Hey everyone, my name is Broogly and in this video I'm going to be bringing you this month's installment of the Backrooms Joke Levels series. This has really turned into a popular series on the channel so if you want to keep seeing more just let me know in the comments. And without further ado, sit back, relax, and get ready to chuckle at some funny Backrooms Levels. So first up for the video is Level Discord is classified as a Class 5 difficulty and is very unsafe and very unsecure. The level is actually an app that takes a normal Backrooms wanderer and turns them into Entity 2673 or the Discord Moderator. So this level actually takes the form of a bunch of things like phones, laptops, or computers that you can find in the Backrooms. And if you go on to one of these devices that's infected with this level then you'll instantly get addicted to that app. You'll get so addicted that you literally cannot stop looking at the app and you can't stop being on it and you don't even know what's going on around you, you're just constantly on this Discord. After a few days of just staring at the app the infected person will start to change in appearance. They'll go from a pretty normal looking person to having thinning hair and getting way more heavy. They'll also develop something called cringe. When you're on this infected device you're actually more likely to run into Entity negative 69 or the Discord kitten. Which is very dangerous to you. On this level, or app, there are a couple outposts like the YouTuber servers which don't have any Moderator entities, but there might be Discord kittens lurking in the shadows. There will be Entity 21's here which are server owners and they're typically pretty cool and not aggressive and very friendly. Unless it's an Entity 42 which is a cringe TikToker entity. To enter you have to open Discord in the Backrooms on an infected device like I just described. And to exit you have to get the willpower to somehow delete the app before it's too late. What a great way to start the video. Next up for the video is Level Jouch. Now Level Jouch is classified as a class uncomfortable and is very annoying. The entire level takes place on a huge gene couch and all you can do is sit. You can't move, you can't stand up, you can't roll over, you can only sit. And in order to enter you have to find a random jouche in the backrooms and just sit on it. And to leave, well you can't. You're pretty much sewn into the very fabric of the jouche couch. So you're forced to stay here forever. Pretty cool. Next up is Level 297-810 which is classified as a class five difficulty and is unsafe and unsecure. And most importantly it's infested with geese. That's right geese. Now the level itself physically looks like a huge open grassy plain that seems to stretch out for around 20 miles. The sun is always out and it never moves in the sky but the temperature also never gets too hot and it normally feels like a spring time. The level is only dangerous because of the massive amount of geese and ducks that live here.  They'll swarm the skies, they'll follow you on the land, they'll try to tug your clothes until they try to overwhelm you. Around this grassy plain there are also some random little huts that you can hide in for a little bit but eventually they're gonna find you so there's no use in hiding to be honest. If the geese or ducks do get to you then they will peck you until you are no longer living. That's great. To enter this level you can noclip through a goose painting on any backroom's level and to exit you have to find one of those huts to stay in without being seen for 20 minutes and you'll be sent out. Next up for this wonderful video is level trollololololololol or the meme rooms. Now the meme rooms has a survival difficulty of L plus ratio plus too hard for you lmao and it's not secure or safe. The level itself actually looks like a massive abandoned parking garage with street lights sticking out of the ground every so often and it's always night time here so the lights are on and it is infested on all the levels with an entity called the trollers. So the second you wake up on this level you'll start to hear heavy metal music coming towards you from an unknown source and it won't ever get quieter or softer or anything like that it's always plain and it's coming from this troller entity and this entity is a giant smiler type creature with long arms and legs and a huge troll face smile for its head. It looks pretty normal to me though.  I really can't believe that I'm reading this right now. To enter this level you have to say quote we do a little trolling end quote on any level and to exit you literally can't so cool. Next up for the video is the sol rooms. Now the sol rooms has a survival difficulty of sol and they're infested with walter white and sol goodman entities. The level looks like a regular level zero you know the yellow wallpaper and floors except that the heads of walter and sol are just running around the level constantly making loud noises. To enter this level you have to make crystal meth on level 69 for 20 and to exit you have to quote get a social life uh which means no one watching this video right now will actually be able to leave because we all have no social lives awesome.  Love it. Also I got a submission called level cringe and all this says is that the level is a class six and then they put this picture as the only entity here with no explanation so just don't be cringe and you won't have to worry about going here. Now lastly for this illustrious wonderful top tier content is the bathrooms 5.0 which is a survival difficulty of a class 5e so the environment is dangerous. Now the bathrooms level is different from the other bathrooms levels because this one is actually pretty small and to be honest it might be the smallest level in all of the back rooms. The level looks like a bathroom with a staircase leading down from the wall directly to the toilet and the stairs are normal for a few steps but after a while of going up these steps the ceiling will start to collapse on top of you and try to hit you and the further you go up the more dangerous the ceiling falls on you and tries to hurt you. The actual bathroom part of the level is pretty normal and nothing special happens it's just tiny just a bathroom but the staircase is just weird man why does it exist I don't know why am I making this video I don't know. To enter you can pee on a staircase on any level and to exit you have to walk up 200 stairs without getting crushed by the ceiling falling on you and you'll get sent back to level 4 nice. Alright y'all that is it for this month's installment of the joke levels hope you enjoyed it I really love making these videos because seriously they are some of the dumbest things I've ever read and somehow they're entertaining to me I hope they're entertaining to you as well now if you want to submit your own uh joke level or regular level go down to the discord and go to the submissions tab type it out and the reviewers will send me a link if the year passes the test so also go down to the description check out Tugli guys I'm literally uploading like so much on there we're growing really fast like five times a week and I'm trying to get to 50k by the end of the year and we just hit 35 000 so I cannot thank you enough for that trying to get to 50k if you want to help out drop us up I'm going to do live streams on there I'm actually already live streamed a couple of times by the time this video comes out make sure you tune into the community tab for those announcements as well thank you for your endless support across my channels I really appreciate you all I cannot thank you enough thanks for everything and I'll see you in the next video


On Monday, November 6, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 12 began their pavement project for Kentucky 197 on Elkhorn Creek. The highly anticipated project is scheduled for completion in two weeks' time, weather permitting. Hours of operation will be from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. This project here is kind of, I know a lot of people have been asking about it, you know, a lot of people travel that road, so it's one that we're really glad to get started, especially in this season's paving work. So the project is going to take about two weeks, and that's weather permitting. Crews will work out there from about 7 o'clock to 6 o'clock each evening. So 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. each evening. And while that's going on, you can expect one lane traffic and delays through there. You want to save money, and Appalachian Wireless gets that. Right now you can get up to $650 off select devices, including the latest and the greatest on the Advantage Unlimited Plan with a trade-in. Did y'all hear me? Up to $650 off select devices, including the latest and greatest with a trade-in. I'm not a math whiz, but this deal, it's amazing. And you'll be on the region's premier network. We are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. The cabinet says this project will be good for the community. During the paving, motorists can expect some delays and single lane traffic in the area. So the project actually got started today. They began doing some milling work. They began working on milling up the old asphalt in order to be able to lay down new asphalt. So they're out there currently working. And then once they get all that milled up, it's the same process as it usually is will mill up the old and then lay down new and fresh. And then they'll come back and they'll paint striping and all that stuff on it. So it got kicked off this week. Works expected to last for two more weeks. And it's just going to be a good project and a good one for that community. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.


Stevenson falls 13-10 here tonight to Dickinson Glen Clark at the Green Turtle Classic powered by SFM Sports.net joined now by head coach Paul Canta-Bennay. Coach obviously the storyline for the weekend, the face-off department, you got Jeremy and there gave him a chance. Should we expect to see more of him moving forward? Well, yeah, he gives us a chance. He grinds it out. You know, the other two guys in Nathaniel and Dan, you know, they're good kids and they're young and they're not as mentally there as we need them to be. And hopefully, you know, they'll bounce back and obviously get opportunities and stuff. But, you know, Jeremy gave us a shot. You know, we got to be better on the ground balls to help him out. You know, we had several chances at him. We just missed him and I think that hurt us the most.  I can sense that this one's tough. I know last night you talked about, hey, that's a great win, but it means as much as what happens tomorrow night. Yeah, right. And I just didn't like the way we started the game. I didn't like some of the things that were going on for how we played and we got to do better. We got to play 60 minutes. We got to do these things better for us to be successful. And right now, you know, that's kind of the disappointing part is that we had some of our older guys that we thought were doing things well. Not, and it led to second chances and we got to do better. Yeah. It's part of that in general for a young team learning how to deal with success. You guys have two back-to-back wins over really good teams. Well, I think it's not. I think it's more it's not success necessarily is what we can mentally handle.  We just got to keep grinding out. You know, we got to get ready for Tops. And then, you know, we got, you know, a lot of games ahead of us. We got a lot of good teams. We got Lynchburg. We still got York. Yeah. So we got a lot of good games ahead of us that we can win. And, you know, we got our conference obviously. We'll be all right. And we've got to keep grinding. We're still positive. We got good guys. We have to play better and we have to start getting our guys playing at a maximum level. We're not getting the best out of all our guys right now. You mentioned Tops. Let's look ahead to Tuesday night real quick. This is the number one team in the country. You've got history with them, obviously. Yep. What are you expecting coming in here to Mustang Stadium? Well, we know they're not going to change anything they do. We're not going to change much that we do, but we have to understand who they are and how they play. And we got to control the ball. We got to win some face, Huss, to give us a chance. And, you know, we're going to do our best we can. You know, I mean, I think we always kind of do the best we can and scrap it up the best we can with everybody. And we play at a high level at times and we'll see what we can do. Let's get some final thoughts this event. And once again, a tremendous success. I know on the field you would have asked for more success, but the event in general being so important and such the backbone of it, just your thoughts on how everything came together this weekend. I know we're just really excited to be able to host one of the best events around and really give Division III a platform to show what we're all about. And that's what we want. You know, you got to thank all the coaches. You know, they did a great job sacrificing the weekend to come down here, taking away home games from them and stuff like that. You know, it was great. I really thank all of them for being here and Stevenson and everything they did to help us put it on. And that's what it's all about. They'll put on a great event. Unfortunately, sometimes you don't win in your own event. But, you know, overall, you got to look at what this is great for the players. They understand what a great time it is to come and play in these games. It's good for the game. It's good for the coaches. It's good for all the different levels out there. And for us, you know, it's just a great thing. And we're really excited about the whole event in general. I think it's great. We thank everybody for coming out. The Lacksport Network inside the Cross Lacks Magazine. You know, everybody was here to be really promoted. And that's what it's all about. They give these kids a platform to show what they're all about. And I think it was a great weekend. Coach, appreciate the time. It's always best of luck moving forward. Thanks much. And here's Coach Paul Cantabene. I'm Glenn Clark, signing off from the Green Turtle Classic, powered by SFM Sports.net. Thank you.


This is a re-recording of the webinar, Teaching with the Records of Congress, a presentation offered by the Center for Legislative Archives for Educators on Thursday, April 18, 2019. The Center for Legislative Archives, part of the National Archives and Records Administration, preserves and makes available the historical records of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Educators can use these historical documents to teach about representative democracy, how Congress works, and the important role Congress has played throughout American history. What do we mean when we say the records of Congress? Well, since 1789, Congress has legislated, held hearings, or debated nearly every subject you could think of. Consequently, the records of the Senate and House of Representatives reflect the full spectrum of the nation's political concerns. Petitions to Congress reflect the voices of the people, their concerns, their beliefs, and offer multiple perspectives on issues throughout our history. Among the holdings of the Center for Legislative Archives, you will find the records of the United States House of Representatives committees and offices, the records of the United States Senate committees and offices, and the other types of records you see on the screen now. The Center for Legislative Archives does not hold the private and personal papers of Senators and Representatives. Additionally, laws signed by the Speaker of the House, the President of the Senate, and the President of the United States, and records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses are located elsewhere within the National Archives. The goal for today's program is to connect you with new primary sources from the Center for Legislative Archives that you can incorporate into your history and civics lessons. I will also share the Center's classroom resources for teaching about Congress. Hopefully these records will help your students develop a new appreciation for Congress as the direct link between the American people and their government. Let's start at the beginning. The first Congress is arguably one of the most important Congresses in the United States history. Everything the first Congress did set a precedent. Early accomplishments include setting up the rules, procedures, and establishing the roles of officers in the House and Senate. Early legislation that raised revenues by setting duties on imported goods, establishing the departments of states, war, and treasury, and creating a federal judiciary to tame just a few. Most of the actions of the first Congress broke new ground. In addition to everything else that was going on, James Madison introduced the first set of amendments to the Constitution. The omission of a list of individual rights in the Constitution had hindered its ratification by the states. The states of Massachusetts, South Carolina, New Hampshire, and Virginia, and New York submitted proposed amendments for individual freedoms with their resolutions for the ratification of the Constitution. On June 8th, 1789, Representative James Madison proposed new amendments to the Constitution in the House of Representatives. That summer, the House debated these issues, and on August 24th, past 17 proposed constitutional amendments. Then, the Senate took up the matter, cutting the 17 amendments to 12 by combining and deleting items. On October 2nd, 1789, 12 articles or amendments were sent to the states by December 15th, 1791, 3 fourths of the states had ratified 10 of them. Articles 3 through 12 on the original document, known thereafter as the Bill of Rights. To dive into this process, the Center for Legislative Archives has created the Congress Creates the Bill of Rights app. This app is also available online as a PDF, so if your students are unable to access the app, all this information is available in PDF form. There's also a supporting ebook on the Center's website as well. This app provides an overview of the background of the Bill of Rights. It helps take students inside the first Congress. It looks at the amendments in process and gives students a chance to join the debate. When students go inside the debate, they'll think about questions like, should the Constitution be amended? Should the House of Representatives have fewer many members? Should the people have the authority to instruct their representatives? Should the Federal Bill of Rights apply to the states? And other issues that the first Congress considered. In one section, students will be able to look at track changes to the articles 3 and 4 on the Senate markup of the House's proposed amendments to the Constitution and see how changes were made to this text. Article 3 and 4 would ultimately be combined and are known as today's first amendment. Students will also be able to trace changes to the other amendments proposed by Madison as well. The Center has created an accompanying lesson plan. Congress creates the Bill of Rights, completing the Constitution to help walk students through this process. This lesson plan helps students take a closer look at this document, the Senate markup to the House's proposed amendments to the Constitution. This is a fascinating document because we can see where things have been crossed out, added on, and really look at the Bill of Rights as a work in progress. Additionally, students can use the app to, again, take a look at those changes in the Close Up on Compromise section, and trace the history of the different amendments from their origins as ideas proposed by state ratification conventions to final versions as ratified by the states. Using this lesson, completing the Constitution, you can assign students one or more of the 17 amendments passed by the House. Each group will then use this worksheet to translate their assigned amendments to a 8 to 12 word tweet. Then, students will study the historical context of their proposed amendment and trace their amendment's history and determine if the main idea that they identified was present in each of the steps. The next worksheet can be posted in the classroom for students to add their findings and keep track of their findings as they examine the evolution of these different ideas and see if they made it into the final version of the Bill of Rights as ratified by the states. When we apply a historical lens to the records of Congress, we can discover the process behind landmark legislation, explore the diverse and shifting perspectives of Americans on issues like slavery, women's rights, and Congress's work to expand these rights. We can also see examples of situations when Congress also worked to restrict rights, like with the Alien Sedition Acts or the Gag Girl. It's all there in the records of Congress. The Center for Legislative Archives has created a series of lessons that can help you dive into the history of important issues using the records of Congress. Many of these lessons focus on petitions. Throughout our history, people have influenced Congress through the power of petition. Congress's actions impact people's lives, and we have many examples of what this looks like in the holdings of the Center for Legislative Archives. I'm going to share two examples of lessons with you today. In Congress and Harriet Tubman's claim for a pension, students will explore records from the U.S. House of Representatives to discover the story of Harriet Tubman's Civil War service and her petition to Congress for compensation. Students will be familiar with Harriet Tubman's work on the Underground Railroad, but she also served as a nurse, cook, spy, and leader of a raid during the Civil War. It was on this basis that she requested a federal pension after the war. At the time of this pension, this pension petition was filed. She was receiving a pension as the widow of a Civil War soldier, but this makes the case that she should receive an additional pension as someone who served during the war. Using historical thinking skills, students will examine the evidence of Tubman's service and assess Congress's decision to grant her a pension. Students will use this worksheet to analyze different evidence from the records of the U.S. House of Representatives, including supporting documents from Civil War officials indicating the breath of Tubman's service during the Civil War. This lesson will help students think about to what extent and for what services did Congress officially acknowledge Harriet Tubman's Civil War service to her country and discuss the limitations of this recognition. In another lesson, students will use facsimiles of historical records from the files of the U.S. House of Representatives to a judiciary committee to evaluate evidence and consider constitutional issues that the committee encountered as it deliberated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In this lesson, Congress protects the right to vote. Students will examine the concept of federalism and weigh the proper balance of powers between federal and state governments when it comes to protecting the right to vote. By analyzing evidence reviewed by the House Judiciary Committee related to the Voting Rights Act, students will wrestle with the same issues faced by the committee as it created this landmark civil rights legislation. Ten primary source documents allow students to see multiple perspectives and evaluate Congress's actions as they created this legislation. Some of the documents students will look at will include this petition from George New, who was against the Voting Rights Act, as well as this petition from Mrs. Jackson, who asks for Congress to take action, especially after seeing the events in Selma, Alabama. Students will use this worksheet weighing the issues to think about evidence supporting and evidence opposed to the Voting Rights Act and evaluate it based on how persuasive the evidence is. And then students will think about which document makes a stronger case for its position and based on this evidence should Congress pass this legislation. These two lessons are just two examples of some of the available lesson plans on the Center's website for diving into the history of the United States with the records of Congress. We can also use the records of Congress to study the legislative process, the concepts of representation, separation of powers, and the constitutional role of Congress. For example, in the lesson, what Congress does and why it matters, students will connect different roles of Congress to real-life examples from our holdings. Students start with this graphic organizer. Taking a look at this graphic organizer, we can see there are four different sections. Exercising constitutional powers, legislates, represents constituents, and balances power. Students will start by brainstorming different ideas of how Congress does each of these four major actions. Then students will receive 20 game pieces, and we'll need to collaborate to identify the best match, which overarching umbrella of four type of action does the game piece fit. The final graphic organizer will look something like this. As we can see, there are different actions in each section, and ultimately the graphic organizer will spell out Congress represents us. The next step is then to assign a different document to student pairs or individual students, and the students will work to analyze that document using a document analysis worksheet and think about which action their document best represents. Students can either analyze the document online or in a PDF form, or you can print out the documents to share with students. We also have miniature versions of the documents that can be printed out and placed around this graphic organizer. To show you just a brief selection of the documents that students will take a look at, here's one example. This is a nomination of Ulysses S. Grant by Abraham Lincoln for the Lieutenant General position in the Army, and it's being sent to the Senate of the United States. This is a great example of the action of the one thing Congress does is confirm presidential nominations. Another example of a congressional action is this act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies. This is an example of Congress regulating commerce. Next, this excerpt from the congressional record shows us Mrs. Meek speaking out about the Everglades restoration plan, and this shows us that Congress has the job of advocating local concerns. And as another example, here in this engrossing copy of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, we can see where proposed changes or amendments are being made to the bill, and this reminds us that one of the jobs of Congress is to amend bills. By completing this graphic organizer and analyzing these different documents, students will see real-life examples of what Congress does and be able to make more connections to their own life, why Congress matters. Congress is where we see the idea of popular sovereignty translated into reality. House members and senators are accountable to their constituents, and each election allows voters to take stock of their representatives. Today, we've seen how you can use the records of Congress to explore the work of Congress. I want to share one more resource from the Center for Legislative Archives that can help your students visualize the role and work of Congress. Within the Center for Legislative Archives, we have a special collection that consists of over 2,000 Clifford Berryman originals. Clifford Berryman was a cartoonist in Washington, D.C. for over five decades, working first for the Washington Post and the Washington Evening Star. After the 1990s, a collection of over 2,000 Clifford Berryman originals was purchased and donated to the Senate collection. This collection also includes over 200 cartoons by Jim Berryman, Clifford's son. Berryman's cartoons provide keen observations of Congress and can be used to teach historical events, as well as provide insights into our institutions and civic life. Today, this special collection is a part of the holdings of the Center for Legislative Archives. I'm going to share just a handful of cartoons from this collection that will help bring to life the work of Congress for your students and help them make connections to life today. For example, there are Berryman cartoons that can help us look at the process by which a bill becomes a law. This one is a reminder that it's not always smooth sailing, and sometimes the process can be a bit messy. Here we have a bill returning from the U.S. Senate, covered in amendments that's nearly unrecognizable to its original House author, and a good reminder that a bill's journey through Congress is not complete until it has been passed in identical form by both houses. Berryman provided illustrations capturing elections throughout his career, and this can help these political cartoons, can help us think about and talk about elections as a part of our civic life. Finally, communicating with constituents is a critical element of representation, and here we see a congressperson returning home with explanations, questions to be answered, why I voted, main reasons why I did not vote, and the congressman says it's not going to be such a restful month at that. A reminder that the congressperson needs to be responsive to the voters back at home. To help bring these cartoons into the classroom, the Center for Legislative Archives has created a series of resources for you. There are several e-books available on the center's website as PDFs, including representing Congress, Clifford Berryman's Political Cartoons, that specifically look at how Congress is represented. We also have an e-book that looks at America and the World, taking Berryman cartoons that look at the American Foreign Affairs. The National Archives also has a series of primary source analysis worksheets, including one specifically for cartoons, to help your students understand what is happening in each cartoon by breaking it down into pieces. Finally, there are lesson plans specifically for bringing these cartoons into the classroom and getting them into your students' hands, including Congress represented in political cartoons, reviewing big civics ideas through political cartoons, and a constitutional scavenger hunt. Finally, we've also created several Dock's Teach activities that you can share with your students as well. Let's start with Docksteach.org, the online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives. Here we are on the popular topics page for the records of Congress. On this page you'll find collections of primary sources for teaching a variety of congressional topics. Clicking on one of these categories will take you to a page where you can refine your search or browse all of these different primary sources and then share them with your students. There are also teaching activities that the Center has created that can be completed by your students online or conducted with your class as a group, including the legislative process, Congress at Work, a look at Reconstruction, and analyzing evidence of the Pearl Harbor attack to name just a few. These lessons include a page that provides additional background information for you, the teacher, as well as a link that you can share directly with your students to complete the activity.  The other page I want to highlight is the homepage for educational resources from the Center for Legislative Archives. On this page you'll find links to all of the lesson plans and more that were mentioned in today's program, links to the app, ebook, and more on the political cartoons. Links to all of the resources shared in this program are available in the description below. This concludes our program teaching with the Records of Congress. We've highlighted just a handful of records and resources from the Center for Legislative Archives in today's program and hopefully you have new ideas for how you can share these records and the story of representative government in the United States with your students. Thanks for tuning in.


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Six sources now for the resurrection having occurred, but going back to the hard appearances, I couldn't buy into that either. How can you test in a lab for a miracle?  We don't get to call it a miracle. We have an example where someone's finger was cut off and it grew back in front of us, and now we begin exploring to try to find what the best explanation is. Maybe God did it, but until somebody demonstrates the link, the evidence that links the regrowth of your finger with a God, you don't get to say that that is the cause. This is all about connecting observed facts with proposed explanations. You have a proposed explanation that there's a God, but you don't have the linking evidence that shows that that is in fact the cause. And what's worse is that you can't even show the effect. You can't show a resurrection, getting crucified, being stuck in the ground for a day and a half, and then walking back out of it. So Christianity is in a position where it can't demonstrate an effect and is proposing the cause for those. If you believe that there's a God that wants you to act in a certain way, and you do, it's your belief that is driving that, not the truth of your belief.


Thank you, Rohan, thanks everyone. I think I'm getting to the best part of the conference, at least my favorite one. Actually my favorite part of the year, as I said, I really enjoy part of what we do, actually Ron didn't mention it, but part of what we do is rewarding our contributors and our members. And so without further ado, you've been waiting all day to hear from Rob who are the actual certified FTC3 providers. Please. Hi, everyone. Hi, yes, I'm back. Right, yes, so as I teased in the keynote earlier, we now have desktop agents passing the FTC3 1.2 conformance tests. And this is a culmination of a huge amount of work from the organizations involved in the testing. So Scott Logic provided implementations of the tests and the whole FTC3 community really came together and defined and approved the test packs. So let's recognize that effort. Please come up on stage and collect your awards for conformance. They are Finos Silvermember Koseiak with their FinSombal product. Woo! Thank you. Thank you. Very well. We've got Tic42 with their Glue42 Enterprise product. And their Glue42 CorePlus browser extension, both making use of GlueFTC3 version 2.60. And also the open source FTC3 sale Finos project being maintained by Nick Colbert and Seba Bax. Nick, can you come up? Thank you, Leslie, congratulations. Thank you. And Nick, last but not least, thank you for your contributions to the standard and to the sales project. Thank you. There you go. Thank you, Rob. It's okay. Thanks for the delivery. Great. This is a milestone for us. This is our first certification program and we're really happy to have our first certified vendors. We expect, as you know, over time to have the 2.0 version certified. So stay tuned as we certify more vendors and more versions of the standard and maybe more standards. Moving on. As I said, it's my favorite part to award the community, but I think James, our director of community, deserve for all the work that is done this year to nurture them. Thank you very much, Gav. So did I hear a clap? I think that's, there we go. So thank you, everybody. So the community within Finos is absolutely growing. You can see that by how many people there are at the end of a long conference. So thank you, everybody, for being here and, you know, add into the success of Finos. Year on year, we're absolutely growing, which actually makes my job of finding award winners a lot more satisfying because the amount of information that there's out there in order to find out who's contributing and who is adding to the success of the foundation is just absolutely phenomenal. So we're going to start with the shining star award. Now this is an award which is given to the project that is demonstrating all of those star clicks in the top right-hand corner of GitHub. So if you're ever using the project and you absolutely kind of want to give it Q-dice, all of those stars do actually count for something. And so within the last year, this project has had like a really sharp spike in the stars that it has received. And so I'd like to call to the stage the legend team. So, legend team, if you're here. Well done, Goldman Sachs team. If you'd like to come up and receive your award, so it's more than one person. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, let's move up. Coming up, squeeze in. Congratulations, remarkable effort. And there's a promo code on the back of the frame so you can buy something from the Finos swag store. Now this next award goes to an individual who has been engaging with Finos through marketing channels. So Finos is multi-channel. We encourage engineering in development, but we also love it when people spread the word about the foundation. Because if it isn't for marketing and other people who engage with the foundation and get the word out, the amount of people in this room today wouldn't be as big as it is today. So I would like to present this award to Macau Herskovitz from MEND. And I'm going to present it to some of her colleagues because she couldn't be here with us today. With Finos being an international open source foundation, our colleagues in Israel need their colleagues in the US to claim their awards for them. Thank you very much. Thank you. Now where would we be if it wasn't for all of those people who stand up bold and guide us all in the direction of open source, who actually unlock our own abilities to contribute in a very, very difficult industry, highly regulated? We need people to go into their groups, find the engineers and all of the other people to come on out and actually be part of the financial services open source community. So I would like to present this award, which as part of the DEI SIG, so the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion SIG, we've really made an effort to get inside all of the OSPOs and other roles. So rather than handing it to engineers, who we can see on the surface of the foundation, I would like to present this award to Cara Delyer from Red Hat, who has been phenomenal in bringing Red Hat right into Finos. So thank you very much, Cara. And Cara is also a co-lead of our open source readiness SIG now. So welcome to the family. So this is an absolutely phenomenal award, the new camera award. We'd like to recognize people who are new to the Finos community and who contribute year on well for the very first time within that annual cycle. It was phenomenal to see this person's contributions into the foundation and the amount of work that they've actually done. So this was recorded in data. And there was a massive spike for both this person and also the firm that they represent. So I would like to present this to Olaf Kolander from Symphony, who is based out of Sweden. And so we have, coming up, Olivier. Sorry, Olivier. Coming up, Olivier. And so a big round of applause for Olaf. And thank you for taking this back to Olaf. Thank you, Olivier. So alongside all of the leads who do amazing work in order to unlock teams for Finos, we need coaches on the ground who actually show other developers and other people how to get involved in raising poor requests and closing issues. And also answering the questions that they get asked continuously. Now, this is going to more than one person because this group of individuals has been phenomenal. And you have seen the output of that project throughout this conference today. So the coaching award is going to the FDC3 maintainers. So if there are any FDC3 maintainers coming up, Nick, or anybody who would like to represent the company's you know, who they are from, coming up and claim this award on behalf of your maintainers. So you stand in the middle, Nick. He's getting married on. Well done. Coming in. I think you're in front of the microphones there. Come on to your left. You want to come around this side, yeah. Well done. Congratulations and well done for everything that you're doing. It's for the entire maintainer team. We'll figure it out in a minute. Right, so the most active individual is the person who's been contributing continuously into the foundation. So year on year. This is data-led. So everything about this person absolutely lights a spark on everything that they are contributing into the foundation. There is no dispute the amount of work that this person is putting into their project. And so I would like to present the most active individual to Anne Fee from the legend team and from Goldman Sachs. Congratulations. And thank you so much for your contributions. Thank you. And thank you, everybody. Please bring all of your contributors into the foundation. And with that, I'm going to hand back over to Gabb. He's going to be the member awards. Yes. You thought you were done clapping? No. Oh, that's an old picture. I did lose some weight over the pandemic, just in case. So yes, we thank you, James, and thank to all our contributors. I actually need to make sure. I know who am I giving the awards to. Oh, yeah, it's there. Cool. So we talked about community and our projects and our community are the blood of what we do. But of course, our members are what allows us to pay salaries at the end of the day and invest into the growth of this community. So we have a few global member awards. The previous were America's specific. These are throughout the year across all of our members. And we have five awards. We're going to start with the spread award award. Which is again, as James said, about helping us spreading the word and spreading the message. I actually have seen a lot of activity today on social. Every year, this industry opens up to the fact that it's OK to put a tweet out there, I guess. And so I want to award Cinecron for helping us organizing so many events this year. Can someone from the Cinecron team come to us so much for all your contributions? Come here. Thank you. Now, this is one of the most interesting awards. We measure activity of our members across multiple channels. As we discussed today thoroughly, it's not just about commits. But of course, commits are really important. And so this is across our commits, our meetings, our Slack channels, our documentation websites, our events. And so I am very honored, not so far from the headquarters, to announce Goldman Sachs as the most active member for this year. Who better than Rob? Congrats, Rob. Thanks. And thanks for what you will do. Thank you. OK. So leading the pack, as James discussed, is not just about individual contributors. It's not just about being a maintainer, but it's also about teaching others and being a leader in your organization, sorry, in your project. And across projects, honestly. This is an industry that is learning to do open source. There's dos and don'ts. There's weird quirks of open source people that you need to be aware of. And yes, there's also legal and compliance and IP requirements. And so we're seeing our community cross-pollinating more and more. And so I'm really excited to bring on stage Cossack for the leading the pack award. Been busy today, huh? For the outstanding work on FDC3 and so many other projects in Phoenix. Thank you, Sarah, and the whole Cossack team. Thank you. OK. As you said, these are global awards. And I do hope there's someone that will receive this award because this award is not in the US. This member joined us earlier in the year, and they really went all in. They started contributing. They started joining us at our events. They started really massively engaging with our community and leading so many activities. And I actually think we're just at the beginning. So I would like to welcome on stage NatWest Group for our Going All In Awards. Hey, Aaron. Nice to meet you. And thank you so much for what you did, guys. Thank you. You can keep that one. So last but not least, we have folks who are able to contribute and folks that are getting there. And every year, we like to award the company that has made the most inroads in the open-source readiness journey. This company rolled their most open-source program office today this year, as many we've seen. But we also have received our first contribution from this company that are able now to contribute. And so I'm very, very excited to award Bank of Montreal with our Breaking the Stated Squad Award. Anyone? Mike? OK. I guess I'm going to take it back. Well, I'm sure Kim and Mike will be happy to see it. Do you mind taking a picture? Thank you, everyone, for your support. Whoever is a member for your financial support, then whoever is a contributor for your time and effort. So you thought we were done. No, we're not. Just a couple of closing remarks. I showed these slides at a FinTech conference a couple of months ago to show how much fighting there is going on here. We always discuss regulation versus deregulation. It's legacy versus blockchains. It's the banks versus the FinTechs. Every failed, and I guess that slide didn't age well after FTX. But anyway, the reason why I'm bringing this up is that we have seen open source bringing folks together. And it's not just from a sort of people perspective. But when I joined this industry six years ago, I was really not familiar with a lot of the complexities. And it seemed to me that open source had an opportunity to really harmonize an industry that is very much siloed. And as I see FinTechs popping out right and left, I'm starting to get the distinct feeling that we're moving from a centralized mess to a decentralized mess or from a centralized silo to a decentralized silo. And this goes back to what I was saying this morning that we want to see more FinTechs join the party. Because if we start adopting common APIs, common standards, and ideally, all common open source components, think about for regulation, that is going to create a very different environment and really a new generation of financial services. I mean, don't get me wrong. There's plenty of financial open source projects out there. I mean, I'm not sure what an open source repository is. There's plenty of code out there. But the role of our foundation is to make sure that we are able to bring it together in a harmonized way in a way that looks more like this, for example. Have more and more of the layers in this industry being powered by open source. And again, these are just examples. Don't be married exactly to the project. But just to say that in the foundation and out there, there's a lot of valuable code that you don't need to rebuild. And as a foundation, we can ensure that it's not in the wild that we can support it. So if you're maintaining or you know of a valuable open source project out there, we're experiencing massive growth. So bring it to our attention. And hopefully, we can help both the maintainers, as well as the sustainability and security of that project, because there's a good chance that maybe you're already depending on it. And so really wrapping this time almost. We need your help. There's few little things that you can start doing, or big things. If you can contribute, go to our community website. It's extensive documentation on how you can get started. It goes through a journey of, really, how can you learn more about us? To how you can engage in contribution? How you can become a leader in our foundation? Contribution is open to everyone. You don't need to be a member. I want to make it clear. I forgot to actually mention that. Of course, consumption is also free. This is open source. But if you can't contribute just yet, sign up for our newsletter. Get updated from our news. Check out resources.finals.org. You're going to see on the back of all these project expos, we're really trying to put our projects in the context of production use cases. So you're going to see more and more success stories. But we already have a legend case study and a perspective case study. Take a look if that helps selling the value of open source within your organization. And ultimately, it takes some belief. When we started six years ago, we didn't really think that we would get here. We hoped. We had a vision. But I am really excited. And I want to really thank the whole Finals team for the fantastic job here and all the members. And most importantly, you guys help us out. It's not going to always be easy. So you've got to put some belief. I think that loss was pretty appropriate here. And as we wrap, finally, we do have the reception tonight. We're almost running out of spots. Here's the QR code in case you want to get registered and join us after this. But before I do that, now for reals, I'll let you go. But I want to bring on stage Jamie Siegel from the Ipon Innovation Network to give us a quick closing remark. Take your time. OAN is sponsoring the reception out here. And they are good friends of Finals and the Linux Foundation. So thanks for being on stage, Jamie. Thank you. Hi, good evening. I have the unenviable position of standing between you and drinks. So I will make it short. I'm Jamie Siegel. I'm the global lead of licensing for the Open Invention Network. For those of you that don't know us, we're a community of over 3,700 companies that have all joined our community for free in pursuit of our mission, which is to protect open source. Open source being open. Open Invention Network was started back in 2005 by Sony, Philips, NEC, SUSE, Red Hat, IBM. And they did that with the idea of bringing some actual teeth to the idea that open source would remain free in a world of intellectual property. And we grow. And our members all promise to cross license each other with their patents related to the low tech stack of open source. And it's a great organization. Many of your members or already members, including GitHub, SMBC, RBC, and financial services in particular in just the last few months, we've added Bank of America, the Clearinghouse, Scotiabank. We have Barclays, TD Bank, many other financial companies as the whole industry is coming.  The whole industry is really jumping into open source in a very big way. And they're finally waking up that we need to be protected against aggressors in the space. So I highly encourage anybody to reach out. We're on the internet. I'll be around at the cocktail party, along with some of my colleagues. And in the words of the head of IP at TD Bank, he said, this is really a no-brainer. I don't understand why everybody hasn't joined already. So with that said, please enjoy your drinks. And every time you take a sip, remind yourself to join OIN. I think we are done here. Thank you so much. And enjoy the drinks. Please make connections. And please follow up on this. This is just the beginning. Thank you.


Billionaires only come to the rescue in movies and comic books. Twitter has done an about-face and sold the company to the richest person in the world for $44 billion. Rightists are having a merry old time making fun of the melodramatic reactions from high-profile liberals who fear Elon Musk's purchase will lead to more free speech on the platform for people who don't align with them politically. And many of the blue checkmarked commentariot who live on Twitter and can't go five minutes without checking their notifications are making a big show of pretending they're about to leave. Many critics on the left are responding to the news by ringing alarm bells about a powerful oligarch controlling an influential social media platform, as though Twitter was anything besides oligarch controlled before today, and as though billionaires buying up media is some shocking new development. Some anti-imperialists have expressed tentative hope that this new development may lead to some rollback of the jarring escalations in censorship we've been seeing on the platform in defense of U.S. empire narratives, due to the plutocrat's comments on the importance of free speech. From what I can see, though, the overwhelming majority of excitement on Twitter about Musk's purchase is coming not from those who challenge power in any meaningful way, but from those who want Donald Trump's account restored and want to be able to say mean things to trans people. And I suspect it says a lot about what we're looking at here. This important distinction was summed up by journalist Michael Tracy, who tweeted, The biggest test for Elon Musk will not be whether he rolls back the most obvious woke content policies. That should be a given, but whether he continues to let Twitter be used as a vehicle for the U.S. national security state to counter official enemies like Russia and China. Speaking for myself, I won't be surprised if we do see some of the former, but I will absolutely be astonished if we see the latter. You don't get to be a billionaire, much less a billionaire with massively influential media ownership, unless you collaborate with existing power structures. Musk has certainly been collaborating with the oligarchic empire very nicely up until this point, and it's a safe bet that his purchase would not be happening if the empire felt its narrative control machine wasn't anyway threatened by it. Believing Elon Musk is going to save Twitter is as naive as believing Joe Biden was going to save America. Arguing over which oligarchs should control the media is as silly and undignified as arguing over which oligarch-owned politicians should run the government. Billionaires coming to the rescue only happens in movies and comic books. You are as likely to be saved by Elon Musk as you are by Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark. How many times are people going to fall for this, a billionaire is about to stick it to the man and save us all shtick. It's very sad that we're at a point where speech is being throttled so severely that people are hoping an eccentric billionaire will swoop in and rescue them from oppression. Real life is like a dumber, more boring version of Gotham City, except Batman is working with the bad guys. I'll start paying attention to Musk's talk about free speech if and when Twitter stops censoring Russian media and unbans people like Scott Ritter who were removed from the platform for questioning official empire narratives about what's happening in Ukraine.  The billionaires are not coming to save us. The idea that they might is a carefully constructed propaganda narrative that we've been sold for generations. The leaders of the capitalist class are not going to overturn the systems of oppression and exploitation which form the very foundation of capitalism. Superhero stories are designed to prevent us from realizing that only we the people have the power to rescue ourselves.


Here's Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Private Detective. My name's Diamond and I'm in business for a very simple reason. I like money. No sure I could do better, but I don't believe in straining myself. I might make a few bucks more, but so what? You work harder, your back gets weaker, and you take that extra couple of bucks and spend it for a brace to keep you from foiling in the middle. No, I got a little one-room office that leans out over Broadway, and I'm very happy. Sometimes I get a case that lasts a week, a hundred bucks a day in expenses, and I make enough to pay the rent. Take my girl, Helen Asher, to dinner a couple of times and rest my feet on the desk like a prosperous businessman. I'm in partnership with a shill called Human Nature, and with him on my side it just figures that people are going to get in trouble, like the character who's ringing the doorbell of an apartment on the east side. He's built just right for more trouble than he can handle. Hello, Mrs. Moran. You say that like you're really glad to see me. I'll let you know as soon as we can talk business. Did you bring a rubber hose along? Why? Are you going to be hard to get along with? This time, yes. Where's your husband? He went out. I tried to convince him the window was the quickest way to the street, but he's old-fashioned. He took the elevator. You're drunk. You can't get a bit out of me. Want a drink? Just get the 500. I don't want to be around when your old man gets back. You couldn't afford that, could you? No, and I don't think you could either, baby. Now let's stop buying games, Mrs. Moran.  Keep it in small bills. That's not funny. That's your surprise. Yeah. You don't get the money. You get something else. Stop yelling. You'll have the whole building up here in a minute. There'll be up anyway, Mac. A gunshot makes people curious. Now, wait a minute. You don't have to pull a gun. I don't have to do anything. And I'm breaking myself of one habit right now.  Now you know I got my orders. If I don't collect, someone else will be around. Come on, give me the gun. This is the time. I need a drink. Well, here's to nothing, Betty, old girl. Oh, thanks. The wife of William Moran kills... Well, I have to call Mr. Moran. No sense to lose a good source of income. Yeah, come in. Do your laundry in your office? Free soap. Pull up a chair, Mr. Moran. William Moran. Nice pair of argyles. Send some down from Singsing. Have you read the morning papers, Mr. Diamond? I haven't had time. Took some throw rugs down to the laundry mat before I started on the socks. My wife died last night. What did you eat for breakfast? Pancakes and eggs. Why? You must eat a whole pig when you're not in mourning. How did she die? She was shot to death. Couldn't she get two people for her pyramid club? She was being blackmailed. It's usually the other way around. The victim shoots the blackmailer. The other man behind this blackmail ring. What makes you think there was more than one? I received an anonymous phone call this morning. It was from a man who said he was a friend of Mac Grayson. He made it perfectly clear that he was going to continue with the blackmail. You know what they had on your wife? She was a very wealthy woman, Mr. Diamond. Before she married me, she was rather... ...wild. Well, they get that way sometimes. There were some letters. Why don't you go to the police? As far as they're concerned, the case is closed. You want to turn to suicide, and that's that. I want to get the people who drove my wife to suicide. Okay, Mr. Moran. But if you wanted me to try and dig up your blackmailers, my fee is rather high. I want to start sending my laundry out. Money is no object. That's the nicest thing you could have said. A hundred dollars a day and a fifth of plasma. Plasma, Mr. Diamond? A hundred proof. I never know what I'm going to run into in a case like this. I may bleed a little. You can reach me at Evergreen 4-5021. I'll write you a check. It's a good thing and a very arty complex. Do you know anything more about this man who called you this morning? Only that he said he was a friend of Mac Grayson's. Oh, there you are, Mr. Diamond. This should be enough of a retainer. Oh, yes. And that's all you know? I'm sorry I can't be of more help. You've been a brick. I'll get the rest from homicide. Thank you and goodbye, Mr. Moran. Goodbye, Mr. Diamond, and good luck. Oh, I'm sorry I knocked down some of your washing. Uh, there. Well, I'll be hearing from you. Well, that's the way it goes. One minute you're washing socks, the next you've got enough money to stick out a claim on every night spot from Mott Street to Harlem.  I had a hunch that the assignment might run into overtime, so I put in a call to a lovely redhead named Helen Asher. Francis the butler answered, and I told him to pass the word long that I might be late for my date. I hung up before Helen could get on the pipe and start screaming at me like a wounded eagle. I locked the office, went down to Fifth Precinct, and an old friend, Lieutenant Levinson, he was in charge of the homicide detail and could tell me about the late Mrs. Moran and her victim. When I walked in, Sergeant Otis was polishing his billy. Hello, Otis, the lieutenant in? Well, Richard Diamond, the all-American gumshoe.  Lieutenant, Diamond's out here. Okay, send him in. Tell me, Shamus, how does one get to be a great big private detective? Seven box tops? You have to observe things, Otis, my boy. For instance, one look with your shirt and I can tell you've been eating well for a week. Why don't you either get it cleaned or stick it in a pressure cooker? Hello, Walt. Now, wait a minute, Rick, if you've got a body somewhere, take it to another precinct.  What a thing. Yeah, that was a swell one. Is this just a social visitor or am I a dreamer? It's about the Moran suicide. You handle it? Uh-huh. One of the neighbors called us. They're both deader than Otis on a double date. What about the Grayson guy she knocked off? Cheap, uh, couple of convictions. Oh, don't tell me Moran's been to you with that blackmail story. Yeah, yeah. He seems to think Grayson was working with someone. Rick, that guy pestered us all morning, but there's no proof of blackmail or anything else, except two people got killed. Give me a quick rundown. I don't know why you're interested. I think Moran drummed up the blackmail theory just to cover that his wife was running around with another man. Well, I'm interested because Moran gave me a fat 200 bucks in advance to get me in the spirit of the thing. Well, if you want to be bored, here are the photographs of the deal. Here is Mack Grayson. Bullard entered his chest just below the 10th rib. Guns are 32. Same one that the Moran dame used on herself. Enough powder burns on his shirt to show that she was standing pretty close when she gave it to him. She'd have to be enough to miss him. Ah, you can see she was lying about 10 feet from Grayson near the bar. Huh?  That's the highball glass on the floor near her head. And that's the 32 she used, about six inches from her right hand, and only her prints on it. Powder burns on the girl? Sure, all over a temple. We did the paraffin test on her hand, too. She fired the gun, all right. Did Grayson have any friends? We never tied him up with anyone, except an old wino that hangs out on Skid Row, a dump called the Para Club. Named Wilbur Truett. Mm-hmm. Now, well, thanks, Walt. Now, look, the dame killed the guy and then shot herself. What more do you want? I'll let you know. Now, wait a minute. I know that gleam in your eye. I always get a sour stomach from it. You've got something you'd better tell me.   We questioned him this morning. Got a tail on him? Sure, but he won't take us anywhere. Now, what are you cooking up? Well, maybe you think there's something, too, Moran's blackmail story.  Then what are you tailing Truett for? Because I can't take a chance. Blackmail's a federal rap, and if Moran keeps stirring up trouble, I want to be able to prove he's nuts. Now, you look here. I want to know what's on your mind. I'll send you a letter. Oh. Otis! Yeah, Lieutenant? Get in my bicarbonate.  I went through the squad room and out into the hall. I used the payphone by the door and put in a fast call to my client, William Moran. I had a hunch that Moran's $200 retainer in my pocket gave him and a priority on it. Yes? Mr. Moran. That's right. This is Diamond, Mr. Moran. I've got a lead on someone who knew Mac Grayson. Well, that's fine, Mr. Diamond. Who is it? The guy who hangs out on Skid Row, named Wilbert Truett. Have I heard of him? Oh. Well, he might have been the one who phoned you this morning. I think I'll go down and find out. Good. Oh, as long as I'm on the case. Goodbye, Mr. Moran. I left the fifth precinct and headed for Skid Row.  Even the sun winds up with a hangover if it shines on the place too long. The Parrot Club was a suller with a low ceiling and a drink of wine for 10 cents a glass. The smell of stale alcohol was so strong that if you opened the door to air the place out, the walls would probably cave in.  He held the towel and the glass of wine in one hand and with the other he pulled the towel, lifting his hand and the glass up to his mouth. Ha! You must have been an engineer. I learned this little stunt in grammar school, Bucco. I started missing my mouth 30 years ago, so I used this towel as a sort of alcohol pulley. It cuts down the element of risk. Hate to spill a drop. You know a guy named Grayson? It's the Shakespeare Bucco. I am completely exhausted after a night of revelry and my hand waves like it was flagging down a caravan of whiskey trucks. Look, friend, after one or two pick-me-ups, I am perfectly capable of lifting the glass by myself. And come nightfall, I'm in excellent condition to entertain my little friends. Oh, swell. Most cowards let their little fellows frighten them and they end up in Bellevue, but I like them. They worried me at first, but when they found out how much I drank, they began to show the strain and the shoe was on the other foot, so to speak. Oh, no. They tried to frighten me the first night, but I just kept right on with one bottle after another and it finally drove them to drink. Now my deities have hallucinations. We are rapidly building up a thriving community. What were you saying, Bucco? Something about the evils of self-indulgence, but in that case, I will let you buy me a drink. No, sure. Later, bring the bottle. You just gave me cold chills.  Okay. Now, do you know a guy named Grayson? I knew there was a cat. Are you a cop? No. In that case, I trust you. Besides, you are holding this lovely bottle. God, Grayson. First a small glass of truth serum. First Grayson. I can't stand to look, so I will turn my back on the bottle and tell you what I know. Mr. Mac Grayson, a very unsavory character who reached a sudden demise last evening, dealt in smutty pasts and made them pay off by milking his victims. He has only one friend, Mr. Leo Fink.  Where does this Fink live? Oh, you are indeed a heartless roll. I was once. You won't buy any chance of spying from the purity league? You get the bottle when I find out where Leo Fink lives. 11, 20, 2nd Avenue now, please. Now, there you are. Don't struggle with the cork, Bucko. I have just acquired the strength of an uncropped Samson. And as I gaze upon this ruby goblet, I am reminded of the fact that you are not the first to come seeking the whereabouts of one Leo Fink. Huh? Play it back in English.  Approached me not 10 minutes before you came in seeking the same information. Did you give it to him? I had to. One more pull on my tie and dissipation would have been a thing of the past. Thanks, Wilbur. Here, buy yourself another jug. Oh, bless you. And good morrow, cousin. Here's to my love. Oh, true apothecary. Thy drugs are quick. Thus, with a kiss, I die. I left Wilbur with his first love and walked out on the street. I grabbed a cab and headed for Leo Fink's address. All the way over, I kept thinking how wonderful fresh air really was. When we finally got there, I paid off the cabbie and looked at my watch. It was 4.30 and the city was turning soft and mellow as the sun started giving up behind the tall buildings. I got that lousy feeling again when I looked across the street. A prowl car was parked at the curb and it looked like homicide's private limousine. Something was wrong. I went up to Fink's apartment in a hurry. Yeah? Ah, what do you want, Shamus? Well, good afternoon, Sergeant. I'm taking the census. How long ago did you die, sir? Very funny, Diamond. Otis, who is that? Diamond. Who else? I didn't ask for a quick quiz on well-known personalities. Let him in. Yell at them.  You'll never make an eagle scout. Hello, Rick. What do you want? I bet he's dead. You'll bet who's dead. You know who's dead? Sure, I know who's dead. Who do you think is dead? The guy I came up here to see. Well, who did you come up to see? I think it's the guy who's dead. Don't you know? No, I ask you. Well, I'm telling you.  Look, why are you up here? Because I'm looking for a guy. What guy? I think it's the guy who's dead. Who's dead? Oh, he's on third. Don't you know? I think I know, Lieutenant.  Of course I know. All right, all right. If you're going to hold out on your old power. Wait a minute, wait a minute. How did we get into this thing? Otis, here's your pi-carbonate. All mixed. All right, now let's start again. Walt, who's dead? Oh, let's not have two bodies up here. The guy's name is Fink. Leo Fink. Why don't you say that in the first place? Because I don't have to do anything I don't want to do. Walt, Lieutenant Levinson. Now, what are you doing up here? Oh, I came up to see Leo Fink. That's all. Well, he's in the other room. If he spills anything, don't believe it. He's been dead for ten minutes. That's too bad. He knew Mac Grayson. Yeah, how did you find out? That sweet old gentleman you sent me over to, Wilbert Truitt.  What else did he tell you? Nothing, but we stuck up quite a friendship. I'm going to go back over and see what another bottle of wine will do to his memory. I'd better haul him in. Well, don't do it, Walt. Don't do it. I can find out things a lot quicker. Shh, I got a system. Okay, but keep me posted. I've got to clean up here. How did Fink get it? Two bullets in the head. No idea who gave it to him. They used a luger, I think. Hey, have you questioned Otis? Oh, go on. Get out of here. Walt, tell me, did you check the prints on that highball glass next to Mrs. Moran to find out whether they were from her right or left hand? Now, what difference does it make? I'll let you know. Now, you wait a minute. No, I can't. I'm behind schedule now. Bye. Oh, Otis! I went downstairs in a hurry and started back to Skid Row and Wilbert Truitt. I turned a corner and had a quick change of heart. That's fine, Ralph Shameless. Wow.  All right. Get in this alley. Why don't you put that cannon away? It shows up like a pair of gums at a dentist's convention. Turn around and get going. I can run if it would help. Take your time. You haven't got too much of it left. Stop nudging. You've got a cold barrel. Don't you like it? No, but it helps. A lesson in the manly art of self-defense. Next time, don't get so close with a gun. Well, what do you know, a luger? Okay, so, I'm a Butterfingers. You've got the gun now. What are you going to do? I've got a mean streak and it shows up when someone tries to kill me. I'm going to ask a couple questions and if you don't answer them, you'll wish you'd picked on an octopus.   Now, who sent you after me? I don't know. Who sent you after me? Honest, I don't know. Wait a second. All right. The guy told me on the phone his name was Jones. Sure, first name's John. Wait, wait. I know it's a phony, but he was recommended. Yeah, but this one I collect after the job. Where? I thought you had gotten over that stubborn streak. Okay. He ate a clock fairy to Staten Island. He's going to slip me two bills. And you don't know his right name? No. Did you know Mac Grayson? I heard of him, but I never met him. Are you as handy with the 32 as you are with that luger? Huh? Forget it. Next question. Who killed Leo Fink? That's a pretty big one. He did it differently. Who killed Leo Fink? I'll take the beaten. Well, I gotta hunch this luger of yours will check with ballistics. Come on, homicide still up in Fink's apartment. No, it's... What did you say? Okay. I hustled Louis up to Walt and left him handcuffed to Sergeant Otis. They deserved each other. Louis said he was going to be paid off at eight o'clock and my watch said it was a quarter after seven. That gave me 45 minutes to check at homicide and catch the ferry to Staten Island. The fingerprint man at the fifth precinct put the prints from the highball glass under a microscope and told me what I wanted to know. My hunch had been right. So I grabbed a cab and 20 minutes later I was paying for my ticket at the ferry landing. A thick wet fog was beginning to roll in off the river and by eight o'clock it was hard to even see your watch. Someone was playing a piano in the lounge as the ferry began to move slowly across the river. I didn't know who I was looking for but I figured if there was going to be a payoff it would be outside. I leaned against the rail and took out a cigarette. Got the match, mister. Yeah, yeah, right here. Thanks. Lousy night. Yeah. He wasn't my man. When he struck the match I could see his dirty work clothes and his factory badge. I started down the other side of the boat. Finding a killer in that fort was like looking for your car keys to the ship. I reached the bow of the boat and right then I knew I was about to score. I get a tight feeling in my stomach when I start closing in on danger. I spotted the dark outline at the rail so I pulled my hat down and walked up beside him. He was hunched over with his arms resting on the rail. Terrible night. It'd be awful if you had to find someone in this fog. Not if he found you first. I like the name Louis Osgood. Have you heard of it? I like the name Moran. Who are you? Just an employee. Diamond? Yeah, you get a gold star. Well, what do you want? Have you found the blackmailers? Now stop playing Alice in Wonderland. I just pushed around your hired goneth, Louis Osgood. He had enough to say to put you away for a long time. He couldn't have. He didn't know my name. Didn't know your name? Who murdered your wife? You or Louis Osgood? Why do you say murder? The police said it was suicide. Well, I got news for you, Buster. Homicide just changed its mind. I checked and found out that the highball glass near her head was covered with prints from her right hand. What does that prove? It proves that to take her own life, she'd have to have fingers a foot long. The prints on the gun were also from her right hand.  That's not my problem, Mr. Diamond. Well, I think it is. If Louis Osgood didn't shoot her, that leaves just one suspect, you. Now let's take a walk back to the cabin. I want to keep an eye on you for homicide. All right. This is where I leave you, Mr. Diamond. Hey, come here! I hadn't thought he'd make a break, but as long as he had a gun and knew how to use it, I could understand why he did. I got my gun out and took off after him. I expected him to go over the side and in the fog, and he'd have a good chance. But when a guy gets cornered, he does funny things. I never would have spotted him, but he threw open a door and framed himself in the light from the inside. I must have caught him because I saw him start to fold and stagger through the door. I took my time getting there. A wounded man with a gun can get pretty mean sometimes. I went forth with a motion of the boat, and I could hear the sound of the engines. He'd gone down in the engine room, so I dropped to my knees and went in after him. A long, polished ladder led down to the big diesel's below, and I knew I'd hit him with the first shot because there was a bright red trail of blood leading down the ladder and behind the churning machinery. Moran! Moran, come on out! You can't get out of here! I don't like being slapped around, and I'm going to see that you get yours! I'm not afraid of the world and keeping himself hidden. The catwalk circled the engine room, so I pulled an old stunt. I took a wrench off the wall and tossed it down the metal ladder. I watched for his gun flashes, and when I spotted his position, I got down on my stomach and called along the catwalk until I was directly over his head. He was sitting in a lot of blood, and he didn't look like he had long to go. Come on, Diamond! I know your job here! Surprise! Look at the birdie! What? Don't try it! I shot my wife. I came in just after she shot Grayson. She was standing at the bar with her back to me, mixing a drink.  I wiped my prints off and put hers on it. Why did you do it? I hated her! She had money. I found some letters and turned them over to Mack Grayson, the well-known black meeler.  You should never have called me. The police were satisfied. I had to find Leo Fink. He knew what hired Grayson, and he was going to blackmail me. So when I dug up the little wine of that new Fink, you hired Louis Asger to bump Fink and me. Is that right? Hey, hey, Moran! Oh, well, it was a dull conversation anyway. Lousy night. The captain came and helped me carry him up to the deck. Back at the ferry landing, I called Walt Levinson and told him the whole story. I didn't wait around. I just hung up in the middle of his lecture on good behavior and started walking. A stiff breeze was kicking up and pushing the fog back where it came from. After a good round of murder, a guy likes to relax. And I knew just the place to curl up and get my fur brushed. I grabbed a cab and headed for 975 Park Avenue, the only girl in the world who looked better than her $10 million bank account. Oh, good evening, Mr. Diamond. Hello, Francis. Is Miss Asher in? Yes, sir. She's in the library. Thanks.  Milk. Oh, yes. Right away. Hey, that's a beef flat. Sailing, sailing over the bounding main. Move over. You were supposed to have been here at 8 o'clock. Oh, what's an hour if you tack it on to the end of the evening? I'm glad you've been keeping out of trouble. I can't stand it when you wander in all beat up. Mm-mm.  What kind of clone is that? Gunpowder, 38. What? Oh, nothing. What cess you were playing? Oh, a new song. Again. You were just dandy. Well, you know I don't play well. I just pick. You should be glad you don't play the guitar with those beautiful nails you'd saw it in half.  Oops. Oh, that wasn't a beef flat. Rick. Who do you love? I won't tell. Rick. I love you, baby. Then let's get married. Hey, these are pretty good lyrics. Now stop that. Again. This couldn't happen again.  This is that once in a lifetime. This is that moment divine. You never sing when I want you to. What's more, this never happened before. Though I have waited a lifetime for such as you to suddenly be mine. No comment. No. Mine to hold as I'm holding you now. Mine to. Hey, what's the matter? Don't go. You want to sing? Go ahead. Well, what did you have in mind? I won't tell. You're not being original. That's my line. Oh, I'm mad. Come here, come here. No. Come here, huh? Mm-hmm. Helen. Mm-hmm. Still mad? No. Mm-hmm. Well, let's get you mad again. It's so much fun making up. Mine again. What's the name of the song again? It never happens again. I'm mad. I'll go ahead. Here's your milk, Mr. Diamond. Oh, my goodness. You never warned me. You've just heard Richard Diamond, private detective starring Dick Powell. Helen was played by Virginia Gregg, Lieutenant Lovenson by Ed Begley. Also in our cast were Wilms Herbert, Tarla Avery, Herbert Butterfield, and Jack Petruzzi. Music was under the direction of David Baskerville. Richard Diamond is written by Blake Edwards and directed by William P. Rousseau. Now this is Eddie King inviting you to be with us again at the same time next week when we will again bring you Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, private detective. This program has come to you from Hollywood. Now NBC brings you a three-way cavalcade of grand comedy with Phil Harris and Alice Faye, Fred Allen and Henry Morgan, all following in fast succession the most of these NBC stations. 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and finally in sport news world record holder in the 100 meter huddles toby amazon and olympics bronze medalist esa bruma relaged their impressive run in 2022 at their unveiling as a brand ambassador that took place in legas it's just a great privilege to be alive and doing what i can do with my god's given talent and it's it's it's it's an awesome feeling trust me it's an awesome feeling you know and i'm just thankful to be out here showcasing what i can do and what a girl child and i couldn't be more thankful for that you don't want to hear all of that but let me tell you the struggle has been real but we go ahead i've been grounded on my goals and with the help of you know my support system my coach and you know a lot of prayers i was able to you know come out on the top of um everything i did this year and i couldn't be more thankful like i usually say i don't know a long time ago um while i was in high school and ever since then you know i've been doing so well thanks to god and um i'm super happy that so far my performance you know has brought me you know um this this package and um i can't contain my joy at the moment because um trust bank has you know brought this platform this initiative this initiative you know to you know throw light into track and field in Nigeria and i'm happy to be a part of it and hopefully by the grace of god we pray that this keeps growing and things get better in the future right now we're looking forward to i am looking forward to the world championship next year and the world in dust is cancelled so it's just the world championship next year and all other other moods it feels great you know to be an inspiration to be able to impact in the lives of other young ones and i'm glad i'm doing this and i pray that god give me the grace to continue to do so the the last jump was the highlight of it all i'll say it has always been inside of me but then i needed something to bring it out of me and that was that was a determination because i was determined i was focused i was able to bring that out of me but that was actually the goal and thankfully we got the uh three parameters that's the news update for more stories please follow us on our facebook twitter and instagram and just subscribe to our youtube channel applause tv africa and plus tv africa lifestyle can also view us from linux and www.limax.tv and go to the apps anywhere in the world i am Khadija Balugu many thanks for watching


Well, if you're a parent with a trans child and you live in Texas now is officially the time to get out And I know that it's easier said than done moving costs money and a lot of people don't have the resources needed to flee the state But now is the time to consider an escape plan because the situation has gone very bad in Texas to the point where if you are a loving parent and you care for your trans child you will be treated as a criminal and It's sad that it's come to this but unfortunately, this is the reality of the situation and I Don't feel as if people in Texas who have trans children are safe So Greg Abbott the governor of Texas has officially directed the state's family and protective services to begin investigating all trans children in Texas and Prosecuting their parents as child abusers. He has also instructed all teachers doctors and caregivers to begin reporting any Trans students they see now the order that he signed threatens criminal penalties on doctors nurses and teachers Who failed to report quote abuse which they are describing as gender-affirming care for trans youth and that is explicitly laid out So if you have a duty to report in Texas Texas is officially saying that you have to report trans youth to family and protective services or you risk losing your job So if you are a loving parent and you have a trans kid and you do what anyone with common sense would do and You seek out gender-affirming care for them You are going to be treated as a criminal and a child abuser and as a result child protective services might actually take your kid away From you this is state sanctioned kidnapping and even if a court blocks this before anything bad happens The message is very very clear. We don't know what's gonna happen to be clear But the message here is very clear. You are not welcome and the state of Texas is trying to criminalize Gender-affirming care for trans youth. They're trying to eradicate the existence of trans children and The result will be absolutely catastrophic It's uh, it's like a punch to the gut seeing this this is happening in the United States of America where certain Americans because of who they are are being hunted by their state and This comes after we've heard the Republican Party for months screech at the top of their lungs about the state taking away The rights of parents when it comes to school mask mandates when it comes to CRT critical race theory But now when it comes to gender-affirming care just being a good parent, they're treating you as a child abuser and It's already difficult if you are a trans child your life will be a lot more difficult than your cis peers But this is making it so that way if you're one of the lucky trans kids to have actually loving parents well Too bad for you as well apparently according to the state of Texas as Trungwin put it Most queer kids have at some point in their childhood Consider the possibility that they might have to go it alone in case they're coming out goes badly And now Abbott wants to deprive the trans kids who do have loving parents of their family support just evil exactly Now what does gender-affirming care mean? Specifically, we'll talk about what it means and what the experts are saying about gender-affirming care for trans youth But this is really raw gender-affirming care can be something as simple as letting your child socially transition Allow them to dress as the gender that they identify with more Taking them to therapy. That's part of gender-affirming care But what they're really trying to focus on here are surgeries which are Incredibly uncommon for trans youth. No trans child. No minor is having bottom surgery But really what they're trying to eradicate is the use of puberty blockers which are reversible by the way They're medically necessary and they allow children to kind of Make their choice get on puberty blockers so that way you don't go through puberty and You kind of you have more time to make that decision. They're trying to block that. They're saying that's child abuse here It's truly just it's so insane Now before we talk about the specifics here with regard to gender-affirming care and what this means I just want to provide Families in Texas with some resources here So if you are in Texas the safest nearby state to go to is likely going to be Colorado and New Mexico If you are a parent with a trans kid and are looking to escape these issues from ever popping up again Well, any state in the dark green is the best take a screenshot save this image all along the west coast I mean, you know, you are gonna be pretty safe here now legal help is costly But Aaron is recommending that you try to contact the ACLU of Texas or Lambda legal not a guaranteed that they're gonna Be able to help you but just something to kind of keep in mind And if you have money to spare, please, please, please consider donating to a family in need Who's trying to leave Texas but can't afford to I want to direct you to a GoFundMe that I found of a mother her name is Violet and she has a daughter named Issa and They are trying to get out of Texas as quickly as possible. I will link you to their GoFundMe down below She acknowledges that this is not a safe environment to raise her child in and now that she's essentially Being hunted down by the state.  So let's talk about gender-affirming care a little bit more There's so much ignorance here and the problem is that people Don't know trans people. They don't know anyone with a trans child So they just make a lot of assumptions based on their worldview based on their Ignorance to this particular issue and this is something that is absolutely crucial for trans youth, right? Gender-affirming care is medically necessary and that's not me saying that that's what the experts say So last year when there were a ton of different anti-trans bills popping up in GOP controlled states across the country They were trying to ban gender-affirming care and then a lot of experts They spoke out. So here's what the ACLU said So they kind of took all of these opinions from experts and they summarized it So they say medical experts agree gender-affirming care is medically necessary care That can be life-saving for transgender youth. I'll read that again life-saving Trans youth know who they are Multiple studies have shown that providing gender-affirming care is life-saving by dramatically reducing depression and suicidal ideation So that's basically a summary of what the experts are saying So here's what the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry say so they support the use of current evidence-based clinical care with minors AACAP strongly opposes any efforts legal legislative and otherwise to block access to these recognized interventions Blocking access to timely care has been shown to increase youth's risk for suicidal ideation and other negative mental health outcomes Now here's what the American Medical Association says about this The American Medical Association views these bills as a dangerous legislative intrusion into the practice of medicine and has been working closely with state medical Associations to vigorously oppose them and letters to legislators the AMA has emphasized that it is imperative that transgender minors be given the opportunity To explore their gender identity under the safe and supportive care of a physician Now the American Academy of Pediatrics calls bans on gender-affirming care quote dangerous So the experts are saying it is absolutely important that a doctor a parent and their child make these decisions Together we don't allow the state to intervene and say no gender-affirming care because again gender-affirming care is a really broad category by just affirming your child's identity Under Texas standards you could be viewed as an abuser, which is insane to me But let's look at some of the the story So when the Arkansas bill was being debated There was a doctor that showed up to kind of testify and explain the effect that bans on gender-affirming care Would have on trans youth and there's also a testimony from a young trans man and take a look at what they have to say I just want to speak from the heart for these kids who really are the bravest brightest Type a high achieving amazing children. I mean I just can't go on enough about them And they're just amazing kids. Okay, and they know who they are and they know who they are from a very young age Just after this bill passed the house These kids heard about it. I've had multiple kids in our emergency room because of an attempted suicide just in the last week Multiple I've had multiple children. Do you know how many phone calls? I've had to fill out field in the last week of children calling me saying dr. Hutchison if this happens I'm going to kill myself Multiple so I guarantee you if this bill passes Children will die and I will call you guys every single time one does This bill will cause human beings trans beings children's death I can promise you that if a supportive process had been the norm when I was a child instead of this outdated rhetoric The scars of attempted suicide will not adorn my body to this day The trauma wouldn't live in my bones that I worked to overcome to this day So I beseech you to please vote against this murderous bill The options for trans-affirming health care should principally always be left to the people themselves and not legislators. Yeah So The impact that this will have on trans youth is just it's gonna be catastrophic One more video that I want to show you this is from a fourth grader now. She's in fifth grade This was recorded last year when Texas was considering a ban on gender for men care Legislatively but since that didn't go through now the governor's doing it, but listen to her story here. Hello My name is Kai Shafley. Um, I love ballet math science and geology I spend my free time with my cats chickens face-timing my friends and dreaming of when I will finally meet Dolly Parton. I Do not like spending my free time asking adults to make good choices I've been having to explain myself since I was three or four years old Texas legislators have been attacking me since pre-k. I am in fourth grade now When it comes to bills that target trans youth, I immediately feel angry. It's been very scary and overwhelming It just it makes me sad that some politicians use trans kids like me to get votes from people who hate me just because I exist God made me. God loves me for who I am and God does not make mistakes You should be careful how you treat the least of these Please just listen to me. Hear me. Try to educate yourselves. Try to understand Everybody Mom has been giving everything she has to stand up for me with these new things y'all are trying to do We both are having to advocate for each other because you are now targeting a great mom and a great nurse My mom needs her nursing license to take care of me and my siblings Bullying is bad. Please stop. Don't make bad choices. It's never too late to turn it around And I want to say thank you to those of you who are sticking up for kids like me By the time I am in college, you will be celebrated in the history books And now that little girl's mother is considered a child abuser When it's clear that that little girl is cared for well and she's loved by her parents But because of Texas now She's subject to abuse When she looks perfectly happy and healthy just the politicians Who are trying to make her miserable?  This isn't just the trans rights issue This is a human rights issue and this is a violation of human rights We're to the point now where people have to flee the state of texas Because of the assault on trans children let that sink in this is where we're at As a country and texas isn't going to be the last state to do this I hope that this gets defeated, but either way if you live in texas This isn't going to be the last thing that they do to try to punish you for being a loving parent So I suggest you get out if you can I'll be sharing go fund me's as they pop up. This is just uh again I don't know how to even process this This is a punch to the gut and I can't imagine what families in texas are going through right now After hearing about this news


Welcome folks, this is Tom and Tommy O'Brien. We do appreciate you growling and prowling us out here. And Tommy's going to be three tomorrow morning, three years old. That's right. One, two, three. Dow. Dow Industries right now trading up 322 Nasdaq except 193, S&Ps are up 52. Gold. Gold contract trading up $4.40 cents, 2,071 an ounce. We have silver up 13 cents, $23.30 an ounce, light sweet crude, down $1.67, $74.84 a barrel notes and bonds. A 10-year note, up 18 ticks, trading 112.29, the 30-year up a full point, plus 22 ticks at 1.2401. Now the 10-year folks, this is on ABC Up, that's what I suspect we have here. We went through it yesterday. Look at how fast this was. 3.8% on the 10-year right now. And if we take a look at this, you're going to see it has the price and the volume going with it. And that's after the first leg only did a .382, and you can see 2.4 million contracts. This is a monster number, man. So the market is going to do Powell's job. And then if we go to King Dahl, this has been hanging tough at this level. But it looks to me like we gave it up today. So we'll see how it shakes out. I want Buzz. You're down 2.21, but it's really a flat market. I just want Buzz back. We'll get Buzz back. We'll get Buzz back. Yeah, look at all the colors here, Tommy. Look at this. Look at this. This is how we go. So coming into the close out here, we're going to have Amazon coming up with numbers. That's going to definitely move the market. Bottom line is that you got Apple coming up with numbers. I want that computer. I don't blame you. That's going to move the market. Apple's up a buck. And then Meta. I want that computer. All three of those inside the MDX 100, you're going to be the MetaZep, $6.91, which is a one big number. Stay right there, folks. Tommy and Tommy are coming right back. We have the Dahl. The Dahl Industries. How much is the Dahl up, Tommy? Read that first number. 314, say. 314. And the NASDAQ is up 188. And the NASDAQ 188. 188. And then the S&Ps are up 51. Say S&Ps are up 51. S&Ps are 51. Good boy. You stay right there. Tommy and Tommy are coming right back.