Hello and welcome to CMC markets on Friday the 30th of August and this quick look at the week ahead beginning the 2nd of September and certainly the end of this week looks fundamentally different To what we were looking at at the beginning of the week. We appear to have The makings of a new government in Italy We also have a bit of a ceasefire in the US China trade standoff But we do have the added wrinkle of a UK suspension of parliament and While that has impacted on the pound equity markets in general look to be finishing August and the week With a slightly more positive tone Then was likely or looked likely at the beginning of the week But it's important not to underestimate that while we're finishing the week or what? We look like we're going to finish the week on a positive note Fact remains that tariffs go up on Sunday the 1st of September So in essence while there has been a ceasefire in US China trade We're at a much more advanced stage in terms of higher tariffs than we were a month ago and it certainly I think making investors a little bit nervous of Further upside for stock markets going forward And I certainly think if you look at where stock markets have gone over the course of the past few days We're still pretty much below the resistance levels the key resistance levels that I'm targeting For any degree of confidence that we can go Significantly higher from where we are at the moment if we look at the FTSE 100 for example over the last three days We've come back off some low levels just above seven thousand and twenty seven thousand and thirty We really need to go back significantly above These highs around about seventy two forty seventy two fifty story really open up the possibility of Further gains towards the highs that we saw early on in August more importantly the S&P 500 is probably going to be a very key Arbiter of where we go to next and I think that's no better borne out I think with this daily chart this daily candle chart here. I've zoomed it in Quite closely so you can see the level that I'm talking about and it's essentially where the 50-day moving average is We've got this series of highs Through the middle of August which is around about 29 45 29 45 20 29 50 Also got this Key area of resistance through 29 60 so this window between the 50-day moving average and These previous lows that we saw throughout July in which we broke down through earlier this month in August It's likely to be a key Benchmark a key barometer of whether or not we can make further gains for US markets So this area between 29 45 29 sexy I'm going to be keeping a close eye on In the context of further equity market gains It's a similar sort of story for the German DAX. We have managed to break back above this series of highs through here Now the big question is is this potentially a bit of a reversal or box reversal or a triple bottom or what have you? Which suggests that we might see further gains on this break up through 11 8 8 50 We're certainly 100 points above that now at 11 9 56 Can we get back above the 50-day moving average again? 50-day moving average on the DAX 50-day moving average on the S&P 500 likely to be very key resistance levels in the days and weeks head so That sort of gives you an idea of where we are at the moment. I talked a little bit about the UK suspension of Parliament for four to five weeks and The fact that the pound has taken a little bit of a dip lower on the back of that news Certainly has introduced an element of downside risk now into the overall cable rally That we've seen throughout the first or through the middle through the middle days middle weeks of August and a key event in the next few days or a number of key events over the next few days with respect to Brexit Will be a series of court cases that are due to be held Over the course of Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday Where the suspension of the UK Parliament will be ruled upon by various courts now the interim injunction To stop the prorogation or suspension of Parliament has been rejected by a Scottish court There will be a full hearing on Tuesday or Wednesday in Edinburgh To discuss to consider the merits of the case and the judge has requested a formal affidavit From the Prime Minister on oath as to why he needs to suspend Parliament There will also be another case heard on Thursday in a case brought by Gina Miller and joined by John Major So those court cases all these court rulings could have a key Bearing on where the pound goes to next. I would be very surprised if the court rules against the Executives right to suspend Parliament It is unusual to request a delay of this length in terms of the suspension, but it's certainly not without precedent So watch this space with respect to how the pound performs over the course of the next few days What is clear is we still have this very big area of support between 11980 and 12020 so that remains a very very key support level going forward We do look a little bit overbought on the short-term chart Which would appear to suggest we could drift back down towards the lows But I don't think we're at a stage quite yet where we're likely to break those lows simply because The reversal that we've seen in Euro sterling at the moment shows no signs of Reversing itself you may recall that I talked a few weeks ago about the bearish reversal on the weekly charts We still look as if we're going to finish lower on the week for Euro sterling Despite some fairly hawkish noises from some ECB policy makers this week as to whether or not there will be a Significant stimulus measures brought forward for the ECB meeting which takes place on the 12th of September so in terms of the data coming up I've gone into slightly more detail that I intended to with respect to this video But it's also quite a data heavy week over the course of the next few days And against the backdrop of that we also have the uneasy truce between the US and China over trade never forgetting that We're only one tweet away from another sell-off in equity markets One thing hasn't changed though gold prices are still above the key support and breakout level that we identified at 1480 and The Chinese one still remains well above the 7th level that we broke out of A few weeks ago So while we're above these key support areas on the one and the gold price Then I still remain of the opinion that equity market equity markets remain in sell of the rally mode So next week's key events Against a backdrop of a Fed meeting next month is the latest US payrolls numbers and they're out on The 6th of September and I think the big question at the moment being asked by markets is where the bar is For a red for a Fed rate cut in September. Will it be 25 25 basis points? Well, it be 50 basis points now the upcoming weeks August payrolls report needs to continue the trend of Decent jobs growth of circa 100,000 numbers with wages growth of around about 3% So really dial back any expectation that the Fed will cut by more than 25 basis points now There's still a mixed range of views from Fed policymakers as to what Into whatever direction rates are likely to go despite pressure from President Trump for the Fed to be more aggressive The Fed is starting to push back on that You've seen a series of policymakers come out and push back against the need for Further rate cuts now So that's why the economic data is likely to be much more important will The weaker manufacturing data start to trickle down into weaker services data We've got ISM services data next week. We have got Manufacturing data next week. We've got the ADP employment report next week So there's a whole host of data next week pointing to the strength and the resilience or otherwise of the US economy We've also got other manufacturing and services PMIs from the rest of the world from China from Europe from the UK Those will also Be be key benchmarks in terms of what to expect from the ECB in September from the People's Bank of China in September from the Bank of England going forward no changes expected there before the Brexit day So We'll be looking for evidence in the services numbers as to whether or not we're going to get weakening there We've also got a Bank of Canada rate decision. We have an RBA rate decision It is a big week for data isn't a big week for central banks I think it's unlikely that the Bank of Canada will act on rates in the upcoming week I think it's unlikely that the RBA will act on rates this coming week I think it's more likely that they will wait for the Federal Reserve rate decision later in the month and then if needs be Act at the upcoming meetings in October I always think it's never a good idea to preempt the Fed because you might then have to act again in The following month, so I think it's very much a case of Wait-and-see the economy in Canada thus far appears to be holding up fairly well We also have a Canada payrolls report also on the Friday Join me for that and the US payrolls report on Friday. You can find that on the website and Register for that accordingly As I say the Bank of Canada I think is likely to hold fire wages growth continues to look fairly solid and this more than anything else is likely to keep Prompt a watching brief from the central bank ahead of the August payrolls report, which is again on the 6th of September in terms of Company reports next week. We're fairly light on that But I think there are a couple of noteworthy items that we might want to look at a couple of IPOs This year slack technologies Is reporting on its second quarter for 2020 on the 4th of September and zoom video communications Also, second quarter on the 5th of September. It's also a fairly I think there's also a decent chance that we could get a good insight into the UK retail sector consumer confidence in the UK Has slipped to a significantly low levels over the course of the past two days And we do have numbers from the restaurant group who recently bought wagon numbers chain of restaurants and Dunelm group not exactly a bellwether for UK retail Which to all intents and purposes has had a very difficult year that's far But I think if you're looking for a role model for a retailer Dunelm group is a good candidate for that because it's done very very well over the course of the last year or so They are due to report on the 4th of September wagon numbers Restaurant group on the 3rd of September. So all in all a fairly busy week for economic data an awful lot of macro events due out as well and Also a non-farm payrolls report out on Friday. So feel free to join me for that Until then it's Michael Houston talking to you from CMC markets


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A Jerusalem tour guide posted a sordid tale of scandal to a popular internet messaging board today sharing how his customers got royally ripped off purchasing some rather expensive tea in the popular Shuq Mahanehudah market in Jerusalem. It was such a brazen but intriguing scam that I thought it was worth sharing here to help future tourists avoid getting similarly jubed during their upcoming holidays in the Holy Land. The hapless tourist in question ended up paying the princely sum of 1000 shackles for a plastic bag full of herbal tea laced with sugar cubes, a popular beverage during the hot Middle Eastern summer, and seemingly a great memento from Jerusalem. The problem is that at today's dollar rate that thousand shackles works out to almost $270 which is far more than anybody should be paying for some dried rose petals. Here's a picture of the offending tea. While this may sound like a freak occurrence, dozens of online commenters rushed to confirm this grisly tale of financial shakedown stating that they had been similarly taken advantage of at the popular Jerusalem market. How long the Jerusalem dry tea racket has been operating isn't known, but ground zero of the seedy underworld in the holy city appears to be none other than the seemingly charming Shuq Mahanehudah better known for its fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, and not a few tourists have seemingly had their wallets lightened by falling prey to its charms. So here's the grisly breakdown of how the Jerusalem herbal tea racket apparently operates. Credit for this information goes to the tour guide who shared the post on social media, but as Israel's defamation law frankly sucks, I'm protecting both his identity as well as the offending shop which he mentioned. Scam move 1 The dried fruit tea in question did not have any price tag while the tea next to it had a deceptively low one. The psychological hack here is exploiting human's tendency to assume that dry tea salespeople aren't being total scam artists. If tea A cost $10 a kilo it's pretty reasonable to assume that the one next to it might cost around that, but certainly not 30 times more. The key lesson to learn here, when purchasing goods by weight at a Middle Eastern market you always need to know what the price per kilogram is, and if it's not written you need to ask. Scam move 2 The tour guide who posted this story recalled how the shop vendor in question was unusually generous in handing out samples of the tea for free, but this wasn't his generosity showing, this was rather him laying the next strand in his carefully crafted web of rose petaled dry tea decease. This is sleazy dried flower salesman tactic 101, and another ingenious act of psychological warfare. If a salesperson hands out large quantities of goods as samplers customers will automatically assume that it must therefore be a cheap product, but when the cash register rolls well let's just say they're in for a nasty surprise.  This put the tourists in the awkward position of having to ask the vendor repeatedly to remove some of the herbal tea. Again this is nothing less than a devastating act of psychological hackery plucked straight from the pages of shuck scams 101. No one wants to be the guy who has to ask the dried flower salesman to remove a few more petals to save a few more cents, except it wouldn't be cents. The golden pasta success here exploiting the awesome power of peer pressure to force people to buy more overpriced tea than they could drink in a lifetime. Fortunately this lured tale of Jerusalem deceit has a happy ending. After threatening to post the story on social media our tour guide hero succeeded in forcing a refund for his disgruntled customers.  The lessons learned here always ask about prices and the next time you're buying dried herbal tea in Jerusalem make sure it doesn't cost the equivalent weight in gold.


Okay, Dr. Sanjay Sanyal, Professor, Department Chair. This is going to be the preliminary first dissection of the anterior and the medial compartment of the thigh. So we have completely exposed the right thigh. This is a supine cadaver. I'm narrating from the right side. The camera person is on the left side. So what we see in front of us, straight away we can see this muscle here. This is the sartorius muscle, which takes origin from the anterior sublealia spine, goes obliquely across medially and gets inserted onto the best answer in us on the upper medial part of the tibia. This is also called the tailor's muscle. The sartorius action is, as I mentioned, it's a tailor's muscle, therefore it has got four actions. Flexion of the hip, flexion of the knee, abduction of the hip and lateral rotation of the hip. This was the position which tailors in the earlier days used to use when they used to sit cross-leg on the floor to do their stitching. The next muscle that we can see here is this muscle which I have lifted up. This is the rectus femoris, which is the first component of the quadriceps. When I lift up the rectus femoris, under that we can see another muscle. This is the vastus intermedius. Then we have laterally this muscle. And we can see the fibres are coming from the lateral to the medial side. This is the vastus lateralis. This is the largest of the quadriceps. And then we have this muscle here. We can see the fibres are coming from medial to lateral. This is the vastus medialis. So therefore the quadriceps consists of rectus femoris, vastus intermedius, vastus lateralis and vastus medialis. These four muscles, they combine to form a very strong tendon just above the patella. This is the patella here and this is the quadriceps tendon. And then it forms an aponeurotic expansion over the patella and then it gets inserted by means of the ligamenta patellae which has not been dissected out here to the tibial fibrosis. So this is the full extent of the quadriceps. The most important function of the quadriceps muscle is it's a powerful extensor of the knee. It is three times as powerful as its counterpart antagonist that is the hamstrings which are the flexors of the knee. If there is paralysis of the quadriceps, then there will be severe weakening of the flex tension of the knee. And a person who has got paralysis of the quadriceps, when he tries to walk his knee tends to flex by virtue of the unopposed contraction of the hamstrings. And therefore he tends to walk by holding his thigh just above his knee to support it to prevent it from contracting involuntarily. That is one of the manifestations of paralysis of the quadriceps. To continue with what are the muscles that we can see here, we can see this muscle here. This is the adductor longus. The adductor longus takes origin from the body of the pubic bone and the fibres then come down like this and they get inserted onto the middle one third of the linea aspera which is in the musty aspect of the femur. This adductor longus in riders, those who ride horses for many years, they can develop heterotopic ossification at its origin. That is the tendon of origin of the adductor longus and that is that heterotopic ossification is referred to as riders' bone. Another muscle that we can see here is this one here. This is the gracilis. This gracilis muscle does not have much functional or anatomical use. However, it is used in clinical practice for repairing an incontinent anal sphincter. Now let's mention the femoral triangle. The femoral triangle is a triangle which is bounded naturally by the sartorius and we can see that here. Immediately it is bounded by the adductor longus. The apex of the triangle is where the sartorius crosses the adductor longus. This is the apex of the triangle. And the base of the triangle in this particular category is not visible because he has got a lot of fat which we have to remove. The base of the triangle will be the inguinal ligament which extends from the anterior superior leg spine to the pubic tubercle. We have not completely exposed the femoral triangle yet because it is part of the second section. But at this juncture, I can mention a continuation of the femoral triangle which is referred to as the sub-sartorial or the hunter's canal or the adductor canal. What is this hunter's canal or the adductor canal? It starts from where? The apex of the femoral triangle where the sartorius overlaps the adductor longus. It starts from here. And it ends at the adductor hiatus which is on the back of the knee. It is approximately 15 centimeters long and it is bounded medially by the sartorius muscle. And under the sartorius muscle there is a fascia, part of which we have retained here that is called the sub-sartorial fascia. And there is a plexus called the sub-sartorial plexus. And a little bit of that fascia is visible here. That is the medial boundary. The lateral boundary is the vastus medialis. And the posterior boundary is by the adductor longus and behind that the adductor magnus where it gets attached to the linear aspera. And what are the contents of this adductor canal? The adductor canal basically gives passage to structures from the femoral triangle to the knee. And the contents are from anterior to posterior. We have a longest cutaneous branch of the femoral nerve that is called the syphilis nerve. Then we have the femoral artery and behind that we have the femoral vein. And of course there is a small branch, a branch to the vastus medialis which is also the content of the adductor canal. So this is the adductor location of the adductor canal. We can see this important vein opening into the femoral triangle. This is the long syphilis vein. And if we trace the long syphilis vein we can see that this is the main long syphilis vein which goes one hand with finger width behind the knee and it continues on to the leg. As a matter of fact it starts from the foot and continues up to the leg. Here it pierces through a fascia which is called the crepitiform fascia. And it goes through an opening called the syphilis opening. And then it opens into the femoral vein where the finger is located. The long syphilis vein is a very important vein which is used for any section, any puncture in the leg and it is also used for coronary artery bypass grafting. We have retained a little bit of the fascia here. The whole thigh was covered by this fascia and we can see it's quite a thick fascia. This is called the fascia letter which is the deep fascia of the thigh. This forms a complete encircling cylindrical sleeve around the thigh. And if you want to take a look at the lateral part of this fascia letter we see that it is even more thick and it is almost as thick as a cartilage. This is called the iliotibial tract. This iliotibial tract actually gives attachment to two muscles. One of that we can see partly here. This is the tensor fascia letter muscle. And further posteriorly it gives attachment to a muscle of the gluteal region called the gluteus maximus. And this iliotibial tract then continues further laterally and goes down and gets attached to the tibia on this process here which is referred to as the adrolateral tubercle of Gerdie. This iliotibial tract acts as a functional counterpart of the pest azirinas which is on the medial side which is a composite attachment of three muscles one of which we mentioned was the sartorius. The second component of the pest azirinas is this that is the gracilis. And the third component will be the semitendinosus. So these are the three components of the pest azirinas. So these are the structures that we can see in this particular dissection. More will follow once we dissect out the femurotrangle. Thank you very much for watching. Dr. Sanjay Sanyal signing out. David, how was the camera person? If you have any questions or comments, please put them in the comment section below. Have a nice day.


From the SiliconANGLE Media office in Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Now, here's your host, Stu Miniman. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman with theCUBE and welcome to a special presentation from our Boston area studio. Happy to welcome back to the program. Mike Gersten is part of the executive team at Software One, works on innovation and strategy. Good to see you. Thanks for having me, Stu, appreciate it. All right, so, Mike, you know, this year, last couple of years, I feel like we've been getting some clarity as to this whole, this cloud stuff we've been talking about for more than a decade. The conferences I go to, the customers I speak with, whether they call it hybrid cloud or multi-cloud, they're getting their strategy in shape.  They've got their data center.  And, you know, public cloud, of course, is growing, you talk infrastructure service, the platform's on top of it.  But, you know, before we get into it, why don't you, for people that don't know Software One, you guys, say, you're one of those hipster cloud people. You were doing a lot of these things to set up for the cloud world before we were in talking about cloud. So give us kind of the thumbnail on the company. Yeah, I mean, we're a 30 year old company, you know, we're in 85 different countries and so this is not a new space for us. Certainly, software portfolio management is our domain. We look at that cloud world and we're amazed at the speed with which it's growing and how many new entrants there are in it. Do we have the born in the cloud, as you will call them. We kind of see ourselves as born again in the cloud. We've been managing software portfolios for our customers for decades.  We were recently at VMworld. It was like VMworld's pushing to be more of a SaaS provider, not just an infrastructure provider. You talked to your customers, how are those relationships with their software providers? How sticky are they with a company versus a product? Or, you know, take us inside a little bit how that dynamic works. It's more complex than it's ever been. I mean, the promise of SaaS in particular or cloud in general was that, you know, customers would have more flexibility, more agility. They would be able to, you know, shift the financial management of their software portfolio from a capital expense to an operating expense. And this was appealing to them. And it still is appealing to them. And it's certainly appealing to the software publishers as well because, you know, they move from having to renew a contract every year, every three years, whatever the terms of those license agreements are, to having an essence of relationship and perpetuity with these customers. That's the good news. So it's mutually beneficial, I think, for the publisher and the customer. The bad news is it's introduced a new set of complexities that I think were unforeseen by many of our customers. They, you know, have now empowered Shadow IT in ways that they had never imagined they would before. People are buying countless SaaS in our customers. They're buying countless SaaS applications with credit cards, you know, in HR, in marketing. And the procurement officer has no idea it's happening. The CIO has no idea it's happening. So they're having a harder time really understanding what are they truly spending on software. Yeah, it's a, you know, we're a relatively small company and even for us, we're like, oh, well, SaaS should make it easy. I can grow as I need. If I'm not happy with the provider, I can change. You know, I've got flexibility in there. The reality is once you're using something, you're probably going to keep using it. Whether you're actually getting full utility of what you're spending, how do I manage all of those? Something I hear from the practitioners I talk to all the time is right. We used to have, you know, we talked about server sprawl and now it's like, well, I, you know, everything is sprawl. I keeps adding more and more. I don't audit it well. I don't keep track of it. You know, how do I get financial guidance around there? So that's where you guys, you know, help come in some. Yeah, I would say that, you know, our Forte as a company is really around what, you know, that vendor management, the asset management and what you're mentioning now, the financial management aspects. Whereas, you know, many of the folks that are focused just on the cloud pieces are focused more maybe on the resource management. How much disk am I using? How much memory am I using? For us, it's about, are you spending the right amount? Have you right-sized your investment? Do you have compliance risk? And on the right-sizing investment, we could use, say, I as consumption analytics as an example, I was with a customer last week and, you know, they're using one of our tools to analyze how much spend they have with Azure, with a Microsoft IaaS solution. Now that's an upfront commit for them. So they have hundreds of thousands of dollars of upfront commit in Azure spend. When they ran the consumption analytics and looked at the predictive, you know, the telemetry and the predictive analytics, what they determined was that they were gonna well overspend relative to their commitment. Well, it turned out that they also had workloads that just during off hours were consuming a tons of IaaS resources. They didn't need to be. So they just needed to right-size that investment. They were gaining the visibility into that. But most of our customers aren't even looking at that. They don't have that visibility. Yeah, it was interesting. We used to talk, you know, in the data center, it was, oh, you know, 70, 80, 90% of your budget is spent keeping the lights on. I got people running around trying to manage that. I talked to plenty of companies that like, I dedicated engineer to figuring out how to architect and manage that financial spend. Because there are those architectural differences and right, do I get, you know, Amazon? Is it reserved instances and I'm gonna lock in for three years, wait, do I have flexibility if the new instance comes out? Am I actually using what I spent? Do I have to worry about the resale market? I mean, it's a really, cloud is supposed to be simple. It was supposed to be easier. Yeah, how do we get here? Yeah, that's right. And it's funny you said earlier that, you know, most of these companies now have their cloud strategy. I'd argue that it isn't a cloud strategy they have. What they have is a document that acknowledges they're consuming cloud app. And they truly are, they're consuming a ton. They're just not really sure how much. And that's a challenge for them. You know, in the old world and the on-premises world, I shouldn't even say the old world. 85% of our customers' software portfolios is still on-premises today. So we're really talking about the migration to cloud which makes up maybe somewhere in the range of 15% of that portfolio. But in the old world, we used to look at what is a customer entitled to use? What is their license agreement with the vendor? And we would compare that to what they've installed or consumed. You know, their inventory or the use of the applications on the on-premises world. In the cloud world, it's the same formula. It hasn't changed. But now the entitlement is a subscription. And on the other side of the equation, there's no inventory. It's just all consumption. So we're just comparing consumption to subscription. Yeah, Mike, I love your discussion of the strategy there. It's like forecasting. If we look backwards, we're always really good at kind of justifying what we have. Maybe strategy is just like, yeah, I've kind of figured out where I am today. And at least that's the base point. So it's a good first piece. But right, yeah, where do I figure out going forward? I want to pick up on the application discussion because yeah, absolutely. Look, my data center or my hosted environment where really I own and manage a large part of the stack. It's where a lot of stuff is today. Wikibon, we've been writing for the last couple of years what we call true private cloud, which is how do I get the operational model and efficiencies that I'm promised in the public cloud. We can argue whether or not it's true or not. In my own environments, and a lot of that is that application management. And any great trends that you're seeing, I mean, everything from, we say what gravity is there around certain public clouds? Of course, Amazon was really good at the start with developers. Microsoft, of course, has a huge application portfolio. Oracle doesn't get discussed as much in kind of the cloud world, but they have a huge cloud push. They're satisfying much of what they have and they've got some of the stickiest applications in the world. I'm sure your customers talk to you lots about Oracle licensing and the like. So what trends are you seeing? We've looked at, this year we've been arguing a little bit, lift and shift. Is it a waste of time? Is it super sexy because it gets me to move on to something different? What are you hearing from your customers? How do they look at their application portfolio and try to manage that? Where does that get your team involved? Yeah, I think in the on-premises world that they were always tools to manage that. You think of operations management tools or software distribution tools. Those tools just change. There's a need for software management tools in the cloud space, but they're not distribution. They're now things like what you were mentioning, telemetry to ensure that I've matched my subscription to what I'm actually consuming. Or for that matter, compliance. Now you mentioned workload lift and shift and I do think it's sexy for what it's worth. I think there's a great opportunity there because many of these workloads do belong in the cloud. What I'm a little dubious of still is whether or not it's just a tool's play. I don't think that we're going to be able to just go out and say I can use this tool to evaluate my applications and say this application belongs in this cloud environment and I can press this button and it will move. I think you need people to help with that. I think you need really intelligent consultants to help with that and it's a combination of the tool set and the intellectual capital that you bring to it. No, Mike, and I'm with you and I'm a little torn on lift and shift because the one hand, I'm worried about taking something old, putting it in the new place and not doing something different with it because as we know, I want to be able to take advantage of those flexibilities but if I get it on the new platform, there's the opportunity to leverage new services. Maybe I can start pulling apart pieces of it and it gives me options to make updates. I've talked to people that work on research of let's just not talk about the application, let's talk about the productivity of the people behind that and I know lots of people you talk healthcare. I'm running on software systems that are 20 or 30 years old sometimes. It takes a long time to change. There's so many interdependencies. One of those things, IT is really tough and if you talk enterprise, SimpliVity, I say is really an oxymoron. So we need to make steps in the right direction. Re-platforming is a first way to get in that direction. I agree. Yeah, all right. We've been talking to software one since launch of a product called PureCloud. So why don't you give us the update on this? What's the latest with it? Before you get into it, I know there's some new features from when the product was first announced today. What learnings have you had? What's been the kind of embrace by customers and how things baked out over the last year or so? Yeah, we look at PureCloud. I'm trying to think of the best analogy.  For the category of expenses, what they do is they capture all that data, all of your expenses, and it's one place where now you can easily create the report, submit it for reimbursement, but they also have connections into the vendors for hotels and flights, and so you can actually purchase those things through the expense management tool. And then that point of purchase is captured that data's already in the system. Huge advantage. We do the same thing, but for the category of software. So that's really what PureCloud is. You don't have to transact with us. You don't have to buy software through software one. We sell a lot of software. We sell billions of dollars worth of software, but many of our customers will use the platform and not buy one dollar worth of software from us. But the idea is if you have a place where you're capturing the data at point of purchase, so now you understand what your entitlements are, and that is on-premises and in the cloud. And entitlement is a tricky thing because just a transaction history doesn't really tell you everything. Now you have to normalize that data. How much of something do I really own? How am I allowed to use it? You need to enrich that data. Do I have upgrade, downgrade privileges? Can I use it in certain geographies and not in other geographies? Once you have all that information on the transaction ownership from the point of purchase, you can now compare it to, you can look at it against how you're using it. And that exists in the cloud and that exists on-premises. It's a new dynamic for a lot of companies in the cloud because they don't have visibility into it at all. In the on-premises world, they've been looking at it but they haven't been, many of them have been looking at it from one side of the equation backwards, which is the inventory side back to the entitlement side. So they might say, oh, I went out and I discovered all this software that I'm using in my environment, but they don't have the entitlement data. So they don't know, am I allowed to be using it this way? So I'll walk through it really quickly with you. If the entitlement is greater than the inventory in the on-premises world, then you've purchased too much, you need to right size your investment. That's an easy math for a customer. And if the inventory is greater than the entitlement, well, then they have a compliance issue and we all know that some of these big software publishers will come after them and hit them with a big bill they weren't expecting. Yeah, it's one of the things that's really exciting me about kind of the world of software these days is there's platforms like what you're talking about. Once I kind of aggregate the information, there's a lot of intelligence that can be applied to it. And can you talk to me about how much do I need people involved? How much do you have the finance people in there and how much is just the intelligence in this system? I don't know whether you call it AI or ML or whatever you have, but gosh, for years in the kind of the data world, it was like, well, I don't have the metadata. And now a lot of this can be self-finding. Once I get it in the system, they can learn a lot on themselves and enable a lot of activity. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned the term metadata because I think that's kind of the foundation of our platform. It's really how we go about tagging resource management. So we will tag and create metadata for every resource that's in both a cloud or an on-premises environment. And that's important because if you, let's use the cloud world as an example, the cloud providers have tagging systems built in, but all of them are different. All of them use different nomenclature, some of them don't have any at all. And so you have to have some kind of overarching tagging mechanism that kind of reconciles that across everything, an aggregation layer, if you will. That's something that we do with PyroCloud. It's really important. It's the foundation of the platform. Once you have that in place, then you can apply it to what your organizational structure looks like. And you may have organizational structure set up geographically, by department, by service line. So it's important. I know what all my resources are. I know how they're tagged. I know how I'm going to apply them in my organization. And then you apply those accesses. You have time and money and that's the budgeting process. How much does Software 1 just take care of that versus does the company go in, manually do stuff? Is there an API to integrate with some of the other pieces that we're working on? It is not purely a software play. And I think anybody that tells you that it is, is blowing smoke. Because we have almost 1,000 consultants in our organization and they range from procurement, outsourcing experts to software asset management experts, to backend support. And so yeah, it is both platform and services that you need to bring to bear to solve this problem for customers. It's an astute observation on your part. Okay, Mike, so what about the updates? What's new with the product? And talk to us a little bit about where we expect things to go down the road. Yeah, so if you know the history of the product, you'll remember that we did all the transaction pieces. We were really good on the asset management side. What we had phenomenal reporting in analytics, especially in the cloud consumption analytics for IS providers, consumption analytics for different SaaS providers. But really what we've done is we've extended that much more deeply to the financial management pieces. So we've created very rich budgeting tools that are solving customer problems that we've been hearing about. Things like how do I more effectively do charge backs? Especially with cloud technologies where they're being bought in a decentralized fashion. How do I centralize that and then do some kind of charge back internally? We have customers now that are asking us how do I do markups? So I want to actually turn my purchasing group into a profit center, and they're doing that. And so we've given them a tool to be able to do things like markups within. How do I automate the invoicing process? We've gone through that with them as well. Ultimately, all we're trying to do for our customers is manage their entire portfolio across the entire lifecycle. So from acquisition through disposition across the portfolio, whether it be on-premises software, whether it be in the cloud, whether it be hybrid or multi-cloud, they need one place where they can manage their entire portfolio. Like, how are customers doing with kind of the management of all their software assets? I think back, I've talked about the data center world. It's like, well, I'm really bad at predicting what I need. So half the customers I talk to are like three years in and I'm using 30% of what I bought. Oh my gosh, I can't believe how many millions of dollars I spent. The other half are like, wait, I'm out of budget because I really under forecasted things. Your customers, how are they doing and what's a typical customer get when they work with software one? They save in 10%, they save in 90%. Where do they fit in that ballpark? So we've done some analytics on our customer base and the average is about 33% overspend across their portfolio. So they acknowledge that they're spending more than 30% than they should on their software which is pretty significant when you consider the software represents upwards of 20% of an IT budget and IT represents upwards of 5% of overall revenue in terms of spend. So it's a big dollar amount. Interestingly enough though, I can't answer that question the way you probably want me to because some of our customers just say, you know what, we'll bury that into our costs. We'll buffer our budget and just accept the fact that we're going to spend 30% more than we should. It's a shame because if they weren't spending that 30%, they could take that money and drive it down to the bottom line.  I saw the public cloud came out there and they said, remember how you have to overspend? Now you can have the little charts, what you need and I can burst and everything. Why can't I have the perfect world where I spend exactly what I need when I need it? Why isn't that worked out? Because you can't make a decision on what you can't see. And they have a very limited visibility into where that spend is happening. And so that's half the challenge. It's why you see so many of these point solutions in the cloud now are just purely consumption analytics guys. And it's because we're solving an important problem. Visibility is an important problem. You need to go past visibility though. You need to take that intelligence, make it actionable. You need to take that visibility and then turn it into control for customers. And I think that's what's missing in the industry right now. It's a problem we're trying to solve. Okay, talk to us a little bit more about the future. What should we expect to see from software one? What are some of the hot issues you're hearing from customers that you're looking to solve down the road? I think that the sprawl is going to continue at a rapid pace, particularly in the SaaS world. So it went from being dozens of SaaS providers to now being thousands of SaaS providers. And most customers are telling, we hear from our customers that they acknowledge that they have 20, 30 SaaS tools in their environment, that they have no idea who's buying them, where they exist. There's some interesting solutions out there to discover where that SaaS spend is happening, whether it be connecting to a identity store to determine if people are logging into a SaaS tool or even connecting into the general ledger to see if people are spending at the departmental level on SaaS solutions. So that's a big problem right now. The IaaS side was where a lot of the focus was in the cloud for a long time and continues to be, and justifiably so, it makes up the line share, the spend in the cloud market. But that's changing, that's changing pretty rapidly right now. Yeah, the last thing I want to ask you, but bring back software one, you deal with a lot of publishers. And while we're talking, I'm sure IBM, Oracle and Infor probably all made an acquisition. How do customers look at that consolidation in the market play? Is it good for them to have fewer companies that they can work with? Do they have less leverage? Is it so disaggregated out there that the customer doesn't really have any leverage with the suppliers anymore? You know, how does that work? It's tough to generalize on that, but I can say that we have some customers that are very dubious of some of these acquisitions, particularly in the cloud analytics space, because what's happening is now those publishers, and we work with over 10,000 publishers, so you're right, those publishers have bought cloud analytics tool providers or they've developed their own, but customers don't just use one cloud. They use dozens and dozens of clouds, and so what they need is a view over all of it, and these publishers now they're making these acquisitions are focusing on just what is the analytics they're going to provide to their customers on their solution, just a very small part of the problem. Yeah, other than of course software one, who's doing a good job helping customers across that multi-cloud world? Any companies you partner with or people, you look out and you say they're doing a good job, they're thinking of the customers, they're solving real problem, or I worry about these acquisitions right there, they're growing their base, they're growing their applications, they're not solving some of those core customer issues that you talked about, which is getting my arms around this whole multi-cloud environment. Yeah, I bounce back and forth on an opinion with that because I think at their core, the publishers are not evil, I don't believe they're evil, I do think they want to provide to customers the solutions that best meet those customers' needs, so I think they care about providing good intelligence to the customer. They just can't provide it outside of their own view. As far as outside of the publisher community, competitors of ours that do a good job, we see very strong competitors in categories. So cloud management providers that are very strong, we see good on-premises portfolio managers that are very strong, we've yet to see anybody that's managing the full portfolio strongly, we think that's our opportunity as a company. Mike Hurston, software one, really appreciate you joining us, really digging into this multi-cloud environment. It's a big issue, really happy to get the update from you and share with our community how all of this is working. 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Well, thank you for the introduction. Thank you very much to the organizers for giving me the chance to speak here. And thanks to the audience for coming to my talk. So today I want to talk about this construction of Galois representations. So everything I'll talk about today is joint work with Sakwu Shin. So there's also a preprint on the archive. So if you're interested, you can read more details there. So the F. So I'll start with the setup. Then state my theorem or our theorem. And I'll give some ideas that go into the proof. So F here is a totally real number field. We take the integer n, at least three. Basically, because for n is equal to two, better theorems are known already. And I take gamma equal to the Galois group of F. I take L, some prime number. And I will fix throughout the talk some isomorphism of C with QL bar. And this group GSP. So this is the group such that for all rings, all commutative rings R, we have GSP to n of R is equal to the set of all matrices of size 2n by 2n, such that G transpose, such that it fixes the standard alternating form up to a scalar. So this an is the matrix of size n with zeros everywhere, except on the anti-diagonal. Oh, yes. Thank you. So it's this one. OK, so that's the general symplectic group. So you see here this x. So we're preserving the form up to a scalar. And that's somehow the point of my talk. So if you ask that it preserves the pairing on the nose, you get the symplectic group. And in this case, everything that I'm about to say is already known. So the question is really about generalizing the results for the symplectic group to the group GSP. OK, so we want to construct Galois representations. And they take value in the, so in general, they should take values in the dual group. So in the case of GSP to n, the dual group is the so-called general spin group. So this group is a double cover. So if I didn't have the G, we have the spin group, which is a double cover of SO, like this. But if you add the G, you get G0. And here G spin 2n plus 1. So the point of this dual group is that if you have, so say pi is some automorphic representation of GSP to n, then you can decompose it into a restricted tensor product of local representations. So here I have GSP to n of fv. And these things, they will be unremovified for almost all places, for almost all v. And in those cases, the representation is classified by some semi-simple conjugacy class in this dual group. So that's how this dual group arises first in the picture. So given an automorphic representation, you get some kind of infinite sequence of conjugacy classes in this dual group. OK, so this is what my theorem is about. So we take pi, hospital, automorphic representation of GSP to n af, satisfying some two technical conditions. So the first one is called the homological. So I wanted the representation at infinity, twisted by some character, is homological, which means it's the algebraic homology doesn't vanish. And the Steinberg assumption is that there exists a finite f place vst such that pi is isomorphic at this place to the Steinberg representation up to twist. So for some smooth character chi. So these are the conditions. And then the statement is that there exists some Galois representation, which depends on this isomorphism. But I'll suppress that in a notation that comes from the absolute Galois group and takes values in G spin 2n plus 1 ql bar such that for all v away from some explicit set of places, we have that rho pi of the Frobenius semi-simplified is conjugate to this matrix phi v. And then I want it in ql bar, so I take the iot of it. And this s, these are all finite f places above l, the discriminant of f, and all primes p such that pi p is unremifed. So this is an unremifed representation of Gsp 2n. OK, so this s, it's slightly larger than just the set of unremifed places, but it is completely explicit. It was a set of places where pi ramifies, but it's completely explicit. OK, so we prove more properties of this representation, but in this talk, I want to focus just on the Frobenius conjugacy classes. So one of the things we prove, for instance, if pi l is unremifed, then this rho pi satisfies the expected state property that it's crystalline. So that's one of the properties we also prove. But I will just focus on this. So to prove this result, we proceed in three steps. So this step one is to prove the theorem under some extra condition, some auxiliary condition, which is this condition called spin regularity. So this condition asks, on top of the conditions that we already have, that there exists some infinite f place, v0, such that if I look at the infinitesimal character of pi at this place, so that's some real algebraic morphism from c star into the spin group. So I can compose this with the spin representation. And I want that this composition defines a regular co-character. So that's this condition spin regularity. So this is quite a strong condition. So it's a very few, quite a few representation satisfy it. But the idea is that in later steps, I'm also going to talk about this. We can remove this condition again using an eigen variety argument. OK, but let's still focus on step one. OK, maybe I can put this on top. So in step one, the idea is to try to combine two big results. So the first big result we try to use is Arthur's description of the discrete spectrum of the symplectic group now. So this theorem will certainly apply to the things we get from our kind of representations. And the second result is to use the proof of Kizin and Paziu, proof of the Rapaport, the Langlands Rapaport conjecture for similar varieties of a billion type, plus upcoming work of Kizin, Shin, and Zhu to deduce the Kotwitz point counting formula from this conjecture. And it's stabilization, point counting formula, the stabilization. So it's only this point counting formula that I need. So there is a small caveat that actually the full statement to conjecture is not known. But there is enough known to be able to deduce this point counting formula. So that's good enough for what I want to do. OK, so now the idea is to try to use these two sources of information. So we have some, so take some pi as in the theorem, but I add additionally this condition. So it's also spin regular. So the first thing you can do is just extract from pi an automorphic representation of the symplectic group. So this symplectic group, it's some subgroup. And I just take the restriction like this. And OK, then I get some representation. It will be some huge direct sum of irreducible representations to symplectic group. But I just choose one. I don't really care which. And I call this thing pi flat. OK? And pi flat is a representation to which I can apply Arthur. So using these results of Arthur, what you can do is you can actually transfer pi flat to an automorphic representation on GL2N plus 1. And on this group, you can use the known constructions of Galois representations which are already known. So what you get is basically from Arthur for the transfer and then Shin and other people for the Galois representations. What you get is a representation of the absolute Galois group that takes values in SO2N plus 1. I want to make more space. Sorry. So I'm going to S SO2N plus 1 UL bar. OK, so that's what you get from this. So this group SO2N plus 1, it is covered by this spin group. And like I stated in the theorem, the expected representation should take values in this group. You see the kernel here is just GM. So there's no problem to lift the representation. So what you could do is first just take an arbitrary lift, just something. But then, of course, you run into problems because you do not know that this arbitrary lift satisfies this condition on the Frobenius conjugacy classes. So you can try to get some more information using the central character of pi. But this will tell you only things. So if you take more than one lift, several lifts, they will all differ by characters with values in QL bar star. But using the central character of pi, you only get information on the square of those characters. So it seems like just by doing this and then trying to lift, you do not have enough information to construct the right representation. But you can lift. It is possible to lift. It's just you don't know how to assure this condition. OK, so that's what you get from RTIR. So now, because we have this Langlis-Rappelport conjecture for Schmura varieties of a obedient type, I can take some appropriate inner form of gsp2n over f and look at the Galois representation in the cohomology of this Schmura variety. So let me just write it h star Schmura. And then you want to take some isotypical component.  In, well, first, it will be true to the n dimensional. But then you may also get some automorphic multiplicity, for which you do not know if it's one. So from RTIR, you get something here. From them, you get something there. And now you want to combine the information. So the first thing you can do is you can look at I just embed gl2 to the n by blocks in here. And the first thing you want to show is that this representation here is actually the eighth power of some representation. So that's actually not obvious in general. But there is a lemma in the book of Harrison Taylor, which says that if you can show that the Hodge state numbers appear with this multiplicity, and the traces at Frobenius elements also appear with the right multiplicity, then actually it factors. So here already you can get the factorization thanks to this spin regularity assumption. So then you have some representation in here. And well, the idea is to try to compare it with that one. So here, of course, we have spin. So the idea is to go to pgl2 to the nql bar. And then here we have some induced representation. Let's just call it spin bar. So I have a square like this. And now I have two ways to get into pgl2 to the n via Arthur and via the Shimura variety. And what you will know at this point, well, certainly you control the representation of Arthur at the unremifed places. You know much more, but certainly at the unremifed places it's OK. So what you can show quite easily is that these two things are conjugate on the Frobenius elements. So spin bar of rho pi flat at the Frobenius semi-simplified is conjugate to let's just call it rho pi Shimura for the induced representation here. Bar, because I want to go to pglm. So we know that this one is conjugate to that one as projective matrices. It's not true, but let's just suppose that I could draw from this the implication that now the representations are conjugate. Suppose I could deduce that spin bar rho pi flat is conjugate to rho pi Shimura bar. Well, then I claim then it's done. Because if the two things are conjugate here, so conjugate really in pgl 2 to the n ql bar, well, then I just conjugate to one to the other so that they are now equal. And then I just say this diagram is Cartesian. So now I have two things taking, right? So I just have a Cartesian square, so I get the induced map. And for this induced map, you know that at the spin, the Frobenius elements are of the right form. And then there is a theorem of Steinberg that actually the Frobenius elements are conjugate to the correct conjugacy class. So the issue is really at this question mark. So, yeah, so let's think about that. So in GLN, it's of course a well-known result that if you have two n-dimensional Galois representations that are conjugate on the Frobenius elements, then they are conjugate. Well, at least if they are semi-simple. But for other groups, this is just completely false, OK? So for PGL-M, there are known counter examples. So in general, you cannot make this implication, OK? But the point is that the spin regularity saves us. So there's the following, let's say lemma, just some lemma with group theory, so which says that if I have two projective Galois representations where R1 from V is conjugate to R2 from V semi-simple for all V away from some finite set of places and R1 strongly irreducible. So this is kind of the extra thing you have to assume. Then R1 and R2 are conjugate. So what does strongly irreducible mean? So it means that it's a representation that's irreducible. But it also stays irreducible when restricted to every open subgroup of the absolute Galois group. So this kind of kills the finite image examples. So in the lemma, then gives you that the two things are conjugate as projective representations. So going back to this board, apparently it's enough to show that one of these two things is strongly irreducible. And so we can actually show that spin bar. So actually, in fact, under spin regularity, we can show that the image of the representation of R2 in SO2 and plus 1 is this subgroup of SO2 and plus 1 is Zariski-Denz. No one to explain all the details, but the rough idea is that we have this Steinberg assumption. So there is one finite place where the automorphic representation is the Steinberg representation. And then you can show that this restricted guy is also the Steinberg, and then you use local global compatibility to see that the Galois representation has in its image regular unipotent element. And subgroups of SO2N, so just algebraic subgroup of SO2N containing such elements, they are classified. And there are only very few examples. And I just look at the examples. And I see that none of them can contain. So if the representation would factor over one of these examples, you would just see that the parameter cannot be spin regular, OK? So that's how you see that this is Zariski-Denz image. Well, and then, of course, spin bar is irreducible representation as algebraic group. So then when I compose, I get something strongly irreducible here, and then the argument works. OK, is that clear? Kind of. OK, so that's step one. So at this point, we know this theorem above. Under this extra assumption, and in step two, we want to remove the condition. So step two. So here the idea is to use the eigen variety to remove the spin regularity again. But then, actually, it turns out that this argument only works for us in certain cases. So we are basically replacing this technical condition with some other technical condition. But that other technical condition can be removed using patching and base change. So I don't want to talk about this third step, because here I really just apply known results. So yeah, we do very little here. So I just want to focus on step two. And I'll just do it for an example to kind of give the flavor how the argument works. OK, so eigen variety, variety. So I'll just take f over q real quadratic. Of course, that's not enough for the general case. But I'll also assume that this time replace does not divide l. This is also not the condition in our theorem. And when it does divide, you get some technical problems. And I'll also assume that pi l has invariant vectors for the eva-hori subgroup. So in general, you can try to put yourself in this situation by using the space change. The argument explained before used that Vsp that had the vector, to show that the image in S of the first one contains a regular element. Well, if it does divide, you have to use local global compatibility at l. So you have to show that then still you can make some attach, some wider linear representation to this pi flat at those places. And then see that the unipotent matrix that you get satisfies the conditions that you need. So the eigen variety, let me first give a vague idea what we try to do. So now we start with pi, as in the theorem, but without this condition. So then the rough idea is you have this eigen variety, which is some l-addict space. And this pi, it defines a point on it, z pi. And besides this one particular point, you have many classical points. And they should somehow be dense. And then among those classical points, I have some subset of points for which I know the theorem, right? So these are the points that satisfy spin regularity and Steinberg. So the game is that you want to show that you can approximate this point on the eigen variety with points for which you know the theorem. So let me make this a little bit more precise. So first, what properties do I need of the eigen variety? So by Leuphler, Sien-Nivier, and Buzzard, and other people, we know that there exists some triple, e psi c, where e over ql is a reduced, rigid analytical space over ql. And psi is a map from some Hecker algebra to the rigid sections of e. So this Hecker algebra is just a Hecker algebra of functions that take values in some sufficiently large finite extension of ql. And I put, oh, I forgot to define the group. So I take gc inner form. So I work with eigen varieties for some compact inner form of g. So I take the inner form of gsp, which is compact mode center at infinity. So because it's real quadratic, there are two places at infinity. And I want it to be quasi-split at all finite places. So there is just gsp itself. So then this Hecker algebra will be the Hecker algebra of functions away from my bad set at infinity. And if I'm not at these places, the group will be isomorphic to the symplectic group. So I have some integral models, and I just use the integral model that I get from gsp. And then I take just a hyper-special group. So this is the Hecker algebra. And c is some subset of e, which is Zariski dense, and accumulation. An accumulation and Zariski dense subset. Okay, and they don't have space here, but satisfy some condition. So such that, so this triple is such that. So if I have my eigen variety, I can take points in there. I can make a map to the ring morphisms from this unremovified Hecker algebra with values in ql bar. Because, okay, so if I have my point, what I can do is when given an element in the algebra, I can put it in psi. Right, and then I get some rigid analytic function, and I look what it is at x. So this gives me a map from the eigen variety to this home. So in the eigen variety, I have my c, and they are supposed to be the classical points. Right, so they shoot the map to all ring morphisms f from the Hecker algebra into ql bar. Such that there exists tau, some automorphic representation of this compact form. Okay, plus a condition on the central character, which I prefer not to talk about, such that f is basically the trace character of tau. So such that for all h in the Hecker algebra, I have that f of h. So that's an L-addict number is equal to the trace of h against tau, which is a complex number. So I take iota of that to get ring morphism to ql bar. So this is some subset, and what we ask is that this c is projecting precisely on this subset of classical things. And because the classical things there are zariski dense and accumulates, now this c really knows a lot about e, right? What do you mean by that? Is it different from a dense seeking? Well, you have two topologies on e, right? So you have the zariski topology, and you have the rigid topology. So accumulate means that if I take some point here, then there is a basis of affinoid opens, such that for each of these affinoid opens, when I intersect it with c, I get something that is still zariski dense. But this is really some technical thing. Okay, so this is the eigen variety, or these are some properties of the eigen variety. So of course more things are known. For instance, what description of the fiber of this map, but I don't really need that. Okay, so we have this space. So that's basically this box. So now I want to use the version of the theorem, which is already known, right? So I want to use these points. But now, of course, you are worried maybe they are not dense, right? So the classical points, they are dense, but maybe these points for which I know the theorem, maybe they are not dense. So we have to be worried about that. Okay, but before saying that, so I have my f pi, right? So I have my automorphic representation pi. Okay, I'm sweeping under the rock that I can transfer it to this compact inner form, but this is possible. So this defines some function in here. And I choose my point above it. So this is z pi, so that's the point that I isolated. Okay, so now we want to deal with the issue of non-density. So the idea is to alternate the eigen variety to some space that covers it, in which you do know that the theorem is true for the classical points. So the following proposition, which says that there exists some map f from some space to e, such that following things hold. So f is a finite composition of open immersions and finite morphisms. Okay, so the map is not too crazy. The image of this f still contains the point that we are interested in. And for all classical points lying in the image, we know that the condition Steinberg holds for tau c, by which I just mean the automorphic representation corresponding to this tau corresponding to this c. And last, there is some family of representations, rstd, that take value in gl or rig. Okay, so I also wanted to give some properties of this x. So x is affinoid reduced and irreducible. Okay, and then basically this x is a better thing for us to work with instead of the variety e. So I want to give a quick sketch of the proof. So sketch. So the construction of Galois representations for this symplectic group is known in much more cases, right? There you do not notice Steinberg assumption or these regularity assumptions. So actually we can show that for all c in c, there exists some beta c, which takes values in gl 2m plus 1ql bar, such that beta c, such that the trace of the Frobenius against beta c is what it should be. So that's the trace of this conjugacy class. So the standard representation of this conjugacy class and an iota of this for all v away from my set of bad places. So actually this uses a result of Tybee plus Shin and so on for the construction of the Galois representation. This is because now I am on this inner form of the symplectic group. So I actually would need Arthur's theorem for this inner form, which is not written down yet. But Tybee, he did it for some certain inner forms of which the one I took is an example. So actually by Tybee we can still make the Galois representations in this case. So now we can interpolate. So that's some result of Chez Neuvier. There exists a pseudo character to the rigid analytic sections on E, such that for all classical points and for all v not in s, I have that t standard evaluated at the Frobenius is the same, evaluated at the point c, is the same as the trace of this beta c at the Frobenius. So now we have this family. And then another result, Chez Neuvier, is that once you have such a family, then you can look at the locus in E where the local representations are absolutely irreducible. And he shows that this is open, some lemma in this paper. So this is an open sub of E. And by Taylor-Yoshida, we know that at our point, I have this Steinberg assumption, I know that the standard representation will be, this beta c will be irreducible. So this will tell me that this point that I took lies inside this irreducibility locus. Okay, so in the end I wanted f to be some finite composition of open immersions and finite morphisms. So up to changing notation, I can now just assume actually that E irreducibility is just equal to E. I just make E smaller. And I also can take an affinoid and irreducible, just take some irreducible component that passes through my point. Okay, so now if this smaller thing, and then what you do is you look at this algebra, A O-Rig of this smaller thing, modulo the kernel of this standard representation, and then you have this theorem of Ruckier. Precisely because I'm over the irreducibility locus which says that A is an azomaya algebra. Okay, so I have an azomaya algebra. So I can split it. So choose, take some f, let's say from some space y to E, some etal map, such that algebra is split. Right, and then, so then I get on this y really a family of representations. Right, because the family is just, I just have the standard embedding of gamma s into this algebra, which then is isomorphic to the matrix algebra over y. So that's how I get this family. And then? Choosing if it's possible to make what it's azomaya. Yeah, yeah, so otherwise this is some crazy algebra. That's what you will say, we'll find out in a second. Okay, so we have this thing, so then you have this theorem of Bella Is, which is basically the Grotendieg monodromy theorem in families. So here I'm using this assumption that this VST does not divide L, otherwise you have to work with results of Berger and Comes, but I don't want to talk about that. So we now just have this Grotendieg monodromy theorem, which says that there is really some family of nilpotent operators on this space y, such that for all c and y, so for all classical points, this nc is, yeah, the usual is the monodromy of beta c at the place VST. Okay, so it's saying that these operators somehow are nicely behaved when they vary in a nice family over this variety y. So I can, so now note that, so observe that. Okay, so sorry, I take x just the space where this n is the maximal operator, so where n to the 2n is not zero in y. So this is some open, right, this is an open condition. And moreover, I will know that, so I know still that I haven't lost my point, that if I look at this map here, still hits my point z pi. Okay, and that's just because I know what the unipotent operator of z pi is at VST, so I just see that it is in x. And then I have satisfied all the conditions. Okay, so now I should wrap up. Okay, so now we have this space x, so we can define c spin reg in c. So these are just all the classical points that satisfy this extra condition on the weights, that they are spin regular, and it's not difficult to see that this is still a Zariski dance and accumulation subset. So now I can do this interpolation again. So again by this result of Chez Neuvier, there exists some pseudo-character t-spin from gamma s to o-rig of x now, such that for all c in c spin regular, which is a Zariski dance and accumulates for all c in x with f of c in c spin regular, we have that for all v not in s t-spin of the Frobenius at c is equal to the trace of the spin of rho c. So here I use the theorem, which I know. So then I have this family of representations, and I can specialize it at a point. So specialization of t-spin at my point now gives the spin of rho pi. So this constructs the two to the n dimensional representation. So this is only part of the story because the next thing you have to do is actually show that this factors over the spin group. And then so to do that we again use arguments in families to kind of show that in families this thing is contained in the spin group. But I don't have time to explain it, so I'll stop here. I have a lot of questions about an announcement. This is good news, since you have quoted at least two of the chapters of the book project, one of these synergies, article in the Sorenson's article on touching. The news is that it's actually almost finished, both of you who were born when this project began. Book one, maybe some people don't even know that it actually was published some years ago, but without a lot of publicity. Book two is now waiting for the revised version of its last chapter, and it's going to be published by Cambridge University Press. Probably it will be available some point next year. What's the title of it? Oh, whatever. Whatever the title is. Something in it. So something like stabilization of the trace formula for more varieties and a lot more things. We'll have a title. Is that proposition on the right, is that very hard to prove? Well, it would have been very hard for me if I didn't have the papers of Genevieve and Bel-Aish, because for me it was basically just kind of collecting ideas of them. Well, I'm thinking of the locally equivalent implying globally equivalent. Is that the proposition you've got there? Ah, the previous one. No, that's not so difficult. Does it work for other groups, other than PGLN? I've been looked at in that case. Yeah, I've tried, but I've failed, but I don't want to claim that it's hard. So maybe you just have to try a bit harder. So can you prove anything without this time there? You expect this one to be true without that? Yeah, so there are many problems, so we have been trying and each time we run into problems. Also, one of the annoying things is, so we have GSP to end over this totally real field, right? Actually, the Shimura variety we use is not for this group. We have to pass through some inner form. You really want that this inner form is compact at all but one of the infinite places, right? Because if you do more, then you do not get the spin representation, but some tensor product. So this means that you want all infinite places but one to be compact, which actually means that if the dimension of F is even over Q, you have to introduce some finite place where the group is also non-split. And this basically means that you cannot see all the automorphic representations appear. So right now for us this wasn't the problem because we had the Steinberg place anyway. So then we can put the non-trivial thing precisely at the Steinberg component, but if you try to remove it, then you also get problems there. I'm sorry, it wasn't that proposition, it was the lemma that you proved about two... Your remarks were applying to the lemma. Yeah, yeah, not a rigid thing, just the elementary, yeah. Could you replace Steinberg by square to global? It has to transfer to GLM to something that's square to global. Yes, so you want at least something that comes from the non-trivial inner form? Yeah, but yeah, then I have to think very carefully. Maybe you can do something, but... Can you remove that parity condition by using an endoscopic lift to some larger group? Yeah, so with Sargu, we have tried many of these punctualities, but so far we didn't find anything that helped. And also in this Eigen variety argument, I had that F over Q. So in the paper we always have that this F over Q is of even dimension, and this is for two reasons. So one reason is this inner form, so hopefully that can be removed, but the other reason is also when VST divides L, to kind of deal with the technical problems that arise then, we need that this dimension of F over Q is even. So it seems like for the Eigen variety argument you want F to be even dimensional, but then for the first part about the Shimura variety you want F to be odd dimensional. So they are kind of contradicting each other. And do you have an idea what to do to make the ropy unique? Because the ropy is not unique as directed at here. Yeah, so this is not unique. So you can put some very weak... So for instance it would be unique if you put spin regular, but you can also put much weaker regularity assumption. But in general, without this assumption? So without this Steinberg assumption. So if you do not assume Steinberg, then I don't know. But if you have this regular unipotent element in the image, then it's enough to have some very weak regularity condition.


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Hi and welcome to Learn WordPress. Today we are going to look at how to export and import data from one WordPress website to another. To put it differently, you can use the import and export options to find a new house for your content on WordPress. If you decide to export, your site's content is downloaded into an XML file that you can then import to another WordPress site. If you are ready to export, make your way to tools and then click on export. Now at the top it actually gives us a really clear explanation. It says when you click the button below, WordPress will create an XML file for you to save to your computer. This format, which is called WordPress Extended RSS or WXR will contain your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories and tags. Once you've saved the downloaded file, you can use the import function in another WordPress installation to import the content from this site. Below is an option to export all content and this will contain all of your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, terms, navigation menus and custom posts. Or you have the option to only export your posts or only pages or only media. I'm going to select all content and then click on download export file and now we can go ahead and save the XML file to our computer. This is a fresh installation of WordPress with no posts, no media and no pages. And I would like to import the XML file from our previous site into this new site. So make your way to tools and click on import. And we are after the WordPress importer right at the bottom. So let's go ahead and click on install now. And when it is installed successfully, we can click on run importer. And now we can choose the XML file that we exported from our other website. And then click on upload file and import. To import media successfully, remember to select download and import file attachments. Please also note unattached media in the media library that is not being embedded into a postal page will not be included in the XML export file. Now we can go ahead and click submit. And this may take a few seconds. And now we can go and check out everything that has been imported. So let's make our way to posts. Here are all the posts from my other websites. All the media. All the pages. All the comments to posts. And because it's the same theme, we can make our way to the site editor. And we'll notice that our navigation menus, as well as our templates and our template parts have been transferred from our old website. If the website you are importing to has a different theme than the one you are exporting from, you will first need to install and activate the original theme on your new site. Please note, when you transfer content to a new website, it does not include the site's design, themes or plugins. But you can use a migration plugin for that if you were interested in transferring the entire site. When you go to import, you would have noticed there are other systems you can import posts or comments from, such as Blogger, LiveJournal and even Tumblr. There is also an option or plugin to convert existing categories to tags or vice versa. Happy exporting and importing and visit Learn WordPress for more tutorials and training material.


For this episode of brutal battle beer break. I'm going to be doing a American black ale which would usually indicate to me something like a black IPA or as people call it Cascadian dark ale it's by indeed brewing out of Minneapolis, Minnesota and It's called midnight rider And anything I've had from indeed Which has been maybe four beers now. This will be my fourth one all in cans. You know, I love it when they're in cans So Let's go ahead and oh, I might as well show you yes midnight rider. There's a little glare from the light, but The night rider It's got like a bear with like this extendable monocle for whatever reason, but I'm down with it. It's cool. It's cool Let's taste this sucker Like the pop of cans It's nice Pouring pretty dark looks Pretty dark. It's got a nice Tanish head to it as you can see you can't see through it as I was pouring I was seeing like a you know, like kind of a cola type Coloration to it because I can see through it slightly Mmm. Oh smells Actually very resinous So that would indicate to me. It's it is very much a black IPA But there's some nice caramel emuls Little roasty caramel emuls to back up that resin in us It smells like it's gonna be a very nice marriage between like those roasted malts and like hoppy citrusy made a little piney note of Hoppiness Smells really good. I like the balance at least on the nose. I'm hoping it holds up with the taste okay Getting a lot more of the malt as a on the first sip The malt kind of like comes in on the end It's got a little bit of a kind of like an ashy finish to it like roasty ashy finish Which is not bad in the beginning. I'm getting some hops to it But it's a little more downplay than what I'm getting out of the nose I'm getting a little bit more of like a piney-ness to it The mouth feel is more than I thought it would be It's coming through with a decent amount of like coffee notes on the finish as well um Kind of the middle on this I do feel like the malt is kind of taking over a little bit more than I would want But then again, this is not an extremely fresh can I know It's one I've had for a little bit So it may be my fault that the hops have kind of died down after all Information on it's a six point five percent alcohol by volume. It says it's 80 I be used So most likely what happened is that it's died down a bit. Yeah, actually I can tell you right now That it was canned in March of this year, so it's probably mostly my fault But for having been canned then the roast and the coffee notes are actually not bad Not really getting a ton of the hops but in the nose I get a ton of hops So I'd really like to taste this fresh Sorry indeed brewing my bad. So a many many many months old midnight rider not bad if you're looking for something a little closer to like a Porter with a little extra hops to it maybe but if you're looking for the black IPA get it fresh I'm assuming it's a lot better. Sorry about that. Stay tuned next time and thanks for tuning in


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