Ahoy, ahoy, and welcome to Harsh Critique, where I look at articles sent in by various fans of the channel who want me to, let's just say, critique their articles.  This is mostly for entertainment value and also to help out the person whose article needs critiquing. You should not give critique like this. This is me allowing myself to be incredibly frustrated, just thinking about past episodes.  Don't act like this unless there's a very narrow area where this kind of behavior is acceptable and it's when someone literally knows exactly what you're going to do, such as they've seen episodes of Harsh Critique before, and they ask for more. Today's draft was sent in by M.Raw Ken. Oh boy, I'm going to admit the special containment procedures are not so bad for this. Item number SCPXXX, Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures, SCPXXX, is beheld in an average humanoid containment cell with a noose hung from the ceiling in the center of the room for the comfort of the entity, a standard humanoid containment cell, not average, I'm imagining. I don't know why there's a noose in the center of the room, but okay, I assume that's explained later. In the event of an Allagata event, MTF teams are just securing SCPXXX's containment cell and monitoring the entity until the incident has subsided. The occurrence of Allagata events has shown no pattern and no means of preventing or terminating incidents in progress have been found. We're going to stop for just one second here. Now, oftentimes, and I do this too, hell, I do it a lot in spoken speech, spoken speech. That's the thing. But this is one sentence, supposedly one thought. The occurrence of Allagata events has shown no pattern, that's one complete thought, and no means of preventing or terminating incidents in progress has been found. Technically that's at best two sentences. You could probably make it into three sentences and still be okay. But regardless, it definitely needed to be split down the center at least. SCPXXX itself has shown no interest in leaving Foundation custody, but the nature of its effects, maybe that seems weird, nature of its effects, mean it cannot leave its containment cell. That's a little bit of, up to this point, even pretty good with your clinical tone, but that's a lapse right there, but the nature of its effects mean it cannot leave its containment cell. I think you'd be saying something like, but its anomalous nature prevented from doing so. Yeah, that'd be easy. Anyway, SCPXXX is a humanoid entity approximately 160 centimeters tall, at 41 kilograms, lacking ahead, appearing to have it severed due to its neck having exposed flesh and bone. And the manifestation of one of its anomalous effects from this point. Let's be clear here, that was one sentence. SCPXXX is turning into a habit, we'll see if it happens again. SCPXXXX is a humanoid entity approximately 160 centimeters tall, and 41 kilograms, lacking ahead, appearing to have it severed due to its neck having exposed flesh and bone. Why that's one sentence? I'll never know, but also flesh and bone. Okay, so if you haven't described why you're using air quotes, I'm using air quotes, but it's actually actual quotation marks. I assume that this means that the flesh and bone are not actually flesh and bone, but that means you need to describe what it is. You don't need to say flesh and bone, and then, oh god, just say what it is. When the surface layer of the entity is removed, it projects flames out from it. This is most noticeable from the fact that it has a large, inextinguishable flame projecting from its neck. So you haven't really described its physical characteristics properly yet. That's a start. These flames do not radiate heat, they do radiate very little light. These flames do not radiate heat, and radiate very little light. And no, okay, it's comma. These flames do not radiate heat, radiate very little light, and manifests small puffs of smoke periodically with approximately four, oh my god.  These folks are just referred to as manifestations.  Okay, so, obviously, you've learned almost nothing about what this thing actually is. Because we have quotation marks around flesh and bone, we know it's not actual flesh and bone.  And that's repeated information. And the manifestation of one of its anomalous effects from this point. I think what you're saying is that its neck, its open neck, is manifesting an anomalous effect. But you don't need to say that. Also, when the surface layer of the entity is removed, what is the surface layer made of? Obviously, it's not actual skin, because you put quotation marks around flesh, and you say when the surface layer of the entity is removed, so surface layer means it's definitely not skin, it projects flames out from it, out from, it projects flames out from it.  I'm just going to move on.  Testing of SCP-XXX's tissue have shown all of it to be made of candle wax. And finally, and bones to be made out of cotton and other similar substances, similar substances to cotton, namesome, despite these materials being relatively usually weak compared to human function. Usually weak.  Despite the lack of any eyes, ears, mouth, or, despite the lack of any eyes, ears, mouth, nose, or a working nervous system, SCP-XXX has shown to have all five senses, and speaks with no apparent issue despite its lack of a head or vocal cords. I read slightly ahead, and I am disappointed. The entity has a relaxed and cheery attitude, and a tendency towards calling Foundation staff bro, dude, and my guy, regardless of gender. Often trying to talk about his ideas for fantasy stories, characters, or its desire to be used in experiments, requests for use, or participation in experiments have all been denied. So now I get into the root of the problem. You have created a character with some anomalies, and you are using it as a stand-in for you. Right to your own experiences, definitely.  This is somebody's first article, and they're just like, I'm gonna put my fail-fin. SCP-XXX causes Allagata Incidents seemingly unwillingly. This incident occurs when the flames currently being projected from SCP-XXX grow greatly, and the entity itself falls unconscious. The entity itself, as opposed to the entity else-wise? The flames will then act as an interdimensional portal to the writer of Allagata. Flames will then act as an interdimensional portal to the city of Allagata. This is highly dangerous, this incredibly powerful reality benders have been shown to exit from these portals, all of which have worn various masquerades, and similarly does masquerades, and similarly design masks. These reality benders often have vaguely humanoid forms, and seem to manifest their abilities in consistent ways. These tend to manifest as sentient nooses, headless attackers, and thorned whips, and the sudden appearance of masks on all those present for the incident, including SCP-XXXX, often manifesting on its chest. SCP-XXXX was found to be wandering around the Tower of London, interviews with SCP-XXXX have had it claimed to have been planned to be expelled from the city of Allagata, and became unconscious. Wow, that's a sentence. Oh, I'm sorry, it wasn't finished. That was a common other period, later awakening outside of SCP-2264-A. Strangely, despite Foundation agents being present during the time frame, SCP-XXXX, claimed to have first been conscious in our dimension, he wasn't discovered until approximately four days later by base standards within the Tower. One of the agents guarding SCP-2264-A heard the commotion and took the entity into custody. Commotion, that's a great and clinical word, then applying Class A amnestics to those present at time of recovery. Interview log SCP-XXXX-6, interview where Dr. J. Woodall, interviewee SCP-XXX-S, we have a few questions to ask you. Yeah, sure, I was thinking as much, forgot to capitalize, I. Well, to begin, why were you banished? Yep, that's the sentence. Well, to begin, do you why you were banished from Allagata? You've mentioned this in previous interviews, but you've never given us the reason. How should I know? Just walking around the city, then some funky dudes come up to me. Tell me that it's decided I gotta be expelled.  So I go looking around and after ages I find these guys without masks on, super weird where I'm from. I try asking, hey, where am I? But these girls just keep screaming and screaming, I don't know why. Then yes, yes, we know all that.  If you already know all that, all you had to do was say no. SCP, you forgot to hit enter. SCPXXXX. Damn bro, chill. Let's just get on with this. Geez. But you never mind. Next is what you did when you lived in Allagata.  Just what I thought everybody else was doing. Strolling around and chatting it up with some rather classy gals. Nothing else. I mean, those ambassador fellas came and grabbed me once in a while. But after they got a hold of me, I guess I have feel asleep. Feel asleep. Because I don't remember anything except waking up in the middle of the streets all cut up and junk. I guess maybe I had a job with them. They came and got me pretty often. Damn it, stop trying to write your own self into an article.  Stop it. I'm just disappointed is what I am. So, alright. First of all, break your sentences down. I think a good tool for you would probably be the Hemingway editor. It's a online tool you can use to help detect at the very least your overly complex sentences. I actually use it a little bit myself from time to time. It's not an absolute. You don't have to simplify everything down. But it does help you at least find them easily in the work. It's better than just looking and reading and reading again.  Flesh. Bone. Tissue. Bro. Dude. My guy. I don't need to know that this guy... Give me an interview, okay? And the guy has a weird manner of speaking. I think that actually can work. Especially considering the content you're talking about here. I don't think this article could work in most iterations. But considering we're talking about Alagada, the first thing people jump to when they think of Alagada is not a surfer dude voice. So there's that... You got that going for you, but you telegraph it. You don't have to talk about it. The entity has a relaxed and cheery attitude and a tendency towards calling foundation staff, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then the other half of that sentence, in which again, your sentence is overly complex, often trying to talk about its ideas for fantasy stories, characters, or its desire to be used in experiments, which screams that you're writing yourself or you're putting way, way, way too much of your own self into this character. Putting some of yourself into a character is fine. Putting all of yourself into a character is a terrible idea. Mainly because you're going to run into people like me who's going to rip it apart. You need to get early on to describing what this guy looks like and what he is made of and all that other stuff. You can't just... There's too much... There's too much dancing around the reality of what it is. So yeah, simplify your sentences. Be careful about your clinical tone.  That's all you got to do. And obviously, I'm looking at this, you've read modern articles. You're doing a pretty good job of making this more like a series five than a series one. Which is good because the people who are voting right now are used to the series five style. There's also a ton of needless information here. What does him being made of what cotton and candle wax do for your story? What do you achieve with that? What does it give you? And also, how do they know he's made of candle wax and cotton unless they take stuff from him? At which point, does that material stay as strong as it is or does it revert to normal candle wax and cotton? Simplify, my dude. Simplify. Take your story and try and reduce the word count considerably. Take your sentences and try and simplify them down to their bare bones. Make them into two or three sentences instead of one long sentence with a comma, then another comma, then another comma, and then another comma. You got some promise here. I don't know if this article is going to work for you, but it's not the worst thing in the world. Also, I remember saying this earlier and I just saw the word noose. Why is there a noose hanging from the ceiling in the center of the room for the comfort of the entity? You don't explain why that comforts the entity at no point. Anyway, that's it. I think I'm... Could have been worse, I guess. Could have been worse. I don't know what screen already has and pledge at any level. It's nice to know that I'm not alone out here because, goddamn, sometimes I need that. But I'll see you again on Tuesday.


Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another episode of condo insider. My name is Jane Sugimura and I'm your host for the show today. And we have a last minute cancellation and my guest, who is going to come on my show in the future, but this gives me an opportunity to get on my box. And I don't get an opportunity to do that too often. So, you know, I'm kind of glad I have this opportunity to talk to all of you guys that, you know, on an issue that's near and dear to my heart, and that's elections. You know, this is 2022. And we have a primary election on August 13, which is a Saturday. And we have a general election on the first Tuesday of November. And we have lots of candidates, lots of candidates for the state offices, and for governor, lieutenant governor and for Congress and for the city council.  And I will tell you why. One thing, you know, these guys, you know, in government who are elected to office, they make decisions that's what they do every day. They make decisions that affect everybody's lives, and especially people who live in condominiums because condominiums are governed by chapter 514 B. It's what they call, you know, a statutory remedy it's something that's made up by the legislature. It's not something that's that is based on common law, which is developed over hundreds of years, like contract law, or, you know, divorce law or things like that. But anyway, you know condominiums are based on statute of the laws that relate to condominiums are all developed by the state legislature, and to some extent by people in and the city and county of the county councils and in Oahu the city and county of Honolulu. And you know, I think it's important. I really, really think it's important for everyone, not only condo people to get involved in their elections, because, you know, the decisions that affect everybody's lives are made by basically strangers, unless you know who they are. And unless you and the way you get to know them is during a campaign season that like now, where the candidates are all over the place. And they would love to be invited into your home to meet you and your neighbors to find out about your concerns and you may think this is all she buy that they're only doing it to get votes and yes they are doing it to get votes. But you know, practically speaking, they also want to become your friends they want to become all your they want to represent your interest. And so you know this is a time for you to, you know, take the opportunity to meet these people, and to know what they stand for, and whether or not you agree with what they stand for, and whether or not you want to vote because you, you are the ones to make the decision, you decide whether these people get into office.  So you can always hold them accountable, because if they, you know, if they don't. If they don't perform to your satisfaction, your action is to go to the ballot box and vote them out of office. And so, you know, that's why it's so important for everybody to get involved in these elections that were that are coming up now.  Yeah, you need to go on the internet, look on their website, see what you know because they will see what they stand for and what their issues are important to them.  A lot of them don't live in condominiums. They don't know how condominiums work. They don't know about common interests. And to give you an example, there was a bill passed last year, last session about electric motor electric vehicle charging station. And, you know, I don't think any there is any dispute that we all know that electric vehicles are coming. The state and the federal government have have passed policies that say that you know by 2030 50% of the car soul are going to be electric vehicles. And, and in Hawaii I think the benchmark is in 2040, we're going to be up to 50% renewable energy efficient. And you know so so yeah, the whole thing is to, to get away to reduce our carbon footprint so to speak, and to use energy efficient in energy efficient technology, so that you know we don't affect the climate. And these are all of our natural resources, and these are all really, really good things. But you know, unless you know you have people in office, who are going to follow through with these, these policies, you know, we, we could have a disaster. And I, you know, everybody, you know should be involved in these elections and just to give you just to talk about what's going to happen. The primary election is August 13.   But you know I think the Hawaii system has worked pretty good. And I've been voting by mail for, oh God I've been doing it for over 20 years mainly because I've been a poll worker. And if you ever work at the polls you, they don't let you vote. You know on election day you have to vote by absentee ballot. So I've been voting absentee ballot for over 20 years. And you know to me it's perfectly safe I don't see any concern with that but anyway, Hawaii is an all male ballot. Okay, but they are making they have provisions for on the same day voting, but that means that you need if you if you're not going to send in your mail ballot. That means that you need to find out where the voting places are. And you got to find out which are the ones that are closest to you, because I think you need to, you can't just show up at anyone. You need to. And there you should Google Office of Elections and all the information regarding both the primary and the general election are going to appear on the website. So you should look at that and see, you know what your, your, you know, what you have to do. And the good thing too about getting the ballot in the mail is then you will see who your candidates are.  I think we're getting it at the end of July. And that means that you're going to have your ballot, almost two weeks before the, the primary election. So you can look at the names, see because the, you know, most people don't realize that there are different districts. And, you know, for our Senate, for the State House, for your council member, like in my district, my council seat, my council member seat is open. It's an open seat, which means because my council member is term limited. I think there's eight people running, eight people running for that seat. And even in my Senate race, there's two people who are three people running for that seat. And I think for our representatives, there's like three or four seats. So, so, so you're going to get your ballot. You're going to find out the names of the people who are running. And you're going to have two weeks, basically, to figure out, you know, who they are, go on their website, check and see what their positions are. And if there's a candidate form in your area and everybody's having cabinet candidate forms, the, the, they had one at Lonokia for senior citizens, about 300 people showed up that was last week. And so candidate forms are happening all over the place. And in fact, my area. Well, we're in region five. And, but anyway, our area is having our candidates form in Blaisdale, Blaisdale Park on Saturday morning. So if you're anywhere in the pro city area, and you want to meet your candidates including the gubernatory, the people who are running for governor, they're, they're going to be around they're going to be in the park, walking around. And this is what I mean, you need, this is a time for you to go out and actually meet the candidates and ask them questions and listen to what they say, and and and see if you like their ideas and ask them questions that are, you know, important to you.  And you know, everybody, everybody.  And one, one issue that is very, very important. All of you remember the condo collapse in Florida. Right. And that was because, I mean, there were issues about the board of directors and whether or not they did the repairs that were required. And the newspapers are saying, Oh, but the owners didn't want to make this didn't want to pay the special assessment. And so, you know, there was a dispute between the board and the owners, and because they couldn't come to a decision. The building collapsed. And when, when, when you read the news stories, it was because, you know, certain things, you know, we're not maintained, like most, most high rise buildings are made of concrete. And no matter where you live, whether you live in Florida or in Hawaii, concrete buildings are porous. The salt air will go in and they rust the iron rebars, the steel beams that that make up the building. And when those beams get rusty, the concrete just be literally falls off, falls off the side of the building. That's how spalling is. I mean, it's nobody's fault that spalling happened. I mean, if it, but you can, you can stop it. You can, if you maintain your building. I mean, when you paint your building, the people who go in and inspect the building before they put the paint on it.  And so you got to fix those are that leads to spalling. Okay. And so, you know, so so it's not like it happens overnight. And nobody knows about it. You can see it. Spalling happens very slowly. It happens with cracks in the concrete. And if you don't address it right away, you end up with a building in Florida like in Florida that collapses on you. And it killed people. And it resulted in millions of dollars of loss and the lawsuit is still going on, although I heard in the newspaper that there's a settlement.  And you know that could have all been avoided. I had something called a reserve law. And that reserve law was put in place by Maisie he Ronald over 30 years ago, and Maisie was head of the House Consumer Protection Committee. And I can remember I mean that's how long I've been around.  I mean, my constituents call me, and they're moaning and groaning about condo board. I mean they just moved into a condominium. And six months ago they're getting assessed $10,000 for a row. How come. Why are they why do they have to pay the special assessment they've only been there six months. Don't you guys have reserves. And, and, you know, for and back then there was no such thing as reserve. Maisie, and this went on for like three years.  And then a year or two later, they get these huge assessments for repairs that somebody should have been sucking money away every year.  It was 514 a at the time, which is not 514 b, but it was 514 a, and she did, she did that.  How come this isn't fair. You know, I just moved into the condominium last year and I get assessed $10,000 that's not fair with reserves, but the reserve does a reserve study is something you know that where the you hire professional and they look at all the components of the building, everything that has to be that is not regular maintenance in other words, you put a roof on the building every 15 or 20 years. You don't do it every year. Okay, so that's a component. Okay, you have to repair the, you do the painting on the walls of the building. That happens maybe every seven to 10 years. Okay, and then when you do before you do the painting you check for spalling. And then you fix the spalls before you paint the building, because if the building is cracking you don't want to paint it, because in the spalling is still there you got to fix the spa before you can put the pain on. And so, and these jobs are not cheap. In other words, the pain of building might, you know, the pain of building, or maybe 20 stories may run you $800 to a million, $800,000 to a million dollars. You know, you know, you can't just wait to say, Oh, we're going to paint the building next year. So we'll assess everybody in the building for the million dollars. You don't do it that way. You, you, you set up a schedule, and you say if we sock away a little bit of money every month from all the unit owners, then when it comes time to paint the building, we don't have to do a special assessment, because we got the money in the bank. The reserve is for and before it was voluntary until Macy made it mandatory back in the early 90s. And, you know, right now Hawaii has one of the strongest and best reserve laws in the country and we've made it even stronger, because after the condo collapse. Some changes are made to the law to say, you know, instead of doing the reserve study based on 20 year components, because guess what happened. One of your components, which means that if the repair doesn't take at least 20 years it's not in the reserve study. In other words, replacing your roof is in the reserve study because it doesn't you do it less than once, once every 20 years. So building, you know, repairing the swimming pool, replacing your patio furniture, or replacing the carpet throughout the building. You know, these happen less than every 20, what we found out in the last 10 years, unfortunately, is that pipes in the building do not last. You know, what they were supposed to mean we were all told that clay pipes last 75 years. It's what not true, because a lot of buildings, unfortunately, their pipes failed, and you've you that happened you know that you find that out because you have a lot of leaks. And finally you send in a mechanical engineer who's they got to replace all the pipes in the building. They're no good.  My building, many years ago, our deductible was I think 5,000 worth of 50,000 because of the number of water leaks. Yeah. And so, you know, so, you know, so now replacement of pipes is going to be in the reserve say never was. And so when buildings got hit with the news from their mechanical and structural engineers but they got to replace their pipes. I mean, that's not a million dollar job that's like a $20 million job. Think of it. Think of it if you live in a high rise building, and you're told your pipes are defective. If you replace that means the pipes that go to your kitchen to your bathroom to your toilet to your bathtub. They all have to be pulled out of your building and replaced. And this can be done while you're still in the building. I'm told, and it's been and it's been done but it's, it's, it's a terribly terrific, the expensive job. Now, now, you know, because we know that pipes fail, they are included in reserve studies, and the legislature in 2022 amended the that reserve study law to say that it is now that the components are based on a 30 year lifetime. So, and, and every building is required to have a reserve study done by a licensed professional or by a professional, and they're supposed to have it done between, I think, I think three or four years. And there's a there's a specific time in there. And this was all, this all happened because of the floor, Florida collapse. And, you know, and, and, and the reason why this was done is because in Florida. There was a dispute between the owners and the board. And I'm told that in Florida. It's not mandatory. It's discretionary whether or not the board has got the authority to do these repairs. And that's like how come there was a dispute between the owners and the board, and they couldn't, you know, get together on, you know, Well, the owners didn't want to pay for because they said, Oh, this is a special assessment. And why should I pay $10,000. How come you guys didn't plan things better. And I could have paid $100 a year for a you know, a couple of for 10 years. And instead of making this huge assessment. And while they were fighting over the building collapses. Okay. In fact, in fact, the news said that the building collapse just when they were in the process of finally collecting money from the owners to do the repairs to address the spalling, which was a reason for the building collapse. So by that time is too late. But in Hawaii. It's mandatory. It's mandatory. The word shallows in the statute.  It's not discretionary. They can't just sweep it under the carpet. Oh, let's wait till next year. No. Now there are time limits. They have to do certain things. And they have to spend the money to keep the building safe. And another thing, another thing, I mean, there are a lot of pets and condos or dogs or animals and condos. And you know, I live in a no pets building we have a bylaw amendment this is no pets. But guess what, we got lots of dogs. And I have owners in my building who are grumbling and say how can we get all these dogs. And that's why we're no pet building is because, you know, of Americans. I mean, it's the fair housing says that, you know, you need to allow make reasonable accommodations if somebody claims they have a disability, and they need to have an animal.  But that's a no no. I don't know why I took the legislature so long to determine that. That was a no no.  And, you know, you couldn't allow that so now it's now it's not allowed. This is another reason if you get enough people who complain, the legislators are responsive. And even we consider that a small victory. The the I am I'm a service animal shirt and scarves and things that you buy on the internet and the certificate, there is no federal certificate for service animal. And so those things that these people that the people were buying on the internet showing their al al's you know we're all bogus. And so now the state of Hawaii has agreed said oh yeah it's bogus. We're not going to allow you to accept that. And so you know yes it's getting more strict. But you know if you care about animals and buildings, and you should become friends with your legislators. Another issue, smoking and condos. If my father's you, I'd be talking to my, you know, candidates, and trying to see if I can, you know, figure out some way to stop it.  And if I was you, you know, I would try to find some way to stop that and there are. I mean there is mandatory mediation subsidized by the state of Hawaii, and some boards don't even know about it. But in the statute. And if they, maybe they don't want to use it maybe they want to keep fighting. And, but you know, it's there. And this, like I was started off at the beginning of this session. We were talking about EV chargers. And that was, there was a bill introduced about putting an EV charger in every parking stall in a high rise building.  You know, this is kind of a nice, I mean, right now, if you want to put on, if you have an electric vehicle you want to put a charger in your stall. Nothing is there to stop you except you pay for the association doesn't pay for it. This bill would have made the association pay for. So that means that if you lived in a condominium, your maintenance fees would have been used to pay for chargers and every parking stall. When you really don't need a charger in every parking stock is right now they got charging stations that will charge more than one vehicle. Right. And, and, and if you don't have, if you don't have 100% of electric vehicle ownership, then why would you want a park charging station and every stock was just kind of stupid. But you know suddenly we were able to stop that law, because you know the legislators thought they were doing a good thing. But they just didn't understand condominiums that you know the whenever you do a retrofit, which means that you're putting stuff into an existing condominium, without giving us money to do it. That the owners have to pay for it. And if you don't have 100% of the people in the building with electric vehicles, why should we pay to have a charging station every stall, which is which makes absolutely no sense. But anyway, we were able to stop that. So, my, my, my last issue is a fire safety ordinance in the city and county of Honolulu. I've had people contact me email me for me, and they don't like it. And I have one word.  If enough people call their council member on that fire safety ordinance and they really hate it. I know there's people out there who really hate it. And with condominiums, it's costing them a ton of money to now comply with this law, which wasn't the intent back when the law was passed in 2018. It was not the intent. It was, it was to make the building safer. And it was, and, and, and it was supposed to do it at minimal cost to the association.  And, and, and this is a brand new law. And what you should understand is there are other municipalities in the United States, who have mandates to do sprinklers like this fire safety. The ordinance in Honolulu says I'll shout, you will install a fire sprinkler unless. And the big unless is if you do a life safety evaluation and comply with that. Okay. Honolulu is by far the largest municipality in the country that has such a law. And, and we're in the process now of trying to implement it. And we're finding all kinds of issues, especially it's costing condominiums a ton of money, it's costing condominiums a ton of money. Guess what, it all goes down to the owners, because now they're going to be paying for more to comply with this law. And for everybody who contacts me I tell them, this is your council member call them. And I have council members who have told me if I you know people call us will repeal the law. I hope a lot of a lot of people listening to this will do that.  That's what it's going to take. And if you guys don't want to do that. It's not going to happen. And you know so that's one of the beauties of our democracy is that you know if you don't like something you got to tell people you got to tell the decision makers. In this case it's your elected officials. And guess what. Now they're all running for office they want your vote, they want your ear, they want to, they want you to vote for them. I suggest you become their best friend, you invite them to your clubhouse to your cabanas to meet with your neighbors and to let them, you know, to tell people why you should vote for them to represent you in their district. And I've kind of run out of time so I'm going to get off my soapbox. And the next next time I will be back on the 28 with State House Speaker Scott psyche, who's been a good friend to condos. And he lives in Cacaco and he lives in a condo. And so it's not like he doesn't know what he's talking about. But anyway, I look forward to that. And so if you want to hear and you and you can, you know, call in or email in question. So it'll be speaker Scott psyche will be on my show on July 26. So but anyway, you should tune in next week for an interesting show with Richard Emory, and he will be here next week Thursday. And I hope you'll join him in another episode of condo cider and mark the calendar for July 28. And me and speaker psyche will be talking about condo issues. Thank you. And Mahalo. Thank you. Thank you very much for listening to me. I'll see you next week.


Hi, this is joint work with my advisor, Stefano Tessaro. Very broadly, this work is about a memory lower bound for a security reduction. As we all know, cryptographic security proofs show that given a particular computational assumption P, a scheme S is secure. This usually means that we show how to transform any adversary A that breaks the security of S into an adversary B that violates the computational assumption P by giving an explicit reduction R. In the context of this work, we are interested in studying reductions from a concrete security perspective. Hence, we captured the power of an adversary in terms of its time complexity T and advantage epsilon. For such a reduction to be meaningful, we want it to be as tight as possible. Namely, the running time and the advantage of B must be very close to that of A. But time is not the only important resource. Another resource which is important is memory as pointed out by our back et al in crypto 2017. This means that we can now enhance the picture by also taking into account the memory complexity of the adversary. This then leads us to an analogous definition of memory tightness, which means B uses memory very close to that of A. Note that the memory complexity of the adversary B is the memory complexity of A plus the extra local memory complexity of the reduction R. In fact, in all known examples, a memory tight reduction is given by a reduction whose memory complexity is small and independent of the memory of A. That is the only technique we know in the context of proving memory tightness. Why should we care about memory tightness? Here is a small example. The graph shows for which memory and time complexity the best known algorithms succeed in breaking the discrete logarithm problem in a 4096-bit prime field. Suppose that we want security against adversaries using time to power 160 and memory to power 70. Now, if we have a memory tight reduction to the discrete logarithm problem in a 4096-bit prime field, then we can infer that the scheme is secure. However, if the reduction is not memory tight, then we do not necessarily get any guarantees from the security proof. Therefore, the central question is whether we can always give a reduction, which is memory tight. In fact, in this work, we show that certain reductions cannot be made memory tight provably. Of course, we are not the first ones to consider this question. There has been some prior work on this in the last few years. These are impossibility results about generic reductions. For example, one of them shows that there is no memory tight reduction from the multi-challenge version of UFCMA for signatures to the single-challenge version. Our work, on the other hand, proves an impossibility result for a concrete scheme. In particular, we look at the security of hashed-elgamal, which is widely adopted in practice. The scheme was conjectured to not have a memory tight reduction by our back at all. This work takes a substantial step towards confirming this conjecture. We shall now introduce the hashed-elgamal chem. Consider a group G of order P with generator G. The generation algorithm returns a public key secret key pair such that the secret key is the discrete log of the public key with respect to the generator G. The encapsulation algorithm takes as input the public key, samples a random U from ZP, and returns g power U as the ciphertext and the hash of the public key power U as the chem key. The decapsulation algorithm takes as input the secret key and the ciphertext and returns the corresponding chem key. The standard notion of security for chem is CCA security. As pointed out by Abdullah et al, this security notion for hashed-elgamal can be represented as a succinct assumption called the Oracle-Diffie-Helman assumption or ODH. Therefore, we are just going to talk about ODH from now on. Let me state the assumption. Consider the following game. U and V are sampled uniformly at random from ZP. The adversary is given G power U, G power V, along with either the hash of G power U V or a randomly sampled value from the image of the hash function. It has access to the decapsulation Oracle-DV that takes a group element Y as input and returns the hash of Y power V as output, unless Y equals G power U, because otherwise the adversary can always find out whether it received the hash of G power U V or not. The ODH assumption is that the probability of the adversary guessing correctly whether it received the hash of G power U V is only negligibly larger than random guessing. In this talk, we shall be talking about the assumption in the random oracle model. Here, the hash function H is modeled as an random oracle and the adversary can issue queries to this random oracle. Abdullah et al showed that this assumption is implied by another assumption known as the strong Nephi-Helmen assumption or SDH. Note that the SDH assumption has also been sometimes referred to as the gap DH assumption in the literature. So let me introduce the SDH assumption. Consider the following game. U and V are sampled uniformly at random from ZP. The adversary is given G power U and G power V. It has access to the OV oracle, which takes as input two group elements X and Y and returns one if and only if X power V equals Y. The SDH assumption is that the probability of the adversary computing G power U V is negligible. The classical reduction shows that given an adversary against ODH, we can build an adversary against SDH. However, the reduction is not memory type. In particular, its memory grows linearly with the number of queries by the ODH adversary. In fact, it is very important for the rest of the talk to see why this is true for the reduction. In the next few slides, I want to review this classical reduction because it will help us better understand the main theorem of our work. The reduction receives G power U and G power V as inputs. However, it needs to also provide a value from the image of the hash function to an ODH adversary. It samples a K uniformly at random and provides G power U, G power V, and K to the ODH adversary. Remember that there are two types of queries the reduction needs to simulate, DV and H. The reduction maintains two tables for storing previously answered queries. Suppose the reduction answers new DV and H queries uniformly at random. There would be a consistency problem if the adversary made a DV query on Y and an H query on Y power V. To avoid this, the reduction shall use the OV oracle. Recall that the OV oracle on inputs X and Y returns whether X power V equals Y. First, we shall see how the reduction answers the DV queries. On receiving a DV query on Y, the reduction first checks whether DV of Y was previously answered. If it was, it returns the previous answer. Otherwise, for every XI on which H query was made, the reduction queries the OV oracle on XI comma Y. In case any of the OV queries return one, the reduction returns the corresponding H of XI. Otherwise, it returns a value uniformly at random and remembers it in its table. The reduction deals with H query similarly. On receiving an H query on X, it first checks whether H of X was previously answered. If it was, it returns the previous answer. Otherwise, for every YI on which a DV query was made, the reduction queries the OV oracle on X comma YI. In case any of the OV queries return one, the reduction returns the corresponding DV of YI. Otherwise, it returns a value uniformly at random and remembers it. One minor difference here is that for every H query on X, the reduction also checks if OV of G power U and X is one. If so, it returns X as the solution to the SDH problem. Note that it is crucial here that the reduction remembers all the H and DV queries made by the ODH adversity. So the memory of the reduction grows linearly with the number of queries. We are going to show that this usage of memory is inherent in a black box reduction. We construct an inefficient adversity A star with large advantage against ODH. We show that for all efficient black box reductions, if the reduction given access to A star achieves non-negligible advantage against SDH, then the memory of the reduction must grow linearly with the number of queries by A star. This in particular shows that an efficient black box reduction needs memory. Therefore, this excludes the common approach of proving memory tightness that we consider in the literature. That is, giving a reduction that is low memory independent of the underlying adversity. Okay, but now you might ask whether this result works for any possible group G. Well, that cannot be the case because if the discrete logarithm problem is easy in group G, then the reduction can just solve discrete log right away and consequently SDH. Now, here we will consider only reductions that do not exploit any specific structure of the group and work on any group. So they are black box with respect to the group, which means we consider only reductions in the generic group model where the discrete logarithm problem is hard. Many of the reductions we are aware of are exactly of this form. That is, they do not leverage any specific property of the group. This is the theorem that we would like to prove, but there are some caveats. We need to restrict the reduction a little bit. The first restriction is that it forwards G power B. Forwarding assumptions are commonly used by other black box impossibility results and more importantly forwarding is what reductions generally do. The second one is that the reduction does not rewind a star. This no rewinding assumption is required due to the limitations of our proof techniques. Proving our result for a reduction that rewinds a star is an important open question. We have a conjecture for this, which we shall come back to at the end of the talk. So here is a statement of our main theorem. Next, we shall give some intuition about how we go about constructing a star. The design philosophy behind a star is that it shall force the reduction R to accomplish some memory intensive task. Then a star would use brute force to break ODH only if R succeeds in this task. So if R does not succeed, a star is efficient and hence the reduction adversary is efficient. So it cannot have non-negligible advantage against SDH. Therefore, a star is useful to R only when R succeeds in its memory intensive task. Next, we'll see the explicit construction of a star. Adversary a star samples I1 through IK uniformly at random from ZP and makes DV queries on G power I1 through G power IK. It then samples a permutation pi on one through K and makes H queries on G power VI pi one through G power VI pi K. Recall that by the definition of the DV oracle, DV of Y equals H of Y power V. So the pi Ith DV query should give the same answer as the Ith H query. A star does this consistency check. If the check succeeds, it breaks ODH by brute force. Otherwise, it outputs a random bit. So the memory intensive task here for the reduction is to answer the H queries consistently with respect to the DV queries. Our basic proof strategy involves looking at the reduction in its two stages. The first stage R1 answers DV queries, passes on some state to the second stage R2, which then answers H queries. Our strategy would be to prove a lower bound on the state passed on from R1 to R2, assuming R1, R2 answer the DV and H queries consistently. Note that R1, R2 have access to the OV oracle. Additionally, in the generic group model, R1, R2 and the adversary have access to the generic group oracle. We shall describe the generic group model next. In the generic group model, all the group elements are represented by labels. One way to think about the generic group model is replacing g power x by sigma x, where sigma is a random injective map from Zp to a set of labels. Also, we are given access to the generic group oracle that allows efficient addition in the exponent. The OV oracle in this model takes as input labels corresponding to x and y and returns one if and only if y equals Vx. To understand the structure of our proof, it is really important to understand the relation between the queries that are done by the reduction in the first stage and the second stage. In particular, we want to understand which labels the reduction remembers from the first stage and makes queries on in the second stage. We shall call these repeat queries. The flow of our proof fundamentally relies on this. We consider two cases. Here is the first one. Consider the labels that R1 got as queries from A star. Denote them as A1 through AK. Any query made by R2 on A1 through AK to either the OV oracle or the generic group oracle is a repeat query. Here's the second case. Consider the labels that R1 received as answers from the generic group oracle. For example, C is such a label here. Any query made by R2 on such labels to either the OV oracle or the generic group oracle is a repeat query. Given that R1, R2 answer consistently, consider two cases. The first is that there are many repeat queries. It is intuitive in this case that we can show a lower bound on the state passed on from R1 to R2. The proof follows from a compression argument. However, the presence of the generic group oracle results in multiple subtleties in the proof. The other case is when there are few repeat queries. In this case, we show that we can construct an adversary against a game called the permutation game that always wins. Further, we can show that the advantage of the corresponding adversary against the permutation game is negligible. Thus showing that the probability of R1, R2 answering consistently while making few repeat queries is negligible. To answer consistently, R2 needs to figure out pi. How can R2 get information about pi? Well, it can use the OV oracle. But it's actually not trivial how R2 uses the OV oracle to find out this permutation pi. Recall that R1 receives DV queries on labels A1 through AK and R2 receives H queries on label B1 through VK such that A pi I raise power V equals VI. Now R2 can do the simple thing. Issue an OV query with AI, BJ and it will learn whether pi maps J to I. However, R2 can do much more contrived queries. It can pack several AIs and BJs raising them to different powers and make OV queries on them. In the example shown here, R2 makes an OV query and learns whether X pi I equals VI for all I in one through K. The permutation game captures this exact setting combinatorially. In this game, a random permutation pi is sampled on one through K. The adversary has access to an oracle O that takes as input two vectors of dimension K and returns one if the first vector permuted using pi results in the second vector. The advantage of an adversary against the permutation game is the probability that it guesses pi correctly. If X1, Y1 through XU, YU are the queries of an adversary A that return one and the rank of X1 through XU is upper bounded by K over 80. Then using a compression argument, we can show that the advantage of the adversary in winning the permutation game is negligible. If R1 and R2 make few repeat queries, it would imply that we can construct an adversary of this form that wins whenever R1, R2 answer consistently. This is a technical step of the proof for which I refer you to the paper for details. To conclude, in this work, we show an impossibility result for a scheme with a lot of algebraic structure. Our proof is very much tailored to handle the over-oracle. This result can be bypassed in certain ways. For example, we can show that if you are in the algebraic group model where the adversary sends a representation of group elements for every query, then there exists a memory-type reduction. Also, there is complementary work by Bhattacharya that shows a memory-type reduction for a less efficient variant of Hashtagamal, the Kramer-Schu variant, or if the underlying group has a pairing. This is a good example showing that our result can be bypassed for specific groups, that is, groups with pairings. But we would also like to note that typical instantiations of the scheme are on prime-order fields or elliptic curves for which no pairings exist. There are many open problems. One would be to remove the restriction that the reduction does not rewind the adversary. We conjecture a lower bound of K log K for that case. Our result does not exclude a memory adaptive reduction, that is, one that changes its memory depending on the memory of A star. To exclude such a reduction, we would need to show our result using a low-memory A star. In the paper, we suggest a low-memory A star, but analyzing the reduction for such an A star seems to require different techniques. Also, an interesting research direction would be coming up with memory lower bounds for other concrete schemes without assumptions like the generic group model. Thank you.


Hello. No, no. How is everybody? Whoever is still awake? I can't believe that people are still awake. I don't know what beer it is in the Netherlands. Bless her. It's 6am there for her. It's 5am in the UK for me. I must be mad. I must be crazy. We're going to be doing the fire signs now in this video. This is for Leo, Sagittarius and Ares. Going over some bits of pieces that are happening. I wanted to give you an update on Greg. Greg, hello Vera. Greg, bless him, was this morning quite poorly. He, that's why I did a shout out again for some healing. So thank you so much for everybody who's given healing and love. Sending all that out. Really appreciate that, really do. And, you know, thank you to Sarah who went to the hospital and gave Greg reflexology and Reiki. And that really did make a difference. So he says he is on the up. His health is getting better. But he had a bad kind of abdominal pains he had. And his breathing was very, very hard. He's finding it difficult to breathe. So that is what was going on with him. That's why I did the shout out really. So thank you to everybody. Hello Cordet. Hello. It's lovely to see you as well. So yeah, it was pretty distressed into here. You know, when he said he can't, and he can't sleep. You know, there's a struggle with hospitals. They're doing their job. They're coming in all the time. Does that make sense? So just as he's about to drift off to sleep, there's somebody else needs to come and do something else. And he's just not getting any. So he's finding that tricky. So the sooner he can get home, the sooner he can really start to rest, I think. But darling, these astrology readings are not the same without you. I miss you. So if you're watching this, we're all missing you. It's better with both of us here. Yeah. Oh, the minute I talk about Greg the video pauses for a second. Wow. Yeah, I think he is on the mend Cordet. I think he is, you know, day by day. I think he just has, you know, just had a bad day yesterday. But he did say that he's getting up and up and a walkabout when he can. Although the... He's got kind of his starpo. Did you know that there's a buzzer in his bed? Every time he tries to sit up and he shifts his bum off the bed to actually move up the bed, this buzzer goes off and along comes the nurses.  He said, I wasn't, I was just sitting up. It's like they're really like on it. It's really funny.  But they did say he's wired up to so many different things and it isn't good for him to get up on his own. He's got kind of monitors on his chest. He's got kind of constant on, you know, oxygen levels on his finger.  Yeah. I feel for him, it's not nice. It's not nice being in hospital and I know he's not... He hates it. I know he does, but we're just hoping he'll get better soon. I love you, darling. Okay, so we're going to do the fire signs. Okay, first of all, I just need to do a little bit of a shout-out for lovely, my lovely Greg. So if you wanted to support Greg, press the subscribe button if you wanted to support him and you felt that you could, you could become a Patreon to support him from as little as $1.11 a month. It would mean an awful lot or any one-off donations would be gratefully received. He works really hard. That's partly why I think he's in hospital because he just works so hard. So if you wanted to support Greg, it's patreon.com and it's forward slash in 5D. Okay, if you wanted to support him. He does a t-shirt giveaway once a month for Patreon members. The next t-shirt giveaway is if he's well enough. Okay, so if he's well enough, it's December the 12th at 12, 12 p.m. eastern time. So this all depends on his health. If anybody has ordered any t-shirts or is thinking of ordering t-shirts, you can order them and he will get them out as soon as he can. Okay, so I know that that is something that he takes pride on. He will get them out that day as soon as they're ordered, but obviously he can't at the moment. But yeah. So if anybody wants to support Greg with the t-shirt or with Patreon, it will be gratefully received. Also, we've got in 5D club in 5D.club. This is a site for people of like minds to come together and chat. It can be used as a dating site, but it can be used as a friendship site. Connections with people of like minds. So anybody connected to in 5D, you know that these people are going to be very open. They're going to be people who are spiritual. So it's much better, I think, connecting with people in the in 5D club. So yeah. So if anybody wants to join in, you can just literally design a page, like you do Facebook, set a profile up and, you know, and then, you know, you can even have an avatar kind of this room, like a bar or something. And your avatar can go and talk to other people. So it's got your face on it and you can go and interact with other people in the bar. It's really quite cool. There's lots of games, the old-fashioned games like battleships. I love battleships and checkers and chess and all sorts. There's loads of different stuff going on there. So there is also a group called Twin Flame. You can start your own groups up there and chats. So yeah. For myself, I've got, just for the next few days, I've got the sale still on, half price for some of the classes that I'm doing, half price. There's also 10 pounds, which is $12 off. Some of the readings, you know, the majority of the other readings I've got going on. Okay. So you can also order gift vouchers for Christmas. The gift vouchers, they are open. So your person who is, you know, receiving the gift voucher can choose whether they want mindfulness, cosmic ordering, whether they want psychic development, psychic counseling, love life reading, career life path reading, or just normal reading. So you can actually just choose whatever you want. The things, the events that are coming up for you, every Monday there is a psychic development group. So you can join in with that. It's five pounds or $6. All the times and everything are down in the comments. But it does work out at 7.30 p.m. UK, which is 2.30 p.m. Eastern. Okay. Saturday the 5th of December, I think for the lot of people it will be today, that will be Karen McDonald. And lovely Karen McDonald. She is a clan mother and she's also connected to helping the children that are being rescued from the tunnels.  So she is helping these. She works alongside Patti Brassard. But Karen uses the genius machine. It's a biofeedback machine. And this biofeedback basically does a reading on your voice and the photo of you. And it tells you things about your body, tells you things about what your body is lacking in, what you need in order to make you healthy again. It goes back to the emotional issue a lot of the time, because any disorder in our body usually stems from something that we're not doing or something that we're holding on to, some emotional pain somewhere. So this all comes up with this biofeedback. And she's going to be doing a workshop on this, talking everybody through how this machine works and what it's used for. You can also have question and answers with her regarding what's going on as well with the rescuing. She can tell you as much as she is allowed to. She has a lot of information about so many different subjects. So it's well worth joining in. That will be the 5th of December 2020 and that will be at 2 p.m. and that is 2 p.m. that is UK time, which works out at 9 a.m. Eastern and 6 a.m. Pacific time. 10 pounds or $12. If you can't afford it, she works on donations. So she doesn't charge for the treatment. So you can barter with Karen if you did one treatment. There was a little old lady who knitted a headscarf for Karen and that was all she had and that was good for Karen. She works on e-donation. So there's no need to say that you can't afford it because you can. The other thing is, once she's got all of the information, she then puts out this sound wave and this sound wave, if you put a glass of water in front of the headphones as it's coming through the computer, it then creates this water elixir. It's just normal water and that water has the vibrational energy that it's going to heal you. So if you believe in sound therapy, this is basically how it has worked on that. So it's very futuristic. It's a lot of people will think, oh, I don't know if I believe in that. But Greg had sugar levels of 50 and it's supposed to be very minimum and it's supposed to be 70. So it was really bad and had this machine do its thing and he basically had the next level, the next day was 84. So it does work. It really does work. Hi, Janice. I will send your love to Greg. Thank you, Claudette. Thank you. My heart goes out to you both. Not knowing about the problem in his gut also worked against him. Now he knows what it is. He can work with it and throw out the stuff that gets it inflamed. Yes, that's true, Vera. That's true. 11th of 12th, sedaterous rising Pisces moon here. Okay. Well, we've already done Pisces and we're going to do Libra in the next video. We're doing sedaterousness this one. We are busy, but it's all good stuff. We really enjoy it. So Sunday the 6th of December is Elaine Thorpe. She's the trance medium. Absolutely amazing trance medium. Best I've seen. Okay. And I've seen a lot of mediums work. So yeah, very, very good medium. And she is, when she goes into trance, her guide comes through Jonathan Hunter. Now she's got a very gentle female voice. When she goes into trance, you have this clear definite male voice. Okay. And this is a Victorian gentleman, Jonathan Hunter. Okay. And he is talking directly from the spirit world. So you can talk to him, ask about your loved ones. He usually gets a direct link to them. So yeah, it's just amazing, amazing evening. I will, I advise it for everybody to come along to that one. It's five pounds or six dollars. Okay. And all the details on how you join and where the zoom codes are and everything are down below in the comments. Saturday the 12th of December is my tarot level two workshop. So that's 10 pounds or $12. And Saturday the 19th of December at 10 a.m. start, which is 3 p.m. UK. So 10 a.m. Eastern, which is 3 p.m. UK start. And that is Patty Brassard questions and answers. So Saturday the 19th of December. So Patty works with Karen. And Patty is somebody, she has two pineal glands, two, and they come up on an MRI scan. Okay. So two pineal glands. Now this, this lady was, she was, she's an advisor to Trump. She's got connections with Q and she's got connections with the children that are being rescued and all of the military action that is going on there. So you can ask questions about that and she'll tell you as much as she possibly can.  Okay. So literally I've had hours and hours and hours of talking to both Patty and Karen now. And it blows me away every time. Now there are people out there who will think that some of what she's saying is kind of farcical. And that's up to you. That is entirely up to you. The information will be going out there. It is entirely up to you how you take that information and how it feels to you. Go with how it feels. Okay. But sometimes the things that we are told now, sorry, things that we were told in the past that we now know now, we would have thought farcical back then. Okay. So I'm just saying there's a lot of stuff going on. So have an over mind about it. So anyway, we're going to do the astrology now. I'll start off with Leo and this is for all the Leos out there. So I know Sharon, Poe is a Leo and who else? And then we've got Brittany, Greg's daughter, Brittany. So hi Brittany. I'm hoping, you know, he said that you won't be able to get together for the Christmas ornament decorating, which is really upset about. But I think you've got a plan B, haven't you? Where, you know, here and his daughter, they do a connection. They make ornaments together every year. So it's really sweet. They've done it right the way through even now. So it's so sweet. And traditions are so good, aren't they? So anyway, my heart goes out to you. You're probably worried sick about your dad as we all are. Okay, so Leo's, let's have a look and see what's going on with you. Date is the 7th to the 13th of December. Okay, so Leo. Okay, so starting off this week, Leo's, you have two aces. Now the two aces are beginnings of, you have the beginning of new money, new work and extra money. You have the ace of swords, which is to do with ideas, inspiration, things that you have kind of, you know, things that pop up into your mind and you think, oh my God, I could make money from that or I could do this or I could make that into a little business of mine or, you know. So there's lots of lots of ideas like that going off. Okay, around the beginning of the week. Now some of these are going to be a little bit blocked. Okay, because it feels as if it's like, I don't know how to get past this problem. It's like, I want to do this and I want to do that, but I can't get past that. So I feel that you're going to have to be a little bit creative in, you know, getting things done and organized, but also in a way that you can kind of bypass these problems. So you can do it. I feel it could be just a matter of time, of course, but it could be that there's lots that you could do in preparation before you actually kickstart the actual process. Okay, so if this is doing the new job or this is to do with something that you want to create, do, make, start, career, you know, learn about, you know, you can still do that. Okay, but it sometimes means doing it in Steppy Stone's kind of, you know, timings. There's going to be kind of people coming back into your life that you haven't seen for a while. So this is kind of reuniting. And I feel that there is a celebration in a party, a celebration, a get-together where people are kind of raising a glass. Congratulations, well done, fantastic news. I know that seems a bit far-fetched at the moment because of the restrictions and everything, but I have to tell you what they give me. Sometimes I suppose this could be online. Okay, this online connection. But I definitely see that you have been familiar with this person, know this person very well. Okay, I feel that there is somebody around this kind of celebration who is sulking because they're not getting what they want from a situation. It could be that someone else is taking over or someone else is getting, you know, they're in the limelight and they want to be and they're a bit jealous of that.  I feel that what this does is it makes you steer away from this type of person or these feelings.  It's like you've outgrown certain people. You've outgrown their behaviors. It's like you can't see them in the same way as you did before. And I feel that you've been treading on ex-shells around them and it is time to kind of let that go and to move forward. Now, I know I say this a lot of the times, but this is what's happening around us at the moment. So please don't be surprised that this is happening. It's all to do with, it's called the grand awakening with people where more and more people are becoming more awake. And there are the people that are still kind of in the sleeping energy. People are disconnecting and not able to see the other side of the situation. And the gap is just getting more and more and more where people are just getting very annoyed with the other person because both people feel very strongly about what they see or what they feel or what they believe. And just as definite as they are, it's like you're definite that you're right as well. So it's like a clash. So it is, you know, keep happening. And that's in all signs. That's not in just Leo's. Okay. Once again, I'm hearing this walking. It's kind of like re-routing or taking a step away from where it is that you live or changes to where you live and that sort of thing. So there could be somebody close to you who is talking about that to you or it could be that you are talking to someone else about maybe moving. Okay. And that's coming up towards the end of the week. There is going to be an important meeting happen at the end of the week. Now this meeting will be linked to needing to be perfect or needing to be better than you've ever been. You know, getting things done in a way that you wouldn't normally work so hard about. Okay. So it's kind of being in that perfection energy and, you know, also it's to do with a meeting. So I do feel that that could be an interview. That could be an interview for a job. That could be going to find out some information. Okay.  Okay. Now there are saying that there are times that you're going to feel as if I'm isolating myself or I have to lock myself away. Now I know this is quite funny because everybody is being locked away and everybody is isolating mostly or they've been told to in some periods. So this is my isolation card. You can see it's kind of like, you know, coming away from the hustle bustle of life and just being cocooned inside. So that is going to be one of the issues that could even be that you're being independent at home which will be about being independent at home. And again, you know, moving that sort of thing is going to be spoken of. You do get bored easily and you do have to keep busy. So you're constantly thinking of things that you want to do or could do or, you know, because I think the longer that you sit and think about things, the more confused that it gets for you. So you're trying very hard to keep buoyant and keep your mind as active as possible. Okay. So that was Leo's. So now we're going to do Sagittarius. Okay. Now I have a Sagittarius moon or Sagittarius moon. Pisces, Sagittarius moon and Libralob rising. Okay. Sagittarius. And this card's just come out for Sagittarius people which is the world card which means that everything's going to turn out better than you thought. Well, what do you do? That's good. That's what I want. Okay. So Sagittarius. And this will be for the 7th to the 13th of December. Right. Okay. So the beginning of this week. Okay. And beginning of this week, I see a feeling here of sulking. Okay. It's sulking because there is somebody like a fatherly character, a father or someone in authority who is making everybody feel stressed. This person has been pushing people to be independent, pushing people to become outside of their comfort zones but the opposite to it. Just to be aware you feel as if you are wanting to get outside of your comfort zones but can't. So there's definitely, okay. So for some people, there will be a fear of stepping outside. There will be a fear of doing that and that is because of these restrictions that have gone on too long. There's obviously somebody who's been stuck. Okay. Either indoors or stuck very closely to be very near to home. Okay. So there is a feeling of agitation around here. Okay. So you'll be around that or you know, you're going to be feeling it yourself. The independence card means that you are going to start to be more independent and not rely so much on this fatherly character or father figure or person who is trying to tell you what to do. Now onwards and upwards. Okay. So as you go on to the middle of this week, you are able to go further with a plan and I feel this is to do with your ambitions. So that's career. That is, you know, desires where things have gone well already. There's a chance for it to go even better. Like you can't believe how better it's going to be.  Okay. And you know, you're able to see exactly what goes on from there. Now there is a feeling of I've got to steer my wishes, my desires and my dreams. I've got to steer this energy into the correct way. So there could be temptation around the corner. It's like you're tempted to go in this direction when you're trying to stay on this direction. Okay. And I feel that you're going to have to be very strict with yourself and strong because if you want to go onto a different level of career, of ambition, you know, it's like you've got to be more disciplined. You've got to be more sure of yourself. You've got to give it more time. You've got to study. You've got to concentrate. You've got to go to meetings and things like that. So I feel that this is all about to kind of come about in your life around the middle of the next week. And you're just going to need to be as strong as possible.  Now we've got the self-employment card, but then we've got the feeling of, for a lot of you, it could be coming away from being self-employed. Okay. Because I see that there's endings and beginnings happening and a feeling of either rejection, rejecting this or rejecting that and not able to fulfill, you know, what it is that you first started. Okay. So to do with kind of a business idea, I feel that one is going to have to stop while it could be another one then takes over. So it's like, you know, maybe it's a branch of a tree and you're seeing this tree emerge and then it's like this branch, that's doing really well. That's flourishing great. But this new branch over here is not doing so well, but this one over here is doing really well. So I think it's prioritizing what is working for you and what is not to do with money, work and finances. I'm seeing a form filling, writing down forms, you know, discussions about forms, signatures and paperwork. Okay. And it seems as if it's all a little bit secret keeping it to yourself somehow, not telling too many people about what you're doing regarding this form filling. Okay. But that's around the end of the week. Okay. So yeah, I see a bit of mischievous behavior around the end of the week as well. It's a bit like it's time to have some fun. It's been far too serious. Let's go and have a giggle. Okay. So yeah, I think there's going to be a little bit of break in the forms maybe around the end of the week for you, Sagittarius. Okay. So this is now Aries. So I know this is our lovely Vera. It's Vera. And then the Claudette. Claudette, thank you for the Leo. That's my pleasure. That's my pleasure. Okay. Aries. I'm going to concentrate on Aries now. Okay. Fire sign Aries. So this is the seventh through to the 13th of December. Okay. Right. Aries. The beginning of the week. Okay. So I would say that the beginning of last week is the last couple of days. There has been a lot of finalization endings. Saying goodbye to drawing the line under. Completions. Starting over. Okay. With new beginnings. A time to renew things. A time to forward plan. Something different or something new. Sorry. A time to say hello to the old and saying hello to the new. And this is also time to kind of walk away from anything that is no good for you. Walking away from, you know, things that you have once, you know, worried about or stressed about. It's like, I'm not stressed anymore. I am absolutely done. Okay. That is in the past. This is in the now. Future. Okay. There does seem to be another meeting coming up here. Now I know we had the meeting coming up for Sagittarius, but I'm seeing the meeting card come up for you Aries people. So this will be kind of coming to the end and walking away from probably the past. Okay. Walking away from someone or something from the past. Drawing a line under it and saying that is enough. It seems to be a meeting that is actually connected to this. I've had enough and I'm walking away from. You're going to feel a lot of energy of perfection. Everything in effect or trying to say that you have always got to be perfect. And you know that life isn't that simple. Life isn't that black and white. Okay. So sometimes we have to say, you know, I'm trying to move on, but there are other circumstances around. Okay. And sometimes I've got to juggle my time, my energy. Sometimes I've got to put up new boundaries around myself and around other people. Maybe other people don't properly understand me. And they need to kind of be aware of the fact that maybe I have restrictions and they aren't seeing my restrictions or, you know, there's boundaries up. So it's all to do with kind of what you will and won't put up with anymore. It's all to do with letting go and walking away from things that are no longer needed. Okay. We've heard this time and time again throughout the cards, throughout the weeks. But this is your time Aries to do this. And the guillotine is coming down on some things that are no longer needing to be analyzed.  Okay. In your mind. Okay. But there will be a meeting coming up. This meeting would be an appointment. That could be anything from a bank manager, a state agent, interview for a job. It could be, you know, somebody coming to, coming to you for an appointment or something like that. Okay. I do see that there is somebody close to you who wants everything done their way.  Or is this just that the universe is asking you to be a bit more particular about how you do things. There are going to be some boundaries set up. The boundaries are essential for your sanity, it looks like. So what once was kind of very laid back is actually needing to be a bit more structured in your life because life has changed as we've seen at the beginning of the week. By the end of the week, you have got two main jobs. I'm seeing you doing two main jobs, not just one. And these two main jobs are equally important and equally, you know, time consuming. So if you'll find you're not working, then this would be jobs that you allocate yourself or something that you're having to do. Okay. So yeah, it's weighing things up the pros and the cons to, you know, how this job is completed and what you do for this job and this work. It could be whether or not you ask other people to help you with that job as well. But yeah, I do feel that you don't want to feel trapped or you don't want to feel as if you've got no choices in life. So sometimes you prefer not to have so much responsibility on your shoulders. You know, other people's responsibility, that is, that you tend to work better on your own or for yourself. Okay. It is better that way. Involving other people in it all usually causes clashes of personality because you know how you want it done or you think it should be done and they know or think that they want to do it their way. So it's always a clash of personalities. Involvement is usually better for you. Areans. Okay. So that is all the fire signs done. Okay. So I'm going to come back in a moment and do the air signs. Okay. Let's catch up with anything that's been said. Okay. Marsha, that's your son, is it? Okay. And Sharon. Hi, Allie. Hi, Sharon. Okay. All right. So I'm going to come back in a moment. I'm going to take some more painkillers because the pain is building and I'll be back in a bit. Okay. Thanks, Vera. Thanks for being here for me in replace of Greg. All right. Bye. See you in a bit.