If people get your SSH, I mean people can't, if even if they do compromise your computer, they can't copy your SSH key, which hopefully you have a passphrase on your SSH key anyway, but more security is always better. And there's also, which these will hold up the 4096 bit keys. There is also the Yubiqui Neo which runs Java card and it comes built in with a Java card applet for OpenPGP. These, I like them in some ways, in some ways I prefer the others because these, yes they're smaller and they do multiple things because the Yubiqui Neo can also do the normal Yubiqui features. So like if you are involved with Fedora infrastructure, you have to have either Yubiqui or Google Authenticator or one of the other similar apps to use SUDA. But you can use your Yubiqui Neo that you also use for SSH. The bad thing about these, well one thing is these can only hold 2048 bit keys which is still pretty large, but what I've done is I have most of the systems I connect to, I have both a key that's on here and another key that's on my Yubiqui. The bad thing, one of the bad things recently about the Yubiqui was there was a vulnerability in the OpenPGP applet that's on here where basically you, if you compile, if you wrote the software just right to do, I mean, which it does require you to tell it to use it in ways that it wasn't intended, but you could basically make this sign stuff without the pin, which is kind of bad. But Yubiqui I think handled it nicely if you had one that had the old version of the applet because now the original Yubiqui Nios were what they now call the developer model where you could change the applets on here yourself. Now they come locked where you can't change them. If you have one that's locked so you can't change it and it has the vulnerable version of the applet on it, you can just send them a ticket on their support system with the output of GPG dash dash card status and they will send you a coupon code to get a replacement for free. You don't even have to mail the original one in and it'll still work for things like regular Yubiqui and things like that. So I didn't make fancy slides because most of what I intended to do is just show you how to do it and if anybody has any questions, then I'll answer people's questions. Does anyone have any questions about anything so far? Or anything you'd like to know specifically? Well, as far as setting it up, Clint Savage or Herlo, he has made a really good documentation on his GitHub repo of how to get it set up to work well. Sorry, I was on the internet, but it must have lost my connection. Well, I'll go ahead and show you this while I'm at it. Does anyone else have trouble with the internet here? All right. So once you go through the steps on his GitHub repo, which really explains it very well, there's a few packages you have to install and a couple of files to change so that it sets up GPGA agent. Then you can either generate your key on the smart card itself, which the drawback of that is it leaves you with no backup. So if something would happen to your smart card or it would stop working or something, your key's just gone. You can't put it on a new one. What I've chosen to do is generate my key when I'm not on the internet or anything and then put it on the smart card later. This is a brand new token and smart card. GPG card status will just tell you the serial number. You can set a name, language, URL, all of that. So I'm just going to generate a key real quick, just the same as normal. Okay, so there I have my new key. So to put that, so if I wanted to, I could do GPG export private key and save that on a file, which I have mine in an encrypted file in my safe deposit box. So if for some reason my GPG tokens would stop working, I could go get that and then put it on a new one. So to put that on your card, do GPG edit key and then key to card. And it'll ask you, are you really sure I want that to be a signature key? Then the admin pin is, starts out as one, two, three, oh, sorry, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And then save. So then if you go back to GPG card status, then that will show that your key is on the card. And you can, you can put the same key in multiple slots. Like if you have your main key or a sub key that's set for signature encryption and authentication, you can put the same key in all three slots. GPG will not allow you to do that as simply as I would like. I guess it wants you to use a different key.  And it will leave the key on the card and it will leave the key in your GPG key ring. So then you can go back to edit key and then put it in encryption, then quit, then edit key and put it in authentication. And you can put the key in all three slots, which what I've done is I put my main key is set as signature as all three capabilities. So I have it on one of these with in all three slots. And then I have a sub key, a separate sub key for each one on another one of these. Yes, you can. Also, I can show you that should be generate. Sorry, I don't usually do this. If you do yes here, it does not actually generate it on the card. If you hit yes, it's basically the same as generating the key, exporting the private key and then moving it to the card. If you hit no, it will generate it on the card. Yes, I want to replace everything on there. And these will support up to 4096. And of course, you can change the pin to be whatever you want. I've just left it as the default on here since it's not actually being used for anything. And there are two different types of these of the Jamalto tokens. This is a brief called ID bridge K50. It's the newer one. They're tamper resistant. So the older ones, which are the say are which are the ones that the place that you get the smart cards from sells are called USB shell token version two. And also the new name is ID bridge K30, I believe. And they have just a little door that you can just unhook to get the card out so you could switch what card is in there. These, once you put them together, there's a couple little tabs that go down in there so you can't get it apart without actually breaking it. Does anyone else have any questions or anything so far? Yeah. Why, sorry. I think it mainly goes down to preferences. And also it depends on what you set as the capabilities when you generated your key. GPG's default is just for RSA keys is signature and authentication set to enabled. But you can also set encryption also or any combination of that if you do dash dash gen key dash dash expert. It will let you choose whatever options you want. I've heard different people have different opinions about if you need to use different sub keys for everything or not or if it really matters. When I generated my keys, I made them set to be enabled for everything. I generally don't use my main key. I use the sub keys because GPG will let you use sub keys for everything except signing other keys. So that's all I use. Like whenever I use SSH to connect to anywhere, I just have to have this and have to know my pin number or well actually it's not just numbers. GPG will let you use letters, numbers and special characters even as the pin on here. They just call it pin even though it's not just numbers. And as you can see, generating the keys on here does not appear to be as quick as on the computer. Well, yeah, sure. I should have just done something smaller since I'm not actually using them. A little about the Yubikis. The newer Yubikis, I don't believe all NEOs have it but has anyone used the U2F stuff that Google is supporting now? You pretty much have to use Chrome. But I've got that enabled on my Google Apps account and my Gmail account. And at least the newer, I'm not sure exactly. I don't think the older Yubikis supported it. So the newer ones, the ones which are made this year and I think some of them are the newer ones now. They support that. And so this really, I use it for three different things pretty much, regular Yubiki for Fedora and Yubiki for other sites because they have two regular Yubiki slots. So I have one set for Fedora and one set for the Yubiki validation server. So most other sites that use Yubiki use the Yubico server, not their own. Like Fedora, we have our own Yubiki validation server that we run ourself. That's why you have to use Fedora Burn Yubiki whenever you want to set up one for Fedora. And then the U2F system and the PGP. They also have, the blue one just does the U2F features which is the new Google back service which it's supposed to be compatible with other sites but have you found anywhere else really? I haven't. I haven't found anywhere else yet that supports it but it's supposed to be hopefully becoming a standard. Of course they have the regular Yubikis which I'm sure most of you are probably used. And they have one that is compatible with, is their name Symantec still? Used to be Verisyn's two-factor system. Now I think it's called Symantec. They have one that's compatible with that that you can use at a lot of, at several bigger sites like eBay and PayPal and things like that. Okay, so now it's done and I have three keys, one subkey for each feature and all of the keys expire tomorrow. So that way, I suppose that is the most secure way of doing it because there has never been a copy of those keys on any computer because they are generated directly on the card. Some people I know, was it Pecker that I talked to last year was saying, they think that's the only way to go is to generate the keys on the card. Personally, I think that would be okay for subkeys but I wouldn't want to have the only copy of my main key on one of those because if it stopped working or something then basically you would lose your key and have to get all of your signatures and everything over again because you wouldn't be able to put it on another one because you cannot get the key off of there once it's on there. That's why you would make it, if you wanted a copy you would need to export the private key before you put it on the card. And they also have a, which these are the exact same things that are in those readers. They also make full-size smart card versions. And then I got this little smart card reader that folds up to be like the size of a flash drive. I believe I got this on eBay and you just unfold it and it makes a little slot for the card to go in and then you can plug it in your USB slot and it works the exact same way. I found a couple readers that are not quite supported well with Fedora, which in some time whenever I get around to doing so, I'm intending to try to start through Fedora docs a two-factor authentication guide because I think it would be nice to have some of this documented more because the only documentation or at least the best documentation I could find whenever I first started doing this was on Herlo's GitHub. He's made a nice tutorial and also has the configuration files you need on GitHub. And but I'm going to try to be making a two-factor authentication guide and documenting what hardware I've found works. They also make some USB keyboards that have smart card slots in it. I haven't tried them in a while but I know the one by, I think it's called Cherry does not work at least with Fedora or with GPG. But I think the other one was made by Dell and it worked okay. And I like this. The only times I've ever used the full-size smart cards I prefer this little card reader which is made by SCM microsystems. It seems to work just fine and you can just throw it in your pocket or whatever. Does anyone else have any questions or anything to say or anything? Okay. Why are you doing this in practice, maybe? Okay, well yeah, I didn't really, I kind of forgot about that. Okay, so SSH, you really don't have to do anything. Well, okay, on your computer, are you talking about the server or the client? I mean, like what you have to do on your computer or are you talking about is there anything special you have to do like to connect with SSH? No, really, okay. So, SSH-add-L, all you have to do once you set up on your computer which if you go to Herlo's GitHub repo it pretty much will walk you through exactly what to do to set up your computer which I apologize, I was going to show that apparently the internet is strange. So you're walking your local keychain on the client side? So all SSH-add-L does, that tells you all you need to do on the server side, copy that into your authorized keys. To basically, your server doesn't care that you're using that.  So your computer does the second factor itself because once you try to SSH to a server it will pop up a box. I mean, you have to have this plugged in, of course. You type in your SSH command, it will pop up and tell you to enter your PIN. And it valid, then the token validates your PIN and will sign the request that SSH wants it to sign to connect to the server. So you're not securing your remote? Yes. Yeah, it's a second factor for your private key on your laptop because your key, all that's stored in your GPG key ring once you put the key on the card is basically a stub that just says this key isn't here, it's on a card. And it will actually, if I had this key inserted and tried to SSH to a different server, I mean to a server that uses my SSH key, my computer, if I have used that key before, it will tell me insert card number or such and such, which there's not really any way to tell from looking at it what the card serial number is because the case is too dark. But the serial number is on the actual smart card itself. It's just not readable once it's in there because it's on the same side that the contact is on. So, and then as for GPG, GPG itself, it will detect that your card is in there. Every once in a while, I've had issues where it will act strange and my usual solution is kill GPG agent and restart it. But it works well on Fedora. Whenever I'm booted into OS 10, which is rarely, but sometimes it will, it doesn't work as well as Fedora using the GPG token. It works, but you bother. Fedora works pretty good usually. Yes, the instructions on GitHub will tell you how to set up SSH to use GPG agent. There's a script that you put in your home directory and then you set up, if I remember right, you set up your bash profile to run this script that sets up GPG agent. And so then it'll do that every time you log in. And it seems to work well. I went to, I think, what was it, FedCon Lawrence, maybe? I think it was, Herlo did a talk about it. And that's when I kind of got into using it. I think it would be a good thing to get, even to get infrastructure to start supporting or start recommending. I don't know how easy it would be to require it because then everybody that has an account on anything on Fedora infrastructure would need to get one of these somehow, or a Yubiqui or one of the similar things.  Honor system probably. All right. I don't really know of a way, I mean, you could read a script that looks through authorized keys for something that says card no, whatever, but that's just the comment. You can edit the comment in your SSH key to be whatever you want.  But that's just what GPGA agent uses by default is card no, colon, whatever the serial number of the smart card is, which depends on the manufacturer. Like all of these start with a five, which is supposed to be the manufacturer's ID number or something. And the Yubiqui ones start with a six. And as you can tell, that's shorter because that's a 2048 bit key because apparently what Yubico said was it's a limitation in Java card that they can't make it handle 4096 bit keys. Even if they change the applet that they use to support it, something in Java card, there's not enough room or something for it to handle that. Yeah. I mean, it's actually in the hardware market. There aren't any cards publicly available that's far from saying, far from that. Yeah, I'm not sure about the implement, about the Yubiqui's, what actual card they use other than it's something in Java card, but I know these will support a 4096, the GPG smart card ones. That's what I use on there. Anything else? If I already have it, can I go and die in the world? Definitely. That's what I personally would recommend. That way you can still have a backup of your key in case your token would malfunction, you still have your key. If you generate the key on here and something happens to it, well, too bad. Your key's gone. You can't use your key if you don't have a backup. That's what I was showing at the beginning when you go into your key, type in, I mean, go to edit key, then type in toggle and then key to card, that will move your key to the smart card. I would of course recommend doing export private key first and put your private key in a file and encrypt it and put it somewhere secure. That way you have a backup of it. But yes, you can definitely use an existing key. My first key I used to use just on my computer. I have two keys currently, one I've had for a while, one I generated before flock last year, maybe, or no, no, it was since then. Because a lot of keys use SHA-1 for itself sigs and things like that, and you kind of, you can't, I've read some articles about how that's not good because SHA-1 is not that secure anymore. So what I did was added the options to my GPG config to make it use SHA-512 and generated a new key. But I still have both of them for now because my new key has not been signed by very many people yet, because I haven't been to any conferences other than self this year since I made the new key. Yeah. You can change the signature on existing keys if you just, I would like to talk about that. Yeah, you can change those, but you can't change the signatures on your subkeys, and I don't know, okay, I will try that. There was some reason that somewhere recommended just making a new key, I don't have to look it up. Yeah, I'm not sure I haven't looked at that lately, but yeah, I'll check into that again because my old key has been signed by a bunch of people, so I'd kind of rather not start over, anything else? Yeah, it looks like on a Friday at 5 p.m. Is that when we're having the key sign? Okay. Well, Till is doing a GPG best practices, and then we're having the key signing and having CA cert assurances available. Yes, the same two-hour workshop slot, yeah. And so we can see how much interest in best practices that everybody knows everything. We're going? I'm not sure if I'm going to say, well, yeah. We're going to kind of gear the best practices towards how much people know, how much they wanna know, and then have the key signing. That way, hopefully people can get there before we start the key signing. And I have the lists printed out from everybody that signed up on the Google Forms for it. If you did not sign up for the key signing and you're interested, you can still come. Preferably bring your keys, fingerprint, and your name, print it a bunch of times, or what we've done in the past is just write it up on the whiteboard, which it looks like we might not have whiteboards here.  So anybody is still welcome even if you did not sign up. We just try to get people to sign up ahead of time so we can print out a list of everybody's name and fingerprint. Then depending on how people wanna do it, I have done it before where everybody just says their fingerprint looks right on the paper and I've done it before where everybody reads their fingerprint to make sure that everybody has the same copy and I didn't like put papers with different fingerprints to different people. Yeah. Yeah. I have about 30 or 40 copies of the key list printed out in my bag. So anything else anybody? What drives do you use? The drivers are in Fedora. There's a few packages to install. I believe the drivers are in, there's a PCSC light, I think is the name or something like that of the package. But on the GitHub repo, it tells you exactly what to install, what configuration files you need to edit to get the GPG agent stuff set up, and all of that. Anything else? They said we were about at a time a couple of minutes ago. Oh well, we still have a couple of minutes. If no one else says anything, thank you all for coming. This is my group. I really don't use it in practice much. I just kind of wanted to get examples of different hardware to document what worked and what doesn't work. Well, the smart card that goes in these is exactly the same as this, except you can order them with a, and it's actually SIM card size cutout where you just punch it out of there. Oh, okay. Oh, what's the... Or this is the all-PGP card that's... That's the Gemalto card that is the most popular because that's the same one that the place that sells the smart card sells. I ordered these from a place in Texas, I think. And these are like, because you don't have to worry about, I always kind of thought, well, what if that cover falls off? Have you ever had? Okay. It seems like it's pretty secure, I'm pretty sure. I've been carrying it around for two years now, I'm not no problem. Oh, okay. It seems like it's pretty secure, but this, you're not gonna get this off without breaking the reader. I don't think it would hurt the card itself if you broke it open, but you would have to replace the reader if you did that. Yeah. And how do you make it work on what's doing? Oh, Google. Well, I mean, I really don't remember, I found somewhere that documented how to do that and it worked decently. Usually every time I started new terminal, I would have to kill all GPG agents and then start GPG agent picking, which can happen something like a fix, but sometimes I would, we'd rather just take the low-tech workbook. You could take two of those, easy enough. Kill all GPG agents, GPG agents, dash, dash, dash, all of them and then it works. Then start a new terminal, can't all GPG agents pick it up. So I don't know what actually is causing it to... Oh, was I supposed to stop this? I guess I was.


Here's your sport grown-up. I sport QPR. Oh, that's a tough one, man. So that was a very good one. QPR, V-Mansi, away at the Etihad. I think every football fan should know what happened that day. Yeah, I was at the United game at the Sunderland game, the other end. It wasn't great. No, I'd imagine not. Yeah, that's not my favourite memory. It's just so good. It was a very special occasion. Both sets of supporters on the pitch after QPR stayed up. Mansi won the league, took it off. Yeah, it was a sore one. Yeah, that's why no 10, never over till the fact Lady Sings. Yeah, it's true. I think no-it fans never had that set before. Really true. But that's probably mine to be fair. Being the United fan, they've had that many. It's hard to pick one season, I think. Probably winning one at three times in a row, that was nice. Nice. You ought to get that in there. Yeah. Nice. I think my favourite goal is that Rooney one. I was literally going to say the same thing. What, when he's arguing the ref? Yeah. Because it kind of like, I say a little bit like what I'm like arguing with referees. I see that. I see that. Then I probably don't have the technique, Rooney had. You have the technique. You have the technique. We'll see it this season. Yeah, hopefully. But yeah, he's arguing the ref, turns around, sticks in the top bins. Yeah, he's still angry. That's my favourite. I think that's probably mine as well, so sorry for saying the same answer, but it came straight to my mind, so definitely that. Oh, Rooney's over a kick. Yeah, that's a big goal, massive goal. Yeah. When I was younger, I think that was, I was like, wow. Yeah. I remember watching that live on TV and it was somewhat special really, even though it came off his shint, but it was a fantastic goal. Certainly, it was the most fine to be honest. Mine's Thierry Henry's goal against Barthes at the Flick and Vully. That has to be the best Premier League goal ever for me. Something with West City, they won against, it was a QPR. Yeah. Aguero scored that. In the last second. It's just the first thing that comes to my mind. Yeah, that's good. Because United, they were playing. They already won. They already won their game and they were just waiting for that game to be over. That's sad, isn't it? It was very sad. Very sad. It was very sad, yeah, but it was just a big, big moment in the Premier League. It's a good moment for the league. Go on, you go. I think it's got to be one of the amazing moments of Aguero. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a bonus, I remember. Even just watching that as a kid behind the TV, the emotions. I went crazy, so I imagine being there, the feeling of that. So, you know, that's got to be up there. Not asking. Thierry Henry against United. Incredible. Just there being invincible that season. Yeah, that was a bonus. There's plenty and hopefully we can create something together. There you go. I'm a my new fan. What was your favourite moment then? Well, I've just said I'm a my new fan, but there you go. I was going to say that Aguero go, yeah. Probably just watching that because of how tense it was between them. So, yeah. Probably for me, ground up, I was a Chelsea fan, so probably watching them win the Premier League, following Perichek as a kid, growing up, just watching him and trying to learn from him and trying to, you know, when I went out on the weekend, trying to replicate what he'd done for Chelsea when I was a younger lad. Except the helmet. For me, I would say as a Liverpool fan, actually seeing Liverpool win the Premier League, but I think I would go with when Man City won the Premier League with Aguero scoring the last minute. That was unbelievable. It's obviously been like a fan from the outsiders. It was just unbelievable how it all unfolded.


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Bit of an odd slate for tonight in daily fantasy baseball with a lot of good pictures on this eight game slate But several of them are in very weird spots where they're kind of in repeat matchups facing top our teams are doing something That kind of clouds are outlook a bit. We're just in really bad form right now So it does complicate things a bit for us trying to identify which guys we want to build around I do think there are guys who check enough key boxes to be quality daily fantasy plays But definitely some question as to the viability of them and how assert we should feel in those guys We'll break down who those guys are Why things could potentially go awry why so like them and much more to get you ready for Monday night and MLB DFS Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for a number fire here to break down Monday nights Eight game main slate what locks up for 705 p.m. Eastern for today The big weather note on this slate is that there is a chance of rain tonight in Minneapolis to the twins Mariners I would bet they get most of that game in but there is some risk toward the end of that night where potentially It's a delay post, you know a suspension stuff like that So I would check back on the timeline of the weather in Minneapolis later on to make sure you are good to go with Luis Castillo and kenta Maeda in that game We'll talk about those guys later on and get you ready for the pitching preview here in just one second But first a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast We were here every weekday talking MLB got some PGA on Tuesdays USC on select events on Friday's as well all right here in the same place And of course a solo shot doesn't go up as well over on the fandal YouTube page and on fandall TV plus on Amazon fire Apple TV and Roku devices as well The US women's soccer team is taking on the world and you can take home bonus bets every time they win with fandall because right now New customers get $100 in bonus bets guaranteed plus another $10 in bonus bets for every team USA win Sign up between now and August 3rd So this is still going despite the fact they have played their first game Then place your first $5 bets to unlock your bonus bets that way You'll be all set to bet on everything from total goals to player props all tournament long However, you want to play don't miss a chance to get $10 in bonus bets for every team USA win plus $100 in bonus bets guaranteed make every moment more with fandall America's number one sports book gambling problem Call 1 800 gambler in massachusetts. Hope is here gambling helpline ma.org or call 800 3 2 7 50 50 for 24 7 support in new york 1 8 7 7 8 hope and wire text open y Must be 21 plus in president select states first online real money wager only 10 dollar deposit required refund issued is non withdrawal bonus bets which expire in seven days Restrictions apply sequel terms at fandall dot com slash sports book Fandall is offering online sports wagering in kansas under an agreement with kansas star casino llc gambling problem call 1 800 gambler or is the fandall dot com slash rg in arizona 1800 next step or text next step to 5334 2 in Connecticut 1 8 8 7 8 9 7 7 7 7 7 or visit ccpg.org slash chat in indiana 1 800 9 with it and y oming in kansas 1 805 224 700 or in kansas ks gambling health dot com Louisiana's 1 8 7 7 7 7 7 0 stop in maryland md gambling health.org and in west virginia Go to 1 800 gambler dot net Pitching preview for this monday main st louis castillo comes in with the highest salary on fandall his salary is $10,800 you darver's 10,000 followed by host a barrios in 98 We got logan allen in 94 with john gray brandon belac kenton maeta and grand ashcraft as the others At $8,000 or higher on this slate. We do have a pair of high strikeout guides facing each other in minneapolis That's louis castillo taking on kenton maeta The problem is those they're facing two decent offenses and Those two pitchers just saw the same opposing teams last week. So familiarity is about as high as they can get So i think i'm gonna put you darvish as my top pitcher the night at $10,000 Darvish is at home against the pirates, which is a pretty neutral matchup They've got a 98 wrc plus against righties with a 23 strikeout rate. They're basically league average in both those categories So it's not about the matchup. I just like darvish himself. He's always Experimenting he's got like 40 different pitches. So his pitch mix is always changing Most recently darvish has been throwing more curve balls. It's nade start sample and the results have been mixed But he is getting some strikeouts. He's hit nine strikeouts twice And he had nine or seven last time out. That's what making only three of his eight starts at home He is at home this time around and darvish's strikeout rate is four percentage points higher at home this year than it is on the road So i've got darvish projected for a 6.2 strikeouts tonight That's not a huge number by any means but it is enough to make him a quality play on this slate Where there are so many guys in somewhat daisy situations. So to me View darvish does belong at the top of our list for today Despite the fact it's not a great matchup and despite the fact that darvish not exactly in his highest strikeout form as of right now Number two is logan alan. He's facing the royal tonight and he's also imperfect, but It's a really good matchup and alan is at home And I think we can give him a swing here The matchup is a big part of this because the royals are an advantageous matchup for lefties with a 93 w rc plus And a 143 iso they also strike out a lot with a 25 strikeout rate But their walk rate is low at seven percent, which means that the royals average few pitches for plate appearance Relative to their high strikeout rate. So even though they strike out a lot You're not wasting a lot of pitches against and that's good for alan because he's had big issues with pitch efficiency at times this year He faced the royals back on june 28th He threw 98 pitches and lasted just three and two-thirds innings And he got demoted after that because they kept burning the bullpen after alan went out because he was super inefficient They have been keeping his stints kind of short this year But he did throw 132 and two-thirds innings last year. He's at 87 so far this year So I don't think it's a situation where they're scaling back his innings for that reason It just seems like he's not efficient And he may get better in that regard because of the matchup despite what happened back on june 28th and alan does have upside He said eight strikeouts. Um, he had eight strikeouts last time out In a five inning shutout appearance. He had 10 strikeouts in late may So I think alan can put up a big score on fandal and his salary is $9,400 So to me alan does enough to be a quality play for tonight I'd put him behind darvish for sure But I do think he belongs as the second stud For tonight, we'll talk about louise castillo and things to watch Among the value plays I do feel best about kenta mayeda I thought pretty long and hard about making a case for john gray But with the astros getting your don alvarez back tonight in gray kind of in a very weird slump It's a rougher situation. So I do want to go towards mayeda despite the fact He's had some weird matchups too or weird starts and it is a repeat matchup as mentioned with the mariners But mayeda has tremendous underlying numbers Since coming off the il he's made five starts and in that time He has a 3.11 skill interactive eray with a 35 strikeout rate and that strikeout rate actually went up last time out because He had nine strikeouts in six and a third innings against these various same mariners And honestly given their situation that makes a lot of sense They have a 25 strikeout rate against righties across the full season It is worth noting that mayeda did that on just 80 pitches So it wasn't like the twins suddenly gave him a longer leash Mayeda was just very efficient Now he does have to face them again But he's at home this time his swinging strike rate there was 17.5 percent And it's 16.3 percent in the five starts since he's come back The bad of ball data for mayeda is not great. Which is why you can have some weird starts But and you add that into the repeat matchup and the pitch count. That's why I'm not higher on mayeda But I think you can do a lot worse than him for $8,400. Again, alan has his flaws Darvish is not perfect either. So I see no reason to Exclude kenta mayeda from your player pool for tonight I've got mayeda projected for 20.9 plate appearances alan projected for 22.5 So not a huge gap between those two guys and I do have mayeda with a higher strikeout projection So probably would go mayeda above alan overall tonight after considering salary But Everyone on this late is kind of flawed. So keep that in mind if you find someone you think is better than them I'm probably not going to talk you out of them. We'll talk about least castillo in things to watch too So a lot of different ways you can play things a pitcher for tonight, but I'll go with Darvish one mayeda two logan alan three after considering salary Let's dig now into the stacks adam wainwright coming off the injured list tonight and he's expected to go around 65 pitches So it'll be wainwright plus the cardinals bullpen But I think that combo is a good reason to stack the diamond bags tonight The roof will be closed in arizona Which means it's not as good of a park as usual because it is a cooler temperature then But the matchup does make up for it wainwright really struggling before he went on the il He made 11 starts and get a 7.66 e r a His expected e r a is somehow actually worse than that at 8.22 Because he's not getting any strikeouts his bad at ball data much worse than it was last year His barrel rate this year is 11.7 percent and it was 6.5 last year So the hope as someone who's watched adam wainwright his entire life basically is that he'll turn it around Maybe the il stint can fix that for wainwright It's hard to see that though And the cardinals bullpen is average behind him They're facing a really solid arizona offense with a 109 a w r c plus against righties in the current active roster So I think the card the diamond backs great out really well here and will be my top stack of the night Even with the roof being closed in arizona I specifically love her although perdomo in these stacks where he's bad lead off against righties It's got a 146 iso which is fine But he runs a lot It's a similar thought process for jake mccarthy where he's not going to have for a ton of power But for him batting sixth, that's the spot where you can steal Perdomo batting lead off you can steal And both these guys perdomo mccarthy can't have big games via speed So what I want to do is use value plays like those guys in order to Get up to the studs elsewhere in the lineup and especially with darwish being 10,000 you can get there for tonight So arizona a team where you can stack them and get to the studs in the lineup Which is definitely how I want to play things for tonight I do think the other side of the game is interesting too. The cardinals likely facing rye nelson It has not been officially announced that nelson will start this game for arizona. So I would check back on that later to make sure it is in fact nelson and not someone else. So Feel free to ask me on twitter if they change starters and I can give you my opinion of that there But I assume it will be rye nelson nelson has had back to back really good starts And he's now at four good starts in his past five outings and all those are for the four good starts all came on the road So it might be dumb to keep stacking against nelson But I will let's look at those five starts and kind of digging into those specifically nelson's pitch mix and those pretty similar to what it has been all year and his vlo is similar so from a philosophical perspective and a stuff perspective not a whole lot different And the results have just been great But the peripherals have been fine more so than great Even if we look at just the five games where nelson has pitched really well So chair picking to make it as look as good as possible He has a 4.57 skill interactive era with a 42 hard hit rate and an 11.7 percent barrel rate last time out nelson led up three barrels against the braves and So that led up just three total hits I think what he's doing is unsustainable And the results should match the peripherals eventually and it could wind up being here because the cardinals Have a 116 at wrc plus against righties with a 184 iso So again, it's not a great park for hitting tonight. It is elevation which helps but not the the temperature But I do still think the cardinals very much worth it now The one thing that could change this is health because a lot of guys for the cardinals are banged up Nolan gorman wilson catreras now play sunday lars newt bar left that game early So you could still potentially stack them without those guys and they'd be great for one offs But it would downgrade them for sure overall lineup quality could decrease a lot depending on what the cardinals lineup looks like So check it out if they are super super depleted. Maybe reevaluate and look elsewhere But and again check on the starter for arizona 2 but as of right now I do think the cardinals are a solid stack for tonight Our third stack is not as good of an offense as the Arizona st. Louis. It's the nationals and It's rough, but they're in a great match of today and the weather is warm So I do think they belong on the radar. They're facing the rockies It sounds like carl kaufman is going to be the bulk reliever for the rockies after bird And i'm going to go based around that assumption because it does sound like it will be kaufman kaufman Spent some time in the big leagues earlier this year got knocked around with a 10.19 era in 17 and 2 3rd innings And that's kind of aligned with expectations based on what's happened with kaufman so far in triple a His era down there is 6.94 with a 5.78 xfib He got there because of a low strikeout rate and lots of hard contact And that's the same thing we saw when he was in the majors and some of those games were against non-elite offenses This one is in washington so kaufman does benefit because it's not a course field That's a big thing for him, but that's kind of the only positive here I think we'll want to be on the gnats in this game, which has not happened often this year So the nationals to me the number three stack behind the cardinals and the diamond backs It really does seem like cj abrams is trending up here for the nationals over the past month His barrel rates up to 7% His strikeout rate is down to 5 percentage points and because of how fast he is it's allowing him hit it for power But of course also steel bases Salary for abrams is three thousand dollars I think he is easily worth that and I will consider him for both stacks and one offs given That he does seem to have One and a half sources of upside I would say the power is still a half but the speed is legitimate So I think that's enough to make adrams a quality play for tonight in dfs Let's go now to things to watch. I do think you should consider louise castillo for tournaments the twins very high strikeout matchup Castillo just had 11 against him last week. He's salary is 10,800 dollars He's on the road repeat matchup. No Byron buxton first night sounds like he will be on the paternity list so I think we should see people stay away from castillo because of the repeat matchup and stuff like that But I also think that's why he is a tournament pivot at best I can't go beyond that because three feet matchup does matter the twins being a good offense, you know buxton does matter too so Didn't thought but maybe don't need to force it for tonight I've tried stacking against scram ashcraft recently and i'm probably done for tonight He's facing the brewer. So not a great offense and the ground ball rate for ashcraft is still really good And it's paired with good results. So I've seen enough where I'll hold off for a bit Maybe we'll be back on ashcraft later on but for right now. I'm okay No longer stacking against him Finally brandon belac is facing the rangers who have no corey seager which is a bummer for their offense But they still have a 114 at wrc plus against righties on the current active roster without him belac's results are Much better than his peripherals. So I'd be willing to use a couple of the rangers as One offs or maybe in a stack. I think that they are at least in consideration for that Against belac for tonight Let's finish up here with some dinger calls for the main slate the boring one Revenge game paul goldschmidt taking on arizona. I feel like we got to go there Facing a guy who has struck with hard contact with five balls if it is in fact nelson So to me, we'll make paul goldschmidt the boring home run call for tonight But the fun one. Let's go jamer condolario. It's actually had a really good year kitten for good power against righties 15 home runs so far it seems like it's pretty legit as far as the the You know against righties at least what he's done So I feel okay about it. So we'll go with paul goldschmidt and jamer condolario as our dinger calls for tonight second consecutive podcast the national being in the dinger calls that elaine thomas is there And he went deep in the first inning against alex wood back on friday So weirdly back-to-back podcasts with the nationals in the dinger calls That is all that we have here for today on the solo shot as mentioned Do not forget to subscribe to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast Check us out on youtube on fan duel as well and on fan duel tv plus if you've got any questions for me I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s want to thank you all for tuning in for today Good luck to you with your mlb dfs lineups And we'll talk to you once again tomorrow to break down to stay asleep This has been the solo shot right here on the fan duel podcast network


So I suppose we want to evaluate 18 to power 85 mod 263. So we'll begin by squaring 18 repeatedly, and we'll always reduce the results mod 263. So 18 is 18 mod 263. 18 squared, well that's 324, but we can reduce that to 61 mod 263. 18 to the fourth, well that is equal to 18 squared squared. But 18 squared is equivalent to 61, so 18 to the fourth will be equivalent to 61 squared. 61 squared is actually equal to 3721, which we can reduce to 39 mod 263. 18 to the eighth, well that's 18 to the fourth squared. 18 to the fourth is equivalent to 39, and 39 squared is, which we can reduce to 206 mod 263. 18 to the 16th, well that's equal to, or since 18 to the eighth is 206, this is, which reduces to 18 to the 32nd is, 18 to the 64 is 18 to the 32nd squared, which is equal to, and since we're only trying to find 18 to power 85, we don't need to find 18 to a higher power at this point. So now we want to assemble the pieces that are equal to 18 to power 85, so the pieces we need are going to be 18 to the 64, 18 to the 16th, 18 to the fourth, and 18 to the first. Remember the advantage of working mod n is you never have to work with large numbers, and so we know that 18 to the 64 is equivalent to 111. 18 to the 16th is equivalent to 93, 18 to the fourth is equivalent to 39, and 18 to the first is just 18, and now we can form the pairwise products, and again the advantage to working mod n is you never have to work with large numbers. So if I multiply 39 by 18, I do get large number 702, but I can reduce that to 176 mod 263. Now I can multiply the next two factors, 93 by 176, then reduce, and finally, what 11 times 62 is, which gives us 18 to power 85.


Hello and welcome back to the Sanada room to discuss the most important issue that I have been asked in my two days here at the forum, can India seize this moment? And this is in the backdrop of 2023, which was significant. India became the fastest growing large economy, or rather retained its status as the fastest growing large economy. It hosted a very successful G20 summit where it proposed a number of path-breaking new initiatives, economic initiatives on the digital sphere, on the gender domain, energy alliance, and of course a number of other plethora of ideas for all of us to benefit from. Now in the backdrop of 2023, as we enter this crucial year, crucial because there are big elections all over the world which are going to implicate geographies around. There is also the whole expectation around AI and new technologies and how they are going to implicate our lives. And of course there is always pessimism from Europe on the future which also infects all of us. So this is the room for celebrating progress. This is the room to discuss the India story. It is the bright spark. And to discuss this we have five fantastic speakers. We have Minister Smriti Zubinirani in charge of women and child development in India and leading the Indian delegation here. We have Minister Hardeep Sengpuri, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs, Minister Ashwini Vaishnav, Minister for Railways and Communications. And of course the Jani Ghosh who will bring in the software and the services element from India. She heads NASCARM. And finally the outsider and insider, James Quincy who is going to make this conversation honest. So while we will have four of them celebrating India, he is going to probably problematise India. So I am going to defend the new James to do that. But let me start with Minister Puri. Minister Puri, Urban Affairs and Energy. Two of the most important bellwethers to ascertain health of an economy. From where you sit, how do you assess the India moment? You started by introducing a celebratory note in your introductory remarks. I endorse that much of what I have seen in Davos in the last three, three and a half days or so. And I have seen many of my friends who have been participating in literally hundreds of meetings echoing that sentiment. Therefore I don't want to do any semantic quibbling. But I would say can India seize the moment nahi? India has seized the moment. Why do I say that? I say that because you are not just transitioning from the 10th largest economy to the fifth largest economy. You're growing at 7.2% last three quarters, the coming quarter and the next year. All the forecasters and all those who make it their professional duty to assess evolving situations are pointing a good picture. I don't like using words like bright spot, but that is subjective. Let me give you some hard statistics on the energy front. Some of you may be surprised, but 60 million people go to the petrol bank or the retail outlet every morning to fill up. These are two-wheelers, three-wheelers, four-wheelers. We consume five million barrels of crude, which are refiners used to refine, produce petrol, diesel, and whatever. During the last few years where the global uncertainties, and I'm choosing my words very carefully, have required some navigation. The government of Prime Minister Modi has addressed all three challenges, availability, there was no shortage at any point of time anywhere. Affordability, India, and perhaps along with Japan, has had a situation where in the last two years prices at the bunk have actually come down, whilst global prices were escalating. But my real, and I say this with a great degree of humility, we have not allowed this appetite and hunger for more energy. Consuming five million barrels, your consumption is three times the global average in the next 20 years, a quarter, 25% of the global demand is going to come from India, more than all the developed countries. Because it's a country, $4 trillion economy, with a lot of appetite because a young population, more consumption. And yet the commitment to sustainability green energy has not been diluted a bit. We were blending 1.4 or 1.5% of our fuel with biofuels in 2014, when the Prime Minister assumed responsibility. We are already blending 12% today. When the announcement was made in April 2023 that we were going to go into E20, a 20% blended fuel, we're already retailing E20 at 9,300 or so bunks. Our target for 20% blending, which was for 2030, we brought forward to 2025. Some submission I make to use, whether it's biofuels or green hydrogen, the India story stands out. And on green hydrogen, just to fast forward, what is really happening is that you require clean solar energy, and you must demonstrate that you can do it economically, and you need electrolyzers. We've already demonstrated that we can produce solar energy, bringing the cost of production down from 23, 25 cents to 3 cents. And electrolyzer, every possible manufacturer of the world is India. I think the 5 million metric tons per annum target by 2030 is grossly underestimated. We will do more. Why? And I'm going to conclude this part of my presentation because for the simple reason, green hydrogen, or for that matter, any gas does not lend itself to transportation. You can manufacture and export green ammonia, but green hydrogen will succeed in countries where there is a local demand, there's local production, and there is local consumption. And India stands out. I fast forward half a minute to housing, or do you want me to come back to on that later? Very quick. A snapshot of housing? All right, very quickly. What we've done on the urban side, electricity in every village, all water, clean water, in every tap. But I'll give you one figure and conclude. There was an estimate by a global consulting firm. I'll name it if you need to. They said between 2020 and 2030, India will be building between 700 and 900 million square meters of urban space every year, which is the equivalent of a Chicago. So you'll be adding a Chicago every year? Well, that is what is being done. Don't bring the gangsters with them. OK. Let me turn to Minister Ashwini Beshnath. Minister Beshnath, those are numbers. India is consuming. India is consuming green energy. India is growing in a manner that, in many ways, is reflected by its growth of cities, as well as its appetite for fuel. 7.2% growth. What are the undergirdings of this growth that make this sustainable, that make this a moment that might outlast previous promises that we may have made a decade ago? George Bush bet on India in 2002. And God bless his soul. It was 20 years, hence that we are actually living that moment. So what is different about the growth now, the structural changes, the undergirdings that we are working on? The last decade has seen a significant structural shift in India's economy. This is basically underpinned by four major pillars. The first important pillar is to improve productivity, to improve efficiency in the economy. Major investments have happened in the physical as well as digital infrastructure. If you look at the investments made in infrastructure from a base of about $30 billion, in this fiscal year, India is investing $120 billion in infrastructure. That has multiple impacts. The impact on productivity is very good. The impact on overall economic activity is a multiplier of 3.6. So you invest $100. The economic activity is actually of $360. The positivity it brings in close to 240 industries, the steel industry, cement industry, construction machinery, paint industry, lighting industry, cable industry, practically every major industry in any economy is getting a boost because of the physical infrastructure. On the digital side, in the last 10 years, from something around 600,000 telecom towers, we have reached something like 2.4 million telecom towers. More than 600,000 kilometers of optical fiber cable has been laid. A completely digital public infrastructure which does practically every transaction, whether it is payment, digital insurance, digital credit, digital document verification, it's a very, very good structure which has been put in place. So major investments in physical and digital infrastructure. The second big structural thing which has happened is the entire growth under Prime Minister Narendra Modiji is a growth which is very inclusive. He has always kept the people at the bottom of the pyramid as the focus of his growth story. I'll give a few numbers. In the last decade, 510 million bank accounts have been opened, 510 million bank accounts. Please absorb that number. That's the amount of, that's the number of people who have been brought into the financial system, into the formal financial system. If you look at the number of houses constructed, 40 million houses constructed for rural and urban poor. That's like completely changing the landscape of a size of a continent. Look at the number of tap water connections, gas connections, gas connections, 110 million gas connections given. So change the entire cooking habits from wood-based to gas-based. Multiple number of factors which are basically bringing a transformational change in the people at the bottom of the pyramid. The third big pillar, third most important pillar is focus on manufacturing.  Practically every sector of the economy very clearly focused incentives. Lots and lots of interventions which the industry asked for. It's a government which is listening. It's a government which responds positively to ideas. Open-minded government. And manufacturing has, again, given very good impetus in terms of job creation. In 2019, per month, every month, formal jobs that were created were of the order of 600,000. Today, it is of the order of 1.5 million formal job opportunities created every month. That's the positive impact which has come. And that helps the entire economy in multiple ways. The fourth big pillar is huge amount of simplification which has happened. More than 1,500 archaic laws on the statute book have been repealed. Many of the colonial era laws and procedures have been totally removed. More than 30,000 compliances have been removed. It's a government which listens with absolute open mind. I'll give one example. Telecom sector. Some friends from the telecom sector are sitting here. 10 years ago, the time it would take to get a permit for setting up a telecom tower was an average of 230 days. Today, that 230 days average has come down to seven days because so much simplification has happened. And out of that, if you look at 85% of the permissions for telecom tower, they are instantaneous.  Everything else is practically instantaneous. That's the level of simplification which is happening. These four pillars, investment in infrastructure, both physical as well as digital, inclusive growth, focus on manufacturing, and immense amount of simplification. That is what has given us this growth. And with 95% confidence interval, we can all make an assessment that whole of the next decade we'll be growing, India will be growing at 6% to 8% mostly on the upper side of this band with a moderate inflation of 4% to 6% in a very consistent way. So this is what I would like you to take away from this. Thank you, Minister. Let me come to you, Minister Hirani. What makes this moment special compared to the earlier ones? What is different about the India story now? I think Minister Puri said it right, that India has seized the moment. And let me elaborate a little on that. You spoke about India from the prospects of being a bright spark. And I agree. This is a bright spark that will fire up global growth. IMF says that we will contribute 16% of global growth. But how do we grow? If you look at internationalization of our engagement with India at the center, we have seen in the G20 presidency, inclusion not only of gender becoming mainstream, but also the African Union now finding a voice. If you look at BRICS, there is an expanded engagement, which is over 46% of the world's population. India has emerged as a minister of external affairs. Jaishankar says very proudly, the voice of the global south. But today, we become a reflected voice of 85% of the global growth story. Now, while we speak about the internationalization of our capacities and our engagements, as Minister Vaishnav says, and predictions about how we see the fiscal future of India. Let me take you back a decade ago, where there have been moments consistently of 14 to 16 months of double-digit inflation. So when we talk about today inflation, India is doing much better, however we are doing it, in the shadow. And as an aftermath of the pandemic, which shows Prime Minister Modi's not only fiscal prudence, but also fiscal discipline. Because I think India has grown in terms of business and opportunities, found new opportunities, reformed its structures, apart from the obsolete laws that Minister Vaishnav spoke of, 1,000-plus obsolete laws taken out of the system. But for businesses across the world and in India, one of the greatest challenges for expanding their manufacturing bases were everyday compliance issues. India has done away with 63,000 compliance issues. Now, James here is supposed to be the troublemaker, but if you ask me, if you ask me, Coca-Cola came to Uttar Pradesh, one of the largest states in India, signed up for investment. I'm happy to hear disclosed that the investment is in my parliamentary constituency today. That investment, from the day of signing to getting on clearances, to it be open for manufacturing, all it took was one year. And today, it's the largest bottling plant in South Asia. And hopefully, if James' strategies work right, it will become one of the top bottling plants in the world. In the future, that's an aspiration every Indian has for businesses in India. Now, let me take you to another industry expert who's on the panel, Devjani Ghosh, who exhibits the IT prowess of India. This year in India, data sciences and IT professionals will add one million more job opportunities and subject to correction with regards to how Devjani projects it. But ladies and gentlemen, I would appeal to you to look at Devjani's fingers. Devani, your fingers please. She's very gubber. They say diamonds are a girl's best friend, but they're better friends when they're live mid. That one industry alone, which is an emerging industry, an opportunity new, will create 2.5 million jobs in India. That's a lab-made diamond. There you go. OK, so we are looking. Sorry, minister, but I just want to add one more thing. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. And when they are lab-made, and when they are given to you by the most awesome woman that you happen to know. So thank you for that. Now, so that the audience doesn't think I'm handing out free lab diamonds, I would like to say, Sameer, you spoke about, we are talking about India's moment at a time where half the world is going into an election mode. 945 million Indians are eligible to vote. Everybody who turns up to vote will have a digital identity. After the last vote is cast, computation of it, of that big voter chunk, will take not more than three to four days, given the past experiences with our election commission. As Minister Vaishnav says that Prime Minister Modi looks at growth not only from the perspective of business, but how do we leverage digital growth for ensuring that we implement social justice? In the past nine years, 240 million Indians have been taken out of multi-dimensional poverty. We have grown. We have reformed. We have expanded our business engagements. We have enlarged our alliance bases, be it not only BRICS, not only G20, but the International Solar Alliance, also the BioFuel Alliance. Also, many such engagements, no matter what the region, we have become one of the most dependable partners not only for business, but also inclusion. Thank you. James, let me turn to you. Look, no pressure, OK? Have a coke. OK. Certainly will. So sitting in a company that is betting on certain regions, India being clearly one of the bigger ones that you have placed your future hopes on, how do you assess the last few years, and how do you look ahead and structure your businesses for a country like India? Yeah, let's start with where are we now? I mean, India is already the fifth biggest country for us volumetrically, and we have 54 plants in India and 50,000 direct employees. So it's not starting at zero. And actually, I think the question that is posed on the panel of seizing the moment, actually, the answer can be broken in two parts. The Indian government has seized the moment. The government, the Prime Minister, the work that has been done, I think the ministers described it fantastically on the regulatory framework and the simplifications, the physical infrastructure starting to come in place, and the digital infrastructure is not just laying the foundation. In some areas, actually, they've jumped to the cutting edge of what's possible, particularly in some of the digital stuff. So really, the question is actually a private sector question, not a governmental question. I think the framework and the platform is there for growth. And so I think it's about the private sector seizing the moment. And for us, for example, over the last few years, we've been investing at the rate of about $750 million a year. We are upping it to $1 billion a year for the next five years. So that's a 30% increase in the rate of investment. And we think that particularly for the consumer industries, this really is going to be the moment. You can study economic growth across the world and the GDP per capita point that India is at with the sort of packages the government have in place. It has tended to go along with a big acceleration in consumer-related industries, over and above the growth rate of the general economy. So our business has been growing faster than the 6% to 8% from a volume point of view plus the revenue, and we see that extending. So we think this is India's moment for the private sector to see if the government has done a lot of what they need to do or put in place the programs that will roll out over the coming years. And it's certainly for the consumer businesses. And that's going to roll through. And I think the other thing that's important about India that the ministers and the government is very clear on is make sure you drive some inclusive growth. So it's not just about investing capital and creating the jobs and kind of the well-paying jobs. We deeply depend on the infrastructure of the country, not just the physical and the digital but the farming infrastructure. Our brands, we buy a tremendous amount of agricultural ingredients, whether for our global brands like Coke and Sprite or our Indian brands like Thumbs Up and Limca and Masa, which is a big mango-based drink. So we have a deep objective, have a circular, vibrant, sustainable, agricultural supply base. So we work with like 350,000 mango farmers to make sure what we're getting, they drive up their yields, they make more money, we get security of supply. So it has to drive down into the business. And the last thing I think is really important for businesses like ours and a number of other sectors, especially as the country pushes into technology and electric vehicles, of which we're a big buyer of electric vehicles, is water. It's got a lot of growth potential, but we do need to make sure we focus on water resiliency and we're very obviously invested in that and we've got a lot of projects going on in India to support that. So seize the moment. So James. Okay, everything is great. Now tell me, two or three areas that you think India needs to sharpen its game? Look, firstly, let me again emphasize, I think the government has done an extraordinary job over the last 10 years of laying the foundations. I mean, it's almost like, how could you possibly identify that many laws you wanted to get rid of? I mean, there are other countries that could do well to see how much red tape has been removed in India and how the digital platforms in India are really powerful. I think the, if there are some areas, it'll be like every CEO. No CEO ever said, I wish I went slower. It'll be like, okay, can we do things faster? Now that you know where you wanna go, can you build one and a half Chicago's a year? I mean, that's, which is a very positive space to get into. So it's the additionality of aspirations. It's additionality, it's speed and implementation. I think also in the laying out of the new frameworks, of course, nothing will be perfect. I mean, I would say something like GST, it's implemented, it's been very effective, but there are ways it can be broadened and further simplified, but it would be to be expected that if you made that much change, there would need to be some continuous improvements and some tweaks. And I think that's where the focus will end up. It'll be acceleration of the stuff that's working at scale and tweaking the things that were 95% right, but actually will unlock more if it can be pushed forward and really make the case that foreign investment is not gonna face uncertainty. There'll, of course, be a competitive marketplace, but it's not the uncertainty that should stop them. Minister Veshanov, can I turn to you on the same question? You mentioned a framework of those four system changes. I'm sure you've also thought about the three or four areas that require greater attention if we are to sustain this kind of momentum. Absolutely, and we are very open-minded on where else we need to put our energy and efforts on. For example, some of the foundational industries, for example, semiconductor, that's one of the foundational industries. That's one item on which we need to put huge amount of focus in the years ahead. We have had some very good success. Micron, when they announced the first plant, and again, I would like to give this an example of simplification and how fast the government responds. The plant was announced in June, 2023. Within 90 days, within 90 days flat, it got all the permissions which were required, all the agreements which were to happen, and it started the construction work. That's the pace at which the country is responding. So these foundational industries, we need to put more focus on. We certainly need to put more focus on many other colonial era laws, which still needs to be fully, fully revamped, and our prime minister has given us a very clear target that every such law needs to be modernized, and we are putting new frameworks, totally new frameworks, for example, in the digital world. We have had a law which was of 1885 vintage. We replaced it with a totally new brand, new absolutely in line with today's telecom sector. We have put a framework for privacy, which is very different from other geographies, where there are geographies which put too much focus on regulation, I won't take any names. They don't put equal importance on innovation, but we have been able to bring out that balance between innovation and regulation, and that's a good template. So these kind of changes we continuously need to put focus on. Divyani, let me turn to you, and let me, since you're also a private sector voice here, let me pose two questions to you. We spoke about jobs here, and I really want to understand that a country which is going to be a median age of under 30 for the next two decades, how are we seizing the digital age or the age of the fourth industrial revolution to make them employable, to make them part of, not only serving India's growth story that we have heard, but also the global deficits for labor that exist everywhere. So how are we preparing a global workforce in your sector is that a challenge in terms of at scale, building it up at scale, and second would be AI. Are we going to board the bus or are we going to be consumers of AI products produced elsewhere? Can I just ask one more? Are we the bus? Can I reverse the question? Please, please go ahead. I'll send the reverse a lot, okay. To understand India's AI potential and AI story, I think it's also important to understand India's tech mantra as I call it. Ministers already talked about the foundation and the structural foundation.  And this is everyday India life.  When you go to her, she will not accept cash. She will have a little QR code. It's a little thing, all of you know QR code. So she'll have a little board displaying a QR code. You will take your phone out, you will scan the QR code, and the payment is made. She is not going to look at papers and go to Mondays to figure out the price of the vegetables. She's going to get SMS on her phone, which will give her all the details that she needs. So this is the power of technology in India where it is truly changing lives and livelihood at the last mile. So if we as an industry, as the tech industry, we look at it as technology for inclusion, technology for trust. And I'll come to the AI story with that angle. Because today, when we look at the global AI narrative, and I'm sure a lot of you will agree with me, it is not being built for trust. It is definitely not being built for inclusion. The narrative around models and the size of models and AGI is what is being heard today when you talk about AI. And I think there is a tremendous lesson that the world can learn from India's approach to technology, that it has to be about scale, population level scale. And population level scale only happens when you trust the technology. You will trust the technology only when it is ecosystem led, open, and not closed, and consolidated to a few countries and a few companies. Everyone has to participate. The big guys, the small guys, the startups, everyone has to participate. And that is the foundational piece of India's tech mantra. It is completely ecosystem led. It's an open ecosystem which allows for innovation and collaboration and brings out the best. I mean, government is creating the building blocks. You compete by innovating. Who innovates the best will win. And I think this is really the change that we need to see in the unfolding AI narrative today. Because remember, the promise of AI was higher productivity. And that only happens when you see at-scale deployment in sectors like manufacturing, agriculture. Where are we seeing it today? According to IBM, only 30 or 35% of companies are seriously deploying AI. Isn't that too less a number? So I guess in AI, the biggest question is what will it take to scale? And I think that's where the world will benefit by looking at India and what India is doing with technology. Now, crucial to the success, to our success, is talent, going back to your skills question. We cannot do this without talent. Talent is also India's biggest differentiator. It's our biggest competitive advantage because of the young population that you talked about. And this is where, again, we are competing, right? We are competing with the pace of technology change. And the pace of technology change is just mind-boggling. So how do you compete with that? One, you have to collaborate. India has one of the largest public-private partnerships on skilling. And I'm very proud to say that as NASCARM, we work with the government to skill millions and millions of Indian youth on emerging technologies like AI, cybersecurity, data analytics, et cetera, and also cognitive skills, which, by the way, are more important than the technical skills in today's world. So this is a huge opportunity for us. And I think as long as India is able to grow a population that is truly digitally native, India is not scared of technology. We are not scared of technology. Not just the young people.  Even she'll use technology. So if we can grow that digital native mindset in every Indian, we can build in them the basics of responsible build and use of technology, because we are building technology to solve problems. We are obsessing with problems. We are not obsessing with technology. And I think that's the beauty of India. Thank you. Mr. Puri, you wanted to come in. But let me also ask you to talk about the farm side, the hinterlands in that story as well. Yeah. Just a short point, there's an example that Devyani mentioned, the street vending lady who accepts payment on this. Now, when we talk about the India story and India seizing the movement, I think the point that is perhaps not being made as upfront focus manner is the Prime Minister's extreme sensitivity to those who are the most vulnerable parts of our society. And the straight vendor scheme, or swanidhi, as we call it, this was conceptualized during the pandemic, during the lockdown. Because people who are involved in agriculture or industry or in other forms of employment, it has kept receiving some form of payment which could sustain them. But the street vendors went, as in some other developing countries, to moneylenders who charge them exorbitant rates of interest. And they had to sell their wares and go at the end of the day to return that money. So the scheme was conceptualized, rolled out in record time. In three days, we got that. First day. So we have something like 58 lakh. A lakh is 100,000 for those of you who are. Street vendors have benefited this. First loan, no collateral required, 10,000 rupees. So they were in deep debt during the pandemic, used it to repay part of the debt. You'd pay that back in time. No questions asked, no interest. Another loan, 20,000. And you do that, your third loan, 50,000. So they became, your technology was used to integrate this most vulnerable section of our society into the formal economy. They became beneficiaries of all the prime minister's schemes. They became micro entrepreneurs in the process. And I think this is one end of it. Now you come to other vulnerability. I think Smritiji mentioned the number of, or I think Ashwiniji mentioned the number of gas cylinders to economically weaker sections. We had 14 crore connections in 2014. We got 332 crores, 320 million. But the beauty is in 2016, when we discovered, and we talk about transition, I just came from a meeting where the main focus was that capital only responds to situations where there are good returns. But here, we provided 110 million gas connections to wean our sisters away from firewood, coal, et cetera. And today, the country is nearly saturated. When we go to talk about what has happened in the next 10 years, I invariably ask my audience or my participant, is there anyone without an ojuelas cylinder? And somebody only how hands which come up are those who are going to get it on that day. And the prime minister a few days ago delivered the 10 crore, the 100 million cylinder. And so now I come to energy very quickly, only one part. Very short. Look, when we go to biofuels, we are saving on the import bill, yes. But we are also sustaining and boosting our agricultural sector. We saved 41,000 crores on the import bill when we had the 10% and those prices. And we were able to pay our agricultural, our agriculture is 42,400 crores back. Then you go up to 20%. And I think one of my colleagues made a brilliant point this morning. This whole strategy is also designed to re-enrich the soil as to what has been happening. And that is what the whole biomass, bioenergy story is. But that would require more time. It requires lots of time. And we'll come back to that, I'm sure, in another setting. But let me ask Mr. Vaishnav, as we start winding up the panel, final thoughts. Mr. Vaishnav, James made an interesting point that the private sector needs to seize the moment. And I would ask you, how is that happening? We see government being the big infrastructure investor today. Are you seeing the private sector co-join you and co-partner in with Equal gusto? Is that something that's happening as well? That has started. And the way it always happens is when public investment comes, the first few sectors which get the boost are the sectors which are directly connected with the infrastructure. Then the second order implications, the second order impacts start showing. For example, when we started this policy, our prime minister gave a very clearly thought through strategy. And the initial boost was in purely in construction machinery and steel and cement, these industries. As the cycle moved, we started seeing uptake in four wheeler demand, in housing demand, in demand for consumables, that thing started. And as the third order starts, the third order impact starts, that is the time when we see a major uptake in practically every sector of the economy. That has started today. And economy's structure, the investment used to be something around 28% of the total GDP, that has now come up to 31%, moving towards 32% of the total economy. So that's coming both from the government sector, as well as from the public sector, as well as the private sector. James, the young workforce, how is Coca-Cola as a global enterprise viewing this opportunity here? Or do you see this as also a way of building up your own capabilities within the country? It's both of the above. And more, it's clearly the demographic dividend in India is going to last a long time. It's a huge source of very highly trained talent, and therefore it's going to be a catalyst and an enabler for us to be able to grow. It's also for us being a source of talent to export outside of India. So we've had India's goal and run businesses all over the globe. So I think there's also an opportunity as a platform to contribute to the talent elsewhere. And I think the other thing that I would underline about the opportunity within the entire talent is because it's not so tied to what we've done this way for 50 years, the rate of creativity and innovation is much higher. Some of the most cutting edge, most innovative marketing, digital marketing is actually coming from India, not the traditional countries of the world. So I think there's this opportunity to actually get on the front edge. I mean, the government got on the front edge for some of the digital programs. And actually, the talent can take India to the front edge rather than having them to go somewhere else to do the cutting edge stuff. Actually, it's starting to come from India. And I think that's an exciting next wave of growth. Minister Hirani, I will come to you for the last word as we close this panel, the India moment, and perhaps some reflections on key attributes and key directions as we close this conversation. This panel has predominantly spoken about the ease of doing business in India. Prime Minister Modi says we are building businesses, but we are also in the business of saving lives. And I think that's what makes the India story distinct on the global map. To take from what Minister Puri said, that when you deploy clean fuel to 110 million poor women, you not only engage them in a sustainable way of life, but you've saved 400,000 deaths. And I think that's where India stands out. When Dave Johnny speaks about the fact that we are hungry to learn in India, we have one of the largest skill sets in India. Not only in technology, six million Indian women are frontline healthcare professionals in India who serve not only Indian families, but also Indian administrations at the time of the pandemic. But today we have 265 million kids in our K-12 systems, and only those kids are using close to 12 billion plus QR codes for learning. If Johnny just March 23, the learning lessons for these kids online was 5.5 billion learning sessions on the government-made educational platform. Now, look at James saying he wants to also focus on inclusive businesses and look after the farming population in India. Well, James, we've even built that where the Prime Minister ensures that input support to 110 million farmers are given directly into their bank accounts. But also farmers now in India are digitally equipped to receive weather forecasting, to receive technology support from farm-based technology center that the Prime Minister has set up in every district of India. So I think what the India story is to the world is that we are in the business of building businesses, but we are also in the businesses of saving lives. And anybody in the audience, if you want to talk about the prowess of India, it's not only in the whopper that Deepjani is now wearing. If you want to send a mission to space on a budget, we can do it on a budget courtesy ISRO, which is less than the amount of money it takes to produce a Tom Cruise film. That's India. You know, I think Tom Cruise is a good note to end this conversation. But let me just make a serious reflection. 14 years ago, maybe 15 years now, we had it in 2024, 15 years ago, there was an economy of a similar size with a similar per capita income. That was in a world where the financial crisis was ravaging economies. That economy in the next 14 years became the single most important partner to over 100 countries worldwide. It had the same GDP and the same per capita income as India has today. The world needed additionality. It needed alternatives. It needed places it could invest in. This is India's moment. India is now, at that moment when the world seeks additionality, it seeks alternatives and it seeks places it can invest in. At our GDP and our per capita income, as James mentioned, we are going to benefit from both exponential growth and the momentum of a billion aspirations. So please join me in applauding this panel for their intervention. Thanks so much. Love you.


Thanks, Tracy. Good everyone. I'm from Australia, which is why my voice is really clear and I've got these dulcet nasal tones. So forgive me if I draw too much. Look, I'm going to focus on industry dynamics, as distinct from talking about our project. And if that disappoints you, you can grab my colleague John or I and we can make it so that you regret ever asking us at lunchtime. And also we can tell you the joke that I was going to tell until I realised I was being recorded. So I also have an update to our business case for our Dubbo project coming out in May as well, so that will that will give it have a lot more detail. So I don't need to convince this audience, because you know we just heard there from Paul, that there's a significant transformation in the specialty metal sector underway at the moment. Here's a Tesla. I love the fact that it's got no grill. I think that's the most subtle piece of marking I've ever seen in a car model. I just want it fantastic. So I'm going to, you know this conference is going to focus a fair bit on the battery, but I'm going to talk about what this battery drives, which in general is a rare earth permanent magnet. I think we all agree on the scale of the trend. There's a trend occurring and that it's one of the most fundamental and rapid shifts we've seen in consumer behaviour in a generation. So rare earths, particularly the permanent magnets, go into into all these places, but the big change that's coming is the drivetrain because actually rare earth magnets been used in the devices inside doors and windows and wipers for quite a few years. And so you know most major manufacturers have been debating do or do they not incorporate rare earth permanent magnets inside their drivetrains and they are starting to do that. Do that now. The Tesla long range vehicle has a rare earth permanent magnet. These magnets consume about 0.7 to 1 kilogram per vehicle of neodymium, prosodymium in the vehicle. And depending on how many bells and whistles you buy in this one or a Mercedes S-Class, you'll be up at one and a half kilos in the other drive motors within the vehicle, but as minimum 0.8. So you're talking somewhere around one and a half kilos of rare earth in each electric vehicle. So numerous projections on this I won't spend too long, but we can see that from ground zero, we're talking six and a half times the amount of rare earths. People can argue about the ups and downs of that, but broadly we can agree that there's a fundamental shift occurring in the market. And it's really interesting, we as a company go looking for off take contracts to launch the project. The most common thing that I've heard across this last year has been, hey, rare earth slip, I know I've got a problem there, mate. Well, I actually don't say mate, that's me. And they say, you know, no, I've got a problem there, but we're going to get to that soon. We're so busy dealing with the lithium and cobalt supply chain issue at the moment that that will deal with rare earths later. So it's quite widely acknowledged. So I'm of the view that a sentiment for rare earths is going to follow the sentiment change that we've seen for lithium and cobalt and other materials. I just I just chose a 50% CAGR so that I could do the maths. Anything smaller, I found a bit tricky. But you know, if we do get market penetration sometime in the 2020s of 10 million EVs, then that is going to be consuming about 15,000 tons of rare earths that's not on the market at the moment that doesn't exist in the supply chain. I'm going to talk about that. So if we look at the forecast supply deficit, and I've got, you know, I've got the material here from Dudley Kings North from in Coa. Lastly, the deficit was about 3000 tons of neodymium prasadium, which isn't much, you know, when you're producing around 50, 50, 5000 tons. They reckon by 2020 as the as it takes off, it's going to be about 5000 tons 5000 tons neodymium prasadium is the equivalent of Linus and its production, which is the, you know, largest Western manufacturer or maker of neodymium prasadium oxide. So this is happening now. Already we have a deficit in these materials. Now, of note is that you can see we've got lanthanum cerium and the other materials. In general, the hunt for neodymium prasadium in the magma materials is driving all of these into surplus. And that's what creates a fair bit of media consternation is we're seeing stagnant and falling prices in other rare earths and rising prices in neodymium and prasadium. And so they're they're economic and economic rare earths. And when people talk about projects, you know, everyone goes on and on about about different stuff, but people particularly focus on the magma materials. And so, you know, our particular project, the Dubbo project of our rare earth suite in the mineralogy, about 80% of our revenue comes from neodymium prasadium is by no way the highest part of mass. And that rare earth man is about 30% of our revenue overall for that project. The other point I want to talk about here is clearly on rising demand. People talk about substitution. And it's a big, big thing talked about in rare earth permanent magnets. But I think the point that I would make is that at the moment, we don't have alternatives that have the same weight and efficiency. And in the electric vehicle market, everything's about range at the moment. Everything's about range. And so we don't have viable alternatives coming down the pipeline. And the car manufacturing and particularly their supply chain that we're speaking to at the moment, they're locking in orders now for the 2022 to 2030 supply. And so, yes, there may be substitution to some degree in the future, but it's certainly quite inflexible at present. And that's not we're standing the the cost impact of the rare earth on the whole of the electric vehicle. The other thing is that we're just talking about electric vehicles. There's wind power. There's quite a range of other technologies that are causing increased consumption of rare earth materials. So, you know, what does this mean for price? Well, prices have gone up, you know, circa 30% this year. Clearly, they've got a lot further to run. And why do I say that? Because at the moment, there's not the incentive prices pulling anything but brownfield expansion into production. So our project, other projects, they do not have incentive price yet in order for people to strike long term offtakes. So there are price rises to come. Let's talk a bit about China, because clearly their behavior causes a great deal of uncertainty when they supply 80% of the world's market. You know, the big thing that I get told is that the Chinese can meet all the supply and they can manipulate the market. And if you look at the last 40 years, you can see that the Chinese have steadily moved down that manufacturing chain. And many manufacturers have moved to China to compare, not to compare, but to make their componentry. However, if we watch what's occurred in the last year, and some of you will be very familiar with this, they've consolidated the industry, they've moved into six state enterprise, that's complete. They're shutting down illegal production, illegal production has moved from approximately 35% down to about 30% to a touch below 30% of production in China. So that's happening. They've continued to provide cheap funding for companies, although that's tightening up a fair bit at the moment. They've actually eliminated some of the export quotas and taxes and instead just put a production quota in place. They're imposing environmental restrictions and they're integrating the supply chain like I said. So what does that mean? The only point that I'm making there is that they are starting to address rampant supply as an issue. And so they in general are dealing with that 30% illegal production and in general they're increasing the cost-based environmental restrictions. And so all projections in general industry view is that the Chinese will not rise to meet this supply because they can't. So the rare earth market status, it's only worth about four to five billion US a year, which doesn't make major mining companies get out of bed. So it's left to small and medium companies to deal with. We can see that the demand is dictated like I've talked about Neodymium, Presodymium. China continues to be dominant. They're addressing illegal production. And then we come to the basic point. And that is that several Western companies, and you'll hear Gavin speak on his project later today as well, are proposed and there's evaluation in progress. My view is simply all of these projects have to enter the supply chain within by 2030 or there simply won't be enough supply for without incredibly aggressive moves inside the prices. If we look at the market projection, this is what I think is really telling. If we say that there's 15,000, 20,000, 10,000, it doesn't really matter which number you pick in terms of tonnes that need to come on the year. My project can bring 1200 tonnes. The current stated line of expansion brings another 1000 tonnes. So that's 2000 out of whatever number that you want to choose. There are other projects each can bring 1, 2, 3, 4,000 tonnes. When you add those together, we're still not meeting the demand that exists. So if you look at the project that I'm trying to bring in production, the Dubbo project, we also have a Gold business, which you can talk about at lunch if you're interested. But this project is a poly-metallic ore body that has rare earths, zirconium, hafnium, niobium. The exciting thing for me trying to launch my project is I've just spoken about the rare earths portion. But actually, within China at the moment, there's massive moves occurring on the environmental restrictions around zirconium, and so there's been very large price rises. And you can see that through investment in zircon mines, which we don't compete with. We compete at the chemical zirconium level. And so those moves have had, those prices have had significant moves in this year. And so what that means is that there's a lot of incentive in the zirconium markets, which is great for my project. We also have niobium, and you know, the impact in special metals of vanadium is actually driving the niobium price up despite CBMM's market position from there in Brazil. And hafnium is just an exciting 10% of our revenue. So it's a pretty interesting project to have our hands on at present. And then you say to yourself, well, hey, you know, where are you at? You know, why don't you have contracts in place? Well, that's all that we have left to do. I've listed here, in my view, any mining project, any mining and minerals project you want to do in the world, you have to get those things, right? You have to get a proven resource. Ours has been proven for, you know, more than a decade. You have to get your flow sheet and engineering right. That'll be extensive piloting and engineering programs. We've done BFS level engineering and had a pilot plant running for over 10 years at Anstow. You have to get your permits in place. It took us, you know, in New South Wales, which is a bit like getting permits approved in California, it took us, you know, three years to get those permits in place. But now we have all our permits in place. It will enable me to start construction. You have to have land tenure and negotiate. Some areas it's easy to negotiate. You can be negotiate with Indigenous parties. You know, on our own 3,500 hectares of farmland on which our project is based. And in fact, I run a pastoral company as well, out of interest. Although it's been dry, we've sold all the lambs. You know, you have to be in a stable mining jurisdiction. And there's a price imperative. Of course, there's a permit price mining jurisdiction trade-off as to whether or not you want to invest because it's just risk. But you know, I think for long-term projects you want to be in a stable mining jurisdiction. You have to have a team together and they have to know what they're doing, which we have. And then you need the external markets of pricing. And I believe that time is coming. It's certainly coming in zirconium and I believe it's going to come in rare earth as well if it's not already here. And so really, you know, you'll hear panel discussion on the whole thing. But if you look at, if you look at my fundamental point, that is the EV supply chain has to include rare earths. If you are investing in lithium and you believe the price forecast, then you have to believe the demand forecast for rare earths. It's an unavoidable truth. Rare earth production must therefore increase for us worldwide. There is not enough supply to meet the demand. There just isn't. You can hope there is. You can wonder where about there might be. You can assume that the Chinese are going to rise to demand to meet the Western world. Why they would want to defend our Western world manufacturing industry, I don't know, but I don't think they will. So the new new projects must come online. And we are ready to execute ours. And several others in this timeline, in this timeline between now and 2030, if you are an investor, look at all those criteria that I've got, and you look at other projects, you'll be able to tick them off one by one, and different projects will meet those, meet those if they haven't already one by one. And then each of us will come online at a particular price point. And so I think this is certainly a space to watch. If you're interested in mega trends, I think this is very different as a mega trend in 2011 when the Chinese government moved and therefore caused price responses. This is a demand supply issue as distinct from a regulatory issue. And so I believe that incentive to invest in our sector now occurs and given that this is an investment conference, it's well worth a relook. So thank you very much.


Fauston volleyball against Red Lake County at BSU, a great crowd tonight, including a dinosaur. First set, Cara Norland sets it up and Taylor Croning threads the needle. Fauston would take set one. In the second, the Mustangs on the attack, but they're denied by Croning and Brianna Vig. But Red Lake would take the second. Fauston wins the third and match point in the fourth. A block by Emma Drellek and Jamie Carlin. The top seed of the West is just too much tonight as Fauston wins in four sets. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.