greetings and salutations. This is retsanur from the Alternative Society, but I'm also part of the Alternative Inner Circle. Now the Alternative Inner Circle is basically a spiritual group that we feel that there are alternative entities that we are living with, that we can't personally see, but sometimes they can be seen with infrared cameras and stuff like that because I mentioned on the first program we have surveillance cameras at a house and we can see unusual activities usually after midnight on the surveillance cameras and there's no explanation for it. I'm guessing that these are spiritual entities that are existing around my house and I happen to live in Hadley, Hadley, Massachusetts, and Hadley, Massachusetts has at the Historical Society a story about the Angel of Hadley and the Angel of Hadley is something that is known about was this was I guess during the early years of the settlement of Hadley and settlers were out and about and I guess this so-called Angel of Hadley showed up and I warned them that Indians were coming over to attack them and they got prepared for an attack but this so-called Angel of Hadley just disappeared and nobody really has an explanation of who or what this Angel of Hadley was they just said that some person came over and warned them about some kind of Indian attack and then disappeared. So Hadley does have a reputation for having some kind of so-called paranormal activity from the early days of the settlers of Hadley, Massachusetts and I live in Hadley, Massachusetts I've experienced unusual things over the years which I didn't really think too much about years ago but as time went on I started thinking that this seems to be some kind of sign that something is going on and I don't have any explanation for it. I mentioned last time that unusual activities which I classify as paranormal activities seemed to happen to me on a weekly basis always some some kind of unusual thing. The last thing happened to me just last weekend I was doing lawn mowing and I was attacked by bees but the bees only went on my shoes and socks they didn't go anywhere else and I had shorts on they they didn't go on my legs or anything they were just a bunch of bees on my shoes and socks and I had water I was trying to get them off my shoes and socks there I had to take my shoes and socks off because there were bees there but I did not have bees on the rest of my body which somebody thought was kind of unusual because I mentioned it to somebody at my job and he said that he knew somebody that was attacked by bees and other bees went all over him including on his back and everything and he was rolling around on the ground trying to get rid of the bees I didn't experience that kind of situation the bees just went on my shoes and socks so I don't have any explanation why that happened and there were a lot of bees on my shoes and socks there must have been maybe three dozen or something I don't know but they were just on my shoes and socks so I had these bees attacking me and then my ankles were itchy after that and I don't know if they actually stung me I don't know if an itch means I got stung or if it was just itchiness so I was attacked by bees so that was just an example of some unusual event there's a number of things that have happened to me I don't have any explanation for so I decided that I'm gonna come over here and maybe interview a ghost over here at the Amherst media build the building here is fair fairly old I think it belongs to the electric company there's the electrical power units in the back of the building there and I think this was an office or something or other years ago so I set this up with a microphone and I'm going to be having an interview with a ghost because I think there's some ghosts here in this building it's an old building and how I'm going to communicate with them is with my crystal so I'm going to show you what I do and I'm gonna have the ghost here give me some answers I'm gonna put the crystal over the microphone I'm gonna ask the crystal show me a yes okay and it's going clockwise now I show me a no and it's going counterclockwise so I'm gonna be asking the so-called ghosts that might be lurking around in this building which nobody seems to be able to know about I happen to seem to be kind of partial to the paranormal so I'm gonna have this interview with the ghost here and I'm going to say is there a ghost present here okay the crystal says yes okay have you been in this building for a number of years says yes okay I notice that there's really nothing on the second floor except they seem to have just some junk and stuff it's like a storage area it's not really being used might there be other ghosts up on the second floor here in this old building okay well the crystal says yes so the other ghosts here in this building according to the crystal here now are you actually staying downstairs here most of the time well the ghost says no it doesn't stay downstairs most of the time so do you like to come downstairs here when there are people over here okay it says yes it does like to come over here when there are people over here would you say that you're here because you used to work in this building no you did not work in this bill is this a location that used to be some other place that you used to live in is this location something that you came over to this location from some other location okay so according to the ghost it came from some other location so you never actually worked or lived in this building is that correct okay you never actually lived and worked in this building I'm curious did you come from a farm from a nearby farm that was here in the Amherst area did you come from another town in Massachusetts did come from another town my my arms getting a little tired here so according to this ghost it came over to this building from some other town in Massachusetts and settled settled in this building here maybe because it was an older building so I'm gonna be asking some more questions I just needed to rest my arm here because I had to hold it up and kind of up in the air my arm was getting a little tired there I'll get back to my interview here so are you classified as a male okay a male ghost did you live in some community within 10 miles of this building so you were not in a place that was within 10 miles of the building here okay did you live in some place that was maybe 20 miles away from this location oh not even 20 miles I'm gonna try to ask was it maybe 50 miles away that you came from not even 50 miles was it another state maybe that you might have came from another state into Massachusetts and then came over here not from another state could it be like maybe a hundred miles away that you came from a hundred miles away not even a hundred miles okay let's ask did you by any chance come from somewhere along the coast of Massachusetts say like around Boston or Cape Cod okay according to the crystal this so-called ghost came from an area maybe from Boston the Cape Cod along the coast somewhere so did you by any chance die in this shipwreck did you buy any chance get attacked by Indians where you were veteran of some ancient war say like a Revolutionary War or the Civil War okay so this seems to be some kind of veteran that came from the other end of the state that came over here this is what the information is and I'm just doing this I don't have any idea what's going on here so I'll ask some more questions so I'm guessing now that you are some kind of veteran from the Revolutionary War maybe no not the Revolutionary War are you a veteran from the Civil War okay it says from the Civil War so I know that there were groups of people from Massachusetts because I used to do Civil War reenacting myself I did that for 15 years I participated with this group in Florence Massachusetts it was the 10th mass volunteer regiment they were looking for a drummer and I did drumming with them for 15 years I went to a number of parades and I did reenactments and I did that actually it's a volunteer thing I did that for 15 years but when my mother died I I had to stop doing that because I needed to work that was at the time there I was working part time and I couldn't really do the Civil War reenacting after my mother died I actually started working about between 50 and 60 hours a week after my mother died so I wasn't able to do Civil War reenacting but I did do that so let me ask the ghost here are you here because I did Civil War reenacting no are you here because there are other Civil War people that have come and gone that lived in Amherst so the ghost claims that there were some Civil War people that lived in Amherst I did reenacting but I'm guessing this this ghost was in the actual Civil War so you were actually in the Civil War between 1860 and 1865 is that what you're saying okay now we have a better idea we have a veteran from the Civil War that came from some area along the coast maybe Boston Cape Cod or something were you involved by any chance for the 10th Mass Volunteer Regiment that was an actual regiment during the Civil War they were in Florence Massachusetts did you know of anybody in the 10th Mass Volunteer Regiment in Florence Massachusetts no you don't know anybody in the 10th Mass okay when we did reenactments we traveled all over the place including Gettysburg did you get involved with the Gettysburg battle so according to the ghost here he was involved with the Gettysburg battle which was a pretty intense you're saying that you you were not killed in in one of these battles where you were you were not killed is that correct okay the crystal says the ghost claims it was not killed during the Civil War did you get wounded during battle no I did not get wounded during battle did you live a long and fruitful life even after the Civil War did something happen to you after the Civil War was over that did you did you by any chance get some kind of sickness and died from a sickness no I didn't die from a sickness did you die from old age did not die from old age did somebody do something to you and then you ended up dying okay somebody did something to this ghost and it died were you by any chance poisoned did you die from some kind of accident say like some kind of accident with a horse or something like that did you have some kind of accident okay so this person died from some kind of accident I don't know if I want to get into too many details here is this an accident that happened to you when you were on your own is this some accident that happened to you when you were with some other people yes is this some kind of accident that was caused by you is this an accident that was caused by somebody else yes so did you by any chance get in an accident when you were traveling from your area where you came from and you happened to come over to this area and you died in this area in an accident okay so this ghost supposedly came over here to this area and died in an accident when it was over here it didn't work in this building it didn't have anything to do with the building I guess it was just traveling here and got in some kind of accident this is really kind of weird so did you die in an accident with some kind of horse horse drawn vehicle did you by any chance go visiting some of the sites around here and you you might have climbed the mountain and fell to your death is that what happened okay I'm kind of trying to figure out how you died when you came over to this area here did somebody by any chance a shoot you with a gun did somebody use a knife on you minute what was that okay so somebody attacked this person that was visiting the area here with a knife so is this like a robbery that somebody attacked you when try to steal stuff from you and then they killed you with a knife okay so this is some kind of robbery that this person was killed in a robbery it was a civil war participant but not died during the civil war but was attacked after the war was over so did you die in this area where this building is so this ghost died in this building where where I'm located here did you come from the Boston area did you come somewhere between Boston and Cape Cod did you come from Cape Cod so this this ghost I came from Cape Cod traveling in this area was attacked by somebody as a robbery and was killed in this area here by somebody with a knife is this done some time between 1870 and 1880 is this between 1880 and 1890 what was that so this was between 1880 and 1890 so this might be in the record somewhere I don't have any information about that but according to the crystal this was some kind of travel from Cape Cod that came over to the Amherst area happened to be coming in this area where this building is was attacked and was probably robbed and killed with a knife and this happened between 1880 and 1890 does that sound correct all that information okay the crystal claims that that is correct so we have a ghost here that happens to be in the building here that was a killed did you by any chance come over to Amherst to visit because the Emily Dickinson or something maybe here is some kind of famous person that or you knew somebody over here did you come to visit a friend did you by any chance just come to go to another area say like you were on your way to Vermont or some other location and you just happen to be coming through Amherst is that what happened okay so this was some kind of a traveler that happened to be traveling through Amherst I was attacked by somebody as a robbery and killed and it was somewhere near this TV station Amherst media which is on College Street here in Amherst I could keep going on but apparently I'm getting a little out of sorts here I'm going to ask the ghost a few more questions and I'm gonna let it go for now I'm not moving the crystal moves by itself are you buried here in Amherst here okay this person is buried in Amherst is it by chance the cemetery there in the center of Amherst is a cemetery over there that is near the high school is that the cemetery okay so this person is buried in that cemetery somewhere near the high school is there a gravestone on your burial spot there is a gravestone there are you going to be able to make out the the words being so old it might be kind of worn away well if you look at the gravestones in the cemetery there would you be able to read the words okay you could read the words there so you're here at this building here because you happen to be killed in this location but they brought your body to the cemetery in downtown Amherst but your spirit is kind of here at the building here is that correct yes the spirit is in the building here so are you saying that there are other spirits here in the building here with you there's other spirits here in the building here are these other spirits companions of yours that might have been attacked at the same time that you were attacked so these are other people that were with this person from Cape Cod that were traveling through the Amherst area they happen to be attacked is it like more than three people is it more than five people so it was like four four other people with you so we're all five of you killed in this area here five people killed in this area in the vicinity of this building here between 1880 and 1890 are these other people are buried with you in that cemetery in Amherst so there are a group of people that were traveling through and I guess they were robbed were these people attacked including you by a large group of Amherst area people here oh boy they're attacked by some local residents in the area here and all killed oh boy so you're in this building here and this is where you're staying for eternity yes well I watched a movie and I I think it was called ghost and a ghost was in a certain building and I guess it became a big sky skyscraper or something but it was that same location as this is similar kind of situation so yes so no matter what happens to be in this location I guess the ghost will be a resident of this area here are you by any chance a ghost that had any kind of religious affiliations no religious affiliations you were traveling through as as a group that were planning on going to another area is that it okay they were traveling through Amherst and happened to be attacked in this particular spot here and they're buried in downtown Amherst was this in the local newspaper say the Amherst newspaper back between 1880 and 1890 so according to the crystal it was in the newspaper some local newspaper if somebody wants to check it out I really I'm not particularly interested in finding information about it I'm sure that there might be people wanting to check into this but I don't happen to be one of them I'm just demonstrating that there are spirits amongst us and that we may not necessarily see these spirits but they seem to be amongst us so you've been here since between 1880 and 1890 yes your companions have been here as well your companions are all men were there some children with you oh boy some children there were there like maybe two men two women and children something like that me let's say two adult men two adult women and two other children two adult women two adult men and one child two adult men two adult children one child well that's a total of five I'm going to ask this again now you said that there's you and another man two women adult women and one child were attacked in this area here and killed is that correct yes were you attacked by some some men yes you were traveling like over the horse and buggy through this area here is that correct yes were these attackers like some robbers on horseback like I used to see on the western movies yes did these attackers have guns yes did you have any weapons with you to protect yourselves if there was any kind of problem did you have any weapons yourselves you did not have any weapons did you think that if you had a weapons that you had with you that you would have prevented this this event so you were unprotected attacked by people with guns you didn't have any guns and you were all killed is that basically what happened maybe this is something that people need to be thinking about in this day and age do you think that the general population should have guns for their own protection do you think that in the time that you were here in this area here that it would have been advisable that you had your own weapons well it says in this day and age not to be needing weapons but in that time period it might have been a good idea to have weapons when they were traveling that sounds logical to me I don't see any problem with that I'm I'm guessing that nowadays people having guns and their shooting people that you hear about on the news all the time you think that these people should have guns do you think the gun laws will protect people from shootings in the future I don't know how far I want to go with this this is just an opinion of a dead person that may not necessarily reflect opinions but apparently this was a group of people that traveled through this area and happened to be killed by some maybe outlaws or something that were here and took whatever valuables they had and left them for dead so that basically what happened they kind of attacked you grabbed your stuff and left you for dead is that what happened did you have a lot of valuable stuff with you say that you had some kind of money or some kind of stuff that you were traveling with and they they wanted to attack you because you had valuables what was that so you didn't have a lot of valuables is that we're saying you did not have a lot of valuables do you think they just killed you because they happen to be just like mentally disturbed people yes well mentally disturbed people shouldn't have guns let's put it this way so we got basically your story so this is this is what I got over the time period I've been asking you questions here you came from Cape Cod is that correct yes you were traveling through this Amherst area in a horse and buggy between 1880 and 1890 that's correct and you were attacked by some men that had weapons is that correct and these men didn't know if you had valuables or not so they just kind of shot and killed you or something like that is that basically what happened okay I need to ask you because you may know or were these men ever caught after they killed you do know if they were caught so these men I guess I got away with murder didn't really get anything out of it so this is a story about the Amherst media building here you have ghosts that are living here that were attacked between 1880 and 1890 you're not gonna do anything about things that are events at the at the Amherst media here there's nothing that you can do is that correct they claim that there's nothing that they can do I had done a program a number of years ago over here where I had this crystal and I went over to the cemetery and I put the crystal over certain tombstone sometimes it went clockwise and sometimes it went counterclockwise so I brought the footage back to the TV station here and my hard drive burned up would you think that that might have been done by one of the ghosts here is that what happened was that done by some other spiritual entity have an explanation why my hard drive burned up the so there's no association between the paranormal and my hard drive burning up after I shot that footage is that correct so the hard drive just happened burn up maybe because of some kind of thing that might have been caused by the electronic equipment maybe some kind of electrical malfunction well I did get that footage there and I did have to go back to the cemetery and shoot it over again and I didn't have any problem with that so perhaps that was caused by some kind of electrical problem with the equipment and the cause the hard drive to burn up I was thinking it was because the spirits didn't like it because I was checking about stuff at the cemetery but according to this one I didn't have anything to do with spirits okay well I'm gonna be finishing up here now so I'm going to ask you are you willing to have this investigated if anybody was interested it'll look up the information is is it between 1880 and 1885 no okay is it between 1885 and 1890 okay it's between 1885 and 1890 that this this thing happened to these people that were traveling through the Amherst area I don't know how much more I can do this here anybody wants to check into that I'm sure you can look it up between 1885 and 1890 and there were a total of five people that were killed by some some robbers or something is that correct yes and and you are buried in the cemetery in downtown Amherst is that correct but your spirits are here at the Amherst media building is that correct is it because this was the location that you happen to be killed in this this location is that the reason yes and you you're primarily on the second floor is that it are you down here on the main floor most of the day so you come down here on the main floor here just once in a while is that correct okay well so the ghost likes to come downstairs here and kind of see what's going on but doesn't like to hang out over here goes back upstairs so I guess the ghosts are hanging around upstairs so if there's any kind of paranormal people that want to come over here and investigate they're free to come over here I'm sure that they might find some kind of evidence of ghosts that are in this building here for now I'm going to let this interview ago because it's getting late and I don't know how long I've been here let me look at my watch it's almost an hour I think I've been talking on this program here so having an interview with the ghost something that you don't ordinarily see on regular TV it's only on something like Amherst media dot org we do alternative programming and now from the alternative society the alternative in a circle the alternative in a circle of people that believe in the paranormal stuff I'm sure that there are other people that are interested in this kind of stuff here they may want to come over to Amherst media and check it out to see what they can find out I don't have any kind of information here I'm sure that if they try to set something up they might be able to pick up some kind of stuff here but I think that you would need some kind of paranormal investigators I went to one of these things in Montague and they set up all kinds of equipment and the audio thing was kind of going off once in a while when they were asking questions so they were using a technology to communicate I'm just using a crystal here the crystal does I have some kind of powers here because it's from nature so I kind of picked this up over the years I kind of was interested in this kind of stuff because I saw it on TV when I watched TV in the past and they mentioned some of some of the stuff that they do and I did investigate about the Ouija board and somebody actually wrote a book about the Ouija board I think the book was entitled the most dangerous game I bought the book but never read it but I think that's available you could probably get that book and read that that's kind of a dangerous thing because you're dealing with spirits and just kind of inviting them to come over and you don't know what kind of spirits you're gonna be dealing with the spirits at this building are here for a reason there's probably other spirits out and about like I said at my house I seem to be having some kind of unusual experiences so I'm going to finish up here and let you kind of contemplate the the consequences of this program it might mean that people might want to look into this I just used my crystal and I'm not moving it around so apparently somebody is giving me the message that people were killed between 1885 and 1890 somebody that was a participant in the Civil War and I guess they were traveling through this area and were attacked by people with weapons maybe a knife guns I don't know let me ask that one last question is was it a knife or guns or both let's see now so a people that attacked you did they attack you just with knives no but they did use a knife on you so they I used some kind of guns and a shot people is that what you're saying so what did they do they shot the people and then use a knife on them afterwards yes well I think that I've had enough of this I don't really want to be dealing with this story here this is not really something that I was planning on doing I was waiting for a guest to show up here and the guest didn't show up so I said well I'll interview the ghost because I checked while I was waiting if there was a ghost in the building and Crystal said yes there is a ghost in the building so that's why I ended up with this program here so I guess I'm gonna let it go and I'm going to say goodbye for now maybe if you come over here you can use some kind of paranormal investigator equipment and try to get some more information but I'm gonna let it go here shut off and I'm gonna say peace


All right, cyber traders, welcome on back here this Thursday, March 21st. Happy March Madness to anyone that's interested at least to college basketball tournament next three weeks, beginning today through Sunday, and weekend after weekend. Great to see all of our students, though. Andrea, I know you'll be rooting for your Yukon Huskies. Great to see you. Great to see Brian. Good to see Bill. Or from earlier, just chat with Bill earlier today. I had a great conversation with him. And a lot of us actually, in fact, from earlier today. Great to see all of us, though. Just let me just get a quick sound check, though. Just let me know if everyone can hear me loud and clear. Should be good to go there. Should be good to go across social media at CybertradingU. As always on the bottom left, you'll see it popping up there. If you're not followed or subscribed to any of our social media streams or platforms alike, namely YouTube. And that's kind of our main hub, but obviously Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, X, et cetera, at CybertradingU. Just be sure to follow or subscribe to us there.  Just really by that, I ended up moving my stop a little bit lower. Not because I'm trying to move the goalposts. But really, I said, wow, actually, this was like a nice little chart support here. Maybe it could hold a triple bottom or maybe a higher low. So I actually had my stop set on this trade at 446 here. And it came down. Doesn't always work out that well, but it did just save me where I recognized the chart support more than anything. And at least for now, it's just in this trade. We'll see if this could look to make a better push coming up here in just a little bit. GOEV, we'll put this on our watch list to begin here. I don't mind. Second here, write this down on my phone app here. I don't have my notepad in front of me. All right, GOEV, we'll just put this on our watch list to begin. But I know a lot of us were focused on the Reddit IPO. We'll get into that in just a little bit, but there's actually another stock that I was focused on from just before. I didn't shout it out to you earlier in the chat, at least, but the LU stock. This one, it was one from pre-market, and I was looking for this to try and fill the gap actually on the way down. By the time the market opened up, it went dropped off a little bit, tiny short, not the biggest, not the best, but ended up making for a decent little move. And now at this point, I think that this could be a decent long, so long as it could hold above VWAP and hold above 475, namely from here. So a couple of stocks that I have my eye on for sure. I'm gonna put the LU stock back on our watch list here for the meantime, not just because I'm in it, but obviously it's trending upward right now. It's up obviously a lot this afternoon. Number five on the gainers list for right now. So with it trending up a lot better at this point, hopefully there will be a lot more eyeballs where we can catch on to this trade. Haven't run up better for us since the close. Resistance likely at five bucks going into the afternoon. Didn't really touch it in pre-market, so if it ends up making this run, I'd still expect five to act as a resistance there, and we'll see if that can make the push. But otherwise though, let's just go right from top to bottom here. We'll see what we could add to our watch list though. You know, coming off the Fed meeting, I mentioned this to one of our students, Wayne earlier this morning, the Fed day itself, you're gonna see some movement.  So we're coming off earning season on top. Actually I have a couple coming out later on today, kind of under the radar, but outside of just this afternoon. No really, we're kind of out of the prime earning season and we'll see if there's anything good going into the next few weeks, but might be a little slow. The KAVL, at least to begin, top percent gainers still ended up making its better move in the morning. Typically right around 10, 15, 10, 30, we tend to see stocks end up reversing, hitting their peak and pulling back. So kind of right around that ballpark area, we ended up seeing that happen here on this trade, the KAVL. SOCO, I guess I didn't mean to click on that actually. All right, well, we keep going through, have a bunch of stocks that are like dirt cheap here on the gainers side, we're not really trading the stocks below a dollar, that's not really our cup of tea right there. So we kind of just fish through those and ZeeZoos. Fausto had called this one out earlier this morning, made a good pop yesterday for us at the same time. It just got a thin order book. It's not really my favorite type of trade here, just looking at how thin the orders are out there collectively. Ooh, how about this? AMTX actually making a move back up to resistance here at five bucks. I like the way this is looking at least here, kind of similar to that LU. If LU could at least hold higher lows, get that push back up again. AMTX a little bit more volatile, moves a little bit faster than that last one LU. And so long as it has a good spread, that's a good thing. As long as the spread doesn't open up to five, seven, 10 cents here out of nowhere, that's a good thing. We like fast, just moderately. All right, so GOEV, we already have on our list here too. The AMTX, we just put on, got lease, X4. Got a bunch of cheapies actually here. Kind of go through them quickly. Not so cheap, this one, MU.  This is the chip ETF. We tend to follow this more than a more expensive ticker like AMD, NVIDIA, even Micron. Just good liquidity, it represents the whole sector. If NVIDIA or AMD are coming off of earnings or news, of course we'll focus on those then. And Micron is coming off of earnings of its own. But at this stage right now, this is just the better bang for the buck. It's a gaffill opportunity at least now at this point. And yeah, SOXL, definitely I'll put on this list as more of a short trade actually here. All right, we keep going through. See if there's anything else looking like a recognizable name on the gainer side here. If that, a lot of low volume honestly here too, not just cheap but low volume. RVSN, the stock we've done pretty well on over the last like month, month and a half, maybe three months at that. But what goes up comes back down. We'll see it move back up a little bit here and there afterwards. But this isn't like the best looking that we've seen the stock trade. All right, so we'll see if there's anything looking just as good, if not better, maybe a good shorter two to work with on top of the SOXL from the loser side, at least there, SPIR. Ooh, that's right. That's how I remember the stock. This is one from back just Monday and Tuesday this week. We had called out, made a nice little spike up back then. We did say it was on some pretty thin volume back then, but honestly, I didn't even care to check for it today. I guess it's shortable. Led to a big drop at the open. Still pulling back a little bit here and there, but it kind of seemed to be said here, as we said just the last two days. Liquidity matters and you want to have a stock that's on a good spread, good tier size on level two with that and not really looking too good there. Lead Chinese equity here, Chinese EV company. I know I got to bring that up just because a lot of the Chinese stocks fade off sooner than the US equities do, unless if there's news pertaining to the stock itself and you see some really big spikes of volume kicking in.  Those were the main three that we traded back like last year at some point when the China markets were exploding up. Of course we got like Yin, China ETF, you got FXI. I mean, those are at the lows of the day, respectively, but going back to Li, Chinese EV company, not really looking too great. Don't need to put it on our list. HUYA and other Chinese company there, in fact. All right, so how about this? If there's anything else looking good folks, up, down, left, right, just more than 5%, type it in the chat board. I kind of went through pretty quick, but that's because really outside of the few that we were looking at there, Reddit, in fact, we'll look at that one too. We were looking for support off of 47 at first, just the opening bell print price and it's starting to move back up right now, but I would expect 47 to act as resistance on this trade now initially. It broke under it pretty cleanly here. So if it can at least kind of hold under it for a little bit and then push over it, heading into like three o'clock, three, 15. I think that could lead to a pretty good squeeze heading into the close. I'll put it on our list as more of like a show and tell type of stock. Oh, I loved how, who was a Charlene, I think had written it down earlier in the chat and I don't have that main chat in front of me. Here, pardon me, Charlene on that, but I think she said it was just for an experimental or just for fun, basically, in some regard. It was a good way of phrasing it, but more or less, yeah, we'll kind of put it on our watch list for that reason. Ron says, crazy spreads, yeah, I agree. Absolutely. For a stock like this, you're trading at five and $10 levels and just pretty much the opening print 47 that Rich called out there. That's why I have this on the chart there, 47. Michael says, GES, a little flat though. I mean, I saw that on the gainer's side, right? Guess, it was a little expensive, not two, but I guess I skipped over it at the time being, but yeah, a little flat, you're right with saying that. Kind of looks like a buyout, right? I doubt that it is. I doubt that it is, but just be fun to look it up. My assumption would be earnings, but yep. No, and they declared special dividend, $2.25 per share. That's interesting to note, but otherwise, yeah, a little flat. Oh, actually, while I'm at it, Benzinga Pro, keep right back up here and go back to my scan here, in fact, show you this before we finish up. Anything else looking good, it will show up on this column here. AMTX, we got that one already. GOEV, already on our list already. LU, already on our list already. So, I like what we got so far, folks. Not a bad list. Don't need to force anything else on there. And that was it, Charlene. There we go, for entertainment purposes only. I like that. That's a good way to phrase it. All right, so hey, you know what? I think that we're gonna finish up a little early, make this one quick and easy for all of us. In fact, that gives us more time to prep these stocks up for Roseanne, Jeff, Ron, Michael, Charlene, Dominic, Kathleen, and all of us otherwise. Hey, it gives us the chance to go through level four, go through the order book, see where the icebergs are on any of these trades that we're putting on our list. For instance, the GOEV stock, I'll just kind of do here for you. Well, I got resistance at five, right here, 4950,000 share seller of $5.00. So, that clearly is your top. You would assume a whole number of level would be resistance, but that confirms it. That's your confirmation right there. So, that's your resistance. You would want to see this hold over 450 past resistance as support, which it just did, trying to still looking good. All right, but hey, I'll be back in the mic in just about 20 minutes. Wow, finished this one up pretty early. So, gives myself a little time, catch my breath, refill up in water. We'll be good to go coming up at three o'clock, folks, just for the afternoon. Talk to you then.


The people close to us in our lives who are trying to support us, sometimes need their own support. So today on episode 264 of The Anxious Truth, we're going to talk about what happens when your helpers need help. Hello everybody, welcome back to The Anxious Truth. This is podcast episode 264. We are recording in June of 2023 in case you are listening from the future. I am Drew Lincellotta, creator and host of The Anxious Truth. This is the podcast that covers all things anxiety, anxiety disorders, like panic attacks and agoraphobia and OCD and health anxiety, and anxiety recovery. So if you are struggling with any of those things, this is the podcast for you. If you, this is the first time you have sort of stumbled upon the YouTube channel or the podcast, welcome. I hope you find this content helpful and useful in some way.  Thank you for spending another week with me. So today we're going to talk about what happens when your helpers need help. Because living with and supporting somebody in recovery from an anxiety disorder is a difficult thing. For those people that love us and support us, sometimes they are also entitled to support of their own. If they are going to help us, often they need help so that they can help us. And this is the thing that we have to acknowledge. I think it's not news to anybody. Sometimes the impact that our anxiety has on the people around us, whether they be romantic partners, intimate partners, parents, siblings, close friends, whatever it happens to be, it is impactful. Our lifestyles are impacted. There's a huge amount of restriction and avoidance and conditions and reliance on other people and they feel that strain, which again, I think is not news. It's uncomfortable to talk about this stuff. By the way, I get that it's uncomfortable to face that reality, but we do have to talk about it. It's an important topic. Even though it doesn't have to do specifically with your recovery, this is part of it. So if we acknowledge that and we know that that our anxiety problems can often put a strain on our relationships, whatever those relationships happen to be, there are various types of relationships, but it will put a strain on those that then adds additional fear. So if you are afraid of the thoughts you're having or you are afraid of your bodily sensations or you're afraid of panic attacks or whatever happens to be you're struggling with in your anxiety journey, now the strain on your close relationships, the people you love and value in your life is going to add another dimension on top of that. And I hear it all the time. This is the thing that also gets talked about quite often in the community. I'm ruining everybody's life. My partner is at the end of their rope. I don't blame them if they leave me. What am I going to do without them? If this ends, I don't know what I'm going to be able to do. These are very common additional fears that go on top of your initial fear that you're already dealing with. So keep this in mind because when the time comes that maybe one of your helpers decides, you know what? I'm really impacted by this. I love you, but I need my own help. Those fears about the impact that you are having on other people because I was there, I recognize this. When you are disappointed or angry in yourself because you refuse to go pick up the kids from school or you keep canceling social engagements, whatever it is, now you start to project that and say, well, my partner, my friends, my family, they're disappointed in me. They're angry. They're resentful. They're running out of patience. They're going to leave me. This is terrible. The way you feel is already bad and then you think about the way they might feel about what you're doing and then you feel even worse about you. I'm not saying that that's wrong. That's a pretty normal response that any human being would certainly have. We don't want our loved ones to be angry with us. For instance, I get that, but your anxiety and fear will twist that and try to make you believe that somehow you have some say in how they feel or you get to control that or you might be able to manipulate it.   So when they do decide, I think I need some help here. At face value, we might all say, I get that. I love you too, and I support the fact that you need help in this process. At face value, that would be the reaction that most people would have, right? But when it gets to the point where they do reach out for that help, which they are entitled to, they are entitled to have a place to vent, to say what they feel, what they're thinking, what their challenges are to speak freely and without judgment, like they need that space outside of the relationship, sometimes to just work through what they're dealing with. They're allowed to do that, and we might support that right away and at face value. But what's going to happen is, remember, your anxiety and fear is going to try and tell you that you also have to be really afraid of how they feel and what they think about you. And maybe you can find ways to control that or manipulate that or engineer that so that you won't feel so bad because they feel bad. When your helper, whoever it happens to be or your helpers reach out for help independently of their relationship with you because that exists outside of the relationship, right? They need a safe place without judgment where they can talk. That's not to you. Now this is where your anxiety and the fear really gets its dander up. It will start whispering in your ear, you know, the worst case scenarios. What is she talking about today in therapy? Like what is going on in there? You know, I know what's going on. He's so angry with me. She can't take it anymore. She's out of patience. She's going to leave me. I'm going to lose my lifelong friend from childhood. I know what's going on. I know what they're saying. Your anxiety and fear will sound that alarm and tell you what a dangerous situation this is for you. And then it may also try to wiggle its way in because that discomfort, when you think of that, what if my partner is talking to their therapist that they're counseling right now or the counselor right now and telling the counselor or the therapist that they are out of patience with me or that they're thinking of leaving me. Those are tough thoughts to have their normal thoughts to have, but those will make you really uncomfortable. And then your anxiety and fear might say, you got to wiggle into this process. I don't mean you'll bust through the door and break into the therapy session, but it will probably compel you to try to control how your partner or your friend or your family, your sibling or your friend, whoever it is, they will try to compel you to control what they're doing. So it will want, it will demand a role in your helper's help process, which it does not get to have, but it will insist that it does get to have that. So just let that sink in for a second because this is a little bit circular and reasoning as everything that we talk about is. But if you have been in this situation where the people who are supporting you are reaching out for help, you may have found yourself in a situation where now you wind up ringing your hands and your anxiety is insisting that you somehow get a say in how they get help and what they talk about and what they feel. You will want to try to control what they feel, what they think, what they say. Now in moments of clarity, you'll be able to step back and say, you know what, let them go vent. This is healthy. They got to do it and it's okay. I support that. But in moments where you are vulnerable to the fear and the suggestions of anxiety and the cognitive distortions that come with it, it will insist that this is a worst case scenario. Horrible things are about to happen and you better somehow get involved so that you can control the narrative there. It's really weird. Anxiety and fear in the states in the context that we address them in will insist that all kinds of stuff needs to happen. That doesn't need to happen or can't happen. And in many cases in this situation, your anxiety and your fear will demand that it plays a role in controlling the narrative around your helper getting help. And that's not realistic. That would ultimately cause even more conflict, which makes things even worse. And it's an unrealistic demand. But since when does anxiety make realistic demands? Anyway, we know that.  You feel really bad right now. You're getting really afraid. Do something about that. But there's nothing you can really do about it. So the moral of the story here today, and this one is going to be a short episode, I'm going to try and make these all shorter. I know you've heard me say that again and again and again, but in the end, 30 minutes a week from the anxious truth and 40 minutes a week from disordered, the podcast I do with Josh Fletcher, it's a little bit much for you guys. So I'm going to try and make the anxious truth shorter, like maybe 10 to 15 minutes max every week. So I'm going to wrap this up went up pretty quickly, but think about that. You may from a logic standpoint from a purely human standpoint say, yeah, this is a really hard situation for everybody in the family. I get it. You know, my partner needs some support. I'm good with that. I want them to get the help. It's healthy for everybody. If they do that, but then the anxious fear will roll in and say, yeah, but you're feeling really uncomfortable right now. Cause what are they talking about in therapy? What's actually in their head? What are they saying? Are they really tired of you? They might, they might leave. They might be talking about leaving right now. And then it will demand that you somehow find a way to get involved in that to control it to steer it and somehow have a say in the narrative of their help process. So when that happens, remember this, remember this particular episode, you're going to have to step back for a second and say, this is one of those situations in my recovery journey when I'm going to have to deal with some discomfort in this moment to allow the possibility for a better outcome down the road. So while you might feel incredibly uncertain, which may trigger actual panic in you over the fact that your partner or your best friend is speaking to a therapist about you right now, which they are entitled to do. You'll know that a face value. But if you are literally triggered into near panic meltdown, because they are speaking to somebody about your situation and that feels dangerous to you, that is a moment where you have to try to reconnect with the idea that this is really uncomfortable for me right now. I'm jumping to huge conclusions that might not be warranted. I'm in the grips of fear based cognitive distortions. And even if I'm uncomfortable now, I have to roll the dice on that to give myself a better chance of a positive outcome in this relationship later. Like anything else, I can skip my exposure today and feel better today, but that decreases my chances of a positive outcome in two months. Same thing here. I'm going to have to just allow this discomfort and work through it and let it play out the way it's going to play out. Because if this person can get the help that they need, we have a better chance of a better outcome in two months or three months or six months, whatever it is. So it's a strange topic because it isn't necessarily focused directly on the anxious person, but on the sort of the dynamic, the family or the social dynamic around the anxious person. But it matters. We can't ignore this. This is a real thing. I've heard it expressed several times. I've heard the fear about the relationships and about our loved ones. I've heard that fear expressed almost on the daily. This particular thing I've heard expressed sometimes, but often enough to know that when the helpers go for help, it's often a huge trigger for the anxious person. And if we're not careful, you can get sucked into that trigger and then set off a sequence of events that actually makes things worse instead of making them better. So when you allow that anxious fear to drive you and you try to insert yourself into their helping process or the process of them getting help, control that narrative, control how they feel, control what they say, things can get really dicey. If the relationship wasn't strained already, that can make it worse. So unfortunately, we get back to a very common theme here, which is, I'm going to have to just be uncomfortable and find the best way I can to work through that. Otherwise, I'm going to make things even worse. And I'm going to minimize my chances of a positive outcome down the road, which is really what I'm looking for. And that's kind of all I have to say on this. It's not a huge topic. It's a relatively simple topic in terms of the amount of information, the amount of stuff that I could tell you without just repeating myself over and over for the next 20 minutes. But just try to remember this episode if you ever wind up in that situation or even in situations where maybe your friend or partner isn't even necessarily reaching out for formal help, right? It doesn't even have to be formal help. They don't have to be going to a therapist or a counselor. Sometimes they just start going to their own friends to vent a little bit. Just the way that you like to vent about your anxiety sometimes, maybe in an online support group, maybe you're one of my Instagram subscribers and you're in the group chats and that sort of stuff just, we only to vent sometimes. So it doesn't have to be that your partner or your friend or your mom or your sibling went to a therapist. They could just be just using their own social network for support. And that can make you uncomfortable. And anytime you're uncomfortable, disordered anxiety will get at the hair on its neck will stand up and it will demand immediate and swift action to try and address that discomfort and that perceived danger. So hopefully this helps. If that's a thing that you're struggling with, maybe you could take this episode with you. If it's a thing that you think you want to talk about with your your supporters with your partner or your friend or your parents or whatever. Hey, listen, I listen to a podcast episode today. I know this is really hard for you. I just want to let you know that if you if you need your own support, I will do my best to support you when you get help. Like you're helping me and I will try to help you when you need the help that that will help you help me. So it's a weird kind of it sounds like a comedy bit, but maybe this spurs that conversation like, listen, I get it. You know, it's really uncomfortable. And if you want to go get some help, I support you in that and I'll do my best to stand by you while you get the help you need because I understand that I'm impacting you and maybe we can work on this all together. But working on it together means you're doing your part in recovery. They are reaching out outside of that for their own support so that they can be here for you to cheer, lead for you and encourage you and do all the things that we know they should do or that you would like them to do. And before I end the episode, just a quick acknowledgement. I could have done at the beginning, but if you're listening to this and you're in a situation where you don't really have anybody close to you that's helping you, I do understand that that's that happens. That does make it difficult. I understand not everybody is surrounded by family and friends that are trying to support them or help them, or you might even be in a situation where you are surrounded by people who are close to you but are not helping or they might even be hurting. And if you are, I get that we're going to talk about those things either here or in the Disordered podcast, the other podcast I do, but so we'll address those things too very soon. In fact, actually Josh and I already did that. Episode 15 of Disordered was my family doesn't get it. We talked about that. So you can go and check that out if you wanted Disordered.fm. But I just want to take a moment and acknowledge the folks that are struggling on the other side of the spectrum where maybe they're alone or they're with people who are not helpful. That happens too. And we'll do the best we can to support you on that one as well. So that is it. That is episode 264 of The Anxious Truth, a short one. I'm 15 minutes. I'm good with this in the books. I'm not going to do the music at the end anymore. Nothing anybody cares. I'm a huge fan of my friend Ben Drake and his music. And I love I've loved using Afterglow for these years that he let me do it. But it's just getting a little bit sticky because I upload these to YouTube and then YouTube flags them as copyright infringements, even though Ben has been bent over backwards to like allow my channel to use it. The software is just not cooperating. So I think we may have heard the last of Afterglow on the podcast. So we'll have no ending music, but that's okay. Everything changes over time. What I'll leave you with is what I always leave you with. If you're listening to the podcast on Spotify or Apple podcasts, any place where you can leave a rating or review, leave a five star rating. If you dig it, maybe take a second and write a review if you can because it helps more people find the podcast and then more people get help. If you're listening to this, there's nothing to watch because there's no video this week. But if you're accessing the podcast on YouTube, subscribe to the channel, like the video, leave a comment, ask a question twice a week. I circle back in and answer my YouTube comments. I promise I get to pretty much all of these days. Pretty proud of that. And that's it. Thank you for stopping by. Thank you for supporting the work. I hope I'm helpful in some way. And I'll be back again next week. I don't know what I'm going to talk about as usual, but I will be here. And just a quick reminder before I sign off, any little step that you could take today in the direction of recovery, even if it's a difficult step, even if you're scared, even if you're uncertain when you do it, and even if it seems insignificant, take the step anyway. It will teach you something that in the end, even the smallest steps add up over time. And that's it. See you next week. Thanks for hanging out.


I'm Patrick Doua from ETI Zurich, and this presentation is on the 16th Diophontanic Sensitivity Ability Arguments. It is based on general work with Damian Value. A Dermphotian equation is a multivariate polynomial equation with integer coefficients, and for which the solutions are also sought in Z. Metisevich proved in 1970 that the problem of deciding whether any given polynomial equation has a solution is undecidable. So he gave a negative answer to Hilbert's 10th problem. But it may be possible to prove or argue knowledge of a solution if it is known to a party. The fontan equations are relevant in cryptography and computer science in general, and several problems, and especially several NP-complex problems, can be encoded as polynomial equations. These, for instance, include Sturckitz-Sat-3-Sat, the graph-colouring problem, the Hamiltonian-Sacken problem, and the integer-linear programming problem. Most specific to crypto and among other problems, the problems of proving knowledge of an RSI signature or of an ECDSI signature can also be encoded as the Dermphotian equations. Even the problem of proving that two lists of committed values, are permutations of one or another, can easily be represented by such an equation. And this problem has applications to voting schemes and mixed nets, for example. But Sturckitz-Sat-3-Sat-3-Sat arguments already exist and are given in groups of prime orders. So one may wonder why it would be useful to additionally have arguments for their fountain satisfiability. The issue that may occur with arguments in groups of prime orders is that, for certain problems, there may apparently be no upper bound on the size of the witness, as it is, for example, the case for the integer-linear programming problem. It means that if the parameters are generated before the problem instance is known and the group order is too small, then one may not be able to use the arguments as the witness will be reduced modulo of the group order. Compiling the problem into a Sturckitz-Sat-3-Sat problem can also incur a significant overhead for certain problems. And it may actually be difficult to even write down an appropriate circuit for the problem. On the other hand, most problems can naturally be written as polynomial equations. So if one could directly argue satisfiability of such equations, one would not have to worry about the compilation at all and could instead directly use the argument. And giving an argument for their fountain satisfiability is the problem that this paper tries to solve. To argue over the integers instead of residue classes modulo of prime, the solution is often to use hidden order groups. These are, for instance, Z and star for an RSE modulo of n and ideal class groups. Some assumptions over these groups were formulated by Damgarden-Fujizaki, and there are essentially a generalization of the strong RSE assumption. And the assumption that is difficult to compute small order elements, except for elements of order 2, since minus 1, for example, is an element of order 2, but is also easily easy to compute. There are two other assumptions that I didn't mention, but they are less critical for the understanding of this presentation. As arguing over integers may require to be able to commit to them, the first step is to construct an integer-to-commitment scheme. Damgarden-Fujizaki already proposed one which is similar to the Pedersen scheme, but which has crucial sort of differences. The first one is that it is over a group of hidden order, which may not even be cyclic, and only an upper bound on the group order is known. In the RSE group case, an easier upper bound is just the RSE modulo of n. Then to generate parameters, one samples a group element h, choosing exponent alpha over a set of integers with size at least 2 times lambda times the group order to be statistically close to uniform and then one computes g as h to the alpha. It is paramount to have g in the circle changed by h to guarantee that the scheme is hiding. Without it, it cannot be sure. Of course this problem does not occur in the case of primordial groups as they are cyclic, but it's not the case of hidden other groups. Now to commit to an integer x instead of the residue class modulo p, one first chooses randomness r from a set of integers with size at least 2 times lambda the group order. This is to make sure that the statistical distance between any two commitments is at most 2 to the minus lambda. The rest of the computation is just like for Pedersen scheme. To open a commitment, it suffices to check that c-square is equal to gx hr square. The squaring is simply an artifact to later allow for efficient arguments of knowledge of openings. It means that the scheme will still be binding without the squaring, but it would then not be possible to efficiently argue knowledge of openings under the assumptions on the group. The main underlying reason is that elements of order 2 may be easily computable and therefore one must relax the commitment and opening equation. As mentioned before, for the scheme to be hiding is actually crucial that g is in the subgroup generated by h. It means that if the party which computes g is not trusted, then it should also output a proof that g is indeed in the subgroup generated by h, as there is no efficient way to actually test that. Damgaard and Fusezaki gave a proof of discrete log in the subgroup generated by nil and h and it's simply an adaptation of Schnor's protocol with 01 as challenge space. The first problem with this proof is that it must be repeated log square lambda times to reach and sum this error of 1 over lambda log lambda. But there's actually no reason for the parameters to be frequently refreshed. The most serious problem is that the parameters are large because of the proof, especially if one were to commit two vectors of integers instead of a single one, as it would then be necessary to do the proof for each of the bases. And here comes our first contribution, a new integer commitment scheme. One first computes g as before but now argues that g square is in the subgroup generated by h square instead of proving that g is in the subgroup generated by h. The benefit is that one can use a much larger challenge space and achieve the same soundless error with a single protocol run and have much smaller proofs. The complexity is here measured in bits and not in terms of group elements or with number of integers, as the integers that are in the proof could be arbitrarily large because there's no modular reduction. The difference with Damgarten-Fujizaki schemes is even more pronounced when there are several integers to commit to, say n, as the argument is now of size bigger of bg plus log n instead of omega of nbg log square lambda. And the technique used will be shown later. Since the argument in the parameters only guarantees that g square is in the subgroup generated by h square, the computation of the commitment must now be squared. And the opening must be a power to higher to later again permit efficient arguments of knowledge of openings. To understand why the parameters of the new scheme are much smaller than for Damgarten-Fujizaki, consider a problem of proving this arguing knowledge of discrete log in the subgroup generated by an element h. The general outline of the protocol is the same as North's protocol. But the challenge space and the range of the randomness are not yet specified. Damgarten-Fujizaki used 0, 1 as challenge space and the reason is that in the extractability proof, when one gets such an equation for distinct challenges c1 and c2, c1 minus c2 is either minus 1 or 1. So one can extract an integer alpha such that g is equal to h for the alpha. The challenge space of the argument for the new scheme is instead 0 lambda log lambda. The consequence is that when one gets such an equation in the proof of extractability, since c1 minus c2 cannot be inverted or the unknown order of h unless it is minus 1 or 1, then all one can say is that if c1 minus c2 divides over the integers r2 minus r1, then this equation must be satisfied. Under the assumption that elements of small order are hard to compute except for elements of order 2, one can conclude that the expression in parenthesis is of order 2 and is the best that can be said. This expression then yields a d log for g2 to the base h2. It identifies as to prove that c1 minus c2 divides r2 minus r1 with non-negligible probability under the assumptions of the group. Now for the zero-knowledge property, it is important to choose the range of k large enough to hide the witness, but not unnecessarily large as it impacts the size of the proof of response. First we call that alpha is at most 2 to the lambda times the order of the group. Then c alpha is at most 2 to the lambda times the order of the group times the maximum value of the challenge. Now if k is chosen from the set here represented in green, it means that if r falls in the areas represented in red, then the response makes some information about the witness alpha. In the simulation k is chosen here from the random from the green set. t is set as h to the k times g and r is set to k. The statistical distance between the simulated transcript and the real one then depends on the size of the red area compared to the green. If k is then chosen from a range 2 to the lambda times the maximum value of c alpha, then the statistical distance between the two distributions at most 2 to the minus lambda plus 1. To argue knowledge of several discrete logs at once, the idea is simply to compute a linear combination of the elements. The underlying reasoning is that if the prover knows the delog of each gi to the base h, then she must be able to argue knowledge of a representation of the linear combination in the zid module generated by the gi elements. Now that integer commitments have been constructed, the next step is to build an efficient inner product argument over the integers. Or in other words a protocol to argue that an opening AB to a commitment is so that the inner product between A and B is equal to a public integer zid. Actually the argument later used for the fountain satisfiability is one in which the inner product is also committed. And it's here again important that all the bases gi, h, i and e are all in the subgroup generated by the base of the randomness which is here f. The idea of the inner product argument is to use the halved and recursed techniques that appeared in bullet proofs and are themselves reminiscent of the techniques due to buta leal at crypto 2016. Europe 2016, sorry. The main difficulty in the present case is that zid is not a field as zp. And therefore one cannot invert modulo the unknown order of f. Whereas bullet proofs heavily rely on the invertibility of zp elements, especially to prove your extractability. As an example, consider the case in which the integer vectors are of size 2. The proof starts by committing to a first half of cross terms in u. And then she does the same for the other half in v.  The proof continues by computing an integer linear combination of a1 and a2 as well as for b1 and b2. And it's important to notice that the resulting combinations a and b are of half the size of the original vectors. Now the main observation is that by adjusting the randomness in the value t, one obtains an opening relation for a new commitment with basis and a commitment that depend on the original basis, the original commitment c and the challenge x. And importantly, the size of the randomness is now half the size of the original witness. Is it possible to recurse with a new witness that is half of half the size? Not also that none of these computations require to invert an integer module in unknown order. I also did not specify the randomness range for u and v, but the idea is the same as in the previous experiment. The main technical issue is that the size of the randomness t grows at each step of the recursion. It means that at least the last step of the protocol, the integers that the proof of sense also grow. Is then important to adapt the ranges of u and v so that the argument remains statistically zero knowledge, but its size does not increase too much. Now to understand how a witness for a higher recursion step can be extracted, consider three successful rounds with three pairwise distinct challenges and the following linear equation. The idea of this equation is just to eliminate u and v from the equation above. It is the same idea as for bullet proof. The problem is now that even if the challenges are pairwise distinct, the linear equation may not have a solution over the integers, whereas it would do, for instance, over fields. Luckily, the following equality with the i-jugate matrix of x holds over the integers with the i-gaussian elimination. So one can express c to the two times the determinant of x in the original basis, but it would be better to have an expression for c-square without the integer determinant of x. We prove that under the assumptions on the hidden order group, two times the determinant of x must divide the exponents on the left-hand side of the equation, all of them. It is the first major difference with bullet proof in the proof of extractability. c-square can then be expressed in the original basis, and similarly for u and v, considering appropriately linear equations. By plugging these representations in the equation above, one then obtains a discrete log relation in the sub-quad generated by f. We again prove that under the assumptions on the group, which are vastly different from the standard delog assumption, that each exponent must be nil, and a witness can later be extracted for the higher step of the protocol. And this is the second major difference from bullet proof in the proof of extractability. So basically proving that delog relations are not possible in sub-crups to introduce it by, and then randomly sample m and f. Now using the inner product argument over the integers, we show how to argue knowledge of vectors a-l, a-r, and a-o that satisfy a Hadamard product, and linear constraints which potentially involve integers in the vector v that are committed. This form is just a representation of a circuit with left and right inputs in a-l and a-o, and a vector of outputs a-o. The inputs are a-l and a-r, of course. The linear constraints here are presented by the w matrices and the constant vectors c simply ensure consistency between each depth level of the circuit. But a-l and then the bullet proofs give log size arguments for such arguments in zp, but not in zt. Several technical issues then arise again from the fact that zt is not a field. And these details are, and these issues are detailed in the paper. The last step to argue delphantine satisfiability is then to give an argolium that turns any delphantine equation, or rather any multivariate polynomial equation, into a Hadamard product, and linear constraints of this form. We give an explicit algorithm to do so. It is inspired by Schoen's method, which dates back to the 30s, and which consists in reducing the degree of the original polynomial to a polynomial of degree 4, of degree at most 4, by introducing new variables. Take this be very equational as an example. The first step is to introduce a new variable u, which represents x squared, v, which represents xy, and w, which represents ux, which is equal to x to the power 3. The next step is then to insert these new variables in the original polynomial, and enforce the relation between the new variables and the old ones by adding the terms u minus x squared, and squaring that. All the terms are squared since the sum of square values is 0 if only if all of them are 0. From this new polynomial, one can then directly infer the Hadamard product here, so u is equal to x squared, v is equal to xy, and linear constraints. And one can then use the argument for the previous relation, so this relation that is here, over the integers. Damgar and Fujizaki had already given a multiplication argument over committed integers. It means that if a polynomial of total degree delta requires m multiplications, then one would have to compute 2m plus 1 commitments, and m consistency arguments to argue for the satisfiability of the related equation. The resulting communication complexity is then at least of disorder, but with our commitment in arguments and polynomial degree reduction algorithm, the communication complexity of our argument is rather than of these many bits, and in many cases it shows that there is like an exponential decrease in the size of the argument, and here h represents the height of the polynomial. The paper applies these techniques to some of the problems mentioned in the introduction, and gives estimates for the resulting sizes of the argument. As closing remarks, it might be worth investigating whether such arguments can be aggregated to, for instance, argue knowledge of several signatures at once, and also if the verification time, which is for now linear in the bit length of the witness, can be significantly reduced, and this could have potentially many other applications in different contexts. That's it for this presentation. Thank you for your attention, and please feel free to send us an email should you have any question.


A few days ago, I made a video where I highlighted nine of my favorite terminal color schemes, well, color schemes for not just terminals, but also text editors as well. And really, these terminal color schemes, they could be applied to all kinds of programs such as Kaki, such as your window manager, your window manager's panel or bar. And that's kind of what I spent the last few days doing. I took those nine terminal color schemes and I've made configs for Kaki, X-Mobar, D-Menu, Alacrity. I've made the ability to switch to any of those nine color schemes and all of these programs. So in my Alacrity config, if I open my Alacrity config here inside Vim and let me zoom in here and if I scroll down a little ways, you see start of color schemes. And then the first one, Doom 1. This is the Doom 1 colors and then Dracula and there's the Dracula colors, et cetera, et cetera. And I've got nine different color schemes, all nine color schemes from the video from the other day. And you see, I listed them here, the available themes. And what you need to do is this line here, colors, colon, and then space, asterix, and then the name of the color scheme. We've chosen Doom 1, but if I wanted to, I could actually go down here and I could actually change, for example, to Dracula there, if I could spell it correctly. And there you go. It immediately changes Alacrity to the Dracula color scheme. You don't actually have to close Alacrity and restart it. It's just a hot swap right there. So that immediately changed to the Dracula color scheme. I wanted to change my Exmo or a panel to one of these nine other color schemes. I've configured that. That is done through my Exmonad config. So what I would do is I'm going to launch Doom Emacs. And Doom Emacs is using the Doom 1 color scheme. If you wanted to change color schemes in Doom Emacs, do space HT. You'll get a listing of all the themes available in Doom Emacs. I'm just going to search for Dracula. Oh, I guess I did not type that right. There it is. And then switch to Dracula. And it immediately switches over to the Dracula color scheme in Doom Emacs. Now let me open up my Exmonad config. And let's go ahead and change the Exmo bar to the Dracula color. So I'm going to scroll down here to the end of my config. At the end of my config, I'm launching three different Exmo bars on three different monitors. But the one I'm recording here, Doom-1-Exmo bar RC, these are the Doom 1 colors. But again, I've created nine different Exmo bar RCs for each of the nine different color schemes including Dracula-Exmo bar RC. So let me save that and export that to Exmonad.hs and then restart Exmonad. And you see Exmo bar now has the Dracula color scheme. Blackarty has the Dracula color scheme. Doom Emacs has the Dracula color scheme. And lastly, if I wanted Kaki to have the Dracula color scheme, let me go to the top of the document here to my auto store hook. I have Kaki and then the location of the Kaki config. I have nine different Kaki RCs depending on each of the nine colors. So I would just, this is originally Doom-1.Kaki RC. I change it to Dracula-01.Kaki RC and that should, well, make these floating windows, will change this which is currently using the Doom-1 colors. That should change it to the Dracula colors. But because we've already launched it, I'd have to actually kill the Kaki and restart it from the command line or what I could do now that I've changed this, I'd have to actually log out of Exmonad and log back in to make the Kaki change take effect. Let me switch to a different monitor here. The one last thing I spent today doing is I wanted the ability to have D-Menu also honor the nine different color schemes. Now that's a little hard to do because by default D-Menu to change color schemes you actually have to edit the source code for D-Menu. So let me open up Doom Emacs and I'm going to go into my GitLab repose because I have a whole bunch of GitLab repositories and one of them is called D-Menu-Distro YouTube and let's just open that directory here inside DRID in Emacs and you can see this is the source code for D-Menu and I've patched my build of D-Menu to do several things including have some fancy colors. I've got fuzzy highlighting going on, more colors as well, gives you the ability to set some different highlighting options for colors. But let's go into the config.def.h and if I go into the config.def.h you see I have this section here select your color scheme kind of like I had in the Alacrity config I've got these available color schemes doom-1.h, Dracula.h, Grovbox-Dark.h, etc. And what was here before was a block of various code that set your colors now instead of having a block of code that you'd have to come in here and change all of the color options. I've included this line here include and then the location to the source code for this and where the source code is going to be located is actually when you install my build of D-Menu it should put this and slash opt slash D-Menu-DistroTube slash colors slash and then name of the color scheme.h for example doom-1.h or since we're changing to Dracula let's do Dracula.h. And then actually let me CD into that directory and I'm going to do a sudo make clean install and and remove config.h and if it builds correctly and it did now my D-Menu should also have the Dracula color schemes which that is definitely the pink from the Dracula color scheme if I start doing a search yeah you can see I've got some of the green highlighting as I'm typing ALA for Alacrity now if I wanted to I could go over here to Alacrity and many people don't know that you can do this in D-Menu you can actually do multiple selections inside D-Menu with control return so if I do control return while I'm highlighting the word Alacrity I just selected Alacrity to launch but I can go and search for something else to launch as well and you see the Alacrity is blue in color and I've set that in the config and what that will happen is when I find something else I also want to launch for example also mixer you know I could do control return or just return and it should launch all of that of course also mixer is not going to launch because it has to be launched inside a terminal you can't just launch it directly from D-Menu but I just wanted to briefly highlight that you do have the ability to launch multiple things from D-Menu at a time and once again editing this line this include line and config.def.h if I wanted to change from Dracula over to uh Solarized Light you know I went ahead and again I've got all nine color schemes available not just in Konki, X-Mote Bar, Alacrity, and Dume Max I also now have that ability in D-Menu as well so now I just need to recompile or sudo make install here and now I've got the Solarized Light color scheme here and once again if I do control return to do multiple selection you see that's the blue from the Solarized theme and the pink from the Solarized theme and of course it's going to launch Alacrity since I had it selected so I just wanted to highlight some of what I've been working on because this actually took some work you know that I spent a few hours actually because I didn't originally have all these color schemes available for my X-Mote Bar and for my Konki and for my D-Menu but I thought it was important to have this as an option especially for DTOS which is my post installation script for arch based distributions because you know color schemes they're kind of a personal preference and I know what I like it's not going to be what you like so I think having nine different color schemes and these are really fantastic color schemes I think everybody's going to be able to find one that will suit their needs now before I go I need to thank a few special people I need to thank the producers of the show Gabe James Mitchell Paul Scott Wes Akami Allen Chuck Commander Ingrid Kurt Dayo guy David Dylan Gregory Hyko Lee Max and Michael Mike Nitrix Erion Alexander piece arch and store Polytech Raver Red Prophet Steven and Willie these guys they're my highest tiered patrons over on Patreon without these guys this quick episode about me playing around with color schemes again this wouldn't have been possible the show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well all these fine ladies and gentlemen they up support my work over on Patreon because I'm just sponsored by you guys the community I don't have any corporate sponsors and I like that it allows me to be independent I hope you guys will consider supporting me over on Patreon alright guys peace


Road to Fame started with our auditions. We did six different locations through Eastern Kentucky all the way from Ashland to Hazard So the road to fame has came a long ways with the finalists So we had open auditions to the semi-finals which took place two three weeks ago Even if they don't win this necessarily They still will have the opportunity to gain from and have professional experience on stage from stage presence to Songwriting skills to collaboration with other musicians in the area They literally say there's something in the water and Eastern Kentucky has a beyond an enormous amount of talent


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I am going to demonstrate how you can enable field history tracking in Salesforce. If you want to follow Salesforce video training videos, you can search my name Sanjay Gupta on YouTube and you can follow my YouTube channel. So now first time opening object manager from setup and searching for employee object on which we are going to apply field history tracking. So to enable field history tracking, you need to do three tasks. So first you need to click on these details and you need to check whether this track field history option is enabled or not. So on employee object, this is not enabled. So first we need to enable this option. So I clicked on edit. I'm scrolling down this option. So from optional features, I selected track field history and I'm clicking on save. So this was the first step. Now second step we need to set history tracking by clicking on this button. So this will open a page and where you can see all the fields related to the related to that object are available. So first let's read this description. So this field history is saying that this page allows you to select the fields you want to track on the employee history related list. So all the fields which you will be selecting from below their changes will be available on the history related related list. Further it says whenever a user modifies any of the field selected below the old and the new values are added to the history related list as well as the date, time, nature of the change and the user making the change will be reflected there. Then you need to note that multi-select pick list and large text field values are dragged as edited. Their old and new values are not recorded. So you can see the space is divided into two sections. First is saying track old and new values. So these fields are other than multi-select pick list and long text area. And in second section you can see it is saying track changes only. So career objective field is available here. So it will be either multi-select pick list or long text area. So right now this is long text area. That's why it is available here. So now I'm selecting these options. Sorry, these checkboxes as true and this also and clicking on save. So I selected some of the fields so that we can track history for those. So this is the second option. Now third option is to set page layout. So in page layout we need to add the related list. So I'm clicking on the related list. So here you can see employee history option is available. So you need to click this employee history and you need to drag and drop it. And if it is already available then you don't need to set this right. So history related list is available here. I'm clicking on save. Now I'm going to open my university app. Where this employee tab is available. So now we are going to change a particular record of employees so that we can check how history works. So I'm opening this record. So here various of various fields are available. And if we go to related list. So here you can see employee history related list is available. And right now it is not having any record. So if I click on details, let me open those fields which we are going to track. So here you can see five fields which will be tracking old and new values. So I'm going to change salary first. So it's original values 40,000. Now I'm making it as 50 and clicking on save. So let's see what happens in the related list. So here you can see the time is available. Field is salary. User who modified is Sanjay Gupta. Original value 40,000 and new value is 50,000. So this way changes are tracked. Right. So salary field be modified and we tracked its changes. Now I'm going to modify career objective. So if I move to details. So here career objective field is available. So I failed test career objective here. I'm clicking on save. Moving to the later list. And here you can see the time field name and user only four things are available. Original value and new values are not available because this career objective is a long text area field. So for multi select pick list and long text area, it doesn't contain original and new values. It just track that this field has changed. Right. Now let's see what happens when we change those fields which are not tracked here. So we are not tracking city. So let's change city. So country is India. So let me change country also because country and city both are dependent pick list. So if country is USA, then it will show us related cities only. So I'm changing country as well as city and clicking on save. And moving to related list. So here you will see country field is available. It's original value India and new values USA but city is not reflected here. Right. So this way we can track field history for particular fees and separate related list is available here. Which is tracking all the changes of particular fields which we selected in the field and relationship option. So here we can apply filter repression list view options. So you can do these changes as well as per the requirement. So I hope you understood how we can set history tracking for certain fields related to a particular object. So you can apply this for custom as well as standard object and as per the requirement of the your as per the requirement of your projects. So I hope you understood whatever I demonstrated in this video. If you want to watch more Salesforce training videos, you can search my name Sanjay Bukta on YouTube and you can follow my YouTube channel. Thank you for watching this week.


Plot, in very basic terms, can be thought of as the what happens of a story. A non-literary definition is a plan or a scheme to accomplish some purpose. In literary terms, the plan or the scheme is the sequencing of events laid out by the writer in order to achieve the purpose, which is the intended emotional outcome for the reader. This is often best illustrated in Freitag's Pyramid, which has one base, which is the X-position, and the X-position is the beginning of the story. This then leads into rising action, which not surprisingly leads into the climax. This is then followed by the other side of the Pyramids, which is known as the falling action, which leads, finally, to the end of the story known as the resolution, or sometimes called the den du mot, one of the many French words that we have taken into English. The X-position serves a number of functions. Most importantly, it introduces the main character, or characters, and secondary characters. It also sets, it gives the setting of the story where things are happening. Very importantly, it also introduces conflict, because without some form of conflict, we can't have a story. This conflict is often captured in what we call an inciting incident, which is an event which drives the action forward and pushes us into the next phase, which is the rising action. The rising action increases the suspense, and usually, although not always, the situation is becoming more difficult for the main character or characters. The climax is a turning point of the story. At this point, things can never go back to the way they were for the characters in the X-position. It's often the most exciting part of the story. We then move into the following action. This is when the characters will struggle to find some sort of resolution to the event that happened in the climax. This then leads us into the resolution. Now, although resolution may sound positive, the end of a story is not always happy. However, the main character usually or characters will have found a greater degree of honesty or stability that they lacked in the X-position.


Hello, and welcome to the Cloud Native Security Day. Actually, it's probably the last session, so it's about to go. My name is Ariel Schupper, and I'm trying to convince you about Kubernetes risk assessment, and why there is a need to go one level deeper than what we have today or what is commonly used today. So thank you for joining my session. Who am I, and why am I trying to convince you to do that? So my name is Ariel. I'm a principal product manager at Cisco. I joined Cisco following the acquisition at Portshift, where I led the product strategy, the product design, and the product development. I was the VP Product Manager in Portshift. Portshift was focusing on Kubernetes and Istio security. Period to Portshift, I was head of serverless security at Aqua Security before the checkpoint. And working in cloud security for many years, open source contribution with QB, which is the open source tool we develop and maintain in Portshift, focusing on a unique way of scanning runtime environments, participate in Istio security working groups, and a few others. So why do we need risk assessment towards us? And I think it's not secret, definitely not today, that Kubernetes contained multiple elements, a lot of elements on the master node, a lot of elements on the worker node, a lot of elements around the container and the pod themselves, and each one of those elements had some security complexity, more elements, more complexity, more items to break. Now, when we, early days attacks were the first, let the Tesla famous attack or the Weight Watchers, or around 2018, where the world was early in the usage of Kubernetes, there was a lot of attacks which just stemmed from simple misconfiguration. In Tesla, weight watchers, no one thought they need to configure or at least need to create some login or credentials which required authentication for people trying to access the log dashboard, because they thought Kubernetes dashboard is inside the cluster. So what can happen from that, right? And a lot of those simple attacks came from just simple misconfiguration, no one can configure it properly. And for this purpose, and I think one of the main reasons why we added it was to create some risk assessment frameworks, something that allow you to address the ecosystem, to make sure you configure everything correctly, you did everything properly, and you're not left exposed by yourself. Now, if you ask yourself what is the common one, so the common and probably the defect to standard today is the CAS benchmark. So the center of feature and security, create benchmarks for a lot of environments and Kubernetes, one of them, there's a comprehensive set of security checks addressing all the configuration of Kubernetes elements. There is a hundred and plus, last time I checked, master nodes, security configuration, every component from the API server, this is the controller manager, the scheduler, looking into authentication authorization, put security profiles, network policies, everything which can govern and control your Kubernetes cluster and study plus checks on the worker node, checking for different configuration, different security configuration of the Kubelet, of the file system, of the access to the host, et cetera, et cetera. Now, all of this is really great and I think it's very important part, but one of the challenges that we see when we look at how we secure Kubernetes it's true that misconfiguration are fundamental risks in Kubernetes environment, but misconfigurations are not alone. There are more elements which can impact you, there are more attack vectors, there are more penetration options. If we analyze the recent attacks like the one shown on my screen, I don't know if you have a chance to see it, things can happen even if you configure your cluster perfectly fine, but because you just use the tool which is unsecure in the example which is quoted by a nice research from Intesir, it's about with scope. It's because someone crafted like a vulnerable image and planted or someone created like a campaign or an attack or is very targeting your environment even if everything is really configured properly, even those ports which are needed or those images which you use, can be and reason for that even if the entire cluster is configured properly. So this lead me to place trying to think that we need something else. We need a framework that addresses the entire spectrum of Kubernetes fruits, not just misconfiguration. We need a framework that addresses also the various stages of the cyber attack. So meaning if misconfiguration or security configuration are there in order to avoid someone from entering the cluster, we need also to have tools that detect if by chance or not by chance or from other reasons someone did manage to access or we want to detect it. We want to stop it. We want to minimize and contain these entrants. So it's just like the misconfiguration, we need to make sure that the entire life cycle of an attack can be covered. And I think what is really important and might be missing is when something is not configured properly and I know that I need to configure it but maybe I don't, I can't. Maybe this is something that I must change or I cannot change. I must leave it as is. What is the impact? What's, okay, so I have a challenge. I have a problem. I need to, there is a problem but how do I fix it? Maybe there's an alternative. So maybe this one will remain as is but I can find an alternative that can mitigate this risk. So if I would try to create a comprehensive tool, that would I would do. I didn't create it. I found it and this is beautiful work which was done by the Mitra attack. And I'm proud to be a contributor for that as well. And in the Mitra attack, they took the entire attack kilting or the entire life cycle of an attack from the initial access to the exploitation execution, to the different stages whether it's creating persistency or privilege escalation and all the steps that attacker would do in order to get his hands on the data or in order to abuse the resources in the cluster doesn't matter. But we need to make sure that we don't just stop at the gate. We keep following it and checking afterwards. And for each of it, they interpreted, they took like the relevant things for containers. So for example, if we examine the privilege escalation which is how you can escape to the host, there are the techniques which attackers were used in order to gain access or in order to break out from the container. And if you break out how you can elevate your privileges and reach the host or take control of the system. So it is important those type of first because that just explaining what was done and how you can do it, but also to explain or for you in order what you can do in order to mitigate it. So if I know that I'm exposed in this project escalation I would perhaps can address it by placing using pod security profiles and making sure that you cannot run as a route or making sure that you cannot read anything to the host file system. You can't use those networks. And there's many other capabilities which I can use if I want to break that error. So the idea here, which I think makes the Mitra attack as a good candidate for risk assessment in Kubernetes environment is the idea that we can look at the entire spectrum. Okay, entire spectrum of potential attacks so not just misconfiguration but also any option to penetrate your cluster. It also doesn't stop, okay. It doesn't stop on the items that are just the entrance. It goes entire lifecycle of the attack. Every different stage has its own techniques and for every single step there is something else that you can do and there is a list of it.  And then you can see if you have an alternative plan you have like a backup plan. And what I really find interesting about it that it's based on information collected from real attacks, incidents, not theoretical ones. So this is just an example of why we need something which is slightly lever deeper and goes deeper than CIS benchmark.  So everything is available on the Mitra attack on the Mitra org framework. The reason attack metrics, which will be published soon. And thank you very much for joining my session today.