A political assassination in July in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is yet another instance of the instability and chaos that the regime of President Felix Chesikedi has unleashed. What lies ahead for this country? The FIFA Women's World Cup continues in Australia and New Zealand and is quite well attended according to reports. What's been happening on the pitch and outside? We'll be looking at these stories in today's Daily D-Breathe, but as always, do hit that subscribe button if you haven't already. And on with the show. We go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, where opposition leader Sherubin Okende was assassinated a couple of weeks ago. Okende was an associate of Moise Katumbi, a former ally of the president, Felix Chesikedi. But now Katumbi might contrast against him in the national elections in December. Now, Chesikedi claimed to be a democratically elected president, but his approach has been anything but. And there are even doubts about the conduct of the December elections. We go to Kambale Musawili for more. Kambale, thank you so much for joining us. So it's been a couple of weeks since the assassination of Sherubin Okende and there's a lot of shock at that point of time. So could you maybe take us through what has happened since then, what have been, if any investigation has taken place, and the kind of responses that have come out? The death of Sherubin Okende, who was a member of parliament, was shocking to the entire Congolese people, especially how it happened. He was asked to come to the constitutional court to declare his assets. The court case was supposed to take place on the 13th. So he went on the 12th to try to extend it, ask the court to give him more time for that and asking for a court debt for the 14th. As he went to the court, he never came back home, right? And he was found dead on the 13th with bullets in his body. The police has gone through investigation, they have not clearly presented the cause of death. I mean, a body with bullets clearly was shot and killed. And there have been a witness's account about seeing him in the parking lot of the constitutional courts, also seeing his body guard leaving the car going inside, and then later seeing a truck full of people, some in military clothing, out in plain clothes, kidnapping him. These are allegations being presented by eyewitnesses, investigation has not continued. And the family and including the opposition in the Congo, they are not waiting for what devastation will lead, but who was Cherubero Kende? Cherubero Kende was a member of the political party called Ensemble, which is an opposition party led by a Congolese billionaire named Mois Gatumbi. So you can understand that it's mainly the political class, the political elite running the country with a political party. But they created a block in the opposition. They were first part of the majority in the country. They called it Pinyosake, the sacred union with the regime of Felixi Sekedi. But in last year, sometime at the end of the year, Ensemble, the political party broke away from the coalition. And the leader of the party Ensemble, Mois Gatumbi, decided, he announced that he's going to be a presidential candidate at the next election. Since that has happened, there's been attacked targeting these members. One of his members was arrested. They've claimed that he was allegedly, he had a gun that was not registered. And today, Cherubero Kende, who also left the majority coalition to join Mois Gatumbi in the opposition, has been funded. These are indications that the presidential election that is due at the end of this year is going to be more with a lot of violence. It's going to be more potentially more political assassination, hopefully that won't continue. But clearly, as days go by, we are really worried on how the current regime is literally behaving as the former regime of Joseph Cabela, which is quite astonishing, right? Because the president of the Congo claims, he's a Democrat, claims that he's a progressive on the left somehow. And yet, his regime has repressive methods that we've seen before, arbitrary arrests, political assassination, and abuse of civilians who are protesting. So we can only predict that either the election will not take place due to the unwillingness of the Congolese government to organize it, or that it will be more with a lot of violence at the end of this year of 2024, 2023. Kambali, it's very, it's striking that you say that this reminds me, it reminds you of the violence of the Joseph Cabela years, because at that time we saw so many murders, so many attacks on activists, a lot of horrors. But could you also tell us right now how people are responding in the sense of activists in the society, et cetera, how they're responding to the Shisekete regime and what it's trying to do? Specific for the case of Okende, it's really to compare it to what happened during the Joseph Cabela era. There was an activist, his name was Floriber Chebea. He was called into the police department a few years ago, and as he was called into the police department the next day he was found dead. So this political assassination has taken place in the past. But now for beyond the comparison that's being made about the death of Chebea, Okende with Floriber Chebea, the population in the Congo beyond the elections are tired of the suffering they are facing, the cost of living has increased tremendously. This past week in Kinshasa, there is an activity that started and this activity is called Jeux de la Francophonie. It's almost like the Olympic Games of the Francophonie. The Francophonie is a body of Francophone countries and these Francophone countries, just like the Commonwealth, host some type of games. I think the Commonwealth hosts similar type of changes and so on. So for the first time in the history of Francophonie, this started, was launched in the DRC. So many countries are participating in it. Something very fascinating happened during that time. While the president of the Congo was there, but not only that, while the foreign minister was having a speech at the commencement, at the beginning of the ceremony, while the minister of foreign affairs was having a speech, the people were chanting in the local language stating that they would like the value of the Congolese franc to actually decrease as it is paired to the dollar. One dollar today has increased to 2300 Congolese franc. In the Kabila era, I think around 2016, one dollar was about 900 Congolese franc. So the cost of living has increased tremendously. People have challenges with buying food, with paying rent, with paying electricity, but not only that, in the eastern part of the Congo, we have a town and this town is called Bunangana and the town of Bunangana since last year is no longer in the control of the Congolese government. It's being controlled by a rebel group called the M23. So the political instability, the security of the country, the cost of living, all of those things are actually making the Congolese people really angry. It's not that they had hoped that this government would do something different. Why I'm saying this is because the people of the Congo are clear that they did not elect the president of the Congo today, Felix Cissecchetti. He was announced as the winner of the election, he was presented as the winner. We have evidence today that there was a secret deal between the former president Joseph Cabela and Felix Cissecchetti, a deal to make sure that Joseph Cabela is not arrested or his assets are not frozen, while there will be a coalition between Felix Cissecchetti and Cabela to rule the country. So we know he did not win the election and this was documented in the Gen Afrique, Africa Confidential, even African intelligence around the secret deal signed in front of Egypt, Kenya and South Africa. Now we are moving toward the elections. What do the Congolese people want? The Congolese people want what they wanted in 1885, in 1960, in the 1990s and today. They want to have a say to who is going to lead them. They do not want outside interference. They want to choose their leader and elect them democratically. The only chance they had to elect a leader democratically, and it actually worked, was in 1960, when the democratically elected Patrice Lumumba as the first prime minister of the Congo. Since the assassination of Lumumba by the CIA, Belgium and local Congolese sacophants, Congolese have not been able to choose their leaders. And because they are not being able to choose their leaders and leaders are imposed, these leaders are coming up with neoliberal policies that affect the country tremendously. For example, getting large sum from the World Bank and IMF in terms of billions of dollars, which is not going to have the DRC. If you look at the numbers from the World Bank today with the funding that I have provided the DRC in the past four years, you cannot see the impact it actually has made. They have given Congo over $3 billion. There is no impact. The cost of living is increasing. So we know that this is not working. So the Congolese people will continue to fight until they can choose their leaders. But for the foreseeable future, the challenge is the image that the President of Congo presents to the world. He presents himself as the first democratically elected president of the Congo with peaceful transfer of power. That's an insult to the thousands of Congolese who died during the elections. It was not a peaceful transfer of power. We remember the Luc Kulula, the Rosichi Manga, these young Congolese who were shot and killed in the streets for the case of Luc Kulula, he was burned in his house alive. He died in his house refiring himself. These young people who died to see a democratic election to take place in 2018, it will not be fair to say that this was a peaceful transfer of power and also that it was a democratic election because we know it was rigged. But as Patrice Lumumba said in his last letter, the Congolese will not stop to fight until the last neocolonial agents of imperialists are out of the Congo. And that's what the Congolese people continue to do. And what they are calling for as they are fighting on the inside of the country, they hope that people on the outside of the Congo will join them in this struggle so that they can put pressure on the outside forces while Congolese are dealing with their local compradors. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Kambale for I think giving us the larger picture of what is happening in the DRC right now especially with elections less than half a year away. Thank you so much. For our second story, we head to Australia and New Zealand where the FIFA Women's World Cup is going on. Now, there's been pretty good attendance in many of the matches, which is a positive sign and quite a few close contests, which is also great. Siddharthane, who's in Australia, brings us the latest from the pitch and outside. Siddharthane, thank you so much for joining us. So let's first take a look at what has been happening on the pitch. Quite a few interesting matches, you know, I think the hosts also have been in some interesting situations. So could you maybe first take us through what have been the key matches? Are they going on the lines of pretty much what was expected? Thanks for having me Prashant. Yeah, it's been really interesting as, you know, you were talking about a little bit the last time as well, 32 team tournaments end up in the last round of matches being, you know, quite interesting to watch from a neutral perspective, particularly. And FIFA added a little bit to that drama by sending out an email to the press core a day before saying, you know, in case there are multiple teams that are tied on points and all the other criteria, we'll have a draw of lots, like a coin toss to figure out who goes to the next round. So it was built up as, but from there on, I think, again, tournament football revealed itself. So the strong teams got stronger when there was a clear objective. They've also now spent a bit more time together. The players that is they're used to the kind of systems they want to play. I think one big, big one was Japan versus Spain. Again, both in their own ways, quite power, powerhouses in in in women's football, particularly, but they had an interesting game at the men's World Cup as well in Qatar. And and here it was kind of like a group deciding match. And and with less than a quarter of ball possession, for Shant, Japan ended up four nil winners in that game in a complete, it was a complete sort of tactical masterclass of the perfect game of organized sort of collective football that that you can possibly ask for from from a group of 11, 12, 13 players. So so in that sense, it was interesting to see also some of the Japanese people who are here covering the sport, talking about how different it is from what's happening in domestic politics, where there's a push towards like sort of more polarized kind of approach. The right is is push, you know, there's a sort of conversations around pacifism and those things are happening. Well, but as far as football is concerned, whether it's the men's team, who we were lucky to talk to also in Qatar, and they said they've been learning so much from from the women's sport, because they've actually won the World Cup back in 2011, been in the finals in 2015. So in that sense for Asian football, these are like the torchbearers. And and that's been really great to see that they are maintaining that competitiveness, because other than the Japanese, then the gaps are quite evident between players who are based in Europe and North America and teams which have more of those tend to emerge stronger in the end. So like England was six, six one up over China as we when we started recording. And some of the strong European teams doing well, France have emerged as another very strong contender and a couple of others, but it's quite open and it's going to be a really, really keenly contested round of 16 to come. So if you haven't gotten into the tournament yet, now is a great time to sort of jump on the bandwagon. Right, Siddharth, of course. And as usual, I think it's also for us interesting to take a look at some of the conversations happening outside the pitch as well. You know, tournaments are always a very good time to sort of talk about the larger politics of sport, which otherwise does not get talked about or covered so much. Yeah, yeah, and yeah, not just sport also Prashant, because one of the big conversations right now, of course, and daily debrief, I think is among probably the few of sort of international programming that has covered some of these issues, but whether it's the defamation case of Robert Smith or it's the indigenous voice to parliament. I mean, these are the big talking points in Australia as far as politics is concerned at the moment. And we've seen like now mention of the First Nations names of the old names for these places, Sydney, Gadigal, and all of that. So there's a lot of sort of gesture being made to the First Nations, the indigenous people in Australia. But in terms of how that will play out politically and socially, it's a quite interesting time to have those conversations. And I think some of that is happening also around this tournament because you've had, you know, it's out to an international audience. Those at least some lip service is being paid at the beginning of games and things like that. So it's important also, I think for people, I mean, we have a situation going on in India as well, where tribal communities are involved. So people also get a sense of the similarities that, you know, what different kinds of communities, minority communities around the world are facing. So that way it's been interesting. I mean, also to talk to some of the journalists around here. From a footballing sense, again, the diversity in the audience has been remarkable and it's kind of building on what we saw in Qatar. So well, very mixed, very diverse, lots of sort of age, a big age chunk from very young to quite senior people coming to watch the games and also more than a million people have now been to stadiums to watch the tournament. I mean, you have some 70 or 1000 seat of stadiums selling out when Australia are not even playing. So it kind of reflects also the interest that has emerged as the tournament has gone on and the finals already sold out, for example. So yeah, so it's going to be, again, a couple of interesting more weeks to come. And I think we'll have more updates soon. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Siddhant. I think we'll definitely come back in a few days, especially close to the round of 16 or once it starts to get a sense of some more sense of which are the key teams to watch out for, who are the surprises, etc. Thank you so much for talking to us. And very important that I guess Australia stayed on in the tournament because that would have been a real dampener. New Zealand are out as co-hosts, but at least Australia still being in the tournament keeps the kind of momentum going. So that's another good one. Thank you so much, then. And that's all we have time for in today's episode. 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Hello, welcome to this teaser for a correlated suit around in this from expand accumulate codes by a let boyle. You feel boa. You bother shy. He's a call myself Nicholas rash and Peter Scholl. So this talk concerns multi-party computation when we have say two parties house involved each holding their own private inputs, but unfortunately don't trust each other. However, together they would like to communicate back and forth such that they can compute the value of some function f applied to their private inputs. But they want to do this in such a way that nothing more is leaked about their private inputs. Okay, and for this talk, I'd encourage you just to think of the case of two parties. So this work will fit into the NPC with pre processing paradigm. So what is this basically has been known for many years that if Alice and Bob were given some pre shared randomness which satisfies the useful correlation say from a trusted dealer. And then we could obtain very fast even information theoretically secure NPC protocols, basically by going gate by gate through a circuit describing the function they wish to compute and consuming the randomness as required. However, unfortunately, the traditional methods for actually sharing this required pre shared randomness are very inefficient. And this is actually the main bottleneck and these protocol designs. In the last six or seven years, a new idea has emerged where basically instead of requiring full pre shared randomness, we try to compress it in such a way that maybe after decompressing it, it's only pseudo random, but then this compression of the required pseudo randomness can be much more efficiently shared. So, let's make this a bit more concrete. So, firstly, it was suggested to construct or called pseudo random correlation generators, or basically the idea is that Alice involved. It could use some sort of protocol to share very short C's SA and SB, and then silently with no more communication, they can expand them into longer strings, and these longer strings that will have many instances of the required correlations that they can then use when running their protocol. Now, just as you know, we can go from pseudo random generators to random functions, we can also go to pseudo random correlation functions here basically Alice and Bob will get to keys, K and KB, and then they can get point wise access to say an exponentially long string with a whole correlated randomnesses which they can use while running their protocol. Now, notice that the pseudo random correlation generators all the work is done in the offline phase whereas in pseudo random correlation functions pretty much all the work is done in the online phase, when they have to actually obtain the pre shared So in this work we suggest sort of a more equitable distribution of the work between the offline and the online phase, constructing what we term offline online PCG. So here Alice and Bob will initially share what we call offline keys and then run some silent offline algorithms, which expand their short offline key into some long strings why and why be. And this can be done very efficiently ideally more efficiently than what would be done for a PCG. So for these strings why and why be that they construct are not actually of the desired target correlation. However, when they do need some, some of the randomness from the desired target correlation, they can run a very fast online algorithm, and these online algorithms only require about, you know, say looking up 10 coordinates from why a. And again these online algorithms are done without any communication. So the online phase is also much faster than would typically be the case for a PCF. I'll try to give a brief hint as to how we could construct these things. So let's focus on what we call the bull a correlation, which essentially means that Alice and Bob have an additive secret sharing of a scalar vector product. And it's been known, it's known how to actually compress this. So long as the vector a here that Alice receives is guaranteed to be sparse. So we have some sort of black box, which fits out vectors a C not C one and be satisfying B times a equals C not plus C one. And furthermore a is guaranteed to be sparse, but aside from that they look uniformly random, they look as random as possible. Okay, so what can we do to try to convert this into a genuine bull a instance. Well suppose that we have some linear math age, and we apply it to all the vectors that we obtain. Notice that the output then will still satisfy the be times a equals C not plus C one correlation. And furthermore, assuming H is you know, not to structure doesn't have any weird behavior. So it's just to suspect that H times a will look uniformly random. And indeed this is exactly what the LPN assumption tells you if H is chosen uniformly at random. However, we can try to be a bit more aggressive you know we have some desires in terms of constructing these PCG in terms of efficiency. How could we add maybe some structure to H, while still making this whole thing work. So this is exactly what we do we construct what we call expand accumulate codes, which have very nice desirable properties. So firstly, in the offline phase we just need to basically compute a prefix sum of the vector which we have received, which can be done in parallel and in a very manner by prefix sum I mean the prefix of mod two. So this is a very fast operation. And then later when we need to go online all we have to do is look up say 10 coordinates from the pre computed vector this accumulated vector, and then output there some. So this is a very fast online operation with the locality. For there are more we give some security analysis to say that even if this vector here is farce once we apply this matrix H to it, we have reason to suspect that it looks uniformly random to a computationally arbitrary. Okay, that's all I have time to say. Of course there's some more results in the paper you can view the ICR e print if you like, or I alternatively come see me at crypto and I'd be happy to answer more questions and of course the longer talk will have more details. Thank you.


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I just had been sweeping up a newspaper each you through so I mean Well, I had a friend who works in entertainment, but not really tech Get a hold of me and said can you intro me to Len Peralta? I've seen his work and he's amazing. Oh, that's great Yes, I can I know I was so pleased Oh, I didn't even know that he was looking for a sort of like illustrative work, but he was yeah or is so yeah Hopefully the two of them can work on fun things. I'm sure he's so appreciative of that. Totally. Yeah No, I mean I I didn't even you know, I didn't actually Forage the the Relationship it happened on its own according to the chat room the dog is doing a great job of training you That's what I'm afraid of yeah All right, are you all ready to do a little show here? Yeah Let's do it then I'm gonna start us in 15 seconds reasons I will disclose later No, it's just I'm trying to make it easy to write down the start time that I put in the patreon post So there you go. It's later. I disclosed here. We go Thanks to everyone who supports a daily tech news show directly to find out more and join them because it helps head to Daily tech news show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech news for Thursday August 30th 2018 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio feline I'm Sarah Lane Joining us from CNET. It's great to have Aaron Carson back on the show. How's it going Aaron? It's going well. We are going to talk succulents And petrified wood and And more Jinsing this is all in Aaron's feature story. She did for CNET About ways that national parks are using technology to stop bad behavior kind of right indeed Yeah, it's like a national parks have a little bit of a problem on their hands that they're trying to address to tech And not all of them have solutions in tech So I don't know maybe the combined audience brain power can can help out Let's start with a few tech things you should know Google's Titan security key is now for sale in the Google store to the general public with a full kit And clearly a USB key Bluetooth key and various connectors available for $50 and shipping immediately Google Cloud customers have had Titan availability since last month and Titan keys used the Fido standard as well and work as a second second factor for services like Facebook and Dropbox and Github and of course Google account login It's so convenient that they work on Google Apple announced an event for September 12th at the Steve Jobs Theater and Cupertino What could it be? Media invites include the tagline gather round with a Coppery or flaming looking circle on it. I think it means the return of the home button Anyway, what's probably actually going to happen are three new flagship iPhones or redesigned Apple watch Maybe some Mac and iPad updates. It's always possible more information on Apple's wireless charging mats. The air power would be Welcomed whether they'll do it or not. We'll have to see on September 12th a new circular phone Spread the word everybody See how far that goes Sony unveiled the new Xperia XZ3 with a six inch 2880 by 1440 led display And an 18 by 9 aspect ratio has a 33 30 milli amp battery It's a little bit bigger than the XZ to a fingerprint reader on the back and will ship with Android 9 pi Inside is a Snapdragon 845 processor for gigs of RAM 64 gigs of storage and a little AI inside as well There's a new side sense function. So if you tap the side of the phone It'll bring up a menu filled with apps that the phone thinks you're probably looking for based on what you were already doing The Xperia XZ3 goes on sale in October for nine hundred dollars And Lenovo announced a slew of stuff at IFA a new Chromebook new Windows laptops home device smart home devices Among them was the yoga book C930 Whereas the yoga book a 12 two years ago put a touchscreen where the keyboard should be the yoga book C930 swaps out the keyboard for an eink screen Which you can then use as a keyboard a notepad or an e-reader C930 will be available in October starting at $1,000 everyone who's interested in that email us feedback at daily tech news show comm Laugh Tom I do and I want to stop laughing. So stop my laughing feedback All right, let's talk a little bit more about Apple. This is an actual confirmed story that Apple says did happen Yeah, true story Apple confirmed it did acquire Aconia holographics. That's a startup basement Colorado that makes lenses for augmented reality Glasses Aconia was founded in 2012 and originally focused on holographic data storage Then pivoted to focus more on AR displays Aconia has a portfolio of more than 200 patents related to holographic systems and materials That's according to us website, which probably did not hurt the deal for Apple either Yeah, it looks like we're talking about a company that makes some essential parts for augmented reality glasses So Aaron I'm guessing everybody's gonna jump to the conclusion. Apple's getting closer to putting out some augmented reality glasses You know, it feels like every so often we get one more bread crumb along this path It's like maybe leading us up to something that Apple is doing for AR and you know, every so often people turn up like a patent That's recently surfaced or I was I was thinking earlier about how I think it was in January 2017 There was the report that Apple was working with Zeiss sunglasses little clues along the way Is it is it possible? It's just us making the mistake of the the plate platonic story about the elephant Where we're like, oh, it's glasses. It must be augmented reality Oh, it's a Zeiss sunglasses and it turns out like it's a motorcycle helmet or something entirely different We hadn't expected hey humans and confirmation bias. I think that's one of the strongest relationships that exists out there It would be like Apple though to jump into this market right now because it is at the point where it exists There are some products you can buy you can even get a magic leap if you're in the right city and a developer and want to spend a couple thousand dollars And that's that's the beginning of the window in which Apple will jump in on a product line and say But we figured out how to do it better if they're just acquiring something like aconia Feels like it's probably year or two off from us actually seeing a product if we see one You know Well, let's talk about google the google assistant now can understand two languages at once using google's language identification model lang id In the google home app the assistant on your phone and google itself pretty much any platform google assistant is available in Google announced the upcoming feature at i o earlier this year by lingual language pairings can be made Mix and match from the following languages english german french spanish italian And japanese with more languages coming in the future google also says it's working on Tri-lingual support because that's what patrick beija's family is going to need because he speaks french His wife speaks swedish and they both speak english and japanese they're gonna need quadrilateral probably Finish as well, right They might have to being in finland, but they just speak swedish in finland too, but yeah, what makes sense, right? Those in germany france or the uk can use the bilingual assistant on a google home max which goes on sale in those countries today Very cool You know, i'm not really a bilingual person. I'd love to think that i am, but i'm not really However, if you've if you've got the assistant and you're used to You know calling up information or or or getting responses from it and Yeah, you're in a bilingual household or for whatever reason are interested in getting results in two different languages Really interesting especially because i mean english german french spanish italian japanese That's a whole you know that that is that's actually Uh, that's It's very complex to go from english to japanese for example Yeah, i wonder if it is more complex for the ai To maybe not in between two romance languages like french and spanish for instance or spanish and italian Then it is to go to japanese. It's certainly harder for us, right? Um, that's a really interesting question like does that Is that ease that we have translate into the ai training because the biggest deal here Is for the assistant to be able to understand without prompting. Oh, she's speaking spanish now Uh, so that you know if you're abuela walks up to the assistant and wants it to start playing her playlist She can speak in spanish While the kids maybe are just going to use english On it, uh, and and the assistant has to know on the fly which is quite a lot of processing But it's fascinating and it's it's nice to see this finally happening I mean i grew up in a household with english and spanish And i think one of the first things that my mother who is from south america asked me when my parents got a voice assistant Was like can i talk to this thing in spanish and i was like No not yet But you know, i mean it's i think it's a reality of the modern age. Um For spanish speakers alone, there's something like 437 million people in the world Who speak spanish and that actually edges out english. So it's a step in the right direction Yeah, and and we're not you know, don't forget the google assistant could already do spanish But then it wouldn't be able to do english if it was set to spanish you'd have to switch it back and forth So the big the big leap here is Not having to decide. Oh, right the assistant is set to english. I have to speak it to it in english Um, when I when I think i'll be really impressed. This is impressive. Don't get me wrong But when you can finish a sentence with english and spanish words at the same time Oh, yeah, right throw it in right. We'll be like, I know what you're saying.  You might want to Unfollow rather than follow in a statement a twitter rep told slates Yes, we know that people want a relevant twitter timeline One way to do this is to try unfollowing people that they don't engage with regularly We ran an incredibly limited test to service accounts that people are not engaging with to check if they'd like to unfollow them The company says the test has now concluded and did not say whether or not it would become a regular feature And you know slate wrote this up and and asked twitter for comment because some users were noticing this I I get the impulse and I think it's a really good one because my follow list has Pretty much just risen. I will occasionally unfollow people for this or that reason But I don't make a point of it. So I've got a lot of accounts in there that don't tweet anymore or when they do I'm surprised. I'm like, oh, do I follow that person? I didn't realize that What was interesting about the screenshots that slate put up for this was They cast it as control what's happening. You don't need to follow everyone to know what's happening Make sure you're only following the people that make twitter great for you and then suggest some people That you might want to unfollow And that feels insulting Like and these are the people that suck. So please unfollow control what's happening In your timeline. These are you know bad actors. Yeah And slave made a note of that as well in their article about this. They had a few Examples of people saying what is this control what's happening here does sort of sound like control Yeah What might be a Oh, we lost you we lost Sarah there But I I think I know where you're going which was you know control what what's happening Uh Sounds like you're you're out of control and you need to seize control back instead of just being something where you Are suggested. Hey, this this is just maybe not an account like I would take a better way to suggest it might be Still interested here are some accounts you follow that you don't engage with very often, you know double check This reminded me a little bit of when Jimmy Kimmel tells people to unfriend people You know Um, but yeah, I was I was interested in how they might determine You know interactions because I was thinking there's a lot of accounts that for example, I follow This is a completely passive Thing like news organizations or celebrities or you know, folks like that Like I'm not tweeting back and forth with you know, washington post Um, so I'll be curious to see how that works. I guess if you click through that's an interaction But there's plenty of those accounts where I never click because it's just like a breaking news alert sort of situation. Yeah Or thoughts of dog, you know Funny accounts Zte reported its worst ever first half net loss of 7.8 billion yuan after a us supplier ban Forced it to shut down for three months earlier this year Zte says it expects to return to profitability of 24.2 Million yuan in q3, but that still means it's going to have a pretty big loss for the first nine months of the year Zte's new executives remember They had to replace the executives to get rid of the ban Say that production is back in line with july and august of last year So they're back up to speed Meanwhile at ifa zte did introduce a new flagship the 6.21 inch amelette axon 9 pro with vertically aligned dual rear facing cameras a front notch Some small bottom bezels a 4000 milliamp hour battery and usb c among a bunch of other features The interesting thing is the last axon was the foldable one and everybody thought oh, we're going to keep seeing these innovative form factors This axon looks like the axon 7 except upgraded for the current year So I wonder if that shutdown put the brakes on some of these more innovative designs Anyway, the axon 9 pro goes on sale in europe in september for 640 Well, sarah, you're it Oh dear What's going on in this weird world of ours? Oh, I we I kept going with the audio so don't worry about it. Uh, we're we're we're back on video too Uh, I was just saying that zte is what's going on with zte is not just important for the phone world It's also important for what what's going on outside of the phone world as well Like what what's happening in in china? Uh, it is on a bigger stage than just the phone The phone world. I don't expect to see zte announcing any us availability anytime soon Uh and erin, I know you're not following this super closely, but you know this Are you surprised to see zte bounce back from a three month shutdown? I I think that's what's most interesting to me is you would think if someone told you this ahead of time That that company would be gone they would be done and here they are announcing a new product and profitability Yeah, I mean, I'll be curious to see what you know, uh, folks have to extrapolate about this and also, you know zte was in the news, uh because of the the lifting of the ban from president trump So, um, yeah, I think a lot of people will probably be keeping an eye on on zte and seeing how it does Yeah, um, I I again I I can't every time somebody says well if this happens that company's done Think of zte. They got they couldn't get parts from the us had to shut down their manufacturing for three months and uh They're you know, I wouldn't say they're fine, but they're still in existence and still making phones and back to profitability. So Uh when properly structured and and managed, you know, and you have the right staff. I guess it's possible Well, if anyone here is suffering from lack of sleep boy, have I got a wearable for you Garmin launched the vivo smart for wearable, which has a blood oxygen monitor or pulse ox As the company calls it that reads your oxygen saturation levels at night in order to gauge your sleep quality It can also estimate light or deep or rem stages of sleep Which then you can view as sleep stats in the garmin connect app afterwards The vivo smart for also monitors energy levels based on your stress And that is based on your heart rate variability and your sleep quality and your overall activity It can run for seven days between charges and cost $130 first of all garmin I they try to try to make it sound like they invented the word pulse ox in their press release It's it's a common term in medical Uh, we actually I am familiar with it just recently because we had chuck laturnos on Uh dts labs and he talked about having pulse ox readings from a third party Uh, so so garmin don't don't pretend you invent words that But uh, that's I love the idea of this though Yeah, I The idea that it would say like dude, you don't have enough energy. Just just chill Just relax is something I probably need someone if not a device to say to me The thing that always come to cross is my mind about that though Is like I'm usually pretty aware when I sleep poorly Yeah, of course Well, I mean For example last night I woke up and I was like didn't sleep well, but I didn't really know the details Why I didn't sleep so having those stats You know It depends on how good of a or bad of a sleepy you are or how much You feel like stress might be you know boosting your heart rates You know or or the alternative throughout the day Even if it doesn't necessarily Point to something specific like oh, you've got this ailment and you can fix it and you're going to sleep better Having more data on sleep patterns You know as somebody who's at least speaking for the people who don't sleep that well overnight overall I love this even if I don't know exactly how to fix it I I love having this kind of data and I've you know, I've had smart watches in the past that Attempted to do this or even a you know an iphone That supposedly was using sonar to you know See when I was moving around to get a sense of you know when when my deep sleep versus my run sleep was happening And yeah, I never really understood if that was all that accurate or not But it's still really interesting especially when the ultimate goal is to be as stress-free and as well rested as possible Yeah, because the the key here is I mean millions of these trackers have done sleep tracking before that's not new It's saying we're going to conclude that with your heart rate your activity levels and figure out like hey You're too stressed. You need to rest I absolutely know when I had a bad night's sleep, but I'll still barrel through the day And be like well, you just got to do it and if this was able to say like hey If you take an hour and just rest right now, it's going to pay off You you don't have the energy to do what you're doing right now. Don't go for that run Uh, don't lift those boxes or whatever. I mean, I imagine if it told me not to do the show I'd ignore it, but Stress be dinged Hey folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines dot com Well, erin, uh just published a feature we mentioned it at the top of the show that looks at the tech National parks are using to keep visitors and poachers from stealing resources a lot of interesting stuff in here erin Where do you want to start? Let's start with the cacti Yeah, so, uh, it's like tagging a dog, but for a cactus Exactly. Yeah. So um about eight years ago rangers of suaro national park outside of tucson had Come across this trailer that was packed with suaro cacti This has been an ongoing problem for them If you haven't seen them suaro like the iconic, you know, cowboy cacti and their prized landscape items And they can go for about a hundred dollars a foot and so it kind of depends but of you know, unscrupulous landscaping company can For example pocket the money you pay them and just go dig one up for free um, so the park has been trying to figure out how to Curve that problem And this is because these these cactuses are so valuable that I guess Nair duels can can make a lot of money selling them to gardeners But what I got from your story is it relies on the garden shops on the on the nurseries To enforce this to to do the scanning and then say well hold on where'd you get this it has a it has a tracker in it I I wonder how many that would buy from these people in the first place would be willing to do that Yeah, you know, I think for for them part of their messaging is this this is a deterrent And the rangers want this idea out there of like do you want to be the one who? digs up a cacti that's been Chipped on the off chance or the case that um, you know a nursery does decide to check if this was like a legally obtained Cactus, so um and the chips are passive. That's the other thing is this is not like a case where you have a map And there's like a dot and you're like there's like a high speed chase because there's a So Exactly, so this is this is like largely just a deterrent like you don't want to take a chance, right?  It takes a lot of time Yeah, absolutely. I mean a 200 year old cactus can you know be Five five feet tall. Yeah, it's kind of impressive. Um, so and that's kind of the other factor to this is that if someone does steal You know a large cactus. This is not something that can be readily replaced Yeah Another interesting one was the was the petrified wood because that was where a little bit of technology Turned out to be a good thing turned out that things aren't as bad as we thought maybe Yeah, so at um at the park, you know, they've had this kind of almost pr problem That people over time have just picked the park clean And that's anyone from folks who just want a souvenir of this beautiful colorful like striated wood to people who want to maybe load up a trunk in their car and sell it um, and and the thing with that is like well if you have a park and The idea is there's nothing left in the park. No one's going to go to your park So rangers basically dug up all this archival photography and tried to match the vantage point and the location to just compare How how much has changed and they found overall the problem was not as bad as they Had feared that it might be well and you mentioned in your story There was a petrified forest or or a petrified park anyway in the black hills in the dakotas That did have to shut down because everyone took everything worth looking at So I wonder if that that's what caused the the story to get confused maybe Yeah, because when you have uh an event like that that has happened, you know this this park that existed um had these kind of incredible fern like fossils of this plant called a sci-cad and And you come across something like that and people start they take one they take two for various reasons They clean out the park and so it feels like there's an immediate danger because this has happened in our country's history that we basically lost a site because People wouldn't leave it alone because yeah, they they took all the fern fossils The other thing that was interesting is people sending back the petrified wood Doesn't really help Like if you if they took a little chip and then felt bad and sent it back Which apparently they do the fact that they've now removed it from the location And they don't know where that location is really hurts the archaeology of it Absolutely and at this point the park has something that they call a conscience pile It's big enough that you know, it's got a name obviously But people start to feel guilty There's also this kind of legend that you might get cursed if you take something from the park And so they get letters from people apologizing and maybe detailing their kind of you know Poor luck in the time since but folks at the park really they can't pinpoint an exact location of where that came from And sometimes they get things that they know didn't come from the park at all like seashells, which is you know, okay, sure But for I took this this hot dog Take it off my hands. Yeah, you know But that kind of compromises the scientific value of the site because if you have something That you don't really know where it came from you can't study it within the context that it was originally existing in Now, uh, there's lots of good stuff in this article. I highly recommend folks go read it We'll have a link in the show notes. You can find it at cnet.com For instance dying ginseng roots so that you can scan them under fluorescent lights to see if the ginseng that's being Carried around was actually stolen from a place That it shouldn't have been but the last thing I want to mention is redwood national parks burl thieves That's one where they need some help. They need some technology help because It's very difficult to stop people from from taking these things and they're essential to the growth of the redwoods Absolutely, and this is the case where you know, it's uh, it's really easy to think sometimes that tech can be a cure You know for anything but there are obstacles that parks face as far as resources and management and whatnot and people poach burls because it's it's beautiful wood and uh but when they carve out a large chunk of this Ancient tree they're opening it up to pathogens And they're compromising the tree's future ability to be able to like spawn more trees Um, and when you look at the pictures, this is really heartbreaking Yeah, and burl is like a growth kind of on the side and and is valued because I guess it's easy to carve into bowls and stuff Exactly. Yeah, and they can they can be massive. Um, but when you carve one out you get this kind of nice smooth flat You know kind of wood as this beautiful grain on it But it's it's basically kind of an outgrowth of the tree that didn't quite happen. And so it just starts like bulges yeah Don't steal burls and if you have a good idea to help people prevent burl thieves Feedback at daily tech news show dot com. Yeah, and as somebody who you know when I think of poaching I think of poaching a Animal that is endangered, you know, you know in a national park somewhere very far away from me It's good to remember that the ecosystem includes lots of uh flora and fauna And they're all very important to uh to to keep intact. Don't steal Thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. None of you are thieves. Um, and if you are uh, well, well Stop Stopping thieves But what you should do instead is submit stories and vote on others at daily tech news show dot reddit dot com Also, we're on facebook at facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show Next time you have the impulse to steal a burl instead just email us and sarah might read your email on the show, right? Correct. Like the email i'm about to read from ryan. He uh, he had some thoughts on our conversation with scott johnson yesterday On the best smart watch features. Why are they smart watches? Why are they great ryan says recently? I had a date with a cardiologist through tender ryan says ultimately it didn't work out But that's beside the point ryan asked her how accurate the apple watch was for a diagnosing heart irregularity And she said it was around 95 accuracy She also recommended that people wear them for this very reason. What's funny is that apple doesn't advertise this fact It's only through news reports and word of mouth that the feature becomes more apparent ryan says in the professional world I work as a software developer in the medical device field from experience I know there's a whole lot of work that goes into submitting devices to the fda in order to market a device as a medical device A lot of documentation that needs to happen for every software release cycle I can understand why apple wouldn't want to market the apple watch as a medical device personally though The entire reason I have an apple watch is for this reason everything else like notifications That's just icing detecting heart irregularity is an incredible feature Even if it isn't advertised and it would be great if google were to take note of this feature and put something similar in their offerings Hmm. Um, I'm Well, yeah Something like that in wear os And if anyone knows knows these features well enough to compare them let us know, but I know there is there is similar Similar functionality there. Uh, it may not be exactly as good as what we're talking about here, but thank you ryan Yeah, thank you ryan and perhaps you'd like the new garmin wearable that we talked about earlier on the show Uh, thank you also to erin karson for being with us erin so good to see you let folks know where they can keep up with all of your work You can find me at cnet.com and on twitter. I am at erin karson Excellent. Yeah, and uh people in the chat room are demanding you become a permanent member of dts So I think they like having you on the show Very kind people Uh, don't forget folks, uh, we we can do more Uh, because you help us so if you if you're willing to help us out Uh, go to patreon.com slash dts because even just giving us a dollar Uh, really helps the show get better and better. Don't forget. I'm heading out to greenville illinois for a meet up Friday september 7th at 6 p.m 6 p.m to 8 p.m at the family vine winery on 13 49 red ball trail in greenville illinois We'll have that in the show notes uh linked to their facebook page as well. So if you're in the southern illinois area Or can reach it. I'd love to see a friday september 7th at 6 p.m Our email address is feedback at daily tech news show dot com. Thanks to everybody who gives us feedback You make the show better every day. We're also live monday through friday at 4 30 p.m Eastern 20 30 utc and find out more at daily tech news show dot com slash live back tomorrow with patrick norton as our guest talk to you then This show is part of the frog pants network. Get more at frog pants dot com All right, man club. Hope you have enjoyed this bro You made it That was fun It was a good show. It was a great show, iran. Thank you You Burl thieves minus the equals burlives What should we call this? He says no, I didn't do it I've just been sleeping and number one in the On the showbot is curbing cacti crime Oh, I like that triple c triple c. That's pretty good curbing cacti crime That's one of those things where I'd be like what come on But you read the article and you're like actually it makes sense. This is a really legitimate issue Whenever editors on twitter last night said or use the phrase grand theft cactus and I was like, uh, what did I think of that? Hot cacti That's too Cactus sharps Sharps like an old word for thieves and then Stickers being wait sharps is a word for a thief like hard card sharps were were people who would filter you out of your money three card card not card shark card sharp sharp with a p Well, I don't know. I didn't know that one. Yeah, I think I need anything. No, just home I'm Give tom a second. I'll pull something out Be like in fact, let me show you what a card sharp looks like I have one from 1987 card sharp in 15 94 Just happened to have kept it all these years the Italian baroque artist Michelangelo painted me in his famous the card sharps Card sharp. Why do I know this? Well? Yeah, because a card shark is just a somebody who's like I think good at playing car shark is one of those things where people start saying something wrong And then it catches it's on because it kind of sounds right like oh, yeah, like a shark. I get it But the earlier name was card sharp Wow So interesting In fact, hold on Like a pool shark and all those other Oh, right. Yeah, like I wonder if pool shark is part of that lineage.  That's wrong Oh, okay. So Here we go Yeah, the grammar rest card sharp is preferred in British English while card shark is more common in american canadian and australian english Because we all munged it Yeah, exactly. This is, you know, we're all the, you know, the old commonwealth They share their main definitions namely a professional card player, uh, a person who is skilled in card games and a person who is skilled in cheating in card games The british the british card sharp more often implies cheating card shark Especially in american english often simply is a term for somebody who spends a lot of time playing cards He's just real kind of they've kind of morphed into their own thing Hmm But this is uh, Michelangelo's the card sharps from the 16th century Oh, yes, one of his best. What's that guy got behind his back? A card cards more cards He's kind of look like a knife or something. I thought it was going to be No, it's like a little dagger on his side and then Yeah, I I think all three of these individuals look shady for different reasons. Oh, yeah, because they're card sharps. That's why And again the middle is not being subtle at all Head to wikipedia and look up card sharps audio listeners if you want to play along at home Tom is still sharing screen by the way card sharps That is new. I didn't know that I really didn't For that. No I'm neither a card sharp or shark. I'm very bad at cards I'm a card blunt myself. I am a card. No, thank you I'll just watch I can uh, I can lay down some yuker, but you can't really bet on yuker. So Uh, why not? Maybe you can I just haven't been introduced into betting on yuker I mean you bet on anything but some some things lend themselves to it more than others Yeah, it's not like there's like a vegas house yuker house going on. I don't know actually I wonder it probably is Because there is Vegas has everything Yeah, there's like a cactus black market and somebody's betting on yuker You know what I was wondering about recently when I'm uh, when I was in in vegas is because yes I I don't really gamble but I find the whole thing fascinating Why do we not have pachinko rooms in vegas? Because you don't need to Well, like I mean with all of the Particularly japanese tourists. Um, but you know, but but other you know does not I'm showing you vegas yuker.com which advertises the weekly yuker games Uh at meepleville Let's look up vegas pachinko Uh, because my guess I Just the reason I bring up pachinko is because I thought of one of the most interesting things about japan was just Hold on, hold on the nevada gaming board has approved a license bid by japanese gaming company sega to bring pachinko machines It it sounds like maybe it was a political thing Interesante Okay So that's why Hmm because Yeah, I I understand pachinko is its own thing but for kind of that slot machine You know fun lights sounds the whole thing Vegas would be perfect for that Well, I was just gonna guess like maybe it doesn't make you as much money So the casinos all put in slot machines other than nickel slots for people still play them Yeah, no, but you but they probably make a lot of money off that Maybe pachinko allows you to win too often or something. I don't know I say bring more pachinko to vegas I like pachinko date on that article 2017 was the date on that That's about a year ago. So I don't know somebody who lives in vegas. Um, let us know when you see your first pachinko machine and we will I can make a note of it. Say go I interviewed russ pits this morning How did you how is our fair pits? He is great. Uh, he is bringing the escapist back to life I know it's so awesome And uh, we had a wonderful half hour or so conversation About that and the state of the internet and reminiscing about half price books a little bit because we both worked there back in the 90s Yeah, russ and I realized we both worked for the same company In every decade except this one since the 80s. We worked at half price books together in the 90s We worked at tech tv together in the 2000s We have yet to work at the same company in the teens Hey, you got two years. I know we gotta figure this out. Yeah um, that's great, uh, I Very fond of russ and i'm glad that he's doing so good. Oh, yeah So if you're a patron you have that lab's interview in your feed right now And if you're not it will come out on saturday Hooray He even referenced his famous email at one point Eagle salmon No, sorry just had a frog in my throat. Oh, yeah, sorry It's not it like you said never mind. No. No, of course not Uh, yeah, erin, we're probably confusing you unless you know who russ is I don't He's like i'm politely not I apologize for this trip down memory lane on behalf of myself and sarah We we both worked with russ at tech tv. He was a producer on the screensavers And I worked with him at half price books in austin back in the 90s before that Poseidon all of that. Yeah, he has gone on to much bigger and better things. He has a charity called take this That helps with anxiety and suicide prevention amongst gamers specifically targeting conventions when when people are likely to be stressed out And he just took over the escapist Which he had been the editor-in-chief at like 10 years ago But it was about to go under and he kind of helped rally to save it and they're rebuilding it now Oh, cool Sounds like he's got some good stuff going Yeah, he also wrote a very iconic Goodbye He just we don't have to get into it somebody fill in erin at a later time He wrote a book about it. So it's not like he's trying to hide it. Right. Yeah. It was just it was it was a goodbye tech tv whole company Thousands of people was one of those classic dot com era like, you know, right? You all it was it was the mic drop to end all mic drops Just leave it at that I still remember where I was Me too because the best part And I always tell the stories like the best part is like you can hear people Oh, oh, because we're all kind of it was cubicle life, right? You know and you hear me. Oh my god.  And that was the end of it Oh, it's just the best ending to a wonderful Yeah, truly truly legendary. Nothing has ever taught that for me as far as a a Mass email goes to a company. Well, it's gotta be something special if it's like a mass email that you're reminiscing about 10 well 15 years 20 years later. I mean 18 years later still funny Maybe 15 years later. I guess. What do you think odie? He says, I don't know how to email Not yet Sawyer wants to get in touch with him, uh to collaborate on some film projects. So Yeah, I mean he's kind of Little bit. Yeah, he certainly isn't looking energetic right this second Maybe he needs a Garmin app a tired dog is a happy dog It's a happy me That's for sure I'll tell you You know, I realized yesterday in the pre-show Amos and I had talked a little bit about smartwatches Uh, and I meant to bring it up in the conversation on yesterday's show and it just I didn't I forgot But you have an interesting way of managing your smartwatches so that you're always collecting data Right, um I have an original uh apple watch that I purchased like in november the first year they were out And I have a series three that is my daily wearer now And I have converted my original one to a sleep time only one So at night when I'm getting ready for bed, I'll put it on and in the morning I'll swap it back out for my series three and go about my day So it's it the the night time one will track sleeping habits. It has It won't give you any alerts for your for your cardiac Symptoms or whatever like the series three will and it has um, but it does track sleeping and it it I you can set them up separately in your phone. So my Series zero as I call it It doesn't have any alerts It's in permanent theater mode and it'll tell me the time if I need to and it's how I wake up in the morning Because I set it by my alarm, but it's always gathering that sleeping data that restlessness and and all of that. So well, so so Having used this for a while a mess. What have you learned about your sleeping habits? That I don't sleep enough That's the big thing I've also got um a mild case case of sleep apnea. So I've got you know the little machine So I'm actually gathering a lot of information about my sleep on a regular basis blood pressure checks all that kind of stuff so um, it's I'm finding habits that Will improve my quality of sleep and my quantity of sleep for instance here lately I've been leaving my my cell phone downstairs in the living room to charge overnight I don't even take it to the bedroom with me. So I don't have that that oh, I'll just check one more story I'll just watch one more video or whatever So I'm falling asleep a lot faster than even if I took my phone upstairs and didn't look at it It's still there. Yeah and uh It's it's interesting. It's giving me some data. I'm not sure exactly how to use it at best But I'm slowly incorporating it into my life and in trying to make the the small changes that you can make incrementally You know when I go to bed I I always have my phone next to me because it's my alarm clock. I don't have another one Which has actually it has it has it has led me astray a couple of times where I just like it Uh, you know Ran out of batteries and then I woke up late and they're like, ah my god, but for the most part. Yeah, I don't I don't really want to I don't lay in bed and look at my phone and I understand that um For some people it's sort of psychological Like too much news before bed is you know kind of bad for you know What you're going to dream about or the actual light into your eyes is you know Is counterproductive to going to sleep. I don't really have either of those problems But I like the idea of yeah saying it's time for bed. It's not phone time. It's not computer time Nothing about this is going to be part of this. I'm going to sleep and it's going to be down next to me And I will I will see you in eight hours. Hopefully when when the alarm goes off It doesn't always work that way, but that's I I find that that's the most zen way for me to go about Sleeping at night. I'm pretty restrictive on the notifications. I have to well Obviously this the sleep watch because there's no notifications to go to that in last year on my emergency contact list But even my daily wear my series three I don't really have a lot of notifications going to it unless I'm expecting something like, you know This week slack is on my watch because well, there's constantly stuff going on Um for the show But I found that even that the fact that I have a series three really Relieves the phone anxiety the phone separation anxiety. Oh, what if someone needs to call me? What if a kid calls me from school? Whatever else because I can get it on my watch meanwhile my watch doesn't have near the functionality It doesn't have games. It doesn't have facebook. It doesn't have all these distractors So if I leave my phone in my truck at work and just go into work I actually get way more done without that constant The the the daemon running in the back of my head. Hey, check your phone. Check your phone. Check your phone I just completely separate myself from it and that that's weird to me because I'm the biggest techie in my house like I'm I'm all about you know, I love new tech. I love I watch repeats of Of apple announcements because I want to see what they're what they got going on if I can't catch it live I'm that guy, but I'm finding that here at least in the last several months the more I separate myself from my phone The better my overall quality of life is becoming I think you should call the one the watch you wear to sleep your night watch and then we can call you a night watch man Um, I see what you're going with there and with that we end our video Thank you for watching audio folks after that. 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Good morning and welcome to CMC markets on Thursday the 17th of May and this quick preview of the week beginning the 21st of May and We've had seven weeks of fairly decent gains for European equities and this week We've seen a little bit of a pause in that and I think it's not really too much of a surprise to see that footsie 100s back near it's all-time highs of around about 7,800 so you would expect that to be a little bit of resistance and I think a large part of the gains that we've seen Over the course of the past few weeks has I think largely been as a result of a slightly weaker euro slightly weaker pound that I think has helped support European markets to I think the to the disadvantage I think of US markets which have underperformed in the past few weeks and we've got a similar sort of story playing out here in With respect to the DAX was oscillating around this 13,000 level Momentum indicators or the oscillator certainly are looking particularly overbought But if we actually look at the long-term moving averages They are starting to turn marginally more positive if we look at the 50 day moving average that's starting to turn higher and the 200 day moving average from Being fairly flat over the course of the past few days is also now starting to turn a little bit higher as well So certainly I think momentum is starting to turn more positive. I think a large part of that has been down to a Stronger dollar which is pushing the euro down from the levels that we saw earlier this year and one of the reasons We've got this strong dollar can be really I think laid at the door of These particular charts here. This is the US 10 year Treasury yield We've managed to finally get that foothold above 3% more importantly the two-year yield If we look at the two-year yield as well That is now closing in on and looking to test at 2.6% And if you look at the actual gradient of this particular trend here in the two-year yield You could see how far we've come and what in essence is a fairly short space of time So certainly there is upward pressure on US rates that's being reflected not only in the In the short end of the US curve, but it's also now starting to Trickle its way down to the slightly longer end and the 10-year And I think in that context that's going to make this week's Fed minutes particularly Interesting and that's one of the key factors. I will be keeping an eye out for this week along with the latest UK inflation numbers the latest first-quarter GDP revision as well as UK retail sales data for April so I think when we look at The week ahead those I think are going to be the main events. We also have PMIs out of France and Germany flash PMIs for for my for May And we have seen a little bit of a slowdown in some of the headline numbers since the beginning of the year So I'll be certainly looking to see whether or not that trend is maintained But I certainly think in the context of where we are now with respect to equity markets I think the consolidation that we're seeing this week is born out of a number of factors Obviously concerns about trade at the moment. China and the US are in dole are engaged in Trade talks There has been some mixed signals coming from the US administration The sanctions that are imposed on ZTE Because of dishonest behavior suddenly President Trump has you turned on them obviously there is also the WTO ruling in Favour of Boeing against Airbus, that's likely to be used by President Trump President Trump as a stick to beat the European Union with and then of course we've got We've got the events taking place in Italy as the As the administration there looks to try and form a new government and it will be a populist government And that has pushed bond yields in Italy To their highest levels this year so there's lots I think to keep an eye out for and that's before we even start to think About the North Korea situation And whether or not that summit will take place in Singapore in June But for the here and now I Think we have to look at Euro dollar and those of you've been regular Viewers of these videos will know that I've been calling for Euro dollar to push down to 170 to around about the 118 level And we finally hit that target this week around about 117 70s minimum price objective And the big question now is where do we go to from here? Well, certainly, I think the direction of travel would appear to suggest that we're going to see a lower euro dollar If we look at the 50-day moving average that is starting to roll over quite Significantly and the 200-day moving average is also now starting to flatten out Which would appear to suggest that we could start to roll over here as well So I think if we do manage to break below 117 70 Then the next target for me is around about 116 But and then and the resistance levels a key resistance levels around about 190 and 20 and obviously the 200-day moving average Which we haven't been able to get back above Since we broke below it and I think in that context the Manufacturing and services flash PMIs will be particularly important in the context of how the European economy is doing Against a backdrop of once again very weak inflation core EU CPI came in at 0.7% that's the lowest level since January 2015 and That's probably the lowest in 10 years and January 2015 was when the European Central Bank Embarked upon its big massive quantitative easing program. So I think the sum total of Two and a half trillion euros of QE and negative interest rates Hasn't really given a decent return if you look at the inflation number So I think it's going to be very difficult for the ECB to pull back From it's currently very accommodated monetary policy if inflation repressions remain where they are On the subject of inflation brings me neatly on to the UK economy and the latest UK inflation numbers Which are going to be compared to the wages numbers that we saw Over the last few days now we saw them coming at 2.9% So now we know for certain that UK wages are rising faster and headline CPI Not RPI CPI Bank of England seems to think that headline CPI will continue to fall back much faster than they originally thought But they've also caveated that by saying that wages are likely to fall back as well this year as well from Currently where they are now to an average of 2.75% now Whatever you've you whatever your views I think on Bank of England I think I think you can take a fairly consistent view is that their view is usually wrong If you look at oil prices you look at the increase in pension Contributions if you look at the increase in energy prices from the utility providers and the rises in council tax As well as an our oil price $80 a barrel I fail to see where these deflation repressions of the Bank of England seems to think are going to come through are going to come from So I think in that context I think inflation could be a lot stickier than the Bank of England in visages Which means that we really need to hope that wages hold up We've got retail sales for April also coming out as well And we did see a very disappointing March number of minus 0.5 that was I think whether related I think we can safely assume that to be the case so we could see a rebound there the here and now With the cable we really need to move back above 136 20 to Stabilize but given that we've broken out of this potential double top formation I would be surprised if that happens I still think we're going to get a stronger dollar It's going to push the euro lower and by definition it will also push the pound lower and my target for the pound It's still around about 133 while we're below this 136 20 level here, which we have thus far been unable to get above We've got the latest Fed minutes. I talked about them a little bit They which the the Fed statement was changed at the recent meeting The firmer headline inflation numbers The the the tax was changed from run below to moved closer to 2% And the reference to monitoring inflation developments was removed completely else was the reference to the economic outlook strengthening Now if we look at US retail sales, if we look at the CPI numbers They're fairly positive at the moment But what is more concerning to me is the fact the price is paid inflation is Continuing to look fairly strong So I think this potential Belief that inflation is likely to remain benign Obviously it's not being reflected in the bond market and the bond yields And that could suggest that we could see further dollar strength going forward So to summarize I think if we do find Higher inflation expectations start to filter through the dollar could well get stronger That could potentially weaken the euro and the pound which could in essence support European markets But on the flip side of that it could also weigh on US markets. So that's it for this week Thank you very much for listening Michael Houston talking to you from CMC markets


Why why why hello everybody E here welcome back to another book review today We're doing a book that has been requested Since I've for what since they first announced it um I Told everybody that I would read it. I would probably go with the library first because I had I had an inkling I had expectations and then Then the book came out and I was on a hold of like a hundred hundred people in line ahead of me at the library I wasn't gonna buy the book y'all and I still have it and I'm not going to of course. We were talking about Gwendi's magic feather um I Kept my expectations Super low um I kept my expectations the bottom sub basement. I'm we're talking sub level five uh Chizmar's style is very sparse. Um, he's a He's a writer. I'm trying. I'm trying to be nice here Especially since I have fans of the channel that work for cemetery dance that are friends with Chizmar, but What? I'm gonna it's I'm having problems wrapping my brain around this book because the first the first book has a lot of the stuff Of course, it has King's name on it There was some discussion when the book came out that it didn't feel none of it felt like King But you can see his absence here Whether or not King helped Chizmar with the first book and Chizmar wrote the whole thing Who knows maybe Chizmar just got lucky? I don't know But there was a point there was there was cohesion. It felt like a a full complete story This book feels like a cash grab I wanted to say that long before I ever read the book because King wasn't on it. So obviously but Let's let's not talk about what might have been let's talk about what is why do I call it a cash grab? Is it because King's names on on it? No The reason I call it a cash grab is because the book feels like a cobbled together fan fiction of the Stephen King universe It feels like the Castle Rock TV show and everything that's wrong with the Castle Rock TV show At least the first season. I can't bring myself to watch the second season this book Every single time that there's a conflict in the book. It is wrapped up like that It the I would say I would say the very next page, but the very next page is a new chapter The book is super super short another thing another reason why I'm going to throw cash grab out there Is because the audiobook tells a different story Then the novel the novel the book is being marketed as a novel yet the audiobook Is marketed as a Novella because you can't hide the fact that the books only four hours long But to say that one thing is a certain length a novel experience a Novel and the other one is a novella To change the marketing for the book so that you can have really big font and have really short chapters And somehow have 300 pages Instead of just doing like they did with Gwendi and made it a itty-bitty book Which it should have been this one should have been it's slightly Slightly longer than Gwendi's button box probably by about 10,000 words roughly But every single there's absolutely no conflict in here. It feels like Chismar had this political theme in mind And if you disagree with his politics, I don't care stay out of the comments.  Okay, but it seemed like he went in with a political theme and then everything just Floated out the window By the end of the book you're you're left with this feeling of what was the purpose What why is this here? Why does this exist and literally the only thing that I can think of is That dollar dollar bills y'all I am I am sorely Disappointed in the author not so much in the book because I expected the book to be bad I expected it to feel like a cash grab That's why I said I probably wasn't going to read it unless the library came in with a copy now Luckily, I have scribe so when I got bored with the very with the very basic writing I hopped over to the the audio book because simply because it is easier to listen to bad writing than it is to read Bad writing. I keep picking out things while I'm reading that make me stop and go. No, you should have written it this way while With the audio book I can get through it much easier I'm not going to take up too much more of your time I wrote a review and on Goodreads that pretty much sums up all of my feelings about this book So if you want to read that it's down there in the doobly-doo if there's another book I'm definitely going to skip it This is also one of those times when I look at the reviews of the book and I can point out It's like that review exists because you're friends with this person And and it is you know or that you have a business Relationship with this person. I did not ring read Stephen King's intro. I'll be completely honest with you I was going to save it till afterwards, but I decided not to read it because I don't want to hear lies I don't want to hear you know him go. I'm perfectly comfortable with you know, Chismar, you know doing this rada rada rada King doesn't care. I had this point in his life It's the same that he came out for the Dark Tower movie, which I did admittedly enjoy, but it's not a good Dark Tower movie It's a good stupid action film and it's also good in a so So bad it's good kind of way kind of like a troll to kind of way You can make fun of it have fun Easter egg hunt that kind of thing same with Castle Rock season one It's that bad, you know, you know like oh god, why they do that other than that one sissy space again, so That should have been a short film all by itself if I'm honest, but uh the uh, I Didn't want to read his his rationalization for letting this happen because you know He said that the Dark Tower movie was great until the embargo was lifted and he came out and he goes mistakes were made You know, he has to help sell things. He has a contractual I'm maybe not contractual, but he has a working relationship with Cemetery Dance, and I'm sure Chismar is his friend I'm sure they are really friends. I Really wanted to believe that Chismar's heart was in the right place And I know I said I wasn't gonna go on too much longer, but I really really wanted to believe that I Wanted so bad to believe that his heart was in the right place, and then I started reading it It's like oh look, there's there's Frank Dodd reference. Oh look. There's a this reference. Oh look. There's a that reference It this book is a Funko Pop That's what this book is so until next time. I have been a you have been you this has been another book review I'll talk to you guys later and no We were not gonna have a full blown in front. This is not a Stephen King book y'all get out of my comments This is not a Stephen King book. Bye


how to destroy the narcissist it is actually very easy to destroy the narcissist it is not difficult to hurt them because they are very weak and fragile they have an inflated ego but it's like a balloon if you fill it with air it's more likely to burst they have an exaggerated estimate of their own value and importance they have an inflated feeling of pride in their superiority to other people even though they have seen accomplished and achieved little in life which makes them very vulnerable to criticism and rejection it makes them very sensitive to other people's success because they think they are the best so when they see someone who might be better in some way it makes them feel inferior many people look at narcissists like their monsters or demons but they're really not that strong they're actually some of the easiest people to hurt it's very easy to bruise their egos it's very easy to make them feel less valuable and important because they have fragile egos they're very delicate and vulnerable they're easily threatened and destroyed because they're very insecure they feel like no matter what they do no matter how much they succeed no matter how good they look it's never enough so they're very anxious to challenge or avoid criticism they always have something to prove because they feel like they're not enough they try to conceal their weaknesses and insecurities they pretend to be strong and usually people fall for it but the truth is that they're weak and fragile they're easily hurt and offended they're paranoid and hyper-vigilant they're always scanning the environment for threats and if it's not a compliment they see it as an insult so if you want to destroy the narcissist just move on with your life show them that you don't need them by proving to yourself that you don't need them by developing your confidence and maturity by loving yourself unconditionally and when you move on and do better without them it destroys them because they don't think you can do better you have to prove to yourself that you don't need them by focusing on yourself and living well by looking after your health by finding pleasure in small moments because that is the ultimate revenge against the narcissist it destroys them but don't waste your time telling them about it don't try to hurt them just do you let go of your anger and resentment don't let it weigh you down don't let it hold you back from being your best self you don't need to show them anything you don't need to prove it that's what narcissists do they go on social media and they post pictures you don't need to do that you don't need to show them your moves you just need to start doing the things that you used to do the things that you used to enjoy the things they said that you couldn't do but don't do it to hurt them do it because you enjoy doing it because when you do that they know they can't affect you they know they've lost control of you it destroys them because they know you don't care about them they know you don't care about what they're doing you're indifferent you've lost all hope and expectation of things working out with them because you realize that everything you liked about them was just a reflection of yourself they reflected it back to you they mirrored you they showed you things that you liked about yourself things that you were interested in so they used your own qualities against you by reflecting them back to you so this problem just comes down to you recognizing your own high moral standards you have to recognize your own strengths you have to realize how great of a person you are and what you have to offer thank you for watching I hope this video resonates with you please like comment share and subscribe if you would like to donate my PayPal link is in the video description coach the inquiries you can email me at coach.nag survivor at the crew UK thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon