Tonight on EKB Evening News at 6, Floyd County attorneys reach out to help those affected by disability suspensions. Good evening, I'm Gary Slott. And I'm Jill Fraley-Dotson. Five days after 1,500 disability recipients began receiving notices that their benefits were in jeopardy due to suspicions of fraud and emergency meaning of the Floyd County Bar Association was held last night to find ways to address the problem. Of particular concern were the 900 recipients who have been told that their benefits have been suspended immediately. EKB News reporter Courtney Lovern attended last night's meeting and filed this report. Allegations of fraudulent practices against Stanville attorney Eric Seacon and four doctors have many of Conn's former clients looking for ways to make ends meet now that their benefits are being cut off. When you're on fixed income and then you get a letter like this, it's really heartbreaking. 1,500 letters were sent out to Conn's clients last week and around 900 of those deemed disabled are now getting their benefits pulled because the Social Security Administration has found evidence to say the disability cases were won on fraudulent claims. Preston's Burg attorney Ned Pillersdorf is offering his legal advice and during an emergency meeting of the Floyd County Bar Association yesterday evening spoke to many of those affected. Tonight was an opportunity to meet with all the clients who have been contacting us since they were notified by the Social Security Administration that their Social Security benefits were being suspended and to explain to them what options we have to try to help them. Attorneys at the meeting gave those in attendance legal advice on anything they needed to understand about the letters. Pillersdorf also plans to file a federal lawsuit because the benefits shouldn't have been cut off before there was a hearing. If we don't do anything, these people who are desperate for money, and by definition they're trying to live on 11, $1,200 a month, it might be 14, 16 months until they have a hearing and Lord knows what will happen to these folks. During the meeting the group discussed that they want Pillersdorf to file a class action lawsuit in federal court over the suspensions and also want him to file a lawsuit in Floyd Circuit Court against Conn for allegedly violating the Consumer Protection Act and defrauding these clients. It's a bad move. You know, when you got this cold going out and then you got the disable being cut, you know, I think they need to work on the Congress and senators and cut their wages down. Because, you know, when we're fixed on it, you can't feed the health of peanuts. It just don't work. Reporting for EKB Evening News at 6, I'm Courtney Levin. A police officer was involved in a shooting in Wolfpick Community in Pike County. Police say they received a report of shots being fired around 10 o'clock last night. Officers responded to the residents of 54-year-old Donald May. Upon their arrival, police say May allegedly opened fire on them. Police then returned fire striking May. May was taken to Pikeville Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. May has been charged with four counts of attempted murder of a police officer. He is currently being held in the Pike County Detention Center. We are getting word tonight of a fatal mining accident that happened earlier today. Details are scarce, but authorities say the accident happened around noon at Apex Mining at Phelps in Pike County. The man who has not yet been identified died at the scene. More information is expected to be released later on. A Pikeville woman is dead tonight following a wreck this morning in Floyd County, according to Kentucky State Police 76-year-old Eunice Morton was driving on U.S. 23 in Betsy Lane when she struck a guardrail. Her car then ricocheted across U.S. 23 and struck a rock face. She was pronounced dead at the scene by Floyd County Coroner Greg Nelson. According to police, Morton was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident. A Chapman-Vilwas Virginia man has been indicted in U.S. District Court in Charleston for distributing oxymorphone. An opiate painkiller sold under the brand name O'Pana. William Toler Jr. appeared Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dwayne L. Tinsley. During that hearing, Toler was allowed to remain free pending court proceedings under an unsecured $10,000 bond. According to the indictment, the charged stems from an April 10, 2014 incident. Toler is scheduled to appear in court again tomorrow for arraignment. A Pike County man faces a laundry list of charges after being arrested shortly before midnight last night. 39-year-old John P. Ball of Raccoon was observed by a witness wrecking in a dish at Raccoon Creek then leaving the scene. The witness followed Ball into Pikeville where he then allegedly turned the wrong way down Main Street. We received a call from Kentucky State Police post 9 that a vehicle had been involved in a collision at the Raccoon area and was headed toward Pikeville. Our officers located the vehicle on Doncombe's Bridge, at which point the vehicle turned up Main Street the wrong way. Our officers initiated a traffic stop, a fellow inside the vehicle would not exit the vehicle. Our officers approached the vehicle and noticed that there was significant damage to the vehicle and the subject inside was injured and they called for EMS. According to the police report, a half-empty beer can was also found inside the vehicle. He was arrested and charged with DUI, resisting arrest, leaving the scene of an accident, reckless driving and other charges. Coming up next on EKB Evening News at 6, a local teen is about to take the stage in the script's National Spelling Bee tonight. And an area church looking to tackle hunger by offering a free lunch tomorrow. We'll be right back. A Pikeville 14-year-old will take Spelling's biggest stage tonight as he competes in the finals of the script's National Spelling Bee. Christ Central student Paul Keaton, shown here being interviewed prior to a match, has reached the top 10 of the contest, which will air at 8 o'clock tonight on ESPN, live from Washington D.C. As a finalist, Keaton has already won at least $1,500. The champion will receive $35,000 in cash, a $2,500 savings bond, $1,100 worth of reference books, and a trophy. After last week's razor-thin margin in the Republican governor's race, recanvas today has upheld Matt Bevin's 83-vote win over James Comer for the Republican nomination. Statewide, there was no change in the vote totals. Pike County Clerk, also Rhonda Taylor, said they were simply glad today's procedure was a recanvas and not a recount. It's been a very busy day here for us. We had to take all the figures from election night, re-add those and make sure that they matched. So it's called a recap, and that's what we did. When a race is really close, the candidate has the right to ask for a recap or a recount, and we got a little lucky on that. It was a recap. Process is not as hard as the other, so we were fortunate. Locally, the Pike, Floyd, Johnson, Martin, and McGuffin counties, along with Knoll County, all reported no changes in their vote totals. According to Hunger in America, 16 million children face hunger each day, and one in five children go to bed hungry every night. Thirty-five percent of senior citizens have to choose between buying their groceries and paying for their medical care. These are just a few reasons why the Hatfield and McCoy Pig Challenge, along with the Hatfield and McCoy Feud Tour app, has collaborated with the Grace Fellowship Kitchen to work toward having free lunches each month. Tomorrow, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Grace Fellowship Church, located at 115 Wilford Street in downtown Pikeville, the first free lunch will be provided to anyone who would like to come. Jay Shefford with the Pike County Tourism says this is something the church has wanted to provide for a while. This is actually a collaboration between Debbie Bailey and Kathy Hamilton at the church. They wanted to do this. It's been a dream of theirs for a long time, and I hooked them up with a lady who's already doing this kind of stuff. Her name is Susie New, and she's with the Hatfield and McCoy Pig Challenge, which is pretty much the same thing. I thought it would be a nice little collaboration between the two. Everybody's welcome. Anybody who wants to come and help with it, they can come to and be a part of it.  The University of Pikeville City View Cafe will be providing the food, which will include ham and an assortment of sides. If you would like to volunteer or donate to the free community lunch, log on to the church's Facebook page at the Grace Fellowship Kitchen. If you are an apparent of a seventh or eighth grade student looking for something for them to do this summer, Big Sandy Community and Technical College, the East Kentucky Science Center, and the University of Kentucky will host Appalachian Bold camps for seventh and eighth graders in June. Bold stands for Bioeconomy, Outreach, Leadership, and Development. The camps will expose students to future careers in science and technology. The free camps will run June 8th through 11th and from June 15th through the 18th and again June 22nd through 25th and will be held on the Prestonsburg Campus of B.C. B.S.C.T.C. Seating is limited. For more information, contact Pauletta Burke at<PHONE_NUMBER> or email at pberk0014 at kctcs.edu. Coming up next, Jamie Johnson will recab two 15th region championship games played last night. First, DKB Chief Meteorologist Lathen Hopkins will be in with her weather forecast. We'll be back in two minutes. Well, it was a pretty nice day across the area. Some regions this morning sing some rain, but that kind of tapered off throughout the day. A dry afternoon, but this evening noticing a couple of showers redeveloping across the region. Stop the radar showing those very hit and miss, but especially across parts of Central Pike County, Southern Floyd County and throughout Letcher County, picking up some light rain as we speak. We will zoom in here just a little closer. Most of this moving to the north and to the northeast. So maybe a couple of sprinkles over toward Pikeville. If this holds together here, this will make a run toward Pikeville probably within the next half hour to an hour. For you folks also in, we'll ride over toward a Weyland again moving to the north and to the east. Just a few light showers. Actually it's hard to believe that we do need the rain and I'll show you why here in just a second. Temperature right now looking outside 78 degrees, feels like 78 with a humidity of 63% winds from the northwest at about three miles per hour and that pressure will be falling throughout the next couple of days. As a matter of fact, now the satellite radar composite showing we do have one little disturbance rotating right across Kentucky as we speak. You'll see it right here moving right to the northeast. That's helping kick off those showers and maybe a few thunderstorms across parts of the region this evening. We should die out overnight tonight and then again, we could see another round of showers and storms tomorrow. But this information just coming out today and it's hard to believe after the April that we had, but we are now in the first category of a drought. Yeah, try to think about that. We are abnormally dry across all of eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia, western West Virginia. Why is that? Well, we had a pretty dry January, but February, March, April, all above average. But look at May. We barely picked up an inch and a half of rain officially at the National Weather Service office in Jackson, about three inches of rain below where we should be this time of the year. As a matter of fact, 3.12 is where we stand as far as the month is concerned. Below average, still above average for the year, but below average for the month. We'll have to see how things play out for the next couple of days. Satellite radar composite for the next couple of hours. You can see those showers continuing through the overnight hours tonight dying out. And then tomorrow, here they come again, another area, another disturbance expected to move through and that will again be the focus for showers tomorrow. About a 50% chance of rain for tomorrow. Your pollen report sponsored by Faith Pharmacy, Adams Plaza in Pikeville. 6.21 Friday, 6.7 on Saturday with a better chance of rain moving in on Sunday that will drop to 5.2. As far as the 7-day forecast is concerned, as I mentioned, 50% chance of rain on Friday, 30% on Saturday, 70% on Sunday, and that hit and miss shower and thunderstorm threat, well, it's going to be with us Monday through Thursday of next week. And of course, you can catch the latest forecast in tomorrow's edition of the Appalachian News Express. Very good. Still. Still. Even though it's a broken record. Still. Still. Still. But no thunderstorms and temperatures in the 80s. Pretty much all you need. Just hit and miss. Hit and miss. All right. Thank you. And we'll be back with sports in two minutes. Well, Jamie, all eyes beginning to look towards a state tournament. Yes, we have finally wrapped up actually, at least locally, we've wrapped up the sports season with baseball and softball last night. Now, state tournament play last night. Who's going to represent us? We're going to find out. Because of such strong competition and baseball year in and year out, with the likes of Johnson Central, Painesville and Sheldon Clark High School. The Lawrence County Bulldogs were more than happy to vacate the 57th district and move to the 60th district this season. It didn't matter that the Bulldogs would travel through two counties to play a district baseball game. All that mattered was finding the best path possible to winning a region title. Last night, one team stood in Lawrence County's way of making that a reality. Those pesky Johnson Central golden eagles, they can't get away from them. A beautiful night at Prestonburg Sports Park, top of the first. Central comes out swinging. Jordan Blanton with this shot to the left field, it would score. Zach Sloan, golden eagles up early, won nothing. Next, Seth Ratliff, skies this one, the center. Pass Bill Buckner and no, Ray Knight didn't score like in 1986 for the Mets. But, same reaction. Central would push three across in the first to lead early and look at Ratliff coming the third, I get so emotional, babe. Bottom of the third, Austin Bailey for Lawrence County, draws the bases loaded walk for the dogs first row of the game. Up next, helping the cause would be Chase Coverdale with this slap to second. And a bad throw would allow the Lawrence County Bulldogs to tie the game at 3-3. We'll cut a way down to the bottom of the fourth. And you'll find runners on the corners for Noah Lambert. Bring in the arc, the sharp grounder of third baseman's mitt there, down the line. Bulldogs take their first lead and they wouldn't look back. Johnson Central down to their final at bat. Check out the stretch by Warren Pryce here at first. Boom! And Lawrence County was victorious 6-3 over Johnson Central to claim the 15th region high school baseball championship. And nothing sweeter than defeating a long time rival to reach the state finals. It's been four years since we've won, it feels like 10. But since we've been in the region, we've played in six regional finals, we've played them four times, two to two now, and we've got a lot of respect for them. And I think that feeling's mutual, but it's a great honor to take over that for our kids. They work hard for it. Lawrence County will begin their approach at the state baseball tournament this coming Monday, June 1st to live at A.M. as the Bulldogs will face the winner of Russell and Greenup County who are playing for the 16th region championship tonight. All state baseball action will happen at Whitaker Bank Ballpark, home of the legends, in Lexington. Over the past five seasons, either Johnson Central or McGuffin County found themselves in the finals of the 15th region softball tournament. Three of those five years, they played each other for the right to be called champion, including last night. These 57 district rivals met again, Johnson Central would only need one run, but got two. The sack fly here, sacrifice, if Jill is looking to learn the references here, Lady Eagles would get a two nothing lead behind some good pitching going to the seventh inning. Now, coaches letting everybody know that dinner is on him, but they can finish this off. First out would be a pop out to shortstop, really in pretty easy there, one down, two outs away. Next, go in the second base, the bobble, but a nice recovery as they get the put out at second base here. And now, McGuffin County down to their final out. This can of corn wraps up the back to back region titles for the Lady Eagles as they defeat McGuffin County to zip. Johnson Central not satisfied just winning a region title, the Lady Eagles have unfinished business at the state tournament. When a region your team has accomplished your goal to get the state tournament, now this is our fourth one back to back, first back to back, so it's good to get back down there consecutive years of the row and hopefully we can get on the wind side, you know, I think we're all one six, so hopefully we can get on the wind column. The Johnson Central Lady Eagles will meet the winner of North and South Laurel, that is, at the State Softball Tournament on Thursday, June 4th at 7 p.m. from Jack Fisher Park, way down in Owensburg. Finally, in West Virginia, the coaching carousel is in full motion as Tug Valley head basketball coach Garland, Robert Thompson announced his race at nation today. Thompson won a school record 153 games along with two West Virginia state basketball titles in eight seasons as coach of the Panthers. Also rival Mingo Central is searching for their fourth new basketball coach in five years as Brad Napier stepped down last week from that position. Napier had led the minors to the state basketball tournament for the first time in their brief school history this past season and is now leaving Mingo Central for a teaching job at Logan High, who's also looking for a new head basketball coach. Jill, Gary, can you keep it with all these changes? One's leaving, one's going to, there's three open jobs. I'm just trying to make notes. You're not going anywhere, are you? My contract's not up right now, so I don't know. Just keep us posted. But I can be bought. Okay, Jamie, thank you. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Well, Lathan, my garden needs some water. A lot of folks saying that exact same thing, and we still have that daily thread of a shower or a thunderstorm, not only tomorrow, not only this weekend, but even into next week. Best chance of rain will be Sunday into Monday, each and every day, very hazy, hot and humid, highs and lows to mid-80s. Okay, thank you. Thanks, Lathan and Jamie. What's coming up tonight? U-Pine graduation are one of our own Cambermen. Charles Mims will walk the plank. He's right behind us. He made it, but you can watch the U-Pine graduation when we're done here. Yeah, congratulations to all the graduates. Well, that will do it for tonight's EKB Evening News. Remember, you can get more local news anytime by listening to the radio stations of East Kentucky Broadcasting. You can also follow EKB News and EKB TV on Facebook and on Twitter. We leave you tonight with scenes from the Ratliff-Hull River Access at the Brakes Interstate Park. Good night and good luck to Paul Keaton in tonight's National Spelling Bee.


Hello and welcome to my presentation about our contribution machine learning of physical unclonable functions using helper data, revealing a pitfall in the fuzzy commitment scheme. This is joint work of Christoph Frisch, Michael Pehl and myself Immanuel Strider. Christoph and Michael are affiliated with the Technical University of Munich. Myself is associated with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security in Garching, nearby Munich. The outline of this talk is as follows. I will give a short recap of the principles of physical unclonable functions. Afterwards, I will explain the fuzzy commitment scheme, which is a core part of the attack. This is followed by the actual attack sketch and few results of our work. Finally, some concluding words and possible mitigations. Let's get started with the recap of PUFS. PUFS are security primitives, which are based on manufacturing variations introduced, for example, during the doping process. The manufacturing variations are different for each device. Therefore, these variations can be used to extract device-specific randomness with simple circuits. There are a broad variety of proposed PUFS circuits like Arbiter PUFS, Ring Oscillator PUFS, SRAM PUFS and many to come because of ongoing research. It is an often disputed topic how to classify PUFS. However, the only relevant classification for our contribution is the difference between single-challenge PUFS and multi-challenge PUFS. Only multi-challenge PUFS are relevant for this talk. Multi-challenge PUFS allow the configuration of the internal building blocks by applying a challenge. We only consider multi-challenge PUFS with a binary output, so for each challenge either 0 or 1 is returned. Another assumption is that the multi-challenge PUFS can be modeled as a linear combination of its building blocks. In our contribution we only consider ring oscillator SRAM PUFS and Arbiter PUFS. However, we think that the attack should also be possible for all other PUFS which were successfully attacked by a machine learning model. All known multi-challenge PUFS have been successfully modeled by machine learning attacks if the attacker has unrestricted access to the challenge response pairs. Because PUFS use physical device variations, their responses are noisy. One way to mitigate the noise is the fuzzy commitment scheme, which contains error correction capabilities. There is the idea that if one uses the fuzzy commitment scheme, the PUF responses are not accessible by an attacker. Therefore, it seems as if the fuzzy commitment scheme could be a countermeasure against machine learning attacks of multi-challenge PUFS. In our contribution we show that this idea has to be refuted. So, let's take a closer look at the fuzzy commitment scheme. The fuzzy commitment scheme has two phases. The rollout phase is performed once in a secure environment. The second phase, the reconstruction phase, is performed in field. In the left bottom corner we see the secret S, which is fed through the error correction encoder. The error correction codes add redundancy to the secret. The resulting code words C are then masked by the multi-challenge PUF. We consider the resulting helper data as well as the challenge storage as publicly accessible. To achieve a reasonable trade-off between code rate and implementation costs, error correction codes are often split into an outer and an inner code. In the reconstruction phase, the helper data is unmasked by applying the same challenges to the multi-challenge PUF as in the rollout phase. Since we are now in the reconstruction phase, the PUF responses are potentially noisy. Therefore, the code word contains also noisy bits. The code words are then corrected by the error correction code and the secret is returned. How can we extract machine learning inputs and labels while having access to the challenges and the helper data? Let's take a closer look at the rollout phase. To sketch our attack I have exchanged the ECC encoder which contains multiple codes with the repetition code. We know that the challenge storage and the helper data storage are publicly accessible. So the basic idea is to train a machine learning model which takes the challenges and the helper data bits. However, that's not possible because the PUF masks the code word. But we know one additional thing. We know how the fuzzy commitment scheme generates the helper data bits. This only depends on the generator matrix of the used error correction code. We now rewrite this generator matrix. This is the rewritten matrix representation of the fuzzy commitment scheme. At the top I have exchanged the generic generator matrix of the error correction code with the generator matrix of a repetition code. In general, a repetition code repeats the input bits a number of times to add redundancy. For the sake of simplicity, in this example I have used the repetition code which repeats each bit three times. At the bottom we see the identity matrix. We conclude that each helper data bit is a combination of the same secret bit and an individual PUF response. Since we know the helper data bits we can XOR them. We rewrite this and see that the secret which is unknown cancels out. So the responses are in a direct connection with the challenges. By XORing the helper data bits such that the secret cancels out we learn a comparison between two PUF challenges. For more complex codes the search for all these XOR equations is NP-hard. Since we want very small XOR equations of same length we can use brute force. Let's take a look at a little example how to derive these XOR equations. We have a secret which has in this example only two bits, one and zero. The secret is fed bitwise into the error correction code. In this example a repetition code which repeats every bit three times. Each code word has to be masked by the PUF. Therefore we need six challenges which are applied to the multiple challenge PUF to receive six response bits. With these responses the two code words are masked and stored as helper data. Please note that the repetition code returns only two possible code words, the all zero or the all one code word. Let's take a look at the first code word and how this knowledge helps. Based on the helper data word and the knowledge that the repetition code only returns two code words we can guess two possible PUF response strings for this code word. The PUF responses have both the same transition pattern between the bits. Therefore we can formulate XOR equations which account for both possibilities. These labels are independent of the two possible PUF response strings. Note that the training inputs and labels can only be created within the borders of the helper data words. The more redundancy the code word has the more XOR equations can be created. The next step is to find an approximator which infers by examples a mapping between challenge pairs and the result of our XOR equations. Since in the fuzzy commitment scheme both challenges are fed into the same PUF instance we can specify the approximator further. In the presented case of the repetition code the approximator has to approximate the same PUF instance twice. This construction of an internally cloned approximator instance can be modeled by a Ziamis neural network. The Ziamis neural network has multiple copies of the same neural network which share their trainable weights. All neural networks get one challenge. The label with which the neural network is trained is the XORed helper data bit. With this neural network we were able to derive a comparison between challenges. Set of speaking that we do not claim that this approximator is the best or the only possible one. We trained this network by applying many challenge pairs. So we have this neural network but yet not the correct key. To derive the key we have to perform the attack phase. Let's get back to our example. Our machine learning model can approximate the response difference between two challenges. Additionally the approximator does not depend on any unknown secret anymore. To exploit the machine learning model we have to fix one challenge as a hypothesis. In this example I have fixed challenge zero. However we could use any challenge in the challenge storage. We then build challenge pairs with all other challenges. These pairs represent a comparison between each challenge of the storage with the fixed challenge. We feed the challenge pairs into our trained Ziamis neural network. The noisy response difference string is either the original or the inverse of the original response string of the multi-challenge path. This depends on the challenge we fixed. If the original response of the fixed challenge was zero we would receive the original response string of the path. Otherwise the inverse. At this point in our attack we can exploit the Farsi commitment scheme again by using the reconstruction phase to correct erroneous bits in our noisy response. Since the repetition code in our example can correct one error per code word let's assume the noisy response string looks like this. The false bit is marked in orange. As in the Farsi commitment scheme we XOR the path response with the helper data. Instead of speaking that the code word has the wrong bit too. However after the repetition code the false bit is corrected and the secret is derived. That is the end of our attack sketch. As already mentioned for more complex codes the XOR equations are more difficult to derive and more XORs are involved. Let's take a look at some results. Here we see results of an attack using the repetition code and a simulated 128 ring oscillator sum puff. On the X axis of all plots we see the number of used challenge response pairs. All four plots show different steps in the attack. The top two plots show the accuracy and the validation accuracy of our machine learning model during training. These information would also be available for an attacker. On the bottom left we see the success rate after using the trained machine learning model to decode all challenges. On the bottom right we see the success rate after having corrected the noisy response string of our machine learning model with the Farsi commitment scheme. When comparing the top right and the bottom left plot we can clearly see that the validation accuracy is a good indicator of the success of our attack. Additionally if we compare the bottom two plots we can see that the Farsi commitment scheme itself is reliably correcting ironious bits of the noisy response string of the machine learning model. With only 800 challenge response pairs we were able to break this simulated ring oscillator sum puff. We wanted to substantiate the notion that the redundancy per codeword of the used error correction code has a big impact on our attack. On the left side we see the growth rate of the number of XOR equations for three different repetition codes given the challenge response number. Can be seen that the number of derivable XOR equations grows faster for codes with more redundancy. On the right side we see the mean puff success rate of our attack. We can see a clear connection between the number of derivable XOR equations and the learnability of the machine learning model. The more XOR equations the faster the learning rate and the better the generalization of the machine learning model. Another question is the influence of the choice of the fixed challenge. In this plot we see the median puff success rate of our attack given the challenge response number for three different choices of the fixed challenge. All fixed challenges were evaluated against the same machine learning model. All three fixed challenges saturate at around 89%. However the slope is different for each reference challenge. We conclude that there could be potential to choose a good or a bad fixed challenge. Yet we could not explain this behavior and consider this task as an unsolved problem. Using publicly accessible ring oscillator measurements we built 1328 ring oscillator sum puffs. For every of these 1300 puffs and every challenge response number we trained 10 machine learning models and evaluated the attack. We see that also with real ring oscillator measurements it is possible to conduct this attack. Also with 800 challenge response pairs it is very likely to find the original or the inverse of the puff key. We repeated this experiment with a simulated arbiter puff. The results show more variance but in at least one out of 10 tries we could break the puff with 800 challenge response pairs. Interestingly due to more variance in some instances even with 400 challenge response pairs a high percentage of the secret bits could be decoded correctly. However this information is not available for an attacker. Let us summarize. In case of a repetition code with seven bits only a single key is necessary to learn a simple ring oscillator sum puff and arbiter puff. We have tested our attack with different and more complex codes however I leave that for the interested reader of our paper. We conclude that the fuzzy commitment scheme or any fuzzy extractor scheme does not counter the entropy loss of the underlying puff. Given that the puff is not perfect we think that the only way to counter such machine learning attacks is the limitation of the number of challenge response pairs. Another approach to mitigate this attack could be the usage of more complex and monolithic error correction codes. These codes lead to more XORs in the XOR equations and therefore more non-linearity which is harder to learn for a machine learning model. I thank for your attention and interest in this topic.


Good afternoon Marines. General Mullen here to talk to you about summer safety. Many Marines leave their bases on the weekend, especially for the 90s. Having the proper gear before leaving mitigates problems that arise when traveling. Here's just a few things the Marine Corps 101 days of summer stress is for a safe season. When traveling long distances, always bring a fellow Marine. There are safety in numbers making it a great opportunity to build strong bonds with one another. If you're traveling far for 96 or spending the weekend close by, make sure your vehicle has spare tire and jumper cables. When spending the day outside, try and beware of sun exposure. Proper protection such as sunscreen and appropriate clothing can help against damaged skin. When it comes to drinking, please do so responsibly. Be sure you know your limits and to always remember the core you represent. While the core as a whole is 242 years old, make sure you don't drink unless you're of age yourself. Driving distracted is never a good idea. The text you're trying to send can wait. It's not worth your life. Keep your eyes off the phone and on the road. Oh and always don't forget to hide here. Well Marines, there's your summer safety breach.  Always have your proper PPE. Enjoy your summer limited periods. You've earned them.


I think, first of all, thank you, Naval, and thank you, Anurag, for this fantastic moment. And I first want to thank, I would say, the entire, my entire team at the back. Thank you so much for all your hard work. I want to thank the entire group at Mexico and headed by pk obviously, and the support that we get from them is absolutely outstanding. And I would say, the receiving this award, I would say, after 25 years of hard work in this industry, I would say in front of all the stalwarts, Sam, Vikram, Sashi, it's a great moment for me personally. So thank you so much. On a lighter note, spent all my life in Delhi. So, Delhi wala ake Bombay ka Dil legya.


Welcome to the wide world of eSports, the show devoted to all things eSports. I'm your host, Catherine Norr. Today we're talking about whether eSports will become an Olympic sport. With me today is Attorney Ricardo Gench. Welcome Ricardo. Good afternoon, Catherine. Always a pleasure to talk with you. Well, I haven't seen Ricardo in person since right around, right the year before the Olympic Games were held in London. We both spoke at a conference about the Olympic Games at Ithaca College, London, and actually got to tour the Olympic Stadium. Remember that, Ricardo? That was fascinating. Seeing how the whole construction was coming to an end and imagining how the thousands of athletes would walk through the stadium feeling the warmth of all the audience which was there, it was quite a special moment, even though everything was still somewhat in scaffolding, but you could feel the vibration coming in. Absolutely. And so, Ricardo, I understand that you practice sports law in Spain back in the day. Yes. Yes. And you're quite involved in sports, is that right? Absolutely. And it's just like for the athletes, their sport is their profession. In my case, I love sports, so that has been my passion, my motor all through my life, and that to the benefit that I understand the athlete's mentality, their sacrifice, which they do on their daily basis to become the utmost athletes and reach that perfection in their sport. And also thinking about what do they do after they finish their athletic career, or if, God forbid, they end up injured and their career gets interrupted because of that. What can they do afterwards? Right? Sure. And do you have any particular thing that's happened in your life that makes you interested in the Olympics? Absolutely. Yes. I am fortunate to say that back in the day, my mom, she participated not as an athlete, but within the administrative side of the Munich Olympics of 1972. So that for me stayed very close to my heart. And that's why being able to be at the London Olympics stadium and seeing the whole atmosphere, the environment, speaking to athletes as well, later after the Olympics. For me, watching the inauguration of the Olympics and the closing ceremony of the Olympics is very close to me, I guess because of my mom, but also more so because of the whole meaning behind the Olympic movement, that all nationalities get to be in one place, compete with the very friendly spirit that is behind the Olympic movement. Even though the father, the modern father of the Olympics, well, he had a particular view, as many of us know, right? So what do you feel so close to your heart that makes the Olympics special for you, Catherine? Well, I've always loved it. I'm a huge gymnastics fan and a former triathlete, been swimming all my life and running and I just really enjoy it and I'm looking forward to going to Tokyo. I had Tokyo Olympic plans and I still have my tickets, so I plan to go in 2021. The Olympic Games is amazing because they symbolize unity, respect and peace through sports. Countries lay down their arms to compete against each other. And so what's interesting about this, and we're going to segue now into esports, is that we know that esports has a lot of games that are violent, but there are others that aren't because esports certainly encompasses quite a few games. And it seems that competitions are more focused on the more violent games. But one thing that I find interesting is that one of the International Olympic Committee, and I'm going to say that for our viewers, we're going to call it IOC. And some people may not know what IOC stands for, but that's what we're talking about when we talk about the IOC. So we have, there's some resistance to the Olympics bringing esports in. And one of those challenges is the violence among other challenges. But one thing that I note is that there are competitions within the Olympics that sort of have a more violent bent. And that would be things like martial arts, wrestling, archery, shooting. So what do you think about that, Ricardo? And boxing. Oh, boxing, absolutely boxing.  So, yes, absolutely. It's funny that we both mentioned boxing and wrestling, when those are the original sports of the original Olympics back in the day. You get the Greco-Roman wrestling, which is also found in Switzerland, where you have that traditional wrestling. Even though it's violent, there's a lot of respect going between the athletes, as is the case of martial arts. And no matter how blood thirsty the sport can be, there's a lot of respect among the athletes. And that's something to bear in mind first and foremost. And then moving on to what esports is. Yes, there are, that's the beauty about esports, that there's a wide range of games that can be brought into the Olympics. And not necessarily they have to be the violent ones. We can have, as we see here in the US, the NBA. We can have soccer. We can have swimming, even though that's a bit boring. I understand that they are considering of doing sailing pre-Olympics or something like that, virtual sailing. Obviously, there are not many people who are into sailing in real life as to consider sailing as an esport, which is something very interactive. But I do believe that soccer, for example, would be something very interesting because that would attract a lot of people from all over the world. As we're talking always, the Olympics have had their crisis where not only the sponsors have considered not to continue because of ambush marketing, but also more so because the people stopped going to the Olympics. And what the Olympics have reconsidered as their business model is trying to attract the younger generations. I prepared myself for this talk. I looked up on the different age range of people following the Olympics. And the ages have gone up considerably. So we can say that the Olympics are aging or rather consider or question ourselves. Are younger people really participating in sports to become an Olympic athlete? I remember when, possibly you as well, when we grew up, the Olympics meant the utmost for an athlete to represent your country and be there before possibly your home crowd or even more so represent your country in your sport, which is the top of the top of the top. Nowadays athletes think about other things more importantly like their pocket at the end of the day. I do believe that, for example, I can probably say that after London, the Olympics went to Brazil, and Rio de Janeiro was my hometown. So that for me was very emotional. And I loved how the cycling competition and the triathlon competition showed you a bit more of the city versus the normal traditional swimming, which is indoors or gymnastics, as you well mentioned, which is indoors. And that's something which I remember they came up with of leaving a legacy behind the Olympics so that the city that stays with that new infrastructure has something else. So if we bring eSports to combine it with the Olympics, we can start off by saying, OK, what about the Olympic sports which we have, invite those eSports that are equivalent to the Olympic sports, all the other sports, which are all these games with teams, we can leave those for maybe eSports to do their own Olympics. Nonetheless, I want to ask you something, because as you are aware, these teams that participate in these eSports competitions, not all of them are from the same nationality. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because one of the elements of the Olympics that makes it so compelling is kind of the geocentric nature of it in that we have countries competing against countries. And eSports is made up of teams that, you know, teams where athletes are from different countries. And so one barrier, potentially, is that the teams would have to become more geocentric and you'd have to create teams that would represent their countries. But we've seen that happen in other arenas too. We have, you know, it's kind of interesting where the Olympic games when they incorporated basketball and so teams that normally would compete against each other, they basically, people from different teams came together to compete as an Olympic team. And that is true with baseball, with softball, with other sports as well. Think about the US hockey team or, you know, any hockey team from any particular country. They would be people that would be competing on different teams and they would take the best of the best. So, you know, that's part of the challenge. But you mentioned the aging of the viewership. And that goes hand in hand with sponsorships. And as we know that the Olympics have become not only a security event, as we've seen in Rio and in London where they had, especially Rio, where they had as, you know, they probably had as many security personnel as they did other personnel. It was, and same with London as well, they really had to bring in a lot of security personnel. But the Olympics has become a showcase for products. It is a way that sponsors can have an opportunity to reach a huge audience. But what's really interesting is that eSports is that opportunity to not only reach a huge audience, but reach a young audience. And this is kind of where the Olympics fails, is it doesn't really reach that young audience. And by bringing in those new sports, such as skateboarding, sport climbing, and what was the other one? Surfing, B&A. Surfing, right, right. And, you know, bringing all of these more youthful sports, it's very consistent with having eSports a part of it. Yeah, I fully agree. And to that extent also the beauty about these urban sports, call it skateboarding or inline rollerblading or BMX, it's a combination of generations that would consider participating as well, you know. And I also find the attractiveness of eSports with the real sport, where you can combine and compete the real one versus the virtual one indeed. And as you all mentioned, it's a platform for sponsors go beyond. One of the things I realized with the past few Olympics was the fact that the streaming was limited. And nowadays we see it, especially in this particular 2020, how important your cell phone is versus a computer. And with the cell phone, not only do you communicate with others, but the fact that you can watch your TV programs, you can watch movies, everybody is onto these video channels where you can select what you want to watch. So ultimately, if the Olympics cannot be seen freely, they're limiting a huge amount of viewers which would otherwise not see them. So that's something which the Olympics should be made available for all because ultimately they want to reach more viewers and allow people who are in God knows where in their own countries where they cannot possibly reach a television, but they can watch it on their phone or listen to the broadcasting of a match that will allow them really reach that audience which they're not getting ultimately. And I wanted to ask you, what's your opinion of how broadcasting is helping traditional sports versus the esports? Well, I think esports has wider broadcast in some ways because of other platforms being used and esports are being broadcast at all different levels, pretty much 24 seven, whereas broadcasting of the Olympics is so minimal in time and it isn't broadcast in all these different forums because NBC, BBC, some other entities, they have rights to broadcast the Olympics whereas others don't. But we do have a question for a viewer and is how would the Olympics choose what game to play and what if the athletes train for a game for four years and then the game is no longer popular? I actually have to say that I anticipated that question because that's a problem because how do you, at what point is the game chosen? And it excludes athletes who are not players of that particular game. And so that's a challenge that they would have. And then sure enough, a player may train for a particular game thinking that it's going to be the game that would be offered and then a year out, a year before the Olympics, it might switch out and they might say, no, we're gonna do a different game. What do you think about that, Ricardo? First off, I would say right now the current situation of the International Olympic Committee is they want to decide what to bring in, obviously. And here was my suggestion to start off slowly but surely do the Olympics with those games or sports which are currently part of the Olympic movement and consider those which are more attractive to the younger audiences. As I mentioned, soccer, basketball, baseball, baseball is also surfing, skateboarding. Those could be, there you already have five sports which could attract young e-sports players. Sure, sure. For first down. Yeah. Rocket League is one that is very much considered to be a sport that may be part of the Olympics. And NBA, 2K and Madden are other sports that are being in consideration. Absolutely. And then the second question, I think to a certain extent, we can also respond that question if athletes train for four years and then the game is no longer popular. Well, to the same extent, athletes in official Olympic sports throughout those four years, they participate in competitions. They continue to stay at that top level to be able to reach and stay being the best, like in tennis, and they get injured. And ultimately that athlete, he might end up injured and not be able to go to the Olympics. So it's a nice question, but the conclusion would be considered otherwise because obviously the Olympics, when they do the program, they're not gonna drop a game of just before the games. Obviously we know how the Olympics work, they don't do that. They would continue with that game, but not many people would see it, but consider the fact that professional athletes or amateur athletes in many sports types like basketball, they can be professionals, right? To participate in the Olympics. Yes, they can, yeah, yeah. And you know what's interesting about this is this, in discussing this, it brings to mind other issues related to fairness and inclusion of players. And one thing that's interesting is that for example, gymnastics, the rule has been that athletes have to be 16 years old. So what if you're at your peak at age 15 or at age 13 or something like that? It's an issue. There's a lot of issues regarding that because what if you're 15 and a half when the Olympics go forward and you can't compete, but you're going to be 19 and a half next time and you're too old at that point? So- We have the very great example what's happening this year. Absolutely. This year shouldn't be a surprise because we know that the Olympics in Moscow back in the day and the Olympics in Los Angeles, they were both, I don't want to sound rude, sabotaged by the other countries and therefore not many countries went there. So all those athletes who prepared themselves for those sports and ultimately their government told them that they could not go, it's more or less the same thing. So the athletes that are preparing themselves for years and their government is telling them, I'm sorry, you can't go. So the same could happen for east ports where the athlete, even though they compete constantly in different competitions to maintain those skills, they're maybe their sponsor won't allow them to go. That's another thing which has to be considered because as we know, sponsorship for the Olympics, it's a closed bag and many athletes as we have seen with the Olympics have tried to ambush the official sponsors. Sure, sure, absolutely. Yeah, and there are a lot of challenges. One thing kind of exciting is that east ports will have an entree with the Tokyo Olympics and unfortunately that's been postponed but there's going to be in 2021 before the Tokyo Olympics, the Intel World Open which is an eSports tournament that will lead up to the Tokyo Olympics that is kind of an opportunity to bring it into the Olympic world. And there is going to be prize money of a total of $500,000 awarded at that tournament. And that's kind of a little interesting in that the Olympic Games has always been an amateur event where the organizers are the ones that have the potential of making money but not the athletes. What are your thoughts on that? We know, I'm fully, I love the fact that it's with amateur athletes. Obviously we know that each country prizes their athletes when they get a bronze, a silver or gold medal. That's on the local national level but obviously the Olympics, the pride of getting an Olympic medal means so much more than the prize of earning X amount of money in a competition. Undoubtedly the eSports, what has made them so popular are these so-called violent games which also require a certain type of teamwork in that which is also something interesting where as in the live sports, well, you might not get that to that extent. If we compare as we go to the original spirit of the Olympics where we're talking about the brotherhood of the nationalities, we're all under the same umbrella and that's why the colors of the rings which represent the continents and the different races, the beauty about eSports, what I've seen so far, how they are evolving is not only that they're open to different age groups but also that they allow people from different backgrounds and different races or nationalities to work in the same team. Okay, you get this also in professional sports. Yet again, we consider eSports, as I said, those sports which are common to Olympic sports to attract a younger audience and to possibly get more through sponsorships and ultimately be viewed more than through traditional television because who has a television nowadays at home? Right, it's definite. Well, there are people who don't but I think that people are viewing sports and content much differently than they used to. And we're seeing now looking at the pandemic and how people are operating their lives, eSports has become much bigger. And so essentially because of this significant increase in the legitimacy of eSports and its pervasiveness in our homes throughout the world, I think that we will see more interest by the Olympic committee. And in 2024, there's a plan to have eSports available for event demonstration at the Paris Olympic Games. And one thing that comes to mind is, is eSports a summer sport or is it a winter sport? You just took it out of my thought. Yes, I was gonna ask you, just like we have winter sports and summer sports, we should also have eWinter sports and eSummer sports. Nonetheless, obviously these athletes are playing indoors. Obviously we get winter sports of snowboarding, half pipe, just as we get the winter half pipe and skiing, yet they might not be as attractive as the actual winter sport. And possibly I would even go further. Maybe some of these professional athletes for winter sports might even be the eSports athletes themselves. So we might have a crossbreed athlete there. What do you think about that? Yeah, that definitely could happen. And there could be eSports, you could definitely have eSports in both. And it might be the first time ever that they had eSports or one particular sport that had a crossover in both Olympics and it could be every two years. But there's so much potential for sponsorship or increased viewers to really maximize both. It's, there's a benefit to both eSports and to the Olympics to partner.  And that can mean more followers. It can mean opportunities that you wouldn't have otherwise. So there's an advantage, even though an eSports athlete wouldn't be paid to be in the Olympic Games. You touched one interesting item that you dedicate yourself solely to that and you get the prize money. We both know that there has been always some discrimination to a certain class or group of athletes which have been women throughout the Olympic history. Many professional female athletes have had to work on the side in order to be able to sustain their or get to the end of the months and live and pay their expenses because their federation has not paid them sufficiently in order to be able to actually represent their country accordingly. And this brings me to this other nice juicy subject. What about doping in eSports? And that is a very big concern. Doping in eSports, there's computer tampering. That's what doping is. However, it could also be the doping that we know. But we are running out of time and thank you so much, Ricardo, for being on my show and appreciate everyone joining us today. Next week, my guest will be Ari Fox. We'll discuss upcoming eSports casino conference. See you then.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's casebreaks.com. I'm coming at you with some basketball 2020-2021 Panini, Donner's, Optic Hoops, Six Box, pick your team number 13. It's a half case from a fresh case right here. First off, very big thanks to everyone here who picked their teams. Oh, Max Muncie, going yard. Oh, off the wall. Dodger's Rock is on the background. Anyway, big thanks everybody here for picking your teams and pick your team 13. If you have a little rooftop next to your name, that means you won that team in the team random. That's what you were randomized. A little team randomizer, so thanks to everyone participating in that as well. And Ben ended up with LastBot Mojo. Before we pulled the teams out for that team random, randomizer, Ben got LastBot Mojo with the Wizards. There's the fresh case right there 2020-2021, Donner's, Optic Basketball. Half case break. Let's select a die. I like that one. And we're gonna go 1, 2, 3 for the left side and 4, 5, 6 for the right side. And it's 4. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. This side, we will save for pick your team 14, which is on the site right now and it's halfway full. So we'll mark those boxes.  So we know it's from the same case. Let's pop this guy open here. Good luck. What if Oliver wants to see some nice rockets? Do you want to speak any players into existence here? Any specific rockets you're looking for? Basketball training camp starting pretty soon. You know who's not going to be in basketball training camp? Ben Simmons. Where does he go? I guess that was the big news I saw over the last day or two, right? Ben Simmons is just digging in his heels. He is not going anywhere. Or he is digging in his heels saying he wants to go elsewhere. So he's saying, no, I'm not going to report to camp. I want to trade. Where does he end up? Yeah, Ben's got the kings in this one. He's looking for a gold vinyl halibur and that'd be pretty nice. Oliver's looking for them. Kenyan Martin Jr. Some Jason tapes. Both of those guys showed some flashes of what they could be. Is that enough for the sacrifice? Mark got a haliburn auto the other night, but haven't seen any similar ones on eBay yet. I think I would suggest like pretty much anybody, any significant name that we pull at this stage of these calendar year, I would just hold on to it and see how the season starts and plays out for some of these players, especially the top tier rookies. Because if they start off the season hot, you know, like Patrick Williams starts the season off hot. This valley can get a pretty early spike right there. 56 out of 199 Lonnie Walker IV. Yeah, Steve doesn't think the teams will be paying top dollar for Ben Simmons. Yeah, they're not going to move big assets for Ben Simmons at this point. So now, so what do you do?  You're kind of, I guess you can just find him. We've got Precious Achua for the Heat, Sean Matik. Got to randomize the Heat and that team random. First auto.  Oh, nice obi top and orange 94 out of 199. Nice color match there too. That's for Shang and the New York mix. Toppin has a big ear. He starts off the season strong. It'll be big time right there. Anthony Edwards, the rookies insert silver. That'll be for Scott and the Timberwolves. Another Precious Achua, rated rookie Hollow. Trey Young, Lyme Green to 149. That's for the ATL. That'll be for Douglas. All-card ship as well, Donner's Optic Basketball. There's Tyrese Halliburton, rated rookie for Ben. Let's find some parallels for Ben. There's a Kenyama. This is, that's who Oliver is looking for. There's Bogdan Bogdanovich and there's Westbrook New Laker. Wise guy, what's up? All they ask is, really, you're asking like we made a mistake? No, it's not a mistake. Now thank you, Mojo. I know it seems like we don't know what we're doing, but believe it or not, we've been pricing teams for seven, eight years now. We kind of know what we're doing. Well, make sure you look at that other, either, I mean, they're the ones probably making the mistake, but make sure that's not like for a one-box break or something like that. There's Bogdanovich again to 199. Remember, we're doing full cases. There's Alex Karusho to 149. I'm teasing wise guy. No, you can definitely, yeah, it's not that serious. I'm obviously teasing. Yeah, I mean, everyone can ask as many questions as I want to. Tyler Bader 59. Was it for a full case break? Base Obie Toppin, Brandon Ingram, nice hollow Luca Donchets, let's save one of those. And there's Trez 99 and Daniel Toro. Clippers Auto, that's going to go to Mike Tower in the Clip Show. I mean, wise guy, my guess is that their box configuration might be a lot smaller. You know, it could be like a two-box break or something like that. Three-box break. And I mean, at the end of the day, every breaker can price, this is the rare photon parallel, by the way. Not a rookie, but it's Michael Bridges for the Suns, Travis. I mean, ultimately, every breaker can price the teams the way they want to, I guess. If one breaker has a price that's like super low, I'll bet you some of the other teams are going to be a lot higher than us. But I think Jaspies, we're pretty on market rate. It was a whole case. And I'll bet other teams are a lot more expensive, where that cost has been moved around a little bit, or they're just way off on the pricing. But hey, it's like finding the best odds at different sports books in Vegas. Sometimes some breakers will, or some books will have a mistake on the line. You've got to jump on that. Take advantage. I mean, there are a lot of inexperienced sort of group breakers that are out there, so there's probably a lot of different places where you can take advantage of mistake pricing. A couple more packs here. All right, next box. Good luck. We've got Kauai Leonard to 49 for the Clippers. We've got a Lime Green CJ Laby, 004 out of 149. And we've got a Tyler Bay Black Velocity, two out of 39. Dallas Mavericks. That'll be for Emery and the Mavs. And we've got Robert Woodard, Signature Series, Insert Signature for Ben and the Kings. And there's our first Lamello bass card for Charlotte. That's going to be for Sean Maddock, picked up the Hornets straight up. Well, let's not advertise them on our page there.  Cole Anthony Hollow going to Mark and the Magic. Here's Duncan Robinson to 199, Orange. John Morant, Stargazing Hollow, second year John Morant. Come on Dodgers. That's for the Grizz, that's for Travis. And the Duncan Robbins for Miami, Sean. Gets more minutes. Kendrick Nunn is with the Lakers now, so maybe that means more more minutes for Duncan Robinson. And another Obi Toppin, this time Red Parallel, 16 out of 99. Nix, Shang with the Nix. And a James Weissman, the Rookies, Insert for the Warrior, Sean Breen. Did he just get like a little knee surgery or something like that? I'd like the Warriors to, I know there's been a lot of speculation that Weissman would be a trade ship or something like that, so the Warriors maybe a little in win now mode, but I'd like to see him stay with the Warriors. That could be, see how he develops with that team. Could be good for the hobby. And Dodgers, what are you guys doing? What are the Giants doing right now? Let's see what the Giants score. They're up 1-0 on the Padres. Come on Padres. All right, so we are halfway through this half case break. All right, good luck everybody. See what we got here. Another Obi Toppin rated rookie. And is that an autograph coming up? For the Bulls? No, Lyme Green Patrick Williams got trolled there. Lyme Green Patrick Williams to 1-49. That'll be for the Bulls EA. I thought it was an autograph, Eric. Thought that was going to be an auto. And we got a rated rookie hollow, Isaiah Stewart, and of the rookies, Anthony Edwards. Scott with the Timberwolves had that hollow parallel a little bit earlier. Isaiah Stewart Hollow. Scott's on the upside. And another Lamello ball. No parallel yet, but a couple base cards for Sean M and the Hornets. Got the Hornets straight up. So maybe let's find a hollow for him. Maybe an autograph. TJ Warren to 99. Anna James Weissman autograph. Rated rookie auto for the warrior, Sean Breen. This time, different Sean. Sean Breen joined the filler, got randomized, the Warriors ends up with the James Weissman rated rookie on-card autograph. I know why this guy. No, I'm not acting like you're BSing. I think you're taking this way too seriously. I mean, there's a difference. I mean, I don't know what to say. Everyone prices things differently. I mean, I'm pretty confident that our price is correct though. I don't think anyone said you were BSing. Prices are different. What am I supposed to do? That's it. They've got it priced one way. We've got it priced another way. I don't know how much the Hornets were. Probably a lot. Hornets were 1200 for a half case break. Sean Matic actually got him in the second half too. Get a hit here. All right. Padres tied it up. There you go, Padres. All right. Second to last box. The second half of this case we can do tonight as well. There's Xavier Tillman to 99. What do we have here? Nick's signature series, David Lee. I don't know what to say, wise guy. I'm sorry. I apologize for being a little curt on that earlier, but I don't think anyone was saying you were BSing. I don't know how else to answer that question. They've got it at one price. We have it at a different price. We think our price is right. They think their price is probably correct. I mean, I don't know. That's that. I believe you. I'm not questioning that. Everyone has different prices. That's, I mean, that's, that's really all it is. It's simple as that. Got a Demontus Sabonis green. Pacers. Michael D. Got randomized the Pacers in that team random that we did. And a train whistle. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. Schuyler Mays orange to 199. And we've got a Nikola Jokic, 51 out of 99. Elite Dominators insert going to Denver. That'll be for Derek. J.J. Reddick, I think just announces retirement. All right. Final a box. I don't think you're, I don't think he's trolling guys. No, you, we're not saying that. I'm not saying that. The question was final. We answered it in that time. I mean, I don't know if there's really anything else to say. All right. Thanks, Nick. Thanks, Ben. To 199, James Harden. This hollow Pocosevsky is going to go to Tyler and the O and OKC. And another photon, short print. Kristoff's Porzingis. Emery with Dallas. And a Nico Manion pink velocity, 61 out of 79. Warrior, Sean Breen. And we've got an Isaiah Stewart autograph. Rated rookie, hollow, on-card auto. That's Eric K. Got the pistons straight up. Got the pistons. He's got some, got some youngsters that could all evolve together at the same time. Maybe some surprise some teams in a season or two. Kind of like the, I don't know, sort of like the Knicks.  And it's finally starting to click. It seems like RJ Hampton, 141 out of 149. They're all kind of the same age, similar ages. They can all evolve together. Pretty interesting. Brandon Clark to 99. And the very last card, Lamello ball, the rookies. Insert. We didn't see any autographs of Lamello. We didn't see, uh, like refracted. We didn't see any nice parallels or anything like that, but that could be in the second half. Here you go, Sean Maddock. He also has the hornets in the second half. Maybe we'll, we'll see a big Lamello there. Hey, thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for breaking with us. Appreciate it. Here's a quick little recap on some of the parallels and the autos. Yeah, nothing too crazy for the kings there, Ben. Sorry. And, uh, hollow Anthony Edwards is pretty sharp too. But hey, maybe that second half, which we can do tonight. I'm Joe for jazzy's case breaks.com. And we'll see you next time for the next break. Bye bye.


And I just wanted to do something that didn't incorporate math. And then I always could talk like I did a speech from memory at four years old for an hour with Frederick Douglass. It's full, so I didn't always had that gift, but it just was never nurtured because for whatever reason. So when I graduated from college with a man's communications degree, my sociology, I was gonna be making $7.10 an hour entry level at a job. Which is, you know, not kind of the piece of purpose of having a college degree. I could have made that. I was making more than that in high school working at a shoe store. So I said, if I'm gonna be broken and struggling, I'd rather be poor and struggling, building my own legacy and helping somebody else continue to build their legacy. So I jumped in the car, always been interested in comedy. I always loved comedy. I watched it growing up.  And I was always told to do it because I was always funny.  Four minutes on stage. I got on stage August 23rd, 2008, in the show and been doing it every since. It was crazy because I did a show for Nick in 2010, right? Yeah. Called The Fresh Faces of Comedy, my home girl, Dolly, who worked with Nick was in the system with the college with me. So he was doing this Fresh Faces of Comedy show. I was two years in the comedy at this time. I was like, yeah, you know what I mean? Nick wants you to come up and do the show. So when I went up to the comedy club, it was at Gotham, which is in New York City, the mecca of stand-up comedy for real. As far as the level of greatness that you have to display to be able to perform there and what it builds in you. So I get to the comedy club and the dude who's there tells me, hey man, I don't know you. So you can't curse, can't say the n-word, can't talk about anything in the rock tour. See if you're really funny. Why is it, man, if you know me? Because he didn't know if I was funny in that. So I hadn't built up any seniority to be able to just get on stage and lean on crutches that most people can lean on.  So he's like, nah, I'm going to make sure you know if you're funny. And I'm going to see if you're really funny.  So I didn't have a set anymore. Because at that point, that's all I was talking about. So my creative process is I walk around, talk to myself.  So I was outside walking around, talking to myself. And Nick pulled up and seen me.  So when I did my show, I just really talked about what happened to me that day. I talked about having to ride the bus from the airport. I talked about what was going on. Occupy Wall Street was going on at the time. I talked about that. And my set was just really, you can tell that it was genuinely done then. I was talking about in the moment right then. And the biggest show that I had ever done up until that point. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, I'm two years in a comedy. I'm in Gotham Comedy Club performing on the show with all these dudes with big names that record and it is Nick Cannon. And now I got to do a set based off of just something I'm making up right then. And so I smashed, killed. When I got off stage, Nick pulled me to the side and was like, yo, was you just making that up just now when I walked past you outside? And I'm like, yeah, he was like, yo, man, I'm going to keep it real with you. I'm around some of the best in the game, daily legends, and they cannot do what you just did. Keep working. That's special. So fast forward two years later, I'm still doing my comedy.  I found out I'm getting laid off of my job. I was working social work, working with people with mental disabilities and substance abuse issues. I found out I'm getting laid off from the job in November when the recession hit real bad and they was doing budget cuts. So I'm panicking.  I'm not making no money off comedy for real.  I got a daughter now. My daughter's one years old, about to be one years old. I'm like, man, what am I going to do? So I find out I'm on Twitter one day and I see Nick was like, yo, whoever's the funniest people on the internet, tweet them and I give them an audition for Wildin' Out.    So I was like, yo, this is a great opportunity. Georgia 36. So I hit Dolly and I'm like, yo, is this real? Is he really bringing Wildin' Out back? She was like, yes, that's these consumer that was happening. So I'm like, man, whatever I gotta do to get a shot, to get an audition, let me know. So the way God worked, Nick ended up coming through Charlotte because he got from Charlotte, North Carolina because he got family down there. So he was going to do an audition in Charlotte. So I was like, true, that's cool. We going to go to the audition. Man, my boy beat out with to the audition. In my 2003 Saturn view with 212,000 miles on it at that time. Went down there, I did the audition. Mind you, there was hundreds of people there, man. And you know, I remember that my first interaction with Nick was that show and what he respected about what I did. So I'm like, even if he don't remember, I'm gonna make him remember me because I'm gonna do the same thing.  Walked into the room and my homeboy, my OG Dorian now, who is family now, so crazy was sitting there. And I was probably like the 30th person to go. And he was sitting there just stone face.  So that's who I said him. That's my goal. I got to make him like that.  So I was like, cool, that's cool, man. I do a little stand up, man. First of all, thanks for the opportunity, but I'm gonna go ahead and keep it 100, man. I don't know if this is as great of an opportunity as I thought it was.  When I walked up and seen the line of people auditioning, I didn't know if it was an audition and we was handing out turkeys out this motherfucker. Like it just didn't seem like the type of people that I would be having an enduring dyes laughing.  And then I killed that audition. So Nick tells me after I finished, he was like, yo, I remember you from the show, you don't know that we did in New York. So if you want to, I'll give you an opportunity to come to the real audition. Because this was just something he was doing as a one-all. So he's like, you can come to the real audition, but you got to fly yourself to New York to get up there or get to New York on your own.  I'm like, man, let me know. So I found out the audition. My drive, I found out I'm getting laid off in November. This is the first Wednesday in December. The end of November I found out I was getting laid off. The first audition in Charlotte was the first Wednesday in December. Second Wednesday in December, I go up to New York and do the real audition that they was having with the people that I thought I was gonna see in Charlotte. Like all of the internet people and the other comedians that I knew about and all of that, you know what I mean? It's a bunch of people that I won't say no names because a lot of them didn't make the show, but you know what I mean? It was a lot of people there. So I went and did that audition.  So I did an impression on Uncle Ruckus. And I was like, Nick Cannon, you know why I love you? So I'm like, Nick Cannon. He was like, why? I was like, because niggas don't. And after that, that got me to the next audition, which was the audition, the group audition, that we all did together. Myself, Carlos, Emmanuel, Conceited. Who else was in there? Jacob, bunch of people that ended up making that first run. Was it the first time meeting Carlos and all? No, no, that's the thing. Me and Carlos knew each other years, met each other years prior. He came to my alma mater, Winston-Selton State, and we did a comedy show together years prior. He came with Zoo Man Miller. So we knew each other.   So did that audition, killed that audition. Mind you, this is the third Wednesday of December. Final Wednesday of December, now Evans calls me. From my 818 number, I didn't answer it the first time, because I thought it was a bill collector, because I owed a lot of bills at that time.  Then I called back again. So I asked, I'm like, hello? He's like, yeah, this is now Evans from MTV's Wildin' Out. I'm like, oh man, what's good? He was like, oh yeah, don't act relieved now, because you know I ain't a bill collector. I'm like, I'm relieved that you know that I thought you was a bill collector. So he was like, yeah, man, we just want to let you know, you know what I'm saying? That we reviewed everything, and we just want to say that you have made it, and we want to welcome you to the cast of Season 5 of Wildin' Out. This was the final Wednesday of December. It's not crazy how God worked. I got laid off officially January 11th, I believe it was, 2013. That was a Friday. That Monday, I flew out to shoot Wildin' Out.


Hey guys, welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new. For those of you who don't know me, my name's Sam. I am a professional hairdresser and in today's tutorial I'm gonna show you how to give yourself long curtain bangs or face frame layers, angles, whatever you wanna call it.  The length is really up to you but this technique is going to give you that like swoopy face frame when it goes from shorter in the front to gradually longer. I'm gonna show you how to achieve it so that it's nice and blended. You don't have any choppy looking pieces and at the end I'm gonna show you how to style them so that you can get the swoopy swoosh effect. All you're gonna need for this tutorial is a comb, some hair cutting shears.  You can get these pretty much at any drugstore, Target, Walmart, Amazon, I'll have a link in the description and then some kind of clip or hair tie, something to just pull the rest of your hair out of the way. So I recommend doing this on wet hair. It's just easier to cut. You'll also get a cleaner cut doing it on wet hair. So I'm brushing everything back making sure there's no tangles in my hair and then I'm going to take my comb and I'm gonna create a middle part.  You can just eyeball this based on preference or what I like to do, place the comb on top of your head and the point where it starts to lift off and it's not making contact with your head anymore, that's the point where you wanna start your bangs section. This is the best way to determine the thickness of your section based on your particular head shape. So you wanna try to make sure that you are getting this section as clean as possible. Doesn't have to be 100% perfect because once it's dry and down and styled and all that, you're not gonna notice if like a couple hairs are out of place, but I always say anytime you're doing anything with your hair, it really pays to take your time when you're sectioning the beginning because that can really make all the difference. Now that I have my bangs section, I'm gonna take everything else in the back and I'm going to clip this out of the way. So obviously we're not cutting any of that. So from here, you wanna determine where you want your bangs or your face frame to start. What do you want the shortest piece to be? And remember, your hair is wet. So once it dries, it is going to bounce up a little bit. So I suggest wherever you think you want it to start, I would cut a couple inches below that. And also if you've never had bangs before and you're kinda unsure of how they're gonna look on you, start a lot longer and then slowly cut more and more and work your way shorter and shorter just to be on the safe side. Trust me, you can always cut off more hair.  One thing to consider when you're doing this is do you want to still be able to tuck these pieces behind your ears?  I think I'm gonna start mine like right in the center of my mouth. So we'll be cutting about that much off.  I'm gonna pull this down to the middle. Bring it down to the length I want. But keep in mind, I'm pulling it down taut and it's also wet. So I want it to fall about here when it's dry. So I'm gonna cut it a little bit below that. So right there is where I'm gonna start. Now you could just go in and cut horizontally, but that's gonna create a really blunt line and I like these pieces to be as blended as possible. So I'm actually gonna cut into them vertically. Be very careful when you're doing this that you don't cut your fingers and then let it go and see where it falls. So it's a tiny bit longer than where I want it. So I'm gonna cut again. Bringing it up just a little bit. Really just take your time with this and be slow. If you try to rush through this, you might end up regretting it. So now I have my starting pieces and this is going to now be the guide that I'm gonna use when I'm cutting the rest of it. So I'm gonna tuck one side behind my ear, get it out of the way, I'm gonna do one side at a time. So now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take another little bit of hair and I'm going to comb it across to the other side of my head and you wanna make sure that you can still see that first section that I cut sticking out. If you can't see the first section, then take a little bit less hair. It's very important that you can see exactly where your guide is. You don't wanna be guessing with this because then otherwise it's not going to come out right. So again, I'm cutting into it nice and slow. Make sure you don't cut yourself and you can see how we're already now creating an angle. It's going from shorter to longer. By over directing the hair this way and cutting it all to the same point, when you bring it back over to this side, it's gonna have that angle. So we're gonna do the same exact thing.  Make sure you can see that guide and cut this hair to the same length. Another thing I wanted to point out is you can see as I'm taking this hair, I'm combing it over, I'm holding it between my pointer and my middle finger with the opposite hand that my scissors are in, my shears I should say. And I'm holding it there to see where I need to cut it, but then in order to see what I'm doing because the mirror is kind of far from me. It's easier for me to hold it in front of my face and see this way, but you wanna make sure that you are not moving your fingers at all. You wanna keep that same exact tension because you want the hair to be cut from here. So as long as you don't lose the tension in your fingers, then you'll be good. And you can move it wherever you need to move it so that you can see it. Cause it's really important whenever you're cutting your hair that you have as much control as possible and that you can really see what you're doing so that way you know that you're cutting in the right place, but also so that way you don't accidentally cut yourself. So now taking this last piece, just doing the same thing, cutting into it, just making sure that all the hair in this section is cut, you see that? It's all cut to the same point, but you see how it's really jagged? It's not a super blunt clean line. That's what's going to make it softer and make it more blended. So now we have one side done. Now I'm gonna do the next side. You can see my hair starting to dry. So I'm gonna wet it. And we're gonna do the exact same thing that we did on the other side. Take a small piece of hair, make sure this side is tucked out of the way. And if you cut it too short so that you can't put it behind your ear, just use a clip or something to keep it out of the way. Oh, over, there's my guide. Both sides cut, re-wet everything, and then comb through, check your work, everything is about the same length. It's looking like this side came out a little teeny bit shorter than the other side, like barely by maybe a quarter of an inch, but it's enough that I notice it and it bothers me. So I'm gonna go back through. Since I already cut the bulk of the length off, I'm gonna take it all as one section. I'm just gonna pull it across and I'm just cutting a little tiny bit off, cutting into it vertically, check again. Now that looks, you can go through and pull the pieces inward towards your face. You're not gonna get the full effect though until it's all dry and styled. So I'm gonna show you how to style them to get that nice swoopy face frame look. Okay, I blow dried and styled most of my hair, everything in the back. Now I'm gonna show you how to style your new curtain bangs to give them a nice little swoop. So it's pretty simple. All you have to do is take a curling iron or a flat iron. I usually find a curling iron is easier and you just want to twist ever so slightly and just pull back going away from your face. You don't wanna actually wrap it fully around the barrel because you don't wanna necessarily curl it. You just wanna give it a little bit of a bend and a swoop.  So you can see how we have our nice little angled swoop and it's shorter and then gradually gets longer, but it's really soft and blended. There's no choppiness at all.  So I love this, like just pulling everything back and putting it in a little claw clip and having these front pieces or you could do like a half up kind of thing with the little pieces down in the front. So I hope that you guys enjoyed this tutorial and you found it helpful. Hopefully it was easy to follow along. It's kind of tricky to do stuff like this on yourself and then also make sure that the camera is getting the right angles and showing everything properly. So I hope that I was able to explain it well. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. It really helps my channel out a lot. I have a lot more tutorials like this one on my channel and I also do weekly vlogs on a regular basis. So if you like that kind of content, make sure to subscribe. Also feel free to follow me on Instagram and hopefully I'll see you in my next video. Bye.


Hello and welcome! The title of this video may not make sense. I wasn't really sure how to word it. But basically what we're going to be looking at today is searching through the processes that are running on our machine and gripping the certain processes, but avoiding gripping greps. So this is a common trick. You may have seen this, but just in case you haven't, I'm doing a video on it. Usually I use the command PS and usually with the AUX arguments to list out all the processes running on my machine. And let's say I wanted to find the process information on the process. I have a program open called Eureka, which is a DOOM level editor. I'm going to go like this and type grep and I can start typing Eureka, like so. I can type partial to word, all the whole word depending on what processes I have running and how I want to narrow it down. But whether I type part or whole, you'll notice that I get two processes and only one of them is the actual program. One of them is my grep command. So we're running this command, the PS AUX command, and it's finding the process of grep which we're using. And we'll find that every time because whatever we search will show up in the list. So how do you avoid that? Well, it's simple. You need quotation marks and brackets. We'll just put brackets around the first letter there and quotation marks around the whole thing. And now we get only the process. This is actually the Eureka program. Why does this work? So what we're using here is what's called a regular expression. The regular expression is characters they're used to, how do you word this, represent a range of characters. And normally you can use these brackets to put multiple characters in there and it will find those multiple characters. So let's say I wanted to grep for bat, hat and cat, but avoid another word, that. I could put those letters in these brackets and narrow it down. So why does that work here? Well, because now our grep command, it's looking for Eureka. It's looking for E followed by U R E K A. But when it shows up in the command up here in our grep, it doesn't, it isn't spelt like that. So it's not seeing the word Eureka here because these brackets and that's why that works. So that was just a quick and simple tip, very short tutorial here. But it's something that we're going to be using in coming videos. So I wanted to do a tutorial on and on itself. But again, basically grep is looking for lines of processes that have the word Eureka. And this line normally has it, but now doesn't because these brackets are here making this a new word as far as the search is concerned. Thank you for watching. Please visit filmsbychrist.com. That's Chris Decay. There's a link in the description. I hope you have a great day.


Metal Storm is a run and gun styled game with one unique twist. The main selling point of this game is the ability to flip your gravity so you can walk on the floor or the ceiling. The game takes advantage of this by providing some quality level design that lends itself okay to some exploration to find some hidden areas and allows the player to be inventive when disposing of enemies. You can do the usual Rambo style full speed ahead guns blazing, or you can dodge, go around and shoot from other angles. It helps that you can shoot in four directions, which is nice. The only real problem with the gravity flipping mechanic is that sometimes you have no idea what you can and can't walk on or land on. The platforms can be inconsistent, and that gets frustrating because you really have no way of knowing until you fall through and die.  One hit deaths, just like Contra. Yeah, classic NES difficulty here, but to be fair there's frequent checkpoints throughout every level, and unlimited continues, so you have no excuse but to keep going ahead. Like any run and gun game, there's a variety of power-ups. P for a power beam, which is an upgrade for your weapon, S for a shield to protect you from projectiles, G for a power-up that allows you to turn into a fireball as you flip from the floor to the ceiling, destroying any enemies in your way, and A for armor that allows you to take extra damage, barely. This is all well and good, but unfortunately you only get one power-up at a time. If you have the shield, you'll lose it if you pick up something else. That's kind of annoying. But yeah, there's seven levels total to plow through, and some of the boss battles are just nuts. I mean, look at this. As for the story, a giant laser gun designed to protect Earth has gone totally haywire, and it's up to you and the M308 gunner mech to stop it. Why wouldn't such a powerful and dangerous weapon have a disengaged or a self-destruct feature? Well, because it's jammed, of course. Yeah, pretty paid-by-numbers story, but who cares? There's one neat little piece of trivia about this game that I like. The NES doesn't really support parallax scrolling, or in other words, you can't layer the background and vary the speed of each layer to give an illusion of depth. The developers of Metal Storm created a workaround by basically animating the backgrounds to give them a different speed than the foreground. You can see this in level 3 and level 5. That just goes to show how much effort the developers put into this game. Not only that, but Metal Storm got a coveted spot on the cover of Nintendo Power after its release in March of 1991, including a huge 12-page feature article. However, the game for whatever reason just didn't catch on that well, and sort of disappeared from the gaming landscape, never getting a sequel, a Super Nintendo follow-up, or even a Game Boy port. And that's really too bad, because this game is a quality piece of work. It has its flaws, like not knowing where you can and can't jump, and only holding one power up at a time, but still, Metal Storm is a difficult but fun play-through that absolutely deserves a spot on the virtual console.


Hi, I'm Matt. Do you want to learn the secrets to making any man want you and keep him wanting you forever? Do you have problems intimidating men and want to make yourself more attractive and more approachable? If you said yes to either one of those questions, then I made this video just for you. If you want a man to feel excited, passionate, and deeply in love with you, here's what you need to do. First, satisfy his emotional needs. A lot of men walk out of relationships because they don't get their emotional needs met. Men want to be the providers, the protectors, and the pursuers.   A lot of women give themselves completely to a relationship, thinking that this will make a man want her more. However, this is not only extremely unattractive to men, it's also very unhealthy. Instead, continue to have friends and activities outside any relationship you get into. Third, get in touch with your feminine power. A lot of women attempt to compete with men for the masculine role in the relationship.  Instead, if you connect with the feminine part of yourself, he'll feel like there's a place for him, and you'll take on the masculine role in your relationship. Fourth, know your worth. Thinking that you deserve to have a great man who wants you and only you is very attractive to men. If you believe that you deserve him, he'll believe it as well. If you don't believe that you deserve him, he'll begin to think that there's something wrong and start finding reasons to pull away and disappear. Fifth, flirt, tease, and learn how attraction works with men. The relationships that I've seen which end in happily ever after involve two people who continue to flirt and attract each other no matter how long they've been in a relationship together. Fortunately, this can be a lot of fun. You just need to practice and learn the secrets to making men feel attracted to you. Look, you may be pushing men away, and you don't even know it. I've been teaching in the relationship space for over a decade. At first, I only worked with men. And while I became very good at helping men create relationships with women, I ran into a serious problem. Even if a client of mine did everything right to meet and attract a beautiful woman, the relationship he got into almost certainly wouldn't last. Because while these men were very sexually attracted to the women they were dating, they weren't emotionally attracted to them. And as soon as they became physically intimate together, the men completely lost interest in the women. After doing some research that compared the relationships that lasted to the ones that didn't, I found out something very interesting. There are very distinct differences in what the women were doing in the relationships that stayed together versus the relationships where the men lost interest. In the relationships where the men lost interest, the woman was usually pushing the man away and she didn't even know it. There are only a few ways that women push men away. And if you don't know what they are, you could be sabotaging any relationship you get into, and you won't even know it until it's too late.  It's free. And based on your answers to a few questions, I can help you determine exactly what your biggest obstacle is and what you need to do differently in order to attract a man and the relationship that you want in your life. No matter how amazing and wonderful you are, if you don't connect with a man in the right way, he'll continue to search for a woman who makes him feel like she's just the one for him. If you want him to feel like you're the one, go take my quiz right now. Stop giving everything to a relationship only to have a guy take you for granted.


The 34th meeting of the General Membership of the Caribbean Association of National Training Agencies, or CANTA, was hosted by the St. Lucia Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training at the Bay Gardens Hotel. Established in November of 2003, CANTA is an alliance of CARICOM State's National Training Agencies and other TVET APEX bodies. The 14-member group is supported as the CARICOM Regional Coordinating Mechanism for TVET's Implementation branch. Its objectives are to support the growth of a competitive regional workforce and to ease the movement of certified skilled workers within the CSME, the Caribbean Single Market and Economy. Chairman of CANTA, Eastman Henderson, says integral to achieving this objective is the promotion of uniform standards, driven by competency-based training, assessment and certification within the Caribbean community, as has been accomplished with the Caribbean Vocational Qualification, the CDQ. Education transformation is taking place. People, the countries are looking to transform their educational systems. Why? Because right across this Caribbean, we have high youth unemployment. We have gangs and we have relentless youth criminal activity taking place. So we have to look at the product of our educational system and at the centre of these transformations, if you look carefully, TVET is at the centre. The Government of St. Lucia has placed great emphasis on the growth of TVET on the island, including identifying four secondary schools to become TVET-centred schools. Education Minister Hon. Sean Edward says the role of CANTA is even more relevant today, given the new dynamics of the global economy. However, he advised against adopting the start-over approach. Therefore, it is incumbent upon every national training agency represented here and joining virtually to recognise that you play a critical role in shaping vocational education and skills acquisition within your respective countries or jurisdictions. We should not look to reinvent the wheel. But in programming to move forward, we must demonstrate an appreciation for the work that would have been done before. CANTA's general membership meetings serve to provide opportunities to develop and strengthen new and existing networks, while at the same time deliberating on policies and strategies aimed at enhancing technical vocational education and training TVET locally and regionally. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the St. Lucia TVET Council, Joseph Alexander says whatever challenges the region may be confronted with, it was important for CANTA to stay the course in achieving set objectives, including fighting stigmas. The misperception in TVET not only occurs in our part of the hemisphere, but as long as existed all over the world, including developed and developing countries. It can be argued that the primary cause of the disregard for TVET is partly the result of perceiving TVET as education for youth with low academic abilities. Misperception equates academic education with intelligence and TVET with a lack of intelligence. The two-day exercise also saw presentations made by the National Institute of Technical Vocational Training, Infotep, Korea International Cooperation Agency, COECA and the African Union to the meeting as a means of sharing best practices. Members of CANTA were also expected to select a new Executive Committee to oversee CANTA's operations for the period 2024 to 2026. From the Communications Unit of the Department of Education, Innovation and Vocational Training, I am Chris Satney, reporting.