Titanic's phenomenal success with critics and audiences alike made it the highest-grossing movie of its time, while the film's stunning visuals and exceptional performances garnered widespread acclaim. The central love story faced some criticism. Regardless, Titanic remained a cherished classic and one of Cameron's finest creations. Although the film is grounded in the historical events and features, real-life characters, not every detail is entirely factual. Cameron had to modify, introduce, or enhance certain aspects to craft the unforgettable narrative he envisioned. In Titanic, Rose and Jack steal our hearts as they embrace on the ship's railing. But were these main characters based on real people? Although not drawn directly from a true story, they were influenced in part by some real-life individuals. Rose's character was inspired by artist Beatrice Wood, as revealed by Cameron. While developing Titanic, he read Wood's autobiography, which led him to see striking similarities between her and the character of old Rose. Wood, a painter, sculptor, writer, and actress came from a wealthy family of socialites. Although the film's Rose shares certain traits with Beatrice, she is a blend of her inspiration and various fictional elements. In reality, there was no Rose aboard the Titanic. Regarding Jack's character, there was no specific real-life inspiration. However, his name bears a resemblance to that of a man who was on the Titanic. A crew member named Joseph Dawson, who worked as a coal trimmer, signed the ship's manifest as J Dawson. Interestingly, Cameron only learned about Joseph Dawson after finishing the script. Making the connection purely coincidental. Following the film's release, Joseph Dawson's grave attracted numerous visitors who mistakenly believed it was Jack Dawson's resting place, leaving behind movie tickets and pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio as tributes. Cathy Bates' portrayal of Molly Brown in Titanic remains etched in our memories. In fact, Molly Brown was one of the few significant chapters in the film based on real people who were actually aboard the ship. Margaret Brown, an American socialite and philanthropist, and married James Joseph J.J. Brown, who was not wealthy himself. However, J.J.'s successful mining engineering efforts led to the discovery of a rich ore scene, bringing the family considerable wealth. Though Margaret and Brown separated in 1909, they continued to care for each other, and the settlement allowed Margaret to maintain her travels and social work. When the Titanic struck the iceberg and began to sink, Margaret assisted other passengers in boarding lifeboats, eventually boarding lifeboat number six herself after persuasion. Once aboard, she insisted on returning to rescue more passengers, clashing with crewmen who opposed the idea. Margaret even threatened to throw him overboard. Accounts differ on whether they return and found any survivors. Aboard the RMS Carpathia, the ship that saved the Titanic survivors, Margaret formed a survivors committee to provide essential support for second and third class passengers. The media dubbed her the unsinkable Molly Brown as she passed away in 1932 at the age of 65. On April 14, 1912 at 11.40pm, the ship's time, the crew sighted an iceberg and informed the bridge. First officer William Murdock ordered the ship to steer clear of the iceberg and halt the engines, but it was too late. The starboard side of the Titanic struck the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline. Although the hole wasn't punctured, it was dented, allowing the water to flood in. Survivors reported, much like in the movie, that fragments of the iceberg landed on the promenade deck. In reality, the Titanic's crew was ill-equipped to handle such a catastrophic emergency. With ships believed to be unsinkable at the time, the Titanic carried only enough lifeboats for half of its passengers. The crew struggled to execute a proper evacuation, launching numerous half-filled boats and leaving many third-class passengers trapped below decks as water rushed in. Just over two and a half hours after the iceberg collision, the deck became submerged and water flooded in through open hatches and grates. As the unsupported stern rose, the ship broke in two. At 2.20am, the Titanic sank beneath the waves. The majority of remaining passengers and crew were plunged into the freezing water, perishing within 15 to 30 minutes. As depicted in the film, the ship's lights continued to shine until moments before submerging in a survivor, recounted hearing a series of terrific explosions, likely caused by the boilers. The Titanic's wreckage was discovered on September 1, 1985, during an expedition led by John Louis Michel and Robert Belard. Contrary to Longhill beliefs that the ship sank intact, they found that it had indeed split apart. The film Titanic portrayed the ship's tragic end with remarkable accuracy. The image of a violinist playing as the Titanic sinks is an unforgettable scene from the movie, and it is indeed based on truth. The Titanic's string quartet did continue to play as the ship went down. However, the final song they performed remains uncertain. Survivors mentioned the various tunes such as Alexander's ragtime band and In the Shadows. Despite the ambiguity surrounding the final song, the band's dedication to providing solace during the tragedy has become an enduring symbol of courage and resilience. In Titanic, there is a poignant scene featuring an elderly first-class couple embracing in bed as the room floods with water. This couple was based on real-life passengers Isidore Strauss, the owner of Macy's, and his wife, Ida. When offered a place on lifeboat number 8, Isidore refused, choosing to remain on the ship as long as women were still aboard. Ida, in turn, declined to leave her husband behind. According to witnesses, Ida lovingly told Isidore, we have lived together for many years, where you go, I go. The couple was last seen seated on the deck, their actions serving as moving testament to love and devotion. Tragically, only Isidore's body was recovered after the disaster. In the early hours of April 15th, the Titanic survivors were saved by the Carpathia, as shown in the film. The lifeboats containing the bodies of those who died overnight were left behind and retrieved later on. Initially, the Carpathia was en route to Fiume, Austria-Hungary, or present-day Rijeka, Croatia. However, due to insufficient supplies and medical facilities to attend to the Titanic survivors, the ship changed its course and made its way to New York, where proper care could be provided. While many Titanic survivors lived for years after the tragedy, some, unfortunately, died within weeks due to shock and related issues. The unforgettable door scene in Titanic, where Rose and Jack struggle for survival, has sparked much debate. Many have asked whether there was room for Jack on the door with Rose. In short, the answer is yes, based on the dimensions of the makeshift raft. It seems that Jack could have fit on the door without it sinking beneath the water. This poignant scene continues to evoke powerful emotions and inspire discussions among fans of the film. While the question of whether Jack and Rose could both fit on the door seems to have a simple yes answer, the longer response is more intricate. The real issue is whether they could have survived even if they were both on the door. To investigate this, Mythbusters recreated the scene, concluding that Jack could have survived. However, further experiments have been conducted under the supervision of James Cameron himself. In the National Geographic Special, Titanic, 25 years later with James Cameron, multiple scenarios were tested involving Jack, Rose, the door, and the icy waters. While the experiments showed that both could have been on the door, they also demonstrated that their vital organs needed to be above the waterline to avoid hypothermia or shock. The conclusion was that while Jack and Rose might have survived the 30 minutes it took for a lifeboat to arrive, other variables could have changed the outcome at any moment. Cameron also emphasized that Jack's priority was ensuring Rose's survival, by choosing not to get on the door. Jack made sure Rose was safe after their exhausting struggle to survive, the sinking Titanic. According to Cameron, I think his thought process was, I'm not going to do one thing to jeopardize her, and that's 100% in character. Despite ongoing debates about whether Jack could have survived, Cameron has staunchly defended his choice for years, wishing the controversy would fade. In an interview with BBC Radio One, he compared the situation to Romeo and Juliet. Could Romeo have been smart and not taken the poison? Yes. Could he have decided to not bring his little dagger just in case Juliet might stab herself with it? Yes, absolutely. It sort of misses the point. While the debate may continue, it doesn't change the fact that Cameron chose Jack's fate as deliberately as the freezing Atlantic waters.


What a great day for day two of the Stadium Cars Otago Classic Rally. A nice clear day in Dunedin City as the cars head south for some quite different roads. Brian Stokes has rejoined, Marcus van Klink has fixed his problems and we're going to see some great action out there. We've just heard that Alan Dippey's got a road diff in his car for the day. There'll be a lot of action out there on day two of the Otago Classic Rally.


This 2016 GMC Sierra 2500 Double Cab Short Box is stock number 12023Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2016 GMC Sierra 2500 Double Cab has the 6-liter V8 engine. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluid tab been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go. Onyx Black Clear Coat is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality and condition and options of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and want to subscribe to our YouTube channel, the lower right-hand part of the screen is a subscribe button. Click that and then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the factory alloy rims. They are in really nice shape. And it has Cooper Discover LT28570R17 tires. And these tires look like they have probably about 80% to 90% of the tread left. A very good amount of tread left on those tires. This one does have the Z71 off-road suspension package. Front fender is in excellent shape. It does have the LED running lights, projector lamp headlamps, and factory fog lights. Front bumper is in excellent condition. I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. And you do get the chrome-trimmed grille. The hood is in very nice shape as well. I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. And it does come with a body hugging bug shield. Passengers' side front fender looks really good. No dents or dings on there. And the passengers' side rim. No major scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos, so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision. From wherever you may be watching this video, we're checking out our ad. Back rims in pretty nice shape. Just a little bit of corrosion on there, but nothing too bad. Back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. And the frame and underbody. Pretty nice shape. You can see those Z71 Rancho shocks. And the frame and underbody looks pretty good all the way underneath. No major corrosion or anything like that. Lower tab corners all look really good. And it does come with the factory chrome step bars. Can't get over how nice and shiny this paint is. Looks really good as we come around to the back. Rear bumper looks great. No dents or dings. Back of parking, or I'm sorry, rear bumper steps. There's a spring package, which includes the receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring. And that tailgate just as nice as the rest of the truck. No dents or dings. Does have a locking tailgate. Shock down assist. Spray in bed liner. This is a Linux spray in bed liner. And it does come with LED bed lighting. You can see those LED lights are up there. You turn those on with the cargo lamps. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly. You go down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger side. No major dents or dings on the box. And for full disclosure, this back rim, very nice shape as well. Driver's side doors look really good. Does come with the telescopic tow mirrors, built in directional signals, LED side lights. The telescope bolt and fold in. And fold in like so.  There are no rips, there are no tears. Looks really good. Power driver seat. Weather tech floor mats throughout. Auto headlamps turned out four wheel drive. Factory brake controller. It has tilt and telescopic steering wheel. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors. You get the nice wood grain trim on the doors there as well. We'll hop inside. Take a look at the miles and the radio and everything that the interior has to offer. You can see that this one has 27,000, 39 miles. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Do get a compass display on there. You get the leather wrap steering wheel, cruise controls on the left. Bluetooth and information center controls on the right. Six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. This one does come with the GMC IntelliLink radio and FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. And you do have the home screen here. And this is also where your backup camera shows up. 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Store-operated calcium entry, SOS, is essential for B cell activation and antibody production. Two OII proteins, ORI1 and ORI3, are required for this process. However, the exact mechanism by which these proteins facilitate SOS remains unclear. This study demonstrates that both ORI1 and ORI3 are necessary for SOS in B cells, as well as for the activation of NFAT and metabolism. Additionally, the authors found that the simultaneous deletion of both ORI1 and ORI3 does not affect humoral immunity, indicating that other co-stimulatory signals can compensate for the lack of CIC channel activity. This article was authored by Scott M. Emeridge, Ryan E. Yoast, Shui-Shin Zhong, and others.


Hello everyone. So we can start now. Usually a crash at Microsoft even is considered lucky. So I just ask some people if, okay, sign that one. So as my topic title is very long, it describes pretty much what I'm going to cover. And while we were sorting this crash, I asked like how many people are from South Asia or how many people run a word-based agency. The number is quite less. So I think most of the people find it a big deal. Like, is it a big deal to have a agency like high quality agency in South Asia or is it different than having a high quality agency in developed world? Like we can consider Euro, US or even Australia. So is it a big deal? So my point is like first, let's describe the problem. So I want to make this such a collaborative. So anybody who has ever run agency in this part of the world, what are the issues you have faced? Can anyone tell me? What is the key challenges you face like when running an agency from a developing country in a better world, not only in South Asia? Any answers? A lot of things. Still if we can list it down into a few things. I was expecting like it might end up without an answer. So I have built this image. So when we say high quality, it requires top developers like you can't get an amateur to give you high quality. So there are many things like it could be a working PhD program, but it could be a better program like just the Yoda condition. That is something most PHP developers are not even aware about. Like they don't forget comparing a value with variable or vice versa. They don't even know the difference between 2 equal to science and triple equal to. So definitely like to build a high quality agency, you will require some great developers like great as in like not in terms of experience like experience in years, but some kind of passion for PHP language. And now the like high quality depends on the top developer. But this top developers requires a lot of page and books because they are like endangered species. So they are in demand. So like so every company wants to have them. And while if we look at the job market is flooded with resume, top developers are very rare find like whenever we find one, I call Hey with the jackpot. That's what I like. We have a hiring management system and whenever I interview somebody who I believe would turn out to be a very good developer, I put in remark just a one word jackpot. And then HR knows how aggressively they should on board that person. Now as these people are rare, they are in demand. So you need to pay them very well. And apart from that, they will require a lot of perks like free MacBooks, maybe iPhones and maybe other like free tickets to international travel conferences. So many perks, which are actually good things. Having your team on a better hardware improve works good for your company, but it all cost money. Now you need a decent amount of funds to get a good developer. Now how do you get that funds because you would require good clients as in you would require clients which pays very well. And then it again comes to the full circle. The good clients want high quality because you just can't, hey, we are starting today and you can't just work into public listed companies office and say, hey, we are a new workplace agency. And if you're going to give your project to workplace agency, why not us? It doesn't work like that. Like when you are hiring your developers, you require some kind of validation from them. As in you require, you would like to see their portfolio skills. Similarly, a good client will test agency. They rarely bargain about the rates. They will check if you qualify. So an agency itself gets interviewed when working with big enterprises as well as top clients. So then you need to showcase your top quality work. So how you will, sorry, so how you will do that? So this circle is many people. I have seen many of my friends who have work positions in India and they couldn't escape it. Like it was like constant struggle. We face same for many years because it first it was very hard to find developers. Then it was very hard, even harder to retain them. And it was all going again and again. So how did we break it? Any idea? Do you think like anybody feels this is the right problem? Like is anyone experiencing this problem? No one. So, okay, there's one hand behind. So what could be the solution for this? See, don't look at from the big company's perspective. Don't look at from the atomics perspective. Look from the perspective of a small agency which need to, which want to be big agency. As in big as in size, work, the name they make for themselves. But they don't have funding. Actually, I don't think anybody like most service companies ever get funded properly. Like VCs don't like service agencies. They prefer products. So how do we go about this? So we had the same situation for years. We wanted to go and figure out. So we tried many things. We tried so many things that at some point our team got irritated. Like on glass door, we got quite a bashing. Like hey, the company keeps changing their HR policies too often. So, but while we were experimenting, we found one thing that worked for us. And that is the thing I wanted to share with you. So I will again go back to the problem. So first, we have to enter this circle. We have to break this cycle. So we have to start something. Good clients out of the question because why they will hire an agency which is not known, especially when they don't have budget issue.  Like we know that WordPress is free and there are $1.10 or $1.15 themes available on ThemeForest and elsewhere. But there are clients who don't go with those themes. They would be happy to spend millions on their web presence. But then they won't, they will want best agency to handle their project. Now, so good clients is out of the question. So if we, so we started reverse well like, okay, we can't get good clients on day one. So can we pay good salaries from pocket? As I said, VC funding or all that kind of funds are not available for service agency. Okay, let's go one step back. How do we get top developers even when we don't have a lot to offer? And this is where we could crack the problem. So what we did, basically, I'm an engineering student myself and I remember like from my engineering experience that I had many good students in my batch over my classmates. They were very good at engineering skills. But I won't blame it on the education system, but there is some flaw somewhere that our academic achievements are not reflection of our skill set all the time. I'm not saying the person who talks doesn't deserve it. But there are people who are good at something, but it doesn't reflect in the exam process. So I had some friends which I know that he's a good programmer, he's a good system admin. He can play with hardware very well, but they struggle to get engineering degree. Like some of them had to spend six years for the four year course. So with that in mind, and also like I had another data point that in India, I'm not sure about the global scene, but in India, top agencies or even top IT companies, they hire only people who had certain points or marks in exam system. So I was looking at two points. These are the people. I know they are good at it, but they are not even eligible for a set of companies. And I saw an opportunity there. So while big companies in India were hiring, hey, we want only first class. We want only eight by 10 score people. We started hiring differently. Our initial ads that were mostly on Facebook and social media, they ran like we are hiring all dropouts. You don't even need to be engineer to become a workplace engineer. You don't need engineering degree to become a workplace engineer. So we run those kind of ads and we attracted people. For system admins we run ad. If you can hack into our server, you are welcome to join us. You can skip the entire interview process. And we did got one. A person somehow figured out a back door or like a way to access our server. And he uploaded a file just to showcase a proof. And very scared he sent us. Actually he already applied, but as we were busy with job application flood, we couldn't respond within seven days, seven to eight days. So we literally hacked into our server and put something there and said, hey, check that. And like shall I assume like I will get hired. I just called him and I asked like what did you do? Obviously I'm not going to reveal how he did it. But I found it interesting and I told him like you can hire him. That person wasn't engineer. I don't think he was even graduate, but he was very passionate. And later on he went on to become our easy engine project. That is one of the very famous project for our company. So we hired like this. So we hired people which were mostly rejected. Not even qualified to work at big organization. But now how do we filter those people? Because not everyone disqualified was skilled. So we had a large amount of resume to filter. So what we thought like how does client hire us? Did client ever ask for my degree or my qualification? The clients asked for showcase, like show us your portfolio. And at that point I thought like let's ask them to showcase their work. So we created some mini assignments like a problem statement and which were designed in a way that will give us understanding of four or five skills. Like can they use Ajax, can they use background processing, can they use PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS. Little bit of everything. And the assignment is open-ended. It's not like there is anything like a right solution. The assignment is more like ice breaker. So if somebody is doing assignment we will interview them. And during interview we will see how they approach the problem. The approach was the only deal breaker thing. Because there is nothing like the perfect solution for a problem because it was a dummy assignment. So based on that we got those people. Now this is how we got initial people. But now we want to scale. So now we should have some kind of motivation for others to join our company. And in my opinion your employees are your best marketing team during the hiring scene. So while I do not want to criticize any particular company but it's very common in India that companies demand that their employee, even if they contribute to the workplace core, the purchase will be submitted in the company's name. They create a WordPress.org account in company's name. And all patches are submitted by their company name account. Yeah, that's common. I know you're surprised but it's quite common in India. So we went other way. We told people that create your own account and contribute in your own name. And it's free. You are free to use company's hours. Like if you are free, you don't need to wait for a weekend. You can solve a problem and submit a patch whenever you want. So obviously the client work is going to be the first priority. But it's not like you can't do core contribution in the office time. And the people who were not developers, we asked them to find out other ways to contribute. So somebody got involved in translation. Somebody got involved in team review team, plugin review team, different teams. So people found ways to contribute. And we made sure as an agency, we will give them due credit. Now this might sound like a very small deal in the developed world. But this is very, very common that people don't get credit for their work. And that is the typical problem for the South Asia. And employer also has a reason. It again comes down to this cycle. It's like I was also got criticized by some of friends in a positive way. They were saying, why do you make it easy for other companies to poach your people? But my goal was different. So I wasn't part of the race to the bottom. It was fine for me. Almost 20 people we lost because we couldn't return them. So at some point it become a trend. Like the moment we publish a word-based post about, hey, these three people contributed to the word-based core from our company. We used to tell HR, hey, now get ready for the replacement. But I don't know from where I got this wisdom, but I was very clear there. I shall not restrict anybody's path. If I can't return them, I should work on sales strategy and find better clients so that I can complete this circle. But I can't sleep stealing anybody's credit. So that's out of the question. Even people are leaving, it's fine. So we shall wait. So it took some time, but over the time the exposure we gave to our team and the trouble we didn't create. The second part is the common in South Asia is when an employee wants to leave your company, the employer really makes their life hell. In fact, some of the top Indian IT companies which has revenues in billions of dollars, not just single billion, billions of dollars, they have terms that once you join their company, you can't leave for two years. That's called employment bond. I'm not sure if it's common across the other part of the world, but it's very common there. So another advertising point we had that, hey, we don't run in bond. You can leave anytime. So you don't need engineering degree. You don't even need to be graduate. You can leave anytime. You can contribute to open source and get credited for it. So many times we got people who are skilled but had no idea about the open source. So we kind of showed them like, see how many people are using WordPress. So just imagine every time the code you have written gets executed. So how much people's life you are making easier. That's kind of a motivation we did. So we solved this top development problem. So even when we were having two or three resignations with every WordPress code contribution release, we were able to hire much faster. So it's more like a... So number of developers remain steady. Good developers remain steady. So now the next point we attack is good clients. So now with all these top developers, I think we are now... We have code contribution to the WordPress from last 11 release. Every WordPress release we have patches. And at some point this acted as biggest portfolio item. So usually we complain that clients do not understand technology much. But when you get into enterprise, they have somebody called CTO. And most likely he is the person who understands WordPress as well as other technologies very well. So you get to work with... At the upper end, you get to work with people who are technically very skilled themselves. So they understand what does it mean to contribute to the open source, contribute to the WordPress core. And that acts as a validation that this company knows WordPress inside it out. And that is how we got some very good clients in the early days. We set up our base. And that is how this circle got completed for us. So if I have to take one point, then this is the one slide that describes our solution. So what are these images? You must have familiar with this number. We just showed this five digit number in this slide. So with every WordPress core releases, we used to order a cake with patch numbers that our team has contributed to it. And the team who has contributed patches would get to cut it. So it was their honor. It was their achievement. It's not the CEO will cut every cake. Whoever is the core contributor will get the honor to cut the cake. So this tradition help us reinforce the idea that open source contribution is a big thing. And to balance it with the non-developer people, because at some point we become too developer centric that we were facing manpower crunch in other departments. Because it was like only if you are a programmer, you can make a career at RTKM. If you are not a programmer, then RTKM is not for you. That was a perception that was getting created. So we started this second thing that we will celebrate other contributions also. So these are localize the translation project. In 4.6, our team contributed a lot in translation. So we celebrated differently this time. But the idea is that we just like that two or three ways.  You will make sure that whatever contribution your team is doing to open source will never get revealed. As in their names and their work. Or you can be neutral about it or you can go other way. Which also this way that we will encourage contribution and we will go aggressive about it. And this acted as a biggest advertisement for us. So this help us get too many job applications. Like for a company of our size, we get way more job applications than we can handle. And then going back to it, as we get more job applications, we get to choose good developers. And like it's all in other way. Now we have good developers. We get to work on high quality course. That high quality work help us get good clients. Good client pays nice so we can manage pays and perks for our developers. So it gets completed for us at least. So there might be birth like as I said like some agencies, especially in South Asia are apprehensive about it. Because they might think that by being too open company. You will end up giving too much away. But just imagine as an employee what kind of company you would like to work in. And build that kind of company yourself. This is specially for the business owners. If you don't like somebody stealing credit for your work, don't steal credit from your employees. That's it. Thank you. You have any questions? I think we don't have time for questions, right? I think we can still squeeze in some questions if anybody has any. Any questions? You talked a lot about hiring as a seller agency. What about selling work as a South Asian agency? Yeah. You talked about that selling in the market. Selling as in... Selling services locally. Actually that point I missed. Unfortunately you have to forget that you are Asian agency or even Indian agency. We are based in India. But not a single day we think that we are Indian company and we should sell to the Indian businesses. We think like we are global agency and we should sell to the clients globally. More than 80% clients are from US, Europe and Australia. Because to complete the circle we have to charge above certain limit. So local client in most cases find it... India has a certain reputation. How do you overcome that? About that question, first we don't do any spamming. That is really work for us because usually agency is back on spam a lot. So we avoid that very carefully. Even if we find this could be a right match for us. Even if we see their ad, we wait for next work camp. So we meet in person. I travel to work camp US every year. More than that the open source portfolio. We have many plugins on wordplay.org. Now having a plugin on wordplay.org is not enough. How you are publishing them is something that client looks. Because we don't have a lot many upsell options in the plugins. We are very cool about it. If there is a free plugin free as in here you can have it. If you find it there is a contact form you can get back to us. So these are like small signals like how we are contributing to open source. Many American agencies or American companies which have worked with Indian agencies. They found this different that this company is pretty much open about its culture. So open source and there is something we can say open culture. So open culture shows that we are not insecure. We are strong and we believe what we are doing. So when the exposure we give to our clients the contribution we make to the wordpress. It basically acts a big portfolio and then if required we also give references. Like we have many of our clients are very happy with us. So they are very open like if you need any reference just let me know. And we use it very sparingly like because we value our clients privacy as well as time. But it works for us that way. So open source contribution plus previous client reference. And no spamming. Not at all. Yeah. Questions. I have noticed that on your website you are also open source experts. Yeah. I am more interested in what your client's privacy asks with WooCommerce experts. What do they need mostly? Sorry I couldn't understand your question. WooCommerce? Yes. I mean three things important to WooCommerce for your clients. WooCommerce actually I am not able to understand. Okay. Okay. The first question is always scalability. And I really be upfront that I have no data to prove that it will scale more than Magento. But do you anticipate you will have like 100 orders per minute? If you don't have that much volume you are targeting the wrong problem. So maybe we can start small start quickly. And the hypothetical case because 100 orders per minute is a decent volume. And I am pretty much confident WooCommerce can handle it very nicely. Then portfolio also matters. Like we have a very good client WooCommerce client from Singapore itself, Rotimatic. Which was mentioned by Singapore prime minister in national day speech. So we have clients, we have case studies. So when they are not convinced with that argument we use case studies also. So usually like enterprises don't want to be the first. They want, they lead by example. Okay. They are using WooCommerce. They are using WooCommerce. Fine. We can also try that. So yeah. But most of the concerns we get only for the scaling WooCommerce. And in the end that it's about it reduces to how much your client trust you. Because in the end you are going to, we are the people who are managing servers. So as long as they don't get any helpers request from a customer saying hey, I wanted to order but your checkout page was returning 500 error. So as long as there are no incomplete orders or broken shopping cart, nobody complains. And it's our job to make sure that no errors are thrown during the checkout process. So our critical tool is currently Slack. But even when we were not on Slack, we were using some kind of gamification or some kind of in-house collaboration. Currently we use P2 theme for internal site and Slack. Before that we had a body press site but we found that people were not getting engaged there. The idea is to get your team at one point and make sure that you reward people, not only core contribution but even the small achievement. Like somebody shares a link to a very good article.  You just like it. So that encourages more people. And we have something called TGIF. We have weekly or monthly meetings where we encourage people to share what they have learned. And we maintain all these data points. Not in a very formal way but some kind of notes in a document so that during app results we remind them hey, you did that great work. Better app result for you. And we make it public. That guy got better app result because he was involved with that project. He did that open source contribution. He helped learn that new technology and things like that. So we have some kind of reward system which is not a very formal one. But in the end you need to gamify something in some way so that you will get best out of your employees. And initially if you even get two or three employees which are contributing, later on other start contributing looking at them. So can we take that? We can discuss that, right? Yeah, I mean I'm sure many of you have questions. I should get more time. We have a team where you can catch all of them. Thank you.


At a time in which issues of race are at the forefront of discourse, our nation celebrates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His leadership in the civil rights movement continues to inspire those who are fighting for justice and equality over five decades after he was assassinated. So brilliantly conveyed through words like his I Have a Dream speech and his letter from a Birmingham jail the spirit of Dr. King lives on through anyone who uses their voices or actions in fulfilling his vision.


Today we're going to be talking about how competition is affected and threatened by the use of big data. Big data is at the core of our modern economy, as Senator Durbin so well pointed out, powering targeted advertising and driving artificial intelligence to select what products and services we are shown online and increasingly offline as well. In this hearing we'll explore the companies that control the data, the state of competition and barriers to entry and the effects of big data on consumers, their choices and their privacy. Now I'd like to be clear about what we mean when we say big data. Technology companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon collect an enormous amount of information, as Senator Durbin pointed out about our daily activities in real time. They know what we buy, who our friends are, where we live, work and travel and more. In fact, their very business models were set up around getting that information and then using it to profit. Through services such as Google's Gmail and Facebook's Instagram, though those services are offered to us for free, these companies and advertisers use the data they collect about us to sell to other companies. So in the end you can't get around the fact. We are the product. We are the product that makes the company's money. Big tech companies are not the only ones keeping tabs on all of us. Data brokers including Kineso and its sister company Axiom also buy, process and sell massive amounts of personal information about consumers. And they've actually been doing it since before we even knew what they collect information from the Department of Motor Vehicles, from public records, from our grocery store loyalty cards and even from other data brokers. Today they also buy our browsing histories and guess how much money we make and what religion we practice. This data has immense competitive value and the way that it is collected and used has important impacts on consumers. I'll give you an example. The simple act of a consumer visiting a utility company's website to pay a monthly gas bill allowed dozens of companies to profit off of her, for the most part, without her knowledge. Facebook and Google are likely to know about that consumer paying her bill even though they had nothing to do with the transaction. If the gas company runs advertisements on Facebook, as many do, Facebook would have trackers embedded on the gas company's website. And if the consumer, if she uses the world's most popular web browser, Chrome Google, would know what websites she visited. Both companies collect and analyze this kind of information, building a detailed profile of the consumer, and giving advertisers access to her online for a price of course, but not something she gets paid.  They sell this kind of information to governments, advertisers, healthcare companies, and others. Just a few years ago, Axiom had a partnership with Facebook to combine their data for advertisers and share the profits. At that time, Facebook would have supplied the consumers online activities, and Axiom would have provided her offline activities, and advertisers could use them both to show her ads. Facebook ended that program in 2018, raising questions about whether massive technology companies now have so much data that they don't need to buy from data brokers. In today's hearing, we will discuss how this kind of control over enormous data affects competition. While data-driven targeting can filter out things we don't want, show us products that might be of interest and help some small businesses reach new customers, it also functions as a gatekeeper to important services and opportunities. And so we talk a lot in this space, as Senator Durbin did, about the privacy concerns. And obviously, there's been concerns about that. I've been a longtime advocate for privacy legislation, federal privacy legislation. I think its time has long come, and I know we are looking at focusing some resources into these privacy issues in the bill that's currently been debated in the Senate. But we also have to look at another piece of this. And that is that there are real threats to fair competition from these massive data sets and the artificial intelligence inferences that these companies make based on them. For example, after years of complaints and a federal lawsuit, Facebook is reportedly still disproportionately showing job ads for mechanics to men and for preschool nurses to women. That distorts labor markets, and it doesn't help us to get to where we need to be to be able to recruit people for these jobs. We also see the control that big data has serious implications for healthy competitive marketplaces. Data can be a barrier to entry, unless you have a lot of it, you may not be able to reach consumers successfully. The big data allows you to target ads to create algorithms that others who might want to be entering the market can't do if they don't also have the data. It can be another way that powerful internet gatekeepers maintain control of how small businesses reach customers and earn outside profits from that control. The impact of big data should also play an important role in merger analysis. As dominant digital platforms try to acquire other companies with massive troves of consumer data, the antitrust agencies must place greater emphasis on determining the competitive impact of obtaining even more data through mergers. This is why I talk about that our laws have to be as sophisticated as the markets that we today operate in. We all want opportunities for new and innovative companies to emerge in for new markets to develop. When big data inhibits competition by allowing those who have it to block access to markets for those who do not, we need to step in and fix it. This means enforcing our existing antitrust laws to their fullest extent to protect competition. It means updating our antitrust laws for the modern economy just as we've done centuries past. It's like every 50 years or so we do a major update while the time has long passed for today's tech world. My bill competition in antitrust law enforcement and reform act would do so by updating the legal standard to prohibit harmful mergers and anti-competitive conduct. Shifting the burden to dominant companies to prove that their acquisitions are most significantly here, their exclusionary conduct doesn't threaten competition. We also have to make sure that our antitrust enforcers have the resources to do their jobs. They can't take on the biggest companies and some of the most complex conduct the world has ever seen with duct tape and band-aids. Senator Grassley and I, with the support of this committee, got our bill through to update the merger fees, which will bring in over $100 billion for both agencies. It has passed the Senate. We are awaiting action in the House. We have every reason to believe we'll get it done. But there's more we can do not only in the reconciliation bill before us, but in the year-end budget to make sure these agencies have what they need. We also need competition reform, specifically targeted attack. These are things like issues of interoperability. We've been talking about app stores recently. There's a major bill on that, bipartisan, that's been introduced, as well as bills targeting discriminatory conduct with tech companies. As we explore, pass forward, we see that the dynamics of data mining are already changing. In recent months, Apple rolled out an update that lets iPhone and iPad users decide whether they want to be tracked online by Facebook and other apps. That was a major good change. And what happened, what do we know so far? Early reports indicate consumers have overwhelmingly opted out of being tracked. More than 75% Senator Lee decided not to be tracked on apps or their Apple devices when they were posed that simple straightforward question. But as we push for increased consumer privacy, we must make sure that monopolists don't fool us into handing over all control of our data to them at the expense of fair competition. We must both fight monopolies and protect consumer data. Guess what? We can do both things at once. But I don't want us to not realize this brave new world we are in where having the data at all completely advantages certain companies who are the gatekeepers and makes it much more difficult to have a competitive market.


So, let's talk now about the STM32H5 scalable security. In this part, I would like to introduce you all those new mechanisms that have been introduced on the H5. We have a new temporal isolation level. We have a real secure storage coupled with this temporal isolation. We've got those product states that we've already discussed in previous parts, debug authentication, and this embedded secure boot with secure firmware update capability called STIrot, which is a raw secure boot. And we also are ready to use code example of two-stage bootloader in open source. So, you can use and combine all those mechanisms to build your own security. In this part, I would like to quickly give you an overview about this temporal isolation, and some information about the secure storage, the product lifecycle, the different secure boot paths that are supported by our tools, and the STIrot, which is some detail about this one. Let's start with the temporal isolation. What is a temporal isolation? It's a protection that evolves during the code execution. The HGPH5 temporal isolation on the name is HTTP. The principle is two portions of user flash that could be hidden until the next reset. So, when you are booted at reset time, you are on HTTP level one. You can define some options by a portion of the user flash. The code will be executed in this portion, then you can call an API in the RSS services. This one will increase the HTTP level. And this portion of flash disappears until the next reset. That means it can't be accessed anymore in any manners. Then, thanks to the flash register, we can define a second portion of the user flash. On again, the code will be executed in this portion. We can call a RSS services. It will increment the HTTP level to HTTP level three. And the second portion of flash disappears. Two portions of flash disappears. Doesn't make you reminding something? Two-stage bootloader. So, in fact, this mechanism with two portions of flash that disappears has been designed to address two-stage bootloader architectures. You could imagine you have the first-stage bootloader defined in this first portion of flash, a second-stage bootloader, and after each execution, we will increment the HTTP level and make disappear the code. Let's talk now about the secure storage, also named OBEKI, for OBEKI storage. Okay, secure storage, OBEKI storage, that means you can store also some data, not only keys. So to give you a definition of the secure storage, a specific area in a system that can be provisioned securely, that are isolated and can be accessed only by auto-race part of the system. Data can't be extracted from one system to be reused on another system. On the STM32, we have a real secure storage named OBEKI storage. It's the first product that got this functionality. The data stored are protected from temporal isolation, I just described this protection before, true zone MPU isolation. Optionally, those OBEKI's are encrypted and thanks to hardware unique and a monotonic control. The option by is a specific storage in the system flash, so it's not part of the user flash. Total storage of this one is 8 kilobytes, and it has been split into five predefined areas corresponding to HDP level 0, HDP level 1, HDP level 2, HDP level 3, secure and non-secure. So there is a combination between the temporal isolation and the secure storage. So on HDP level 0, everything is accessible, HDP level 1, OBEKI level 1 disappears, level 2, level 3, and regarding the secure and non-secure, those both can only be accessed in secure mode. But we can have some dedicated part for the non-secure issue, do a regression that means if you remove all the non-secure part, only the non-secure part, OBEKI will be removed also. What is not detailed in this part is how those key could be encrypted. The encryption of the different OBEKI is different depending on the level. That means not the same key that you use for each one. The key used for encryption of those one are using the hardware unique key. That means unique per device. But also there is a combination with a monotonic counter, each time you do a regression or a partial regression, then it will change the key encryption. So really quite secure configuration. So if I combine the both, temporal isolation and secure storage, you can put the first stage bootloader in this first portion of flash protected, second stage bootloader. So you are booting in HDP level 1, the first stage bootloader will check the integrity and the authenticity of the second stage bootloader, so on the OBEKI level 1. Then you will code the RSS services increment the HDP level, then the second stage bootloader will check the integrity and the authenticity of the application. Thank the OBEKI, which are stored in OBEKI level 2. Again, it will increase the HDP level, and then it will load our application, which will be executed in HDP level 3. Provisioning of the OBEKI should be done in a dedicated product state, which name is provisioning. A dedicated provisioning mechanism is implemented. And programs just need to send a binary file containing the key with a predefined format. We've got a tool to create those files, which is named packet trusted creators. So you need to give as input what you want to store our key. Again, I wrote key here, but it can be also some data that could be used by your application. It's up to you to decide what you want to put there. It's a secure storage. Then you need an OBEKI config file.qxml, which describes the destination address, so at which level it will be provisioning. And if the encryption is done or not, because it could be activated or deactivated, it's just a matter of level of security you want to achieve. And then you will use Q-Programmer with your target in a provisioning state. Life cycle. This was already introduced a little bit in the workshop previously. Main addition regarding the path of provisioning state that is dedicated to provision the secure storage. The closed state and the locked state only difference is the inability to connect to debug authentication in lock state. And we have the debug-opening sub-state, which allows to reopen the debugging link. The regression principle is exactly the same that on other SGM32. The different possible states open. That's mean fully open. You can do whatever you want. You can connect with a debugger and access all the resources. In provisioning state, the only thing you can do is to provision the OBEKI storage. You can't execute code from the user flash on the channel things. It's really dedicated to this. Dresden close is when the non-secure is still open and all the secure part is closed. It has been used for the secure manager, but it could be also used by you if you want to split in your team from a secure team to a non-secure team. But those are not final states. A real final state is closed or locked. I call final state, I mean a state of your product on the field. In the case of close, it's a final state, but we have the capability to reopen the debugging or to do a regression. This has been detailed in the previous part. Lock state, it's a final state without any reconnection possibility. It's up to you to decide which one you want to use. I gave you here some equivalent with ADP level and the different transition possible. Remember, it's always good in provision to provision the debug authentication access. If you don't have the DAQ, no possibility to reopen or to do a regression after. This is the main difference regarding ADP level that we've got previously. Regarding the regression, you can do it from provisioning, I wrote provision just on close. You've got the capability to do a partial regression or a full regression. From lock state, you can do anything. What happened or what are the details about those non-secure regression or regression? On the partial regression, what's happened? The non-secure flash code is erased. The OB key, HDP level 3, non-secure are erased. And there is this epoch counter that is incremented. This one, which is used to generate a specific key to encrypt the secure storage. That means after each non-secure regression, encryption of non-secure OB key storage will be different. Regarding a full regression, in such case, everything is erased. The complete content of the OB keys, the user flash, secure and unsecure. And we have a second epoch counter that is incremented. Now let's talk to you about the secure boot path. Just naming convention, but I think now you are quite familiar with this. The two first letters indicate the owner of the component. It could be ST or OEM. Y is either key for immutable, it was a first stage bootloader, U for updateable, the second stage bootloader. And Routers test often stands for secure boot. So the different possibilities you can have. STI rot, the ROM bootloader, which is available on H573. The ST UROT that is a second stage bootloader from ST, which is only delivered in the context of the secure manager. But it was included in this use image and you don't see these details. But after you can have your own implementation of the first stage and second stage bootloader. It will be OEM IROT, OEM UROT. And we provided example code for this, based on MC UBOT. Regarding the H5 boot path, configuration is mainly done thanks option byte. Trezone enable or not, boot UBU for unique boot entry. And also some option byte, non-secure boot address and secure boot address. Now I will details depending on the different family or product in the H5 family, the possible boot path. For the H5 0x, there is no Trezone. So just a unique boot entry to NS boot address option byte. We have some code example of one stage bootloader for OEM IROT. Frankly speaking, a second stage bootloader regarding the size of the flash is just hypothetical because the size of the flash is too small here. So we've got an example of based on MC UBOT, which name is OEM IROT that launched just an application on this product. Now if we are talking about the family H5 6x, here we've got Trezone but we have no crypto accelerator and no STI ROT. Why no STI ROT? Remember STI ROT is certified CZIP and PFR level 3, resistant to some physical attack which rely on some crypto accelerators which are DPA or side channel attack resistance which are not present here so we don't have any STI ROT here. But you have the possibility to activate a not Trezone and to have your own implementation of first stage and second stage bootloader. Again, we deliver code example for this. Only one stage bootloader example is available.  So depending on the unique boot entry, you can either use your own implementation of first stage or two stage bootloader, but you can also rely on STI ROT or you can use just STI ROT to launch your application or to launch a second stage bootloader. What is supported by Cubemix? All those configurations. The first one is one stage bootloader where you are, I would say, responsible for the secure boot and secure firmware update capabilities. Or you can use STI ROT to launch a second stage bootloader or you can have STI ROT plus secure manager. That means STI ROT plus STI ROT plus secure manager. Here I want to sum up all the security features available depending on which product. On the H5 0x, you still have HTPL protection. Regarding the debug authentication, you only have password. That means you can only control the regression thanks to password. But you don't have the capability to reopen the debugging link to do real debug your application. This is not available on this platform. You don't have neither any secure storage. On the H5 6x, you've got the HTTP level protection through this temporal isolation.  Regarding the debug authentication, if you activate TrueZone, you have certificate. That means the capability to reopen and debug your application even in a closed state. While if you don't use TrueZone, you are only the capability of password control and this means only regression. That means if you want to have the capability to reopen to debug something, you need to activate TrueZone. And finally on the H5 7x, 3x for amendments, you've got everything I would say. You've got also the STI ROT and you've got the secure manager. On those two last breaks are PSA, CZP level 3. Unrequired to have TrueZone activated. This is an important point to keep in mind. If you want to use STI ROT just to load your application, at least you need to activate TrueZone. Now let's give you some details about STI ROT. STI ROT is the Immutable Route of Trust. A secure boot code with secure firmware update capabilities. The code is basically based on MCU boot. And we add it inside some content measurements against a board-level attack. It has been what will be certified as PSA level 3. So which is a guarantee of our business against a board-level attack. To activate it, it sends an option byte bootUBU but it requires to have TrueZone enabled. And you need to provision two specific things in the OB key, HDP level 1. One file or data concerning the configuration of this one. And the key that will be used to do the authentication and the decryption of a new firmware. You also need to provide to provision some zero initialized data that will be used by STI ROT to check or to store the current version installed on the product. So again here it was a CC key that is used for authentication of the application. Your application could be full secure or could be secure plus non-secure. But it was only one image for the both. That means you have one signatures for the application secure and non-secure which are concatenated together. Regarding the firmware update, it was a dual-slot setup. That means you have an active slot on a downlink slot. So application can use almost half of the size of the flash but no more because you need to have the same size of download and execution slots. Regarding the firmware loader, how you will get a new version. Either you can implement it in your application but you also have the possibility to jump to the embedded bootloader, the system one, not the secure one, which allow you to download the new version and this is what I will do in the next hands-on. So as I previously said, one image for secure and non-secure application only. So in the Qube H5 you will get script and code example for this one and it's also supported by Qube MX. So I propose in the next part to do an hands-on and show you how we can create an application that will be launched by the secure manager and that could be updated by the secure manager. Thank you.


Now we can finally get our hands on one of the Wiesis prizes and the prize has gone to the UAE and in particular, the Mohammed bin Rashid Smart Learning Program, the director general of the program is here, looking very proud, Mohammed Gareth, hello. And thanks for being with us today, part of the very large UAE delegation. Well, tell us about this program first of all, give us a bit of a background and why you think it won this prize. Well, first of all, thank you very much for the opportunity. We're so proud to be here today and we're so proud to be among the winners. We're one of the 17 winners. The program was integrated in 2012, very early 2012 and it was set to deliver the vision of the country, being the leader in almost every field. One of the important fees which our government for us was the education field and they wanted us to be number one in the world in education. Hence came the idea of transforming the education system from what it was in the past to what it is now today in the field, on the ground, within our schools and with our students and teachers. It took us a very long time in terms of hard work and dedication and preparation to be where we are today. Of course, education transformation is not an easy job. It takes ages, it takes decades to change. We wanted to foster the change and boost it up by the introduction of technology. Everyone wants to transform the education of their countries, but what we did in UAE was to get the support and help of ICT, the information communication and telecommunication infrastructure services and technology to boost the transformation of education. And it's a very typical example of a proper and genuine and true partnership between the government represented by Ministry of Education and the Telecom Regulator Authority and the private sector who participate in the ICT fund which funds the program. And through this true partnership, we were able to deliver a state of art education system in the classrooms and the schools today, impacting nearly 11,000 students and 1,400 teachers with a massive impact, of course. Have you been able to measure that impact in terms of improvement in the children's education, results? Absolutely. Today, I think the award speaks of one of the measurements that we took on the ground, how we were able to change the competency and the capacity of individuals who are involved in the program, being the teachers, the principals, all the school managers, the students, the parents who are engaged with their children in the schools, how we've rebuilt their capacity in terms of their capabilities, their talents, the skills that they wanted to implement in the schools, those have been measured today. Of course, education outcome takes a bit longer time to assess and to see in terms of outcomes and results, but there are immediate changes that we've seen in the schools, the way students engage with each other, the way students engage with their teachers, the way the delivery of lessons and information and knowledge is being delivered in the schools and the classrooms, the behavior of teachers, how they engage with their students in a more interactive and a more intuitive environment than the usual, you know, the traditional way of information delivery from one side to another side. Students now are much engaged in absorbing the information they see everywhere and out of them. They're equipped with the right tools and equipments to build the right skills in order to be able to engage with information and deliver. But you're talking about thousands in a particular Gulf context. Is it scalable? Can you imagine this concept working with millions of children in different countries that are very different from the UAE? Absolutely. That's a brilliant question because we've seen so many examples where they were limited to a context where there was a cultural context or it was a technological context or boundaries, geographical boundaries. Our program is so scalable. It's so adaptable. It could be implemented anywhere in the world. We haven't made any infrastructural changes to the schools, to be honest. I mean, we haven't changed fundamental changes to the schools. The schools are the same old schools that we have. We've chosen some of the modern schools, some of the intermediate schools and some of the very old schools and we've implemented the program unanimously across all structures, all teachers, whether they're older generation, the newer generation and of course the students are on the same age. So it is actually implementable in every country. And we did it with a very cost effective approach that does not become a business among the government or in a partnership with the private sector to implement on a larger scale or even to go beyond the boundaries of UAE. Well, Mr. Goeth, a pleasure talking to you and again, congratulations. Thank you very much.


All right, we're doing target it's just gonna be 175 30 99 by 30 I don't know. I think this is open, but it is sketchy here 99 There do it get in it right now get the stop in forget this you have to be in it You have to be in it, and if you didn't you could do it right here now. Just make sure you have to stop in it's 175 30 the volume is there, but I mean the volume is there in this part too I I Don't know this just looks weird. I end up based on the volume. I think that it's open, but it certainly looks strange Just make sure to stop at 175 30 Here we go 171 170. Let's see if we can get it there. Here we go target Market should roll over to there tomorrow by the end of the week or both days. What's it's today Wednesday? No, today's only Wednesday. I have three more days. Yeah, three more days in the week We're gonna roll over by the end of the week that much I know here We go target.  Let's go break 172 do a quick quick quick. Here we go under 172 target. Let's go The busy day ahead Here here we go under 172 I'm gonna break it Hey second. There we go There we go. Here we go. Let me look at the spy quick. What is today August 17th? FOMC minutes today Unemployment claims tomorrow. I don't know if there's anything out Friday. That's anybody significant, but we're gonna roll over here between now and Friday How much a quick that fast when I don't know Okay, you could be out of this. I looked away for a second It looks like it got all the way down to 171 and I looked at I was taking too long to load that data 171 33 you could be out of it One more push and I'm probably gonna be out of this. Here we go new low here So we can break 171 and then get a nice flush and I'm done Here we go Here we go. Yay There we go Close enough to 170 That's it. I'm done I'm done and I have a busy day Beautiful


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Hello, traders at CMC Markets. Welcome to a fresh update by RRG Research for Monday, the 14th of November. And I am recording it on Friday morning, the 11th, just before the market opens. My name is Julius de Campanara and I am presenting to you from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Let's start this overview, this update with a look at the rotations for world indexes, world indices. And that image remains, well, there are some changes, but the big moves and especially the one from Hong Kong that continues to move south further into the lagging quadrant. So that is still that remains the weakest market in this universe, in this group of indexes. And what we also see is that the American NASDAQ index, the NDX is following suit into that lagging quadrant. Make sure you're going to blow this up a little bit because we know that Hong Kong is down in the south. And then you can see that rotation by the NASDAQ further into lagging. You can also see that the S&P, we're comparing this to the MSCR world index. And obviously, the US market and the S&P is a very big chunk of the MSCR world. So what you will usually see is that the S&P or American markets in general are remaining very close to the benchmark because they are a big part of the benchmark. But the heading of that tail is negative. It's losing on both scales on this weekly charts. And what you, the big picture that you see here is that especially the European indexes like the DAX and the stocks and the CAC, they are moving into that north eastern direction. And that is a good sign. So reading from this chart, I sort of immediately gauge that Europe is outperforming, is doing better than the US. Especially if you look at the NASDAQ and the S&P and then the Dow Jones industrials is kind of the exception because that's going the other way, which you can make the story here that the Dow Jones 30 are obviously the 30 biggest stocks in America so that that bigger segment is doing really well. And the broader markets and especially the NASDAQ is not really a technology sector, but it's very tech driven are doing not so well. So that's the big image that you get from this weekly picture, from this weekly ROG. If we zoom that into the daily, we got a bit of a change going on.  And that is always a difficult situation because you need a little bit more information. You need a few more observations, a few more days of trading to be able to tell whether that is really a change of direction for those tails or just a little blip. Sometimes they give these little blips. But if we if we take it as it comes right now, you can see that the ones that were doing not so well. So the NASDAQ has picked up here, the S&P, you can see that that last observation just picked up. And you can also see that the Dow, which was doing very well on the weekly has just hooked around. You can see that the DAX is doing that the stocks is doing the same. You can see if I blow that up here that they last day is really weak compared to what's going on in the US. So when we move to the individual charts, I want to focus on the S&P and the stock 600, basically to take a look at what's going on between the relationship between the US and Europe. So if we start with that weekly chart for the S&P 500, I think that it's very clear that we're still in that downtrend. If you look at price, then we've got clear lower highs and clear lower lows that that signals a downtrend. That is a downtrend. We're currently moving up within the boundaries of that falling trend. And as you can see, there's still quite some room to move. If you look at the relative strength, the ROG lines versus the MSCR World Index, you can see that the S&P is still above. So it's still in the long term, still outperforming the world. And it's on the right hand side of that ROG plot. But the line is coming down. Both lines are coming down, which means that it is at a negative heading. That's what you saw on that weekly ROG. Now I'm going to jump to the weekly for the stocks. I'm going to skip the daily for a moment. I'm going to move to the weekly chart for the stocks. And what you can see here is that the comparable downtrend that we have seen in the S&P 500 in the stock 600 is getting broken. It's on the way of getting broken. That is clearly a benefit plus for stocks over the S&P. So a benefit for Europe over America. And you can see that back in the ROG lines. You saw that the ROG lines on the S&P, they were moving lower. And you can see that the ROG lines here on the European Stocks Index, they're moving higher. So that's the opposite direction. That indicates that Europe is getting stronger than America. And if we now move to the daily version of those charts, and we have the S&P daily chart here, and you can see that that improvement is definitely there. You can see this little hook here. That is what causing the tip of that tail on the ROG to hook back up. And on the price chart, you see that the S&P is taking out that 3,900 level. That is a good sign. However, there is overhead resistance waiting already around 4,100. So there is definitely some upside, but we need to take into account that we're still in that longer term downtrend which could keep the rally 40 S&P under wraps. Now, if we bring that to the European version of the Stocks 600, we already saw that on the weekly we're breaking that downtrend. And you can see here on the daily that we're pushing against this peak here. That's acting as resistance. Now, this is only up to yesterday's close. So it's a little bit dangerous to call this a break because it's very well possible that market just opens today and we're going to move lower and not get the real break that we are expecting. But it is a good sign. And you can see that the ROG lines here are moving up with that little tip moving around and hooking back down. So if I bring that all together, then I think that we need to conclude that on the daily, Europe is running into resistance with relative strength just rolling over while the S&P is breaking it and hooking back up. So in the near term, it looks as if the S&P has got a little bit more upside potential than Europe. If we move to the weekly, the picture is the other way around. Here you can see that Europe is picking up relative strength and breaking that downtrend while the S&P is still in that downtrend and losing relative strength. So if I sum this up, long-term Europe over the S&P, short-term the S&P over Europe, you can decide whatever you need to do depending on your timeframe and your investment horizon. There's one more thing that I want to share with you this week and that's the ROG for forex because the Euro dollar came to life. And if we look at the ROG here, this is a weekly ROG, it's looking at weekly trends in currencies. Because everything is on the left-hand side of the graph, it basically means strength for the US dollar. That's what we've seen. We've seen that the US dollar got stronger and stronger and stronger over months already. Now these tails here are turning back up. So they're moving generally in a positive ROG heading. They're all pointing to that northeastern direction, pretty much led by the Euro here. So that indicates that the dollar is getting a bit weaker. It's still long-term very strong because this is the US dollar, it's on the right-hand side. But in the near term, the other currencies, especially the Euro, are picking up strength. And if we look at the price chart of Euro dollar, that's very interesting because the chart that I keep looking at is the monthly chart for Euro dollar. Because obviously we had that break of that massive support level around 104 and that was back in May, June. And now we dipped all the way back to 0.95, which is coincidentally the peak that is below this bottom formation here in 2000. And we're bouncing off that old resistance, which is now support. And I'm looking for Euro dollar to move up to that 104. That's where the real yeast is. That's where Euro dollar can actually prove what the main direction of that currency pair is. So long-term, that signal, that weak signal of breaking below 104 is definitely in play. Right now we're bouncing off old support back to that 104, which is now going to act as resistance. And if you look at the Euro dollar daily chart, then you can see that in more detail. You can see that that long downtrend that we had for a couple of months is now broken. We are seeing higher highs and higher lows emerging out of that bottom formation. And we're running into the first resistance right now as we speak around 102. But I think as we saw on that monthly chart that there is upside potential towards 104. Depending on where that new peak comes and how Euro dollar is going to behave if it reaches 104, we'll tell us a lot more about the longer-term direction of the Euro dollar exchange rate. For the near-term, I think it's going higher. For the long-term, I'm still not very convinced. I think that there is still more downside to come. Thank you for watching and I'm hoping to see you again next week at a new update by RRG Research. Same time, same place.