NIST call. And we have Dumbo, which is a bigger variant. It uses sponge 176. It's a more conservative design. So it achieves security up to two to the 127 queries and a data complexity of two to the 46 blocks. And I would like to note that this permutation is ISO-ISC standardized. And finally, we have delirium. And delirium is instantiated with catch up F200 and this gives a high security variant. So we get security up to a time complexity of two to the 127 and a data complexity of two to the 70. Catch up F200 is specified in the NIST standard. It apparently is not NIST standardized, but it is specified in the NIST standard. Before proceeding, I would like to mention that originally here were pictures of the Dumbo, the elephant Dumbo from the famous movie, Jumbo, the big elephant and delirium, the logo of the Belgian beer. But I replaced them with self-made pictures just to avoid any copyright issues. Now for, so here we have some more details. I will not go over all the details, but what we see is we have three instances, Dumbo, Jumbo and delirium. All have a key of 128 bits, a nonce of 96 bits, a permutation size of 160, 176 and 200 and a tag of 64, 64 and 128. Here we see the details on the primitive that's used. But most important in this slide is that we use three different LFSRs for the three functions, Phi Dumbo, Phi Jumbo and Phi delirium. These three functions all operate on 8-bit words and have been chosen to kind of fit to the permutation that's actually used. And in addition, all of them turn out to have a maximal length and satisfy this property. So all of these three functions satisfy the criterion that we need for the proof to hold. Okay, so far this is about NIST as NIST submission elephant version one. If an elephant goes to the third round of the competition we're planning to make a tweak to the scheme and the tweak basically corresponds to the following. So the tweak is very subtle, it's very minimal, but if an elephant goes to the third round we're planning to propose this tweak. And the tweak in a nutshell corresponds to these two changes. So one of the changes is that the permutation evaluation that was here for the first associated data block A1 is removed and it's moved to the end. So it's just a move of the permutation from one side to the other one. And the important thing of this is that we kind of move from a Wakeman-Castell-Schubb authenticator to a protect count of some authenticator, which gives better security guarantees. The second change is a side rule of the mask parameters and in particular the value B in the masks. So here now for encryption, B is one. For ciphertext, B is two. And for associated data, B is zero. And that used to be zero for encryption, one for ciphertext and two for associated data. We have done this just for aesthetic reasons because it looks nicer. It works, it is slightly nicer to implement if we have mask zero, zero here. So the good thing of this is that version two would retain all good properties of version one. And in addition, we use a protected count of some authenticator, which means that we get authenticity even under nonce reuse. So in a nutshell, on the left side of the table we see what we proved for the original elephant, confidentiality and authenticity in the non-respecting setting. Elephant version two would achieve the same security goals, but in addition it would be nonce misuse, it would achieve authenticity under nonce misuse. A couple of notes on the implementations. So implementations of elephant they can and they effect should exploit parallelism. So far this was only done by delirium implementation recently made by campus at all. Currently we're working on new parallel reference implementations for delirium where we use the catch-up F and alteration of the catch-up F-1600 implementation to process up to eight blocks in parallel. This gives quite some speed up, but I would like to mention that this is still a work progress. And more information can be found in the GitHub account of the domain. For Dumbbell and Jumbo, I would like to mention particularly for software implementation that it might be interesting to investigate how we can improve the implementations with the bit slicing techniques that have recently been developed for present and gift. To conclude we presented elephant, a parallelizable lightweight authenticated encryption scheme with a very small state. The mode is provably secure in the random permutation model. The primitives are standardized and well studied. Dumbbell and Jumbo they're kind of designed more with harder in mind. Delirium is good in both hardware and software, but it was designed originally with software mostly in mind. That concludes my presentation. So I'd like to thank you for your attention.


Hey everybody what's going on? I am Greg Sosman joined today by Jim Sanis of FanDuel. Spring training has begun. Let's talk a little baseball. What's going on Jim? Yeah, it's been a while since we talked baseball here on the show. So we're bringing it back, having some thoughts of warmer weather and not absurd like once in a century type storms. So let's have some good warm thoughts here and talk some baseball for sure. Absolutely. I can proudly do that from the state of Florida. So let's get into it. We begin with the NLEs. We're going over some of the division winners and the best that you like here this week. And right now that amazingly, soon as I did there, is the New York Mets. Do you like the Mets to win the NLEs? They're plus 145 right now at the FanDuel Sportsbook. Mets have a new owner. They have some new players, specifically Francisco Lindoor. And while they're odds, they're just good enough for you to make a bet. How come Jim? I think usually when we see high profile offseason moves, we will overreact to them in the betting markets. You see teams like the Reds pop up last year and you'll see them, I think, get a bit overinflated. I think we're potentially underreacting if that's a word to what the Mets have done so far this year because Lindoor is one guy. But that's a really big move. It's a really big bet to get there. Given what they were getting at that position last year, you put them into a lineup now. If you look one through seven or one through six or one through seven, that's a really good lineup. And it's going to be one of the best lineups in the league. So I think that that's enticing for sure. And we know the rotation is good, even though with Cindergarde not going to be there right away, they have enough depth there with the additions of guys like Joe Caisi and stuff like that, where they can get by until Cindergarde comes back. And once he does, if he can be anywhere near where he was previously, this team has a lot of upside. I made some crude, rudimentary power rankings for this year based on past production of players currently on each team. And that actually had the Mets ranked fifth in the power rankings and the tops in the NLEs. The Braes have shorter odds to win the NLEs. So I think that the Mets, we might just be underrating them with the additions of Francisco Lindoor and Carlos Carrasco. And I think we can buy them still at plus 145. The Mets definitely a talk to vision. There are a lot of competitive teams in the NLEs. And that does complicate things for sure. But I'm still okay with it. Plus 145 is a good number. This should be a good team, both with their starting pitching and with their offense. So why not buy in and see if those big offseason moves can really pay dividends. A lot of people are talking about the free agents the Mets didn't sign. Yes, they mentioned Francisco Lindoor, but Carlos Carrasco is a huge addition to that rotation. Gene McHann will help behind the plate as well. The Mets at plus 145 does seem like a good number. And you're right, they do seem a bit underrated for the moves that they've made. And yes, the Braves are going to be awesome. They have shorter odds. But the Mets, number five in Juveniles' power rankings, we're taking a shot on at plus 145. Let's move over to the NLCentral, where you're all over the brew crew here at plus 380 over the Spandalsports book. Now, the Cardinals certainly the favorites in that division, but the Brewers with that power bullpen and certainly power in the lineup as well, they're intriguing too. Yeah, I think they are. And we were talking about how the Annalise does a lot of competitive teams. It's not an issue here. There are really no competitive teams outside of maybe the Cardinals, but I think, you know, we're talking about overreacting to moves. I think we're seeing that with the Cardinals here with the Nolan Aranado news, which makes sense. Like, he's tremendous. So like, you know, if you're going to overreact, if someone might as well be him, he's going to make their defense and their pitching a lot better. But I still have concerns around the offense, still have concerns around their starting pitching. There are a lot of low floor pitchers projected to be starters for that Cardinals team. So buying the Brewers is as much about liking the Brewers as it is disliking the Cardinals. Now the Brewers offense, I don't think it'll be very good. They're going to be in a lot of low scoring games this year, but what that does is it puts you in position to benefit from variance and a plus 380. I'm okay doing that. That rotation is still good. The top end, Brandon Woodruff, Corbin Burns, those guys are rock stars.  And that can be scary, but they added Colton Wong. And this is, I think, a move that we underreacted to because he improves their defense so much. And it's a team that does need good defense behind their bottom three starters inside that rotation. You add Colton Wong there, that improves the starting rotation, gives them a pretty good defense.  So I think the Brewers have still some concerns in the offense. And again, I'm not expecting big things there, but the pitching both in the starting rotation and the bullpen should be good. The defense should be very good too. And that's a lot of boxes to check. So I think the Brewers have some concerns, but I think the Cardinals are being overrated right now. And as a result, the Brewers are being underrated. So I think plus 380 is long enough where I can overlook the concerns of the Brewers and bet them to win the NL Central. Let's use that Cardinals overrated syndrome and bet on the Brewers here who's just at a higher number than they probably should be. Yes, no one hour now is amazing, but it's a long season. We'll see what the Cardinals ultimately do. I like Jack Flour did a lot, but the Brewers have a lot of talent as well. Brandon Woodruff was awesome in that shortened season last year. The bullpen that we've both mentioned now is really good. They can still some games. We'll see what happens here. The Brewers certainly were the shot in the NL Central. Finally, we move over to the AL, specifically the AL West. Right now, you get the Ashes at plus 150 to win the West. And again, we talked about overrating or underrating offseason moves. And I think that's the case here with the Ashes where a lot is made about what they have lost, but they're still really good. Yeah, they've lost a lot. And I think that seeing them at this number, it makes sense logically. I cannot fault Fandall Sportsbook for putting them at plus 150 behind the A's to win the AL West. But you look at this division, not a lot of competitive teams, just like we talked about with the NL Central. So they're not competing with a bunch of teams to try to win this division. It's basically them against the A's, as far as the true top tier teams in this division, which puts you at a pretty good advantage if you're getting plus two, so plus 150 with this team. And yeah, they've lost a lot. But like you said, there's still some good players there. We could see Jose Altuve potentially bounce back at some point. Alex Bregman is still good. Carlos Correa seemingly back on the upswing again. You're on Alvarez. We got Kyle Tucker hitting the ball really well. So there are some upsides in that lineup for sure. And the rotation has question marks. But I think that those question marks do contain upside if a lot of these guys want to do what they could potentially do. And that's why I'm okay with taking a bit of a swing here, the bullpen, not too bad. So I think at plus 150, you're getting a soft enough number on the Astros to be okay with the legitimate losses they have had. And they are legitimate losses. Like you look at the guys they've lost the past couple of the last seasons, it's fair to be concerned about this Astros team, but not a lot of competitive teams in the AL West. They are plus 150 to win still a really good offense. I think that is enough to potentially throw them out there and they could always still make a move, try to bolster that rotation as well, add some depth to the to the lineup. So they might not be done. I think getting them plus 150 here is forgiving enough to be willing to dive into these waters and be okay with them. Despite like you said, being a team that has lost legitimately quite a bit of firepower the past couple of years. They've lost an absolute ton as we transition over from one era of Astros to the next, but some of the players like Kyle Tucker and Jordan Alvarez, like you said, I think they're just easy value here in AL West. It just doesn't project to be very good. I think this this division is really a toss-up with the with the A's losing so much. The Rangers still coming up and then the Mariners never making the playoffs. So I think that the Astros at plus 150, it's just a good number to get here as spring training just gets underway. That's going to do it for us here in the Fanville Hurryup. Jim, I've enjoyed talking baseball and I'm excited to do it for the next six months. Yeah, we've got a lot of markets we can dive into Greg. So I'm sure we'll be talking about something else next week. I have no idea what yet, but we'll talk to it and talk about it then. And it's fun just having some optimism about warmer days on the horizon. But again, move to Florida. For Jim Sanis, I am Greg Susman. Tomorrow we'll be joined by Tom Beckio here talking about the top DFS players on the NBA sleep. Have a great night and we'll see you back here tomorrow for another edition of the Fanville Hurryup.


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When we learn about simultaneous equations, we are basically looking at two linear equations for which we need to find out the solution.  Now we are going to learn how to identify whether the given linear equations has a solution or does not have a solution. When the given system of equations or the given simultaneous equations have a solution, let me say it is consistent. And when it does not have a solution, we say it is inconsistent. Our objective is to look at these coefficients of the given simultaneous equations and compare the fractions a1 by a2, b1 by b2 and c1 by c2. Let us see how we can identify whether the simultaneous equations are consistent or inconsistent. Now let us consider two lines. First line is a1 x plus b1 y plus c1 is equal to 0. And the other line is a2 x plus b2 y plus c2 is equal to 0. Now let us say if these two lines are parallel. In that case, they will have the same slope. So let us say if we want to find out the slope of line 1, it will be the coefficient of x when we isolate y on one side. So that will be found by finding out the equation in the form y equal to mx plus c and we can simply write y is equal to minus a1 by b1 x minus c1. And this is how we can write the equation for line l2. And we can see that the slope of both the lines is same and therefore minus a1 by b1 should be equal to minus a2 by b2. In other words, we can also say that a1 by a2 is equal to b1 by b2. If this condition is satisfied, then the lines are parallel. And what does that mean? If the lines are parallel means they have no solution. Why no solution is because they do not intersect. Now for the given lines, they did not have a solution because they were parallel because a1 by a2 is equal to b1 by b2 but at the same time it is not equal to c1 by c2. If c1 and c2 are the same, both the lines are one and the same. So this is l1 and this is also l2 and they overlap and they would not anymore be parallel, there will be a single line. And so for the two lines to be parallel or the simultaneous equations to be inconsistent, a1 by a2 is equal to b1 by b2 but then it should not be equal to c1 by c2. An example of such parallel lines is something like this 2x plus 5y plus 8 is equal to 0 or and then we could write 4x plus 10y plus 9 is equal to 0. In this case 2 by 4 is equal to 5 by 10 that is not equal to 8 by 9 and therefore the simultaneous equations here are inconsistent. Now let us talk about when the two lines coincide. Now for the two lines to be coinciding, they are one and the only line. So the same line can be tagged as l1 and l2. So if this was l1 and this was l2 then in that case a1 by l2 will be equal to b1 by b2 and then c1 by c2 would also be the same. So if we have all these ratios to be equal then the line is going to be consistent because there are many solutions because every point on the line satisfies both the lines but the two lines are dependent. That means just by multiplying the equation of one of the lines by certain constant you get the equation of the other line. For example if one of the lines is x plus 2y is equal to 9 and the other is 3x plus 6y is equal to 27 then in this case I can see that 1 by 3 is equal to 2 by 6 is equal to 9 by 27 and this is one and the same line choose any point that is on one of the lines. So if I choose x to be 1 and y to be 4, so if I put 1, 4 as a solution the same point 1, 4 satisfies 3x plus 6y is equal to 27 but also there are many other points. Another point that satisfies both the lines is 3, 3 and the same point satisfies the other line 3, 3. So there are more than one solutions and in fact because these lines coincide all the points on the same line are the solutions for both the lines. So now we have the two given lines to be consistent and dependent if all three ratios are equal. Now let us look at some other condition. When the two lines are not parallel and if they intersect there is going to be only one solution since two lines with different slopes can only intersect in one single point and so in such a solution because they are not parallel and so in that case the ratio A1 by A2 is not equal to B1 by B2 and such equations are called consistent because there is still a single solution but the equations of two lines are independent and that just means that these are intersecting lines. The first part that we saw was parallel lines, the second part of lines was coinciding lines and the last part that we saw are intersecting lines and this is how just by looking at the simultaneous equations we can find whether the solution exists or it does not.


Good morning and welcome to CMC Markets on Friday, the 22nd of May and this quick look at the week ahead with me, Michael Houston, starting the 25th of May. We get started, just go through a number of quick disclaimers before we try and dissect what the markets have done this week and ultimately look forward to what is likely to drive markets over the course of the next week or so, which is a short week next week because the UK has a bank holiday on Monday the next week or so. As we come to the end of May and we start to look ahead towards the last month of Q2, which would be June. So it's been it's been an interesting last few days for equity markets, got off to a real flyer on Monday, if we look at the FTSE 100 to begin with, very strong gains there on the Monday and to a large extent we haven't given back too much of those gains, started on started the week on optimism over the reopening of economies across Europe, as well as the US. I think there is an expectation amongst a lot of investors as economies reopen and the search for a vaccine as well as antibody tests goes on that we may not see a second peak in the short term, simply because obviously the weather is getting warmer and that makes it much more difficult for the virus to be transmitted, that doesn't necessarily mean we won't get one in the autumn, but certainly over the course of the next two or three months I think there's an expectation that some semblance of normal service might resume. However, I think it's run into a little bit of concern, this particular rebound on the back of yet another big rise in US weekly jobless claims, another 2.4 million people lost their jobs or claimed for jobless benefit, bringing the total up to 38 million in the last six weeks, six, seven weeks, and now we're starting to see a sharp rise between the US and China and I certainly think that's something that we can't dismiss as we look towards the November the 3rd presidential election because I think the more damage that the coronavirus crisis does to the US economy the more likely it will be or the more likely it will be that President Trump will look for a scapegoat and a scapegoat is more than likely going to be China and that's why Asia markets to a large extent and markets in general today are sharply lower. I think China's not helping with its more aggressive interventions in Hong Kong's internal governance, talking about a new national security law which could well reignite the unrest that was a hallmark of last year the street protests on the streets of Hong Kong which predated the outbreak of this coronavirus. We can certainly see the way the Hang Seng has reacted to that with respect to this this chart that we've got up here. Two very very big falls over the course of the last couple of days has taken out the lows of the last four to five weeks and as such could start to see some semblance of a revisit of the lows that we saw all the way back in March so Hong Kong markets are getting a little bit nervous. I think it's going to be very very difficult for China to step back from some form of confrontation with the US and vice versa. I think President Trump is likely to raise the volume against China as we head into the summer and we look towards the presidential election at the end of the year. So what investors are having to cope with right now is concerns about a renewal of US-China trade tensions after the positivity of earlier in the week as well as concerns about a second wave as we head into the autumn. So as if life wasn't complicated enough we've also got the prospect of renewed US-China trade tensions. Nonetheless what we've seen and what we continue to see is equity markets continuing to track ever so slightly higher. We can see that here with respect to this UK 100 chart, this FTSE 100 chart. We still haven't taken out the peaks that we saw in April and that's as true of the FTSE as it is here with respect to the German DAX. If we look at the DAX chart here it's a similar sort of story so we just quickly close that down and reopen this chart here. We can see that again we struggle to get through those peaks at the end of April and as such that's likely to act as a decent resistance for any rebounds going forward. Nonetheless we still need to be mindful of the support all the way back down here at 10192. So while all the noise that we're hearing from the news flow points to sharp moves to the downside as well as sharp moves to the upside the bigger picture is we're still in the range albeit at near the highs of that particular range and we do need to bear that in mind and take a step back when we're listening to the news flow because the news flow can overwhelm your senses which is why it's very very important to look at the price action as well. So be mindful of the resistance that we've seen at the end of April. I can draw in a little horizontal line for you there and you can see that it's 11,340 so that's a quite a nice little resistance line to keep an eye out for and the same also applies to the S&P 500 even though we did make a marginal marginal new peak as a result of the up move that we saw this week we didn't really substantially push beyond it and more importantly than that we didn't take out the 200 day moving average. Having said that we still very much remain in by the dips mode when it comes to the current performance that we're seeing in equity markets. I've drawn in a nice little trend line through here. I think it's unlikely that we're going to come crashing off in the short to medium term so if we do get a push lower then we are likely to find buying interest pick up simply because central banks very much remain in the mode to support the recovery. We've heard from Jerome Powell the head of the Fed this week and he's remained very much of the mindset that he will the Federal Reserve will do whatever it takes to support the recovery and that also includes loan programs to smaller medium-sized businesses something that the Bank of Japan this morning also announced that it would do with a new package of $280 billion worth of loans to small businesses. We also seen this week the effects that UK government's fiscal response has had on the borrowing numbers the UK borrowing numbers in April. The UK government borrowed £62 billion on top of a revised upwards figure of £12 billion in March. Now that £62 billion in April obviously was part and parcel of the employee assistance program the furlough program and was also higher than the entire previous years borrowing government borrowing figure so the UK government borrowed more in April than it did in the previous financial year. Given the fact the furlough is likely to be extended into October albeit with some employee assistance that number is only likely to go a lot a lot higher and we've already got some sort of number on it because of the chancellor announcing that the numbers will be in the region of £340-350 billion over the course of the next few months which is around about 15 to 20% of UK GDP and the final bill is likely to be higher than that but we're not we're not alone in this particular leaky boat. The US Federal Reserve the the US government is the US government is already talking about another stimulus a fiscal stimulus program and obviously we also have the European the European agreement between Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron of France of a 500 billion euro EU recovery fund though whether or not that comes to anything remains to be seen it got an awful lot of headlines but it's not likely to amount to anything much before March next year so as with everything with respect to the EU it's all it's an awful lot of noise and not a lot of substance that being said the euro has seen a decent pickup over the course of the past couple of days but again it's run from foul of the 200 day moving average in this series of previous peaks through here I still can't get enthusiastic about the euro we've got a whole host of numbers coming out next week these are generally confirmatory numbers first quarter GDP final revisions for Germany France and Italy Germany's is coming out on the 25th of May and that is expected to be confirmed at minus 2.2 percent there is a risk that that could be revised that could be revised lower even lower because of the really awful March numbers that we saw with respect to retail sales industrial production and what have you so that could get revised lower we've also got French first quarter GDP in Italian first quarter GDP minus 5.8 percent in the case of France minus 4.8 in the case of Italy so those are confirmation of some really poor numbers on the optimistic side we also have the German IFO business survey now that hit a record low in April of 74.3 no surprises there given the fact that German economy was in lockdown and there's little expectation that things will improve in Q2 however we could see a pickup in that number because of the fact that economies across Europe have started to ease lockdown restrictions so you could see business activity pick up there but you know you have to take your good news where you find it it's going to be an awful number it's just not going to be as bad as the number in April so we could see a little bit of a rebound there on the 25th of May we've also got a whole host of US numbers out next week obviously we have the usual weekly jobless claims numbers which again are probably going to come in in the millions taking the total to around about 40 million that number is due out on the Thursday but what's really drawn my eye I think for the coming week it's going to be the beige book survey of economic activity consumer confidence for May which is coming out on the 26th of May and US personal spending for April so in the context of that we've already looked at the S&P 500 my opinion here is nothing's changed it's likely to remain in this range that we've been in for quite some time pretty much the same as other equity markets until we can find some catalyst that's going to drive it out of that range now we could see an increase in China US tension drive it out of that range towards the downside or we could see the prospect of another big stimulus program from central banks and governments drive it to the upside but ultimately economic reality still has to override stock market valuations and at the moment they are looking a little bit rich but I don't think we're going to come crashing off so let's take a look at US consumer confidence because only a few months ago that was sitting near 20 year highs so the sharp fall that we saw back in April to the levels last seen in 2014 shouldn't really have been too much of a surprise I think the real surprise was that we didn't fall even further back to the levels we saw in February 2009 as we came out of the financial crisis you know it doesn't mean we can't fall further in May and I think it's likely that we will you have to put in the context of where the US economy was in 2009 there was there was so many fewer unemployed so I can't see how US consumer confidence can't fall even more precipitously lower from the levels that it is now which is around the mid 80s so I'll be keeping an eye on that that should come in that should see a fairly big fall and US personal spending for April now in March that number came in at minus 7.5 that was a record low for US personal spending and that was really I think only for half of March when the US economy went into lockdown so when the US economy did go into lockdown as cases started to rise in New York there was still two weeks left to go in March we've got the whole of April now to look at US personal spending and I think that the record low that we saw in March is likely to be surpassed by another record low of minus 12.6 percent we've already seen the effect the lockdown has had in the UK UK retail sales for April minus 18.1 percent a record low not surprising when you consider that half the most non-food shops were closed but again you know there's a negligible negligible reaction to the pound we're in a bit of a downtrend have been in for quite some time the big I think the big level for me in sterling still remains if we go out to the daily chart here this red line here it's around about 1.19.85 1.20 I still think there's way too much pessimism baked in to the sterling price as you know as we head into the rest of the year and may generally tends to be a negative month pound for the pound anyway so I think as long as we can hold above these lows here and I think there's a good chance we could see a decent rebound back through 1.22.5 1.22.70 and back towards 1.24 I'm not nearly anywhere near as optimistic about the euro and we've seen that push higher over the course of the last week or so we can see that in this euro sterling chart that's one call that I really haven't got particularly well I haven't caught particularly well over the course of the past few days I didn't anticipate this breaking higher I can't understand the rationale really for the euro strengthening against the pound when you look at the the the economics of the various economies in the fiscal oversight of Europe relative to the UK you know Europe's a basket case I really cannot see any long-term benefit and being long-term euros when they're completely unable to come up with a coordinated fiscal response to the problems they're about to sweep across the continent over the course of the next six months you know the Spain Italy and Greece their tourist season is gone you know and that's their main that's their main revenue earner in the summer months other than that there's not really much in the way you know in terms of significant revenues that these economies have to keep themselves going so for me I have significant concerns about the southern European economies in the absence of a significant fiscal response from EU authorities and that for me limits the upside we're finding a little finding it a little bit toppy around 90 I think as long as we stay below 90 then we could start to drift back lower again but it's likely to be glacial in its in its speed in terms of other things I'm keeping an eye out for this week there's a couple of there's a couple there's a couple of earnings announcements you've got daily mail latest numbers we've seen reports of lots of job cuts across the across the across the mainstream media in journalism so as a result of the fall in advertising revenues particularly in print which I've seen revenues drop quite sharply as people stop buying newspapers simply because they're not going out so they're doing an awful lot of their media consumption online digitally and we've also got HP's second quarter earnings for the for the year on the 27th so we've got daily mail on the 28th we've got HP Q2 numbers on the 22nd 27th and that's one thing that I think has done fairly well over the course of the past few weeks laptop sales I've just bought myself a new HP laptop but they've certainly found that they've underperformed relative to some of their peers like Lenovo PC shipments in Q1 HP saw a 13.9% decline so they're sort of falling a little bit behind the curve there and they need to really up their game so if they can't up their game in Q2 HP then you really do have to wonder you know what will cause them to see a significant move higher in their share price we have seen a decent rebound over the course of the past few days but we need to take out that $18 level that we see in this particular chart here if I just get rid of those active pointers on the right hand side you can see these series of peaks over here in March they're the next resistance along with the 200 day moving average we look at daily mail trust again we've seen a decent rebound over the course of the past few weeks from the March lows running again into the 200 day moving average so running into a little bit of resistance on the back of the rebound that we've seen since March I got asked to also have a quick look at gold by some clients on my week ahead and this seems an opportune time to do it simply because we've made new seven and a half year highs on the gold price we've broken out of this triangular consolidation here if we adopt a measured move basis for this move is break out of this triangular consolidation which I've done by using the Fibonacci extension feature on the toolbar the draw tools bar here so the Fibonacci extension is there you use that you basically take the distance of this move here project it higher and that gives you a target of 1796 it's run into resistance around about 1765 which is a 61.8 move or measured move from this breakout point here I'm looking for a measured move to $1800 an ounce which remains my end of year target for gold until such times as it reaches that level that will remain my target once it hits that target I will then come up with a new one but for the end of year target for gold remains around about $1800 an ounce if we look at the support levels through here we can draw a line through here also support in and around 1720 just above the breakout level that we saw all the way back on the 14th of May so very much a case of buy the dips when it comes to gold prices also got to another revision of first quarter GDP out of the US economy not really expecting to see any significant changes to that still expecting to see that come in a minus 4.8 percent annualized contraction in Q1 and will include some of the missing data from the final weeks of March so there is a risk actually that minus 4.8 could actually nudge into the minus 5 percent level so that's it I think for this week ladies and gentlemen thank you very much for listening this is Michael Houston signing off here at CMC markets and just going to quickly take you through the final slides for the final disclaimer and I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a nice long weekend if you're enjoying it hopefully the weather will be nice and look forward to speaking to you all again same time same place next week thank you


Hello friends. I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you how you can compare two strings by passing strings into function. Before starting, you can note my information, you can follow or subscribe my YouTube channel through the URL youtube.com slash sanjaygupta underscore tech school. You can download my programming app TechMS which is available on Google Play. Now I am going to implement the solution of this problem with the help of C programming. So first time including a header file stdio.h. Now I am going to declare a function whose name is compare. Its written type is integer and it will receive two arguments of type character array. So this is function declaration. After function declaration, I am defining main function. So inside main, I have to declare two arrays of type character. So name of arrays are s1 and s2. Now I am declaring a variable integer type variable that is f. Now with the help of printf, I am displaying a message enter first string to receive first string. I am using GATUS function. So GATUS will read all the contents entered by the user and those contents will be stored inside s1. Now again, I am implementing printf function which will display the message enter second string on console. To receive the entered contents from console, GATUS function is again called and here s2 string is passed inside GATUS function. So after reading process, I have to call compare function. So for that purpose, I am writing this statement. This statement is function calling statement. So in compare function call s1 and s2 will be passed as an argument and the result will be received inside f. Now I have to compare f. So if f will be receiving value 0, then I am going to print strings are equal. Otherwise I can print strings are not equal. So this way I have compared both the strings by calling the compare function. After this main function implementation, I have to define the definition of compare function. So now I am going to define compare function definition. So you can see this block will be containing function definition. Now inside this function, I am first declaring a variable I and then variable f which is initialized with 0. Now I am implementing a for loop which is initialized with 0. So here variable I equals to 0 is the initialization. Then s1 of I not equals to null. This is first condition using all operator. I am applying another condition that is s2 of I not equals to null. So if any one of the condition is true, then this loop will repeat. Otherwise loop will be terminated inside this for loop. I have to apply if condition that is s1 of I not equals to s2 of I. So if this condition is true, that means s1 contained is not equals to the contents of s2. Then I can assign one in f variable and I can break the loop. So if contents are unequal, then only f will be receiving one and loop will be terminated. Otherwise this loop will repeat until this condition is false. So loop will be repeating every time. This if condition will be checked. If it is true, then only f will be receiving one. Otherwise after completion of this loop, f will remain 0. So now after completion of this loop, I can return the value of f. So if f is 1 or if it is 0, in both the cases, the returned value will be assigned inside the f variable which is available at calling statement. So if f is 0 at calling statement, then it will print strings are equal. Otherwise the masses strings are unequal will be displayed on console. So this way I have implemented the comparison logic in front of you by passing strings into function. Now I am going to execute this code. So it is asking for first string, I am entering Sanjay and second string I am entering Gupta. So you can see the output is it is showing strings are not equal because contents are unequal. Now in both the strings, I am entering Sanjay. So you can see the output. It is showing strings are equal. So this way the program is working properly. It is showing the correct results in both the cases whether the strings are equal or not equal. So I hope you have understood how we can pass strings into function for comparing them. If you want to watch more programming related videos, you can follow or subscribe my YouTube channel through the URL youtube.com. You can download my programming app TechMS which is available on Google Play. Thank you for watching this video.