it your 470, wait for that allowable contract date before you can make your final decision. You get the good bid in a week after you submit your 470, that's fine. You've gotta hold on to it and wait 28 days before you sit back and make your official decision and then go on to the next steps in the e-rate process. To do competitive bidding you must have a fair and open bidding process. This means you can't give anybody any extra information, you can't treat anyone differently even if it is your own local company you can't go to them and say hey I did a 470 hey let's do this, you've gotta make sure make treat everybody with the same work responses. Your companies, your service providers cannot be involved in creating your 470, you cannot go and work with your company even if it's the one you currently work with or when you want to work with and say hey I'm gonna do e-rate, let's work together to submit this application. The 470 is just to be just you as the library looking for someone to provide you with this service or this equipment or do this construction. What you can do is go to their websites and investigate, you know I was talking about speeds earlier, find out what speeds do they offer so I know what broad range to ask for in the 470. You can find that out from many company's websites. You could also contact them and ask for information about what they do provide. Do not mention e-rate however, do not mention I am doing this for the purpose of doing an e-rate application just say I'm looking for information about what you can do, what you provide.  You can ask them what they provide before you submit your 470 but they can't send you a quote until after the 470 has been submitted. It has to be done, everything has to be done in the right order for e-rate purposes or you will knock yourself out of receiving the discounts. So you've got to submit your 470 first and then a quote or a bid needs to be dated and sent to you after the date you submitted the 470. You can't take a previous quote if you hadn't been tapped and to be chatting with someone and use that, they'll have to send you a new one after. Once you do have all these bids and you've decided it's time to make a decision, you, in order to make a choice you do have to do according to your e-rate rules choose the most cost effective bid with cost being your primary factor but not your only factor. Also, cost effective does not mean cheapest. Sure, we've all experienced in our life that the cheapest is not always the best in the end in the long run. And you don't always want to go with that. It may be more expensive but still cost effective because of other factors that you take into consideration when you are making a choice. So we have a chart here, a bid evaluation matrix, an example of one that you could use if you need to make this kind of decision. So this would only be if you've received multiple quotes, multiple bids from multiple companies and you need to make a comparison between them to decide who you're gonna go with or you need to document why you chose a particular company over another one. You're gonna need this in case the company or USAC asks you about it later. This is not anything you submit with your application. It's just for your records in case anyone asks. So we talked about that. You do have to have cost be the primary factor. So in this example, what we've done is we've taken here and listed all the things we think are important in our decision-making process to pick a service provider to give us our internet. Price isn't the only thing you always wanna think about. Do you have a prior experience with this vendor? Do you know them? Are they your current company? Are they another company you know about? What about other things you need to buy from them? Are they good on those prices? How do they invoice you? Are they willing to do a discount on your bills or not? Are they good for the environment? Are they local? Are they not? All these things, and these are just some things you can decide what's important to you. You can pick some of these, you can pick other things. Customer service, you know how their customer service goes, you can put that in, whatever is important to you. And then just assign points to each item with price, earning them the most points. Not even half, there's gonna be like 50% of the points, but just it's worth more points than anything else. That makes price the primary factor in your decision-making process. Then you look at the bids you've received and give them their points. And we can see here, vendor two got a full 30 of the price. They're obviously the cheapest. However, vendor three ended up with a total more than either of the other ones. That would mean you can pick vendor three as your company who won the bids in this competition, even though they got a 25 for price, even though their costs were not as cheap as vendor three, with everything else that is important to you and that you took into consideration, they came out on top. And that is perfectly fine. This is how you do this. This is how you make this decision and this is how you would tell USAC or the company or anyone else who asks you about it. So if you have to do this, obviously you can see here where they really went out was the whole prior experience. Umbedding vendor two is probably some new game in town, new company that came along. And so nobody knows anything about them. So they got a full zero on that one. They also weren't so as good for ineligible services. And not as good as ineligible services, that's the other one. So there's lots of things here, that concentration. Now, once you make this decision and you do your second form and the words out who you picked, vendor two could come back to you or go to E-rate and say, hey, we know we're cheaper than vendor three. Why didn't they pick us? I wanna dispute this. And that's fine. Just make sure you have this documentation. You can show, well, this is why. This is all that's important to us. And that's how it works. It's not just who's the cheapest.  And once you show them this, they have no legs stand on to argue. So you would choose vendor three. Now, there's a few situations that are a little, questions I've had about what, what about special situations that might come up? What if you are brand new to doing E-rate you have a current contract with a company. So you are in a contract right now, you can't really open up for a new, you can't start a new one, but you want to start doing E-rate and make that contract work in the E-rate program. Can we do this? Or do I have to wait till the contract ends? You do not have to wait. You just do a 470 as you normally do. You wait your 28 days, but then you use that current contract you have as one of your bids. It becomes a bid. If you receive other bids or quotes, you'll have to do your comparison and decide hopefully your current company will come out ahead using your discount matrix and things like this prior experience difference here of getting zero from a new company into the most for the current one that can be very helpful to you in that situation. And so as long as your existing contract's willing bid then now you can continue on and they win and you can go on ahead even though you have that previous contract already in place. So this would be if you're brand new to E-rate for the first time and you want to jump in in the middle of a contract. What about if the city pays for the library's internet? The library doesn't actually have its own just internet bill, that's okay. You can cost allocate out the city's costs from the library's costs. So you have to be able to separate out how much of the internet service is being used by the library as opposed to anything else the city is paying for. They may be paying one big bill that is city hall, fire department, library, all their internet service. And that's fine. You just need to be able to see on the bill which part is for each location or you can have an estimate if you think, well, we know the library uses this much and city hall uses this much, you can try to estimate. You might be able to get actual statistics from your service provider. Ask them, can you tell me we've got these three different connections one or three buildings? How much of that connection is going to the library and what cost-wise would that be as compared to all the other ones? You can only receive E-rate on the internet service that's going to the library building, not to the other buildings. The city can pay for it all as one big bill but you've got to be able to differentiate. This is the library's part of the internet. So we're going to ask for an E-rate discount on that cost, not the amount that goes to this fire department or city hall. What if you have one bid or no bids? That's okay. There does not have to be an actual competition even though it is officially opening a competitive bidding process. If there's only one bid, you just go with it. That's fine. Write yourself a little email or memo saying we only received one bid from so-and-so company and that's fine. If you didn't have any bids, you can now, after the 28 days, reach out to your vendors. Reach out to your current service provider. Maybe they didn't realize and notice you had put something out there. You want to just nudge them and say, hey, we did our E-rate. Are you still on board for that? So you have a confirmation with that. If you were trying something brand new and you know there was companies in the area that could do this, that could give you fiber or due construction, after that 28 day period, you can now contact them, reach out and say, hey, we did this. Are you guys due E-rate? Can you give us a response back? So there is, at that point, it's okay to talk to them. So on or after the allowable contract date, that 28 days, at any point you decide you close the competitive bidding process and you can choose when you want to do that. You can dictate that actually in your 470. If you had a whole RFP, you would probably mention it there. In that narrative part, you can say, competitive bidding process will close on and you can pick a date. It has to be at least the 28 days, but then you can give yourself like 28 days plus a week. So you have that extra week to make any decisions to reach out to companies, get something back. Depends on how quickly you think things can work. But you can say, this is when it's gonna be. Or you can just, you don't have to dictate it, but you can just pick a day and say, okay, we've gotten everything we need. We know what we're gonna do, let's do it. There isn't any real process to close the bidding process. The competitive bidding as in check a box or make an announcement or something. There's nothing within the Epic system to do that. You just say, today we're done and you do it. That's when you can do that evaluation, choose who you're gonna go with. If you need to sign a contract or an agreement or a memo, whatever needs to be done.  However, and I mentioned this earlier, you can only do your 471 during their application filing window. It's only available for a short period of time during the year, as I said, generally in the spring. So that would be the wrapping up of your competitive bidding process. Any questions about the competitive bidding before we go on to the next forum? As I said, you may or may not even have any competition and that's fine for many of our libraries. It's not a thing just because there's only one company in town and it's much easier than all of this that I've explained to you may sound. But if you do receive multiple bids, you will have to do some evaluation. Something I should mention though to when you do receive these bids, you do have to make sure they're actually responding to what you asked for in the 470. We've had this happen as well. I put out a 470 asking for monthly internet charges and they send me a quote because they do other services as well, send me a quote for cell phone service. Thanks, but that has nothing to do with my e-rate application. There's nothing in my e-rate about cell phone service because it's not a thing that's available, eligible. And you didn't mention anything in your quote or your contact with me about what I did ask for my monthly internet cost. In that case, you can just ignore that bid or quote completely. If they don't respond to what you actually asked for, doesn't matter. Hold on to it just for, you know, for paperwork purposes in case somebody questions, we sent you something that you can say, yeah, you sent me a thing for a cell phone, I asked for internet, not the same thing. So that will come up. So pay attention, read the quotes and the responses you receive and make sure it's actually what you, matches up with what you asked for. If it doesn't, you don't have to do it. Also, if after the 20 days, you may start a conversation with a company and saying, hey, you know, your pricing is really good. I'd love to talk more about this. And you could say, you know, when we had this happen before too, where a company is just doing kind of a phishing expedition, seeing what they could, you know, they've noticed libraries asking for what they do. And so they send a response and then you reply and say, oh yes, I'm at so-and-so town in, you know, way in Western Nebraska. And they say, where? We don't serve that area. We don't have any business there. We don't do business there. All right then, you wasted everybody's time by sending this quote. It happens. That's another one you can just ignore. You do not have to compare them if they then reply to you and say, oh, we actually don't do business in, you know, so-and-so town in Nebraska. Sorry. Hold on to it, but just set it aside. Doesn't need to be taken into consideration. So just because you receive a quote doesn't mean you have to evaluate it. Take a look at it, make sure it's responding here at 470. Make sure the company actually does business in your town.  All right, no more questions here. All right. Let me get another trick here. The second form in the E-rate process is your 471. This is the form everybody has to submit this one as opposed to there's a couple of exceptions for the 470. You do this one every year to let you SAC know who you have chosen to your service provider and what services are gonna be getting. If you have a multi-year contract, this would be your second, third year of the contract. You'd do this to let them know you're still with that company. For something new, you'd be letting them know who you went with, the certifying compliance with this and your discount calculation comes in on the in this form. At this point, this is when you can communicate with the firm provider. I said with the 470, when you're first reaching out, you cannot have them help you work on your form. On the 471, yes, you can because you might need information from them about how this is gonna work, what they're gonna do, what it's gonna cost. You're gonna need to have the back and forth with them at this point. And so now they can help you to make sure you get the right information into the 471. You'd also wanna talk to them about how you're gonna do the invoicing part. How are you going to receive your discount? Is it gonna be a discount automatically on your bills or is it gonna be a reimbursement after the back? So the 471 can be done after the 470 has been out there at least 28 days.  The filing window, usually as I said, is between January and March. It's when it's been falling most recently. Right now, as of now, USEC has not announced the dates. The dates do vary. There's not a set beginning or end of March, so it's specific dates. And they announce those dates usually sometime in December. So sometime next month, we'll know what that actual window is. Right now, you can't even do a 471 if you try to. It'll say, sorry, the window's not open, come back later. So that's one good thing. You cannot accidentally go in and do it earlier then the window opens. It just won't be available to you. You do have to wait until that 28 days has passed though. That is very important. Do not jump the gun on that. If you do your 470 now, that's great. You'll definitely have more than 28 days before the window opens in January. But you can still keep doing your 470 in January and February. If that's when you finally get around to it and that's fine, but you've gotta make sure you don't jump the gun and do the 471 too early. If you do, you've also knocked yourself out of getting your E-rate discount because you've broken the E-rate rules and done it in the wrong timeframe. We recommend don't wait to do your 470, your first form. There's no reason to wait. It's available now. Do you know what you're gonna be looking for? Go and do it right now. Do it today, do it tomorrow. Do it next month. As soon as possible, there's no reason to wait. You could even start it back in the summer when it was first available. Because the earlier you get it out there, then you know you're definitely gonna have those 28 days before you even get close to the filing window and do the 471. Lots of people do ask me, well, what is the deadline for submitting a 470? There's gotta be a final date. And there is, we don't know the deadline until we know the actual dates of the filing window. Because what it will be is, whatever is the close of the filing window, the last date you can submit the 471 back up 28 days, that will be the deadline for the 470. So there will be a deadline as soon as the filing window dates are announced, then we'll be able to do that math and figure it out. But if you wait until the deadline, as many of us tend to do, you may have issues. If they're in, you might not be able to get your form in on time. If on that date, there is a problem that your internet's down for some reason. If there's a storm, if there's a blizzard, we're in Nebraska in the spring, there's gonna be. And you can't get to your library or get to a connection. If USAC system is having technical issues, when it gets down to that deadline date, things are delayed because of people rushing in the last minute. So please just don't wait to the deadline to do that because you might end up having so many other issues or if you're ill that day and you can't do it, you just don't get your e-rate. Also, if you wait to the last date on the 470, then you have to do your 471 on its last date as well and you could encounter the same issues. What if there's weather? What if the internet's down? What if I'm ill on that one date? You wanna give yourself more wiggle room than just those single individual dates. So get your 470 done now.  What is actually one nice thing that USAC does do is they do send you a notification and email to your personal email account, letting you know that the allowable contract date has been reached for the 470. So if you're not sure, maybe you didn't know that in your calendar, you weren't sure, wait until you receive this poke, this nudge and then you know I'm good. I'm past that 20 days. Now let's start evaluating. Let's see what bids we've got. Let's get that 471 in. This will be emailed to you. It'll also be in your news section in your e-rate account. Now to do the 471, it is also in the top menu here. Like I said, it's not available right now so I don't have screenshots to show you but I will talk to you about the format of the form that you see you know. The 471 can be a little confusing. It is a two-step process. You first have to put in the request itself saying what the service is that you're looking for and then you have to go into that request you've created and enter the cost information and the specific details. A lot of people kind of get confused and lost in this process. Don't realize that I have to go create it first and then go in and do something more. It's a little extra work than when you did the 470 which was just create the funding request and it's all in there. One key to remember if you've done this right or not and so you don't get the error message this if you haven't entered money information you know the amount it's going to cost you you haven't finished the request. That's what goes in the line item information is how much is it gonna cost me. If you haven't done that and you're trying to go further on in the form and it's throwing errors out at you, that would be why. So use create the request then go into that request you've created and provide the cost information. Something else to be aware of is you have to submit separate 471s for each category. Category one and category two of E-rate. For the 470 as I told you you can submit one 470 that has both of those in them but once you get to the 471 you have to do them separately because they do the funding differently. As I mentioned category one it's a straight you get a discount on whatever you purchase but category two uses that budget the category two budget. So within the system they need two separate 471s to process two different ways. So if you are requesting both category one and category two services in the same year you're gonna be doing two form 471s. You're gonna create one and do everything that talks about your category one basic internet and the cost of that submit and certify that one then you're gonna start a whole second 471 that talks about your category two services and all those purchase equipment and purchase that you're doing and submit that one. You also receive in response to the 471 a receipt knowledge management letter just like the 470 summarizing it you can make changes to this one as well. Same thing. You can also request changes in the funding if you just realize oops actually the cost of change now from the provider. You can reduce funding but not increase it. So make sure you have it correct before you do your 471. And this comes to you within your E-rate news account news section as well. Now, once you've submitted your 471 it goes into application review and this is where the waiting game starts. This is where you wait for them to review it. Application review could take months. You have a deadline to submit it sometime in March. They might not respond to you and make a final decision until April, May, June, July, August. Yes, even into the funding year that you're applying for. And that's okay. They have so many applications that they receive it sometimes takes time to get through all of them but even if you don't have your answer until it's during the funding year like after that July 1st get in August, September, October, that's okay. You will receive the funding going all the way back to the July 1st, the beginning of the full funding year. You don't lose any of that. You'll just get a credit from your service provider for those preview, those months. So application review is done by the PIA Program Integrity Assurance Department and USAC and they will check and make sure everything's correct in your form, everything's legal, you checked all the right boxes, verify everything you did. They may reach out to you with questions and allow you to make changes or fixes to things on the form. If they do, you'll receive an email sent to you to your email account and it will say, click here now to go into your Epic account and review the inquiries that we have for you. If you have any confusion or questions about this this is the time to call me or email me and I will help you interpret what they're saying. They can sometimes use what I call e-read ease. It can be a little convoluted how they explain it. They use like three paragraphs for something that could have been two sentences. They have July, here's what that was going on. Here's how the program works, but this is what we need from you. If you can't interpret and figure out what they're asking for, just let me know. I can get into there and look at it and you can send me what they're asking you and I can help you translate what they want to and get them the right information. It might be just changing a checkbox. It might be providing a bill or a quote or a contract, whatever they may need.  When they have made the decision, they will send you the funding commitment decision letter, your FCDL. This is acting an email, a letter email that is something that's emailed to you to your personal email account and it is attached to that email. This will let you know if you've been funded, if you've been denied, if maybe they reduced the funding, they may have in conversation with you, just decided that certain things you asked for were ineligible or we had to change the costs on things and all those changes will be there. You might get more than one of these emails, especially if you've separated out your category one and category two requests. So you've got two 471s that they're evaluating. They may send a different letter for each one. So keep an eye on your emails to make sure everything you asked for, you get responses too. If you disagree, like if you've been denied, you can do an appeal and I can help you do that. I've helped many libraries go through the appeal process and there's information in our website and the USAC website about that if we need to ever get into that. So this is the email you receive and it says USAC funding commitment decision letter available for FCC Form 471. In the email itself, it doesn't tell you what their answer is. It just says, here's your letter, but attached you've got a spreadsheet showing it and then a PDF of the actual letter itself. And so here's the PDF. It says how much has been, what's been committed. It tells you what your next steps are, what you're supposed to do now in the process. If you do need to make an appeal and then specific details about the request, what it was for, what the monthly cost will be, what everything will be, that's all there in your, everything you need to know is in that funding commitment decision letter. Now, as soon as you receive your funding commitment decision letter and you've been approved, immediately you need to go into your 46. This is the next form of the process. There is no reason to wait. There is no delay you need to do. There is no like 20 day waiting period or anything. It's immediately as soon as they've said, yes, you go and do this form. However, this is where many libraries kind of lose it in the e-rate process. They've received their funding commitment letter and it says, yes, you've been approved and you go, yay, you did it, we're done. Well, no, what it really means is they've set aside that money for you but you need to let them know that you want to accept it and you would like it. Why would you not want to? There are possible reasons why things, the situation may have changed. Like I said, it does take months to get it. The funding commitment letter sometimes. Your city or your library may have decided that we can't even afford the extra part of this. It just kind of doesn't help. The search provider has changed what they're offering. They've gone out of business. They've jacked up their prices. They've reduced their prices. All sorts of reasons why you might not want to receive, accept the funding. So that's why USEC says, let us know you actually want it. So you've got to do the 46. So you let them know that service has started. You're going to be getting it in as of July. And this is where you certify that you are in compliance with SIPA. This is where that one comes into effect. Now it's also great about the 46. It's one of the forms that a lot of libraries lose, you know, forget to do because they think they're done when they get that letter. But it's also one of the easiest forms to do because you don't have to actually fill in anything. All the information you need is already in your Epic account because you entered it in the 470. You entered it in the 471. USEC entered it, their response to, in the funding commitment letter, all of that is in your account. You just have to create a 46 and say, yes, we want all this stuff and submit it. So it's one of the quickest, one of the easiest forms to do. So the 46 is also available in the upper here on the top. And so a few screenshots of this one, not the full process all the way through because a lot of these forms are similar with the certifications and how to do all of that. But you would go in and you'd choose, put in your nickname, you're the contact person, choose the correct funding year and we choose whatever the funding year you're doing. It will then bring up all of the funding requests you have submitted for that funding year that you have been approved for. You can see here, your status is they're funded. They're up here as the ones you've requested and down at the bottom underneath there is the selected ones. You have to select them and say, yes, we want these. This is a little red triangle, exclamation mark means this information is missing and you need to select something. So automatically default bringing up that funding year's requests. So what you would do is you would check in the box for the one that you want and then add it. You can do them one at a time. For some reason you might want to just one and not the other or there is an add all button noise that you can click on it and we'll check every single one of them. It's like across the board, yes, we want all of these. In this example, I just checked one and then you click add and now you'll see it bumps down and has also put that one in the selected section as well. So now it's saying, yes, these are the ones I want. Now the buttons in front of these are just to remove them. There's nothing going into there to make changes. All the information is just built in there. So you're just selecting the one you want, moving it down, continue. When you get to the certifications on the 486, some things I want to notice, as you know here, there's the square box ones that's just that's legally is you have to agree to the SIPA certifications. This is where you do have to make a choice about where you are in the being in compliance with SIPA. The first choice is we are in compliance. So you would check that one if you've got your filters going and you're good. The last choice I'm going to bump down to that is SIPA does not apply. This is for previous applications where there are some situations where you didn't need to be in compliance with SIPA. But the middle one here is we're in the process. What's great about USAC and ERA and SIPA is that they do give you up to three years to become in compliance, to get set up with it. They know that it could take time to make a decision, figure out who you're going to go with, get everything installed and working and have it all up to speed. And as long as you're working towards that, they'll give you your e-read discount on those services.   So if you're going to do e-rate, make sure you're going to follow through and being compliant with SIPA. You don't want to have to give back any of your money. The deadline to submit the 46 is 120 days after your service start date, which is July 1st or the date whenever you've received your funding commitment, the decision letter, which I said can sometimes come after July 1st. To start with, if it is July 1st, October 29th would be the deadline for it, for anything that you received July 1st and after. If it's anything later than that, your deadline would bump ahead, whatever 120 days is after your letter. USAC will notice and pay attention to libraries who have been approved and received kind of funding commitment.  I also do that myself as well. I proactively keep it on everything you guys are doing. And in the beginning of October, I will send emails to anybody who I know has been approved for funding but has not done a 46 yet. And so you will get an email from me saying, hey, you have not done this form, you need to do it. Otherwise you're going to lose some of your e-rate funding. With the 46, any days you submit it late, you'll lose that day's worth of, so if you don't do it on October 29th and you do it on October 30th, you lose one day's worth of funding, whatever the math comes out to that. So I will nudge you and let you know that you do need to get these in as well. You will also receive a letter sent to you and the service provider letting you know that the 46 has been processed. This is the form that the service provider looks for to make sure that you're good and you are accepting the information, accepting the funding so that they can go ahead with the invoicing if they're gonna discount you on the bill or if they're going to, how are they gonna provide the service? You'll also receive this notification letter in your e-rate news. So now onto the last form of the process. Now I know we are a little late here, we started a little late, I apologize for that. It is a little after 1230 but I'm gonna keep going until I finish through everything. Please stick with me if you're able to. We're recording all of this, there will be recording late available later. If you do have any questions about any of the forms get it into the question section and I can answer them for you right now as well. So please go ahead and type in there, I'll keep an eye on it, I've got the window open here for any questions you have. So the last form in the e-rate process is your invoicing form. This is your 474 or a 472. Now you have two choices of how you can receive your discounts if you're going to receive a discount on the bills that you receive from your service provider, then they are responsible for submitting the spy form, the service provider invoice form, the number 474.   Your responsibility is done at the end of that third form of the process and you are done. You'll now just be getting your service, it will be discounted on your bills automatically and it's up to the service provider for their responsibility to get their money back from USAC, not up to you at all. Now, if you are not getting a discount on your bills, you're having to pay things in full and you want to receive a reimbursement after you've paid them, then you would submit the 472, which is called the BEHR form, the billed entity applicant reimbursement form. This is filed by you. It is, and you generally would do this after the funding year is over. You've paid all your bills in full and then after the year's over, you would submit this. This one is also conveniently do also 120 days, but 120 days after the last date of service, which is June 30th, or the date when you just did your 486. That depends on when you got your funding commitment letter. So sometimes it might be bumped a little. This also ends up falling at the end of October, October 28th, if it's before the, this is on the regular schedule. So I also just like with the 46, I do pay attention to anyone who has gone through a full year of E-Rate, and I can look up and see if USAC has distributed any of the funding. And if they say they have not sent anyone any funding, then I will also nudge you and say, hey, if you haven't received your funding, you're gonna need to do your BEHR form. Now, if your service provider has been giving you discounts on your bills, that may be on them. They may have just not submitted their 474, their spy form to USAC asking them to reimburse them. So, and it's still on them. Just because you haven't, according to USAC, they haven't sent any money, it's not necessarily your issue. So if I do reach out to you about a BEHR invoicing, check your bills. If you've been getting discounts, it's not your problem. It's up to the provider to take care of their issue.  As I said, this is a direct reimbursement with electronic bank transfers. So if you are doing the BEHR option, you do have to do that 498 to give them the banking information. You have to do the 498 before you can do the BEHR form. It won't let you do a BEHR form until you've given them the banking info. So if you're ever thinking about potentially needing to do a BEHR form, maybe get this done just for the heck of it. So the info's in there already. And then in any future years, when you need to get a reimbursement, the info's already there. So you will give them the usual banking information. It's just like getting a direct deposit for your paycheck, bank number, routing number, bank account, all of that. You also need to know whatever the federal ID number, a tax ID number that your city or your library uses, same for payroll. And then the new number that they're asking for on this, used to identify businesses, a DUNS number. This is free. If you're doing anything federal, E-Rate, it's a federal program, you have to have one of these. You might already have one, just like that FCC number I mentioned way earlier. You can look up on their website to see if you have one, and if not, you can reply and request one. Now, to do your 498, it is in a different place than everywhere else, because it's not one of the three forms that you do as a regular, as a regular process. And you only do it once. Like I said, you only got to submit the banking information one time. It's in your library's info. So underneath the logo where it says welcome, click on your library's name. And then from this menu, choose related actions. And it's a whole bunch of things you can do here. But about halfway down, there is a create FCC form 498. If you don't see this here, I'd mentioned earlier about permissions, you may need to give yourself the permission to do this. As I said, the account administrator is not automatically set up with full permission to do the 498. It's a special one. So you may have to go into your user account, look at your permissions, and give yourself the school or official officer option. Turn that on for yourself. Then come back here, and then the create 498 form option will pop up. That also may take a few minutes. I had to do it for a few people, 30 seconds, a minute, two minutes. Do the same thing as generating your PDFs. Refresh the page a few times and eventually it will pop up for you. But once it's there, you create it. And I'm not gonna go through this whole form either. I don't have banking info to fill in here. But as you can see here, it asks for your company, your library and then general financial contact numbers, remittance information, all your usual banking account info that you would submit. Once you submit the 498 form, then they're gonna email you and ask for documentation. Just like when you've done a direct deposit type thing, you have to provide avoided check or something. They ask for that as well. Avoided check or a copy of bank statement will work. They also send you to a different website to provide this info and upload this info. They do keep your banking information completely separate from the Epic system. So there's no security issues there. So there's nowhere in Epic to submit this. You go to the email that they send you, click on that link, go to that webpage and follow their instructions to upload the documentation and the proof of your bank account there. Eventually then they will receive that and look at it all out and they will then issue a proof and turn on your 498 ID. Until you have that 498 ID turned on, you cannot do a bear form. It won't let you, there's nothing, it won't let you do it because the process can't go through. This can take some time, a few days a week. So this is not a kind of instantaneous thing. So if you need to do a bear form and get your reimbursement, you want to, like I said, get this 498 work done ahead of time. But once you do receive that email saying, yes, your 498 ID has been approved and you have it, then you can go and log into your Epic account. And remember at the beginning, I said there's the Epic for everything else and then a separate login for the bear form. You would use that instead and that will bring you to a new screen to log into. This is the bear form is in what they call the legacy system. This is the previous incarnation of doing eRate online. And it's just still in the old system. Hopefully someday it'll move into Epic as well, but for now you kind of log into it via Epic to start with and then pop over there. And to log into this system, you do need to have a pin number. This is a number you may have had if you did do any eRate before. It was assigned to you to do your previous eRate before Epic became a thing and you had your username and password. You still have that old pin number. That's what you use here. If you don't have one, you can reach out to client service bureau, eRate's customer service and they will issue one for you. Not a problem. And then just log into there and fill in all your bear information to receive your reimbursement. They will send you a notification letter letting you know that it's been processed, same as everything else. And then you'll also start, no matter which way you're receiving your discount, you're gonna start getting quarterly reports, disbursement reports, letting you know, you set letting you know we've given this, sent this money to wherever. If you're getting discounts on your bills, look at this report and compare it to the discounts your service provider is giving you, make sure they're giving you the same amount discount of money as eRate is sending them. If you're doing bears where you're getting a reimbursement after you've paid your bills in full, double check your bank account or contact your city clerk or someone to double check it and make sure the amount that USAC says they're sending to you is what's appearing as a direct deposit into your bank account. And so once you've done the 472 or 474, whichever one it needs to be done for you, you are done with your eRate process for the year. Yay! And that is it. So, any questions? We have just a couple more wrap-up slides here, but do you have any questions about the eRate process you wanna ask me now? Type in the question section and we can go over it. Anything that we've talked about today. We've gone through the, keep an eye on the question section here if you type anything in. We've gone through the basics of the program, how it works, what you can apply for, gone through the forms, all the different steps that you need to do to have a successful eRate application. While I'm seeing if anybody has any questions, I should point out, we do have our eRate website that I had mentioned nlc.nebraska.gov slash eRate where I have a lot of information for you to do your applications. There's also some other training that I highly recommend that you take a look at to keep up with or learn more about the program. Every year in the fall, USAC does do applicant training workshops. They're usually held throughout the country in multiple locations. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were all done online only over a three day period earlier this month in November, but now recordings of all of those sessions are available. They're each one hour sessions. So I think there's nine or 10 of them out there on different aspects of eRate. So we link to those from our website. You can look at those. They also have always had a training series for applicants where just showing the basic process as well and then step-by-step videos on each form. The tutorials are not too long, five, seven minute videos showing each form or parts of each form and live demos of all of them. So for example, here today, I didn't show you full from beginning to end of the 471 and the 46 or anything. They do have their own videos out there that you can watch. So I definitely recommend using those. And they also have PDF user guides for men and instructions for many of the forms. So if you're the kind of person that likes to have in paper here in front of me, what I need to do with screenshots while I'm doing the thing on the screen and matching those up, those would definitely be for you. So definitely look at those. The client service peer I've been talking to you about throughout this session, USAC's customer service, that's their 800 number,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Also within Epic, the contact us link, there's where you can send an email type request to them. And then lots of information and all those pranks and everything on the main USAC website. It's not just for logging in, it's for getting information about the E-Rate program. And of course, my contact information. As I said, I am your state E-Rate coordinator for public libraries. I am here to help you get through this process. I've spent over 10 years helping libraries, holding their hands, whatever needs to be done. Call, email me, reach out to me for anything, any questions you may have about doing your application. And I just wanna show you here also quickly, this is the E-Rate website that I have for on the library commission page, Nebraska.gov slash E-Rate. Basic information about the program, links to other information, links to the training, the USAC's training they did this fall, there are other videos and training information. Information about all the tools, the link to the Department of Education page for school lunch program information. So I try to give links out to anything that may be of use to you about each step in the form. Also the SIPA information I have here, types of filters you can do, information about it. And then if you're interested in what has been done in here in Nebraska, we started having libraries apply and receive E-Rate as far back in 1998, the first year that could be received. And we have lists here of every library and how much and what they've received it for. So you're wondering where you are on here or where some of your colleagues may have applied, what they may have received, you'll find it on our lists here. All right, so that wraps it up for our workshop today. Does anybody have any last minute desperate questions you'd like to ask me about before we do end things? Step into your questions section. I know there's a lot of information to give, but hopefully it was useful to you to at least go through the whole process. They said the recording will be available in a bit. It's gonna take some time to go through any editing that needs to be done, but you'll be able to re-watch it and look at anything else you might want to on the E-Rate website for more help. 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Hey Bolo buddies, thanks for watching. All right, you guys I have 50 unexpected Bolo's coming your way items to be on the lookout for items that you can find at garage sales thrift stores estate sales Facebook marketplace if you go out and look you will find these items now Some of these are a little harder to find if you guys are in my Bolo buddies Facebook group You know that I post links of auctions that are active that are getting lots of bids So this video is to show you what those items actually ended up selling for This is one of my most popular videos most viewed people love seeing the big money Bolo's So we are just gonna dig right in I'm gonna move through them very quickly. I have 50 pulled up I actually had them pulled up and I closed the entire Browser for that and I'm like, oh my goodness I have to go and pull all those tabs up again And I was able to find it in my search history There's like a little thing and I was so excited that I didn't have to Repull up all those tabs because looking and finding and pulling up those tabs takes a long time But it speeds up the video so I like to have them ready to go for you guys So we are gonna get started. I am gonna try a different format So I'm gonna be down here instead and let me know what you guys think about that Okay, before we start I would like to show you guys This is my main channel and you guys I've got tons of category videos That's where I pick a category and I focus on just those items You're gonna see an item in this video that is a lock I have a whole video dedicated to locks and keys that are Bolo items. I have Disney Bolo items I have plush Christmas Halloween Items you find in the kitchen items you find in the bathroom. So definitely check out those category videos and Then over here on my sourcing with Bolo buddies channel This is my other channel you guys if you're not subscribed definitely check it out It is linked down below but one video that I put over here recently that is really good That's not getting a lot of action because I put it on my smaller channel Is this garage sale with me video and I take you to the garage sales But as I go through and pick things up I pop up screen shares of everything I listed and I also show you if the item sold before the video was posted and Also on this channel I have featured members on my main Bolo buddies channel and I do a bonus video sometimes and I put the bonus video over on this channel now I know you guys love these videos because they get fantastic views on my main channel But they don't get as many views over here and I think that's because you guys do not know about them So come on over to my sourcing with Bolo buddies YouTube channel subscribe hit that bell and look for the featured members videos and I do have a playlist so Check those out if you missed them because they are amazing alright and The Bolo buddies Facebook group if you guys are not in it please click down below on the link and join and oftentimes if people in the group have a Bolo that they want to share that is auction style with a lot of bids they can message me and I will share it in this group Okay Alright, so we are going to get started with the first Bolo item The first Bolo is this pom-pom. Here we go aluminum Tree, I'm not good at saying that word I know it so I have to really take my time and I still don't think I said it completely right But these trees are a Bolo item if you can find them Definitely pick them up. I do know a guy that parts them out if he gets a tree. That's not complete He will sell the actual palm. I guess they're called pom-poms Individually and people will buy them as replacement palms And that is a great thing to do because you can make a lot of money doing it that way It does take longer to sell but definitely definitely an idea This tree sold for five hundred and forty five dollars plus shipping The next item that sold I Believe a member of the group sent me this one if I remember correctly and it is a daisy Kingdom Pinafore dress lilac some roses. There's the tag. It's even got some writing on it. I do have a Bolo category video on Toddler dresses to be on the lookout for so definitely check that out. It is on this channel This dress ended up selling for five hundred and ninety dollars with thirty eight bids in the buyer paid shipping The next item is this vintage antique ten wind-up tool toy And it says Lone Ranger with a lasso and I know somebody said shouldn't you have a gun? I'm like, I don't know. It's not my listing. I didn't make the toy But anyway, I don't know. Do you guys know do cowboys? I think cowboys have lassos, right? Don't they lasso cows or something? Anyway, let me know what you guys think in the comments This guy's over two hundred and eighty five dollars if you see ten wind-up toys Definitely pick those up If you can get them for the right price they range from bread and butter to big money always do your research though you guys The next item is this vintage Sun Tor BMX pedals. These are new old stock pedals you guys how amazing is this? sold for six hundred and five hundred dollars and the buyer paid shipping and you can see right here It looks like there's some nineteen dollars and sixty cents maybe originally how cool is that? the next item is this vintage Patagonia jacket and These deep pile jackets They've been trending for quite a while I actually was not sure if they were still trending until I saw this post and I was like I'm gonna watch that and it sold for three hundred and fifty three dollars So these are vintage retired Definitely be on the lookout for that deep pile Kind of like a fleece material three hundred and fifty three dollars buyer paid shipping on that one the next item is this laser light Skeletor figure so Masters of the universe MOTU. That's what that stands for Some of these can go for crazy money and some of them are bread and butter. It depends on the year It depends on the toy. It depends on the condition But definitely look them up usually on the foot or on the body somewhere It will give you The information that you need to help you look the item up and you can also use Google lens this particular item sold for $910 plus shipping The next item is this tiger sharks bronk action figure. I've never heard of him I thought he was pretty cool looking so I wanted to share A member of my Facebook group in the comments mentioned that typically the guns or the weapons are missing And this guy has those so that helped bring up the value However, this person did not put the weapon in the first photo I recommend putting the weapon in the first photo because sometimes that weapon can be worth more than the actual action figure itself. So This probably should have been the first photo So that is just an opinion of mine a little tip that I've learned along the way But this guy sold for six hundred and ten dollars plus shipping The next item that sold are these vintage Boy Scout patches now You have the choice to list these individually or list them as a lot this seller chose to list them as a lot I don't know too much about Boy Scout patches individually I would have to look each of them up this sold for five hundred and forty eight dollars and ninety nine cents And the buyer paid shipping and I'm not sure if they left money on the table or not If anybody knows please let us know down in the comments The next item is this Michael Harvey vase craft brown paper bag This is ceramic art you guys and I actually showcased one of these in a It's a Goodwill eBay store and the one in the Goodwill eBay store actually went for more than this You guys can check that video out. I just released it Recently but you know what I think I have another 50 unexpected Bolo's coming before this one So it you may have to look back a little bit, but it's on my main channel This one sold for fifty nine dollars plus shipping and this is a member of my Facebook group that shared this The next item is this Kurt Adler Christmas ornament. This is an Indian chief Kurt Adler can definitely be a Bolo, but a lot of times it is bread and butter It kind of just depends on what the ornament is and if it's collectible if there's Limited edition stuff like that, but definitely look up Kurt Adler. This sold for a hundred and twenty eight dollars and fifty cents plus shipping The next item is amazing This is Well There we go a unique vintage Christmas tree topper with angels. So not even a super fancy Title there, but this just goes to show that if people are collectors They will look for items this sold for four hundred and forty nine dollars and the buyer paid shipping The next item is this satin vintage starter jacket You guys if you see these old starter jackets, definitely give them a look up Some of them can go for big money, but the satin material is definitely something to look for This one looks like it still has the original tag, which is pretty cool This sold for two hundred and thirty four dollars and forty nine cents and the buyer paid shipping And I think this was a member of the Facebook group also The next item was definitely a member of the Facebook group and he has his own Facebook group So definitely go check him out at resellers research Something if you type in resellers research, it will pull up his group I have also featured this guy many many times on this channel He goes by hodge hodge and if you just search my youtube channel for hodge hodge You will see featured seller videos.  I learned so much from him and I have Probably five to eight maybe ten videos just on featured what sold videos So check those out this item sold for 220 dollars plus shipping and it turns out that this little guy right here in the back It is a collie and it is a rare He had no idea he just listed this as a lot and it's some rare variant So some of these can go for two three four hundred dollars on their own if you can find the right ones I'm not really sure of the exact value of this one I know he had lots of people messaging him But the whole lot went for 220 dollars and I'm guessing somebody got a pretty good deal on that The next item that sold is this Empire blow mold Santa on a railroad train Blow molds can be big money you guys look them up The thing I hate about blow molds is they are a pain to ship. So I oftentimes will I'll pass them by and I know I shouldn't I actually have a pumpkin. I need to list This guy sold for six hundred and sixty dollars plus shipping, but back to my pumpkin I need to find a box big enough to put it in it's pretty cool though The next item is this Pez dispenser. I also have a Bolo category on Pez dispensers If you want to learn more about those this one sold for six hundred and ten dollars plus shipping now There are certain things that you need to look for when you're looking up Pez No feet is a good a good thing, but it doesn't necessarily guarantee that it's going to be a big money Bolo I do have some tips in that video if you want to check it out But definitely look up Pez no feet Dispensers they range from bread and butter to big money and again this one sold for six hundred and ten dollars and twenty seven cents plus shipping This was definitely a member of my Facebook group that sent me this This is a vintage fun world division screen mask This one is heavily stained and still went for big money If you can find a gen one those are the ones that go for the most I'm not sure if this is a gen one or not But this one says fun world division on the chin those typically go for more Eastern limited, you know hundred to hundred and fifty Sometimes more, but the fun world division are the ones that go for a lot But if you can find a vintage screen mask and either brand they are definitely worth picking up This one sold for three hundred and eighty five dollars plus shipping even in this condition right here The next item that sold is this vintage tree topper. So it's by Bradford. These are really really cool They are pretty consistently going for big money So if you find one definitely look it up this one sold for five hundred dollars plus shipping The next item is this antique vintage leather brass spiked dog collar you guys. How cool is this? Can you imagine would you have thought that this would be worth so much money? This sold for five hundred and twelve dollars even with this little condition issue And the buyer paid shipping so pretty cool The next item I feel like I see these all the time this vintage ceramic ghost holding a pumpkin Maybe it was just listed at the right time. I have no idea, but this went for ninety three dollars plus shipping. So Um, I'm not saying that everybody's gonna get that maybe it's the pumpkin's face Maybe it's the expression on the ghost that brought this one up in value. I don't know but definitely look them up The next item that sold is this vintage eg's booze old cabin whiskey decanter Um, I would have probably walked right past this you guys and this sold for seven hundred and fifty dollars plus shipping So wow Okay, so this one I shared in the group and I think it sold for like four hundred dollars and when I went to pull it up The item was Relisted unfortunately So a non-paying buyer, but I wanted to share that this with you guys because These old um sealed detergents and stuff like that they can be used for movie props People will buy them. Um, unfortunately the buyer didn't pay but this is relisted at a hundred dollars plus shipping So we'll just kind of see what happens The next item that sold is this rare vintage antique fourth of july celluloid uncle sam webo wobble figure You guys check it out Would you have ever guessed that something like this would sell for four hundred and ten dollars and sixty nine cents plus shipping Uh, let's go in to the bid history here And it looks like there were five unique bidders and the winning bidder had one thousand ten feedback So i'm going to guess that probably got paid for The next item is this vintage eighties zigzag rainbow dolman sleeve sweater this sold for a hundred and two dollars and fifty cents and the buyer paid shipping Vintage clothing can definitely be a bolo All right a member of the group sent me this one. She had these knee hugging pixie elves I just thought their clothes were so cute and they are in Fantastic condition these sold for a hundred and sixty two dollars and fifty cents and the buyer paid shipping The next item also came from a member of the group who is also a bolo buddies member It is mindful recycle on youtube. She is fantastic And she sells I mean she finds amazing stuff. She goes to estate sales all the time So when you check out her videos, you're seeing stuff that sold for big money Now she will pay up, but usually her return is like huge so definitely check out mindful recycle on youtube And check out her store. It's really fantastic But she got this beetle juice life size animated figure And it sold for two hundred and two dollars and fifty cents plus shipping The next item is this avalanche baseball mascot plush So that reminds me of me trying to say Humongous You guys I did a video over my sourcing with bolo buddies youtube channel go check it up check it out It says literally cracking up Go check it out and you'll see why it was so funny Um, but anyway This is a baseball nut mascot plush and this guy sold for forty nine dollars and ninety nine cents plus shipping Um, I pulled this one up. I thought maybe it was going to get some more bids But either way fifty dollars for a plush. I would take that all day long The next item is this vintage barbie ponytail doll made in japan You guys these ponytail dolls Makeup looks good. Probably could have had some better lighting on this on the photos. I feel There's the but now a lot of times the date on the bottom of the Barbie can be a patent date. So Make sure that you don't have a repo and make sure that it is a legit vintage item You can usually tell this one sold for six hundred and fifty five dollars plus shipping The next item that sold is this vintage pyrex dish with the little um cradle and lid This sold for one thousand five hundred and twenty five dollars plus shipping if you guys want to know more about pyrex I have multiple videos on pyrex on this channel and my sourcing with bolo buddies channel. So definitely just type in pyrex Vintage cast iron roman warrior padlock and key Amazing this sold for three hundred and eighty dollars plus shipping as I mentioned earlier I do have a bolo category on locks and keys the rush tin company you guys these rubber faced rush tins are amazing Definitely a bolo item this one sold for one thousand five hundred and twenty five dollars plus shipping They will have a tag on them So you will be able to identify if it is a rush tin or not unless somebody cuts the tag off The next item that sold is this sissy doll nautical skirt set from 1959 It looks like it's in the original box. This is for a madame alexander doll I don't know you guys. I had no idea that one could go for one thousand eight hundred and ten dollars I don't know. It's amazing. Let's look at um, I wanted to go in to That's not where I wanted to go Let's go into their feedback And I just want to see this is a way to check to see if something actually sold But the person has to actually leave feedback for you to see it But I typed in m a for madame alexander And you can see I mean there's some pretty high prices here 250 374 um 899 and these actually got paid for and feedback was left so um Look at these prices. Wow two thousand dollars Wow, one thousand nine. Is that the one that might be it But look at this you guys So it looks like some of the old madame alexander Items can definitely be big money The next item that sold is this vintage msa Mining helmet this sold for two hundred and thirty two dollars and fifty cents plus shipping All right, I just had an idea. Let's look at view items for sale So it looks like this person specializes in madame alexander So i'm just going to show you a few things. These are under the solds So look at these clothes you guys Sometimes I do this when i'm researching I go off and I just kind of search things based on what I see So that's what i'm doing here. I'm researching for these videos Especially the category videos can take some time to try to find things that actually You know that you guys don't know about and that I don't know about and it really helps me to learn So i'm going to show you just a few things here that I didn't know about so maybe you didn't either All right, so those were all solds All right, we looked at the helmet The next item is this vintage diet pepsi trucker hat sold for six hundred and fifty dollars plus shipping You guys vintage trucker hats. I got a video on that also If you can find the one with the three stripes that will increase the value of the item If you want to know more tips about hats you can go check out my snapback video All right, you guys these are barbie and the rockers From 1985 and 86 there's 17 dollars here you guys this sold for five hundred and ten dollars Now could the buy or could the seller have parted this out and made more I don't know. What do you guys think? Pretty cool, right? The next item are these mga brats dolls. These are the older ones from 2001 2004. They are retired Um, I typically will part them out, but sometimes I'll list them in a lot It seems like whenever I lot items up like this. I have people requesting one doll. So um Yeah, especially on mercari everybody always wants to part things out on mercari This sold for three hundred and seventy six dollars plus shipping The next item is this vintage todd warner 2000 strawberry delight elephant sculpture. It's 37 of 150 I will tell you guys that there is no way on earth that I would want to ship this item That just looks terrifying. Let me know in the comments if you would be terrified to ship this But it did sell for two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars I don't know how they're going to ship it for that cheap But I guess I don't know how tall it is. Maybe it's not as tall as it looks. Let's see if they tell us 27 inches. Yeah, it's pretty big guys. Ah, that's so scary All right, the next item is this sun rubber company sunny bear. These are definitely a bolo It looks like somebody's got a video down in The description you guys if you don't know how to do that you can check out my channel I have a video that teaches you how to do that. That is great They're probably showing that the squeaker works this sold for 485 dollars plus shipping The next item that sold is this jansport backpack Some of these old vintage jansport items can definitely be a bolo Look them up. Even if they don't have the carrier like the metal part on them Some of the regular backpacks can do really well also this one sold for 225 dollars plus shipping The next item is this signed crown trafari vintage brooch and it says sterling so I'm guessing it's sterling and then maybe plated because it looks gold to me in color Um crown trafari. Let me see it's right over here Let's see if I can get you a close up of there what that looks like. Oh, it says sterling there And then it's got the patent and the number And then you see the little crown on top of the tee. That's how you know, it's crown trafari This sold for $1,330 with free shipping The next item are these vintage wrestling buddies There are four of them here and this sold for 365 dollars plus shipping You can also sell these individually for a decent profit depending on which character it is The next item was mine and I had an offer right out the gate for 65 dollars I did not accept it in time. It started getting bids So this ended up selling for 45 dollars apparently a couple of the books that I have are ultra rare And I probably would have made more parting them out and doing my research, but sometimes you win sometimes you lose I Should have been more careful on this reseller treasure My reseller treasure helped me out with this after the fact She has a fantastic youtube channel She focuses a lot on vintage toys and Barbies, but definitely go check brandy out my reseller treasure The next item that sold is this antique vintage 1920s halloween die cat decoration I said die cat Not die cat It's kind of a die cut It is plastic. However, I saw black cat and put die cut with it. Whoo. It's even during the day Um, so anyway, this sold for 534 dollars plus shipping. I can't blame it on being sleepy The next item that sold is this vintage Barbie suit dress from 1960s sold for 404 dollars I have actually sold this outfit before I picked it up at a garage sale In a big bag of Barbie clothes and when I looked up what these were going for Oh my goodness. I parted mine out and sold each piece separately I sold the hat and the uh the top and the skirt separately. So that's also an option Um Completely up to you guys they could have listed these separately, but either way this sold for 404 dollars plus shipping The next item is this box of 10 photo albums. It's like amazing you guys I'm guessing somebody bought this either a collector or a reseller and they are going to park these items out You guys some of these can be huge money Um, this is a huge lot a thousand dollars I'm guessing this is probably going to a reseller and they are going to make a lot of money on this um So 59 bids sold for 1026 dollars plus shipping you guys there's some resellers out there They don't want to mess with the smalls. They just want to lot it up and move it quickly So there are deals that you can make on ebay 20 max well cassette tapes these are blank cassette tapes and this is a lot of 20 that sold for 112 dollars and 50 cents plus shipping The next item is this kiss mask um halloween Costume mask from 1978 you guys I also have about bolo category video on kiss Band items Kiss band items are definitely a bolo check out that video But if you ever see kiss band items when you are out, especially if they are vintage Look them up. 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How cool is that you can see they're showing lots of photos Of like the inside those are ways that you can tell that the item is actually vintage I've heard that they're bringing back the big e these sold for $316 plus shipping The next item is this vintage action figure a lot These are just accessories you guys and like I said some of the accessories can go for big money They sold this as a lot a lot of times It's really hard to look up which character they go to so I will sometimes just throw them in a lot as well This sold for 177 dollars and 50 cents plus shipping Now somebody who tells sells toys and is really familiar with masters of the universe might pick this up and sell those items individually The next item that sold is this action figure a lot. It is also masters of the universe This was a member of my bolo buddies facebook group that shared this I'm actually surprised it didn't go for more. It only went for 93 dollars. Unfortunately Um, but again, I don't know a whole lot about the 80s characters and what makes which one's valuable A reseller may have purchased this. I don't know. Um I don't know. What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments And if you made it to the end of the video, please put a Fruit some type of fruit emoji down in the comment section So I don't know what emojis there are for fruit, but there's got to be something right All right, you guys thanks for being here. Thanks for watching Be sure to check out some of those category bolo videos Be sure to join my facebook group and as always. Thanks for watching


Hi, I am Giovanna Perena and this work is about giving an alternative approach to tackling two of the main bottlenecks in isogenic-based key compression, namely, pairings and discrete logarithms. This is a joint work with all of our rhythm. Okay, so let's start with some motivation and the background. It is well known that classical lift curves and pairings offer many opportunities to do research on different mathematical objects, from multi-precision arithmetic, the finite field arithmetic, and curve arithmetic. Now isogenous that are believed to be post-quantum secure, introduce the arithmetic of maps between curves. And key compression takes it to another level. It also includes discrete logarithms over finite fields to be used constructively. And now in this work we suggest to use discrete logarithms over elliptic curves. The techniques for key compression here not only applies to keys, but also to ciphertexts. So it also applies to psych. And also it's not only restricted to cans, key encapsulation mechanisms, but also to isogenic-based signatures.  Now let's go through the necessary background for this work. We start by describing the usual SIDH psych setting, where we define a prime P of the from 2 to the n times 3 to the n minus 1. And we build a quadratic extension of the finite field fp by joining the imaginary number i. All the curves in this work will be super singular. And they usually represented in their Montgomery farm unless stated or otherwise. And here EA denotes the curve in its Montgomery farm and A is just the Montgomery coefficient. In the second round of this competition, the psych team also suggested to use the curve v6 as the publicly initial curve shared among all the users. And they also defined two pairs of torsion generators, denoted here p6 and q6, where if i is equal to 2, they are going to generate the 2 to the n torsion. And if i is equal to 3, they are going to generate the 3 to the n torsion of the curve e6. And previously to e6, the curve e0 was the actual initial curve adopted in psych, but it was replaced in the second round of NIST because actually any two isogeny departing from e0 would pass through e6 anyways. So we wanted to avoid that. That is a very special property of the curve e0. Also the curve e0 comes with a pair of torsion generators, p0 and q0, that we will make using this work. And it has other special properties that I am going to describe. So we know that the curve e0 is connected to the curve 6 via actual isogeny, generated by the point i and 0. And we also denote by capital phi, the Frobenius and the Morpheus and only 0. And by tr, the trace map that takes points to the base field and is defined by the sun of the point t to its Frobenius map. So we also have a distortion map available on the curve e0. That is usually hard to find on general elliptic curves, but in here we can make use of it. For the purposes of this work, we are going to consider SIDH private keys as triples where SL is going to be an integer mod L to the e. We have also an isogeny phi of the grid lambda to the e to the lambda, whose kernel is generated by the point p6 plus SL q6. And we also have access to its dual phi hat. And here lambda is going to be co-prime to L. The public key in turn can be seen as a triple, a pq, where a is going to be the Montgomery coefficient of the image curve of phi e in here. And p and q are going to be two points on e. That will be the image of the isogeny phi evaluated on the original torsion basis p6 and q6. So now we can move on to the ideas behind the SIDH key compression. So let the e be the public key elliptic curve. It is always possible to build a canonical basis for the L to the a torsion, here denoted by the points R and S, that everyone agrees upon. And because the private isogeny phi preserves the linear independence of the points p6 and q6, the points p and q are also going to be a basis for that same torsion. This means that a base change matrix should exist. And it's given by these a's and b's coefficients here that are just small integers mod L today. The first idea for key compression was given by Asadarash and others, where instead of transmitting the x coordinates of points p and q to represent those points, which have storage for log p, we can actually transmit these four coefficients that are the representations p and q in terms of that canonical basis, so everyone can recover p and q. And these coefficients are just half the bit length of the prime p. So in total, only two log p would be transmitted. One improvement to this approach was given by Costello and others that showed that only three coefficients need to be transmitted. The observations that during the compression, we have to compute a subgroup generated by the point p plus S, L, then q. And if you expand these out in terms of R and S, you basically have, you can multiply this point by the inverse of AP, if AP is invertible, mod L today. And this still gives an equivalent subgroup. So basically, you just need these three coefficients with multiples of AP and inverse. And if AP is not invertible by construction, we will have that BP is going to be invertible because of this base change matrix. So I haven't actually explained how to compute the four coefficients a's and b's. So for example, if you look at the structure of R, it is decomposed into two cyclic subgroups generated by p and q. And if you want to retrieve, for example, the coefficient AP, you would have to project R onto that subgroup generated by p. And you can use Polly-Hellman, for example, because this is a smooth order subgroup. So in the original works, the tool used to decompose R into these cyclic subgroups is the pairing. So basically, we are going to move these discrete logarithm instances onto the cyclic subgroups over the quadratic extension of the finite field. And here are the five pairings suggested to do this computation. Actually, the first one, the pairing g, which is the pairing between the points p and q, can be precomputed because we can work out the details and see that it only depends on public parameters. But the other four need to be computed on demand. So also have these u's and v's. Basically, these are going to be elements over the finite field. And then you can just use Polly-Hellman to solve order L to the discrete logs over the finite field and then retrieve the actual four coefficients. We now reveal how to compute smooth order discrete logarithms over the finite field. We are giving a generator g of order L to the e of the finite field and a challenge of the from g to the d, where the exponent d is represented in base L, where the digits are smaller numbers mod L. So in the original Polly-Hellman, it was suggested to solve this problem by computing a sequence r0 up to r e minus 1, where it started r0 with the challenge. And then it started recovering the partial digits are d0 up to dk, up to d minus 1, by doing consecutive explanations by L and solving smaller discrete logarithms. And then we're moving the computed digits from the previous r's to compute the next r's. So as I'm now telling you 2018, I'll show you how to reformulate this problem in terms of graph, very similar to the strategy used to solve and compute the smooth order isogens. So basically the root of the graph is going to be the challenge and going to the left on the graph means raising to the power of L and going to the right is going to model removing a digit or multiplying by g to the minus L to the j plus k times the digit dk. So basically we can, using an optimal strategy to traverse this graph and compute all the digits. This was sort of expected, it was mentioned by Victor Schup a long time ago, that there would exist an optimal strategy for this problem, but no one had given a solution before. So now I'm also showing that if we use a windowed version of the discrete logarithm, meaning that we work with base L to the w instead of L to represent the digits, we can do some nice pre-computation. So basically we represent the digits in base capital L, which is L to the w, first in w and the right traversals will correspond to removing now large digits, mod L to the w and the left traversals are going to correspond to raising the element to the power of capital L or L to the w. So basically we have a much smaller graph, basically we have size e over w instead of e, but now going to the left is going to be more expensive because now we are powering by L to the w. So basically when you go to the left it's going to be the same cost as the original graph, on the other hand going to the right can be made cheaper if you pre-compute this guy that is multiplied on the right here to remove the digits. So basically you can introduce this table to u dk equal to those powers of g, and because g is public you can do this pre-computation. So basically the right edge traversal is going to be a table lookup in one single multiplication. And in this case the table size increases exponentially L to the w, so in w, so you can not go use a very large w, but even for small w you can save some multiplications. We can now move on to the contributions. So before going to the first optimization I should mention that the previous window at bully-helman technique works well when w divides the exponent e. It turns out that for psych p434 and p751 the exponent e is a prime number for the three-torsion, so no w is going to divide e. So Zanuatau also suggested an approach to address this issue by using an extra table of the same size of the previous table t. So in their approach let t be e mod w, it's what's going to happen is that if you use the original description by raising the elements to the power of L to the w when you go to the left, when you get to the first leaf here you basically get an element of order L to the t instead of L to the w. So basically we are going to be recovering less information about the digits. So what Zanuatau proposed was to fix the order of the elements on the leaves by in the very first left traversal from the right most diagonal we are going to raise the elements by the power of L to the t instead of L to the w and then after that we just go as usual. So basically this is going to fix the order of the elements and when they get to the leaves they can still recover the full digits except to the right most one. And for going to the right if you are at the right most diagonal you can just proceed as usual by removing the digits using a table t. On the other hand when are below the right most diagonal the digits will be shifted by L to the t because of this first exponentiation. So basically this table is not exactly what you need they suggested a shifted table that gives you the exact elements that you have to use to remove the digits and this new table has the same size of the previous one. So in order to reduce the storage requirements we suggest the following approach. Let d the discrete logarithm be written as q times L to the minus t plus r using the hydrogen division algorithm or q is just a small number less than L to the t. So instead of computing the original log of the challenge in base g we suggest to compute log of the challenge to the L to the t in base g to the L to the t. So now the exponent of the new challenge will be a multiple of w and then we can recover the remainder r. So also have the remainder r we can note that there is a relation between the challenge and the remainder r and the powers of g and the left hand side here c times g to the minus r can be computed once you have r and the right hand side which involves small powers of g to the L minus t you can basically pre-compute. So this is a composite by public values and then you can create this table which we call it t small that has those powers and then it can just compare the table entries with this element to see what's the correct value for q. And if you compare this new table with the previous shift the table proposed as unknown at all we can see that we can basically reduce the entire table can consume less than one percent of the size of the previous table. So one of the remarks is that because we had even the original table t in addition to t shift the overall reduction here is going to be a factor two when you compare with both tables t shift and t. And this optimization applies to discrete logs over finite fields so it applies to the official site and it will also be used when solving discrete logs over elite curves. So we learned how to project the discrete logarithms of r and s with respect to p and q by using binary pairings and then solving the discrete logarithms over finite fields. It turns out that there's a way to avoid those pairings and just solving the discrete logarithms over the base field on the elite curve E0. So equation one is stated in terms of the elite curve E which is the image public curve. So it turns out that we can use the global isogen if we had and efficiently move the problem back to the curve E6. So this isogen if you had can be efficiently computed as described before by nirhegan. So once you have moved the problem to E6 you can see that we still have the original coefficients that are presented by the homomorphisms are a property of the isogenes and then also are in only six you can again translate the problem to the curve E0 using that two isogenes that connects them. So basically the key idea now is that we can define an element g over the base field of order l to the n and you know that the trace of a point is always on the on the base field of E0. So we can apply independently the trace map and also the trace map composed with the distortion of psi on E0 to get equations like this. We are going to apply this to the equation two here and then we can see that the projection of the trace on the point b0, q0, r0 and s0 are going to be multiples of that same generator g. Now by looking at the equations above we can see that recovering the discrete logarithms of the traces of the points p, q, r and s in base g we need to solve these eight discrete logarithms which are simpler over the base field and for example the first four discrete logarithms only involve public points so they can be pre-computed so basically the last four need to be computed on demand and these are all over the base field and once you have computed and recovered these z and c's you can basically solve a linear system of equations over the integers mod l to the e to recover for example a, b and bp you solve the system composed by equations 3 and 5 and to recover a, q and b, q you solve the system composed by equations 4 and 6 by removing the g in here and just working with integers. Now the instance of the discrete logarithms we have to solve are over the initial curve e0 over fb and the modeling to solve this logarithm via pulley helman is very similar to the finite field k's where you just start with the challenge is being the root of the tree which is now is going to be a point on the curve retaining additive notation here and basically going to the left now instead of raising to the power of l you just multiply the point by l and going to the right just removing a digit by doing a point subtraction and we should note that now the sine of the point the y coordinate of the point will make a difference so basically we have to work with full projective coordinates and we did some investigation of different curve models to do this multiplications by l to our tree a point doubling or tripling and a point subtraction when we found that for l equal to 3 projective twisted adwords model gives the best formulas and for l equal to 2 the inverted twisted adwords model will give the best formula for us and here we should mention that solving the small discrete logarithms at the leaves you can still use tables by computing those multiples of the generator but the thing is that to compare with the table entries we still have to do some extra field multiplications because we have projective points as the leaves so there's some extra multiplications to be done another optimization that I call it 2 prime here regards the case where l is equal to 2 it turns out that in this case uh reconstructing the original coefficients uh is not trivial so basically there is an issue when we try to move the problem from the curvy 6 to the curvy 0 uh because now the order of the points have uh is 2 to the m which is not co-prime to the degree of the isogeny which is 2 so basically what can happen is that the kernel generator of the isogeny phi 2 maybe a multiple of any of these two points are 6 or s6 and in this case the resulting points the image points are 0 or s0 is not going to be a full order point so we may lose some information about the coefficients a's and b's and in the paper we give two different approaches um for this problem which turned it out to be non-trivial and the first one is simpler but it has twice as a star g as the second one and then the second one may just more elaborate uh we can we were able to reduce this star g requirement so if you want to see all the tricks and ideas behind then uh you can have a look at the paper now we move on to the results and final remarks so we have implemented our algorithms in magma to validate our ideas and for example in the case of psi p751 and now we go to 3 we have some star g figures uh compared to previous works so basically if you look at the total star g size we are improving by um a ratio of 28 percent or 20 percent depending on the torsion we are working on and um in terms of time performance and when you look at the number of fp multiplications equivalent um basically um our work uh is faster if in the case where no pre-computation is used it's about 24 to 48 percent faster depending on the torsion uh but when pre-computation is used it uh it's a bit slower um because of the the structure of the squid logarithm over the elliptic curve so in summary we gave a new technique that improved memory requirements when solving the squid logarithms and based out to the w where w does not divide the exponent this applies to official psi can also for the elliptic curve version of the squid logarithm and we also proposed an alternative approach to map the squid logarithms to elliptic curve the squid logarithms instead of using parents and this new approach provides improved storage compared to previous techniques and it is faster when no pre-computation is used it thank you for your attention


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This study introduces a new approach for evaluating the quality of rock masses in hydropower projects. The KPSO algorithm is used to cluster the data into five clusters, which are then evaluated using five different criteria. These criteria include uniaxial compression strength, discontinuity spacing, RQD, and integrity coefficient. The results of the KPSO clustering are compared to those of the BQ classification method, and the extension evaluation method, both of which have been commonly used in the past. The results show that the KPSO clustering is similar to the results of the two other methods, indicating that it is reliable and accurate. Additionally, the results are consistent with the field observations, suggesting that the KPSO clustering is a valid way to evaluate the quality of rock masses in hydropower projects. This article was authored by Yun Kai-Wan, Jin Zi-Chen, Zhou Mo-Fan, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


China vows retaliation over US. The Chinese foreign ministry warned of countermeasures to punish the US entities after Washington overreacted to an alleged Chinese spy balloon in American airspace by shooting down the unmanned airship and imposing sanctions. The US has abused force, overreacted, escalated the situation and used this as a pretext to illegally sanction Chinese companies and institutions. Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters at the briefing in Beijing, China is firmly opposed to this and will take countermeasures against relevant US entities that undermine China's sovereignty and security in accordance with the law. Wang offered no specifics on what retaliatory measures are planned. He made his comments after Washington added six Chinese entities with alleged links to China's supposed spy balloon program to an export blacklist. Chinese officials have claimed that the balloon that crossed North America earlier this month was an unmanned civilian airship that was blown off course and inadvertently entered US airspace. The US Air Force fighter jet shot down the balloon on February the 4th off the coast of South Carolina. Days later, President Joe Biden's administration claimed that the flight was part of a Chinese spying program that has targeted more than 40 countries. Beijing has denied those allegations and countered that the US routinely sends spy balloons over China. Wang said Washington has flown high-altitude balloons over Chinese airspace more than 10 times since May 2022, including flights over its Xinjiang and Tibet regions. Asked about allegations that the Chinese propagandists had tried to distract from questions about high-altitude surveillance by exaggerating a recent Ohio train derailment and promoting a claim that the US forces blew up Russia's Nord Stream pipelines, Wang suggested that Washington is the one trying to deflect people's attention. Western media outlets, which previously speculated that Russia sabotaged its own pipelines, were silent after US journalist Seymour Hirsch reported last week that Biden's administration was behind the Nord Stream bombing Wang said. He added that many Americans are questioning why the US government and media are glossing over the train derailment while continuing to hype the balloon incident. People are questioning what are they trying to hide? The derailment occurred on February 3rd, one day before the Chinese airship was shot down. The train was hauling dangerous chemicals including vinyl chloride, which leaked into nearby waterways reaching the Ohio River and killing wildlife. Officials decided to conduct a controlled burn of the chemicals, which ignited into a massive black cloud of toxins that billowed over the area.


Catch up and get ahead with the edge for the week of August 1st. 18 neighborhood groups in San Antonio's Urban Corps have banded together to form the Tier 1 neighborhood coalition to protect their community plans from both city processes and developers. The new alliance is flexing its muscles at a crucial time, just as SA Tomorrow, the city's long-range comprehensive plan, heads to city council. Coalition members criticized the plan and the process that created it. A delegation met this week with Mayor Ivy Taylor and Councilman Roberto Torvino and Ron Nuremberg seeking last-minute changes to give greater protection for historic districts and neighborhood conservation districts from encroaching development. Porvita, the six-year-old program that helps people find healthy choices when dining out, is hitting the road. It has certified healthy meal choices at restaurants across San Antonio, including the cafeterias of some college campuses. Porvita is now launching a new program that will let customers identify healthy food options at farmers markets and on food trucks. I've been involved in university dining halls before, but as far as working with a farmers market and working with food trucks and these kind of mobile vendors, this is a new area for us that we're very excited to be able to kind of... The Center for Disease Control has advised pregnant women against traveling to the Winwood District in Miami, Florida due to an upsurge in cases of the Zika virus. Closer to home, there have been eight confirmed Zika cases in San Antonio. According to the CDC, no cases have been locally acquired in Texas and the main cause is travel. Get the latest on our Zika Update page on NowcastSA. Now, for a little help-wanted ad. For the sixth year, we are updating our mobile-friendly map of back-to-school events including free backpacks and school supplies, free and low-cost immunization shots, health fairs and clinics. We need your help sharing the map with your friends and colleagues to help families in need get this information. We also need your help adding events to the map, so please let us know what we missed. Thanks for watching The Edge. See you next time.