need to expand them into different settings to ensure that they can help people with their health literacy. In 2017, the Scottish Government published a health literacy action plan that was five years ago now, and that was from 2017-2025. In those five years, what progress has really been made in improving health literacy? What sense do you get that there has been that improvement? Do you think that the plan is contributing to the progress? Again, I'm not sure if maybe Chris is able to see the man at all. Sorry, I'm not familiar with that report. I think that what we need to be doing is—perhaps the report does this—but what we need to do is drill down into the different communities and sections of the population who are experiencing the biggest inequalities and drill down into those and make sure that those communities are able to access the sorts of supports that can improve their health literacy. We look at that across the board in terms of the intersections of different inequalities, including poverty, unpaid carers and those that are traditionally not recognised when we look at inequalities. Are we able to move on to the next theme? It looks like there are a couple of people who might want to be able to respond to that. I'll bring in Scott. Sorry, we lost our connection to the chat here. We're having some difficulties, so I'll bring in Scott. Thank you. On the first point about perhaps making worse the health literacy or at least the inequalities expanding the gap by using digital services, I think that there is a valid point in that what we have seen is that those who engage with digital health and care services do increase their health literacy. My definition is that those who are not accessing can be at a disadvantage. I don't think that the answer to that is necessarily finding more digital ways to increase health literacy. I think that it's about finding other ways that are more direct to help improve health literacy. You made reference to the action plan on that. I'm not familiar with that work specifically, but I think that the suggestions around using link workers and key workers and others in the community to be able to support that in a focused way would be more likely to be an effective means of addressing that gap. Thank you. I'll just check. Paul, did you have something you wanted to say on that? Yes, thank you, convener. There's a very famous piece of medical research and evidence that dates back 50 years, published by Julian Tudorhart, which essentially looked at the health inequalities and essentially looked at and described those that needed health care the most, were least likely to receive it. There's things that we can do to improve that and to narrow that gap. Such things have reduced variation within health care service provision and improved the quality of those services as well, particularly around tackling the need for the patients, increasing the supply and improving that quality. I think that this conversation that we're having today is around technology, digital, but specifically data. We can look at data to really help drill down and do a deeper dive and understanding to which groups within the population are either over or underrepresented in different parts of the NHS service that we can help the most. Thank you. Can I move on to questions around digital health and care information from Emma Harper? Emma. Thanks, convener. I am interested in how we are communicating what services are out there. I have raised questions around the ALIS system in previous evidence sessions, and we've heard this morning about an Edinburgh equivalent called Red Book, and there's one in Dumfries and Galloway called DG Locator. There's a mental health one called Spring in the Borders, so I'm interested in how are we communicating to wider people that can direct care? How are we helping people to understand that there is a system called ALIS? That's pretty much my first question. We should probably go to Chris first on this, since we've mentioned ALIS. Yes, it's in my job title, so I should be able to answer this one. I joined the Alliance about a year ago managing the ALIS programme. What struck me was that there were so many great things about ALIS, but in a lot of cases, communication wasn't quite there in promoting ALIS as a resource for people to find information about health and wellbeing, because it is a national resource that maps community assets right across the country, and it brings people many routes into improving their health and wellbeing. It's a crowdsourced information resource that brings with it a number of challenges, but, in my view, that's the way to do that kind of work. I've had conversations with Scottish Government and with a variety of stakeholders. People say that if we didn't have ALIS, we'd have to invent it. One of the things that we're seeing with ALIS is that it's been around for 12 years, and it's gone through a number of incarnations. We're at the Alliance, and we're seeking to continually improve that. However, one of the challenges is that everyone's got a directory. Even if it's just like a spreadsheet on your desktop, you've got contacts that you know and trust. It's about encouraging people to invest in ALIS as a national resource. I heard this morning about EVOC in Edinburgh and their Red Book resource. We also heard about a number of other different resources that are out there. One of the pieces of work that I'm keen to do at this point in time with ALIS is to form partnerships with those who have these local directories and to look at aggregating their data into ALIS. As a national resource, there are a number of benefits from a public health from a policy perspective. We can see what resources are out there, but we can also empower citizens a bit better locally. A good example of that would be the fact that I live in Bishop Riggs, which is in Easton-Bartonshire, but I'm on the border of Glasgow. With ALIS, I can see community assets that are just nearby, regardless of whether they're in the Glasgow area or the Easton-Bartonshire area. There will be countless examples like that. We can work together with the different local information providers to aggregate in to ALIS and to improve the resource that we have there. As much as that is about looking at the technology side of things, and with that it requires investment, so capital investment is required into ALIS. However, it is also about the people aspect of it and promoting the resource that we have. Today, we say, let's work in partnership, let's say that we have a national resource, let's improve that as best we can, but let's also respect the work that has been done locally with those local directories so that we can have an improvement on ALIS and the offering that is given there. However, it doesn't discredit or take away anything from what has been done locally. As I say, the ALIS system requires investment from a financial perspective, but it also requires investment from a political side of things. I would urge from committee's perspective to push the Scottish Government into saying, let's promote that, because the awareness isn't what it should be, the communication hasn't been, and the Government has funded ALIS for the past 12 years. I think that it's about saying, well, let's capitalise on that because we have a fantastic resource of community assets, and the approaches that it takes are all the right ones, in my view. Emma. I'm not saying that because it's in my job title. Thank you. Okay. Thanks, Chris. Just to come back at you then, did the use of ALIS increase during the pandemic when we were going through the first lockdown phase where people were using it more? Alliance has shown that ALIS usage has increased and in 2021 it showed that, so I wonder if Covid had an impact on the use of ALIS. Also, who's using it? Are we tracking whether it's link workers or whether it's other people? Last week, Optometry Scotland and Community Pharmacy Scotland hadn't heard of ALIS, but they also spend a lot of time with patients, sometimes up to half an hour if they're doing somebody's eye examination, so who's using it? Oh, yeah. Thank you. Just to come back regarding the numbers, I think you've seen in our submission that increase in 2021. I think what we saw in 2020 was that there was expectations were lowered with lockdown. We were in a full lockdown for a good period then and went back in again towards the age of 2020 and into 2021. When things opened up we saw more usage of ALIS. Hopefully, we could build on that. One of the other things that I'm looking at at the moment is increasing the number of access points, not just alis.org, but partnerships such as the one that we have with NHS 24, where we have ALIS data surfaced on NHS Inform, but we've also seen a new partnership with, for example, the Glasgow Alliance to End Homelessness. They have a get help Glasgow resource on their website and they bring ALIS data into that. One of my tasks is to forge new partnerships like that. We're talking to people in a variety of aspects, including the social prescribing technologies, to bring ALIS data in there. Specifically, to answer the question about who's using ALIS, we can see that we have a sizable proportion of people coming through Google searches or other search engines, which are out there, of course, but we're also seeing usage directly from alis.org. We can surmise that citizens are using ALIS, but there's maybe about half of their usage, I would say, estimating that they are either professionals or they're searching on behalf of others. It's important that we make the ALIS resource fit for purpose across a range of devices—mobiles, tablets of course, desktops—would traditionally be more professional users.  First of all, we can access ALIS and we'll be able to use it as best as we can make it. We're finding on a number of fronts to ensure that ALIS is fit for every citizen. That's the aspiration. It's not just for some people, it's for everyone. Can I bring in Sandesh Gullhoney? You said that ALIS has been around for 12 years and you also went on to say that the communication is not what it should be. As a GP, I'd never heard of ALIS. No GP I know has ever heard of ALIS. Organisations giving evidence to us have not heard of ALIS. It's not that the comms aren't what they should be. The comms are non-existent. After 12 years, I would expect a very good data source to be something that people use and know about. My question to you is, is this actually value for money or should we be looking to maybe use this money for something else? What we're looking at is that communications need to be made on a number of fronts. From an alliance perspective, the resource that we have is spread quite thinly and we have a small team working on ALIS. As I've said, some of that responsibility comes to the Scottish Government and partners in the NHS and others to say that the resource exists. The ethos of ALIS is the correct one. I would say that the technology that sits behind it is the correct one. However, it needs investment. If you're saying that communications have been non-existent, then what we need to do is invest in those communications. That's the issue that I would say. Thank you, convener. It's just a quick question. In one of my local areas, the manager, who is one of the manager, leads of all the GP practices. He knows about ALIS, so his GP practices are known about ALIS, but they said that it might not be as up-to-date. It's where it should be. I'm aware of some general practitioners that know about ALIS, but I think that Dr Gilhane's point about not knowing any GPs that don't have access is probably quite important. That's a point about raising awareness and linking to make it work better. A DG locator, which is a third sector D&G run, is working on collaborating with the GP practices to direct more to ALIS and other services. What do we need in order to make ALIS work better, apart from just money? I'll come back to Chris. Our inquiry throws up those points that are all well-made. Of course, we put them to the Scottish Government as well, so it's all very worthwhile. It is a constant issue that comes up with ALIS and any information resource of this nature, all those local directories that you spoke of will face the same in issues about keeping things up-to-date. One of the things that I said about the ethos of ALIS, is that it depends on people keeping things up-to-date. What I'm hoping to do, using the resource that we've got, is to alter focus slightly and to address that data quality issue specifically, because I know that people will go to ALIS and they will look at information and they'll say, all of that, I wasn't updated recently. What confidence can I have in it? I think that what we need to do is continue with the crowdsourcing approach, but also redirecting some of our attention into specifically addressing that data quality issue. We've got some plans for addressing that with staff time, but we've also got some plans around the technological aspect and giving people reminders to keep things up-to-date. That we can do through automatic means on the platform itself. Not a day goes by without that quality issue being raised. It's something that, from an ALIS perspective, we need to look at. If we're looking to local solutions to aggregate as well, we also need to be mindful that those directories need to be up-to-date. It's a constant battle. If anyone's done any work in this sort of area, then you'll know that as soon as you publish something, as soon as you write something like that, they go out of date, so the job is never finished. Can I bring in Scott Henderson before we move on, Scott? Thank you. I think that there's a couple of really interesting points in there. The dataset through ALIS is a really important one, and it's never ever going to be perfect because of the nature in which it's providing information on, because those groups change quite frequently often. I think that the other point about GP's awareness of it is an interesting one simply because I'm not sure that GP's have been a target audience for ALIS, certainly not 12 years ago. We're now in a situation where there's much greater interest in social prescribing, so there may well be a case to be made for having more promotion to GP practices of ALIS as a service. The other thing is that we need to be thinking about this as a service that needs to evolve, and we know that, post Covid, the world is a different place, and we need to think very carefully about which services the public are going to want and when they're going to want them and what format they're going to need them in, so I think those are just some additional points for the committee to consider. Thank you. Thank you, and Sandesh, you wanted to come in again. Yeah, thank you, Camila. Scott, you said that GP's were not a target for ALIS, with about up to 60 per cent of the things that GP's do being social, with link workers, with the new GP contract, and that was in 2018, so maybe not 12 years ago, but certainly from 2018 until now, I would say that ALIS would have been a wonderful resource for GP's to know about, so my question to you is why were GP's not a target, because that, to me, seems nonsensical. Scott? I would love to be able to answer that directly. I cannot because I've not been involved in the work to date. I think it's an interesting question and we can certainly take that back. My point earlier was that it maybe wasn't originally intended or marketed to GP's in that timescale, but I do see that there is definitely an opportunity for it to be more widely promoted now. Obviously, that could form part of our recommendations, and this is the value of committee scrutiny in action. Can we come on to questions from David Torrance? Thank you, convener, and good morning to everyone. From a health practitioner perspective, what are the advantages and disadvantages of remotely-delivered health and care services, and to what extent do remotely-delivered consultations and services ease pressure on GP's and GP's surgeries? I'll go to Dr Paul Perry first. Paul. Thank you, convener. The question on remote delivery of health care services and the advantages and disadvantages of those in NHS 24 has been very much up the middle of remote delivery of those services. The use of near me roll-out within our dental service last year was a good example of that. It allowed an increased number of consultations with patients who couldn't access dental care last year. With the design and development of any healthcare service, there are always advantages and disadvantages. We've touched a lot today on those inequalities, particularly on the public health inequality side and the digital inequality side. At NHS 24, we're very mindful of that, having the user-centred research team to interact with the public through public partnership forums to take their advice and guidance on those. Online triage systems, how could they be improved not only to give confidence to the patient but to the practitioner to use them? I'll go back to Dr Paul Perry, please. Thank you, convener. In terms of those online triage systems, you're right. Those things have definitely increased since the pandemic in the last two years. Again, online triage through the use of near me with our dental service was one of a few services that we rolled out over the past year. There is on-going work within NHS 24 to do a further scoping exercise to see what the possibility is of the use of online triage systems, particularly remote consultations and video consultations. We have phase 2 of the redesign of urgent care that is going forward, particularly focusing on musculoskeletal. We are working in with partners and stakeholders on that going forward. The use of video consultations is one example of many. We will take forward and look to see how we can design and develop that with partners, with the public and our stakeholders going forward. Scott, do you want to come in on this? Yes. I'm currently doing some work on online triage and GP practice through a programme called a GP DAX. The evidence that we've gathered around this gives a very mixed set of messages. There are some general practices that I absolutely love using triage tools and believe that they are reducing workload in their practice and making excess demand more manageable. On the one hand, there are others who find that they are generating a lot more work. There have even been reports of staff wellbeing being affected by the use of those products and not in a positive way. From a patient perspective, some of the advantages are that they can contact the practice side of ours and don't need to be joining that 8.30am telephone queue. The public engagement that we've done around this, which has been fairly limited, has shown that the public is generally quite positive, but it is conditional that they want to know more about who is looking at the request when it comes in. More generally around the remote delivery of services, there are other benefits. When we look at long-term condition management, there is a lot of work going on. In that area, I can give as an example the scale-up blood pressure monitoring programme, where that has been shown very much to positively have an effect, both on reducing the need for face-to-face appointments and improving convenience for patients. It also shortens the time to diagnosis for things like hypertension. It has been very mixed with the advantages and disadvantages of being able to describe all of these as the single things that are a bit dangerous, because each service has its own advantages and disadvantages. It depends quite a lot on how they are designed and delivered. I am aware that, during the pandemic, pulmonary rehab was starting to be delivered digitally, and the evidence says that that does work, especially because those folk are vulnerable and might not want to go to face-to-face appointments. I know that we do remote monitoring for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, because I am the co-convener of the Lung Health Cross-Party Group, and we have done a lot of work around that. Do your thoughts on whether those remote monitoring ways and the pulmonary rehab delivery are something that we could be looking at doing more widely, for instance? Absolutly. It is interesting territory because we are changing the ways in which people are working. There is quite a lot of work to be done around how you design new pathways around each of those services. There is quite a bit of variation between services across Scotland in the way that they wish to deliver their services and how they would want those redesigned pathways to be delivered with digital supports. The Scale Up Bp programme is a good example of having perhaps two or three different approaches coming together and becoming much more of a national approach, and that is where we have seen the benefits start to really get realised at a national level. There is lots of work to be done to make sure that we design those things properly and to make sure that they are producing the benefits and that we are avoiding as many of the disbenefits as possible. Absolutly, we need to continue to invest in this area and to accelerate where we can. I want to talk about something that has come up an awful lot in our inquiry, and that is the concept of a single electronic patient record. Questions led by Sandesh Gawrhani. Yes, a single electronic patient record has certainly been coming up a lot. A lot of organisations that we spoke to spoke of the potential great benefits that they would be from creating this. I also have two questions. One would be to Dr Paul Perry, if you could maybe talk a little bit about how useful that would be from an out-of-hours NHS 24 point of view, and then my question would be what progress since December 2021 has been made towards creating this single electronic patient record? Yes, thank you very much. The first question was about that single patient record and the latter question was about the progress that NHS Scotland has made on that during the pandemic. To take your first question around the single patient record, yes, I think that this, as a clinician myself, frustrations at times in terms of being able to see the whole patient record and that whole patient journey, whether it's an out-of-hours GP or an out-of-hours GP. At the moment, the out-of-hours GP is able to produce something called a KISS summary, so key information summary, which allows that to be shared with some care providers in terms of giving a sample of the patients' medical conditions that have been diagnosed with. There's the ECS as well, which allows a care provider to be able to see the medications that patient may be on. Unfortunately, at this moment in time, we're not able to see that whole record in terms of the day-to-day consultations that the patient might have with their in-hours GP. At NHS 24, we use the SAP data system at the moment, and the out-of-hours services in territorial boards use ADASTRA. There is an element of data interoperability with that, so if I was a clinician working at NHS 24, I would be able to send down an electronic summary to the out-of-hours clinician in the territorial boards, and that would give a snapshot of that patient record at that moment in time. Unfortunately, at this moment in time, we're not able to share that whole patient record and to see that. There are lots of clinical assistants that are out there in the NHS, but to overcome that barrier, we need a central platform and a cloud-based platform. I am mindful and aware that there are conversations on going just now with an NHS Scotland at looking at those and doing a scoping exercise around those opportunities. In terms of that patient record, we need to overcome those barriers of the data interoperability, sharing that data so that we increase the continuity of care for patients, which is the heart of that, and reduce the need for patients to repeatedly tell their story to different clinicians and different care providers. Stephanie, you have some questions around that. Just to come back on that wee bit, Chris, you actually just reiterated a lot of the points that I had written down here as well, and it's really interesting to know that that work is actually going on already to look at a centralised cloud-based platform. Just for some clarity as well, at the last evidence session last week, we had pharmaceuticals. We're talking about the fact that we've been able to actually write up information on that and have access to information on it as well there. Is that something that's included in the pilots that are happening just now? No, come to Paul. I don't know if everyone heard me there. Again, some gremlins in the system. Paul. Yes, thank you, convener. Again, the question was around, I suppose, that cloud-based platform and data sharing. It is my understanding that there has been a data strategy engagement programme that has been set up, and there are various partners and stakeholders sitting around that table to look into that. There is other work on going at the moment with NSS and NHS Scotland around e-prescribing in terms of that pharmaceutical aspect. Getting away from having to write a paper prescription to a digital prescription, and this work is currently on going. I don't know in terms of what the timelines are on that in terms of it actually hitting the shop floor, but I do know that stakeholders and partners are working hard behind the scenes to get that up and running. Fantastic. Just to follow up on that as well, is it more about having a cloud-based system that all the different systems that have been used by different health professionals and beyond that as well until there are turns of pathways? Is it more about all those connecting into one cloud platform now, rather than having a system that runs right the way through and that is the same everywhere? Yes, thank you. I think that the best way of approaching this is probably to often take a stand back and to see it through the whole system lens in terms of what in hours and out of hours primary care needs are to meet the needs of the patients and the same with secondary care as well. In terms of options and opportunities, I think that that is probably one of many. I think that that is definitely one that is being discussed at this moment in time. Thank you. There is a data strategy for health and social care currently being developed. It will be publicly consulted quite widely and I think that the delivery date for that is late summer this year. I think that there are some important points coming out here around a single patient record. I think that we need to be also mindful that its health and social care record is probably the goal here so that we are able to have truly integrated services. I know that that is part of the work that is being considered through that strategy development and also through the work of the national digital platform. Thank you to all our panels this morning. You have raised some very interesting things for us to consider ahead of our session, particularly with the Cabinet Secretary next week, I believe. That is all for our second panel and I thank you very much. We will move on to our next item in the agenda. The third item on our agenda is consideration of three related negative instruments and they are national assistance, sums for personal requirements, Scotland regulations 2022, national assistance assessment of resources, amendment Scotland regulations 2022 and national assistance assessment of resources, amendment Scotland number two, regulations 2022. Those instruments refer to annual changes in rates to charges for residential accommodation. The first instrument increases the value of personal expenses allowance in line with average earnings, that is an increase of 5.8 per cent. The second instrument increases the value of savings credit disregard in line with average earnings, which is currently forecast at 5.8 per cent. It increases the lower capital limit from £18,000 to £18,500 and the upper capital limit from £28,750 to £29,750 in line with CPR forecast at 3.1 per cent. I hope that everyone will follow that. The third instrument is to disregard payments paid to individuals living in residential care from the Scottish Infected Blood Support scheme and equivalent schemes enacted in other parts of the United Kingdom. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instruments and they made no recommendations to us and no motions to annul have been received in relation to those instruments. I ask members to forget any comments in relation to any of the three instruments. We do not, therefore, propose that the committee does not make any recommendations in relation to those negative instruments. Does any member disagree with that? No, we are in full agreement. At our next meeting on 23 March, the committee will hear from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care as part of our inquiry into the alternative pathways into primary care, and that concludes the public part of our meeting today. Thank you all.


and welcome to Norris Cove or welcome back. I'm Yoshida. Today we're going to be getting into our paycheck to paycheck. I'm a little bit late but nonetheless we're going to just hop right on in. This is from last week. It's paycheck to paycheck which was April 18th through the 24th. Let's go over it real quick. So we estimated 700 because it looked a little slow but it ended up doing $1,030 and then for Nails we didn't do anything. We did have a customer they had to reschedule so we didn't do anything for that. Norris Cove I had put 50 then I had put zero but by Saturday because I did release some new things only my group members saw it so we did generate $83.14 and then miscellaneous I had a birthday gift from one of my planner babes I'm not going to shout out because I don't people think you know she's rich or anything but one of my planner babes sent me $50 and I'm so appreciative of that so I added that to my income and that was $1,163.14 so that's why I always add miscellaneous sometimes because just don't know um what'll happen you may sell something or what have you and then we had card note down that got paid um T-Mobile that got paid all you know them I think $66 I think we talked about this and then the booth rent got paid and my car insurance got paid and then I put I made a note here that I got an increase on my Walmart card of course because I've paid it down and only have one payment left to be paid pay it off and so um they increased it to $800 my credit score went up that's 32 points you guys I've increased my credit score since March by almost 90 something um points and all I can attribute to is paying things ahead of time paying extra paying early and I know there's some type of method but when I got my taxes you all know that's what I did I just gave any credit card a hundred paid off a lot of the credit cards I think I paid off in the pain of like two or three I paid off like a firm which I think they do a soft inquiry on your credit um report so all that jumped up and this is my second increase since March the first time it jumped up 45 points on one I think 15 or 12 on the other one and then this time it jumped that same one that jumped 45 jumped 32 and then 12 on the other so I'm just going to try to sell me good good for it but um yeah that is it for last week so let's stop right on into this week um I think I'm gonna leave I have it on my other calendar so I'll just use a smaller asix so I want to do a little highlighting um I'm going to use this time but I got this home cloth and paper and I think this is the olive I can't make a straight line to save my life but whatever then I'll make a highlight the notes I'm gonna highlight here here I do total just to kind of give it a little color again I try to remember but you can find this insert on my website www.norsco.com it'll be linked below um it is the paycheck to paycheck weekly check in so we're doing April 25th through May 1st and I'm going to just put my projected uh incoming put here nails Norris Cove in miscellaneous here we're projecting let's do our 750 this is almost the first of the month so it may be a little higher but I like to rocket a right about 750 that way I'm not there's something that is obtainable nails this week I think I may have a couple of nails clients this week I'm going to put that at 40 Norris Cove I do have something or two coming out this weekend I'm going to try to do more than just my group so we're going to put that at 50 again I just try to keep that low because you just never know okay so let me whip out my a6 here's my a6 which is my everyday carry I keep my finances in here so that way that I can um look at them on a regular basis so here this is what I use to track weekly in my um everyday carry and I just check things off I've already paid PayPal they've already gotten their money they got it quickly okay so let's do the 25th PayPal this a little bit and I gave them 35 I gave them a slightly above the minimal minimum but I'm going to jump back on it because I wanted to put a little money aside for my car insurance which I did I held 100 from last week in my bank account to cover my car insurance and I think we've talked about that so next up is car insurance on the 28th and that is 206 next up on the 29th we have go daddy and that is my email service and now next year I'm going to just do it by the year because it's more expensive to pay it monthly 741 and then we have booth rent excuse me booth rent at 250 and then cloth and paper comes out on the first and amazon sometimes amazon will come out on the second and cotton paper is 38 excuse me amazon and I can't remember the new price so I'm putting 1577 and I will add any corrections once I see what it is um let's do a little total and we got a total of this as well I can tell this is 840 and let's go ahead and total this okay so we have 552 dollars and 18 cents and we'll just round it off to like 552 total there okay so in my notes on my everyday carry I have that I need to save for next week's bills the credit cards that I do and I will be going to Richmond this weekend to see my sister and next week my great nephew comes I'm so excited and so I'll be back again so I need to save for that so I'm going to write those notes down I'll probably speed that up okay so now let's subtract this 552 from 840 and we have 287 82 that's what we have left and so it's really not a lot again I'm trying to budget for groceries things like that and I'm going to put down here in the cash envelopes grocery and I'm going to do 100 for that I'm going to try to do savings um my savings 25 that is my goal I'm going to eventually get this done is to give them 25 dollars a week I want to work my way up to 25 dollars a day that could end up being almost 10 000 at the end of the year so 25 here 100 here so it was at 287 so that would leave at 187 and then take away to 25 that would be let me just do the math issue that I can do it I'm just I want to be right let's see 287 so that would leave me with 160 to 82 and that's what I'll have left so um again dismay or may not and what I'll do is I know I'll be traveling again so like I said 60 I just put fuel to my tank for 60 so I already know 60 is going to probably go to my gas and the rest will probably be for travel so if anything is left let's prep this bag again so that is it for this is this week's paycheck to paycheck you guys this is what it's looking like um again these are always guesstimated as me being a business owner entrepreneur these are always guesstimates and I try to go as low as possible but these are definite things that are coming out they generally don't fluctuate um these bills here they generally don't fluctuate unless they've gone up or something like that so I think this is very obtainable so even if only made 600 for the week I could cover my bills so my main important bills so that is all for today I hope you guys enjoyed today's video if this is your first time stopping by do me a favor hit that subscribe button if you enjoyed today's video also hit that notification bell so that you're notified whenever I upload new content to this channel thank you so much for watching bye


So we've heard a lot of extraordinary claims from a lot of people at this festival and they're fairly common and One of the we've chatted with a bunch of our students about some of the extraordinary claims. They've experienced and I'm sure people at home Have had some similar experiences One of the ones that I remember it was a student who said that She was walking through a shopping mall and it just so happened that this was the anniversary of her grandmother's death While she's walking through the shopping mall over the loudspeakers. There's music playing But midway through a song it cuts out and it shifts to her grandmother's favorite song Yeah, another common one was premonitions. So dreaming about something and then it coming true and this isn't innocuous stuff like Dreaming about an apple and then seeing an apple the next day. These are really specific things that they're remembering So dreaming about a crow jumping from tree to tree and then seeing it the next week Dreaming about an old friend and having them appear on your doorstep the next day. That's right And this is our job here is to figure out why people believe weird things and not You know, it's not enough just to say as we said before that People like to believe in weird things or they take comfort in the paranormal or you know That doesn't really explain anything instead. What we're trying to do is to focus on the cognitive mechanisms to focus on Explanations in terms of perception attention memory And one of these things that we're going to be dealing with is is ambiguity, which is really important We've touched on it a few times in the course We last episode we talked about the necker cube a spinning dancer and a bunch of different things by stable illusions This is a really nice example the figure here the letter B that or the number 13 is ambiguous in the context of A and C It looks like a B in the context of 12 and 14. It looks like a 13 And again, this is two different ways that you can interpret this event Another example was by Tom Gillovich. He provides a Smiling person now this smiling person can either be interpreted as Being friendly. It's a genuine smile if you like the person if you don't like the person you might interpret it as a smirk as being Malicious somehow or you know, they're up to something but it's exactly the same smile being interpreted in two different ways Which is a little bit more realistic. Yep, so that's ambiguous information I think there's a second factor going on called multifaceted expectations So yes with the ABC and the and the 12 13 14 They're really only two ways of seeing it just like the spinning ball arena It spins left or it spins right the necker cube pops out or comes back in that they're two dimensions They're two ways of seeing it, but much of the objects that we deal with and The events that happen in our everyday lives are not two-dimensional. They're not even three-dimensional. They're multi-dimensional They're multifaceted. So in one episode we talked about talent and there's several different ways that can be viewed We talked about something as innocuous as a job interview and how many different ways that can be viewed so Dealing with that that complexity and ambiguity that there there are so many ways that these things can be viewed That's when it when our our pattern recognizes really kick in we really see what we expect to see when we have Multidimensions, that's right and the two can operate together You can have ambiguity and these multifaceted expectations working in conjunction and one really nice example of this was when we visited the Horoscope booth at the mind-body spirit festival now they prepared these These personalized portraits that on the basis of where the planets are and how they're interacting in the sky and These portraits that they create are anything but personalized right and they're extremely multifaceted and extremely ambiguous So one of the examples that they provide was this from the sign of Venus now It says a beautiful mind and a mind for beauty. So they are somebody who has a beautiful mind and mind for beauty And you can read here when it comes to personal relationships You tend to be rather idealistic you seek a lover who is both intelligent and good-looking That's because it's in Libra in the fourth house You're also going to have has something to do with your home. Your home is also going to be that way as well so Venus is very is very Important in the person in this this person Whereas if it was in the first house they themselves would be quite beautiful they would be very Focused on their own appearance whereas here this person here because of the position in the sky Their home is where they focus their sense of beauty on or where they their sense of style and because it's in Libra They're probably a very good sense of style because That's an even thing now these portraits that they've put together are really anything but personalized They would really apply to anybody. I mean, what do you mean by idealistic or? Good-looking or charming. These are very sort of general statements and as Richard Wiseman said These are called Barnum statements or the Barnum effect is the fact that there's something for everybody That there's an enormous amount of overlap between your own characteristics and these sorts of statements Anybody who's reading them would be able to find Something of themselves in them and they're often very flattering as well to say that you have untapped potential or that you're an independent thinker Right. I mean who doesn't want to think that about themselves. Yep another factor that's operating I think is multiple endpoints now We need to think about this when we're trying to assess the validity of these claims and the analogy is Casting a wide net Catching a big fish in that wide net and then claiming that you caught it with a spear, right? And this is very common in psychic predictions So a psychic may say something like oh, I see an older gentleman in your family is having heart problems I see some pain around the chest and there's a weight there now What can that mean again? It's multifaceted. So what's the older gentleman? It could be my older brother my My father my grandfather it can happen across that dimension and it can also happen in time So what kind of heart problem are we talking about a death? Is it a diagnosis? Is it a prediction that's going to happen and what is a heart problem? So does an angina count? does Forgetting your heart medication on that particular day coming back from the doctor with a diagnosis of high blood pressure Does that count and let's not forget about just the base rates that is Just the probability of you having anyone in your entire family with any sort of heart issue whatsoever is really likely I mean I just thinking of my own family I could think of about a dozen people in my family or extended family that you that might Count as part of that right, but I I think one of my favorite examples of this was In your conversation with the chiropractor at the mind-body festival And in that in that conversation he rattled off at least a dozen possible Symptoms that you might have as an indication that you might need some chiropractic treatment As your spine comes up all of you tends to lean in that direction now if your spine was lovely and straight Your head would be sitting over here. Obviously. It's not so it would suggest that your spine comes up As a little bit of an S shape and might trigger another weak area here Can present as obvious either neck pain shoulder pain or headaches and of course the nerves in that part of the spine deal with cardiovascular function So low energy trouble sleeping snoring shortness of breath hay fever asthma allergies blood pressure issues chest pains and gyna Functional heart problems dead, you know those sorts of things may be symptoms. Gotcha. None of those no good about death But just because they're weak areas doesn't always mean they present as symptoms Now he just rattled off a whole bunch of different symptoms everything from Trouble sleeping to lower back pain to death But I think most people when listening to this set of symptoms who are considering the possibility of chiropractic treatment Would be able to find something in their own experience to kind of cling on to so he cast a really wide net And so I suspect that he'd catch somebody within that net if it's cast wide enough And I think if you combine these multiple endpoints with ambiguous statements like we talked about before Then that's nicely captured in the Japanese healing booth that we visited as well. Now they made some really kind of ambiguous statements about the the effects of their treatment for example improved well-being or increased happiness or Strengthening the immune system. I mean, what do these even look like if you were to if you were to test whether somebody's Well-being was improved.  It's it's a really broad characterization Yep, and think about another dimension that's operating in time So we've got multiple windows of time that are happening here So if if a prediction is made when do you stop looking for hits if a healer says they've healed you or they've Treated you when should you stop looking? When should you expect to feel better? When should you stop looking to feel better and say well that healing mustn't have worked now? Tom Gillovich has spoken about this previously. It's a common belief that Things happen in threes so homicides natural disasters these things occur in triplets, right? But when do you stop counting it as a triplet when you get to three? Yeah, exactly, right? So if you if you allow for enough variability in these windows of time these predictions can only be Confirmed it's very difficult to disconfirm. That's right. And a nice example of this Is quite a personal one actually I was talking to my mom on the phone in preparing for this course I'm preparing for the segment in particular and telling her about Going to the mind-body spirit Exhibition and so on and talking to tarot card readers and she said I went to a tarot card reader once about 30 years ago, I guess 30 years. Yeah, it was about 9 or 10 years old and she went to this tarot card reader and it kind of freaked her out actually a little bit because that the the readers said that She would be in a large fire Right, she'd be okay, but the rest of her family might not be and so from that point on she actually lost sleep in thinking about this and in dwelling on on what she said during the reading and You know, I mean if if you kind of fast forward she still remembers that reading 30 years later And so you can imagine if there was a fire A decade later or something she would probably be very likely to attribute it as a success on behalf of that particular reader Yeah, or if it refers just to fire down the street or your next to a neighbor or a brush fire All of these things would probably count so there's enough variability in the in the in what counts as a fire in the time That it takes it could be 30 years on and you can still count it as counted as a hit on on on that part So that really freaked her out when she had this reading and there was the possibility that Her family was going to burn in a fire, right? I mean that's that's kind of scary and when you're thinking about whether to count the prediction as a success or not There's a whole bunch of things that can vary in terms of the nature of the fire, right? We we actually a few years later had our Christmas tree burned down Due to my remote control car. Does that count? Is that a fire? I mean it could be a brush fire. It could be a fire at our neighbor's place. That's close enough I mean or When obviously it's 30 years later and she still Thinks about that particular reading and if there was something 30 years on she would she still might be able to make that link So I think these things Variable windows and time multiple endpoints. I think are really important Yeah, so we've gone through a few of these general mechanisms that are sort of operating in Paranormal phenomena and predictions such as these I've got a couple more to get through But let's ask people a few questions before we move on to make sure they really grasp what's going on here You


Pardon the pun, but the relatively short career of Alexa Bliss has seen her accomplish more than the average WWE superstar. In many ways, her diminutive 5 feet of Fury stature hasn't defined her role as a performer or limited the outsized success she's had since joining the main roster in 2016. Musically speaking, the goddess of the WWE has undergone quite a few shocking personality changes that have required some debatable edits to her entrance songs. This documentary will chronicle Little Miss Bliss' career thus far and also take a special look at the music that made the woman. From a fairy to the fury, let's take a look behind the themes of Alexa Bliss. With a unique athletic background that included time spent as a competitive champion bodybuilder as well as an all-star cheerleader, Bliss was super active growing up just outside of Columbus, Ohio. But one of her first true passions, sorry Ryan Cabrera, has always been professional wrestling or sports entertainment or whatever the heck you want to call it. Being a fan of legends like Trish Stratus and Rey Mysterio Jr., Alexa jumped on the old internet back in the day when you could apply on wwe.com to be a wrestler, got a call back and nailed her tryout to be chosen as a new member of the latest NXT Performance Center Recruiting Class back in 2013. Now before Bliss, whose real name is Lexi Kaufman, had even made her full debut on NXT, she was granted the opportunity to stand under the glitz and glamour of the showcase of the immortals, WrestleMania alongside Sasha Banks, Charlotte Flair and the King of Kings himself, Triple H. But soon enough, she would be back to work at the PC in Orlando, Florida, hashing out her initial gimmick of, wait for it, a fairy princess. Now with NXT being basically next door neighbors with Disney World, at first glance the punk-sized pixie would have probably been a better fit as a cast member working at the Magic Kingdom or something, right? Skipping to the ring with the song Bling Bling, bellowing from the Raptors? Well it wasn't long before the music group CFO Dollar Sign would create a new in-house entrance theme for Bliss, who in the meantime just had to learn to keep calm and sparkle on during her rookie year. As the self-proclaimed Glitter Queen of NXT, who allegedly graduated from the University of Glitz with a major in bedazzling, okay, the modern day Tinkerbell tapped into the sparkly side of her personality and although she was a natural, natural, at being really cute and blowing glitter everywhere, it eventually turned out that all the glitters was not gold. The babyface Bliss, tangled up with blue highlights and a big smile, was not a superstar meant to break the mo-woad, and although she packs a lot of punch into a small frame, unfortunately her Tinkerbell gimmick was more like Tinker's smell, barely making a sparkle splash and obviously failing to connect with the older smart mark NXT audience. Now forced to reassess her career and make changes, the realization was that a heel turn is what was needed. Standing alongside Wesley Blake and Buddy Murphy, the NXT Tag Team Champions at the time, Bliss became a whole new person as their manager. After being presented as so pure and sweet, her attire, her entrance and her overall demeanor changed dramatically, and it was crazy to see just how natural of a bad girl Alexa was, rotten to the core and full of might and spite. With a new, ant-up remix version of her original CFO dollar sign track, The Fierce, fearless and full of attitude 5 feet of fury, prove that she could be a success in an era where much of the credit for the rise of the WWE's women's division had been focused on the four horsewomen. Woo!  Thanks to her excellent mic work and improvements inside the squared circle, Bliss became one of six members of NXT to be drafted as part of the WWE's brand extension in 2016. Alexa quickly made an undeniable imprint on the women's division as the wicked witch of the WWE was the first woman to win both the SmackDown Women's Championship and the Raw Women's Championship. Straight into the spotlight, Bliss became one of the best villains on the roster, making the most of her moment and of any and every role she was given, regardless of how good or bad the booking was. Either way, life was nothing but blissful for Alexa, until… Got a tip I had here because Alexa's basically had the same song since her NXT debut, but Def Rebel unleashed the fury and their remix of this theme is some straight One of the few bright spots from the COVID-19 pandemic era of the E was the slow burn made event rise that Bliss began in the Thunderdome Brother, by first shedding her partnership with Nikki Cross and then evolving into the sinister and supernatural Harley Quinn of wrestling. Look, we all know that Little Miss Bliss can be beautiful and sweet when she wants to, but looks can be deceiving as the twisted bliss side of her personality is someone who is capable of being quite lethal and dangerous, I mean just ask Randy Orton. Now Alexa was a good person, until she fell under some sort of spell and became not only captivated but also corrupted by Bray Wyatt and The Fiend. As her character developed in front of virtual fans who were prompted when to cheer and when to boo, it was hard to gauge if this creepier version was getting over or not. These kinds of gimmicks in this day and age are polarizing to say the least, but as always, Alexa is a solid actress and does a great job in her role, but it just so happens that it's a role a lot of fans don't enjoy being a part of a wrestling show, which is what we all found out in the wake of her portrayal of The Fiend at WrestleMania 37 and subsequent Summer of Suck when Wyatt was future endeavored. It's extremely difficult to try and listen to this track without wincing at its over-the-top attempts at being scary because it ain't, really. I mean this theme would perfectly fit Bliss if she were featured in a Halloween parade at her favorite place Disney World, but instead it's excruciating nonsense from the apparent POV of Alexa's nonsensical alter ego.  With zero follow-up after WrestleMania and without Wyatt by her side, Bliss still soldiered on with a supernatural gimmick and with Alexa's playground becoming her version of the Firefly Funhouse. But how could we not cover the introduction of the most wrestle-crap-tastic puppet? Since Rocco Road on Paul Ellerings Handlebars during Summer Slam 92, of course we're talking about her evil little doll Lily who through the magic of wrestling grade CGI occasionally winks, which was just enough to put old wrestling fans over the edge and walk out of Raw, allegedly. However, while perhaps this was the most poorly received portion of her career, Alexa can be heard laughing all the way to the bank because her descent into a darker, infantilized version of herself translated into big money and no whammies. After reports that Bliss and Lily sold more merch than any other WWE star not named Stone Cold Steve Austin or John Cena. I just hope someone called up Nick Jackson to let him know that there's a new merch freak in town. Alexa Bliss is one of the few female wrestlers to establish herself as a top name and consistently credible champion. From a fairy princess to the female fiend, Little Miss Bliss personality twists and turns have made it difficult to capture her in one song, which is why her career thus far has been a virtual playground of musical swings with some occasional misses.