nalysis that must be the accountant in me that is coming. Perhaps I should write back to the committee on that. That is fine. Maybe I should declare interest as the next employee of ICAS. Can I hand over now to questions from Ross Greer to the panel? I was really interested in what you said a couple of moments ago around the relationship between SDS and the funding council. Obviously, there was a pretty obscaving report about how dysfunctional that relationship has been recently, but it seemed that you were suggesting essentially a merger of those two organisations because of that overlap. Just to clarify, that would create quite a large public body. Are there specific functions of SDS that you think would better sit with the SFC or vice versa, or are you proposing that wholesale both organisations and all of their responsibilities, everything from the national career service to apprenticeships to university and college funding, should all sit under one public body? I have got to declare an interest here because I was the lead person at Scottish Enterprise. I was the chief financial officer at the point of creation of Skills Development Scotland, so I had a lead role because we took what was career Scotland and took it in. All sorts of other changes happened at the same time. I was particularly keen to look at the funding aspects of it, the skills aspects of it. It is that part where I think there is scope for much greater alignment, much greater convergence, a lot of creativity around the nature of the funding, much stronger work-based learning type activities and so on. I think that it is open to discussion about what we do with the careers aspects of Skills Development Scotland. I think that there is scope for the commons of scale by bringing the two organisations together, as well as making them more impactful and effective. It is all up for review. This has been talked about for quite a number of years, but I am not aware of any deep dive study to look at the real benefits that would come from joining those two organisations together. That deserves further exploration in this Parliament, whether it is by ourselves or perhaps the economy committee. I have a couple of questions across the panel on industrial relations. For the first, I would appreciate it if everyone were able to answer, because it is just a point of clarification. There was an NGNC agreement a couple of years ago around local dispute resolution processes. Having each college agree to that dispute resolution process, that is with the EIS. There is obviously a separate situation for support staff. I am aware that, at this point, a majority, but certainly not all colleges, have that local process agreed and in place. Can I just check with each panel what the status is at your institution, if I may go along the panel in person and then to Angela, if we start with you? Yes, we have that in place at Fife College. We are currently in discussions with our LJNC about a matter that has been raised under that circular, and we will go through the local arrangement before, and hopefully it will not be referred to the national committee. Do you have an indicative timescale for when you hope to reach a resolution on that? I cannot give you an answer on that at this committee, but we are not talking months, so it is more likely to be weeks. However, the LJNC is due to meet tomorrow, so that is why I cannot give you a firm answer on that. Ross, from my perspective to my knowledge, we have it in place. I was in an LJNC meeting very recently where we had agreed that it would be reviewed imminently, so that is in train. From Ayrshire's point of view, we have an LJNC agreement in place for both our trade union recently. Unison has raised some queries around that, and there has been an alternative model that has been put to Unison, and we have waited, but hopefully that will be resolved very soon. I will stay with you. My next question is, because I am interested in your perspective, having been elsewhere and now in the Scottish sector. In seven of the last eight years, we have had national industrial action. Clearly, industrial relations in the college sector are not what anybody would want them to be. Have you been interested in your reflections on that comparative to your previous experience elsewhere? Do you think that it is something unique to the Scottish sector that we can resolve, or is it unique to the time period that we are in and wider public finance constraints that we have ended up where we are? I can only go on my experience, and others may have different experiences depending on the colleges that they are in. Coming from the city of Liverpool College, there is obviously a huge focus on trade union involvement and negotiation, going through very big transformational change there, and I was involved in that trade union striking on more than one occasion. I have to say that my experience in Scotland is locally. I have had really positive and collaborative relationships with our trade unions. I have not experienced anything that would be out of culture to what I have had in my experience in the English sector, but I think that there is a little bit of a disconnect in terms of some of the national narrative and what is happening on the ground locally within colleges. It is something that we need to work through and it is to do with national bargaining and how our trade unions position themselves in terms of national bargaining. I want to distinguish between what is happening at national level and what is happening at regional level. I read the evidence session that Stuart Brown and colleagues gave and Stuart is a friend of mine. Some of the language alone lack of trust and some of the antagonism around that may be a feature of national bargaining from time to time. It certainly is a feature of the relationships that we have at a regional level, which I would describe as very cordial. We work very closely together. We give advanced sight of what is going on. There are regular meetings that take place on all of the big issues. Some of the stuff that we have been talking about this morning are financial forecasts and so on. I have a workshop on Monday with Unison and the EIS reps in the college where we are going to talk through all of the issues. Regionally, industrial relations are very positive and strong. Nationally, it did not get off to a great start when national bargaining was introduced by the Scottish Government. I think that there have been lots of bumps on the road and so on, some of which I would say are very avoidable. We need to learn the lessons of the past several years and maybe have a wee rethink around how we deliver on the national bargaining aspects. There have been several reports that you will be aware of that have been written on this, lessons learned and so on. At the end of the day, it is actually about people, and it is about getting people around the table who are committed to making things work for the good of the college sector. I know that Stuart Brown and other EIS colleagues have got that very much at the forefront, so I will share that aim to do what is best for the college sector and get around the table and work through some of the issues that we need to do. From my perspective, Ross, I would echo what has already been said by Angela Brown and by Hugh. It was pleasing to note within some of the submissions for this committee that Union College recognised that there was good practice, even though they were focused on where there was not. I think that it is not rocket science, but it is about positive relationship building. You are from the get-go when I came into post and I came into post on 20 December 2019, although I had worked with the college for many years beforehand. I sought to make sure that we had enhanced engagement practice across the college in terms of student body and in terms of our union colleagues. They were very much part in a consultative and progressive way about what it is that we sought to do as a college, particularly when it came to dealing with the pandemic. We have kept that and managed that through the pandemic and beyond it. However, I recognise and speak to colleagues across the sector that we are not all in the same place. Some of the things that we have set in motion, even though the legislation does not necessarily allow us to do it per se, we have had our union colleagues on the board represent for the past couple of years now. They get to see from the top and through the organisation exactly what we are planning and what we have input into that. Of course, we always know that we will at times differ in opinion, but we have at least created the kind of professional fora to allow us to have those conversations and hopefully get as few as it is indicated and get something that is fundamentally impactful for those people that we serve. Joanna Cymru Just to echo what has been said already, at local level, my experience of working with my trade unions is very cordial. We work collegially around some of the issues that we need to address together. Through the course of dealing with the impact of Covid, the trade unions were able to offer advice and support. We worked with them very closely in terms of what has happened in the past number of years with national bargaining. The funding that we received from the funding council as we went through that harmonisation process was very welcome, but equally, you could argue that it raised expectations going forward and has provided significant financial challenges for us as a sector. However, if we look at multi-year funding deals, that gives us more scope to be able to not have to spend—I will rephrase that—a scope to be able to work in a longer-term planning perspective with our trade unions around pay deals, etc. The single-year funding deals have exacerbated not expectations but challenges and have been able to afford what we can. Rightly so, our staff deserve the pay rises. Basically, we would like to be able to be in a position to give them, but there is an envelope that we need to work with in as well. There have been a number of lessons learned reports. The latest lessons learned report is still due to a response from the Scottish Government. Does anybody have any particular points that you want to see in the Scottish Government's response to that? Any proposals from them on reforms to the NJNC and wider change in the sector? Is there anything in particular that you are looking for? I await the Scottish Government's response with interest. That was a politician's answer. This is a question for Neil, Joanna and Angela on this matter. What are the key reflections and recommendations following the regional tertiary pathfinder pilots? Which one would like to go first? Joanna? We are still working through those projects. We have a programme board that has been established in the south of Scotland. We have three projects. One deals with a pathway between Dumfries and Galloway College and the University of West of Scotland. One deals with a digital skills hub, which we have been running for the past couple of years. The other one focuses on net zero. I am less familiar with the net zero one because it is a project between SRUC and Borders College. We are working on a very fast moving time frame. The deliverables are expected in March next year. We are making good progress with those. However, it is too early for me to indicate to you other than that it has been a very positive experience so far, but it is too early to comment on what the outcome of those is at this stage. From my perspective, the timescales are pretty well the same as Joanna is working to, but there are four key strands to the north-east Scotland pathfinder projects. That includes the continuation and development of the Nesculage EU strategic partnership, which will include joint planning and provision of programmes, the development of pathways and shared, possible shared services. When we say shared services, we are talking about more targeted services for engaging learners, particularly those that are more likely to become disengaged or be disadvantaged. The three main tertiary providers, the two universities and ourselves, will be involved in a health and care partnership. That will involve the promotion of pathways and work opportunities in health and social care professions. We will go into, again, a tripartite arrangement around energy transition, which is about skills provision for transition and emerging industries and our net zero ambitions for Scotland and for the north-east. The final one, which the college is leading on, is the review of the senior phase in the north-east and how the three tertiary providers can impact more positively in conjunction with the local authority partners and the partner schools to better effect and ultimately in terms of progression and attainment. There is one little thing that is in there that is quite important. It harks back to the Comforter Little report, which has been touched on slightly here. Within the Nesculage EU strategic partnership, there is an exploration of creating a one-stop shop for information around tertiary provision in the north-east and what that might look like for learners, employers, parents and other influences. I think that there is some really good work that has already gone on predating the pathfinder that will hopefully come to fruition in due course. In there, it is about how the articulation arrangements that are due in Nesculage EU have worked so hard to establish over the years for degree programmes can actually work for the apprenticeship family. We are also exploring how we can actually create homegrown qualifications that are fit for the employers within our region that will allow us to fast track what the skills deficits or needs are in those regions for our employers. That is alluded to in the Comforter Little report as well. I will not repeat what Joanna has already said, apart from the project with the SRUC in Borders College. It is actually around land-based and natural capital. It has a sustainability strand, but it is around that land-based provision in the south of Scotland, making sure that we have a single offer. It then moves to joint curriculum development and joint working around innovation and research in that space. I will not be involved in the pathfinders moving forward, but what I would hope would come out of that is that the sector is able to showcase how we work together using different types of models. There is no one-set way of collaborating and there are different ways in which we can work together to benefit our regions and national priorities. Willie Rennie has a supplementary question on that. It was on the trade union relationships just to finish off on that point. I understand that the relationships locally are good, but is that not because you individually do not have the power to give the trade unions what they are wanting? If that is the case, why collectively are you not able to do what you are doing locally? We do have the power to give the trade unions locally what they are looking for, because all sorts of terms and conditions and ways of working and so on, where we make decisions at a regional level that impact on the working conditions of their members. From that point of view, it is an effective relationship. In the past few weeks, I have been talking to trade unions, the IS in particular, around timetabling and class sizes and digital learning in all manner of different things. Those are all decisions that will be taken at the regional level. It works. I think that when you bring it up to the national level, one aspect of it is that often the people around the table—I have not been too closely involved in national bargaining—are not working as closely as you would work at a college level. I see my union reps in the canteen and it was walking along the corridor and I said, hello, and you have a relationship with them and you have an understanding of the communications flow and everything else. I do not know whether that is one aspect of the national bargaining machinery where it does not work so well because you do not have that chemistry, you do not have that regular communication. I think about how you can start to make that work. I know that people like Stuart Brown, so I have some ideas about how we can make those sorts of changes. It is taking people at the end of the day, and I do not think that we will be dismantling national bargaining anytime soon. There are a lot of benefits that flowed from it. As I said earlier, can we just sit round the table and make it work? I am Neil, and you want to respond to that. Again, I reiterate that it has been the huge reason that my understanding is that the Gareth Donnie, who has come into college at Employment Scotland, is attempting to build that way of working, because I think that it is about relationship building at whatever level. That is what is going to produce the better outcomes in the longer haul. Thank you very much, and I would like to thank everyone for their time today. It has been a very informative session. Thank you so much. That is the public part of today's meeting now at an end for those who have just walked in. I am sorry. We will now consider our final agenda item in private.


Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to my mess. Check this out. This is how my planner kind of has been looking recently. I know it's been a hot minute since I've done a plan with me. We're gonna talk about the plan with me's and why I'm not doing them as often in just a moment, but I'm gonna get started right away because I don't want to have this video be any longer than it needs to be because this is probably gonna be a long one, so you might wanna like grab a snack or something. Recently, actually not recently, this has been going on for a while. Oh, I'm gonna say all the washes that I'm using are currently in my shop if you wanna check them out, even though I'm using full rolls of some things, the little ones are in my shop. So, there have been a few situations that have given me some pause, and this is not like, oh, feel bad for me kind of a thing. This is just me being real with y'all as to looking at my life and my channel just a little bit differently and not in a bad way, but I feel like it's a good thing to reassess where you're going and what's important to you and all that good stuff. I think I'm just gonna have to do this like this. But, so some of the things that have happened, and if you're watching and one of you have said this in the past, don't feel bad. This is just like my own personal thoughts and opinions. In the past, when I used to do plan with me as all the time, I never really gave you guys a good reason why I kind of stopped. And there was several reasons, but this was one of them as to safety. I've had a few instances where I've shown like, hey, this Saturday I'm gonna be at Ikea or Mall of America or somewhere public, no one's ever approached my door, thank goodness, or anything like that. So I'm not like worried about that situation, but I'm just at a place right now that I don't really wanna share where I'm going and what I'm doing prior to then. And actually I had a great conversation with some of the gals at the planner meetup that happened this past weekend, which was right here, but it's already the next week, which I'm not gonna show you yet because maybe I'll do a plan with me next week, you never know. You know, I was asking them, I'm like, well, what do you guys think?  So I was like, do you think that people would still even wanna see a plan with me, even though it's after the fact, and they're like, oh yeah, I would wanna see it even if it's plans you already did. I totally understand safety and all that stuff. I'm like, okay, well maybe I'll film a video and just chat about it initially. So then you guys know moving forward that it's not gonna be the current week that we're in. It's gonna be the week before or maybe even two weeks before or something like that. It's never gonna be current anymore. But I hope you guys understand that and my reasoning for it. Nothing horrible has ever happened to me or anything like that, but I'm just trying to prevent certain situations from happening if that makes any sense to y'all. But if you guys wanna catch up with me on a more regular basis and kind of know what's going on and all that good stuff, feel free to follow me on Instagram and Facebook. That's kind of where all of my real-time stuff happens. So whatever I'm willing to share, I'm sharing it there. So I've got these Christian design stickers and I'm gonna be putting in my videos. And I've been posting a lot more videos lately because I feel like I've been more into YouTube. So I'm really, really enjoying that. So I'm gonna just write all those and put those in. I'm using like a ton of these. And my main colors that I'm using for this spread are going to be red, blue, and yellow if you can't tell by all of this good stuff. So the videos that I post in the morning, I actually have them pre-scheduled and I have them scheduled at 6 a.m. And I just kind of like that. I don't know, I feel like that just works for me. I actually filmed a grocery haul too and I put up a grocery haul as well this day. So let's, I don't know, should we put two on top of each other? Yeah, let's just do two right on top of each other because I think that's fine. Even though I posted the grocery haul like later in the day and then I did my, I think it was, I'm pretty sure this was my Alaska plan with me that happened on the past Tuesday and then Wednesday was what the Dollar Tree haul, which I love me some Dollar Tree stuff. And you guys asked me some really good questions in the comments and I've tried to answer all of them as to like, you know, if I like certain things and you guys have given me like awesome feedback on like certain items that you really like from the Dollar Tree, so that's pretty sweet. And then let's see, did a recipe tracker. The recipe tracker that I did, if y'all are interested, it's clearly on my channel. But I took inspiration from Ryan over at a man with the plans on YouTube and he did one for himself and I was like, oh my gosh, I definitely need that in my life. So I kind of made it my own but clearly credited him in my video because he just had an awesome idea and I am like so stuck in a rut of like what I'm eating. It's just like so boring y'all. Like I, I don't know. I'm just uninspired, I think is my problem. So that is what's going on there. And actually at my event the other day, I got these boxes. These were in my like in the D-Stash table and I was like, I really want this. So I'm gonna use this little guy right here, the yellow one for my film and edit. And I'm gonna use this little sheet I just got from a coffee break planner and it's got like little edit guy on there which I think is super cute. So I'm gonna use this one here. All right, so it's kind of what I did in the morning slash afternoon. Kind of line this up right, okay, perfect. All right, next up I edited my resume. Use this little icon from Chrissy and Designs. I'm gonna be using a lot of things from Chrissy and Designs cause it's just right here and I've got my little binder out and I don't really feel like getting out the rest of my stickers at the moment. So, you know, that happens sometimes. Every time I write resume, I feel like I'm doing it wrong, like resume. It's not resume, it's resume, but you know, whatever. All right, and then I'm gonna use this little yellow computer guy to put in my emails. Let's see, I had two emails and I'm gonna do this other little thing, hold on here. So I'm gonna use these and I'm gonna try to be brave and use them without a tweezers and they're like the little checklist but they're like not on a strip or anything. So that can sometimes be scary but I'm trying to use the little lines to like line them up properly. Okay, perfect. All right, so let me write emails and then I had to email Amanda and Tori and I did those things so we're gonna be super satisfying and check them off that list, girl. Okay, perfect. And then I watched my friends over at Coffee Break Planner and oh wow, there's something stuck to my binder. Okay, I watched my friends over at Coffee Break Planner with their live. I try to watch their lives as much as I can and I have a fun video coming up soon featuring some of their products. So kind of pumped about that. And let's see here. I'm going to use this sheet right here and then I also want to grab, I'm gonna use this one as well. So I'll put in their live and then these are super cute.  So I think that is like extra, extra freaking cute and I will use, let's see here. I'm gonna use a blue one because I've got kind of red going on in this. So put this right at the end of the day because they have their lives kind of at the end of the day and they're usually on Mondays. But if you guys are interested in joining their Facebook group, you can just search their Facebook group and I'll try to remember to leave a link down below for y'all. So basically for the majority of the day on Tuesday, I did some stuff which I will talk about in just a moment here. Let me just write this down. I have been doing some contracting with a gal through my social media company that has been going pretty well. I have been working for this company and I'll, I think it's okay to share the name of it. It's called Ucrafti and they are based out of Isanti, Minnesota and this gal does these workshops, it's like a DIY workshop. So it's like all the stuff that you kind of see on Pinterest and all that stuff. But I have been creating some unique content for her. So to kind of help with her social media following and things like that. So if you guys are in Minnesota and you want to check out what this is all about, I will leave the links below. It's fairly new in the social media game. It's fairly new, but she's been doing this for a little while. Yeah, so it's a really cool place to go. It's like a B, like they don't have like beer or wine there, but it's like a BYOB kind of a situation. So you can like bring some wine or bring a beer or whatever and like craft with your friends and like bring your friends. To sign up, it's like five bucks to like hold your space, but you can usually pick from any craft that's on the menu for the most part. And she's doing this new thing now where like once a month she's doing these like kitty crafts and she's really been loving that. So that's been kind of a cool little thing that I have been helping her with. So yeah, ucrafti.com, that's who she is. All right, I do have specific stickers for these closet situations. So let me do that. Okay, and I'm gonna use this little sheet from Chrissy and Designs. It has like the stitched around the outside. And did you guys know that this was one of the first sheets I ever got from Chrissy and Designs? Back when she only like restocked once in a great while and then when she did, she like sold out right away. So yeah, this is what I am going to use and it's KAD00484. So I worked on cleaning out my master closet and reorganizing the whole thing. And I will be showing a after tour once it's all done. It's not done yet. It'll be done, it'll be done fairly soon I think. So like within the next month or so I think it's gonna be done because I'm working on some things. But I am going to use the blue. Oh, blue on blue looks really weird. Oh well, all right, come on, there we go. That took a moment. And then these stickers say declutter on them and then it's got like a closet that's just like booming out. I actually tried to look up this gal for my plan with me and unfortunately she's no longer in business but if you guys search like closet clean out or declutter, this image might be out there. I don't know, but anyway. But that's what I did for this day.  Cause I just kind of open up everything and have a good time and just Doyle sits on the bed and then judges me. It's really great y'all, it's really great. All right, and that evening I edited. So I'm just gonna put my little edit icon down here. I don't really even remember what video I edited but that's okay, we have over there. Okay, perfect. And then my mom and aunt came over for a little while, actually filmed with my mom and that video will be up this week, which will be awesome. And yeah, they came over, I don't even remember when they came over but I'm just gonna put some hours in. But my aunt was here, my aunt was not in the video but she was over here as well. And we filmed an honest review of princess cruise lines. I know a lot of you have been asking about my cruise and if I would give like, you know, a review about, you know, like our experience and stuff, I thought it was like really important for my mom to be in that video just because clearly she was like a part of the whole thing. So I felt like that was really important. So anyway, she's in the video. All right, I'm gonna use one of these little house stickers from, oh my gosh, I can't talk. Coffee break planner. I'm gonna put this right over here. I don't know why I'm doing it on my fingers. I'm just strange today. All right, and I'm not gonna use this full thing. I wanna use like a little, I don't know, use it as like a little event sticker kind of, but I'll use the rest of it probably later on in the spread. There we go. Like I don't need it for the full time, you know? All right, so they're in and then filmed with the favorite mama. So let's put that in. So I did a little filming with the mother right there. And then, okay, are we still in the frame? Yes, we are, cool. All right, so I did a whole bunch more things. On Thursday, I did more work in the master closet. So I'm gonna put that in again. I didn't do as much work that day, to be honest, but it was still work. So there we go on that. And then I think I'm gonna use a yellow one for this one. All right, and then I had a phone interview. Whoops, here we go. Can't do anything today. I had a phone interview on Thursday. All right, and that was at three o'clock. And then before that, I did some interview prep because I crept on the company, which is probably a good thing. So I'm gonna use one of these pencils again. Put that right here. So I like prepped all my questions I had for them and all that good stuff because it's good to know what you're getting into. And clearly I'm not ready to talk about it yet, but if things go well, which hopefully they do, I will be doing some sort of video at some point. And then, all right, I also did a few other things that day.  That took way longer than I ever thought. I've had them, but to be honest, I don't really drive my car that often and clearly I should, but I don't. So anyway, it's just whoopsy-doops, right guys? So I was like, I better actually put those dang things on my vehicle. So yeah, oh my gosh. I was like this whole mess going on off camera for y'all. Anyway, and then I ran to the grocery store this day as well. I think that we are good with that. Okay, I had a meeting with the gal that I am helping with her business and I'm pretty sure it was at 10.  Okay, there we go, perfect. I just think that these are really cute. So I'm gonna put a little asterisk right there. All right, so that worked out. And then also she came over and looked at a piece of furniture that she's going to be buying from me. So that's exciting. All right, so I'm gonna put in this for furniture because she came over and we looked at some things. I'm gonna put in one of these little house icons because she came over and it was good times. Keep that over there. Awesome. All right, so then I did a few other things. So my dad and I went out to Subway because that's like one of his lunch places of choice. All right, so Subway with the favorite father and I'm gonna keep this out because I need that for something else. And then after that, I actually went to a thrift shop and I'm gonna be sharing with you guys later, like not now, clearly, but later how I utilized one of the items that I got. So that was kind of exciting. And it's something for the house. So just FYI. And the funny thing is I only got one thing the whole time I was out thrift shopping. So, but sometimes it just works out that way. You don't find everything you want. So, that's all right. And then I took a nap that day. I took a nap that day because I was so tired and I didn't really know why. I'm gonna use one of these yellow stickers from plan to plan sticker co. I don't think it was at five o'clock but I did take a nap that day and it felt amazing. Let me tell you, it felt real good. But then of course I was like up all night so that's like my own personal dilemma. So the next day we had all the fun. I am gonna put in a few things right away. I'm actually gonna put down some things at the bottom and then I'm gonna kind of just like fill this guy up. All right, so the very end of my night I dropped off bags to my mom. My pal Jade is like the best and she collects bags for my mom. My mom makes these mats for the homeless in Florida and my mom's here right now in Minnesota but she cuts them into strips and she makes what they call plan, P-L-A-R-N if y'all are interested in how to do this. There's tons of videos on the internet and no, my mom's not gonna make one. I've already asked her several times and she was like, no, I can't do that. So sorry, she ain't gonna do it. So anyways, my friend Jade brought a ton of bags and I was like I do not want all those things in my house. I am gonna go drop those off because I do not need to do that. So anyway, thank you Jade if you're watching. And all right, so I'm gonna fill in the bottom part first. So we went to Sephora. My friend Kate and I went to Sephora and I bought, what did I buy? Origins. If I haven't posted it already or linked it already I will put in the Great Minnesota plan together like that day I did a little vlog. So if you guys want to see it but we did go to the Green Mill which was extra awesome. That down over here. All right, and that was about right there. And I'm pretty sure that I have some sort of Sephora icon somewhere, let me see if I do. All right, I have searched my collection. I do not have a Sephora icon any longer. I don't know where it went, oh well.   Maybe I'm just thinking of Target because I'm like kind of obsessed with Target. If you guys are interested in these I got these from Lily Henry quite a while ago. So I will link their shop below as well. I always try to link as much stuff as I can below. And I went to Sephora and then drove home, drop off bags. All right, cool. Now, the fun part.  But okay, I'm gonna pull out a few different things. I'm not sure if I'm gonna use everything but again, I will always try to link as many things as I can. Well, first before we do this, let's do Sunday because basically I just filmed. So I'm gonna use one of these and I don't know where I got this. This was a long, long time ago. Basically I filmed all the things I edited and I will put in one of these little guys from Piper Paper Company. Just gonna write, edit. Okay, now my battery's splashing. So I'll be right back. All right, sorry if the orientation just changed. I had to switch out my battery because it was dying. So yeah. The fun part of it all, we are gonna be planning out this Saturday, August 11th and that was the Great Minnesota plan together. So I was pumped about that. And I'm just gonna like cover up the times because the times kind of are irrelevant for what I'm using it for. Even though I did film in the green mill, I'm just not gonna put this here. You'll see what I'm doing in a second. Like you would think that I don't struggle with washi but I do because I put this at like the weirdest angle for myself. Oh my gosh. I literally had to go up like less than a millimeter and it's like, oh, it just snaps just fine. It's like user error for sure, y'all. So I'm going to use one of these little cameras from Adriana Piper.  And I'm gonna use a yellow one and write vlog. And I don't know why I capitalize vlog. I always do. I'm just weird. I don't capitalize really anything else but you know, sometimes you just do weird things. All right, so let's put in, whoops, vlog. So that is in there. So we had to be there at like 12 30. So let me put in a little clock. All right, so I just leave it 11 30 just because the event didn't start till one but check-in was at like 12 30 to one.  All right, so we had a awesome time at the Great Minnesota Plan together. It is one of the paid for events that the Minnesota Planner Addicts put on every year. I will leave down below the Facebook page if y'all are interested in coming. And we got this awesome sheet from Coffee Break Planner there. And it's like their little fair deco sheet which is awesome. So I'm gonna use some of these in here. And then I have this other sheet that I got at Planner Topia or from Planner Topia. And this is something I purchased a while ago but I actually found this shop through some of the swag that was donated maybe like last summer's event, I wanna say. So Planner Topia was a new shop to me at that point and I've bought a lot of stuff from her. And if you guys are ever interested in donating swag, I am not somebody that actually plans out these events but if you check out the Minnesota Planner Addicts on Facebook, you should be able to chat with an admin on Facebook and like how to promote your products and things like that. If that's something that you're interested in. I don't want it to be like a big commercial but that is part of the event and that is awesome. That's really how I discover a lot of new shops. Like I don't really venture out and do a lot of things. Like I really should. But I feel like I find a lot of new shops because there's just so much variety of stuff and so many new places and you get to like touch it and feel and go, oh yeah, I like that. And speaking of, I'm gonna use this last half box right now and this makes me so happy and satisfied. Like you don't even know. It gives me all the feels guys. It gives me all the feels. And the reason that they called it the Great Minnesota Plan Together is that, oh, this is so satisfying that the state fair is called the Great Minnesota Get Together. So it's kind of like a little play on words, if you will.  And then I'm gonna put in, let's see here, we'll go with the red planner. Even though at the event we didn't do any planning but that's okay, we did a bunch of other things. We'll do a little thing there and maybe we'll put in some yellow accoutrements. So much cuteness y'all, so much cuteness. And we'll put in like the little blue washi tape down at the bottom, so freaking cute. And then we did have some really, really awesome cotton candy, so I'm gonna put that in kind of at the top. I just love like, I don't know, I'm more of a functional planner but like I want it to be functional but yet I kind of want to like decorate it and like zhuzh it up a little bit, you know? So, yeah, and then we actually had some games which was really, really fun. So I'm gonna put, let's see, I'm gonna put this little like treat stand thing kind of like, oh, maybe like at the bottom here. And maybe put like little Ferris wheel to, I don't know, like maybe, I don't know, right there. And ooh, let's put this little tilt-a-whirl thing. So yeah, we did lots of fun, fun games. Ooh, and I'm gonna put in one of these pops too. I'm like gonna use all the stickers because, you know, why wouldn't you just use all the stickers, right? Okay, oh, that just looks funny. Okay, hold on, I'm gonna put this down here. Okay, hold on. My little pop, it's like, it looks funny. Or is it like a caramel apple? I don't really know what that is. Okay, let's put this right down here. Okay, this looks better. All right, I like that better. I was like, I was losing it for a moment. All right, so now that Saturday is done, I think.   And then I'm gonna put this little blue one in that says planner friends make the best friends because it is so true, so, so true. Okay, and then I think I just like edited for the rest of the day there. I don't think I did much else besides that because it was a lot, guys, it was a lot. And I edited my vlog from right here and put that in, I think it was on Monday that that actually posted. All right, so that is it for the plan with me from Monday, August 6th through Sunday, August 12th. If y'all have any questions about anything, feel free to put them down below. Also, let me know your thoughts if you guys enjoy seeing like back planning, basically, because then I have more to show you and I can actually talk to you about my week as well. Sorry, this one was kind of a long one. There was a lot of stuff going on and I just wanted to be really thorough and chat with you guys. I know I'm probably gonna have a lot of questions about the interview situation and I will chat with you guys about that if it comes to fruition, if it doesn't, that just means I didn't get the position and that's okay. But clearly, I don't wanna show these things before they happen because of privacy and all that good stuff. So anyway, that's gonna be it for me today. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with me for a part of your day. If you like it, make sure to give it a thumbs up. If you like plan with me videos and all things planner related and non-planer related, feel free to subscribe to my channel and you can hit the little red bell notifications. I know some people have unfortunately been unsubscribed recently. So make sure that the subscribe button is not red. So if it's red, that means you're not subscribed and you don't see it in your feed. And also if you hit the bell, that just lets you know when I post a new video. So thanks for hanging out and I will see y'all in the next one. Bye guys. Well, folks, it's time to kick it old school. So you can feel cool. Give it to me baby.


Oh my gosh. I'm such a bad juana and I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Our queen, my goddess, Ayu, has released some songs and I haven't even listened to them or reacted to them. Yeah, I'm real sorry. I didn't... Ah, it's gonna sound bad but I didn't even know she released these. Well I knew about Strawberry Moon and then I completely forgot about it because my life, my life has been busy but now I'm trying to keep up with K-pop and we're gonna be reacting to Strawberry Moon and her mini album or EP called Pieces. And for this video my reaction is gonna be cut up so that means my full reaction for everything is going to be on Patreon and I am sorry about that, it's just I don't want to get copyright claims. So yeah, other than that, let's get into this. I'm excited, I hope you are too. Because we get to see our queen, are you? Yeah! Let's do this.  How have I... I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry everyone. I'll make sure that our react to her new releases on the week that they get released. Ay, oh my god.   I wish I could do that for my room, just touch something and it starts floating. That'd be so cool.   Wow, that's cool. I love how magical her music video is.  Oh, this is going on my playlist. This is going on my playlist. I can't wait to listen to the mini album as well. What a beautiful magical music video with a beautiful magical IU and a beautiful magical dude. Don't know his name, sorry. But also, oh my god, her singing is always so amazing. Always so amazing. Yeah, that's my queen. But I am reacting late, so I'm not really a good fan. So I'm sorry, queen. I'm going to be reacting to her stuff pretty fast. Because all my reactions get released on a Saturday now. So that means if she releases something, it'll get released on a Saturday. So woohoo.  Now we're going to get into the mini album. Oh wow, that looks so beautiful. It's because it's IU. I'm already liking it. It's got my favorite flavor of IU music. Just anything. Because everything she releases is good. So nice. I might listen to this on my way to work. It's going to be nice for my next thing. Just like this album. Because if this is the first song, that means all the songs, it's going to be, wow, wow. She makes everything listenable. I think IU is a massive factor as to why I like ballads. Like, legitimately. Same with B2B. B2B and IU have made me love ballads a lot. Wow, that was goodie. And then we got next stop is our next stop. It's bringing me back to autumn morning. Just a beautiful voice. Ah, what a day. Just brand new IU music for me. Quite a lot of it. I'm here for it. I wish I could whistle, but it sounds bad. You want to hear it? Queen, I love your voice. Like, the thing about this, she's an artist where you can close your eyes, just listen to the music, just feel like you're in a different world. Like, with her music, a high majority of the time, I don't know how, but I feel it. I feel it down here. When she's got a song like this, it's not just me going, oh yeah, it's me like, it's like resonating with my soul. Just so relaxing and just calms me down here in music. And it just feels good. Oh, winter sleep. I sleep during winter. So that means the song's about me. I'm kidding. It's beautiful. It's really beautiful. Sometimes I wish I could just...  I just want to be hypnotized by her music. No one can beat her voice. I don't think I'll ever find anyone else in my life whose voice just gets me this trance into their music. I genuinely believe. Such a beautiful, beautiful song. Beauty. Now we got you. You and me and are you having a great time? I like this album. I can add it to my list of relaxing are you albums, which is basically every single album. Just got to let you know. Those background vocals are so good. Oh my God, I realize that the image on the left, like the album cover, has got like her other album names in it. That's cool. This is so good. Oh my God. I'm lucky that I decided to listen to all of her songs because it's so beautiful. And I just... Every time she comes on, it's just I have to listen to her and it makes me feel relaxed. This is it. So I think I got a theory for the albums. So where each thing comes out is where each song is supposed to be because I'm pretty sure this has got five songs in it, right? Yeah, one, two, three, four, five. So the first one, drama would have been there. Next stop would have been released here. Winter sleep here. You there. And I guess I loved it now. I don't know. Maybe that's showing it's the time to release all these songs now. But that's my theory. Anyways, let's continue. And listen to Love Leader, the final song. Let's have a good time. The Germany the only way I could describe her songs are beautiful. That's all I can say. This is just another beautiful song. I'm in love with her again. Oh my God, are you? Hey, does she do this to us, eh?  And she's doing a good job. Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes. This is what we need. These type of instrumental breakdowns. Those background vocals were pretty good. More than pretty good. Pretty good. Best thing in voice ever. I feel so relaxed. I should be like energetic for a radio. But nah, I'm just feeling relaxed. It feels good.  That's the mini album. Pieces are more like... Lilac just started playing and gave me a fright. That's what it's more like. Pieces. More like my heart is in pieces. And I need to listen to more IU music to fix my heart. Goddamn. That was a beautiful mini album. Or EP. I've been trying to get that out for a long time. Okay, everyone. If you're still watching till now, one, thank you. And two, get your pinkies out. We're making a pinky promise that from now on I will react to all her stuff in the week that it's out because my reactions will come out on a Saturday. So let's make a pinky promise so we don't have anything where it's like months behind. Goddamn. I can't believe that Strawberry Moon came out in October and I just finally listened to it for the first time just before. Yeah. But anyways, that was a beautiful album. That was a beautiful music video. And I think I gotta end the video off now because I gotta get ready for work. So yeah, thank you all for watching. Hopefully you all have a great day. Keep smiling. Be safe out there because I don't want you to get sick. And yeah, other than that, peace.  Okay.


What's up, everybody? Jason here from jazby's casebricks.com. We just sold out 1617 panini select soccer one box break random countries number 12 And again chase pulsing Ronaldo and Messi Again, we're gonna go by this checklist here. You get two random countries per spot And then here's a checklist on group rate checklist for this product. I dropped it just in the link right there And then again three hits per box prisons and numbered cards all cards ship from Argentina down to Wales Here's the dice roller. Here's the customer names doubled up And here are the list of teams So let's roll it and we got ourselves a six in a four for ten times. Good luck one two three four five six seven eight nine ten They ran down to Robert. I had ten times here one two three four five six seven eight Chile down to Spain Everyone with Chile Rob with Croatia Christopher with Wales Robert with Northern Ireland and Turkey Joe with Sweden Rob Weigar with Ireland Matthew with Italy as well as Bosnia Robert with Ivory Coast Levi with Germany Iran with Belgium Leave I will Ukraine Rob with Brazil Matthew with England Robert Uncle you have United States Jordan with Russia Leave I have a Portugal Christopher with Iceland Joe and with Poland Jordan with Slovenia Robert with Montenegro Matthew with Romania and Mexico Aram with Columbia Matthew with Argentina Aram with Netherlands Matthew with Hungary Rob W with France Matthew with Austria leave I with Uruguay and Matthew or sorry Robert with Spain Robert So let me know guys if any of you guys want to make any trades if you guys are watching Give you guys 30 seconds to a minute. If not, we will close the trade window guys. I'm assuming I'm gonna trade TWC means trade window closed. We got a silver of Alvaro, Morata. Looks like for Spain Chicharito Yeah, Sergio Romero to 25 Very nice little tie-dye autograph as well Argentina that's going to Matthew be Little Hamas Rodriguez for Columbia When I ran and we got a Ben Davies from Wales number to 299 Wales that's going to Christopher Diego Costa double team with Castillo They are Arturo Boruf for Poland silver We got a silver Marco Rios Germany looks like you got a diet to the Robin van Piercy 249 we got Zaza Italy we got a silver Kevin De Bruyne from Belgium real and Bolo That's from Switzerland. The Switzerland part of this. I don't think so. I think everyone will have a shot at that In Gareth Bale. I don't right there a green Sergio Romero for Argentina That's a five out of five very nice low number and a Marco Marco Rios to 20 die cut for Germany And a Liva and another Marco Rios Bartos So we don't have any Switzerland on this on this list, right? Yeah, I think everyone have a shot at that what he was it live for Belgium. Yes, you have Belgium. Yes, you did All right, so yeah, I don't think no one has I don't think we sold Switzerland So let's quickly just randomize that There are some teams that may not have too much and Switzerland might be one of them Like I said guys, I don't want too much soccer But I do know that there's a lot of value in this stuff I don't mind this one because I don't see anybody that has that team so it's probably not on the list So let's just see really quick Switzerland was gonna have a lot It looks like they have no autos. It's just base. So that's probably why we didn't sell them as a team Looks like they just have base limited inserts base base base base. Well, other teams have autographs So it makes sense. So let's randomize this to everybody guys Let's get a new dice roller New list randomizer again, everybody will have a shot at this And if there is any other base cards that are a number or not associated with any team that's available You'll also get that as well Roll it and we got a three to two five times two three four Well, there you go. You're in you're also gonna get this Breed and Bolo as well. So there you go guys. This was the one box. Can you select soccer set 1617? We already posted up another one guys We can run it back if you guys would want 15 left already appreciate it jasky's case breaks calm


Who is the shadow? Only the shadow knows. But through this video I hope to explore the history of the shadow and discover who he truly is. This isn't the Alec Baldwin shadow. No, no, no, no This is the shadow. Movie studios take liberties when adapting anything and everything to the big screen. So for now, we're simply getting to stick to the original material, radio, and comics. The shadow made his first appearance on July 31st, 1930 in the detective story hour in the first radio broadcast of the program. In this depiction, James Liccardo played the shadow, but he was then replaced four months later by character actor Frank Radick Jr. On April 1st, 1931, the shadow moved into print publication with the first of what would become a twice monthly publication entitled The Living Shadow. It's in this first publication that Harry Vincent is saved from suicide by the shadow and is recruited to watch Scanlon, the courier for Wang Fu, who happens to be the criminal kingpin of Chinatown. It's also in this story that the alternate identities of the shadow are introduced as Fritz the janitor, various Chinatown street people, Ling Chao, and English Johnny. The appearance and character of the shadow evolved gradually over his 87 year publication history. It was in the 1940s that artists introduced the red scarf covering just below the shadow's nose. The ability to cloud men's minds was introduced during a 1937 radio drama. It's here that it's explained that the shadow had learned the uncanny ability while traveling through East Asia. Time constraints of the 1930s radio made it difficult to explain to listeners where the shadow was hiding, and thus the ability was born out of necessity. It's revealed in the 1933 issue The Shadow's Shadow that his real name is actually Kent Allard, and not Lamont Cranston like the movie depicts. He was a French aviator who fought for the French during World War I and became known as the Black Eagle, which was later revised to be the Dark Eagle. Post-war, Allard challenges himself by waging war on criminals. He falsified his death in the South American jungles and returns to New York to adopt numerous identities to hide his existence. One of the identities Allard assumes, indeed the best known, is that of Lamont Cranston, a wealthy young man about town. In the pulps, Cranston is a separate character. Allard frequently disguises himself as Cranston and adopts his identity. While Cranston travels the world, Allard assumes his identity in New York. In their first meeting, Allard as the shadow threatens Cranston, saying he has a range to switch signatures on various documents and other means that will allow him to take over the Lamont Cranston identity. Not entirely, unless Cranston agrees to allow Allard to impersonate him when he is abroad. Although alarmed at first, Cranston is amused by the irony of this situation and agrees. The two men sometimes meet in order to impersonate each other. The shadows other disguises include Henry Arnard, Isaac Twombly, and Fritz among several others. In radio, however, the identity of the shadow being Kent Allard was dropped for simplicity and was only Lamont Cranston with no other identity or aliases. The shadow's rogues gallery consisted of a wide variety of enemies which were predecessors to the modern-day supervillains, ranging from criminal kingpins to mad scientists and everything in between.  During the shadow's long publication history, Straten Smith, the owner of the shadow, licensed the character to many other publication companies. The syndicate published his first newspaper comic strip on June 17, 1940. Archie Comics published an eight-issue series of the shadow between August of 1964 and September of 1965, under the company's Mighty Comics imprint. During this time, Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel wrote a few of the later issues. DC Comics then published their interpretation of the character in a series lasting from November of 1973 to September of 1975. It's during this time that the shadow had its first crossover with Batman in DC Comics Batman number 253 from November of 1973. In Batman number 259 they once again team up and it's revealed that the shadow saved a young Bruce Wayne's life. DC Comics once again adapted the shadow in 1986 for the four-issue miniseries The Shadow, Blood and Judgment. It's during this time that the shadow was placed in the modern era and given many upgrades to his arsenal. An ongoing monthly series for the character continued in 1987 with 19 issues and two annuals. Marvel Comics licensed the character in 1988 and set the story during World War II with The Shadow, Hitler's astrologer, a one-shot appearance. From 1989 to 1992 DC once again published a new ongoing shadow series entitled The Shadow Stripes. Set in the 1930s, it features his first team up with Doc Savage and often led him to encounter many celebrities of the time, such as Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh. The mid-1990s saw Dark Horse Comics acquire the rights to the shadow from Condi Nast, who owned the rights to the character at the time. During the Dark Horse era, many shadow miniseries were published such as In The Quails of Leviathan, Hell's Heatwave, The Shadow and the Mysterious Three, a comics adaptation of the 1994 film, another team up with Doc Savage entitled The Case of the Shrinking Skeletons, and one final Dark Horse team up being Ghost and the Shadow in 1995. In August of 2011, Dynamite licensed the shadow from Condi Nast for several ongoing comic book series, the first of which debuted on April 19th, 2012. Soon after this series ended, Dynamite followed it up with the eight issue miniseries, Masks, where the shadow teams up with other pulp comic heroes like The Spider, Green Hornet and Kato, a 1930s version of Zorro, the Black Bat, Green Lama, Miss Fury and Black Terror. Dynamite then followed that up with The Shadow Year One, The Shadow, Green Hornet, Dark Knights, and The Shadow Now, which was set in the modern era. It was announced earlier in 2017 that Dynamite had secured the rights for another ongoing shadow comic book series. When Bob Kane and Bill Finger first conceived of The Batman, fingers suggested they patterned the character after pulp mystery, men, such as The Shadow. Finger then used Partners of Peril, a shadow pulp written by Theodore Tinsley as the basis for Batman's debut story. The case of the chemical syndicate, which Finger later publicly acknowledged, Alan Morris credited The Shadow as one of the key influences for the creation of V, the title character in his DC Comics miniseries V for Vendetta. But what happened to The Shadow's original rights holder, Street and Smith? They stopped publishing all their pulps and comics in 1949, selling off several of their titles to popular publications. Sales had declined with the advent of television. Condé Nast's publications bought the company for more than $3.5 million in 1959. Currently, Condé Nast is an American mass media company founded in 1909 and based at One World Trade Center and is owned by advanced publications. I hope you guys enjoyed this trip through the history of The Shadow. If you did and you want to continue receiving great content from us, go ahead and hit that subscribe button. And don't be afraid to leave a comment as well. Until next time my friends, I'm Shannon for Comic-Con TV, telling you to stay in the light because The Shadow knows.


The Independent National Electoral Commission, INAG, has for the first time responded to accusation that he failed to follow the Electoral Act of 2022 and also failed to abide by its own guidelines on the mode of collation of results in the last presidential elections. The development comes in response to a petition by the Action People's Party, the APP, before the presidential election petition court in the FCT. The APP is challenging the result of the presidential poll and a declaration of all progressive Congress APC standard bearer, Bola Tinubu, on the grounds of alleged substantial non-compliance with the electoral laws of Nigeria as well as the breach of the INAG guidelines. But in reply to the suit instituted by one of the parties, the APP INAG threw one of its lawyers, Abu Bakr Muhammad, insisted that it conducted free and fair polls on February 25th. The APP had alleged that INAG breached its own laws and guidelines. However, INAG dismissed the party's argument that the resort collision were to be done electronically, citing paragraph 50 to 55 of the regulation guidelines for the conduct of the 2023 presidential election. It also dismissed the allegation that its officials doctored result of favor a particular political party's candidate or theirs over voting. The date for hearing of the five petition for the so-been received from the People's Democratic Party, the Labor Party, the APP Action Alliance, and the Allied People's Movement is yet to be fixed by the PEPC. Earlier, there was conversation with legal practitioner on the issue and this is what he had to say. INAG adopted its own regulation, which is the regulation that was used for this election, and then the regulation in section 38 introduced electronic regulation or transmission of results into the system. And after that introduction, because that is what is the discretion that section 1cc gave to INAG to correct its own regulation, but no discretion, and to release that to correct its own way of managing or carrying out elections, electoral activities. That discretion was done by the enactment of this regulation, and this regulation introduced electronic transmission. So there's no more discretion for INAG. Once it says in section 38 of the electoral regulation that election results would be transmitted from the polling unit by the electoral officers, then a reason there's no more, no longer discretion for INAG to say that they are going to use both manual transmission and electronic transmission, but manual transmission and electronic transmission. That is, what would have been possible if that regulation was not enacted, and then INAG went out of its way to inform the governments that it is going to transmit a result in life real-time from polling units. It gave Nigerians that confidence. And that was why many Nigerians drove out to the street to carry out their civic responsibility. I do not believe, I do not want to align with the position that INAG has a gestation to now decide on the day of the election to transmit some result and then collect some results manually. So my thinking is that this is, and after all, this is wrong from inception. INAG has no discretion to transmit results electronically. It has no discretion to collect results. Outside the transmission by electronic means that it itself introduced into the regulation.


annoying missing arrows in this picture. So there were things that seemed like it should be possible to construct from one-way functions and most of the picture had been completed in the late 80s and early 90s, but this was something that was kind of standing out as not known. We had a very complicated construction of these things from one-way functions. And we're so unsatisfied with it that we really forced us to look for the right abstraction to find a simpler construction. That led to this notion of inaccessible entropy that I'll talk about. And what we were trying to do there was make this construction at least as simple as the Hassel did all work, but it turned out that the ideas from there inspired kind of simplifying things on the other side of the picture as well. Anyway, so let me say a little bit about one, just on one slide, what is inaccessible entropy by example. Suppose I have what's called a collision-resistant hash function. So that's a function that's shrinking. So it takes n bits to some say n minus k bits. Okay? And it has the property that even though it's shrinking, so there must be lots of inputs that collide. And what collision resistance means, even though there are lots of inputs that collide with each other, it's hard to find any collisions. They technically, h should be chosen from a family of functions that are shrinking. And given a random function from the family, it's infeasible to produce a collision in it. All right, so suppose I have, just let's imagine it's a fixed collision-resistant hash function. I choose an input uniformly at random. And now let's look at the entropy of x given h of x. Well, that must be at least k because x had n bits of entropy, it was n random bits, and I've conditioned on something that's, I've revealed only n minus k bits of information about it, the output of the hash function. Okay? On the other hand, if I consider any efficient algorithm that generates h of x, some output value of the hash function, once it generates h of x, its hands are tied to a particular value of x. It can all, it can't produce any value other than x, other than a single value x that, whose output is h of x, even though there are many of them. Okay? So intuitively, given h of x, x has a lot of entropy in the Shannon entropy, but it's somehow inaccessible. No efficient algorithm can, can generate lots of random x's that map to h of x. Okay? And so, one interesting thing, so this can be formalized into some notion, other computational notion of entropy, which we call inaccessible entropy. And the interesting thing here is that this seems dual to the notion of pseudo entropy that I talked about. In particular, in this example, and when this notion is interesting, is when the computational form of entropy, this inaccessible entropy, is smaller, much smaller than the real entropy. Okay? And one can generalize, come up with some general notion, which we maybe should now call next-bit accessible entropy. And what we can prove is that if f is a one-way function, I look at a very similar construction as before. So I look at f of x and x. So with the difference that I break f of x into bits, and then I don't need to break x into bits, that this thing has this next-bit accessible entropy, smaller than its real entropy, n minus something super logarithmic and n. So this, not only the notion seems dual, the construction seems very dual to the other one that we had. Yes, we're thinking of x as picked at random. Now, when you think of an adversary here, so that's weaker than the definition of collision resistant. So an adversary need not generate things at random, and that somehow has to come into the definition, which I'm not giving formally. Okay. So to conclude, sort of the overall message that seems to be emerging is that complexity-based cryptography is possible because of gaps between real, that is information theoretic entropy, and computational entropy. And depending on what type of cryptographic primitive you're interested in, the notion of computational entropy may be different, and the relationship to the real entropy may be different. And in particular, secrecy in cryptography roughly seems to correspond to having pseudo entropy larger than Shannon entropy, and these sort of unforgeability type primitives seem to correspond to having accessible entropy smaller than the real entropy. And all right, so in terms of some things that there's left to do in the future here, so one, I mentioned this seems to be this duality and analogy between inaccessible entropy and pseudo entropy, but we don't know a formal way to say that yet. Right now, it's more intuition. Okay, so can one formally connect the two? This question I mentioned earlier, can one get a really efficient construction of pseudo random generators from one-way functions, one that is hope of being practical? We don't know right now. My current guess is negative, but it changes from time to time. And this notion of inaccessible entropy, pseudo entropy has found connections with and use in other places in complexity theory, and actually there can be related to notions being used in additive combinatorics in other areas of pure mathematics. And one may wonder whether this inaccessible entropy notion has useful applications or analogies as well in other areas. I'm not at the point of having a conjecture, I don't even know how to formulate a conjecture about it. One may need to look some, so one maybe can look at what we call black box reductions in cryptography, so certain limited ways of constructing things. So we talk about constructing pseudo entropy generators, inaccessible entropy generators in some kind of black box way, maybe there's some automatic way to move from one to another. I'm not sure, maybe that's the problem, but it's been eerie how much the two have seen the parallel of each other, I mean it should be some explanation. What do you think you're trying to do on the internet, because you don't know this yet? Well, we're working on it, starting, it's a blue-dyed-worn column you've been thinking about about that. So there is a new result of Thomas Hollenstein others, which talks not about the seed length, but the efficiency of the construction, that from a general lonely function or even a regular lonely function where you don't know how many pre-images there is, you must make a lot of invitations. So that would be kind of a starting point to try and improve these lower bounds on efficiency and then somehow translate and say, okay actually not only do you need to invoke the lonely function a lot, you need to evaluate the independent inputs, so you need lots of parameters, so anything. Results will seem very asymptotic to me, and because you want to be protected against all polynomial time algorithms, is there any effort at trying to get some more manageable, described for the class of algorithms and trying to get some finite version of anything you need to do? Okay, so there is a good question, so there, it is possible to do things less asymptotically than I have done and what's called concrete security and cryptography, and where you fix a model of computations and Boolean circuits or something, and you really kind of reason about concrete numbers and you can even get rid of the big O's and everything and say for a fixed value of n, what's this? What? It's just ugly. It is more painful. These things, I think, are still very far from having reasonable, the things I'm talking about, having reasonable statements in a concrete sense, but other things in cryptography have been optimized to give quite reasonable things in concrete security, and I think even constructing pseudo-random generators from one article, one-way permutations, so these are one-to-one and onto one functions, you want a hostod and someone else did a concrete security analysis of that that was not unreasonable. Does it make sense if I don't make sense? It does make sense for non-uniform security, but there is a way of making sense of the definitions for concrete numbers, so it should be possible to formulate. But as far as the other questions, so still what I was talking about are still referring to general models of computation, like Boolean circuits, not kind of going into some kind of class of statistical testing that you really can get your hands on. Okay, I'll ask one more close-up of the question. So do you think one-to-one functions really have a lot farther for these instructions, or are they similar for the low one-to-one functions? Obviously, if you want to get rid of it, do you think it's only two? It's a, so there is a, so it is known that all these things imply one-to-one functions. And sometimes said to say, well, that means low functions are minimal. But that's not really a completely satisfactory answer because all these things are equivalent, so why not get one of the more complicated ones and claim that that's a minimal assumption? Oh, no, there's an easier assumption. Oh, I see, I see. Okay, but low one-to-one functions. So there is a, yes. There's this very interesting question. How do you relate now the assumption of low functions to things like the P versus NP questions?  And people have certainly thought a lot about that. They're mostly, mostly negative results saying that with the following kind of restricting yourself to certain kinds of black box, production of the black box, construction of the different kinds, you can't, like, you know, like Luca's work with Andre Bogdanoff. But certainly not everything is rural out there, so it's usually something, I don't know. There is a reception question.


Now You can't solve this equation all three over one shot because an equation basically means you're only solving with one equal sign So what you can do is combine these two guys to solve for X and then combine this guy this guy To solve for W. So what you do is to solve this equation to solve for W and X What you would do is say okay Five over that five over ten is equal to six over W. Let's do this over here So what you're going to do is go five over ten is equal to six over W Now to get rid of fractions all you got to do is cross multiply So the bottom guy from over here comes to the top over here the bottom guy from over here comes to the top over here So this becomes five W is equal to ten times six to sixty and then divide by five divide by five So W is equal to sixty divided by five is twelve So right away You just solve for W which is over here, which is Now you want to solve for X. Oh, sorry you solve for W you solve for X Let's change this up So this is X. So you just solve for this guy, which is 12 Use the right symbols in the right places Now you want to solve for W All you do is combine this guy and this guy You could combine this and this because you already have you just solve for X you have this but to again Make sure you're not Continuously Continuing error from one question to the other just use the use the Numbers that they gave you instead of using numbers you calculated just in case you made a mistake here because if you use The 12 here and if you made a mistake to try to figure out what W is then the W is going to be wrong because this was wrong So go back to the original what they gave you and related to that. Okay, so this would be five over ten is equal to W over eight. So again what you do is cross multiply So this becomes eight times five is 40 is equal to 10 W And then divide by ten divide by ten. So W is equal to four So you just solve for W which is for so basically this is a Triangle that you had W is equal to W that way is equal to four So this becomes four. So what you had here was a triangle that's been Multiplied by two to give you these dimensions. So this guy is twice as big as this guy. It's simple as that you're doing Similar triangles you're using ratios to solve one triangle by knowing the dimensions of another triangle And all you need is a connector the connectors are all the angles have to be the same and you have to have The dimensions the length of the same side from both triangles and that for us was Five and ten that was a ratio that we we could use to solve the other and the other sides Okay, I'm going to do one more just to clear things up here So let's do one more similar triangle. We understand congruent triangles congruent It's just basically if they're identical triangles and all you need is side side side Side angle side or angle side angle, which is the same as angle angle side So for similar triangles what we need is angle angle angle So if they give you a triangle, let's say this guy and They give you another triangle. Let's say this guy And they say this guy is equal to this This is equal to this and that is Equal to that let's give this is a five Point one Let's make this one X. Let's just make this one two Let's make This guy the relationship make it 17.3 Give this one as Six and this one as Q So what you're going to try to do is say Connect up the sides with each other and put them as ratios Okay So one side which is equivalent to the other side in this in the other triangle the similar triangle on top of each other so what you're going to do is look at the angles and Connect up the sides. So this is a double-tick angle and that's a double-tick angle So this guy controls the opposite side and this guy controls the opposite side. So what you're going to do is say 5.1 over 17.3 must be equal to here's a triple side which is X over Six must be equal to here's a single side two over Q Now the one thing to keep in mind is if you call this triangle a and if you call this triangle b Then all the links for triangle a go up top and all the links for triangle b go in the bottom Do not switch these up Otherwise the answer is not going to be correct Now you can switch up the whole thing and put all the b's on top and put all the a's in the bottom But you have to be consistent if you're putting all the links For side a up top they all have to go up top if you start off with side b length in the bottom Then the rest of the sides for the b triangle has to go in the bottom for you to be able to solve this okay, so Now that we have this we can start solving for X and Q what you do is you do your cross multiplication Again, all you're doing is taking a chunk out of this and Leaving that one alone solving for X and then you're going to take this guy and this guy do the same thing solve for Q so 5.1 over 17.3 Must be equal to X over 6 So what you do now is to get rid of your fraction cross multiply what we got is 6 times 5.1 6 times 5.1 is 30.6 is equal to 17.3 X and what you do you've got to get X by itself Divide by 17.3 divide by 17.3. So 30.6 divided by 17.3 is 1.768 If you round it up 8 so X is 1.769 that's rounded up to three decimal places to solve for Q We got that now. I'm going to erase it if we're going to solve for Q What we're going to do is we're going to take 5.1 over 17.3 equals to 2 over Q 5.1 over 17.3 is equal to 2 over Q Again, what we're going to do cross multiply so Q comes up and multiplies this this guy comes up and multiplies that So that's going to be 5.1 Q is equal to 17.3 times 2 17.3 times 2 Which is 36.6 34.6 divided by 5.1 divided by 5.1 So Q is going to be equal to 34.6 divided by 5.1 is 6.78 6.78 So Q is going to be 6.7 So to be consistent if we took this to two decimal places, we want to express this to two decimal places So we're going to round 69 up to 7 What you should do now is do a visual confirmation to make sure you got everything correct. Let's see 5.1 is equivalent to 17.3 Across from the triple tick is 1.7177 and that's 6 And across from the single tick is 2 and across from the single tick is 6.78 So this guy is the smallest side here and This guy is the smallest side that makes sense. That's the middle side That's the middle side and that's the longest side and that's the longest side Okay, so visually you should confirm at the end if it makes sense the numbers might be a little off But if it works out like this you should have done it correctly. You should have the right answers, okay? So this is similar triangles and it's extremely useful when you're trying to find The dimensions of one triangle when you don't know the exact angles and it's not a right angle triangle Because that way if it's not a right angle triangle you can't use the Pythagorean theorem You have to use something else. So what you do is you do a comparison from one triangle to another triangle And that's similar triangles, okay? Good luck in the problems


and go also to this house but I really think that the diamonds are going to roll over today so we're looking for a break of 280 right here we can do it no reason to jump jump into anything too much quickly here oh gosh look at how spread this is yikes give that time to settle down dollar spread all right here we go hope some of you are still in the options from last week that don't expire to Friday and I really didn't think they moved that much personally to get out of them all right let's wait okay we're gonna wait and see where this sets up let's do let's do really want to make sure this holds let's do I know this is gonna roll over today we just got to wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait stop's gonna be 65 let's do let's see we could wait till breaks 280 let's do all five by 65 diamonds short it's gonna roll over gotta be a little patience only 932 let's do 05 by 65 actually we let's do 10 by 65 10 by 65 diamonds short just wait huge week this week every single thing is reporting this week that can move the market and the crazy thing is that it's all happening into the Friday with the number on the Friday I mean is it gonna be a crazy week or what crazy gonna need a lot of brainpower this week 10 by 65 is still valid I'm gonna leave be a go I think this is better but that's probably gonna roll over yeah 10 by 65 and I didn't call any trades in that the earnings are in two days begin it if you want it 65 is a stop here we go here I'll look at Boeing but no I did not call anything in this I the earnings are in two days so I just let this be so the diamonds I knew was gonna roll over and I don't want to do a million things today because really this is I mean there wasn't anything really earnings related that I really was crazy about today but you could have done this if you wanted to but obviously if the diamonds go this is gonna go and vice versa but I could say if this is gonna have a big enough move to do it today as far as an option goes because again I think it's Wednesday morning like you have like a like it would have to go today which it is so here we go diamonds here nice read on this is gonna roll over so some of you were in the class this weekend and I even talked about the market or maybe I talked about it on a Friday I don't know everything runs together when did I talk about the market Chinese tariffs on this all up hold on was it Friday I talked about it literally every day feels the same get me out of this apartment hold on let me look at what you're talking about Trump's in Pennsylvania today it's raining people are waiting in line in the pouring rain news on what you're talking about Jackie about China and tariffs don't see it if you want to send it to me I see nothing on that not to


Pikeville Main Street and the City of Pikeville unveiled the banners and winners of the Arts Elevated Contest as well as new pairs that will be placed around the City of Pikeville. Five of these young artists were selected to have their pieces displayed in Pikeville Downtown's Art District alongside the Umbrella Alley. This is for our Arts Elevated, the Creative Arts District here at Pikeville. And the students, it was open to kindergarten all the way up to 12th grade for any child in Pike County or surrounding counties, we didn't exclude those, and they could turn in a art piece with how the mountains inspire them, move them, they could choose any age to just kind of let their creativity go. Experienced heart specialist and subspecialist collaborating for the benefit of your care. Top 10% national hospital rankings for patient safety and heart attack and heart failure treatment. The technology is skilled to perform extraordinary complex, minimally invasive cardiac, electrophysiology, interventional and structural heart surgeries. This is a heart and vascular institute at Pikeville Medical Center. When it comes to your heart, place your care in our hands. Out of the 76 children who submitted art, 20 were chosen to have their pieces displayed on banners. The 20 artists selected will have their work displayed in the City Park until Veterans Day. Yes, at Pikeville Downtown the City of Pikeville is trying to be creative with our arts district and not only do we have a wonderful app here for plays and theater, but we also are trying to get more arts downtown Pikeville through music and through artwork. Alongside the arts elevated presentation was the unveiling of new bears that will be stationed around the city. The bears include moonshine bear, bombshell bear, storybook bear, mama bear and cartoon bear. This is a great opportunity for family time and you know bring your kids down, go for a walk through the park, check out the different artwork, go down to the alley, bring you a picnic or stop in at one of our local restaurants. We have lots downtown to offer. Arts Elevated will be doing another contest this time for adult artists from the area. For more information about upcoming events visit the Pikeville Main Street program Facebook page. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.