Hi, I am Dorin Riepe and I will give you a brief overview of our new paper Password Authenticated Key Exchange from Group Actions. This is joint work with Michelle Abdalla, Thorsten Eisenhofer, Ike Kils and Sabrina Kunzweiler. At the same time, you can follow our chat and read a bit more about the story behind the paper. So let's start. We use Group Actions as a building block and more concretely the framework of cryptographic group actions, which is an abstraction that is very close to the classical Diffie-Hellman setting. Various constructions were already proposed, for example public key encryption, signatures and oblivious transfer. The most interesting instantiation of group actions is given by the commutative, super singular, isogenic Diffie-Hellman protocol, or short C site, which is believed to be post-quantum secure. So the final goal is to construct a password-authenticated key exchange protocol or short PAKE. Such a protocol allows two parties to agree on a session key based only on the knowledge of a short low entropy string, for example a password. So here we have Alice and Bob, who both know the password, and after they exchanged some messages, they will be able to compute a shared session key. When we talk about the security of PAKE, we consider an adversary, Mallory, who might try to impersonate Bob towards Alice. Of course Mallory can always guess a password, then interact with Alice and see if the guess was correct. This is what we call an online dictionary attack, and this should be the best attack against each PAKE protocol. Since passwords are basically used everywhere, PAKE is a nice tool for practical applications. After an official selection process by the CFRG, two protocols will now also be standardized. One of the winners, CPACE, builds up on the simple password exponential key exchange, short speak, which is also our starting point. In short speak, the two parties perform a Diffie-Hellman key exchange, where the password is used to hash to a generator of the group. Unfortunately this approach does not work in the seaside setting, since we don't know how to hash into super-singularisotomy graphs. So our next idea was to use a bit-by-bit approach using a CRS of two elements. Each bit of the password would then determine which CRS element will be used for a group-action Diffie-Hellman key exchange. However, it turns out that this is also insufficient, and this is due to the fact that the elliptic curves used in seaside provide additional structure, namely the twists. Using twists, one can break the assumption underlying our protocol, and it also directly translates to an offline dictionary attack. In our paper, we finally present two different protocols which both solve this issue. The first uses a commitment so that the party sending the first message needs to choose the message in advance and commit to it, so that the other party cannot use this information to perform the attack we identified before. In the second protocol, both parties compute different combinations or cross terms of the Diffie-Hellman values, which ensures that they really need to know the secret. We prove security of the first protocol based on the GAP CDH assumption for group actions, and the second uses a new assumption which we call strong, square and burst Diffie-Hellman. One advantage of this is that the protocol can still be executed in one round. We also show how to optimize the protocols so that they are significantly more efficient than the only known previous constructions for seaside, which use oblivious transfer. If you want to know more details about our new protocols, I'll give a longer talk at Crypto on Tuesday, or just have a look at the e-print version of our paper. Finally, I also want to thank Luca De Feo for the panel with the twists.


Welcome to the Everton News Daily. Frank Lampard has given his pre-match press conference ahead of Everton's FA Cup fifth round tie with Boreham Wood tomorrow night at Gouldersham Park. Lampard has confirmed the team news for that, has confirmed that there's no Dominic Alvert Llewman, he's still out injured. The young me feel the Tyler on Yango, who has been suffering with a hynny a problem, unsure as to whether he'll be available for the squad tomorrow night. He did confirm however that Ukrainian left back Vitaly Mikolenko will start the game for Everton. It was asked questions about the on-going, while Russia and Ukraine and the mindset of Mikolenko said that Everton had to support him and that he's training and will play tomorrow night. At the moment he's in the right frame of mind to play so that's all we can do really isn't it, give him the support he needs and hopefully he will concentrate on his football as well. Give him some relief from obviously the worry and stress that is going on back in his homeland but be good to see him in the start and 11 tomorrow. He spoke about Nathan Patterson as well Frank Lampard but was very non-committal on Patterson and he didn't confirm whether Patterson will play or not. He said he's going to have to be patient but he did say he's for the future, he's a long term signing. He said he's unfortunate at the moment because Seamus Coleman is doing really well and he's obviously the club captain as well. But I still think Patterson will get some time on the pitch tomorrow night and he should do. You know this is the opportunity for the manager to have a good look at him. It's an opportunity for him to make his debut for the club and I expect him to play some part definitely tomorrow night. I was hoping on Yang Howard but obviously with that injury worry he may miss out. But the pitch is from the squad training in advance of this game as I've reached Welsh in the young defender who's playing in the 23s. And also Isaac Price another he's a younger field player who's been playing in the 23s. Lewis Dobbins of course also pitted as well. So those three may well be in the squad tomorrow night as well. I'm sure Lampard will make some changes anyway. He has to of course because there's no Delhi, there's no Donnie van der Beek and there's no Amar El-Ghazi. But those three are all cup-tired so the manager has already got to bring three additional people into the squad that were in the squad on Saturday in the 1-0 defeat against Manchester City. Evanard today have announced they've suspended their sponsorship deals with USM, Megafont and Yota. The Blues released a statement today confirming that it is suspended in the wake of the Russia's invasion of the Ukraine. Evanard will take the cover of the signage of Gooderson Park, change the shades, take the signage off there and the women apparently are wearing the men's kit tonight. Women's obviously has Megafont as their sponsor so they're going to wear the men's kit tonight at Aston Villa. So Evanard doing there but I'm rightly so distanced and this cannot be accepted in 2022 that war, you can't be supporting one side. Especially the aggressors so Evanard have moved today very quickly to distanced themselves from that and rightly so. Finally, Evanard interested in Birmingham midfield player Jordan James. The teenager has broken to Birmingham 13 this season. He's been very impressive with his displays. He's made 17 appearances in the championship and scored one goal and a host of clubs are looking at the teenager Evanard. One of them apparently have watched them a few times this season. Evanard also monitored Bristol City's Alex Scott as well, another midfield player, wide player who's a teenager as well. So Evanard clearly looking to try and bring some younger players in to the squad as well. So he's a name to look out for Jordan James. That is it for the news daily. Make sure you check out the ultimate fan app. And download that. Give this video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't and if you want more videos including daily life videos join us on page and the link is in the description. See you later.


Hi everybody, my name is Camille and I am the founder of the Float Spa based in Bryson and Hove in the UK. So I'm going to say good afternoon to everybody. It's 4.25pm my time, so I'm not really sure if it's still the morning or the afternoon where you are. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening from wherever in the world you are. So thank you for joining me today.  So I want to start with a little bit about what the Float Spa is. So for the first time of doing any talk I don't need to explain what floating is, so that is pretty spectacular.  We're based in the UK in Bryson and Hove which is on the south coast. It's lovely right by the sea. If anyone knows where that is. So I have 3,000 square feet of space which comprises of eight rooms in total. I have three float rooms, an infrared sauna, three therapy rooms and a very large yoga studio. Pre-COVID would take 25 students and in January, so we opened the Float Spa in 2015 and in January 2020 I have created a brand new business and opened just upstairs called Float Training Academy which trains the future, the next generation of wellbeing professionals based in the UK. So I wanted to talk to start with a little bit about who I am and why I'm worthy of sitting in front of you today. So my name's Camille as I've explained I have, I first got involved with floating in 2014. Prior to that I used to work in a very very very stressful and busy corporate job in London. I got paid a hell of a lot of money to work incredibly long hours and be under immense amounts of stress and ever since the age of probably 12 I've always been super high powered, incredibly career driven, super passionate about what it is and what I'm into and it was mainly marketing. So I used to work in marketing agencies managing multiple campaigns, super busy, really really strict deadlines and I thrived and I absolutely loved it until everything changed until I didn't. So I loved my job I used to get up, be out the house six o'clock in the morning, get home, seven, eight o'clock at night, didn't ever think that that was not normal. I had my daughter in 2013, she's the one on the left hand side, Dali and obviously your life does change a bit. Most likely I went back to work a little bit soon and my daughter in 2014 got very sick and I mean very sick. In the UK we say like she was blue-lighted to intensive care and we were told to prepare for the worst. Now when you have an 11th month old baby preparing for the worst that's not great and that's not brilliant but this is a photo that was taken a few months ago and she's absolutely fine now. You would not have a clue that anything happened to her other than what happened. Luckily or unluckily she had three colds, croup, broncolytus, a bacterial infection in upper airway. She was really sick but she bounced back and it's very interesting that we're in Covid because her immune system was hit so badly in 2014 and actually ever since then we've been so obsessed with enhancing immune system so we've learned a lot and hopefully we are fully prepared for any Covid outbreaks in our household or anything like that. But anyway so that's when my journey began. I left work at three o'clock on a Wednesday and I said left everything on the table. I said don't worry I'll be back tomorrow we're just going to take my daughter to hospital, she's not feeling very well. I walked back in the office four weeks later and everything around me in the office was exactly the same but something in me had changed. We just spent all this time in hospital with our daughter being so sick kind of clinging on to her dear life and I walked back into that incredibly stressful busy chaotic environment that was work and that was normal and I'd operated normally for such a long time in that environment but something else flipped in my head and you know stress what I used to think was commonplace but actually the very reality of it that as I know now and as most float centre owners know and post people that float regularly actually that's not good to operate on such high levels of stress all the time and when I went back to work and the reason I chose to go back to work is my husband and I we decided so when my daughter got out of hospital and we were told very specifically she should not be in a public place for at least six weeks she cannot go to nursery she cannot go to the supermarket she cannot go anywhere busy you need to protect her at all times now you need to protect her why her body fully recovers from the trauma it's gone through so as parents we did that and my husband hated his job and in the later towards the end of 2014 we were always planning for him to open his own business and we prepared for it and everything like that and so it was a no-brainer I earned a lot of money and I could sustain the family opening his new business once he had a suitable amount of time with our daughter to look after her and I take him eternity leave so I thought well why not he can enjoy some time with her and that would be great I went back to work and I remember walking back into the office so vividly that day that I went back and all you know it was chaotic and this brain shift something had happened in my head I'm aware of that fully aware of it now but at the time when you're in that midst of chaos you don't really realise that and I went back to work and over the next few weeks I just did something that I's never done before and that was I started failing at work I my concentration was all over the place I kept forgetting things I just became useless and I remember sitting down with my boss and she was like what is going on and I was like oh no you know I've just got I'm just so busy it's just there's so much on and when I looked at the volume of work I was doing then was probably a spec what I was used to doing but I started to spiral very quickly into a very dark place and a few months later my dad came over to visit and turned around to my husband and said to him what is going on with Camille and he said oh this is a really good day she's out of bed on a weekend you know she's normally too tired to be able to function and I also in this midst of crazy as I call it started to reject my daughter I felt that it was my fault that I should have protected her more and I started to reject her and you know become in a spiralling state of depression and a few weeks later I went to the doctors and was diagnosed with PTSD as a relation to my daughter's illness anxiety and depression and as a lot of us know is the conventional recovery from PTSD is either some antidepressants and CBT or therapy or just wait it out and I didn't have much time because it was getting really bad and I have come from a family that I'll have dependency with antidepressants so I knew that that wasn't a route for me so I was kind of like in this cycle of like what to do and my dad sent me this book this book changed my life completely radicalized my life and I don't need to explain what floating is for the very first time but he sent me this book we had a chat on the phone and he said just go and have a float it might really help you while you wait for therapy and so I went for a float I hated it and I didn't read enough of the book before I went for a float and I was like pretty much a lot of people that come to see us at the float bar is they think their life is going to change with one float I mean in a way it did change but I suppose I just expected the magic to happen and the people that come in and that magic does happen on the first float sometimes I have slightly envious but at the end of the day magic didn't happen I just got very bored very agitated I wasn't really very aware of being alone with my own thoughts but anyway I also really didn't like the place that I went to I have major cleanliness standards in this place wasn't very clean and I went I came out my dad went that was useless you know whatever and said please go back for another one just go somewhere else find somewhere else so I couple of days later I went to a different place a place in East Grinstead and it literally blew my mind and for the first time in months I was able to relax and let go and all the benefits of floating that we now find happens the process started in that second float it was clean for a start and then I was completely hooked I floated everywhere I went anywhere in the UK I could find the float just to see what it was like was there a pod that was different was there a cabin what was it what was what was happening to me because something happened and I didn't realize what was happening I had no intentions of ever leaving my job and changing my life but things started to happen and about the third or fourth float and I rang my dad and went I can't work in this job anymore and the job is stressing me out I want to leave my job and he said okay what do you want to do I went I want to open a float center and he said okay you hated your floating the other day and now you want to open a float center and I said yes I think there isn't one in Brighton Hove and I can do it my background was marketing and specifically I used to help people market gyms leisure centers spas hotels so the industry that affected that the floating can sit under I knew I could get people through my door I just needed some money and I needed to find the right location so in the October of that year I decided with great pleasure I handed in my notice in what we call in the UK and I decided to start this journey of opening a float center and in all of this crazy and epiphany I now come to love talking about change and helping people understand why people make such radical changes I love changing things and in I and my husband and I've been together for 12 and a half years I've probably had 150 hairstyles every time I get a head shot and about three or four months later my hair is completely different I change the way I look I change you know the furniture around my house I change everything and I also change the way that we run our business not badly but you know I'm constantly improving I think that if we constantly improve we just get a better version of ourselves so I then started to as well as open the float bar I started to become really fascinated by why people change and my dad ironically is a huge supporter of mine obviously you'd expect that from me father but you know we never had the best relationship growing up and actually in our adult life we've grown this relationship and cemented it and and he would always say to me he hates change so he's had the same hairdresser for 35 years he's actually had the same job for his entire life you know he doesn't really change but then over recent years he's made radical changes he's lost a lot of weight he's drank less he's stopped smoking and together we've I've spoken to him so many times about why he makes that change and actually by him now understanding why he makes that change he actually makes more change so this is one of my favorite subjects and it's very weird to not have people's faces when we're doing it on zoom or an audience feedback but anyway I'm going to hopefully you enjoy it as much as I do so why do people make change now if you think about it I don't think anyone's been to float school after sixth form school or after college in the UK we don't go to school go to secondary school then go to college to study floating and then open a float business it doesn't happen so pretty much everyone might have had their eureka moment or their epiphany of finding floating and then making that decision to change so I listened to Vivian earlier just earlier on I know Vivian she's amazing and listening to her story and her story has a catalyst a catalyst a trigger to change so it's really interesting the more float center owners I speak to or know something forces them to make change so let's look at the start like what types of change are there well we can drink less we can earn more money we could change to start a family you want to have an exercise regime you want a new career for pain relief whatever it is there's so many different types of change so what is that and how does change work now about three or four years ago I found or I was introduced to this model now and this is a behavioral scientist there from Stamford and his name is BJ Fogg and he has created this behavior model and I absolutely love it and when I explain this to clients they really resonate with it because it's actually really easy to do and as a float center owner if you understand why people come to you in the first place it will help you convert them into long lasting clients um when I was approached or when I heard about that you were flipping the conference and doing it uh that we often the option to be digital and also have UK speakers and then you um I was asked if we had any float stories of our clients and it's something we've started to to build up actually and um I've been listening to some of the journeys that our clients have had and some of our clients actually floated for us when we first opened our doors five and a half years ago and they're still part of the journey and listening to their stories is just amazing and the fact that they some of them pick this model out it shows that what we're doing works so BJ Fogg's model believes or his idea and his thought and all the research that he's done states that in order to make behavioral change is there needs to be motivation of course there needs to be motivation you need to be able to do it because some change might not be possible to do you might want to climb Mount Everest tomorrow and change to do that but actually that's not very easy to do so you need to have a level of ability and then the final thing that reinforces the motivation and ability is something called a trigger or a prompt or something that forces you and reiterates the change the motivation and ability so let's look at the next slide because this should hopefully explain it so let me give you some examples if you take the the change habit of you want to change and give up smoking day one right i'm putting the cigarettes across the other side of the room i'm not smoking today you might bin everything wash them down the sink whatever it is so you've got rid of them so motivation is really high i'm really motivated to give up smoking then as the motivation becomes harder to do so day two and day three is that has an inverse reaction so as it becomes harder to do and motivation starts to dwindle it then becomes harder and then most likely you fail so let me just rephrase this example again so a pregnant lady wants to give up smoking so we have something else playing a part in this model so we're really excited we find out we're pregnant yes i'm pregnant now i need to give up smoking okay we've got to give up smoking so now we find that motivation is really high we really are motivated because we want to protect that baby then my unborn baby we need to protect my unborn baby at all costs and it's easy i've washed all the cigarettes away i'm not going anywhere near any of the cigarettes and then we have this trigger i'm pregnant that reinforces the motivation and ability meaning that lasting behavioral change will happen because we have a trigger to do it so how can we improve motivation so we can tackle all the demotivators that's easy as that stress is also a massive one of them this is why floating is so good at helping change because if you make it easier or people's coming into you for for change they come in they you make it easy for people to change you just need to come every week or every month you can make stress easier by floating regularly i want to talk about baby steps at the end if i've got enough time um which i know i'm running out very quickly um and you know floating you helped to calm your mind ability we need to make it easy for for do so we don't want to have something that's too demanding do we think about it you know if it requires a lot of effort then people are going to just fail but floating requires no effort at all so it helps people make lasting change and i want to just talk about triggers because in a world that a perfect world i wish in a way i'd never found oh sorry i wish that i had found floating but i had never had a trigger and i wish that we could live a perfect life when we don't have these triggers or traumatic events or grief or loss and you know the amount of clients that we get in at the float bar and so many of them have gone through such huge traumatic events and the reason they've gone through traumatic events is because life happens could we have you know could i have never taken my daughter to nursery and kept my daughter at home so therefore she wouldn't have picked up any viruses yes i could have done that but because i was career minded and because we needed to have an income coming in that life wasn't an option but the changes that made on the back of it happened and i now spend way more time with my daughter i am way less stressed i am so much more happy so the time that she gets is so much better because of those triggers that have happened also from an owner point of your business owner point of view and a float center owner is seeing an offer or relating offers to help people make change signing up to a newsletter making these things easier joining a program i know there's maximum floats that are here at the conference and they're amazing program consultation model which is just lovely and seeing making things easy making the program easy for people to understand help people make lasting change this is one of my favorite business theories this is a japanese word i've stolen it this is not my word it's a japanese word and i read an incredible book by julian richer and then the book states the book's all about continual improvement and as a business owner i'm continually improving i put in feedback things i want to know everything that my client thinks the amount of time we spend with our clients talking to them through their journey taking them on the next stage of their journey you know when they come in it's like so valuable to understand why they are here and once you understand who they are as a person the next stage of the journey they will become raving fans as people always say they will support you they will help you find the next client they will be there supporting you during covid when you're locked down and they will still keep their direct debit going because they are begging for you to open their email you can do to ask you when you're opening and you know they are the ones that are there and the reason that we're so good at it is because we always improve i love change love it totally i think it's the best thing we can do as human beings and as float zentronas always learn always improve and always connect with your clients it's been an absolute honor and a privilege and yes thank you so much for your time


Welcome to this module on quality without exclusivity, a set of lectures on open and distance learning. In this module, we will learn about learning analytics. We have already seen process issues related to a MOOC, technology and platforms, a small segment on MOOCs. We are going to talk of standards and a roadmap to MOOCs in subsequent talks. So, what is learning analytics? It is all about measurement and analyzing the data that you have collected. The objective of course, is to improve effectiveness and optimize the learning and the environment in which it occurs. So, I have taken this definition from a conference which has been held in 2011. The first learning analytics conference happened in 2011. So, you can see it is the whole area is quite new, but it is very, very active at this point of time, because this is expected to give a handle on improving our quality of teaching and learning. So, this learning analytics is nothing new actually. We all know about it. We used to take feedback during the course, like we would monitor the attendance, how many students are coming or not, the participation in the class. We do not record it, but mentally we know who is active and who is not. We have access to information like data from the library. If I put a book in the textbook section, I can go and check if students are checking the book out and reading or not. That is another example of the kind of feedback we take. And of course, performance in the exams is the ultimate feedback which will tell me whether the students are learning what is being taught or not. We also take feedback at the end of the course. Typically, the popular question and most important question as the instructor taught well. So, this is all part of analytics. The problem with this is the data collected is not comprehensive. It is not complete. Very often we miss out monitoring certain aspects of the course. It is not taken seriously by the student or the teacher. And often it comes late in the course to make any mid course corrections. So, what does learning analytics do? The situation is when the teaching is and learning is online, we have more opportunities. Because the student is interacting with the system is logging into the learning management system, let us say. And listening to the videos and you can figure out how many times he is watching the video. You can figure out whether he has watched the video at all or not and at what frequency he is watching the video. So, these are the kind of opportunities you get when you have the ability to monitor the interaction between the student and the content. So, what are the objectives of learning exercise of a learning analytics module? Essentially, we want to improve teaching. We want teaching to be more effective. And we would like to retain the student. Retain the student not just in terms of interest in the particular course, but over a degree program the student may show signs of dropping off and we need to be aware to that. We would like the student to complete the program. So, what the analytics module will help us do is basically notify the instructor before the situation gets worse. So, one assumes that the student gets disinterested or got into some problems somewhere along the line. And it reflects in his interaction in the class. Now, the class is online mind you. And so, I should be able to keep track of the decreasing interest or decreasing interaction in the class and the program per se. There are multiple courses then one can actually see the deterioration in the in the connect with the program. And then the software possibly can predict look this trend is alarming be careful. So, that is what analytics is all about. So, for whom is this learning analytics? It is for the teacher, it is for the student and of course, for the institute. What are the kind of measurements that are made? The time spent by the student in engaging with the content number of times he logs in the mouse clicks. This is an indication of how active the student is as he turned the video play on and has gone to sleep or not is possibly can be checked out with this how active is the student. The kind of resources that are there that are being accessed the number of artifacts produced in terms of assignments that are done submitted by the student and in terms of quizzes that are attempted and extra reading that the student has done and so on. And of course, the number of finished assignments. These are the typical measurements that one does and one can do quite easily if your analytics is online. So, a case study for learning analytics which is turned out to be very very successful in terms of its effectiveness is the module called course signals which was started at Purdue University. It was essentially to detect early warning signs that may appear in the in the course. Of a student study and it provides real time feedback to the instructor and to the administrators monitoring starts quite early in the program as soon as in the second week of the course. So, right from the very beginning of the semester the instructor and the teacher is tracking the student. And of course, the feedback is frequent and ongoing and it is said this program by Purdue University has been actually very effective and it has helped reduce dropout rates in the program. So, that is all about analytics essentially it is all about tracking the student. It is a known thing, but now we have been doing it all along, but now since the whole interaction is automated we can do it better and we can use technologies like big data which will do mining and association discovery and then make some predictions of an impending unacceptable situation. Thank you.


This study investigated the role of extracellular vesicles, EVs, in the spread of hepatocellular carcinoma, HCC, to the bones. The researchers found that EVs released from HCC cells in bone metastases were able to transfer microRNA, 3190, MIR, 3190, which was then used to increase the metastatic potential of HCC cells. This increased metastatic potential was due to decreasing the levels of ALKBH5, a protein that normally prevents cancer cell growth. In addition, the researchers developed a novel therapy using antagoners loaded with MIR, 3190 to block the spread of HCC cells to the bones. This study provides important insight into how EVs can be used to spread cancer to other parts of the body, and suggests a new approach to treating HCC in patients with bone metastases. This article was authored by Shin Chi Han, Lin Shue, Yi Wei, and others.


The talented young British rider has never won a Grand Prix before. He's been in the series in 2010 when he admitted it was too early for him. And here comes Kasparzak at the inside-out. It's in the last lap as well. There is no red light. The referee allows the race to continue. Ty Wuffin did a great Britain. He's going to win his first ever Grand Prix. What a story. Let's say best wishes to Nikki Penison and the hope that he's up very shortly. But he won't finish the race. But Ty Wuffin, that is the man at the moment. He's now just a point behind him on side food and off in the race for the World title. He's very tense here and that's a super start from Ty Wuffin and in blue now. He has that lead. Hancock is in second in red. But it's bunching up and Penison's going to try the outside line once again. Will Hancock take him wide? Penison's got the drive. Hancock holds second place. Now Penison's going to have a go and Zengar is in there as well. And Hancock was really quite clever there, leaving Penison nowhere to go. And Zengar was able to strike and get himself onto a rostrum position. Going into the last lap, Ty Wuffin and the Rating World Speedway Champion has that lead down the back straight and surely now barring a mechanical failure. He's heading to victory, puts his arm in the air. He knows he's going to do it again. It's a proud double for Ty Wuffin second. Joins him on the leaderboard. It's Wuffington and Hancock who lead the World Championship after four rounds. It's a great night for the great British rider, Ty Wuffin and... And final team two all about the start. Hancock's made it, wonderful game from the old master, the 44-year-old. As Wuffin comes around the outside, Chris Holder comes through into third in yellow and humbles on the back. Wuffin did now though, goes high into the dirt. Ty Wuffin started initially, possibly rode a little bit too conservative and allowed the room, but Wuffington was there to bounce. He won in Prague and Ty Wuffin that is going to pick him the third Grand Prix winner of his career and the first one outside of Prague. Ty Wuffin that is a big winner in Malala and he will also lead the World Championship by one point. Going to Copenhagen for the halfway stage of the World Championship. And away they go and Wuffin's made a good one, but Solzhenowski. Now Wuffington momentarily, he's got the drive. Solzhenowski second, Jarek Appel third and Nicky Pedersen is at the back cross in the early 2000s. And the Speedway, what a win for Wuffington. It's a great start from Jarek Appel, Wuffington is equal to it though. Wuffington is the early leader now. Hancock comes around the outside of Jarek Appel, there's a battle for second place. Can Hancock pass Wuffington now? Wuffington the series leader in the World Championship has the advantage. Hancock is going to hunt it, finish with the Grand Prix. What a couple of laps of Speedway.  Riding like a champion. It's Wuffie, Wuffie, Wuffie! David coming into the final, finishes third place. What a ride from Ty Wuffington and I thought he'd thrown it all away. It's a good start now. Can anybody pass him? Wuffington is looking super quick. He's got the lead down the back straight. Leguta and Hancock wheel to wheel. Leguta holds second spot right now. Hancock tries to switch up the inside, but Wuffington looks to have this race under control. Ty Wuffington is what a night for Great Britain's Ty Wuffington, fantastic form. Vincis Wuffington tonight, finishes it off in style. Smarshwick's moved to the start and he's in the back. It's Hancock who has the lead. It matters most. He's delivered up with a victory on the night, which seems so unlikely earlier on. And he's made a beautiful start here, Ty Wuffington. And it could well be that he will finish as world champion with a gap of 10 points, never in. He's going to do it, he's going to do it. He's made a wonderful start on the inside. He dropped the clutch, he's hit the front. Leguta as hard as he's trying in second place, but with a lap to go, the new world champion is going to wrap it all up. Winning Torren. Well, he's going down the back straight, raised arm towards his family. Classic performance, sensational start. And many congratulations to a great of the sport now, Ty Wuffington.


Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Sabadell Defense, and we're back with another edition of Tactical Minuteman Gear. New year, new chest rig. I made this chest rig because I'm actually going to a course here in April with SNS Training Solutions, and they require a green or coyote tan chest rig. And my current one that I'm running, that's my default, is Multicam. So, you know, I had this one lying around because I bought it a while ago and never really did anything with it. So I've kind of built it out and really I've liked it and I think I'm going to make it my main rig and I think I'm going to switch to it. And let's walk through and talk about why. First of all, this is a, and I'm not sure if you're going to be able to read that from where you're at, but this is a B's Combat Systems, B, B, E, Z, Combat Systems Chest Rig. I originally bought this chest rig for my 308. And that's what it fits. It's actually sized to take 308 magazines. Right now I have 556 magazines in there and with the retention, they actually stay in there pretty well. There's not a lot of moving. If this gets disconnected, you know, they get pretty loose in there, but with the elastic retention in there, they hold great. So I'm going to keep running that for a while and see how that goes. Try to get some walks out with it, try to take a class with it, really make sure that it's solid and square way and good to go. I have not tried an AK magazine in here yet, but I imagine it could probably fit in AK mag. I don't know. I haven't confirmed that. We'll need to try it. That being said, I like the fact that it is a 308 chest rig and it's versatile, right? So if I wanted to put 308 mags in there, I could. And then I don't need to have a whole different rig and a whole different setup. I just swap the mags out and I'm good to go. So I really like the versatility of that. The chest rig itself is a split chest rig, right? So you can split it across the front. That's really nice because, you know, if you want to get prone or get low, you can do that a lot better if you were going to have whatever reason needed to split it because you're climbing up a ladder and it's more comfortable or something like that. You can do that. And if you ever wanted to split it open to dump heat because you're in a hot environment, that would also work. So really liking the split chest rig so far. So what exactly do I have in here? Last thing I'll say about this chest rig is that it's really cool is that it has these two map pockets on the side here. And what I did is I took an AR 500 armor, a little sleeve thing here that they have that they make for their plate carriers and it fits in here perfectly. And I could hold another three magazines in the back so I could double stack my mags. So if I was ever going in to do something where I'm gonna need a lot of bullets, I could carry an additional six magazines, three on this side, three on this side. And now, you know, I can walk in with up to 12 magazines if I really wanted, if I thought that was necessary. I could do that.  And again, if I were to run that 308 gun and I was gonna take my AR 15-2 because some people do that and maybe I want to, I could still off one chest rig support two weapon systems, right? I could put my AR 15 magazines back here. I could run my 308s up front and that way I can support both guns as is appropriate, right? So I like, again, I like the versatility of it and that's what's winning me over to this setup and this system. The other one I currently do not have a sleeve in, I'm using this as an actual map pocket to store map pocket stuff. But again, if I wanted to have that sleeve in here because I have two sleeves, I could carry six additional magazines and that's a really cool feature. They don't have great retention, right? You're mainly using your, the body pressing against the rig and the rig pulling against it to kind of hold it in there and give it some tension but it's enough that I think you'd be okay. As long as you're not falling out of a helicopter, I think you'll be just fine. And I unfortunately don't have access to a helicopter so not an issue for me. So working right to left, back here, I have three AR-15 magazines. This is an SRK from Cold Steel, okay? That's just kind of going back there for now. Here is a AR-15 mag pouch and I just have a smoke grenade in there for right now. I need to probably get a better pouch for that but that's how that holds. This is a super admin pouch from Banshee Tactical, I believe, I got it on Amazon. I'll leave an affiliate link below if it tickles your fancy. I like this because you have a little map open window here and then you have a second pocket where you can put stuff in. I don't have anything in there but I like being able to have a map or a checklist or something that can just check when I need to, right? And then it folds up. So that's cool. You can fit a flashlight or a handgun mag in here if you wanna do, right? Currently I don't have anything in there at all but if I wanna do, I could fit a handgun mag or even an extended handgun mag in there. So that's a cool ability to have there, okay? And then the nice thing is it zips open and it opens up to where you can see it, right? When this is on your body, you just flip this open, you can see it. Right now I have a compass, lighter, a little snack, a little paint can thing and a multi-tool all in here. And again, there's more room in here, right? There's another pocket back here, which is cool. And then a front pocket up here next to, you'll see that, front pocket next to the compass. So I don't have too much in there right now but I've liked that pouch so far and I think that's a really cool deal. Turn the kit on the bottom, right? I like that they bothered to put that elastic there so I can have a turn the kit. That's nice. Over here, I do currently have two handgun mags. This is a pouch from AR500 Armor. These may or may not stay on here but I like, again, the versatility of being able to leave this on here so that if I'm wearing a pistol, I can carry two mags. Boom, I don't need to carry a battle belt, I don't need to worry about that. I can slap a pistol on and I just have two pistol mags on here and I can support the pistol as needed, right? Electrical tape down here because that's always nice to have. This is a Amazon Chinese pouch. I got off of Amazon Elite Spanker, Spanker, I don't know. Something like that, it's a silly name but actually this is a nice pouch. I've enjoyed it. Had it on one of my other rigs for a while. Just moved it over to here and it has two pouches, front one is empty. The back one and the whole reason I put this on here is because it will hold my GPS, right? So I have a GPS in here, haven't played with this a whole lot, looking forward to learning more about that but I put that in here so that I can do navigational stuff, right? So this really is the only purpose is to hold my GPS on my rig. Again, it has other pockets that maybe I'll put stuff in later, maybe not. Hopefully not, I put too much stuff on here already. This is just a dump pouch, right? Again, cheap Amazon dump pouch that's gonna get upgraded here a month or two with something, a Blue Force gear makes these really skinny, really light dump pouches. I'm gonna put that one here but I just have this here for now so I have something to have expanded capacity. In general, I'm a big fan of having ability to expand your capacity on your rigs. If everything is full all the time then you have no flexibility. So I know it's hard but to leave things empty on purpose will actually behoove you so that, again, when something happens you have room to flex. You can pick something up. You can grab some extra mags because you need those. You can take something from a sensitive site exploitation or whatever. Having empty pouches gives you flexibility. So learn to not stuff everything to the gills because then you have no flexibility, okay? So that's in part why some of this is empty. Some of it's empty just because I haven't gotten around to filling it yet but some of it's empty because hey if I need to put something else in there, I can and I like having that ability. So a dump pouch is great for that. Even if you don't plan on using it as a dump pouch even if you plan on just having it again just for the flexibility factor is gonna make a difference. This is a Dark Angel medical kit. So this is an IFAC. There's a tourniquet here on the front, right? And then a full IFAC inside. Big fan of Dark Angel medical and then they have a scissors. Back here on the left side of the panel two more mags and then my radio, okay? So my radio coming up to a again cheap Amazon push-to-talk that's actually served me very faithfully so far. It's not $500. It was like $35 or something and this has actually been great. So I'm actually a big fan of this cheapy Chinese made Amazon push-to-talk deal. It's made my life a lot better. And then Ranger beads, right? For pace counting and stuff like that. Again, yes, I have the GPS which is my primary tracking but to have pace count beads which I might move these inside my admin pouch since they're secondary. And then to have a compass always have a compass, right? So again, redundancies, right? So that's it. That's my new chest rig. I'm gonna try to run this for a while. I've been playing with it a lot. I really like it. I think I'm gonna again try to use this as my main rig until something I don't like it or something better comes along. Again, versatility being the theme here and I don't know what would be my application for this but because this is a split chest rig I have this piece that I got off some other bag. It was an elite Spaker bag that I got off Amazon again but it came with this extra strap thing that I don't really need. So because these buckles are the same and I mean, look at that color match. It looks like it was made for it, right? Down to the buckle color match but because of that, because of the split chest rig you could completely disconnect one of these and then you could set it up to run more like a satchel, right? So I can take this extra piece of cordage. I can disconnect this to make it look more pretty, right? And now you could throw that over a shoulder or use that as an extra support or run this just in your car as your kind of everyday car carry thing and then when you need it connect it all for a chest rig. So you could take one panel, clip it off. Now I have three mags, right? I have admin, I have smoke. You could put whatever you want on here, right? To make that happen. But the fact that I could just run it like a satchel rig is kind of cool. Like I said, I don't know if I'd actually use that for anything but I really like having the option to be able to disconnect that. So I keep this strap with this now. I keep this handy around so that if for whatever reason I want to disconnect this and run this alone, right? Or you could run this panel or whatever. You totally get the idea. You can have whatever you want on here but you could have mags, iFAC, radio and boom. All of a sudden you're set to go with just a half panel that can again support, supplement, having your car carry with your car rifle, whatever. Cool option. Don't know if I'll ever use it but just want to put that out there. Other thing, side note here. When you're going through and setting up your chest rigs and stuff, size things right. Give yourself a little bit of flex. See I left a little bit of extra slack here and then I take down those straps because I'm not a dirty barbarian.  Don't just leave straps hanging out everywhere.  The versatility is what is really helpful. As a minute man, you need to think in terms of versatility, right? And making your gear as versatile as possible is going to help you because you're not always going to be able to have a bunch of different specialized equipment to do whatever you want. You've got to learn to flex and move the situation. So having one piece of kit that you can flex to a variety of situations is going to serve you much, much better than five different sets of kit that you have for a specific situation, right? I hope that's helpful.  I always like checking out people's chest rigs. So hopefully you do too. Do brave deeds and endure.


Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here today. My name is Ryan Coleman. I'm the director of economic development for the city of Columbia, and I'm really excited. We've got a stellar turnout crowd here this morning for the grand opening of Metropolis and the Vista. So thank you for joining out here on this lovely morning where we are open for business at the city of Columbia. So it's my pleasure to introduce our esteemed speakers who will help open this event for us. First, I'm going to ask Mayor Daniel Rickman to come to the microphone to provide some opening remarks. He'll be followed by Miss Abby Anderson, the executive director for the Congaree Vista Guild, and then by the man of honor today, Mr. Gregory Garrett, owner of Metropolis. So thank you all. Mayor Rickman. It's great to see everybody out here. As Ryan alluded to, we're open for business. Very excited to be here. I think this is our 41st business opening this year, and we've had businesses opening throughout our community in all four corners. But here we are in the Vista today. This beautiful setting I was talking with Gregory earlier about. We used to come down here when it was the backpacker, and it stood stagnant for a little bit. Now you look at this beautiful building that Gregory's invested in and excited for him to have the 20 stylists here to take care of our community. And I hope that everybody comes out and takes the time to really take advantage of the great setting in there. It is beautiful if you haven't been in there yet. What a great investment. Thank you so much for locating downtown and being part of this beautiful Vista community. Good morning, everyone. Sorry I was late, but I had to look fabulous for my favorite salon.  I came here when I got engaged. I came here when I defended my dissertation and wanted to feel beautiful on graduation day. I came here when I shot my first political ad to run for office and become your city councilman at large.  And over the years, I'm thankful to call many of the folks that work there, my friends. They always welcome me and they always make me feel like a rock star when I leave. But most importantly, I love the sense of community that this salon really represents. You see people from all walks of life come into the salon, whether they are business owners, students, public officials. I think the other day that I was in here, I ran into three or four people I hadn't seen in years, and I think that that's very reflective of the type of clients that the salon attracts. They want everybody to have an amazing experience no matter who you are. And I cannot be more excited to have Metropolis in the Vista with lots of parking. So there's no reason why you can't be here and come and hang out and enjoy some champagne while getting your hair, makeup, whatever you need done. Men, that doesn't mean that you can't come to you. They do a really good job with men's haircuts. But most of all, I'm just really excited to see you all growing and growing into a space that will hopefully allow for many, many more people to enjoy all of the great services that you have to offer. So congratulations on this amazing grand opening. I'm Abby Anderson with the Vista Guild. We are thrilled to have Metropolis so on make their move down the hill toward the river to here in the Vista and rehab this beautiful building. I can't wait for you guys all to see it. So the Vista is growing and expanding and we are very excited to have Metropolis as part of that. So without further ado, everyone who or the person you all want to hear from this is Gregory Garrett. I want to thank everybody for coming out today. I really, really appreciate it. I'm just going to go down a very long list of people to thank that has made this possible. We work in a really fascinating industry and has brought many, many amazing people into my life. Clients that have turned into so much more. First off is Thomas, who went from a client that helped me write my first business plan to a business partner. I'm not going to make him talk, but I'm going to point at him. And now a great friend with him and his wife. A man that was referred to me with a head full of hair to tame Jason Sellers of Indigo Design Build and Sonnet Instruction Construction who helped create this beautiful building and helped me fulfill my dream. So quiet the contractor on that one. I want to thank my parents and my family for their love and support. They couldn't be here today, but they're cheering on from afar. I want to thank my in-laws for literally driving down the day after we closed on this building to start construction on it and help demo. They're pretty much the best in-laws you could ask for. Huge, huge thank you to my team for believing in me and my vision and all the hard work that they've done behind the scenes. That's a giant amount of people over there. A huge thank you to our clients for their support for these last eight years. It's kind of crazy that that much time has passed. Seriously, without all of you, we couldn't have done this. Last but not least, I want to thank my husband Jeremy. Without him, really the idea of metropolis would have never happened. It wouldn't even exist. And I am more thankful than you'll ever know. Okay, less happiness. We are so excited to be a part of Columbia's growth and to offer something that hopefully our city has never seen. We're excited to be part of the Vista to kind of rehab this block and do something with a building that did said dormit for the hottest of minutes. Our goal is to partner with other local businesses to keep elevating your salon experience. I made a lot of great connections with other businesses that are going to help with some of our amenities and experiences and community partnerships that we're going to work with. Our goal is to always improve what we're offering to you to create a comfortable and luxurious experience for the clients of our salon. So if you've never been, now's the time to check us out. It's not too shabby and there if you haven't been inside yet. And lastly, we are excited to be growing our team. I have an amazing group of people that have been super super supportive. And I believe that we have something unique to offer that'll set our salon apart from what other people are doing. I know really industry elevate our industry as a whole and ideally the downtown Columbia community. Thank you all for coming.