Nardog. Gang, I'm gonna do a just so you know. Nardog is part of my gaming group, board game group. Okay, you would have seen him during our Monopoly marathon session we had. Nardog. Let me read Joe's comment. He's got Chicho. I think a good example of limiting freedom of speech in the workplace would be for medical professionals prohibiting them from discussing private health information of patients to other. Oh yeah, for sure. Like my partner doesn't talk to me about medical stuff, right? And I have a recipe Monopoly. Nardog. I know Nardog. Brother, we got to get together. We got to get together. And I mentioned when I'm about to show you. Okay, I mentioned that two of our gaming group can still come here. You guys need to come here for a weekend session of this. Let me show you. Someone sent me a care package. Someone sent me a care package. Someone sent me a care package because they watched our the gaming videos I put out, right? And they loved it. Okay. And they asked me if I'd be cool on, let's see, I'll be cool to get something. And they said they really loved Axis and Allies, right? And they had something for me. And and check this out. Check this out. Check this out. Check this out. Did you see it? Did you see it? Did you see it? Europe. Brother, Europe 1940. Axis and Allies. But Nardog. Nardog. Nardog. We ain't done yet. We ain't done yet. Nardog. Nardog. Are you ready? Are you ready?  Let me let me show you. Nardog. Europe. Europe 1940. Remember when we were talking about it? Remember when we were talking about it? We're almost, I was almost about to pull the trigger on this. Ready? Ready? The classic one, dude. Dude. Pacific 1940. It's the double set. It's the double set where we can put it together, right? And play as one gigantic board game. It's triple the area of Axis and Allies. Dude. Yes. The globe. Yes. The globe. Dude. Okay. Now you know. Now you know. Tell. Tell our brother that YouTube need to come here and we need to play. We need to play. Be careful what you wish for. That's a 72 hour game you're talking about. Indeed. Indeed. I will make sure that we have the space to do it and brother, guess we're going to last stream it if we do, right? But we have to do it. I'm pretty sure what we need to do is play Europe and they play Pacific and then play the double game. Or we just go hardcore. Just go in all in. Globe. Let's do it. Cheryl. Awesome. What a great gift. What a great gift. The cats. Good night. Good night. Petar. It's 6 21 am here. I was about to go to bed but saw you streaming. Just wanted to say hi to you two guys. Chat. Not GTG though. I'm so tired. I'll pass out. See you. Have fun. Be good. Live long. Indeed. Live long and prosper, brother. Live long and prosper. Right. Thank you for popping in and good night. I hope you have fantastic dreams. We'll meet again on the road. Indeed. Indeed. Good night. Good night. Nardog. Awesome. I got lots of applesauce for us to laugh about. That's absolutely wild. Absolutely wild. Here's the box he sent to them. Check it out. It's like a gigantic box. Like, yeah, the guys spent a lot of money to send the package and buy the brand new brand new that things haven't even popped out yet. Dude, the instruction booklet looked amazing.  I'll set up the space we do. Okay. You guys let me know when you can do it. Give me a heads up or rearrange furniture. Set everything up. Close off the area. You guys come here. We'll sleep in sleeping bags if you have to and just play. Just play. We need, we need, we need. We need, we need, we need. I think the world needs to do. Applesauce. I'll feed you lots of applesauce. Super fun. Fantastic. Fantastic. I hope you guys are doing well, brother. I hope you guys are doing well. No, no one's conquered the world on applesauce. They haven't been doing it on for Chico's applesauce. And of course, we'll have herbs. I grew herbs this year. I put out a video where we're trimming it. Right. So I got delicious herb. Delicious herb. We got applesauce. We can get some refreshments. We got lots of liqueur. Oh, cook up a storm for the weekend. Eat, eat, eat. Eat like mad. And conquer the world. No mercy. No quarter given. Lots of backstabbing. That's so awesome. Awesome. Gang, if you don't have a board game group, get yourself a board game group. Make some connections that you can not make outside of that environment where there is no censorship, free discussion on everything focused on a game that challenges you. No mercy. No mercy. Nardog.  I hear the dice in the box when trying to sleep after what Nardog is saying. The way we play Axis and Allies, right? Sometimes you're playing, doing huge battles, huge battles. So we bring out the box of the game and we roll the dice in the box, right? And sometimes the dice are flying out like it's life or death and you roll the dice. And if you have, if you've heard dice rolling in a box and they're heavy dice, right, bigger dice, then you count the number of hits you've had. So fun. So fun. Hedgie, I was board gaming back way back in the 1980s. Yeah. There was a lot more people board gaming back then, right? And then less and less people. That's one thing that has happened in the last couple of years. The board gaming industry must have taken a hit, right? And the board gaming communities must have taken a hit because people have been restricted from getting together and playing board games. Very sad, very sad. The cast to Hedgie. You ever played any Warhammer? Nice, Cheryl. Almost the same sound as someone pawing through a box of Legos, awesome and horrifying. I actually love it. I actually love that sound. It's so much action. So fun. The unfortunate side of video gaming, indeed, indeed. Video gaming has its own benefits. Video gaming has its own benefits, but, but there's got to be a balance of video gaming and board gaming, right? So if you, if you can, if you're a gamer and you can appreciate both spectrums, right? Both board games and video games, you know what gaming is about. If you're only into one or the other. Okay. You haven't, I don't want to say you don't, but there's more to what you're experiencing. Okay. Experience both genres, both spectrums, right? It's brilliant. It's brilliant. So much fun. So much fun. This stream has been way chill and I thought it was going to be fantastic. We started off hard and then we got onto a lot of love and that's what a lot of love does. Nardog. Dude, dude, we almost pulled the trigger on it to buy it, but we got it.   I hope you guys are having fantastic refreshments, fantastic food. We've got fantastic conversation in company. Ha ha, yep. One way or another, one way or another. And gang, don't forget, free assange, free assange, free assange, Julian Assange's publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. For more information, see wikileaks.org, defend.wikileaks.org, or Julian Assange and wikileaks playlist on censoredube. I got our kitty cats awake now. They've woken up slowly, cleaning themselves. You might hear them running around soon. Nardog, oh yes, I'll send you an email to catch up more details.   I hope you have a fantastic game. I hope you have a fantastic game. And gang, don't forget, we do have a discord page. You can join there if you want to participate in these discussions. Ha ha, yes, yes sir, we'll do. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Super fun, super fun, super fun. Gang, don't forget, in 12 hours, we do mathematics. Tomorrow morning at 9 30 a.m. PDT my time, we're doing a drop in math tutoring session, okay? Tomorrow morning I'm gonna set up my space to, you know, do a little shift where we're gonna be at the whiteboard and doing some mathematics. So if you or anyone you know requires any math help, you're free to pop in tomorrow from 9 30 a.m. until 11 30 a.m. to ask questions and we'll see if we can help you out.


I'm Simon Grunewald here with the week six fan dual hurry up to give you three players that you should be adding off the waiver wire to help you win your fantasy leagues. The first player I wanted to talk about was Seattle Seahawks rookie running bat Kenneth Walker. Now Kenneth Walker should be your top waiver wire target this week. Richard Penny went down with a fractured tibia meaning he could miss the rest of the season and Kenneth Walker took over as the clear lead back turning eight carries into 88 yards and a touchdown. Now he won't get much receiving work so it caps his upside a little bit but he should see 15 plus carries on a weekly basis which automatically puts him in the rv2 category on volume alone and this rookie is electric which means there's upside for him to be a top 12 running back in certain weeks against good matchups. If he is on your waiver wire which he's rostered in 50 to 65 percent of leagues depending on your platform you should be throwing everything you have at him. The opportunity to pick up a starting running back for the rest of the season off waiver wire doesn't come along very often so this is the time to burn that top waiver priority or spend all your fab on a player. This could be a league winner. The next player I want to talk about another rookie but this time a wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts. Alec Pierce showed up in week four and then in week five he didn't go anywhere. He proceeded to be the one bright spot in that game that was otherwise a fantasy football vacuum receiving a team high nine targets for eight receptions in 81 yards making it two weeks in a row now that he's hit 80 yards. Rookie wide receivers have a habit of turning it on over the second half of the season as they develop into their NFL roles. The fact that we're seeing glimpses of this from Alec Pierce two games in a row heavily targeted heavily involved is a good sign that his usage could go up as the season goes on. While Michael Pittman will continue to be the one in that offense Alec Pierce is definitely worth a pickup as a rookie wide receiver that's already heavily involved in his offense. The last player about as far from a rookie as we can get we've got veteran wide receiver Randall Cobb of the Green Bay Packers. Now going into week five Aaron Rodgers was very vocal about Randall Cobb needing to be more involved in this Packers offense quoting his ability to make plays and if Aaron Rodgers has decided that Cobb is his guy then who are we to argue with that and Sunday's lost to the Giants. Randall Cobb saw 13 targets turning it into seven receptions for 99 yards while he likely won't see that 13 target volume every single week. Rodgers is the kind of quarterback that throws to wide receivers that he trusts and he clearly trusts Randall Cobb the chance alone that he could be this dude in a Green Bay Packers offense is reason enough to pick him up and throw him on your bench for weeks ahead.


It's going to be a very simple video, very short, very concise, if you don't have five minutes to listen to it and soak the information in, you're either not a real marketer, I'm not very reliable, or you have OCD, ADD, sorry. So what is the number one strategy for paid ads that you can use on Google, you can use on Facebook, and is extremely, extremely scalable and extremely, extremely efficient for those misers out there that want only a really high returns on their investment. So the strategy is very, very simple. You create a video, let's say it's a content video, a video that's just pure content, like this one, where you're learning something from me, and you run it as a paid ad in YouTube or Facebook. And when you run it, you don't have to get super specific about the audience. You can run it to a pretty broad audience. And the reason for that is because we're going to do what's called retargeting, retargeting meaning to, it's basically what it means in, sorry for the spelling errors, what retargeting means in paid advertising is that you create an audience from people who have already taken certain actions with your business.  So in this case, we're going to retarget, we're going to show more ads to specific people, to people who watched 85% of our video, why? Because if this video is, let's say, seven minutes and 35 seconds long, and somebody stopped their day in the middle of being on Facebook or watching YouTube to see at least six minutes of your video, he's either really bored, put the phone aside, or he's really, really interested in what you're going to say.  He's part of your tribe now, whether he knows it or not. And then what you do is you retarget him.  And then you start showing him more ads, more videos. You're showing him a buy now thing, like, hello, this is Robbie. I see that you liked my video. I want to tell you about this really cool offer that I have. Or hey, it's Robbie, I know that you saw my video. Here I'm going to give you the advanced version of what we talked about here. And these types of ads, where again, you create a video, and the video, you can basically create an audience from various different things. You create an audience from the people who created, who visited your website, or who put in the details, and you have a new lead. Or the people who purchased, or the similar to people who purchased, or similar to your leads. But the thing is, your leads, they're not a good source to create the audience from, because people who are your leads, they simply clicked on your website, and they put in their name and email. And some people do that just for fun. Some people do that because they're bored. Many people do that because they're bored. That doesn't mean they're going to be good clients. Who are going to be good clients? People who really, really, really like your contents. And if you can even divide it further, like men between 20 and 40 who really like my content, for example, or men are really like, again, to divide even further, that's great, but you don't have to. Because somebody who watched your video is really into you. And so you, again, you retarget them. And then you show them more ads, more stuff from you.  Because you're only showing your ad to people who are highly interested or motivated, who voted with the most important thing we have, which is time. It's not money, it is time. Somebody who's willing to spend a ton of time watching your content is the best prospect you could have. So I hope this video helps you. Let me know if you have any questions about how to get this done, how to make it happen. If you need any nuanced advice, post it in the comments, and I'd be happy to help you. Let me know if you need a consultation. I'm offering those in the description below. Just click on the consulting link or get my e-book for $9.99, where I show you more strategies like this and other crazy life stories that I had. Thank you and see you in the next video. Bye-bye.


My name is Jessie McComb and I'm a tourism specialist with the World Bank. And while I sit within a global team, I'm actually based in the US, so it's a bit late here and apologies for any delays on that side. So while I do sit within a global team, I have a regional focus on Asia Pacific, and I've been working with with the teams in the region, particularly in Southeast Asia. And I've spent a lot of time working in this region over the past decade or so. So my presentation will draw on my experiences working closely with communities and looking at developing tourism. And I will provide just a few best practices. I think the important thing to note is that there are many more lessons learned that hopefully we'll hear about today from all the rest of the presenters. So I'll just be able to provide a few. I think, are the slides still showing? Great, it's in the presenter's view. Oh, and you can just skip to the next slide. Great, excellent. So when approaching a new opportunity to develop ecotourism, we often see this process as a series of balancing acts. So the first is this delicate balance between the dual goals of conservation and business. Ecotourism development can be driven by conservation goals to address critical environmental or cultural issues. It can be supported as a means of economic opportunity for local communities or for livelihood generation. And it can also be a way for community empowerment and education. And of course it can be a combination of these things. So whatever the underlying goals are of developing a new ecotourism project, as we engage communities or as the development team engages communities, we need to carefully balance these these tourism and conservation goals to be successful communities require really a full understanding of the goals from the beginning of the project and ongoing education on why these goals are important and how ecotourism business development will help them achieve a better and more better way of life. The decision if and and how to engage in ecotourism also really needs to be one that the community makes for themselves. So it's a process of of education the process of communication, and then of self determination by the communities in terms of whether or not they they want to go ahead. So in the communities in which all of us work, people have an understanding of what development projects are developments around for a long time communities have engaged with a lot of NGOs. They often understand what a conservation project is. They often understand what a livelihood project is. You know, especially in Southeast Asia, they understand the tourism sector more broadly as well. However, there can often be a disconnect between how tourism and conservation can link together. The idea that tourists are interested and willing to pay for pristine nature based experiences. It's really critical to communicate. This is often often the new idea for communities. Additionally, within ecotourism development plans, a true alignment between the business goals of tourism. In other words, creating a financially viable and sustainable business must be balanced with the conservation goals. This is really the sweet spot that businesses need to be able to get to. The strong business focus needs to be built in from the start. This is where private sector engagement is necessary and critical. This is both in terms of assisting communities to hear what the market wants directly from the market and in developing a successful business with strong market linkages and mentorships with existing private sector entities. The other balancing act that we see in the initial stages of development is ensuring that communities understand, acknowledge and set allowable limits around community impact. This touches a little bit on what Sandra was talking about. Within communities and protected areas, tourism will have both positive and negative impacts. Supporting communities to identify what they envision might be these positive and negative impacts will help them to set expectations around overall tourism development or expansion. It will also help the community to prepare for potential challenges down the road and create self-driven mitigation measures. So these are things that they identify and they put in place themselves. One of the most common negative impacts that communities face within a new eco tourism development project might be a complex caused by unequal community benefits. If there are people in the community that feel that they are not benefiting from tourism, this can cause conflicts. Sometimes this results in a lack of support for the conservation initiatives of the project, going back to potentially damaging behavior. Sometimes this can result in sabotaging the business, sometimes harassing tourists, and in rare cases violence against each other or tourists. So setting these standards are really important from the beginning. And to prepare communities to deal with these challenges, it's essential that they have self-defined community structures. And this will help them resolve conflicts in the future. This will help them to distribute benefits more equally and to communicate the goals of the project to the wider community, not just the core team of people working on tourism. Sometimes these structures are already in place in the form of council of elders, tribal governments, associations, cooperatives, and a number of different mechanisms. And sometimes the project needs to develop these structures. In the latter case, development agencies, we need to ensure that this is then factored into the time frame of the project. And the team on ground has resources to conduct community governance strengthening activities, so not just the conservation activities or the business activities, but really about community engagement and community strengthening. Next slide, please. On the business side, ensuring that businesses will be financially feasible is really a critical element to any tourism or livelihood support. The foundation of tourism development should focus on taking a market driven approach and working closely with the private sector. There's also, I think, a need for communities to understand that as they launch a tourism business and eco tourism business or a cultural tourism business, that they are actually becoming part of the private sector and that they need to integrate into that supply chain. So this process starts by having an initial awareness of the products that the destination can offer, including both both nature based and cultural based experiences, and then conducting thorough market research to understand if tourists actually want to see these products if they're interested in them to understand what the willingness to pay is. To understand the types of broader experiences and services that need to be developed within a community or destination, as well as looking at supply chain linkages that might need to be strengthened or bolstered. So we know for market, existing market intelligence that that most eco tourism and nature based tourism consumers are interested in a wide range of activities, including both active and passive outdoor experiences, cultural exchanges, opportunities to meaningfully engage with communities, and of course culinary products. That's always the food experience is always very important. So ensuring that a range of services are developed is really critical to stimulating robust market demand in the future. The next step is ensuring that the businesses, these tourism products can be successfully transformed into financially viable businesses. Ensuring that there is sufficient demand revenue potential and supply chain support for sustainable business in the future. And then this needs to be linked to the conservation goals to do identify the business has sufficient demand to support both the business needs and the conservation needs to reach both of those goals in the project. This is often a tripping point for eco tourism development. And we need and we need to be prepared for the fact that sometimes eco tourism businesses are not feasible. And perhaps other livelihood options are more appropriate tourism is not always the answer to addressing a conservation need or to addressing a livelihood or economic empowerment need within a specific community. And occasionally does this does happen. I had an example of a project I supported a number of years ago, where there was high pressure to developing bird watching site in a very specific community. This area had very high biodiversity value being a bird nesting and breeding ground. However, the birds in this area were migratory European species, and the primary primary bird watching market in this destination were Europeans. Given the characteristics of bird watching market feedback from tour operators, it was determined that there was really low market potential for bird watching there. Essentially bird watchers were just not interested in seeing birds that they could see in their own backyards at home. So in this case, the research found the feasibility study found that there weren't sufficient tourism assets in this community to develop a tourism business. This is really an important thing to establish at the beginning of a process. Otherwise, false expectations can be set with communities and their thoughts about what can happen in the future might be misaligned. However, in most cases, when the business is feasible, the hard work of going back to the community to create the business really begins. And this includes script and itinerary development, business plan creation, lots and lots and lots of training on everything from guiding and first stage to financial management to really help the community to manage a professional tourism business. And the way to support this complicated process is really by gathering a mix of expertise, including community engagement, business development, tourism, marketing, conservation experts. And by bringing together a team that views ecotourism through these different lenses from the beginning of the project, communities can really benefit in the long term. Next slide. So I'll leave you with a few resources from the World Bank. This will be supplemented by my colleague Werner during his presentation later for he has a couple of more regionally specific resources. And I think the important thing to remember is that there are people and resources out there to support successful ecotourism development. We'll hear from many of them today in the speaker list. We have a lot of really great expertise in the virtual room so to speak. And we are here to support your projects and development goals through providing this type of expertise. Next slide please. So unfortunately, given the time zone I will not be able to stay for the full meeting and the discussion, but please do reach out to me via email if you have any questions. And I hope you have a wonderful rest of the session in symposium. Thank you very much.


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Good evening everybody. I have been, I am happy to be here and I've been peaking backstage. We have an amazing second act coming up. I wanted to take just a moment before the real talent arrives to say an incredible thank you to all of you for coming this evening and celebrating. There are a lot of heroes in this room who are fighting every day for a decent world who are incredibly creative and contributing to moving forward our goal of a sustainable planet. We just heard a remarkable world premiere of changing reality and that's what we need to do. We do need to change reality to make the world safer, to make the world healthier and to make the world fit for our children and the coming generation. And I want to thank all of you for contributing to that. I want to thank our remarkable performers. You'll see them in just a moment. Revital Hachimov and Udi Shapiro who you met at the beginning of the show also in the wonderful singing and Ronan Shapiro who must be the Gershwin of our time without question. We're watching a genius of composition and imagination. And I must tell you in this rather remarkable and exhausting week of the General Assembly when so much seems uncertain and turbulent, my overwhelming sense is exactly what I'm feeling this evening as well. We keep seeing the rays of hope bursting through and even with the harsh talk and the very discordant notes that we hear in the General Assembly and that we hear tonight in some of the compositions. It's what Udi Shapiro said in the end comes hope. We saw some beautiful remarks by some of the world leaders. I want to especially pay tribute to President Moreno of Ecuador who is the only head of state in a wheelchair. He was attacked and left paralyzed 20 years ago. He's a man of incredible charm, but he said something very moving at the General Assembly. He said you may see me and I'm in a wheelchair and you may say how bad or how sad and it's of course not so He quoted a Chinese proverb that nothing is so bad or nothing is so good, but he said I learned when I was standing I could see across, but when I'm in my wheelchair, I often can see people below, people in need people who otherwise might not be seen and he said for me that is a gift of life and inspiration. And that's nice to hear from a political leader and the wisdom that he conveyed and that many others conveyed in the last two days of the General Assembly truly do give us hope and the beauty tonight gives us inspiration and joy and energy to continue together. Thank you very much for being here and now I've changed attire, so you won't confuse between me and Professor Sacks So in the first half of the concert we've explored transitions in time and Transition among musical cultures, but how about mixing cultures? For example a Japanese bathrobe design and the Western musical. How about that? When it comes to mixing musical cultures, nobody does it better than PDQ Bach, the self-proclaimed Only Forgotten Son of the Bach family, who is actually a New York based contemporary composer named Peter Schickele. In the following piece PDQ Bach attempts to mix the most extremely unrelated cultures Bluegrass music and Appalachian American slang on the one hand with Bach cantata style and the German language To enjoy it, you must know that Georgia is way over there and Accept despite all evidence to the contrary that here everywhere Your eye can see is Kentucky Enjoy


Hello, everyone, and welcome you to the battle of programs for the business school. My name is Marcelo probably dinner and today I'll be speaking for the international management program at pro college. A lot of children himself as well. Hey Marcelo thank you. Yeah, my name is Pedro I'm a Brazilian that lived in Prague and now live in Budapest doing the program of the MSc leadership and strategic management. Thank you. I'll probably start off right up about the program that I'm studying. So, as I mentioned before, I'm studying master's in international management. And today I'll be talking about three basic points what I think are the most beneficial parts of the programming studying at pro college. Among the first of them are interesting courses. It's really interesting when you think about like management and what we're going to do in the future is one side of it is business which means half math theories calculation analysis equations and synthesis. The other off is much messier it's people. So one of the courses I really enjoyed was developing self and others, because that course is dedicated to understanding ourselves and people as a whole. In the course you're asked to understand your behaviors and understand your behaviors in work settings. So you have to actually analyze your own experience in carrying out yourself in a workplace and one of the things I really enjoyed about that class is the fact that it allowed me to analyze myself, my behavior and just really see what am I doing in a workplace, what is productive and what isn't, and what could possibly be done in a better way. I think that's something that's really important for any person that wants to be successful or really like happy with themselves because this kind of behavior analyzing yourself and creating a plan how to develop yourself is actually something that's vital for progression in life. And while I enjoy planning normally this was something that was really hard for me to do is to create a plan for yourself, not day by day plan but to write down your goals and to create a path towards those goals so to create a system of activities you need to carry out in order to create to reach those goals. And often when we do these plans. When we really do them well. It's a sobering look to see how much work needs to be done in order to get to where we want to be. That was one of the courses I enjoyed really the most because understanding own personality and self helps you to understand other people and when you can understand other people you can cooperate with them and lead them. Second course I would like to talk about is my favorite course strategy, so strategic management in international context. One of the questions everyone asks me is since I studied economics and business school is, what is the ideal solution, what is the best solution to a product to a service or whatever. The thing I like about this question is that the answer is always, it depends. It depends on the core competencies of the company on the organizational structure and the culture, the financial resources capabilities and skills that are present in the company. The macro economic trends the industrial structure, the profit margins within that industry, the level of competition and the competing strategies the firms are using to compete for clients and customers. It depends on markets, segments and on customer satisfaction, price sensitivity and customer base. All of these factors have to be included and it's always situational. So there's not one single correct answer because strategy is so dynamic you have to always take multiple and multiple sets of variables into account. What this course has taught me specifically is that you need to think, you really need to think. It sounds stupid but it's really hard to go through all of the factors for example I mentioned and really find a competitive advantage for a company. It's really hard to think about all of these levels of analysis but that's the thing I like about the course. I would say it provoked me to develop analytical, critical but also lateral thinking while using real world examples and case studies. So that's something I value really much because I wasn't good at thinking before I came to Prague College. I thought I was good at it but I wasn't and to be able to think analytically and critically and be able to present an argument or something you want to say in an academic and professional settings. It's not as easy as it looks. It's not easy to give a competent presentation of a topic of your choice. So being able to prepare myself for that, being able to analyze all of these variables that need to be analyzed is really helpful and especially when we get to present our conclusions and someone questions our conclusions. That's the best part. The second thing and I'll be sharing my screen for this. The second thing I wanted to show to everyone here is the second reason why I like studying at Prague College and in the international management program. I'll quickly share my screen so you can see this is the reason. So that work professional network. As you can see on the screen. This is a world map and the red part are countries in which I have friends or acquaintances which I can contact in case I should want to do business there or I need to find something. This is something really important and to think about in a business setting.  You need other people and especially you need competent people who you know you can rely on. I have a friend like that in all of these countries. In all of these countries I have someone who I can go to and say, hey, I would maybe like to expand into this country. Could you help me find some information or relevant sources. This is one of the crucial benefits I view as studying it in international management at Prague College is the network of people I met and made become friends with or professionally worked with. It's, it's a huge benefit to know that not only do I have access to information from these countries and people who are capable and know how to do business, not just the thing here in these countries. But when I expand this concept and when I say okay, I have my professional network and my friends have professional network. Well, if I want to reach my friends professional network and I have been a good friend or a good colleague, the network and the relationships are good, which can result in something like this. This is not 100% correct, but this is a true estimation, the best I can give of my network networks network. These are all the countries I can go to and start a business, if I want to, because I have friends I have people who will allow me to in in that area, which is I'll stop sharing a screen for a second, which is something I really value as an international student. Knowing other people and getting to know other cultures, really enriches you, not just from the cultural aspect perspective but also intellectually. As I said before, I wasn't really good at thinking before. And I have made a lot of friends at pro college and they have shown me like, for example, a friend from Norway, who showed me a completely different method or approach to thinking. And that's part of the, of the network is the people that you build. And I feel like, and think pro college is one of the greatest asset in that is that providing that network of people who are competent and can help you in life. And for the last part, I'll be talking about the worldwide projects we got to do and the interesting events I got to attend as a student here at pro college. So, one of the projects that I've been really thrilled about is Phoenix project and international business challenge that I had created with my colleague Nicoletta, who's also my classmate. And we've been working together with T side University and SRMI Institute in India to develop a business challenge and not only is a business challenge for people with entrepreneurial skills, but a challenge that has a social application, which is another aspect of doing business of studying business at pro college is the ethical framework to business and social entrepreneurship that the school has talking. So in the project. There were students from T side University from Britain from Prague and from SRMI Institute in India, who are asked the simple thing. Create a proof of concept of a project that has social and communal benefits to rural in for rural communities in India. While we had to devise the whole framework so the ethical framework the rules and everything for this project we were thrilled about it because it meant we could do some actual good. So me and Nicoletta and a few other students from T side University started doing that, and it turned out to be great project. And I'm glad that it's getting more. It's becoming more of a permanent thing and we're currently working on making that project a more permanent. Yeah, more permanent project. Sorry. One of the other reasons why I liked working on the Phoenix project is that I got to work with even bigger range of international students so not only from our school, but also from schools from India and the T side. It was not easy cooperating and creating a framework for competition with people in four different states in three different time zones and working completely online, but such experiences help you really get the experience under the belt. And that's something that's really crucial. And I'm really glad I got to participate in this project. Also thanks to pro college. The second interesting event I would like to mention is, I got to go to the British Embassy thanks to pro college. This is really nice. I've met a British ambassador. I've met a lot of see see suit people from large corporations for some sponsors and political representatives. And I've gotten this opportunity thanks to pro college and the program. It was amazing, but also a little bit scary because seeing all the people and all the CEOs and CEOs. I was afraid to say the least. But then meeting those people and realizing Oh, they're just people like you normal people they just have more experience under their belt was humbling. And also getting in touch with them and getting in contact with them was a really great thing. And as a beautiful extension of my network. And this is it. I'll probably stop talking because I'm going to I'm rambling too much and I'll leave some space for Pedro. No rambling, no rambling at all. Now you put me not rambling at all.  Yeah, well, we have a lot of programs exactly for a battle of programs. And now you saw that she sweet is also people. Yeah, so you're here talking with the city and they also study. And here I am to talk about the MSc leadership and strategic management. And specifically in this context of pro college, what I'm doing it and living in in Budapest is doing on a blended learning format. The point is that you have access to all the digital campus and the digital campus is something very interesting we have the classes online and I didn't have the chance to go there in the campus physically, although it's part of the program to have it. So my master if another mistake in a boot camp like a full weekend off of classes, which is something very nice, although we did it online. Yeah, so I, my colleagues that I met and it compared to your network. I just did it fully online with the colleagues of the program, but you made very, very interesting points my fellow with the specific with some of the of the classes that you had. And I also mentioned about the, the, what was the name I have it here, develop yourself and others, and it compares with one that we have it here we have three main classes this semester is the first semester that I'm doing it. And the classes are the work base portfolio, something a little bit similar what you had with your, with your developer self and others, the challenges of globalization, something also similar with what you had experienced with her with your global projects and interactions. And the other one is the business research methods and all those classes they are unique and what I could see it experience and have both from the lecturers and the colleagues that I'm working on. So let me, let me give you the parallel, you mentioned your developers often others and we do have the work base portfolio. So I'm, I'm not that young I'm 37. Living in Budapest after living in Prague. I already mentioned is a couple of times, and I knew pro college because of it. So I live close by and I got to know the institution. And one more was that how I related to not only Prague and I could relate to college as well being the British University in Prague. And this specific course of the workplace portfolio is for the students are already part of enterprises, and it connects with developers often others with some theories. So it's very interesting how for me, some, some things that you saw YouTube video you saw that talk you saw that X you saw a little quick information on Twitter, about some management style theories that you never heard about it that you heard before, but it didn't know the scientific basis from it. And when you see the paper, and when you go through this academic journey that was very interesting for me to go through and you're starting to read a scientific academic paper, and exploring this critical judgment since the lateral thinking that you mentioned as well was amazing to see it how they derive from literally from scientific research, and it was enlightening. Yeah, and in this workplace portfolio we have five theories I don't know if I'll be able to quote all of them but First is leader member exchange theory LMX very interesting how this dynamic works between hierarchical organizations how LMX happens horizontally vertically, how they flip it from vertical to horizontal whenever you have in groups out groups very interesting path. And we have emotional intelligence, extremely important for all of us to be resilient in these times and to be this rock solid point of beat for your team or as a partner and appear for other colleagues in the organization. Another one that we are going through now is adaptive leadership, the leadership with the aim of managing and nurturing adaptation in people in teams in organizations. Very interesting, all of those and then you go to the theory to the scientific part. Amazing. So, in the end, why I mentioned is and why it resembles with what you said, of the developer self is that this workplace portfolio is about yourself. We go through in the classes with observational questions that we should observe on our environment and surroundings and reflect. How did it make us feel how did we react, how did you and ponder this to make an adaptation co adaptation process to yourself to be to become your own your own development. That you created among this. Amazing. Yeah, I'm thrilled by it. I don't know if I can express this even more connected to it. We have challenge of globalization. And this is this is a topic very close to my heart by being Brazilian and live in Europe and seeing other cultures with a very different perspective, it's something very refreshing, because we can get, we can get a view of understanding that you, the aspects of culture that we never thought of before. And understanding that you're in the cultures, the spouse values, the models that we have the anthropologist in business in the end is also a business school. And how they saw this and how they were able to create theories that make so much sense for us to use them for the benefits of what you said to answer in our professional context, it depends. But it gives you the material, the critical sense of analyzing situations with the with the to support a counter argument after they depend. So you're not only saying it depends for the sake of depending, but you get back to it and say yeah it depends because if you're doing a part of specifically my company it's a multinational in the life insurance services, and they're going for a training, a margin acquisition, expansion on the culture on another country for different culture. You have to critically judge it depends because doesn't make sense for you to send your key people to go there. Are you tackling it with an ethanol, ethanol centric approach. Are you going to overcome the culture that you have it there. Are you taking to consideration the localization geographic region soup ethnicities. There were of such widening view that we're very interesting to look at. And again, the theory behind, when you go to about something that you heard off you talked about it and you didn't know it gives you such a it's more than the know how it gives you the confidence of talking about the topic that he wouldn't before you're talking about the really the scientific base of it. It's a, as you said, and going with this talk about both of them. And it's valid for the three classes that I'm having is how caring the tutors were, and they are. Yeah, I think that I didn't have any problem. My busy schedule I'm usually doing things over the night because during the day I'm working is it on the weekend and I send an email and suddenly minutes later I said no you're good to go your direction is clear or no take a look on this angle look at a little bit different refactor here. And I always they were always very open in both the weekend classes the regular classes that we have. My last one, my last one is the, it was the one that I went to the head rabbit hole. Yeah, I follow the rabbit hole there, and it was the business research methods. This business research is helping you to prepare your thesis. So you're doing your proposal for the MSE, and you guide it through with the tutor guide it through on how to structure your proposal, and you go there. It involves a lot of reading evolves a lot of planning. It's part of our, our own cadence as a student to try to find your plan, find your rhythm, find your pace, and try to do this consistently as a habit. Yeah, find your triggering anchoring habits that helps you to progress it on a good step up. And this, in the business research method, the rabbit hole were, and what I want to share the screen was my process of understanding my relationship with academic research. I didn't have any. Yeah, I came by bread and butter is IP. I'm a chief technology officer in the life insurance company in a thing that can show that. Imagine when I got this in front of me. Excuse me for a second I'll just share my screen very briefly. I was faced with this and I said what do I do now. Oh, no, it's not shared. Now it is. Yeah, I was faced with this and I said what do I do now. What do I type here. So, where do I start. I was very interest my my topic itself is about strategy implementation and the effect of communication. So, when I had here you can see my last, my last searches, and I was discussing I was trying to find for my literature review, quarter steps, the limitations. And I found some some of the, of the, of the papers that we find, they are under their after a paywall. And a paywall because they are, there are plenty of business journals, big journals entities that are releasing those research papers with your review than they, you have to get them through something that they call it a science director Elsevier their big names in it. But the important part is that what college can can support us in doing it. This one is one of the biggest publications that they have it. Elsevier, if you go to pay it directly by yourself it's very, very expensive, but they're the opportunity that we have throughout throughout and studying with college is this the implementation. I want to show one very tricky part of what we have as a this one. This is a paywall. Yeah, why do I what I'm insisting on it is that this helped me a lot. After searching for something Google scholar. I was reverted to a place to a website to a business for a business institution, research. There was a release institution that was. Please tell me institution or pay for the article. And here. What we have it is the access to decide university for access for immediate, an endless universe of knowledge and content. That you have access to it to support you to support your, your research to report your paper to support your, your growth as a student as a professional and as with knowledge and knowledge is power. And we all know this I will just finalize the signing so you can see the end. The part of the, of the access to the paper, and I'm waiting for the cash and just fresh it. No, something wrong. It never works when we want it. Sorry for that. Anyway, I'll stop talking as well. You can find this, you can see that this side is one of the, of the partners. And I'm very grateful for college for not only having this opportunity but bringing here and sharing my, my experience. Yeah, appreciate it. Thank you, Pedro. That's always Murphy's law when something can go wrong, it will go wrong. It will. Yeah. I just can quickly address some of the things you've mentioned. I probably forgot to mention myself. The thing about the lectures, the availability and the help they provide you. Yeah, I completely forgot about that. It's amazing actually like I've been studying because of the corona virus I've been studying in the digital campus. And for the last year, for the last year and a half, I was studying basically over the computer. And at the beginning, you could see everyone adjusting to it, but I have friends and I have friends at Czech universities who were basically doing similar classes to mine but I noticed a huge difference. The difference was that in our classes, most of the people had back cameras on the discussion was plentiful. It was useful. It was a lot of different opinions and people actually sharing information, which for me personally, I don't go out that often. For me, like this school and the work is one of the few social interactions I have in a day. So it was amazing to see like we still carried on with this tradition and we as a students but also with teachers and lecturers. They helped us into that digital environment and they helped to deliver the content of the lectures and to be honest, like, I'm mind blown. I had to speak for us like a half an hour yesterday during the class. And it was so frightening. I was so nervous. I was so I really admired the lectures for the adaptation they've done. So for me, we have like a specific for the for the context of this, this MSC for the leadership of strategic management in the blended learning is a fast track. So what is the cadence of the classes classes every Monday. They go from five until officially until a 39 so started five to classes of two hours every week. And in the semester as I mentioned we have this two weekend classes they run through Saturday. So from 10 until 12 and then after at one until three, three 30 even we did it last week with the work base portfolio was very nice. And as you said, my fellow one of the, the adaptations of the tutors as well as the discussions that we have in class, this is for my for our in this blended mode of the fast track where the students are the ones already working and they have the work life already settled. It's how we have the chance to, to discuss the theory applied on what we perceive based on the on what we learn, and what we saw the effects in the organization as well. As a nurture by the, by the tutors, it's an amazing valuable experience creating expand your network, learning from other people learning from other with very different backgrounds so all the three of us, literally all the three of us were not, and we're not checks, and all of us are three different nationality. Yes. The thing you mentioned was interesting to me the, the multicultural environment, that's something I wanted to touch on. Actually, I don't know if you know Pedro but I'm half check and I'm half Bolivian. Yeah, so that's the thing I wanted to highlight because it is important to me. As I mentioned before, I've met a lot of interesting people and colleagues in pro college, people who I started working with or we keeping in contact. And the important part about that is not only the contacts you develop like friends, but also the professional network and how they help you develop. And one of my closest friends is a Norwegian Norwegian guy who helped me overcome so much in my personal development, and I only met him thanks to the college so not only that but the network I showed this. It's incredible. And especially like the theory you talked about. I had the same thing like, how did they discover this just by looking at the data like, how did you like Ricardo how did you come up with this. So, it's incredible like for me personally. Although digital campus is like it's great. And the teachers done extraordinarily well. I think for me personally it will never replace the in person value teaching because it has. So much more exciting and I would say motivating like for me personally I chose the international management as a program because I want to be a professional and an entrepreneur one day but at the same time I do feel like I want to go into academia I want to be a researcher. And as you said before, to go into the real like science based academia that's, that's a lot of reading, and that's a lot of studying that that's something I really like about the program I think you've also mentioned it. It's not, not only that I also work, but part time. And it's, it's the fact that we come into the classes and we as students we discuss our problems in, for example in our work and we discuss our solutions or what we would suggest. And it's so helpful to get other people's perspective on issues, and to discuss like these things in classroom because that's, that's what I feel like the, this is where the magic happens when we are just left alone and we get to talk and pursue our ideas, and to be able to do that in online setting. It was just incredible. So I'll just quickly find one of the questions I like. Could you please tell us a little bit more about the project that you have worked on and you have liked in particular. I would be probably, sorry, I would be probably repeating myself just quickly. So the project I really like the international business challenge. What I really liked about it is the social aspect of it and that's something I really want to pursue is the social benefit that can stem from entrepreneurship, like how businesses can benefit, not only as a promotion, but how businesses can do actual good in this business world by aligning their profit goals along with the interests and of societies and benefits of society. So, what I really like about that project is the applicability. It's like, basically what we did is take a bunch of students about 30, 30 students, and we force them to cooperate until they create something of a value something that could really help people in those areas. And when it sounds bad, we didn't force them, they liked working. When we did this, there were so many teams and so many amazing ideas that came up out of that project. It was intriguing to me like one of the groups came up with a basically a silo how to make a silo that will not be damaged by rodents and that could be economically sustainable. And then the projects came up with a solution on how to electrify India through renewable sources, and they are already in talks with government officials to see if like something like that could be put in practice. So, that's the part I like the most probably the real, real projects that you get to participate in that you get to do. Very nice. I can only imagine the project then because I'll, well, with the with the business context and be employed I think it gets tricky for us to participate in it a little bit, but anyhow, I, and you pursuing academia so good luck. Congratulations for what you did so far good luck. Thank you. Not in a bad way but in a very nice way because let me connect with one of the questions that we have it here. How much time outside of class to spend on it and how many hours per week. So, one of the winner arrived. And you have been told to target induction class. Yeah, the first class that you introduce yourself to the teachers they are. They are introducing themselves you know who are your your classmates. And I asked him, do you have any recommendation for us. Do you have any recommendation. And one of the tutors is the one for business research methods. Dave said, try to be consistent. Yeah, be consistent. Of course that I weekends are weekends and you have time to do a thing that you want but allocate the time to dedicate to give your time give yourself time for the, a lot of reading that you mentioned Marcelo. And it was something that I started doing with pleasure so the rabbit hole that I mentioned was because I started searching on those research papers and research papers that refers some some other outdoor the research that refers to another out of the research. And your mind blown by it. And you start doing it with pleasure, you know you start reading literary pregnancy, it's the base knowledge of something that was invented as word knowledge, you know, while. So if it if I was leading now is at least my my my recipe I tried to read at least before at night, one, not necessarily sometimes they're big but one article, or half of it. And I'll try to see if it's relevant for what I need to do if it's relevant for me to take notes using. I use some some support for having a tool that helps you to keep track of the paper that you read through. So those references that you need to keep. And in the end I'll say that apart from the class itself. I will take a give or take six to eight hours of dedication for a week. That's more or less what I want to try to do. Yeah, I have the similar experience I actually had Dave gave me the same exact device when I was in bachelors. It was the best advice I've ever gotten from him to be honest, one of the best. He gave me many great advice is to be consistent and as you said like I'll admit it before coming to college I wasn't really a student type of a person so I didn't really even know I would like to work in academia. And when I came here, I had to read, I had to read a lot of references and a lot of text, and as exactly as you said like it's a rabbit hole, you start with one paper, and then you end up reading like a whole lot. And I wasn't doing so well at the beginning because exactly as you said, I didn't have consistency I did everything at last minute and it's thing we young young youngsters tend to do badly, but I learned from it and so I said to myself, start by doing five minutes a day, you can do it for five minutes and if you do each day five minutes. At least it's something. Well I started on five minutes and then I ended up doing it for like five, six hours and it's like, Oh, I have to go to work now. So yeah, I really like this. No, excellent. It's what you said is that like the power of atomic habits if you don't know what you do do one or something. Yeah, it's a one word one phrase one paragraph. Yeah, and you're five minutes and up and summing up into a great amount of deal. Yeah, and you'll end up like reading the academic papers for fun. I actually ended up like reading academic papers from different disciplines for fun. For example, for me personally, I really love finance strategy and organizational behavior. So hardly psychology. And when I was getting bored with my economics and business papers, I just started reading psychology and organizational psychology and sociology, and I never knew it would end up that way but because I started reading that turns out I'm writing my thesis on a similar subject. So, Pedro, I want to thank you very much for coming here. Thank you for talking. I actually want to talk to you more now that I've learned something from you. I hope I'll get to talk to you during our studies, and I hope I'll meet you in a classroom, hopefully one day. And it'll be a pleasure. It'll be a pleasure to see everyone. I don't know if there are some participants or someone looking if there are. Once everything comes down to normal, or even online, I'll be more than happy to talk to you and Pedro and the product stuff. If there are some things we haven't mentioned or failed to mention. You can definitely contact prog admissions team on their, on their email, you can find it on the website. And I'll be disconnecting from my part. Thank you very much for all for attending for coming to see us today. And yeah, that's it for the battle of the programs strategy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Have a good evening. You too. Bye bye.


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Hello everyone, welcome to this talk for QQC 2020! I am Chloe Eubon and I will present a new construction of Mixnet from Linearly Homomorphic Signature. This is the join work with Dongya Fan and David Procheval. To begin, what is a Mixnet?  You mix them together and output the result. You already obtain a Mixnet. But the name comes from mixed network and it's more interesting when you have successive saver applying mixes because the goal is to hide the global permutation between the first input and the last output. To work, at least one Mixver must be honest. This paper proposes a new construction of a scalable Mixnet which we define by a verification cost of permutation independent on the number of mixsevers. The most famous use case of Mixnet is the electronic potting scheme. So you have a voter who encrypts his vote and puts it in a ballot box. Then the ballot box is sealed and mixed. As no link between a voter and his vote is now possible, you can decrypt all the votes and publish the result. Of course, one needs some guarantees. Only authorized voters must be able to vote and the ballot must be enforceable. The second property is that two ballots in a ballot box must be indistinguishable, that means one cannot recognize the vote of someone. As the ballot box must be sealed, one cannot add, delete or modify a ballot after the voting phase. Finally, the result must be publicly verifiable. For the mix, this implies two security notions which are the soundness which corresponds to the correctness of the scheme and the amicability property which represents the anonymous part. For the soundness, one needs to have the guarantee that the last output is actually a permutation of the first input. Whereas for the amicability, we ask two ciphertexts in an input of a mixsever are amicable to two ciphertexts in the output of the mixsever and thus in the input of the next mixsever. Now, I will present the IDs beyond our construction. I will present the ballot. Informally, it must contain the right to vote of a voter, the vote and the signature of the vote by the voter. In practice, the right to vote will be a signature by an authority of the public key of the vote. So, the voter have SKI and VKI and the signature of VXSIGMA and VKI is obtained by the authority. Then, the voter encrypts his vote with a common public encryption key and signs it with this secret key. So, CI is the encryption of MI and the signature little SIGMA on CI is signed with SKI. The ballot is thus composed of VKI, VXSIGMA-I, CI and LXSIGMA-I where CI is the message of the signature little SIGMA and VKI is the message of the signature big SIGMA. At the same time, it is a verification key of LXSIGMA. The initial ballot box is simply composed of all the ballots. The mix is composed in two steps. In the first one, all the parts of the ballot must be modified so that it cannot link the votes to the I anymore. It is the randomization part. Then, the mix-over chooses the permutation and mixes all the randomized ballots together. The output of the mix-over is then the combination of the randomization and the permutation. Go back to our ballot. To randomize it, one must read VKI prime, big SIGMA-I, C-I and LXSIGMA-I. It will be in three steps. The simplest one is by using a randomizable ciphertext as a gamel, for example, one can randomize CI into C-I. And as the signatures we use for LXSIGMA and BIG SIGMA are linearly homomorphic signatures, LXSIGMA can be adapted according to the operations we have made for CI. Similarly, we will randomize VKI into VKI prime-I and update BIG SIGMA accordingly by homomorphism. The last step concerns LXSIGMA because it is a signature of CI and the SK-I of the voter. If I change VKI into VKI prime-I, one must be able to transform LXSIGMA-I into a signature of C-I, but it's already done by the first point. And an implicit SK-I, which means verifiable wish with VKI prime-I. Let's see some details. To randomize the ballot, one needs randomizable ciphertext such as LXSIGMA and adaptable signatures such as linearly homomorphic signatures. I will now present these two elements. By combining an encryption of M and an encryption of 1, it can be possible to obtain a fresh encryption of M. In L-Gamal, the encryption of M is GR M times EKR and the encryption of 1 is GR prime EKR prime. Thus, the product between an encryption of M and an encryption of 1 is a new encryption of M. CI will thus be an L-Gamal encryption of the vote and C0 will be a global parameter common to all the ballots. For the signature, we will use linearly homomorphic signatures because they can have interesting properties. I will not enter in details, but just give a flavor of the relation one needs to adapt little sigma and big sigma in our construction. The two classical properties are message homomorphism and key homomorphism. The first one is given a valid signature of M, the signature up to alpha is a valid signature of M up to alpha. And the second property, given a valid signature verifiable with VKI, the signature up to beta is also a valid signature with VKI up to beta as verification key. Suppose you have M a vector M1 to Mn and a secret key SK SK1 to SKN and the signature sigma is the product M of all the MI up to SKI. If you construct sigma up to alpha, then you obtain a signature still under SKI but this time on the message M up to alpha. But you can also have a signature up to beta which is a signature of M but this time on the secret key beta SKI. These two properties are message homomorphism for the first one and the key homomorphism for the second one. In our ballot prime one must construct C prime I and little sigma prime I is in two parts because now we have also the signature CI0 of C0 under the secret key of the voter. I recall the C0 can be viewed as a global parameter. The encryption vote is an Elgamal encryption and C prime I is CI times C0 up to alpha. The first part of little sigma prime is the first part of little sigma up to beta times the second part up to alpha beta with beta the random used for the randomization of the verification key. We apply here the message and key homomorphism properties. Then the second part prime is simply the second part up to gamma so just the message homomorphism here. And for the verification key vk prime is vk I up to beta and we modify big sigma accordingly by the message homomorphism property. However big sigma corresponds to the right to vote so if I take two otherwise voters I can construct a new vk from them and treat the fake new authorized voter with a new big sigma. Of course it must not be possible and to avoid that we use linearly homomorphic signature with stats and now the combinations of signature are authorized only if they are on the same tag. This restriction applies on the two properties we have seen the message homomorphism and the tag the key homomorphism. But one needs to have a third property that we call tag randomizability by transforming the tag tau into tau prime one must be able to adapt big sigma. This is due to the presence of tau in the ballot one needs to randomize it to don't click the voter. In fact the tag will be in two parts a private one and a public one. The private one is only known by the authority to give the right to vote to a voters to a voter whereas the public tag is put in the ballot and must be randomized. Big sk is a secret key of the authority and it is simplified for this presentation but big sigma will be this time the product of all the mi and to ski times dot tilde. Thus big sigma up to delta can be viewed as a signature of m still under big sk but this time under delta to tilde. Up to our knowledge only one scheme was modifiable to allow the tag randomizability property and it was the structure preserving signatures on equivalent classes of push-bower answer as slamming and proved in the generic billionaire group model so our construction of magnet is proved in this model. Go back to the view of the ballot which is composed of big i, tau i, big sigma i, si and little sigma i. We have already seen that the transformation of a ballot is in three steps and now one needs to see the link between these steps and the presented properties of the two linearly homomorphic signature scheme. One with tags and one without. In the first step we randomize the ciphertext c i and we adapt little sigma i with the message homomorphism. Because the verification key corresponds to the message of big sigma in the second step we randomize the key and by message homomorphism one can adapt big sigma. But one also needs to randomize tag and we can adapt big sigma again with the tag randomizability property. Finally, by the key homomorphism property one can adapt little sigma so that little sigma will be valid with the verification key vk prime i. You can now pause the video if you want to see the figure of our i level construction. It was beautiful, I know, but this construction is not secure so practical construction was a little bit trigger. I will in this last part just give flavor of details we had to serve. We call the first one expanded vectors. Instead of signing the encryption of the both one must first add an element to break a simple attack. Indeed, with message homomorphism one can adapt little sigma from any combination of c i and c 0. But c i up to mu is no longer an encryption of m. So can we modify a vote after the voting phase? Of course, no. And to serve that we can consider c i as a vector of g and the L gamma L encryption of mi and c 0 as a concatenation of 1 and the encryption of 1. With that, if the first element of c prime i is a g then the power of c i was 1 and the vote was not modified. The same difficulty is called legitimate ballots. To be sure that the first mixer cannot modify a ballot of its choice by replacing it by a vote of someone else for example, even if it was authorized we add a deferment proof that the product of all the verification key in the output of a server is the power of the initial verification key present in the initial ballot box. Now the mixer cannot modify as you want the vote. The third point is multiple servers. For the soundness property we require that the last output is indeed a permutation of the first input. However, if the last mixer simply ignores the precious mixes and produces a permutation from the initial ballot box it knows the link between the voters and the result and the vote of the vote and breaks the anonymity. To avoid that, each mixer must sign his mix and at the end one can verify that all the chain of mixes was correct. Finally, the last point I want to present is called non-trivial transformation. During the talk I said for simplicity that vk prime i is equal to vk i up to beta. But as we work with pairing and vk i lives in g2 and little sigma is in g1 this two simple randomization cannot provide unlinkability. I refer to the paper to see how we solve this problem. The goal of this paper is to have a compact verification but during the problem section I say one needs different proofs and signature from the mixed servers. To have a cost of verification independent in the number of mixes a solution is to aggregate all the proof in a unique one. This can be done by using plot thread proofs. And for the mixed server signature by a second one one can create a global multi-signature for which a server accepts to cooperate if and only if his mix is considered in the chain. They can check that by verifying their signature. At the end the verification of a vote can be independent of the number of mixes. Just to recap we saw the definition of linear homomorphic signature schemes with three specific properties the message homomorphism the key homomorphism and the type randomizability. And without hope to construct a scalable mixnet. Thank you for watching this video stay safe and see you in a future conference. Bye.


In today's video, I will be giving you guys a full walkthrough on how to make a cartoon head Also, if you would like to follow along with this video step by step become a member to the Patreon because I will be giving you guys the vector file for free So you guys have the line work and also I will be giving you guys a Copy of the color palette I use so you'll be able to follow along using the exact same thing you see me using in this video Link will be in the description below and what I further do is jump right into this video I'm from the dragon drop my picture I'm a whole shift So I don't distort the picture As I bring it down to size by grabbing the corners And we're gonna center it and we're gonna make it right there.  I'm using the ycomb I will be posting the link of the exact ycomb I use in the description below as well And also I'll make sure I post some alternatives that you guys can use that's Cheaper, but you'll still be able to get the pressure option. So just Check out all my links in the description below all right Come over here to pressure Change this number to three Change that to three two What I do is I hit control and plus to zoom in And I stroll on my mouse When I'm holding control and you stroll on your mouse It'll it'll go left from right, but if you stop holding control, it'll go up and down So you just got to learn those look Those little short shortcut keys Okay, every time I Do a cartoon here I start with the nose the nostrils To be more specific We'll try to get our lines clean as possible Also, if you have any problems trying to make clean lines Come right here double click your brush And just move your smoothness up I keep mines in the center because that's pretty much a good balance for me But if you want your lines a little more cleaner just move it up so And figure out what works best For you, okay I'm gonna start with the nose Make our lines Super crispy It'll be another thing too. I am open for commission. So if you want to just purchase A cartoon here for yourself I will have my email Down below Also, you can contact me on instagram as well That's just for the people that's a fan of my art, but don't want to do art. They just want to buy art Hit me up You feel me All right, we're just gonna make sure our lines are super clean You know what I'm saying? Close this eye And always make sure your lines connect to So you won't have no problems later make this top line a little bolder Come over here do the same thing Boom Take a little step back. See how we looking now Now we're gonna make A bold outline for the outer shape of his face So I move my brush to a two point Move my brush back to a one point Control z anytime you mess up Now what you want to do is You see I left the eyebrows the eyes and the hair open You want to right click your brush you want to go to pencil tool And then you want to move this black color to the top By clicking this little double arrow make sure your bottom on this lock Make sure the settings inside of your pencil Look exactly like you see here Because we finna use this pencil as a field tool So that's what I use to do my shading as well My pencil tool. Let's see what we do is We just trace the area we wanted to fill in And then it just fill in the inner area So we just trace our line come back to the starting point And it fills it in come up here to this eye Let's trace our area Fill it in Come to this other eye trace this area Fill it in like that now Let's go back to our Our brush tool And let's add some detail I'm gonna highlight all this together I'm gonna go to object expand appearance Then I'm gonna click merge On my path finder To make it one And just like I said, this would be the file. I'll be giving you guys on the patreon So y'all gonna get this it's gonna open right up for a double Okay, let's drag it make a copy of the line work Lock the top copy because I always keep a copy that's just plain at the top Just in case you mess up or anything you'll have it um Now we're gonna go Find my color palette That you will get for free As a patreon member Or you can buy it. I will have that link available too If you don't want to become a member and you just want to buy That'll be under this video as well Let me see Where's my color palette it it's on here somewhere Oh, here you go. Okay import. Where did it go? Let me try that again Others This top Color palette. Okay, here we go That's right here. That's all we need to start Put this color in process Go to my rectangle tool Drag that color over the picture Right click the color go to arrange center back Then we're going to highlight Everything click merge Right click the color Isolate the select group Select this outer color and hit delete Also I'm gonna click this drop down menu Then we're gonna stroll And we're gonna lock all our black lines Give the top two unlock and close it back Then I'm gonna come to this Direct selection tool And we're gonna Delete all the colors That's on the outside that's hanging in those pieces of hairs Okay, I don't see do I see anything? Okay, that's cool. All right, we perfect Go back to my regular selection tool Isolate solid group Hold shift So I can select more than one area at a time All right, clearly color white Hold shift Now we got to do the lip color But also I need to make that Just a little red Okay, cool. We make this just a little red face Ain't perfect Now we're gonna make a copy of our color layer Lock the bottom color Turn the eye off on the bottom color. You're gonna hit the letter Y And then you're gonna click the skin tone and hit delete So we can have a layer with just the eyes and the lip color and we're gonna leave that at the top We're gonna turn the skin tone color back on Create a new layer in between those two and it's gonna be our shadow layer So Let me see I need to make sure I'm on the right go to my brush tool. I mean my pencil tool Make sure I'm on the right layer And now let's start With some shadows I'm gonna start right here where this pocket it Put it right here And the more you do it you guys like you'll start Knowing what to put these shadows at I'm looking at a reference photo But you really can't see like the tones. It's good on this photo. So I've been doing it so long like I kind of know where they should be Like when I can't see it, it's good on my reference So practice The more you do it the better you'll get and see Where in this tone Right there Like that Then we're going to put a shadow under this hair Like this Like that Put a shadow on the place of a shadow Right here Place another one Like that And then we're going to place another one Like this I'm gonna place a shadow tone Let's place one in these ears So Let's go like this Come right here Now we got one tone out the way and we might don't have to come back to it later. Wait, let me see Let's create another layer right underneath That dark shadow layer Let's go a little brighter Our tones, this shadow show the shape of his nose So like that Also in this one it's slowly Slowly coming together And also I'm finna use these shadows To fall behind this hair So that don't look so plain So we're gonna throw some shadows behind A little mustache Give it some texture Don't make the bottom part of the face look so empty That's all And it's on down And notice how I put the different tones of shadows on separate layers So just in case I want to go back and make adjustments to the colors It'll be easier to work around Because I made everything on his own layer So make sure every time you go to A new color You create a new layer for just in case you want to adjust that one color And this up a little shadow layer Let's go up with our tone right that shadow over here Bring this up and this up like this Okay, it's over This shim shim Okay Now I'm gonna make this Hang on a lot of more you do it Like the deeper you start to get closer To finishing inside of your picture like you you'll just get into like a cruise control But sometimes I start out slow And then I'll just be having a feeling like a water make this picture look better So that's what I'm doing right now But just like I say the more you practice The more you will have have a eye for So it just don't You just ain't gonna be able to pick it up and be amazing at doing it. You just got to put in a lot of Man hours You got to put in a lot of time It's the key I think I want to add a little shadow on this side Make this look so plain And this over this up like this We're looking at cartoon head I'll probably go back To my dark shadow layer Just to make that tone a little deeper on the side of his face So let's do that We're just gonna touch up spots where it could be a little darker A little more darker make it flow. We missing Some highlights on his face For the skin tone then we can move to the next I'm gonna create a nice little Nice little highlight That's where the light will be reflected. Okay. That's that that's that shadow Yeah, because we forgot we forgot to add some Ones to these ears So they don't look so plain It's all good Create a layer right underneath the very top line work layer Add some tones Like the eyes On the scene We need to add a tone right inside A little pink part this top lip What we're going to do is we're going to select it Or we got to go to that layer Go to that layer select the lip color Then we're going to click draw inside right here. So it won't let us color outside that That layer create a nice little shadow forward Go to the pencil tool now. We just drew we're gonna turn that off We're gonna select this bottom lip for the drawing side. We're gonna create a Shadow for it again. We pretty much Is almost done Think I'm gonna add one more dark shadow tone So let me go back See we go right here.  You see how smooth these colors transition into the nicks It's crazy, man.  It's hard to select.  Step by step if you like this tutorial, please leave a comment in the comment section Also comment some videos you would like to see next Some things you need to learn how to do and I will assist you on the next video Thank you guys for watching make sure you stay tuned while he coming soon and i'm out


I find really, really, really exciting for me is the transformative power of inclusive communication. The people, like the positive impact it has on individuals, but also on organizations. So really to see it on a small scale, but also on a larger scale. And then, of course, how it really helps breaking down the barriers and like really fostering or educating at least some more understanding among the diverse groups. I hope that the audience this time will leave with simply an increased awareness of the important role of inclusive communication. You know, the role it plays in building and it comes in the title of my presentation as well, like like building bridges across diverse communities and really creating communication channels. So, yeah, I would say that my goal is to inspire like reflection on, among others, like the power of breaking down barriers. And then what I mentioned earlier, like acknowledging the biases and really fostering a culture of inclusivity. And so, yeah, I want attendees to think really deeply about, yeah, getting more and more aware of what's going on. And also, I'm planning of introducing some practical strategies of my talks. I hope that they will, you know, think about those and really learn to understand that each person really can contribute to a more harmonious future, really, through intentional and well, inclusive communication, really.


Wrapping up about a week here in Asia where we talked to two of our strongest long-term trading partners, Japan and Korea, and an emerging one in the Philippines, one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Lots of things on the agenda, lots of opportunities for BC trade here in Asia, all of them that create thousands of jobs back in BC, but in particular talking about educational opportunities, the sharing of knowledge between our two countries, the opportunities for students and faculty to go back and forth, and to learn from each other, from each other's institutions and each other's cultures. Also been talking a lot about energy, mining obviously, in particular though, LNG. Japanese need our natural gas very urgently, shutting down their nuclear and then also moving off dirty sources of fuel like like thermal coal. They need to do it now and they want British Columbia gas. Lots of opportunities to create thousands of jobs. Just LNG, if three projects go ahead, it creates 65,000 jobs a year every year while those projects are going on. And then of course we talked a lot about technology. The tech industry in British Columbia is something we've been working really hard to grow with our hundred million dollar tech fund, making every child a coder by the time they're in grade six. Big investments in post-secondary education, of course low taxes. The tech industry in Japan, Korea and the Philippines as it's emerging are very interested in what British Columbia has to offer in terms of our very talented population, our low tax regime and our opportunities for collaboration. And those are the great clean jobs that lots of people in Vancouver, Kelowna, Victoria have come to see as their bread and butter and we want to grow them. So far it's been a great mission here to Asia. Our focus every single day has been to create jobs back at home for people in British Columbia.


In this video, I want to talk about how you're probably not having fun the right way Which is a strange thing to say but I see this From time to time with people when I ask them Are you having fun in your life? Usually when I'm trying to show them that how important it is to have fun if you want to be productive They show up with procrastination issues and having guilt-free fun Is one of the very first things we have to put into place if you are going to be productive But here's the point of this video is We don't know how to do that Because people often tell me Well, you know, I'll ask them well, what do you do for fun? Are you having fun? And they say yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, I watch I watch movies update video games. I go for a walk. I play music. I go swimming.  So, you know, I guess I can move on to the next thing here There's no need to worry about that until We delve a little deeper into that and we find out Here's the question. How do you feel when you're doing those things? And I want you to answer answer that question for yourself. How do you feel when you're having fun or doing these fun things and Very often the answer is, you know, I feel a bit guilty when I do that when I'm doing those things I'm not really enjoying it or they'll feel when I'm doing those things those fun things Which as I've said is essential for productivity What they'll say is I am second guessing myself all the time when I'm doing those things So I am at the swimming pool and I think and you know, I really should have been working on that report or They're working on the report and they're saying, you know, I really should have exercised this morning or I got to do that later So it's a thought or I should be doing it now or it's always second guessing what they're doing and thinking they should be doing something different to the thing they're currently doing But ultimately the most important thing is that they're feeling guilt About what they're doing or having not done enough of what it is that they're doing or needs to do later So the question is then we say, okay, well, look, that's actually not having fun That doesn't sound like fun because if you feel guilty how you haven't fun But the question comes up. Well, okay. Tell me the solution. How do I have fun? Because I I talk about it. Neil Fiori talks about it in his book also The importance of guilt-free play or Non-negotiable guilt-free fun. You could call it Well, here's the answer How do you have fun without guilt? You need to take it seriously Okay, isn't that almost an oxymoron? Have a serious attitude towards fun What I mean by that is we tend to Engage in these things that are fun But we kind of fall into them passively In order to remove guilt What we have to do is validate it. We have to be more intentional with it We have to prioritize it. We have to engage with it consciously Proactively rather than passively and it's in the doing it Intentionally and by that I mean, you know, the serious thing is scheduling it Setting aside time for it making sure that it's a part of your day and in doing that That validation or that proactive choosing of it or scheduling it is the thing that validates it. It makes it Worthy it makes it okay. It makes it Justified in our minds So this is just a way to say In order to get to the point where you are having guilt-free play non-negotiable guilt-free play It should be something that you are scheduling Especially if you have procrastination problems Because that little half-two voice in your mind that's saying you should be doing this should be doing that You have to do that you should have done it yesterday and it always leads to the second guessing and indecision all the time it will highlight I'm cause anxiety about the fact that you should be doing that thing that you don't really want to do Okay, I call it responsibility That's there's nothing wrong with that that there are things in life that we feel like we have to do well things that we don't really Always enjoy we see them as an obligation or responsibility and some of that in life is fine But there tends to be this thing of okay, I'm focusing it all the time and yeah I get that fun stuff later or I'll get that fun stuff if I've done X Y and Z in this responsibility stuff non-negotiable guilt-free play means It shouldn't be contingent on whether or not you've had a productive day non-negotiable Validated make it important make it just as at least equally important to your responsibility tasks So that is my suggestion for how you remove guilt around your play and my play I just mean it can be different things for different people, but the real central part of what it means to play is There's a few aspects to it. I in any way, I think if it the first aspect of it is it's restful It's rejuvenating It typically has no goal oriented energy around it in my book procrastination decoded I also refer to it as embracing your inner slob So it's those things that you know, you kind of feel oh well video games You know, I shouldn't be playing those those are kind of bad, right? And not really Not really. Maybe it'll work for you. Sometimes it helps people really relax There's no there's no bad activities necessarily right, I was assuming you're not being You know, obviously Do something dangerous or harmful for yourself? But video games watching movies it could be going for a walk. It could be doing things, but it shouldn't be stressful. It shouldn't be overly exerting yourself so that part of ourselves is not a bad part and The need for play and rest and relaxation needs to be taken against or be myself taken seriously and And you know for those people who are still in the fence about my approach to this I really want to just reach you right now if you are struggling with procrastination and you really want to get over this issue I Want you to listen to me Your problem isn't motivation Your problem is that you don't validate a very essentially important part of yourself you see it as Liability or you see it as a luxury that you may get around to eventually, but only if you're productive That is not the way to think about this. That is not a healthy attitude That is not the way productive people think And that was a surprise to me The more people I talk to I Realize that people are who are genuinely productive or even more than that people who are genuinely productive slash creative Tend to have a pretty healthy attitude towards rest and play so the invitation again guys Prioritize it schedule it see it is non negotiable for yourself that will remove guilt from these activities You're sanctioning in it. You're giving it the two thumbs up. Yes. This is okay now We're doing this on purpose. This is not something. I've just fallen into passively do that and That part of the shadow which I talked about in the past Comes out of the shadow. You're integrating this is a healthy part of yourself and now this other part that wants to be productive It's like there's no handbrake on in the car and There are still things in terms of Overcoming inertia that you'll have to deal with with procrastination I have talked about those before and I can talk about them again in terms of actually starting the work You know, but a big big part of this Is the lack of validation for guilt-free play?  Thanks a million as always for watching these videos. It means a lot to me and When you watch the video or if you like the video or subscribe to this channel it helps me reach more people and That's really what I'm focused on is is helping people to get this information because it's life-changing And it changed my life and it's changing the lives of people who are adopting this new paradigm about productivity So when you do that it really helps out and I appreciate it greatly Take care of yourself, and I'll see you in the next video. Bye for now