We'll just establish a quorum, please. Commissioner Cameron. I'm present. Commissioner O'Brien. I am here. Commissioner Zuniga. Hi here. Good morning, everybody. And commissioner Stephens. Here. Good morning, everyone. And I'm here and this is. May day. And I will reiterate that given the unprecedented circumstances resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic, governor Baker issued an order to provide limited relief from certain provisions of the open meeting law to protect the health and safety of those who wish to participate in and attend our public meetings. And keeping with the guidance provided, the commission will conduct this public meeting utilizing remote collaborative technology. And if there's any technical problem, we will give advice on our website at mass gaming. To reestablish a connection. I want to thank everybody for attending. We've, um, We extend the invitation to all of our staff and it's, um, I'm very appreciative for how many members of our, of our team join us in these meetings. So thank you. And of course, to members of the public media who are joining us today. Thank you. I'm going to call this meeting to order Friday, April 3rd, 10 a.m. This is Massachusetts gaming commission's public meeting, number 300. And for at least three of my colleagues, never mind the entire many members of the team. That is quite a history for you. So, um, Mark number 300 virtually. Um, moving on the agenda item number two, we have an executive staff update from interim executive director Karen Wells. And, um, Our director of racing and chief Mary and Dr. Alex lightbound Karen. Good morning. Good morning. Uh, just as for the critical business of the day, uh, the governor has extended, uh, his order, the shutdown order regarding the coronavirus. Uh, through May 18th. So it's my recommendation that the commission parallel that and extend that temporary suspension of the operations at the three gaming establishments until May 18th. And who do we have questions and comments from fellow commissioners and I'll just, if you want to wave, um, or lean in. Thank you. Thank you. And no, obviously, um, we were, uh, you know, waiting for the governor to come out with, uh, new, um, orders. And, um, it's entirely appropriate for us to follow suit, um, with, uh, all those experts that came to those decisions about moving it two more weeks. So I think it is certainly appropriate that we follow suit and the recommendation is a good one by our interim director. Any further questions or comments regarding this proposal? I just a comment. I agree. It's, it's obviously the right thing to do and, and mandated at this point. Um, but I don't know if now or the next meeting is the time to talk about, um, next steps in terms of, you know, continuing to get advice, et cetera from, uh, the governor and the public health sector, but also, um, our licensees in terms of, um, um, you know, as we hopefully get more clarity by the end of the month, um, what the summer may look like, but that may be a conversation for a future meeting. Excellent. Any further questions? Um, we do need a vote on this matter. Do I have a motion? So madam chair, I, um, I move that the commission approve, um, the recommendation of the executive director, um, to follow the governor's orders and, uh, move our timeframe, uh, and keep, uh, keep the licenses, keep the casinos closed until the 18th. Of. May. A second. Any discussion, amendment, edit. Okay. Barring none. Um, I'll do a real call vote. Chris, your camera. I can show Brian. Hi. Hi. Commissioner Stevens. Hi. And I vote yes. Five zero. Thank you. Moving on to Dr. Leipow. Good morning. Good morning. I have spoken with the three racing licensees and they're aware of the governor's extension of the order to May 18th and, um, they agreed to continue to abide by it, um, for simulcasting. Um, as we've done in the past, they will continue Suffolk and Plainridge to do online account wagering. Alex, uh, I thank you for that update. Um, just a quick question actually, um, I saw in the news today that, uh, the Kentucky Derby, which was supposed to run tomorrow is obviously been rescheduled, but they're doing a, uh, a virtual Kentucky Derby. So, um, do you happen to know offhand whether that is open to any online betting or whether that is just for betting for recreation? I think I heard something about. Contributions or winnings being donated to COVID-19, uh, Jerry's. I've heard about the, um, race that they're putting together, but I'm not sure, um, on the betting angle. Okay. All right. Thank you. It'll be interesting to watch. We've obviously learned, I'll heard a lot about historical racing. But it'll be interesting to see what the interest is. Correct. Any further questions for Alex. Okay. We do not need a vote. Um, we've been advised by, um, uh, legal that we're all set on that and keeping with our past, our past practice. Um, with that, I do want to move on to just item number three, just really to build on commissioner O'Brien's remarks earlier. Um, when we first decided to temporarily suspend operations at the, uh, states three gaming facilities, the commission, and licensees, um, how to share view that public health was paramount to all other considerations. And at that time, the urgent circumstances required us to move quickly and decisively. The timeline as we recognize today is still uncertain. However, our attention is now focused on developing a reopening or responsible. I'm sorry. We start, uh, planning a plan and maximizing this time that we do have to establish guidelines and coordination and collaboration with key stakeholders, including the three licensees, state and local leaders, and of course, public health experts. We'll have the opportunity as we've recognized in our early meetings to leverage our internal expertise. And it appears to learn from other jurisdictions. Additionally, we will closely monitor guidance under development by the governor's reopening advisory board. Our shared priority of public health remains paramount in our decision making as we determine how to proceed in a post pandemic environment. Excuse me to support the work already in progress under the leadership of interim executive director Wells. An internal restart working group will be convened. This group will help in the development of the work plan and identify early on issues for the commission's consideration to facilitate its agile action on key policy and regulatory matters. As we proceed in this matter, this working group will assist with oversight and planning for two primary areas that Ms. Wells has identified as core to a safe and sustainable reopening plan. And while she'll expand on this at our next meeting next Thursday, I'd like for Karen to just give us a snapshot of those two areas, please. Yeah, thank you, Madam chair at, you know, as I mentioned at the last meeting, there's really two buckets. There's the technical opening and then because of the situation we find ourselves in now we sort of have health and safety issues that we need to address. So as far as the technical opening. Part of the procedures, the technical opening protocols and procedures will consist of an assessment of the regulatory process required to bring casinos back online. Including an extensive operations checklist that ensures the necessary compliance and integrity standards. So the second piece is obviously the health and safety given the coronavirus pandemic that we're all dealing with. And that involves health and safety operational planning that will address a comprehensive opening strategy regarding measures necessary to prioritize the well being of casino guests and employees. Pop it's there are going to include but not be limited to enhance sanitation procedures, employee training, physical distancing, occupational or may occupancy limitations and any other guidance provided by public health authorities. The plan will also need to account for what procedures will be necessary in the event of a restart setback. The other piece of that in addition will be developing in parallel protocols and procedures for the reopening of the Massachusetts gaming commission office to ensure a safe return to the office for those NGC employees. So that's the that's the overview that we're going to be looking at over the next several weeks. Excellent thank you in terms of timing as determined today will continue to follow the state's lead. And then we look forward to Miss Wells updating us on the process on a regular cadence, but particularly we'll look forward to next week. This difficult set of circumstances has presented as we know the word we hear so frequently and unprecedented global challenge. As so many have said, we are all in this together. An effective reopening plan will require sustained cooperation from all involved. So thank you to the MGC team and our licensees for your hard work, thoughtful diligence, despite this intense and challenging time. And with that I invite my fellow commissioners to comment and then we will close this meeting and look forward to next Thursday's. 300 and first meeting. Any comments. No, just to say that it sounds at a very high level really appropriate and. I'm thoughtful. So I'm glad that's that's happening. I'm just curious if you've established. That working group already or are in the process and will give us. An update of that when. Next time. So I'm working with Karen commissioner on that. And I've been asked to commissioner. O'Brien to assist in that as well. So there'll be representation from the commission. And then it will be a very small group. It is not intended to duplicate efforts. It's really more of a sounding board. I think Karen, if you want to wish to ask that. Yeah. So. There's a layered approach as well. There's this group, but we also have staff that's working on operational procedure. So we have different groups working. On the COVID. Health. Right. Health priorities and the best practices. We also have. Set another group working on the opening checklist. So there's, there's things going on at the staff level. This is more of a higher level. Yeah, Justin, it's really just a, another layer that will hopefully prove to be efficient during these virtual working times and make sure that. The full commission is really apprised on a regular cadence. And so that we can be really nimble on our decision making to keep the work proceeding. And, and, and that way we won't. Have too much accumulate down the road that will be difficult to address in a nimble fashion. Other questions. That's great. No. Well, I, the only other thought is really more of a comment. States a little bit of the obvious, but I'm glad you are articulate them. What seems to be the order of priorities. Health and safety. And, and, and, you know, Patrons and employees at the casinos. I'm also interested eventually in the procedures of the opening the MPC offices, but I've had to put in the plug here that we've been operating quite successfully with the relief from the governor about the open meeting law, by the way, and the help of our IT technology and IT team. And I can only imagine that at least some version of this. You know, whether it's virtual collaboration or what have you might be in the, in the future when it comes to MPC procedures, but I also like probably everyone else looks forward to the time when we can at least those that are comfortable. Come back to the office and operating a more personal level because there's there's something that's missing a little bit from from this virtual modem. Yeah, I agree with that. The, you know, we have an excellent IT department. So our, our ability to work remotely has been remarkable. So I think the approach to the MGC office is remote reopening is going to be employee centric and seeing what we need to do what we have to do. But the focus is on our health and safety of our employees and doing it the right way. I think because we have all these tools at our disposal, we can have a phased approach and prioritize the health and safety of our workforce. And you'll be updating us along the way on that. Yes. And appreciate it. So for those members of our, of our team who are just hearing this, stay tuned. Those guidelines are going to be underway. And of course we have to reflect that things are still very fluid. And we really have no sense of the exact timing. But as always, we work to be prepared. Anything further commissioner Cameron. I can't see commissioner O'Brien for some reason. Are you all set? No, I'm all set. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, plans sound great and thoughtful. So I. In complete agreement was that the process. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. Commissioner Stevens. No, I think it's a, it's a good game plan going forward. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. All right. Then looking forward to next week's meeting. And thank you for today's. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your action on a difficult matter. Do I have a motion? Motion to adjourn. I second that. Okay. Any comments? Questions. Roll call vote. Commissioner Cameron. I. Commissioner O'Brien. Hi. Commissioner Zunica. I thank you, everybody. Hi. Thank you, everyone. And I vote yes. And from all of us, thanks.


Sosa... ...umso sorry Sam, ...bani ngatikakuju wa vilem blingi ...o sosa uko komisitu mkaqchi ...mkafta all those things ...mkaqchi liwa, how did you find your way back? ...wam doali tu peleka maqa mahali ...kuna gya, like wakatao ambiya, sosa pandeni, ...womuende... ...walukua na tuambiya, ...tutawa push, musibi wa naweziwenkine ...o, and something else ...waji tu bi shiasim cards ...na wakatao ambiya, kuna mi ambili, ...tumea chaa po Always changing things up, I went out of my way when I was 17 A friend of mine kept calling me, m così tatooaldia, kiniwa kwa meltia So ni kama mombiya ni tumiyedo, ni tumiyedo, so wali tumiyasimka ya Udi mingine, tukatuma doa apo, doa kenda waka widdro, after ku widdro, doa waka rudi. Wali wacha apo waka? No, mojanda wali enda. Oh okay. Eee, waka widdro, alafu waka rudi. Kaseyema, ame tuatia 200 shiwing, zapo kama feya 20 home doa tu dafute ingina ku rudi rando tu. Hai, how are you? I hope you're doing well. My name is Ndanya, the gracious host. Today I've come to look for a videographer who has been missing in action. He's known for creating really nice content during events and also he's worked with the major brands Iji Murugimuni, I am Lottan. Ndanya, Pa Klaudia, Papuelsam, how are you? I'm good. Mepotia bro? I'm good. Mepotia, your presence has been missed, your absence has been missed. Thank God, ah, kuz. Eh, tumetokam bali. Metokam bali. Ebu kanzan kulizulianza, the last time tulukuwa atunafanya nini pamoja interviews, kidugo kidugo, sabaka? Siku potia, nili ona. Eh, ii field tumetja sana and, kuz, napenda, content creation tokakitambosu, nili ka, nika ona. Nini, actually, the first person nili create here, Rilia Kwanza was Jackie V, ke shout out to her, then nika create here, nani, Shiks Kapianga. That particular moment nini rijuwa, oh, there is a gap in this. So, nikanza hivu. So, she said nili potia in this field, her interviews and all that, it's just that nili, imas in two reels, kuz nili pata opportunity up and, yeah. Kukubali, your work is amazing, guys. Hey, your work, I came across a poster, and that is where I turned Dr. Futa, na, it stated like on 17th, you went through a brutal encounter. Unezatwami, what happened on that day? So, it's on a Sunday. So, actually nili kwa na client na faku, tengeneza content na, a nice reel too. So, I had the idea of a sunset, na nili kwa na jua a spot, I can shoot that, kuz it's a spot nisha, so, when you look around 5, nika wambia he, 20 year spot. So, we went there, inaituwa, ni place inaituwa motego, it's on top of a railway line, then so, on top of it, you can see the sunset, vizuri sana. So, that was the concept nili kwa na, ni kwa nakatu to shoot. Unona zile venye, into walk on top of a railway line, ni zo, ni ni ni ni, ni the sunset, all that. Just a nice clip. So, tulifika up around 6, 20 minutes in, I was done shooting like, ilifika to be exactly 630, and I'm like, let's move. So, raida monye nili riyanda na, tuliyanda tukiwa na raida, kuz, the meeting point nisha tulimi tili, kwa around my place, so nili tisha raida, na ni ni na, inaituwa je bolt, so katupela kapa. And then, akani ambia, so in case unona, unona, kita kuru di suta ni ko, I did the same. Venye nili ma, zatuku shoot, I just picked the phone. Most of you, most of my fans, most of the people that know me, they know how I am always, how I set up my gear. So nili kwa ni me shikaivo, so ni katoa isimu, ni kakal raida, akakata. Ibu bifu tundemali, iyomu tegui kwa api? Iko, cross to Renana school. Yes. Iko apo, ni kwa railway line, so on this side, on the left side, on top of the railway line, kuna, I think it's the gong forest. Ya. So, once nili kwa railway raida, akakata, kama ambi, let's just walk, to end up after raida mingini. And all, two guys popped up from that other side of the forest, waka, waka, like they did, wana naveni wuna eza, shakta, ee, ee, habari zenu? Also, you know how Makarawa naeza kwa approach, so that's how they did, waka twitter ee, habari zenu? Owa. Tu me pigiwa si mu, so there was a building on the right side of the railway line, so akasema tu me pigiwa si mu apa na manyei nyomba, ni muhe si mua na meseima tunashu tu nyomba ake. So si tu kama ambi, siya tu shu tu nyomba, tunashu tu kwa railway line, and I don't know. Were they dressed as corpse kwa tuin kajo? Home clothes. Yes. So, waka, tu kama ambi, siya tu kwa tunashu tu nyomba, and tu kwa tunashu tu kwa railway line. So these guys are KWS officers. Okay. Haiku ni hitu kwa kichua, KWS wanafa kua kwa wanyama. If, si tu haina wanyama. So ata, ata, wange ni ambi, ni forest rangers, in game makes sense. Akin sayo haiku ni hitu, kwa wanyama, kwa kua kwa wanyama. Okay. I digress. So to, to kanda, kanda kukua confrontation like back and forth, no, atuka tunashu tu ni, ni, ok, waka sayama, ok then, to enda kwa ofisi. So, think of this. Place to li kwa, KWS ofisi, zineza kwa, the closest zineza kwa, ni maybe rangata. Amma, si kwa national park, right? So, wana tatua ambia hitu, pitekati katia msi tu, to ende kwa. Kwenini? Kwa ofisi, to kwa m Had saying an Connor? If tunaya ende kwa ofisi, tumia main road, which is on this other side. So, rangak semawu muna sumbu mu anonymi inaka Ni dosa sa one of the guys daka grab IO-set up yaku nil kwa na Shu, na simu. Istanbul. So, and I said I will make you pay but you can't pay that to a customer and I want you to see your employee's face so I can' do it example Yes there are 200of mt Appreciate onee kwa na gimbal, kwa na batteries, microphones, ya ni kila kitu venya tu ata, like, mi kwa ni me move design, ata interview kaha penapa na fanya tu na na I have all your gears I had everything So, so tu ka relax, tu kanda kuvu tu wa kwa msi tu So na jaribu, siyele wikwa ni intu na pele kwa kwa msi tu So waka But at this time, kivu tu wa na pigwa Of course, kwa venya li tu wa kisu, ni kwa relax, tu na jaribu kumuongi kumuongi lesha, and to first time, aka ni kata apa Aka ni, like, ile ku kata paka Apa, e ni kaji usu sapa, tu na enda binguni So kivefik So tu kavu tu wa kwa msi tu, tu ka ingianda ni Kaji kiriya kwa mutanti fula niki winda niki ka katoa apa evi Libera Niki Regi Niki ala na ts wasu salpa tuta kufat kivyahoda na iSTA Is the feeling So ok 지금까지 being here at kamaيت, k creates a rhythm Mi koga is her Insu niki So these friends So, those guys were bad. So, as we were to look what we were to move, nili kwa nasimu isimu, kwenfuku nasimu weo client. So, nika towa, nika zitu pa mahali. So, iyo simingine, nika kwa nashutu naia, waka tu piga, piga lafuka tu itisha, waka ni itisha password nika apia, alafu waka ambia ode, aia kenambia kia po. So, aka endakuita futa. So, ali endakata futa simu moja. So, haku pata hii. So, kwenye, all that happened, aka rudi nasimu. Mimu ameni funga hii vii. That's when, kwenye rirudi, sijuli ni gonga na nini hii side. The whole of this side di konam, I can't chew anything right now. I can't work place kuna light mob ni ni ni. Meno hii na uma, but it confirm hii koni ni. So, all that happened, waka tu weka kwa yom situ, since year 630, waka tu hamisha iyo place, waka tu peleka. Another place. So, weka na wanwa hamisha janagari amatu. No, we were walking deep in the thick bush. So, saa that time we were walking around the time. Gizi mingi ya? Yes, around 9 o'clock, itwa hamisha maraya kwanza, katu peleka kaka spot, kengini na ukwa.  So, I noticed something, kuna time, watu wali kuja kutafta kwa iyo om situ, kwa zai kud situ touches zina, watu iyo e rewa likam. I think a few came, but awaku manage kuja kwa niya tumipeleka kwa. So, tulika kwa yom situ. Were you guys screaming to create attention? Yes. Ile time wali kushika mara kwanza, but after thisu ziri tolewa, ay. Yes. Tukan na mada. So, after that, kwa kwa ukwa over the night, they did some nasty stuff kwa yodem. And, yeah.  I don't know. I don't know if Sijiwee kama yaa, kwa komfattabuku, unge about it. You just know nasty stuff happened. Yeah. So, ah, tukatoka apu, akatu wa chilia, na, around 11, na, akatu wa mbe 20. 11 pm, kutoka 6. Yes. Na, akatu. Wali kuwa, the whole time, wali kuwa na jeribu kuwakses mpesayangu. Mhm. That's why I think tulikasa. And I don't know if that was the strategy, but tulikasa na, kuz wali kuwa na jeribu, kumei kakul kusafa, kuz mpesayangu. Wali ni gonga, ni ni, I face ID angu, ni kata, fukuak. So, mpesayika block, ni ni ni ni, ni ni, everything happened. So, the whole time, wana jeribu kuwani, fanya ni pigye safari kum, niwa mbe wa nianloki, mpesayangu, at haiku, haiku, o go through. Ah, so, wali tuwa chilia, wakatu wambia, 200, pata na round 2. Eh? Eh, jomana tukua, pata na dafta pesa. No, but it seems like a joke, but I am very, very serious. It's very serious. So, even though wali tuwambia, pata na round 2. Wali kuwa tawa, they had the idea of killing us, kuz wali kuwa wana, wali kuwa wana agi, wama wa tuwe, wama, you could tell, wana, hawa taki, to talk it too. So, we were so uncertain wata kutoka kwa yo forest, kuz hata, wali kuwa na tuwambia, apa kwenya muko, hata tukua hua, akun na mutua, tati joa kwenya muko, kuz it's true, place tulikuwa, no one could think, apart from them, no one could think, tuko apa. It was like deep, deep in the forest to koka chika. Deep in the forest. I'm certain, hata, day to day, waka rau hawa jai, step your place. So sir, I'm so sorry, Sam, but I'm not sure if you're willing, or if you're willing to muka after all those things, muka after all those things, or how did you find your way back? Wanda wali tupele kama paka mahali, kuna jia, waka tuwambia, sasa pandeni, kumuende. Wali kuwa na tuwambia, tutawa push, musibi wana, wesi wengine. And something else, wali tuwambia, sim cards, waka tuwambia, kuna mi ambili tu me achapa. Oh, something else, nimesahu kwa ambia. So when I, I all, I, I, I went out of my way, nika wana, awa sayawa tuwa, chili kama hawa na do. So, a friend of mine kept calling me, kwa zal kuwanata kujua what was happening. So, nika wambia, nitu mi ya do. Nitu mi ya do. So wali tu mi ya, sim card, ya udemi wengine. Tukatu ma do apa, do waka enda waka with the draw. After ku with the draw, do waka rudi. Wali wacha apa waka? No, mojanda wali enda. Oh, okay. Eee, waka will draw, alafu waka rudi. Aka sema, wami tuwachia, 200 shiwings, apa kama fair, 20 home blood, tuwafute, wengine a kurudi. Round 2. I am so sorry. Wilem li toka sasa milifika jokabara, awaluwanya shanjum kafkakabara-bara. Nakombia ni place, nisha ya enda, so venya tulifika apa ni didyua o. It's just, ni kubukatu ya rili, then on the other side, I'll be on the road. Did you go to the police station immediately? So, first thing, nili fanya ni nili, nika wangia nama boywa, piki piki apa, kwanza tenda tufafte isi imu, so that I can make communications. And luckily enough, tuka ipata, alafu, nga tuka enda poli station, tuka report. Ya. Muka muka. I can tell you, I could see, nili kwa na ona venya simi, kwa nili pigia, wa say, nika anza kwa ambia, nitra kiesi miangu. I could see where my phone is moving, even two days later, after that, tika zimo kabi sa. Uru kuna iyo na around which side this or two, two days? I could find my iPhone, I could see when it moved. Uru kwa tuku ui omsi, tuyo area ma iru kuesha? Wali tok, I think they had a motorbike because it took a few minutes, waka kwa waka tahao. I could see that. Ya. So, wili kuna skezo conversations, you can tell it's something, those people do, around that area? Yes. So, there are bad cases, tula kwa tu na ambia, there's a few weeks, a few weeks before that, kuna mamali kata omkono. Ya. Around that place, it's, miss kwa na joiko, that bad. Ya. So, alaf kuko safe, I would say it's not safe, it's not safe, kuz on that particular day, I met, I met so many people at Nairobi women, so many girls who are, who are raped. EOC kutu, so many incidences that were happening. That particular day, ya. It's not safe. It's not safe out there, guys, right? Kus I know that you've lost all the equipments. I know equipments are very, very expensive. Very, like, you're paying a jwa. Equipments are very, very expensive. If someone is willing to come out and help you, how do they get to reach you? Through my number, through my socials at Paposam, Kenya. And my number is 0707 907 330. Ya. We'll put up a poster over here. If anyone is willing to help or come through, a health-wise medication in the lady? Because it's been like two weeks. Ni venya tunili, come out, people ask me to do this, which is, which is okay. Ni make up for two weeks. Ni ki, ni ki heal, pole pole. So, medication, ni kusawa, nisha amaliza. I would say nisha amaliza. I'm not taking any medication apart from, because, actually, I had to use very heavy medication because it really hurts. So, iso dawa zili kwa zini yelte halsas, so ni kachana na halsas. So, right now, ni ki heart na vumili atu na kaza atu kama. Una di kaza kama mtotoa, ma na un. Lekini, pinkila zivi? No. Lekini. Lekini na raka atu, ni heal. Healing process, ni take its course. Vumili atu. Sam, these two shall pass. Takuwa sawa. We have to make sure Sam is back on his feet. Kaziya kone puasa neze naivo. Neze naivo. Ni majaributu kidugu and you'll be fine. Kuna content, tumifanya piya na tenya. Content moto. When I tell you Kaziya Sam and I thank God, just a skill ikondani ako, aiko kwa kitu, aiko kwa simu haiko, you see. It is very easy for you to come back now when they look to fatia content. No. Last ones to you, fans. Ma fans, pa dumpo. 2.10 na enu. So, tunaenda into the first of season. Guys, be safe. Be safe.  Buy your story. And there are so many kidnapping cases happening. Don't walk alone. Just be around people. And for content creators, it's high time to involve security officers to kifanya content because it's getting worse. Ya, that's all I can say. For my fans, tunarodi, tunarodi, tunarodi. Very soon, like once I get my equipment back, ay-ya-ya-ya-ya. New bag. Begin better. Tutaenda. So many events are coming up. Tutaenda. So, that was Purple Sam. My name is Ndenya and this is SPM Buzz. SPM Buzz.


Let's jump over to our man, Teddy Kegstad. Folks, every Wednesday at 40 past the hour, we talk to Teddy. You can reach Teddy every trading day at forex-trading-unlocked.com. Teddy Kegstad, good morning. Good morning, Tommy. Good to see you again. Good to see you as well, man. So we get some inflationary data with the CPI. We've all seen some harsh numbers. Now it could be transitory. There's some big numbers in there, whether it's used cars, whether it's travel and the likes. There's action in currencies to say the least across the board today, Teddy. What are you looking at this morning, this week, in the forex market? Well, it's funny, the CPI thing. Now, I've been telling you for the past few months that, actually, at Christmas time, we started with inflations coming because look at the raw commodity markets, okay? And now we're really seeing it with CPI. Like I heard you earlier talking about the used car market.  But what about corn? I was looking at the performance stats of certain parts of the CPI, excuse me, from the commodity index. And I looked at corn. Corn is up 128% in the last 12 months. It's up almost 40% in the last three months, okay? Now these things are not stopping, you know? And it's not just policy anymore. I mean, I live in the Midwest. Last year we had an issue with planting because of rains. This year we haven't had any rain in Illinois.   So these things are going to definitely keep on tapping into the markets. Remember how, you know, the bond market, the interest rate market is something that dictates currency pricing, okay? Well, these other things are helping to play into it, too. So now the CPI number is something that we're going to be watching a lot. And look at the bond market. You know, currency pricing is a reflection of interest rates. Now a week ago when we talked, the policy with the Fed was still that there'd be no change in interest rates for until the year 2023. Now I learned math a long time ago. To me, that means that's a year and a half from now before the Fed would be even talking about raising interest rates. Since we talked last, I mean, I remember when I heard Yellen say last week, well, we may have to raise interest rates to curb inflation.  So especially for the dollar, okay? You know, because short run that means all of a sudden dollar bulls may start to look for some nice places to take some opportunities. Now we have divergence in all these currencies because of like oil. So let me give you a couple of trades right now. We do have a buy signal in the U.S. dollar Swiss. There was a three-inside-up buy pattern that came out of after yesterday's close. So right now I think that as far as the European currencies, you can look at the Swiss, the U.S. dollar Swiss, to see some strength there, you know, as far as the dollar. A target of 92.23 is probably very likely to happen if this bounce is going to maintain itself. And I would use the low in the U.S. dollar Swiss from three days ago as your guide for risk, as far as being bullish and bearish, you know? And the Euro-US dollar I think will also follow the Swiss, meaning that while the U.S. dollar Swiss is going up, the Euro-US dollar is going to go down in pressure support. Now I'm not bullish the dollar overall. This is a short-term counter-trend move, which is big. So as we're not looking for a change in trend, this is just, I'm looking at as a profit-taking move. Now if you're trading like the Australian dollar and the New Zealand dollar, I think that's very mixed and choppy and be very careful with that one. That's a range trader's probably delight right now. I've been saying that for a while. It's very rough to look at that, those two currencies. The U.S. dollar Canada, remember, I've been a bear now on this thing for a while, saying be careful with this. It continues to pound new lows. I mean, I have a target now of $1.20 in the U.S. dollar Canada, you know? It might be there by the time we're done chatting, Kevin. No, I didn't, Teddy.  The U.S. dollar Canadian, as it just keeps. I mean, since we talked even last week, just continue it to drop, yeah. Right, right. And this is the kind of thing where certain currencies are maintaining these trends. I mean, the U.S. dollar Canada has been in a free fall now for over a year. And with all these, now with CPI going the way it is and with oil going the way it is, I mean, we went from being a net exporter of oil three months ago to now we're importing oil, and then we have this pipeline issue. Yeah, this is huge. This is huge, you know? And think about that as the price of oil goes up, the price of production of corn, wheat, soybeans goes up. You have drought conditions that also inflate it. And then if they start to raise interest rates, that brings up the cost of carry and the cost of doing business also. So with the Fed using this thought of being fighting inflation by raising interest rates, I was talking to somebody who runs a family office yesterday for their financials on business. I'm like, does it make sense that the Fed would raise interest rates to curb inflation right now? They're like, absolutely not. It makes absolutely no sense. Like they're scattering trying to figure out how are you going to manage money on big asset levels. Now, when you have a Fed that's using the opposite direction of what you should do for the issue you're trying to address, you know? And especially when they had a stance of we're not touching anything until 2023 to help us get through this pandemic. It's mind blowing, you know? It just doesn't make any sense at all. And I think you're going to see the dollar swing a lot, especially in it's going to be, but there's divergence. Like I said, like US dollar, Canada, it's a bear. I would not try and fade that thing whatsoever. I would look for a rally to sell more than a break to buy.  The pound, it blasts, since we talked last week, it exploded to new highs. It hit, remember I had a price target of $1.41. This was weeks ago. I mean, in two days it just exploded like a balloon underwater. You know, so today's sell-off in the pound, is that a reversal? No, I think it's people taking profit because they had such a huge return over the past couple of sessions. Yeah, when you said sell-off for a second, I almost didn't even see what you're talking about because I have the daily up there and just the run it had over the last two days. Today's, or a few days really, the red bar just looks like nothing. I guess $1.42, $2.40 back from February, completely in play, right? And yeah, quite a run it's had from $1.38 on May 3rd to be sitting at $1.41. It is pretty interesting, Teddy. We got like one minute, two minutes there. When you look at, we got such a big miss on the jobs number, right? 266,000 jobs added. So the jobs aren't coming back as quick. And now a little bit of the fear, though, is that are we getting an inflationary number? And it would be really interesting to see if we don't see that jobs number pick up, that put a little bit of fear in the market, of course, that the... Here's something to support what you just said about the jobs market. I was talking to some people last week who have multiple different types of businesses. You know what their biggest problem is right now is? People won't come back to work because they're being paid not to. Sous chefs that make $80,000 a year will not come back to a high-end restaurant because they're getting paid 60 grand to hang out in Colorado, you know? So that's a problem. People will not come back to work that are getting paid. And then you also have a problem now is they're trying to hire new people. No one will work for less than like $30, $40 an hour literally in Chicago land because things are so expensive, like jobs that paid $20, $25 an hour starting, they can't fill. And that's just... I mean, people will not work for less than $30, $40 an hour. My dad said to me yesterday two days ago when Chipotle racked up that they're going to be charging paying $15 an hour at Chipotle, inflation's here, man, in a big way for sure. Teddy, we appreciate the update as always, the education, man. We look forward to talking to you next week. Cool, sounds good. You guys take care. Thanks so much, man. You too.


There are four different complications that are sometimes also referred to as crises that can occur in patients with sickle cell anemia or sickle cell disease. Number one is vaso-occlusive crisis and that is because of the clumping of the sickle cells in the blood vessels that can then occlude a blood vessel and cause decreased perfusion to a distal part of whatever that blood vessel feeds. The second type of a crisis is an aplastic crisis where the bone marrow now is not able to produce red blood cells and therefore we just don't have these red blood cells available in patients with sickle cell disease so that already have a low number of red blood cells and also red blood cells that don't function properly. Crisis number three would be a sequestration crisis where the spleen gets congested with the sickle red blood cells that are trying to recycle throughout the body and then all these mediators and the volume accumulates in the spleen and the spleen just cannot function right and because of that volume that accumulation of fluid in the spleen the patient overall will become hypovolemic and it can all the way lead to hypovolemic shock. The fourth type of crisis is a hemolytic crisis where these fragile and stiff sickle cells are sent to the liver for recycling because they've broken apart and now the liver becomes congested and is unable to process these fragile and broken apart red blood cells and therefore these red blood cells lies and it can lead to an increase in bilirubin levels. Please head on over to my full YouTube video to check out all the details about sickle cell anemia.


Hello, I am Avijit Dutta from IAI TCG Christ and today I am going to present our paper Permutation-Based EDM and Inverse-Free Beyond-Birding Bomb Secure PRF. It is a giant work which Mithul Nandi and Supritathagnikar. In 1988, Lubey and Rakoff in their seminal paper showed how to construct a pseudo-random permutation from pseudo-random functions. Since then, many practical block ciphers, for example Camelia, Ghost, etc., have been designed under the Lubey-Rakoff framework. However, block ciphers are designed to work on fixed-land strings. Therefore, to process variable-land strings, we generally use different modes of operations, which are built on top of block ciphers. From the security perspective, we seek for the PRF security from these modes of operations. Therefore, at one extreme, we have a mode of operation, which are based on block ciphers, and at the other end, we require its PRF security. To bridge this gap, one can think of to build mode of operations out of PRFs instead of block ciphers. But PRF is rarely available in practice, compared to the block ciphers, because building non-invertible round functions, which are iterated over multiple rounds to construct PRF, is basically harder to design than designing invertible round functions. Moreover, most of the modes of operations, although they are built on top of block ciphers, but they never evaluate the block cipher in the inverse direction. Therefore, summarizing above, we can conclude that pseudo-random function as a primitive is a better choice over pseudo-random permutation. In fact, if we instantiate the counter mode of encryption with a PRF instead of a PRP, then it will give the optimal security. Nevertheless, due to the PRP-PRF switching lemma, one can argue that the block cipher itself is a good PRF, and hence, one can consider block cipher as a PRF in block cipher-based modes of operation. But this solution comes at the cost of birth amount security, which may not be adequate when the block size of the underlying block cipher is small, for example, of 64-bit block cipher. Therefore, we see that we have plenty of practical block ciphers, but we require practical candidates of PRF that can be used as primitives in modes of operation. We have seen that using block ciphers as primitive is not always a good solution. Therefore, we require to construct PRF out of block ciphers with beyond the birth amount security. Over the years, many such constructions have been proposed. To start with, the first construction, which we call the sum of permutation construction, is a very popular construction, which is block cipher-based PRF that takes an n-bit input, and it gives an n-bit output, which is nothing but the sum of two permutations evaluated at the input x. And it has been shown that this construction is optimal security construction. The other construction, which we call the EDMD construction, it is again based on two independent permutation, but it's a sequential construction. And this construction was proposed in crypto 17 by many candidates, and they have shown that this construction achieves optimal security. The sum of some PIP construction, this construction is again kind of a sum of permutation construction, but instead of two independent permutation, it is the sum of permutation P and its inverse, which is evaluated at a point x. So, x is an n-bit input, and the sum of the outputs of this permutation is considered to be the output of the construction, which is y. And again, this construction has been shown to be secure up to 2 power 2n by 3-bit queries. In crypto 16, Kognitian Syurian has proposed, have proposed their construction, which we call encryptor-device-mere construction. So, this is similar to the EDMD construction. And this construction is again based on two independent permutations P1 and P2. And this construction has been proven to be secure up to 2 power 3n by 4 queries. In fact, the single-kit variant of the EDM construction, it achieves 2n by 3-bit security. Single-kit EDMD construction achieves 2n by 3-bit security. The other construction, which has recently been proposed by Konsing and Manning, which we call the summation-translation hybrid technique. And in this construction, it takes an n-bit input and it truncates the leftmost a-bits of the output of the permutation, which is evaluated at x concatenate 0 and x concatenate 1. And then it sums the remaining discarded inputs, that is, n-a-bit outputs of the permutation, which is evaluated at x equal to 0 and x equals to 1. And eventually, it reduces n plus a-bit output. And this construction has been shown to be secure up to n minus a by 2-bit security, where n minus a is the number of discarded bits of the permutation P. So, block-cell filter is basically considered to be a workhorse of symmetric cryptography. And it is a very good primitive of different kinds of modes of operation. But beside that, we have another cryptographic object, which is considered to be as good as block-cell filter as a primitive in different types of modes of operation, which we call as a permutation or a public permutation. So, block-cell filters, as a primitive, are designed to be efficient in both directions. Whereas, public permutations are particularly designed to be fast in the forward direction, but not necessarily in the inverse direction. For example, KJI, Kimli, Spongenet, etc. One of the important distinguishing characteristics between the block-cell filter and the public permutation is that, when we employ a block-cell filter in a mode of operation and at each time of invocation of the block-cell filter, the underlying key scheduling algorithm of the block-cell filter needs to be evaluated. Whereas, for a permutation-based design, we do not need to invoke the key scheduling algorithm of the permutation because permutation does not employ the key scheduling algorithm at all. Moreover, all the block-cell filter-based PRFs that we know of, they evaluate the block-cell filter in only in the forward direction. They do not evaluate the block-cell filter in the inverse direction. So, from this perspective, we can say that block-cell filter is somehow an over-engineering primitive for those modes of operation that do not invoke the inverse of the block-cell filter. And in those situations, we can think that public permutation is a better choice over block-cell filter as a primitive. So, next the question that arises that can we design permutation-based PRF? So, the use of public permutation has been noted in the design of sponge type of construction and the sponge type of construction has had a different motto of designing authenticated encryption and hash function because the way the sponge function evaluates, it takes a less amount of, you know, hardware area or less amount of size, state size. So, however, that one can easily tweak that sponge construction to convert it to a PRF. For example, if you just imply a key to the sponge construction, then different type of keyed sponge construction and this fall-fall construction, these are the two prominent examples of a permutation-based PRF. But an inherent drawback of this permutation-based PRF is that they are of variable length and their security is only up to the birth-bound of the capacity of the underlying permutation. That means the security of the resulting PRF does not exploit the entire state size of the permutation. It is only up to the capacity part birth-bound of the capacity part of the permutation. Well, this solution may be adequate enough when the underlying permutation is of moderate size. Say for example, if it's a sharp permutation which is of 1600 bits, then the solution is enough. But it is not useful with lightweight permutation, for example, photon or sponge net. Therefore, can be designed as pseudonym function based on public permutation that achieves beyond the birth-bound security. So, this line of research has started with the work of Chen and Menink, Chen et al. with their popular construction which we call the sum of even-managed construction and some of key alternating cipher. So, these two constructions were proposed in crypto 19. So, sum of even-managed construction is taking two independent permutations and two independent nbit keys and it is just out taking the zorg of the output of P1 and P2. So, this construction achieves 2n by 3bit security pound and that pound is essentially tied because they have given a corresponding matching attack. However, if you make these two permutations identical or these two keys identical, then the resulting construction can only give you the birth-bound security. The other constructions proposed in the same paper is known as the sum of key alternating ciphers. So, sum of key alternating ciphers is somewhat sequential based construction. So, when this P1 and P2 are same or identical, then they term it as a SOKC1 and when the underlying keys are same, then they term it as a SOKC21. It has been shown that SOKC21 is 2n by 3bit secure and that security bound is tied and Chen et al. in the same paper have shown that there is a birth-bound attack on SOKC1. However, later in Euroquip 20, Nandi has shown a birth-bound distinguishing attack on SOKC21 and Chakraborty et al. in FSE 2020, shown a distinguishing attack on SOKC1 with query complexity 2n by 3. Most importantly, Chakraborty et al. have pointed out some kind of dispute in the attacking algorithm of SOKC1 and they have shown that the attack still works with 2n by 3 query complexity. But again, the bound has not been proven to be tied. So, proving the security bound of SOKC1 up to 2n by 3 many queries remains open. So, these two constructions, so what we have seen that SOKC21 when these keys are same, so that is a birth-bound secure constructions, fine. So, we have only the SOKC1 that means this P1 and P2, these two are identical and that construction is achieving the attack complexity of 2n by 3 but that has not been proven to be secure up to 2n by 3 many query complexity. So, therefore, now we ask the question that can we design a permutation-based pseudonym function with a single key? To this end, Chakraborty et al in FSE 2020 have proposed their construction which we call the PDM map and they have shown that this construction achieve a tied 2n by 3 bit security bound. And one can easily turn this construction to a non-space map and they call it as a PDM star map and that also achieves the similar security bound. However, their construction employs a permutation P and its inverse and that employs two permutation calls. So, in the paper, they have proposed an open problem that can be designed a BBBCQRPRM with one permutation and two forward calls.  So, what remains open that can be designed a BBBCQRPRM with two permutations, with one permutation but with two forward calls. Here is our construction that actually solves that open problem and we proposed our construction which we call permutation-based in cryptotubism construction. We have shown that this construction requires two independent nbit keys but it is based on a single permutation and it requires only the forward calls, no inverse calls and we have shown a tied 2n by 3 bit security bound of this construction. It does not require the inverse of the permutation and we believe that if we make all the underlying round keys to be the same, that means if k1 equals to k2 then also this construction will hold the BBBCQRPRM but well that may require some strong variance of some advanced results of some capture. Here is a brief comparison chart between different type of permutation-based PRF construction. So, the constructions which are highlighted in blue, so these constructions are parallel construction and the remaining constructions are the sequential constructions. So, out of this sequential construction we can see that PDMAC is one such construction that does not require the inverse call of the permutation whereas other construction does not require the inverse call of the permutation but this SoKSE1 or SoKSE2 or PDM they require say for example SoKSE21, so we will obsolete this SoKSE21 because it is actually giving you the but the bound security but for SoKSE1 it is having the one permutation and two keys but it has been shown to have the attack complexity of order to power 2n by 3. But we have not been able to prove the upper bound of the security of this construction. So, PDM is the only such construction till now which achieves a tight security bound of 2 power 2n by 3 and it requires one permutation and two keys. So, let us see briefly the rationale of the attack on our construction. So, the main thing of the attack on our construction is the following that if we make a construction query with say x and the output is y and if there are two primitive queries such that the first permutation the first call the input to the first permutation call collides with some input of the primitive query and the corresponding output of the construction query the corresponding output of the second permutation call collides with the output of some another primitive query that means what we will do that for each key value k1 we will check whether this conditions or this equation satisfies that means x plus u1 equals to k1 and y plus k1 equals to some v2. So, we will we will find out or we will we will construct a set sk1 for each k1 and in this set sk1 we will we will keep the record of the strip net ij and k that means xi plus uj equals to some k1 and yi equals to yi plus vk. Then for each k1 such that that the cardinality of the set sk1 is at least 2 we will check this following condition whether it holds or not if it holds then we say that the k1 is a potentially true candidate key and that candidate key we will add towards set which is called a matcal k okay and our claim is that if k1 star and k2 star are the pair of true keys then the probability that k1 star belong to this set k is at least 0.687 which is at least rather than half and the probability of the cardinality of k is at least 128 is at most 0.5 we have shown that the time complexity of our attack is ordered up to power 4 when so it is not a computationally very efficient attack it's kind of an information theoretic attack and the number of construction and for that information theoretic attack the number of construction queries that we require is 2 power 2n by 3 plus 1 and the number of primitive queries that we require is to power 2n by 3 plus 2 so we briefly go to the sequence model and h coefficient technique so h coefficient technique is a combinatorial tool to distinguish to bound the distinguishing advantage of two random systems so here a is an adversary who is interacting in either of the two worlds in real world or in the ideal world so in real world comprised of two oracles fpk and the permutation p and the ideal world is comprised of again two oracles a random function and the permutation p so this adversary is so if the adversary is interacting with a real world then it will it can interact with the pair of these oracles similarly if it interacts with the ideal world then it will interact with this pair of oracles and finally after interacting with the oracle the adversary has to distinguish that whether he has interacted with the real world or the ideal world and in this way we will define the advantage of the adversary a in distinguishing the real world from the ideal world as the sum of as the difference of these two probability and to to upper bound this advantage of this adversary a by using the H coefficient technique we require to identify or we require to do this following three things first of all we require to identify the back transcript then we require to upper bound the probability of back transcripts in the ideal world and then if we take any good transcript then we will need to lower bound the ratio of the real to ideal interpolation probability for that good transcript okay so what is the transcript transcript is nothing but a summary of the interaction between the adversary and the oracle okay so in order to prove the security of the of our construction we require a sum capture lemma so sum capture lemma is a very old result proposed by babai in 2002 which roughly says that if is a random subset of zero one power n then for any bc where b and c are again two two subsets of zero one power n this cardinality of this set that means the cardinality of this triplet abc such that a equals to b plus c that is less than this term the the product of the cardinality of ab and c over two power n is is very small okay so at this this result sum capture lemma which is proposed by chain and all it's just a quick version of the original sum capture lemma and this was used in 2014 by the result of chain et al which says that this a this random subset of zero one power n it arises from the interaction of an adversary with a random permutation p namely a is the sum of x plus y where x is the input and y is the output of a trans of our interaction then for any subset b and c of zero one power n this the the cardinality of this set that means x plus y and b and c such that x plus y equal to b b plus c it is at most q times b the cardinality of b and the product of the b and c over two power n is very is very low okay now we briefly go to the stage of the security proof where we will identify the bad events so the first bad event says that if we have a construction query say x comma y such that the input to the first permutation called collides with the input of a primitive query and the output to the second permutation called collides with the output of any other primitive query see if this happens then actually the middle part is known to the adversary similarly bad 2 says that if we have two construction query such that for the first construction query say x and y so this the for the first construction query the input to the first permutation call collides with the input of some primitive query and the output collides with the output of some other construction query the third bad event says that if there is a construction query such that the input to the first permutation call collides with the input of some primitive query therefore this output is determined so that will be v okay and therefore the input to the second permutation call that means v plus u plus k2 that again collides with the input of some other primitive query that means it's a simultaneous collision to the primitive query so similarly so bad 4 is basically again the asymmetric or a mirror image of the event back three that means if there's a construction query x comma y and the output of the output of the second permutation call collides with the output of some primitive query and therefore this input is determined and therefore the output of the first permutation call again collides with the output of some other primitive query so bad 5 says that if the input of the first permutation call so we have again another two construction query so the input of the first permutation call collides with the input of some primitive query and the input to the second permutation call for this construction query x y that collides with x prime so that collides with the input of the first permutation call for the another construction query so bat 6 is again a mirror image of the bat 5 which says that we have two construction query x y and x prime y prime such that the input to the sorry the output to the second permutation call collides with the output to the primitive the output of the primitive query and therefore the output of the first permutation call for this first construction query collides with the output of the second permutation call of the other construction query so bat 7 says that we have two primitive two construction queries such that see the first construct the input to the first permutation call of the first construction query collides with the the input to some primitive query and for the other construction query, the input to the first permutation called collides with the input to some other primitive query, say u1 prime and there and for those two construction queries, the input to the second permutation called collides. That means we have these two construction queries x, y and x prime y prime such that x plus k1 which is the input to the first permutation call that collides with the input to some primitive query which is u1. Similarly, we have the input to the first permutation call for the other construction query which is x prime plus k1 that collides with the input of some other primitive query say u1 prime and therefore the corresponding input to the second permutation call which is say v1 plus u1 plus k2 that collides with v1 prime plus u1 prime plus k2. Again, bad 8 is just a mirror image of bad 7. So here is a bad 9. This says that the number of construction and primitive query such that the input to the first permutation call collides with the input to some primitive query, this set should not be too much. So the cardinality of this set should if it is at least greater than square root of q then it is bad. Similarly, bad 10 is the mirror image of bad 9 where it is the restriction imposed on the output set. So bad 11 says that the number of colliding queries such that y equals to y prime so the number of colliding queries should not be too much. So if it is like greater than square root of q then we will call that the event is bad. This requires some additional bad events and these bad events will be required to lower bound the real interpolation probability for good transcripts. So the most difficult part of this paper is the analysis of the good transcript and we will not go into the detail of it but we will try to give a very high level overview of the proof technique that we have used here. So first of all we will partition the set of transcripts into three sets and this set of transcript so we will partition it into three sets. The first type says that the set of transcript whose input collides with the input of some primitive queries. The second one says the set of transcript whose output collides with the output of some primitive queries and the third one is the set of transcript whose input and output are fresh. So the analysis of the first two cases is easy more or less but the analysis of the third case is the most difficult one. So in order to analyze the third one so we again subdivided into two parts. So in case A we will partition this set of transcripts whose input and output are fresh. We will partition it in case A and case B where in case A it says there are set of transcripts where the input to the second permutation collides with the input to the first one. That means we have say for example so we have say suppose this x, y and x prime y prime suppose for the time being we will assume that the input and output of this two permutation are fresh right but here it may so happen that this input to the first permutation call that means x plus k1 so px1 so sorry so input to the second permutation call for this construction query that means this this part so this collides with this okay so that means p of x plus k1 plus k2 plus x plus k1 that collides with x prime plus k1 if this happens then the output we cannot sample the output the output is determined and case B we will analyze with the remaining set of transcripts. So analysis for case A that means where the there's a dependency between the permutation calls so for analysis of case we will count for the number of transcript that satisfies this case A and that will fix a t many input output pairs for the permutation where t is the number of pairs that satisfying this this this equation and for the analysis of case B we will identify this intermediate value z and we will we will identify that this z should be valid and we will count the number of such valid or good set and for a fixed good set we will count the number of permutation that realizes this given transmit so in order to conclude this paper so in this paper we have shown that we have proposed an inverse free public public permutation base prf in more or less sequential mode and it achieves type security bound roughly of the order of 2 power 2 n by 3 many queries and we believe that the beyond that the bound security of this construction will remain whole even if the round keys are identical that means even if k1 equals to k2. So thank you for listening this talk and if you have any query you can send an email to any one of us. Thank you.


Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at steel from Rasmus. Now. What is steel at its core? It's a nail bend three different sizes of nails that you'll be able to bend either through mentalism or strength Right in front of your spectator. In fact, you can even pass on your magical power to your spectator And they can even do the nail band sound exciting. Let's watch the trailer. I don't even know Oh Try to bend it No chance because you don't have the power to bend today solid steel. Okay, but I want to give you the power now watch Try again Just Yeah So that was steel and Rasmus I'm really excited to share this magical review for you because it's just such an awesome trick a couple questions We always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what's in the box? What's in the box?  You're gonna get 10 80 millimeter nails.   Alright, so is it what I thought? It's exactly what I thought It's it's a nail bending trick. It's nails that bend I mean, I think the ad copy is really straightforward about what you're getting and that really is what you're getting There's no lies. There's no deceit. You are getting Steel nails that Rasmus will teach you how to bend no switching How are the angles the angles on this are flawless because you're not like I said, there's no switching There's no switching. There's no ditching. So there's nothing to hide You can do everything right in front of your spectator Rasmus is gonna show you just a ton of really cool ideas on how to do this nail bend right in front of your spectator Can it be inspected? This is the other great thing about this trick it can totally be inspected and like I said earlier the spectator can actually do the nail bend in their hand and You know, it's it's the convencer Of course you have the convencer nails if you want to use those You can even take the gas nails and hammer them into a block of wood. They even pass that inspection So that's awesome and and so and don't think in the inspectability You know you say well I can let the spectator keep the nail and I'm worried that they're gonna go home and bend it some more And then they'll realize it's just a bendable nail that's not going to happen That's not going to happen because the magic, okay The magic is in the technique of the nail bend. All right, you're learning the technique your spectator doesn't know the technique They're gonna try to bend it like you would bend it But you don't bend these nails through strength you bend it through just knowing how to do it It's more about leverage and and Rasmus is gonna teach you that information your spectator won't have that information So literally you bend them and you can't bend them back All right, you couldn't take it and bend it back the other way that would take more strength than most people have in their hands I don't think anybody could do it So I don't think there's any worry about inspectability with the trick going home with anyone either all right So what's taught on the DVD you got Marc Lavelle and you have Rasmus and they're sitting like in a living room Environment they're sitting on a couch and they're covering all of the basics how to bend Every single type every single size of nail you got various routines. You got different presentations Tips and advice about how to bend the small one how to get the leverage on the small one These nails are totally versatile and they will serve your needs. Well, is it well made? Getting the box in opening it up. These aren't like plastic rubbery nails. These are real steel nails It looks like you just bought a box of nails In fact go to the hardware store and buy a box of nails and then put your gas nails in that box It's just an even deeper convinced. I don't think anyone will believe That these are magic nails. I think they will be convinced that they're real nails How much practice does this require? I would say practice, okay?  It's not hand strength. It's it's more about leverage It's more about technique not your strength not your personal strength So your spectators like I said, they won't know what to do So you should practice on all three sizes just so that you know How to do each one how much setup and reset is there zero? Like I said, you bend them. You can't bend them back.  It's one of the positives to steal I think Rasmus has given the magical world the ultimate nail bend I can't even fathom what a better nail bend would look like All right, so negatives you know like we say around here there's negatives to everything These are just the negatives that I see they don't have to be the negatives that you see Like I said earlier, it's about a dollar a nail dollar a nail makes it a pretty expensive trick But you're doing an impossible thing talk about an impossible object trick You are showing them an impossible thing nobody can bend nails with their bare hands. Okay, that's you can't do it All right, so that in and of itself It might sound like a negative and you do have to practice You're gonna waste some and no don't think that well if I bend it I can just bend it back you can't bend them back. Okay, so you spend them and they're wasted and so You'll have to buy refills. Okay, so if that's a negative for you, I don't know But you will have to buy Refills the good news is the refills are available in the different sizes So let's just say between the large and the medium and the small you end up liking the medium better You can just buy a box of medium next time and you don't have to worry about the other two All right, so the bad news is really good news Who would like this? I think anybody that wants to do the easiest most magical looking nail bend ever Would like this. All right, so that is steel from Rasmus And I want to thank Murphy's magic for allowing me to have this trick so that I could do the review for you And if you would like to purchase this trick for yourself, you can find it from your very favorite Murphy's magic retailer. Thanks. Bye


Rwy'n meddwl, hanes y FPNCIO o'r ffuntiwg global yw Shell International. Mae'r ffuntiwg Shell yn 1979 i'r ffuntiwg IT. Mae'r ffuntiwg wedi'i ffuntiwg i'r ffuntiwg i'r ffuntiwg i'r ffuntiwg i'r ffuntiwg i'r ffuntiwg i'r ffuntiwg i'r ffuntiwg i'r ffuntiwg IT. Bydd favourite mae'r ffuntiwg o'n astud o'r ffuntiynau globalion i'r ffuntiwg songwr.ILวad y 당, gallwn oghmapsdiad y Llywodraeth yn Clearwyd. ac mae'n ddweud hefyd. Aberdeen, bod yn bwysig o'r oedol, ac Gwbarn, mae'n ddweud, mae'n cymdeithasol, mae'n cael ei chael, mae'n cymdeithasol, mae'n cael ei wneud cyffredig o'r gweithgwyr. Roedd yng Nghymru yn ymhobos a'u ddaeth i gael i'r gweithgol a'r bwysig o'r ddefnyddio i ddweud hefyd I miss the bit of the... Garlwst iddo. In case we have an evacuation now where we could go, so hopefully you caught a little green signs in your head. One thing I like to reflect on is, is something not working? You dropped it? I dropped it. Fortunately I have got a loud voice. Yes, you're doing well. There you go sir. I can pocket, maybe. I was recently in San Francisco for a week ..yneb yn gweithio rhai o'r siflirau. Byddwch yn gweithio'r bwysig yma y sôn o'r llyfr yng ngwynhau. Ac rwy'n rwy'n gweithio'n gwisio'n gweld iawn. A'r llyfr drwy'n gweithio'r bwysig mae'n yn ei dweud o'r wych... ..yna'r tymeth yn gweithwyr ac rwy'n gweithwyr.. ..yna'r ffordd o'r gweithwyr. A'n cael ei wneud yno'r tymeth yn gweithwyr yng Nghymru.. ..idw'n cael ei ddechrau i'w cwyl yn gweithwyr. Mae cerddwydd wedi chi'n gweld y data Cymru i gyd yn adeiladu mai gynnwys rhan, wedi'u'n gwybod addysg gyda chi wedi'u cyhoeddiog. Felly ond gwelio eu cyhoeddiogol yn ei sgiliau o rhan a gwiswch, ac rhai cael ei ddweud o gwasanaeth. Mae'r cyhoeddiogol wedi'i cael ei ddweud rhan i chi, byddai'n gwybod am y ffordd y gwirionedd neu ymgyrchu i ddweud ac ydw Ie corresponding. Ond byddwch yn ddiddordeb arall, felly if you can't get your fundamentals working well, you can't liberate resources to do the real stuff which will give you competitive ad or move up vertically. The other thing I was really delighted to hear, I was thinking about myself, well I'm very close to retirement. It's very easy to step out of the company, actually do some interesting stuff. So perhaps a few light bulbs for me to start my own business. I've also had the privilege of being in this business for about 40 years. I still remember the first computer I worked on was a 75, it was a cyber from the CDC company. It was half a megabyte memory, so it looked a bit like the 5 megabyte drive you saw early on in the picture.  So needless to say that I have seen an enormous change and I talk to younger people today. I say change is not something of the last five years has been with us for the last 40 years and that makes it very exciting to work in. In my capacity as Global Functions CIO, I look after 20 functions in Shell. They're all globally organized and IT actually is one of them and it's the largest. So when I joined or went into my role, I quite quickly bumped into Carl von Zeeland, our lead architect. He had this vision and said to me basically, Hans, can you support it? Because I think we've got a great gap to fill here. He had a very convincing story and so since 2011 I've had the privilege to support him and the early work on this. I'm personally very excited about that we are now at the stage that we can launch a forum because my belief is that we need more parties to contribute to what I think is going to be essentially a very important pit of standardization work. We need to have it. I'll come back to that earlier on. Or later on, sorry. We didn't quite start in 1911, by the way, it was 2011 Chris. It did take some incubation time to get where we are. A full century, I think. Good. I will give a bit of context. I'll tell you a bit about Shell and IT in Shell to, I guess, make the business case for us a bit alive. So bear with me. I'll take a few minutes to talk about Shell. And in case you would decide to either sell or buy Shell stock after my story, you're on your own. That's what it basically says. It's a waiver. I will not give you the time to read it, but believe me, we need to put this in. So what is Shell? I hope to acknowledge it will work. It does. Shell is effectively it's got two parts, an upstream and a downstream part. For those who are not familiar to the old company, it starts with looking for oil and gas, developing it, exporting it, and then it goes into the downstream world where we're talking about transition, transport and bringing it to the market. A simple picture, quite complex business, if you think about the fact that we drill wells in 2,000 to 3,000 depth of sea. We put big installations in place and suckling the cyber area. And I'll talk about some of our innovations later on. So that's Shell and not Shell. It is truly a global organization, as you all will know. We employ about 87,000 people, actually all our payrolls, if we would actually count all the people who actually work for us, we're probably more than a million. And we have a tradition of working through many suppliers and we'll continue to do so. So that's also the case with IT, by the way. Two thirds of our labour force are from suppliers and probably even a bit larger. I would like to focus on the 1.3 billion we spent on R&D. We believe we only have a competitive place if we can actually keep innovating in the area where we're already working. And we have got a pretty decent track record, if you think about it. We were the first to do LNG any big way. LNG is about liquefying a fraction of gas, then transporting it to the market. We were the first to do deep water drilling, and so we went into the Mexican Gulf as one of the first players. And recently we've gone live with a big GTL plant, which is converting gas into liquids again at first. That's only possible if we actually invest significant dollars. IT plays a quite a specific role in there, and we have actually got a separate department doing innovation work, so they're not hindered by the rest of our organisation as it were. That's a bit, by the way, which is intellectual property. We will not put in any kind of standard. That's where we want to compete. But the lion's share of our IT business is non-competitive and just good table stakes. The last thing I want to say about these statistics is 3.3 million bells of equivalent per day. Half of that actually is gas these days. It's probably around 3 or 4% of oil production, so it's not that big, but still significant in size. Some people think of us as a sunset industry, and here's a clear link with, I think, Magnus. If you just look at some of the statistics presented here, in 2050 we'll have 2 billion extra people on the globe. We will have probably twice the number of vehicles. A lot of people are not using energy these days or not substantially. We'll move into the next stage as well. So that will mean that we will double energy consumption in this span of period. We would have to meantime have our COT emissions to keep the environment sober or clean. And we'll have to become twice as efficient. Of course renewables will play a place, and God knows what else. Think about a little bacteria. But hydrocarbons will take a significant share of that if you just look at the extrapolating our demand. So we're very much, I think, a crucial player in a sector which is going to be very important for the future of the world economy. And quite a big challenge which will require a lot of out-of-the-box thinking. So how does IT for us sit in Shell? Probably again a few statistics. Needless to say that IT for IT in Shell is business in its own right. We spend about $4.7 billion a year on IT. And you can see from the statistics how sizeable the landscape and applications we look after. And the story behind all of these data. I just want to give you a sense of how important IT for IT is for Shell. Because it's significant amount of money. And of course we have a reliant as well. Just to pick up one figure, we have 8,000 applications. 500 of them are business critical. Which means that they're out of business for more than four hours. Something stops. So it's obviously a lot of attention to make sure that we start up within a few hours when we actually have a problem. I think the 20,000 virus attacks per day is also interesting statistic. Just to highlight the challenge we have in that space. And it's not only virus attacks we're subject to. So again I think an interesting statistic. So what are the key challenges in this world? And just pay your attention to the picture in the background. Which is the sprawling city of Mexico. And probably an example of what happens if you lose control of your asset base. And that's why I've chosen that background. If you look at the key challenges increasing demand and growing asset base we run about 1,000 projects per year. You imagine every project potentially adds infrastructure, adds middleware, adds licenses. So that by itself is a big challenge. A rapidly advancing technology, you've heard a lot of this disruptive technology which is a word I'm not allowed to use anymore since I've listened to Marcus this morning. But anyway, your cloud services, mobility, consumerisation, things of internet. Think about the in-memory computing. There's so much happening at the moment. So the landscape is changing dramatically. Increasing number of players. If you look at the number of suppliers we were working with 10 years ago. Actually our core system has got 12 suppliers. We see that rapidly expanding to all sorts of people. We've also got a value proposition for the company. And the business has become increasingly dependent on our services. So I already mentioned the example of the 500 business critical systems. I don't have to say much about increasing risk including cybercrime. You can read about that every day in the week. Business requires rapid deployment. It's interesting that we have increasingly IT aware community in the company. We basically demand that we respond as an IT function quickly.  And that's the beginning of a disaster thinking about the sprawling city. Actually we have quite a number of business managed applications and obviously we're paying a lot of attention to that. And then probably last but certainly least the increasing cost pressure. Under this growth we see a huge growth or significant growth of our base cost. We've taken a lot of costs out over the last 10 years but in spite there of the base cost rise actually overwhelms that. And as the company is not prepared to spend more than a particular limit it starts crowding out our investments. So we need to think about the clever way of bending the base cost curve and making sure that we continue to invest as well. This points at a huge integration problem is the way I would say it. I think GeoGurria has given a very elegant example of the connections you have to make in this world. It's interesting that ironically I would almost say that we've invested in big ERP platforms for our business with a full integration proposition. However for IT we have not put any solution in place. So we're still working with spreadsheets and all sorts of loosely connected applications struggling to make sense of the end-to-end lifecycle of our IT products and services. Shell's IT strategy in very simple terms has three bands. One is about delivering business outcomes. The three pillars in that, the technology bit which is very much the property stuff where we really want to make a difference. Think about processing of seismic data etc. Of course we want to deliver our projects successfully. And we want to drive value with our existing platforms. And of course it's a lot about data and process analytics and so on. At the end of the road the fundamentals are all around making sure we have reliable and secure systems. And you should actually probably add affordable to that as well. And then we cannot do that without people, partners and a community. We have as I said already 12 eco system partners. And I see this as a community as well. Which will be complementary to what it is we're trying to do. All in all I would say that we're taking much more of a portfolio approach than we have had in the past. We used to look at investments and then looking after them when they sort of matured. We're now looking at our portfolios per function and per business to make sure that we see the cost of value and the risks looked after properly. Which means that we make a new investment. We also need to take stuff out otherwise we can't manage our base cost. So that brings me to my last and probably most important slide is what's the case for action in terms of launching this IT for IT forum. And I always think that pictures tell a lot about where it is we want to go. If you think about a scrolling city that's not where we want to be because that's uncontrollable. We want to get to a neatly organized town in which we have full control. Think about overall cost value proposition also security. So we fundamentally believe that most of the work we're doing IT doesn't give us a comparative edge. And so it makes a sense to share what we are doing in this space with other companies. And so we have started on that journey in 2011. We believe that if you look at the little red diagram it actually describes in simpler terms what a management system would look like through the full life cycle. It's going to be adamant that we have full visibility of cost and for those who have been involved in creating that in our business you know how difficult it is. Probably even more importantly we need to know what value effectively our applications deliver. And then we've got also this performance reliability and security challenge. So creating a management system around this we believe will be a great value proposition not only for us but for many in the room and we're very pleased to see a number of parties already voting where their feet. So in summary standards will help us mature our industry and deal with the new challenges which I described to you. It will create a common language so we can share best practices. It will further advance our professionalism. And of course ultimately and somebody was asking me to how long will that take we will have a common platform so if we have the service provided or we buy a bit of software it all fits in what we already have so we don't have to worry about integrating at all. That's probably a vision which will be five or ten years ahead but I think the benefits of getting into this open dialogue I see will be quite immediate. And so I'm really looking forward entering the dialogue with yourselves and really invite you to participate in this forum because I cannot see how you can do with that and frankly or you could keep trying to find your own solutions and I suggest that getting into this arena together with other companies that would be of great benefit to your companies as well. So thank you for that.


Well, thanks a lot. So the eighties have finished a very successful season. There is absolutely no denying that. But do they have to win the World Series to make it a real successful season? I think we all know we live in a what have you done for me lately sports world. I personally, I think it's been a great season. Nothing's going to happen between now and the end of the year to take away from that. But we all know how teams are judged at the end of the day. There's only one happy team at the end of this. Everybody else has that negative feeling going away. And that's why you get up in the morning. That's why you go to spring training that you try to be the last team standing. And believe me, that's on everybody's minds. Do you think it's more so with the Yankees because of the legacy of George Steinberg who said if we don't win the World Series the season's a failure? You know, certainly that was a part of it, but that's not what drives guys. Guys want to get up, they want to be a part of that. They want to be not watchers, they want to be participators. They want to be put on that stage and be put in that arena and that microscope. And I think that's where they're still operating from. Well, in spring training, the Yankees set as one of their goals. They wanted to win the American League East. They were tired of going through that cauldron of the wildcard game, but the wildcard game gives you a game to play either on Tuesday or Wednesday. The Yankees after today, they don't play again until Friday. Those four days off, Buck, what do they do? Well, first of all, we'll leave that in Aaron's hands. He's made a lot of great decisions this year, but I think they'll end up giving him Monday off and probably Tuesday, Wednesday. But the workout the last day is kind of like a dress rehearsal.  It's probably one more day than you'd like. You'd like to have it somewhere in that three range because you're traveling a little bit, you got an off day, you want to get your advanced reports, trying not to get overthink it, which is very, you're susceptible to this time of year. You know, let's keep in mind how we got here, but also understand how different the postseason is. It's a whole different cat. It's every game is like the seventh game. You got to try to win that game and worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. If you get too far ahead of yourself, it'll bite you.  Baseball players are creatures of habit. They're used to playing every single day.  How intense can the sim games get and how can they simulate real baseball? They can't. Okay. You know, really the off days after the all star game are more challenging than these. They've been playing too long and that's why guys like, you see Stan and Cardon Sion can come back. It shouldn't be that big a deal this late in the year because you've got too much training and physically. You just, are you repeating things? I don't worry about the days off this time of year. And guess what? Minnesota's got the same challenge. So nobody's got an advantage over anybody. Now, let's talk about the Minnesota Twins. This is a good twins team. Now you look at the history, the Yankees have always dominated the twins, but that's your father's twins team. This is a different twins team. A big home run hitting team. The bullpen's pretty good. Starting pitching maybe a little bit short. What do you see in the twins? What are the biggest challenges? Well, I think, you know, I think the home run, if you dwell too much on the home runs with the Yankees and the twins, you're going to miss it. Good pitchers don't give up a lot of home runs and good pitchers are in the post season. So don't think for a second that this is, they're just going to hit six or seven home runs tonight. Because I think they're going to go with two starting pitchers. I don't think they're going to use three. I think you're going to see a lot of bullpen work. They got a left-handed closure, which is always good, that doesn't play necessarily well against the Yankees because they're so right-handed. But they're good defensive teams. Teams that are good defensively are the ones, if you look at all 10 teams, they're above average defense. And I think people miss that. Minnesota's going to catch a baseball. I love Nelson Cruz. He brings a lot of things to that club that they were in need of. And it's a little engine that could. Well, it all starts on Friday at Yankee Stadium. It should be a great American League Division series. Back to you.