What is up everybody it's Stas here and in this video we're going to be talking about the top couple of stocks and ETFs that I'm personally watching and looking to trade right now in the month of November in 2019 and as you guys read in the title we're also going to be talking about natural gas because it saw a massive gap down today. What are my thoughts on that you guys D gas for this upcoming week we're going to be talking about that and very briefly taking a look at the overall markets in terms of these futures the S&P futures Nasdaq and Dow Jones and very briefly taking a look at the S&P index to see what the market has been doing over the past couple of days and the overall trend of the market over the past couple of weeks so if you guys enjoyed this video if you guys find value in this video feel free to go down below hit that like button consider subscribing if you do want to see further content for me and if you want to be further connected with the Strive Smart community the Discord group chats link down below the Facebook groups link down below and if you want to buy some merch that is linked down below as well so without further ado let's just get right into it and let's talk about and start off here with the S&P 500 and under a minute let's see what it's been doing over the past couple of days so clearly here on the 20 day one-hour chart this thing is uptrending right it's riding the moving averages this 50 SMA this green line has been acting as a support higher highs higher lows all that good stuff and if you guys watch my video on Friday we talked about how the S&P closed very very bullish because you can see we didn't break below that 50 SMA we held it at a higher low in the morning and we ended up closing on a very strong push up as you guys can see on this one day one minute right we bottomed out at about 30 73 we found nice support at around 30 85 which was an old all-time high we held that as a new support and again from there we saw the nice push-up the bulls took over here and in power hour on Friday and ran us all the way up to 30 93 so at this point based on the S&P index and the way it's been moving you know I expect further green here and potential pop up to 30 100 and above this week and that will obviously be an all-time high as the all-time high right now is 30 97 so overall guys the trend on the 500 largest public publicly traded companies which is the S&P 500 is up right and over the past five trading days you know we kind of consolidated around this level that was a resistance at 30 85 then ultimately we gapped up above it hitting that all-time high closing above that resistance as a support at again 30 85 closing up strong so that is very very bullish in terms of the 20 day performance of the S&P and the five-day performance which was last week's session so very quickly guys let's take a look at what the futures are looking like right now the E-mini S&P 500 index futures down about $2.50 right now down about 0.08% so nothing crazy right you know if we pull down I've been talking about this over the past couple of videos it's possible that you know we do hit that all-time high again like I said 30 100 but from there we may pull down and maybe test that 50 S&P again maybe at 30 66 maybe at 30 70 that is very possible and if I pull up that chart again on the SPX you know on the hourly chart hey we may hit that all-time high again 30 100 then pull down maybe 30 85 30 60 and either continue the uptrend or maybe do something that this arrow indicates of maybe a further sell-off down to maybe like 30 30 you know 30 20 that is possible if we do see a bigger correction of about 2 3 maybe even 4% right the NASDAQ right now down about $8.25 down about 0.1% so nothing really crazy there either the Dow Jones right now down about $17 down about 0.06% and again just like the S&P and the NASDAQ nothing really crazy so what am I looking for this upcoming week guys well tomorrow just like every Monday I'm going to be watching large caps are they gapping up are they gapping down I'm going to be watching obviously these futures you know if these futures are let's say up a quarter of a percent you know you know 0.3% 0.4% in the morning what's that going to be telling me guys that's going to be telling me that these markets are pushing into these higher high levels that we just talked about and to those all-time highs in terms of the S&P here and at that point honestly the Dow might be at an all-time high yet again as well if we do end up gapping up same thing with the NASDAQ and of course let's say the futures are down you know if they continue this little down spell that they're on right now let's say we open up you know down a quarter percent whatever it may be we may be seeing a bit of a retracement in the markets from there on the S&P let's say for example we may be going down to again that level we talked about a couple of minutes ago maybe 3080 3075 before either holding that at a higher low and continuing the uptrend or again falling down and seeing an even further sell-off so that's kind of what I'm thinking right now in terms of these overall markets and without further ado guys let's get right into it and talk about some of the main stocks and ETFs that I'm watching right now and let's start off with you guys because that is what we saw in the title and natural gas in general guys because this has been the talk of the town a lot of people in the community talk about you guys D gas natural gas and honestly a lot of you guys like watching those videos so let's just get right into it and talk about it and break it down because like I said I don't know if I actually mentioned it in the beginning of the video natural gas saw a massive gap down when the futures market opened about an hour and 22 minutes ago you guys can see it's down about 9 cents right now down about 3.5 percent and this is going to equate over to you guys being down tomorrow if this level holds it's going to open down about I'd say like 9 to 10 to maybe even 11 percent which it's going to be a nice pretty pretty sizable gap down on you guys but the thing that I want to talk about here is technically guys you know although we did break moving average support levels with the gap down we're still technically speaking here on the hourly chart at a higher low for natural gas right and you guys can see what I'm saying we hit the low here at 228 the next low is at about 258 and now we're kind of holding this support at around 268 to about 270 which was an old resistance at a higher low if this holds right if this holds and we start to run up tomorrow you know back into the 270s maybe 275 this can be really the uptrend continuing here because you have to realize right natural gas this is a 20-day chart you're looking at natural gas went from 220 to 290 in literally the matter of 10 to 15 days so this is profit taking this is it cooling off this is not a huge huge downtrend beginning in my personal opinion because a lot of us know at this point we're getting into the season where demand for natural gas pumps up right we already saw an injection this past Thursday in terms of the inventory report that was less than expected which is what caused that massive you gas spike now think about it guys when we start to get withdrawals of this natural gas right when demand starts to kick in as this weather gets colder what is that going to do and especially if shorts start to cover here because there are a lot of shorts you know on natural gas right now if they cover and it causes a squeeze what's that going to do that's going to shoot up the price coupled with that that demand that's coming in I can see this you gas flying up and natural gas flying up over the next the next couple of weeks despite this pullback that we're seeing right which is why again I'm not worried about this pullback in my opinion this is simply a cool off period for natural gas before the real winter kicks in and before the demand starts to kick in and honestly before you know the price starts to fly up right just take a look at this this was simply um you know in terms of a percentage this is simply a 7% pullback from the peak you guys can see last time we saw a sizable correction you know we went from 273 down to about 258 which was around roughly the same of about a actually a bit less about 5.6 to about a 6% pullback so at this point guys for this upcoming week I'm going to be watching the inventory report very very closely right if we get a withdrawal if we get you know a cold forecast in terms of weather which I already saw a lot of cold weather coming in from the Midwest over these next couple of weeks you know of course heading to the northeast as well you know I think this is ultimately going to continue to go up but it's a matter of when that is going to happen and we all know guys most of us watching this channel you know when natural gas is going up you guys is going up as well right it goes up at a 3x rate which it is honestly why it's going to be down at a 3x rate you know if natural gas holds this negative 3.5 percent that it's at right so if it opens up you know minus 3.5 percent and you guys is going to be down probably into the 17s I'd say probably 16s actually probably not 16s more like the high 17s or high 16s low 17s is where I think it would be and on a technical basis guys that's going to be on top of the 180s sumay which last time we played and and touched that 180s sumay we rocketed up after and that will technically still be a higher low which again reiterates my point which is really I'm not worried about you know natural gas is rally ending here you guys is rally ending here I just think this is a cool off period I think we're simply going to hit a higher low here whether it's 16 17 maybe even down to 15 guys wherever we end up bottoming out at I think eventually this thing is going to rebound and head back into the 20s 21s maybe even higher especially as natural gas if natural gas sees that squeeze that a lot of people are expecting right so back to ng watch 270 watch 272 of course if we break back into 275 territory back up into 277 276 we may be filling the gap back up to 290 and anything above 290 we may be going up to 3 bucks which is another resistance that I'm looking at here based on let's see this hourly chart you guys can see it right here 290 up above that is a 305 310 etc right so overall that's what I'm thinking in terms of natural gas don't panic guys I think this will eventually rally back up as these weeks move on as demand starts to kick in withdrawals of natural gas start to occur and as this weather continues to get colder so let's talk about some stocks now that we talked about natural gas and you guys I have some on my phone right here the first one that I want to talk about is Shopify guys so Shopify if we look on the four hour chart here it seems like it's finding a support at about 280 to 285 bucks it seems like it's already bottomed at that level where we bottomed that towards the end of June in 2019 towards the end of September and honestly over the past couple of weeks in the month of October as well and I guess you can say right now in the beginning of November so we've bottomed out at this point multiple times and from the peak guys at 409 bucks to where we are right now how much money you know rather how much percent has fallen well 27 to 28 percent and what does that mean if we're looking to swing trade something that is how much money we can make in terms of a percentage value if we bought in here and if we sold at the peak if it were to rally back up to 409 dollars so the earnings report is kind of what caused this little drop right here quite honestly guys and I forget off the top of my head exactly what they reported but you can see here if I just hover over they were expected 14 cents of EPS they came in negative 29 so they lost money when they were supposed to be profitable in terms of EPS so that is most likely what's causing this downwards pressure on the stock but ultimately I can see this one reversing and what I'm looking for as you guys can see by this arrow is going to be a break above that 50 SMA and that 180 SMA being this green and yellow line I think if we get that break and into let's say the 315 to 330 ish territory I think this could be a good entry point on a potential breakout for Shopify and the truth is guys I look deeper into Shopify their balance sheet is quite impressive if you're just looking at a cash standpoint and a debt standpoint they have very minimal debt on their balance sheet and they have two billion dollars of cash two billion dollars of cash that is pretty solid in terms of a balance sheet and their revenues are growing like crazy I think it's 40% year over year in terms of Shopify's revenue so this is very much a growth company so we can really see a pop and break here and a continuation especially due to how hot the stock has been over the past couple of months but of course there's bears out there that think this stock is heading back down to low low 200s high 100s whatever it may be and if we do get that right if the bears do come out on top here and we start to run back down at that point guys as a swing trade not going to be looking at it because those technicals won't be attractive maybe as a long-term growth position maybe if it gets back down in the low 200s we could potentially consider that but that's another video for that's another topic for another video honestly guys so another stock I want to talk about is proctor and gamble this is one that a lot of people consider you know a value play a safer stock and to be quite honest guys it's been in a weird spot over these past couple of trading weeks ever since they reported their earnings I remember I swing traded it I think it was through their earnings or after their earnings made a nice profit I exited out and I was thinking to myself I want to get back in I want to get back in but I knew I had to be patient and see what the pattern was going to give me over the next couple of weeks and days right and now I finally feel like I'm at that point where I could potentially re-enter into proctor and gamble especially if it holds this $120 level and this is a very important level because it's a support well it was an old resistance from the middle of August and if we break this level guys this new support we're at you know we may be filling down to about 115 bucks and if we do do that ultimately that's not going to be too good for the bulls because let me show you guys this trend we're on right now we're on this trend and technically right now we're holding a higher or low on this trend and if we gap down to that 115 level we're completely breaking that higher high really or really the higher low trend of the up trend and especially if we break 115 guys that's going to be very very bad in terms of proctor and gamble on a technical basis so as long as we hold this higher or low here at 119, 120 and we start to rally back up you know maybe 121 would be a nice entry point and I'm going to set an alert right here on proctor and gamble to be alerted if we do end up breaking 121 I'll probably take a swing position there that offers me about three to four percent of profit up to that previous all-time high and of course if we break that even more money in proctor and gamble another stock PYPL guys also known as PayPal so PayPal and Visa they reported earnings a couple of weeks ago I believe PayPal did they beat on EPS and revenue and their earnings in general were just very good and you can see it on the price action of the stock you know after they reported it went from 96 and really the next week of trading it was trading at 107 bucks so after earnings it went up 11 points and since then it's kind of cooled off up until now and right now we're seeing it holding that $100 level of support that we double bottomed that back in the beginning of October before we rallied up and before we started to sell off so at this point I think this is very critical guys and we can see based on the action from Friday we closed very very bullish right we found support at 100 bucks we pretty much retested it and we closed above moving averages in my opinion that's signaling further upside for this upcoming week especially since we're breaking out of the 50 SMA on this hourly chart as well so for PayPal what I'm looking at is a really really just a gap up into the 102s 103s and that is where I'm looking to enter into the position and ultimately after we break out of these moving averages on the four hour chart I think that's going to be the main confirmation because I'm scared to get in in a full position under these levels because you know these moving averages on the four hour chart have been a resistance over the past couple of months so for me to be in a more comfortable spot I'd like to maybe get in with a small position here at 102 then add the bulk of my position you know after we head into the 104s 105s which would be putting us above those moving averages so PayPal those are kind of my thoughts on that one McDonald's is another one that a lot of people have been talking about they've been in the news for the wrong reasons their CEO I believe his name was Steve Easterbrook Steve Easterbrook you my friend Steve Easterbrook you made a mistake he got caught with you know he had a relationship with an employee he got fired McDonald's stock tanked after that well not really tank I don't want to exaggerate it guys it didn't really tank but if we look on the five day chart probably the 10 day chart we'll show it you can see it I think it was this day you know we went from 198 down to about 187 so I guess you can say that was a tank move in terms of a blue chip company like McDonald's 10 points in a day that's pretty bad and from there you know we've been recovering 187 we broke above 193 now we're holding 193 as a support so ultimately at this point ideally what I'd like to see is a break out of these moving averages on this hourly chart and really a move up to 198 bucks which would be if we broke that a very bullish move that could get us back into the 200s and to that 205 dollar price level and to be quite honest with you guys I'm looking at McDonald's right now as a long buy a long term buy this could be a swing trade you know once we break into the 198 I'm actually already holding it in my swing account right now but it could also be a long term buy at these levels you know their payout ratio 60% if you guys don't know McDonald's is a dividend paying stock I don't think they're a dividend king I think they're a dividend growth you know in terms of how many years they've they've grown their dividend I think it's 42 years or something like that you know again 60% payout ratio dividend yield of about 2.5% they have 40,000 stores worldwide this company is very very massive and a lot of people view it as a real estate company because 95% of their their locations their franchises right their franchises where McDonald's takes a fee from those buildings you know from you know the those ran franchises right so in my opinion this if you're looking long long term it could be a buy and if you're looking to swing trade it I definitely think it could be a play especially if we break like I mentioned a couple of minutes ago into those levels of 198 200 bucks and especially above 200 bucks so McDonald's that's kind of what I'm thinking there Facebook is another one that I'm watching here as always guys at this point Facebook needs to make a move back into the 193s we've we've broken below 193 guys which is not too attractive but the attractive thing is we're still holding the trend that I just drew of higher highs higher lows right if we were to break down this week you know into the mid 180s that's not going to be too good and for me that won't be good because I'm actually swing trading Facebook right now but ideally what I'd like to see is a break again above the 192 level and honestly a higher high and into the 200s that would be absolutely ideal especially as they did quite well in terms of their earnings I'm hoping that momentum can push us back into again that 200 dollar 200 dollar I can't talk guys 200 dollar level and maybe even to the 205 level and ideally higher than that so Facebook you know just watch this trend that I just drew for you guys if it breaks into the mid 180s that's not a good sign if it gaps up tomorrow into the mid 190s that is a good sign so Facebook watching that Disney is another one that we talked about on Friday's video and let me show you guys on this one day chart actually no no no that does not do it justice five day chart what I'm looking at here so they reported earnings they crushed it I believe they missed on revenue but they crushed on EPS and it seems like the stock investors you know traders they didn't give a crap about the miss on revenue they love that that beat on EPS and the fact that Disney Plus is coming out here I think in like two three days or something like that we saw the pop from 132 up to about 142 and that sell-off is what I'm finding attractive here and that nice bullish close that we saw and the nice hold into the after hours that's also what I'm finding attractive right so from that 142 peak down to where we closed that's about a 3% margin of profit open so heading into the session tomorrow what am I looking for right I'm looking to get in Disney ideally if it holds 138 into the morning session that is ideal if we start the uptrend from there continue the uptrend that is where I'll enter with a limit order probably at around 141 bucks to get out at about that 2% profit so I'm thinking Disney right now has a lot of momentum right a lot of momentum due to this EPS beat massive massive EPS beat again Disney Plus is launching that might even shoot us up even further so this is definitely a dip I'm thinking in terms of Disney stock and if we just drag it out a bit to the 4 hour chart you guys can see you know we got rejected at 142 which is that level that we got hit at towards the end of April into the month of May and if we break that tomorrow guys again with the hype from Disney Plus maybe if we get hype from it and if this momentum from the earnings continue we could end up going to 145 which is even further from 142 obviously which would give us an extra 2% on top of that initial 2.5% that we're talking about so ultimately this has about you know 45% in the tank again if we get in at these 138 levels which would be ideal in my opinion so let me check the list guys any other stocks okay we talked about those you know one more on my head is ATV guys you know ATV Activision Blizzard they reported earnings they beat on EPS and revenue their guidance wasn't that great which is what caused the stock to dump after they reported earnings right you guys can see it here this was the day before actually the stock was anticipating earnings then they sold off heading into earnings we got the earnings they kind of bottomed that about 53.20 now we're starting to gap up and we're seeing a bit of a bullish breakout here on the five-day five minute the fact that we closed above the moving averages and we held 54.20 very strongly this is a double bottom as a support that's looking pretty strong in my opinion so what am I looking for an ATV in particular here I want to see a gap up into the $55 level tomorrow that is ideal if we get that that's going to be momentum to the upside in my opinion and ideally I'll enter here probably above these moving averages and really swing traded up to 57 bucks 57.40 which at that point would offer around three four percent in terms of margin of profit so those are a couple that I'm watching I'm heading into this week guys I could talk about a lot more trust me I got a bunch of DMs but the truth is I can't fit every single stock in ETF into this video or the video would be an hour trust me guys I have so many more to talk about but we'll get to the ones that I didn't talk about in today's video in tomorrow's video so make sure to subscribe to the channel for that and honestly if you enjoy the video subscribe anyway 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So let's jump right into some of the personal initiatives that are coming to the fleet. I think the major one that a lot of people still don't even believe yet is that mandatory GMT is going away and that's coming up the deadline June 1st really quick. What would you say to kind of clarify what the fleet can expect and kind of what you would want to say to get ahead of some of the rumors that might be churning out there? Yeah, you know one of the things we really went after as we were looking at some of the initiatives we wanted to entertain and the good idea is coming from sailors through a variety of different means and the secretary heard this when here's this one he's on the road the cno certainly hears it when he's on the road mcpon and myself and we're talking at all hands calls is this notion that we're crushing the fleet with requirement after requirement for general military training very basic stuff yet it's it's produced in a way that's very difficult for sailors to get access to nko is not the most user friendly environment in the world I know that yeah we we hear that a lot from people and and frankly a lot of the training is old fashion powerpoint slide ology so we're really not training and educating people we're just making them aware of issues so that frustration level it's not efficient and we've layered one requirement after another over time all for good intentions but maybe not with the best means so the secretary just said hey let's knock this off let's let's start over if you will come up with better ideas and certainly better training methodology over time and give it back to co's to determine when they think their crew their squad or their unit is in need of that kind of training they know their sailors better than anybody else they know their situation they know where they are in the training pipeline so let's give it back to the ceos to make those decisions and we'll hold them accountable for making sure that sailors are getting what they need when they need it


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how to create a website using WordPress. Whether you want to share your ideas, start a business, or run a store, you can do it all with WordPress.com. This short video tutorial will walk you through the initial steps towards creating your very own website on WordPress. Start by going to www.wordpress.com, then click Start Your Website. Next, you will need to create an account using your email and password, or you can create an account using your Gmail or Apple account. Once you have signed up, you will need to choose a domain name. By signing up, you already have a site address such as yoursitename.wordpress.com, or you can register your very own domain such as yoursitename.com. You will need to choose your WordPress plan. There are many plans to choose from at various different price points. Choose the one that is best for you and remember that you can upgrade at any time. For this video, I will be using a free site. Click Start from scratch.  On the right hand side of your screen, you will see a site setup list which allows you to see how far along you are on setting your site up and what still needs to be completed. On the left hand side, you can view your site stats, which includes site traffic and insights. By clicking Upgrades, you can upgrade your plan, change your domain, and view your purchase history and payment information. You can manage your site content by clicking Pages, Posts, and Media. You can also manage the comments and feedback you have received. Jetpack allows you to view your site activity and back up your website. Click Appearance to customize your site or change your theme. Click Plugins to add plugins to your site. Select Tools to import or export content, use marketing tools, and earn money. Lastly, click Settings to manage your site settings. Now that you are familiar with your dashboard, let's get started on designing your site. Start by choosing the theme that best fits your site needs. Click Appearance, then Themes. When you find a theme you like, click Live demo to see what the theme will look like in action. Make sure to check out what all of your pages will look like. If you're happy with the theme, click Activate. You can now navigate back to your dashboard by clicking the WordPress logo, then My Home. You can now start making your way through the site setup list. Depending on which type of theme you selected, WordPress will give you different setup options in the list. You have already created your site, next you need to name it. Choosing a name for your site is an important decision because it immediately tells visitors what your site is about. Once you decide on the perfect name, make it your site title. You can add a catchy tagline too. Next WordPress might suggest that you create your site menu. Your site menu gives your users quick access to the pages within your site. You can edit, remove, reorder, and add new pages to the menu. Once you are happy with your menu, click Save Changes. Now that the basics are set up, it is time to finish designing your pages, starting with your homepage. Add content to your site by adding Blocks. You can use blocks to add virtually anything to your pages, images, galleries, columns, videos, payment buttons, and more. For example, to add an image, simply drag and drop the image block to where you would like the image on your page. To make changes to your blocks, click the block you wish to alter and change the text or use the options provided on the popup toolbar. You can also use this toolbar to move or delete the block. Use the buttons located on the top menu to add more blocks, change modes, undo and redo, view page information such as word count and page outline, preview, update, or publish your page. If your page has already been published, switch to draft mode to unpublish the page. Access page and block settings such as status and visibility and change your website's font style. Save your changes and click the WordPress logo to quickly navigate and make changes to other pages within your site. Once you have completed these steps, you have a solid foundation for your website. If you are ready to share it with the world, go ahead and launch it. Go to settings, general, scroll down and click the launch site button. Congratulations, your WordPress website is now live. Creating a website using WordPress was created by the Learning Portal with content from Build Your Websites in 5 Steps by WordPress.com under Creative Commons Attribution Share-A-Like 4.0 International License. Creating a website using WordPress is available under Creative Commons Attribution Share-A-Like 4.0 International License.


Drawing portraits has been in my life forever since I was a child. In the early 80s, the ability of drawing opened doors to advertising markets. So I got a job and became an art director and left my portraits behind. Many years later, when the computers had totally replaced in advertising the human drawing, two important things happened in my life. I met Freud, both Sigmund and Lucian Freud. Those two men helped me to go back to drawing and to portraits. So I went back to drawing. I started with my family, my parents, my grandparents, my kids, my wife. I did it in restaurants on vacation. I did it at home in watercolors, pencil drawings on canvas from photographs and life drawings. So drawing became fun again and sometimes birthday presents. My phone became my sketchbook. With the technology of the iPhone, I could now have a new perspective of my drawings. With the finger draw app, I can choose colors, pencils and brushes. Let me show you a small video I made so you can see and understand step by step a portrait made on the iPhone. This is what I call a quick portrait of my wife. It was not so quick, it took about 45 minutes. Let's see more examples. This was the very first portrait I had made on my iPhone of my wife. While she was cooking, this was from a photograph of my son. Sitting behind my other son playing the computer, so I had to be very fast on that. My mother made out of a photograph, my wife at the restaurant, a self-portrait from a photograph and finished self-portrait from a mirror, another try and a friend from a photograph. One year ago, I was shocked when I read that Lucian Freud had died. The man who had through his work put me back to drawing and to portraits. I was devastated and my wife suggested me I paint his portrait. What a challenge. So I picked a photograph from the book and I did this portrait. At this time, I realized that the portraits on the iPhone had to continue, so I went there and chose my other favorite painters, portrait painters, artists like David Hockney, who I've been following for more than 30 years and actually also had made iPhone and iPad drawings. Avingdorarica, a Romanian painter who had a very special eye for close friends and family. The young artist, American artist Elizabeth Peyton, has the courage of painting her portraits, looking at photographs of rock stars and friends. Alex Katz, another American painter who has in simplicity and elegance his trademarks. But why keep those iPhone portraits inside my iPhone? It's not only about technology, it's about life. Why not bring them back to life as paintings? iPhone on canvas. Eye portraits became a show and this is how it looked. And this is the opening night and this is the outcome on the web. And this is the portrait of the man who brought me back to portraits, now alive on canvas. Thank you.


Oil prices went negative in late April for the first time in history. It was crazy. The worth of a barrel of US oil fell to less than nothing on Monday. Well, in the USA, the US oil has collapsed to a record low. So what happened? Well, there's just too much oil in the world and not enough demand. Cities are locked down, flights are grounded, less people are driving. Can you smell the fresh air? Oil fuel companies have been pushing extraction and expansion at record high rates, spending loads of money to pull coal, oil and gas from the ground. Despite the climate crisis being more serious than ever, the oil storage facilities around the globe are full. Look at these photos of oil tankers anchored off the coast. Yikes. Talk about stranded assets. This was bad for our pension systems and our school endowments. So let's be clear, fossil fuels have been a bad investment for a long time. Oil and gas stocks have gone down 80% since 2014. It's time that we bail out the people, not the fossil fuel executives and shareholders. And for all those investors out there, the ones the climate movement has called on to divest for years, now is the time. We're telling you to wake up, do your part in building a better future. This COVID crisis has revealed a lot of broken things in our economy and in our politics. Instead of pouring even more money into fossil fuels, we have to push for a just recovery that invests in clean energy and our own communities. The fossil fuel industry is failing. It's time to end fossil fuel finance for good and build a just recovery in the wake of the coronavirus. So are you in?


Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and fellow open source proponents. Firstly, I regret that I couldn't be with you in person today in Brussels. It is an honour to address you today, as we collectively mark the occasion of the 10th year anniversary of the Open Forum Europe, the EU Open Source Policy Summit. We all share a common belief that open source and digital public goods should transcend organisational boundaries and force the collaborative software development that benefits our communities. Open source has an important role in moving us closer to solving humanity's most urgent challenges and supporting the United Nations sustainable development goals. As a global or international organisation, we at the United Nations have been keen in promoting the institutionalisation of open source both within and beyond organisational boundaries. The United Nations Office of Information and Communication Technology that I lead promotes a culture where open source can contribute to our digital transformation and to enable an effective role for open source we have established an ambitious strategy based on three pillars. First, policy development, second, culture change and third, technology, all that to speed up the adoption of open source within the United Nations. And speaking of significant strides in open source initiatives, I am delighted to announce the successful launch of the three editions of the open source software for development and sustainable development goals. This was done in collaboration with the European Commission Digit and this partnership with the EC Digit aims to engage the broader open source community in developing innovative solutions using cutting-edge technology to address challenges associated with sustainable development goals. The institutionalisation of open source must not stop at organisational boundaries and that's where open source programme office comes in. Every organisation, member states or academic institution must be empowered with an open source programme office to ensure that we together do not just perform in silence. Therefore, a global network of open source programme office should be established to support, share and cultivate open source strategies and policies within and outside organisations. As such, and as announced earlier by my friend and colleague Amandip, the UN envoy on technology, the open source programme office for goods symposium is set to return in July 9th following a successful first edition last year. The event will convene diverse range of stakeholders including the United Nations, NGOs, academia and the private sector to explore the role of open source programme offices in promoting social good. The objective is to establish collaborative networks to encourage collaboration and cooperation among open source communities and generate practical recommendations. The primary focus will be on leveraging interconnected open source programme offices to tackle societal challenges and foster positive impact. So we hope to see you there. Being Mozambican, I'm often asked by countries, especially from the global south, on ways to explore their digital transformation programmes. And my answer to them is very simple. I always tell governments to invest in open source, to invest in building open source national capacity and to create national open source communities. At today's event, I want to ask each one of you to seek ways to eliminate this wasted potential by advancing collaboration among all stakeholders and building novel cooperative infrastructure. In closing, I urge you to support the potential by fostering this collaboration. So let us commit to cross collaboration to ensure that we together work towards a common goal and common agendas. To end, I want to thank you all for your passion, for your dedication to open source. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.


The Prospect and Prozell family of radiative transfer models are widely used for simulating vegetation spectra and estimating vegetation properties at leaf and canopy levels, but their performance depends on the comprehensiveness of calibration databases. The Prospect model is not suitable for mixed ecosystems with non-photosynthetic vegetation, especially in late growing seasons. This study investigates the accuracy of different versions of Prospect Prozell models for simulating spectra and estimating biophysical properties of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic vegetation. Results show that Prospect, 5M and Prozell M achieved higher accuracy in simulating spectra of non-photosynthetic leaves and mixed canopies, respectively. The original Prozell model performed well for homogeneous green canopies, while the modified version improved accuracy for mixed canopies with photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic leaves. Overall, different versions of Prospect Prozell models have varying performance for photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic vegetation, and understanding their limitations is crucial for successful applications in estimating vegetation spectral and biophysical properties. This article was authored by Bing Liu, Cameron Proctor, and Yu Hong He. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Well, hi there. I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter, and I'm going to show you three different ways to finish off a really simple scene. I'm going to be using a Christmas walk. Isn't this cute? I love this little image of these two bears walking along together and since the holidays are moving along quickly and you might be getting to the point where you're panicking about trying to get all your cards done and colored and ready for the holidays. Yeah, it may be I'm channeling a little bit there. But I am going to make a whole bunch of these because the image is really simple. I can make a really simple background and I can also show you how to make a variety of simple backgrounds or levels of simple, depending on what you have time for and availability to do. So I have created an angled sky behind my characters and even the fact of doing that rather than just making a straight horizon behind them makes a story out of it. You know that they're walking along a snowy hillside. They're not just walking along snow. There's a setting for them in that way. And I'm just painting the background on here with some cobalt blue and keeping that part really simple. And you can do just that much and get away with it. You can add a little bit more context here by putting a shadow under them. The shadow joins the little guy's feet and goes up into a shadow up toward the left and then joins to the big guy's feet and kind of just heads up that direction gets a little wider as it goes up the hill since they have their bodies in shadow there.  And you could leave the card just at that if you want. You don't have to do a whole lot more than that. Just make it really simple. You can also make it a night scene. And I'm going to use some indian thrown blue here this time instead to make it a night sky. Same deal. I'm trying to make an angle going down the background of the card so that they're still walking along a hillside. And I'm being careful if you're familiar with watercolor to keep the leading edge wet. The edge that's next to the driest area. You don't want that to keep drying because you'll end up continually getting hard edges. So I just kind of work quickly so that that leading edge always stays wet and I can continue to manipulate it. So got all of that color in here. You can fuss with it and all sorts of things all you want. I tend to hold things a little bit at an angle to try to get the paint to move. But you can choose what you need to do on your paper. I cut these down already to a smaller size so I don't even have to watercolor a full card. I'm making these smaller than usual. And here I'm putting a little bit of the cobalt in for the shadow and just dropping in a tiny bit of the indian thrown. And that just gives me two colors in the shadow. Just a little bit more advanced painting. But as I said before, you could keep it really simple and just use one color. And here I'm doing another one of them and just adding in extra of the blue color. Because I wanted to try something a little more dramatic this time. When you're doing multiples of cards like this, I like to try to learn something from them. So here I wanted to see what happens if I put a little bit of cobalt blue across most of the snow. And I'm leaving the white over on the right hand side just a little bit over there and using a watered down blue. And once it was dry, then I painted my cobalt blue shadows right over top. And that gives me two shades of the blue right there in that snow section. And it's going to make it more of a nighttime card. And when it's night, you're going to see less of the bright white color. So this is just going to be another another step in advanced painting if you want to add a little more to it. And it's really quick to do. It doesn't take a whole lot to do it. But for some of us, if you have no time, you might want to do keeping it really, really simple. And with the bears, I wanted them to feel warm. So sometimes you can paint them with like a gray color, but I painted them with a little bit of yellow ochre just to give them a little bit of warmth against all of the cool blue all around them. And then painted the scarves. And if you're really running short on time and you just don't even have the time to do that much, or if painting with your watercolor brush is too much work or takes too long, go in there with a Copic marker and just throw in a little bit of color in there. Be real careful if you're using like VersaFine ink, because that will make your markers bleed. But you could you could get away with using another medium in there in the scarf if you wanted to. And you could also make it black and white. Just use a Sharpie and fill in every other one on the scarves. So the backgrounds. Finishing those can be as simple as leaving just that blue sky, or you can add just some sketched trees. And I'm using a light touch of a Sharpie. I'm not pressing really hard because I don't really want the lines to be heavy and consistent, I guess. Normally we try for consistency, we want a nice bold line, but I want these to feel very sketchy. That creates a really simple light background, but gives a little bit of a seam to it. You can also do the same kind of a thing, but don't carry the branches with the black pen up so high into the sky. Just doing a lower line, mostly the trunks down below, and then take a white pen and finish off the tops of the trees. That adds a little bit of snow to them. And this is a great place to use a sketchy white pen, the dodgy ones that don't quite have enough ink in them. They don't have a really consistent line. I have a pen that actually works well, but I'm deliberately using it very, very lightly. I'm barely touching the paper so that I get that sketchy line. But if you have one, this is a great use for that. Another way to finish off the background is to do the same thing on the dark sky, the night sky, and mine didn't come out really smooth once they dried. So guess what I'm doing? I'm adding the trees and some snow, because no one's going to know that my trees or my background back there came out a little on the not perfect side, shall we say? So snow always fix everything. It just covers a myriad of problems. And make sure you put some of the snow over top of the images in the front, so it looks like it's snowing on them, not just behind them. Although I suppose they could be out running the snowstorm. So there we go, with three different ways to finish off a really simple background like this, to add something special. Just draw in the trees themselves, draw in the trees with a little bit of snow on top of them, or draw in the trees, and then make the snow falling from the sky instead of worrying about putting it on the trees themselves. And these are really cute, simple little cards now. And I got a whole bunch of them done really quickly. Thanks so much for watching this video, for putting up with my stuffy nose, and for clicking the thumbs up button. I will see you again very soon with another video. Bye-bye.


The laser shock peening, LSP, process is a promising alternative to traditional shot peening, SP, offering improved surface finish, higher depths of residual stress, and more uniform intensity. It also offers several advantages over ultrasonic impact peening, UIP, slash ultrasonic shot peening, USP. Research into the LSP process has focused on optimizing process parameters, substrate conditions, and characterizing the resulting residual stresses. Parametric studies have shown that the LSP process can be used to improve the mechanical properties of various materials, including fatigue life, fretting fatigue life, stress corrosion cracking, SCC, and corrosion resistance. Despite these advances, there are still some inconsistencies in the literature regarding the LSP process, and further research is required to fully understand the process and optimize it for specific applications. This article was authored by Abdul Lahi K. Gujba and Maman Med Raj.


Finally, the loose end that I have asked about for the past five or six episodes has arrived! Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to this channel. My name is Jack the Buster, I'm Shinobi. I'm watching more One Piece today and we are in the midst of a big battle on Fishman Island, and NOAA, the gigantic arc has arrived! Courtesy of Vanderdeckin. But yeah, we've got to see a lot of the straw hats flexed their new, newfound powers, skills, builds, and Frankie's case, and the battle just keeps heating up because we still haven't really gotten to Horty's main crew yet.  We're going to hop right into these. If you're new to this channel, drop a fat sub and hit that big boy bell so you don't miss any more videos. And let's get started. Look at this sheer scale of it, bro! A ship of promise. What was the promise? They said it was just built like randomly. There has to be more lore to this enormous BROTHER! Oh my god, bro! It's actually bigger than I expected. I knew it was huge, but like the size of it is absurd. It's entering. I'm hoping that Vanderdeckin, it would be so funny if he just threw it and left. BRO!  It's a bit strange. Why are you so sad? I mean, it's enormous. It'll crush everything. Nah. He knows more about its purpose. It is important. I guess because it's a relic? Until the proper day comes. It's like some foretold day? Maybe that's today, Nabtoon! Maybe Vanderdeckin must have prophesized one to throw it. Dude, Hordy's about to pop Sony pills. He's going to OD for sure, man. There's no way. Yeah, these three are going to kill her? Okay, man. Oh! Surume! Surume goes to start defending her now. We have another line of defense! His little wave.  I would protect him. When are we going to get Hordy and Luffy fighting? Oh! Bro, did Luffy just bend his head back? Come, come, Bell!  What? Dude, that's similar what he even does with his arm with the... I already forgot the move. I forgot the... Dude. So, he hardens parts of his body? Like, first the arm, now his head? That is so cool. Like, he does it so effortlessly. Yeah, dude. That is... That is so badass! Oh my gosh, bro. Luffy is busted now. Even more so with the hockey. Do we get more of an explanation behind that? He's just dodging all of them but not even having to move. Bro, it was like whenever he dodged on Inaru's ship, but now he can actually just do it. Observation hockey. So it's like... It's kind of like Mantra. It is Mantra. Dude, I guess hockey and Mantra are the same thing. Dude, a hardened bullet. Oh my god, bro. That has to do insane-o damage. I don't know how many he's going to have to take to even remotely stand up to Luffy, but he is nowhere near him right now. And there's Noah. Is it nighttime? No one's seen it yet. It's so ominous. Oh my god, so close already. Brother! It's already right there! They have like no time to scatter or anything. This is so insane, man. I love the dynamic. This adds to all of this, this whole battle. I want to know more about why Neptune was worried though, why it shouldn't be moving. Oh my goodness. It's trying to make its way into the bubble. I don't think it has yet though. Oh! I don't even think about that. The bubble pops and water just flows in. It's just all the air is gone. I'd never even thought about that. Frankie injecting. Let alone how it just lands on the island, it'll pop in the bubble. Robin? Oh my gosh, so much. Robin's just sheer straightforwardness is why I love her so much. Zoro just not caring that much, not being that worried. Everybody's just running away. What is that? Yeah. Wait, so Vanderdekin is on there. Did he just toss him off? That is shameless.  Oh, he slipped. Okay. Okay, dude. So Vanderdekin is on the ship. I wonder how mad Hortie's gonna be that Vanderdekin's just acting on his own now. And Hortie's been tossed around this whole time. What of your strategies?  Hortie's getting just bulldozed, man. So observation hockey and armament hockey.  Maybe he'll be happy with Dekin because he's losing, but he would never admit that, so. There he is! He's just standing there! My God, bro. I thought he gave up on her. He's come back around? Either way, man. I mean, Vanderdekin this entire arc, I haven't, like, liked even as a villain, but this wildcard side, he gains quite a few points with me. I won't even lie. This is just chaos and it's because of him.  Now he realizes it. He just admit it! Oh my gosh, man. This doesn't get you points, bro. It's not a good thing.  It embodies my love. He says, love me. It also dropped dead. Love me as you die. Even the chains are enormous. Yeah. This is what you get for working for him, bro. No! Oh, Jeroji dipped. Wait. Sudame? No, maybe she's acting on her own? That'd be kind of sick, actually. I'd be surprised, but... She's giving herself up to protect everybody else. Oh my gosh. Damn. She knows everybody's in danger, basically. Can he stop it, though? If he's already thrown it? Because she swung away and it would track her? She's so brave now! Dang. It's lifting. But she hasn't moved. Is it Vandek and doing that? Oh, no, she has. Okay, so it is adjusting to where she is.  She knows it's her chance to step up. Especially since she's literally the prime target of the entire ship. Yeah, he was. The thing is, it could honestly help Horty if it pops the bubble, though. I mean, the straw hats can't breathe underwater. Oh my gosh, bro. Eligible. Oh, she's eligible again. Thank goodness. Whoa. That core shading is sick. She's got a truck of knife at her. God, bro. That happened so fast. And she just keeps going. Damn, man. Slowly changing direction. It'll follow her until it hits her. She should just grab on to Horty Jones. Horty's finding pills, probably, bro.  Wait, what? What? What is he doing? He's got his little staff thing. He's mad at Vanderdekken for one. Yeah, he's gonna just adjust. He realizes the sheer scale and the power of Noah. Hope they're going saji. I was like, what is that sound? Saji just jumping all the way up there. Just grab Luffy. Yeah. Why don't both of you go? I mean, I guess Luffy's so strong. Oh. Yeah, it has to be Air Force. That's true. It really is funny, a fish man with a devil fruit. It's totally gonna come in. Oh, Saji's gonna launch him. Is that we're gonna come into play that Luffy won't have Air Man? It just has to down here in Fish Man. It's how they keep him nerfed, I feel like. I mean, it's basically how they did in Ryugu Palace to keep Zoro, I mean, a little bit more under wraps. And he's still got an insane cut on Horty. 5.59, let's go. It barely didn't pop the bubble, man. It was so close. Shirou, she's so brave, man. I'd be better than I can, bro. It moves kind of slow.  It's no wonder it took like 5 or 6 episodes to get here. Also, one piece pacing. Get into Ryugu? Wouldn't it still just follow, though?  Ah, it's moving pretty quick. I'll take it back. The thing is, if she lands on it, like if she goes to the ship, wouldn't it stop? Because it would inherently have made it to her? I love Horty just leaving, man. Yeah, he's just climbing the giant-ass chain. That is so funny. He wants to just change the plan and still use him. I hope Luffy doesn't take that with a grain of salt, man. I hope he actually takes it seriously. I love when they use side to get them places. Sanji Lodging Zoro, or anyone is so cool. All right, here we go. Put the little squeak. So this isn't water out here? I am so confused. I thought this would be water. He already got further than Horty. There's no way. There's more? They're pulling it! Oh my- Bro, these citizens are brave. They're not gonna do anything, but I mean, it's the thought that counts. I'll say that they're trying to protect the princess. W citizens. It's kind of a metaphor that they can't move in a millimeter, but they're still trying. And just like Oda, he made. Realistically, she couldn't do anything by herself, but she tried. See, he says this, but they're the ones that have the truest of hearts. Those that do something whenever realistically they couldn't. There's only so much you can do, Shiro. See, it's okay. Bro, did he just kill all of them? He's just falling back to Earth? There she goes. Oh, no, Shryup just out to sea. Oh, she's just using that exit to get there, I see. Now she's in the water. I see, I see, I see. Bro, Luffy going to fall. This reminds me so much of Skypia, just the giant flying ship. There you go, buddy. He just won't be able to control himself as well, though, in the bubble. And like Jinmei said, Fishman in water is built different. That's, that's Hortie's inventor's element. Oh my God, bro. This man tile, bro, he looked terrifying. Like, all he has to do is pop Luffy's bubble. He can't, he literally can't do a thing. He can't even move his body underwater. Now, I guess the question is how much can he do in this bubble? He's toying with him. It's so different. I mean, how many bubbles can that thing make, too, is the thing? No! Luffy! There's no way, man. But he just lost! So, Hortie, I'm going to be honest, bro. I don't think he can even hear you right now. I think he's already knocked out. You take that back! Um, Luffy? Luffy! He's piercing, too! Oh, dude, what is that? Wait, what? A blade! A big old blade. He hasn't had that up until now, has he? Oh my god, man. Luffy lasted a depressing amount of time before dropping that thing. Like, less than half of an episode that Jimmy has given it to him. Took like five minutes. Less than five minutes. What even is Luffy's plan once he gets the Vanderdekens? Just beat him up? I wonder what would happen. Yeah, because if he's defeated, wouldn't it just be nullified? The power? I mean, how would it crush her? It would have to pin her against something, too, no? Stepping, bro!  At least he had a slow or a fast recovery time this time. Nah, somebody blocked it. The prince is stepping up, baby! Hosama. Oh, I guess brother-in-law?  Letting it hit anything. Neptune made a big deal that they can't let anything happen to Noah, either. I don't know why. My god, that's a unit of a ship. Like I said, though, what happens when it gets to her? It just keeps going? Like, I don't understand. Maybe I just can't even understand the sheer scale of how big it is and how fast it's going. Like, it would actually just kill her if it hit her. Maybe that's why. I don't know. Somebody down in the comments can probably do the math, honestly. Oh, there's Horny. He's coming, baby! Oh, wait! It's his fin! Wait, did he attach it or what? Oh, is it like a cover? Oh, damn, that's sick! That's actually cool. Oh, no, the fishies. What did they do to deserve that, man? You killed them, Horny. What fish is, man? 400 million.  He's at the 400 million. He's so big time. Power is phony. I like how you reiterated that. I'm surprised Horny hasn't popped more in between now and him getting kicked, but I guess he doesn't even need to in the water. He's so in his element. C-Zorro. You don't know Luffy very well. I'm a bad feeling this ends with the Prince going down, man. I kind of wanted Gembe to join all this. Is it falling? Wait, was it? What, just the fact that it's like completely vertical? Yeah. Because he knows I think that Horny would follow him into the ship. Maybe. I'm sure Horny's on the ship. Yeah, again, what happens if she gets on the ship? Where does it go? Ah, man, look. Pass is the pass, bro. I thought that just rolled him. What am I going to be doing right now? He wants to get to Van der Dekken and tell him what his new plan is, I think, or how he wants to use him. Where's Horny? Maybe Horny's going right for Shirahoshi? He's going to be standing like right by... Oh, shoot. Bro, his eyes. Oh, bro, Van der, you... He's going to threaten his life unless he just does what he says.  Van der Dekken is so unaware of the danger he's in. It falls. If he does this, man. Oh, shoot. It's completely vertical, too. I can't...  Because he can't just do that. It's based off of who he threw it to. And it's not like he can grab Shirahoshi and just bring her back down. I mean, he could, but be a lot harder to get Shirahoshi, bring her back down, and keep her there so that it hits everybody. Why do all that when you just nullify Van der Dekken's ability and just make it so the entire ship falls? Horny Jones kind of five-headed for that. I won't even lie. He realized he didn't need to waste time just chasing Luffy for no reason when he could get there first, especially swimming as a fish man, and just straight up reset this whole thing. So now Shirahoshi is a lot safer. I mean, not really, though. Because now I feel like Horny has made sort of a ultimatum for Luffy. He either has to save her or he has to figure out a way to get someone to stop this ship or try to stop this ship. But I don't know who possibly could because of its sheer size. Maybe Jimbae pops off since he's a fish man and he can actually swim in the water. But there's no way he can just lift it, bro. It's like the size of a planet, man. But it is heating up the climax of this arc. I am enjoying the heck out of it. That's been it for my reaction to the One Piece. If you're new to the channel, don't forget to drop a sub. And I'll catch you in the next one. Peace, peace.


improvise is going to tell us about channels of small, large ratio leakage, and distributed differentially private computation. Gars, and in this talk I want you to think about channels as adjustments of the new distributed vorables. and are going to ask what Alise and Bob can do given an access to specific channels. So think about Alis and Bob DIY They want to use the channel so they can initiate it and by that Alice gets a sample from X and Bob gets a sample from Y and in order to perform a certain task, they can initiate the channel several times and to communicate between them, in the end they can retrieve an output and we want to understand what the power of such scheme. So what Alice and Bob can do using an access to C that they cannot do trivially. In this work we are going to focus on channels with designated outputs. So we will assume that X contains some part that is the output of Alice and one Y contained a part which is the output of Bob. We think about it as one or two bits usually. And in order to execute this protocol Alice only need to know her output in the channel. But if Alice is curious she may want to learn as much information she can about the output of Bob and she can use all of X in order to do so. Cool, so let's see examples. So our binary symmetric channel is just a channel in which X and Y are one bit each and X is equal to Y with probability 1 minus P where P is some parameter of the channel. Our perfect channel is a channel in which easy X is always equal to Y. And the channel in which X and Y are uncorrelated is also an example to our channel. More generally we can define a protocol to be a channel if we look on the views of Alice and Bob. So if we have a protocol we can think about the view of Alice, the transcript and randomness as X and the view of Bob is Y and this protocol defines a channel. And we say that the channel is trivial if there exists a protocol that realize it. So for example if X and Y are uncorrelated this is a trivial channel because Alice can sample X alone and Bob can sample Y alone. And if X is always equal to Y then Alice can sample X and send it to Bob. But binary symmetric channel is untrivial if P is larger than zero and less than half. So there is no protocol that realize this channel. Another example to a channel maybe the most important one is oblivious transfer. I'm going to talk about randomize one out of two OT but this is equivalent to the definition you think about. So in such a channel Alice gets two uniform independent bits X0 and X1 and Bob gets a third bit B and one of the bits of Alice XB. And we want that Alice will not know what B is and Bob will not know anything about the bit that he didn't got from the channel. More generally Alice can get more information from the channel as long as B is still uniform given a view. And the same from Bob with respect to the bit he didn't got from the channel. So this is the most important channel because it's complete for secure computation. So given an access to such a channel Alice and Bob can compute any function of their input securely. So we really want to understand which channel can be amplified into oblivious transfer. What do I mean by that? So if Alice and Bob can communicate, initiate the channel, communicate, and then output a bit that is induced OT, then we said that a channel can be amplified into oblivious transfer. Cool. So information theoretically we know that any non-trivial channel, any channel that cannot be implemented using the trivial protocol can be amplified into OT. But distance of transformation is inefficient and not a black box. So Alice and Bob needs to know to use all of X and all of Y in order to construct the oblivious transfer. And we need, we want black box amplification. So we need to work harder. And the motivation for this problem, we have two reasons. So one is to construct oblivious transfer, to construct efficient oblivious transfer from channels. So for example, we know that we construct OT from physical channels, from quantum channels, from binary symmetric channels, and so on. And the other reason is to understand which task requires OT. So if we can show, for example, that private information retrieval can be amplified into oblivious transfer, then we cannot opt to construct private information retrieval without assuming OT. But still we do not understand enough which channel can be amplified into OT and which not. There are still channels that we don't know if they are trivial or can be amplified efficiently into OT. And we really want to find zero one log or some properties of a channel that if the channel has them, then it can be amplified into OT, and if it doesn't have them, then it's trivial. And natural such properties are agreement and leakage. So agreement is just the probability that Alice and Bob agrees, they have the same output. So we said that a channel has alpha agreement if the probability of agreement is half plus alpha when we think about the output as one bit each. And the leakage is the amount of information each party learns about the output of the other from this view. And the usual way to measure leakage is by statistical distance. So we said that a channel has low statistical leakage if Alice cannot tell from an error view whether the output bits of error and Bob agrees or not. So we wanted the distance between the distribution of the view of Alice when the outputs are the same will be close to the distribution of the view of Alice when the outputs are different. And we measure the distance with statistical distance. So we said that the channel has better statistical leakage if this distance is less than better. And the same for Bob with respect to Y. So we know what Schlager showed that if the leakage is much smaller than the agreement, if beta is less than alpha squared, then a channel can be amplified into OT. But still we don't know what happened when the leakage is larger than alpha squared or the leakage is larger than the agreement. And this is not because we don't have strong enough theorems, it's because the statistical distance not capturing some properties of this channel. So for example we have an example for a trivial channel that I'm going to show in which the agreement and the leakage are of the same order. So in this protocol with probability 1-p Alice and Bob going to output two independent bits. And otherwise Alice is going to sample a bit, send it to Bob, and Alice and Bob are going to output this common bit. And you can calculate and see that the agreement in this protocol is p over 2, and the leakage is 2p. So the agreement and leakage are of the same order. But this doesn't mean that any protocol or any channel with the same agreement and the same leakage is trivial. Maybe we have another channel with the same parameters that we can amplify into OT. So we want to find a more fine-grained leakage measure or a leakage measure that captures this difference. So in our work we propose the log ratio distance or the log ratio leakage. So two distributions are epsilon closed in log ratio distance. So if for every event E the probability of the event under D0 is between E in the minus epsilon to E in the plus epsilon times the probability of the event under D1. Another way to say it is that the log ratio between the probabilities is between minus epsilon to plus epsilon. And again we say that a channel has epsilon log ratio leakage if the distribution of the view of Alice when the bits are the same and the distribution of the view of Alice when the output bits are different are closed but this time in log ratio distance. So actually it means that the bit that says whether the outputs are the same or different is epsilon differentially private given X or given Y. And to get a sense of this distance measure so if D0 and D1 are epsilon closed in log ratio distance then they are two epsilon closed in statistical distance and this is tight. But if they are epsilon closing statistical distance it doesn't mean that they are closing log ratio distance for any finite number so they can be infinitely far. So let's go back to our trivial example and try to measure the distance of the views with log ratio distance. So think about the event in which Alice sends the message the bit B. So notice that this message is sent only if Alice and Bob agree on the output. So the probability of this event when Alice and Bob do not agree is zero and when they are agree is some constant. So the log ratio between these two probabilities is infinity which means that the log ratio leakage of this protocol is infinity. And this is good because we want to say that if a channel has low log ratio leakage then it can be amplified into OT. And this is a trivial protocol that cannot be amplified into OT so we want the log ratio leakage to be large. So indeed this is large and this measure captures some property of the channel that we want to capture. Cool. So our main theorem for channels stated that any channel with epsilon log ratio leakage and agreement which is larger than epsilon squared can be amplified into OT. So let's compare it to Wuscheliger. So Wuscheliger needed the leakage to be much smaller than the agreement and here we allow the agreement to be much smaller than the leakage. Which is good. This is tight in the sense that there exists a trivial protocol with C times epsilon squared agreement and epsilon leakage. So this is tight up to a constant. And we also have a similar theorem for computational variant of channels. So an immediate application of this theorem and maybe our only application for this theorem is the variant of differential private XOR. So differential private XOR, in differential private XOR protocol Alice and Bob want to compute the XOR function privately. So you can think about it as a relaxation of secure computation. But we want to think about it as a channel. So think about Alice, the thing that Alice gets two bits O, A and Z and Bob gets another two bits O, B and the same Z. And Z supposed to be the XOR between O, N and O, B. So we said that the channel has alpha accuracy. If the probability that Z is indeed XOR between the output bits is alpha plus alpha. And for privacy we wanted the view of Alice will be differentially private with respect to the output bit of Bob. So we wanted X given that the output bit of Bob is zero will be close to X when the output bit of Bob is one in low pressure distance. This is the usual definition of differential private when we write it in our notation. And we ask the same for Y with respect to the output bits of Alice. And again, this is a relaxation of secure computation. So we can ask if still we need to assume OT in order to implement such protocol. So it's known that if alpha, if the accuracy is less than epsilon squared, then we can achieve such protocol trivially without any assumption. And this is the best we can do without assuming anything. And we know that if alpha is greater than epsilon, then it's impossible because the privacy requirement contradicts the accuracy requirement. And Goyalet, I showed recently that if the agreement is the best possible for given epsilon, for given privacy, the protocol implies OT. But there is still a large gap between what we know we can implement trivially and what we know to imply OT. And using our last theorem, by measuring the leakage of the channel with low pressure leakage instead of statistical distance, we close this gap. So up to a constant, we show that any channel that compute differentially private XOR with epsilon differential privacy and alpha accuracy, if alpha is larger than epsilon squared, the channel can be amplified into obliviousness. Cool. So to summarize, we showed zero one law for low pressure leakage and application for private computations. And for open questions, we may want to find more zero one laws for other characterizations of channels. And to find OT dichotomy. So Eitner, Nissem, Omrish, Altiell and Silbac showed that any protocol is either trivial or implies key agreement. And their definition on trivial is that the protocol can be simulated without interaction, only using public randomness. And we really want to say similar things for OT. So it will be great to answer this question. Thanks. Any questions for Noam? I have a question. So you have an application of a differentially private XOR. And how it relates to OT. Do you have any other functionalities in mind? Great. So we generalize our result for monotone functions. So for some definition of monotone function, we show that any non-monotone function implies OT. But for monotone function, and for example, the end function, this is a still open question. No again.


The Beyond Burger versus a regular burger. And here I have both the raw and cooked versions of the Beyond Burger and regular grass-fed meat. But before we go into tasting these and comparing the taste, we have to understand the ingredients and the nutrient content. Of course, beef is, well, just meat and fat. That's what beef is. In the Beyond Burger, we have water, pea protein isolate, expelopress canola oil, refined canola oil, and 2% or less of the filing. Cellulose from bamboo, methyl cellulose, potato starch, natural flavor, maltodextrin, yeast extract, sunflower oil, about 15 other ingredients. If you guys want to read that, you can pause the video and read that. But the main things to note here are the vegetable oils in here that will oxidize when you cook them. So there is a concern about oxidized omega-6 fats in these burgers. And if we look at the actual vitamin content, it doesn't have the vitamins that meat has. It also has a higher sodium content than meat has in comparison to potassium. Normally meat has maybe one part sodium to five parts potassium. This has over one part sodium to one part potassium. So definitely higher sodium content. And in regards to the nutrients we're missing, grass-fed beef has pretty much all the fat-soluble vitamins in small amounts. It has vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin K, small amounts of vitamin C, as well as vitamin D3 in small amounts. So we're definitely missing the nutrient content in regards to the vitamins, as well as omega-3s. That's a big reason we eat a lot of animal foods is for the linoleic acid in grass-fed beef, as well as the preformed DHA in grass-fed products. And initially, when I opened this up and I smelled it, I was like, oh god, I have to eat this.  It has this weird chemical smell to it.  Fortunately, when I cooked it, it had a much better smell. And I cooked these over a wood fire. So I'm assuming this wood fire that I use is going to cover up a lot more flavor than a regular pancier wood. Of course, the burger I made smells delicious, but the Beyond Burger, it still has that off-chemical smell with the smell of a wood fire. So I seasoned these burgers the same way. I just put salt on them with fresh ground black pepper. Italian black pepper, because I'm Italian. But you guys better subscribe. You better share this video, because I am not happy that I have to put this in my mouth. So this is the Beyond Plant-Based Burger. It just smells like it's not something you should be eating. It smells like chemicals. That's where it belongs, on the floor. How could anyone eat this? Oh my god. It tastes like rancid oil. That's what it tastes like. It's disgusting. I didn't think it was going to be this bad, to be honest. I was actually coming into this fairly objective saying, oh well, maybe it tastes pretty good, but this is disgusting. I won't feed this to anything. Now this is the cooked one, and I cooked it like medium. Okay, this is actually really interesting.  Like I just wanted to spit it out immediately. This cooked one that I cooked on the grill over wood fire, this actually tastes pretty good. It still has an off-taste to it, but compared to the raw version, it's night and day. This reminds me of when I compared grain-fed beef to grass-fed beef, and I'll link that video in the description. But when I tasted the grain-fed steak raw, I wanted to spit it out because it had this off-taste to it. But for some reason, cooking the grain-fed steak covered up those negative flavors. I think I'm seeing a similar thing here, where if you cook this, you're covering up the negative flavors of the meat somehow. But this is just poison. So cooked, it doesn't taste horrendous for sure, but it's definitely not good for you. It's lacking vitamins. It has inflammatory omega-6 fats. And if you smell that raw, you wouldn't put that near anyone. Now I'm going to have the regular beef. So here's just raw ground beef, 85-15. Like this beef, the raw beef has a much milder flavor than the plant-based stuff. And it's not even comparable. I always tell people, if a food tastes good in its raw state, it's generally pretty safe to say that it's safe to eat from a health perspective. All right, now I'm going to try the regular cooked burger that I put on the grill. So I don't really know what they could do to improve this. Obviously the taste is maybe 50 to 60% of what a regular burger is, but they will never be able to replicate the nutrient content of meat, because those vitamins don't exist outside of their animal form. And I don't think they'll ever be able to replicate the fat, unless they can start making fat in the laboratory somehow that made from animal fat. So I don't really know. If you guys would like to support me, please just subscribe and share the video. 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