Thanks very much for joining this session. This talk is about CIP Colonel and Test Team's activities. We'd like to talk how we are interacting with UPS3 and other projects in order to achieve our goal. First of all, let me introduce ourselves. One of the speakers is myself, Masashi Kudo from Cyber Trust Japan. I'm currently acting on CIP Colonel Team Chair. So, Chris-san. I'm Chris Patterson. I'm working for Renaissance Electronics in Europe. And I'm the working group lead for the testing side of things at CIP. Thank you, Chris-san. So, today, we first explain about CIP. In the CIP, UPS3 first is a development principle. In the next section, I'd like to explain what it means. CIP Colonel and Test Team follow this principle to work on tasks. In the following sections, we'll share what we are doing and what we have accomplished so far by each team. CIP automated testing is covered by Chris-san. Other sections are covered by Kudo myself. Then, let's get started with what is CIP. CIP stands for Civil Infrastructure Platform. It was founded almost four years ago under the Linux Foundation. When you hear civil infrastructure, you may imagine heavy-weight systems like power plants. That is true, but there are a lot more around us. Even industrial IoT devices can be categorized into civil infrastructure. The way to develop all those systems and devices have been changing. Before 2000, they had been developed with proprietary components. But after starting millennium, software layers were clearly divided into competitive layer and non-competitive layer. And people had focused on proprietary applications in the competitive layer to differentiate functionalities. Recently, the situation has become even more complicated because mobile and cloud technologies have become commodities. Systems and devices now consist of much more components. But the development resources have not been so much changed. Therefore, people are focusing only on the proprietary applications with limited resources. Now, there are millions or trillions of civil infrastructure devices running worldwide. They share the same industrial requirements, that is security, sustainability, and industrial greatness. They should keep satisfying those requirements during their life cycles, which are usually very long. Therefore, super long-term maintenance becomes a key. However, there were no common solutions for base building blocks of civil infrastructure. Therefore, similar development and maintenance efforts should be spent each by each separately, even in the same companies. By being motivated to solve these issues, civil infrastructure platform, as known as CIP, aims to develop building blocks to satisfy industrial requirements with open sources. We named such building blocks as open source base layer in short OSBL. OSBL consists of CIP SLDS kernel and CIP core packages. SLDS stands for super long-term support, and we aim to maintain SLDS kernel for 10 plus years. CIP core packages contain only dozens of packages. They are carefully selected and will likewise be maintained for long term. You will notice that more packages, say hundreds of packages, are needed to develop real systems or devices. While CIP provides OSBL as commonly used building blocks, those additional packages should be added by users or provided by Linux distributors. CIP governance structure is explained in this slide. The governing board is organized with Platinum members. It decides CIP directions overall. More specifically, whom CIP should collaborate with, what CIP should invest, how budget should be allocated and so on. All the technical issues or directions are discussed at the technical steering committee, TSC. All the member companies can join TSC meetings. The meetings are usually held once every two weeks with web conference systems. Under the technical steering committee, the six activities are proceeded as teams or working groups. We formed the CIP kernel team to work on SLDS kernel as well as real-time Linux. The testing team was formed to work on automated testing. In addition, there are three other activities that is CIP core team, security working group and software update working group. The CIP core team is working on CIP core packages. The security working group is working on IEC 62443 conformance with CIP. For your note, IEC 62443 is a security standard for industrial automation and control systems. The software update working group is initiating a prototype of software update for CIP. Currently, there are eight member companies in CIP. They are actively working on those activities. Our annual membership fees are pooled as budget and used to support maintenance and developers in CIP. The budget is also used to invest projects other than CIP. One of the member companies reported that up to 70% effort reduction can be achieved by applying CIP to entire organizations in the company. It is because activities like OSS license clearing, vulnerability monitoring, kernel and package maintenance etc. can be commonized instead of doing each by each. That is how cost saving was achieved. Up to 3 first is a development principle. I will explain what it means. Here, two development models are pictured. The model on the left hand side is own community model. The project with this model branches its base from upstream and evolves by its own. This model enables the project to ramp up quickly and in the long run, it will be difficult to incorporate upstream purchase into it due to conflicts. The model on the right hand side is upstream first model. The project allows patch commits only if those patches are already in the upstream. It may take time to introduce a desired patch. The reason is that if the target patch is not in the upstream yet, it should be accepted by the upstream at first. But this model eliminates the risk of conflicts. At the same time, the project can share its outputs with the upstream. As a side note, please take a look at this graph. It displays a growth trend of commit counts for each stable release. As you can see, a few hundred patches are committed to each stable release per month. This trend makes cherry picking quite difficult. Because CIP is aiming a long term maintenance, upstream first model is a desired approach. As explained so far, the upstream first principle is essential to achieve industrial requirements, especially in terms of long term maintenance. We collaborate with upstream projects. Before using the outputs, we upstream what we have and don't keep them locally. By rotating upstreaming and using continuously, we are moving toward our goal. Here explains how CIP artifacts can be used by CIP users. CIP refers to source or binary packages in Debian. If you would like to use Debian source packages, you can use Yoakt-Pokey as a build system. CIP core packages contain tens of packages which may not be sufficient for the development of end products. So users can add necessary packages from Debian by writing recipes. Debian provides LTS maintenance and even extended LTS can be provided. So super long term support including user run packages can take advantage of these maintenance frameworks. Then let's move on to the CIP kernel team activities. The primary goal of the CIP kernel team is to provide CIP SLTS kernels for 10 plus years by fixing versions to fulfill the required level of reliability, sustainability and security. There are two kernel maintenance, one kernel mentor and one kernel developer in the team. While we are highly motivated to work on the project, we don't think we can achieve the goal by ourselves only. We definitely rely on upstream project activities. The question is how to use the upstream outputs and how to work with the upstream projects. So what does upstream first mean for the CIP kernel team? Our upstream is Linus main line and stable releases. By upstream first principle, only patches which are already in the main line or stable kernels are allowed to be incorporated into CIP kernel releases. So CIP members proceed to upstream their preferred code. And once the code is incorporated into the main line or stable kernels, the code is allowed to be back ported into CIP kernels. On the other hand, the CIP kernel team takes actions from a different perspective. One of the CIP kernel team's objectives is to maintain CIP kernels safe and sound. For this objective, the team monitors stable releases carefully and contributes to the stable releases where needed. In general, patches are committed to the main line at first. Then they are back ported to each stable kernel. However, by some reason, such back porting might not be done on some specific stable kernels. It may be because such patches are irrelevant to them or because back porting is not trivial for such stable kernels due to the changes of implementations. The CIP kernel team reviews those patch status. If the team identifies some patches to be back ported to some stable kernels, the team contributes to them. We are concerned about security patches as well. We check the status of the security patches by using open source tools. And if some patches are missing in stable releases, the team contributes to such stable releases as well. By incorporating necessary patches, the team releases CIP kernels based on upstream artifacts. This is the big picture of the kernel team activities. And patch review, CV check, contribution and kernel releases are four major tasks of the CIP kernel team. Now I'm going to elaborate those four tasks each by each in the following slides. The first task is patch review. The CIP kernel maintenance review patches which are included in stable release candidates for 4.4 and 4.19 because CIP kernels are based on those releases. As a result of the review, if the team finds any issues, patch review comments are sent to the kernel mailing list directly. A black window on the right hand side is an example of such review comments. Review results are saved in the git lab and if the team identifies some patches should be back ported, the team initiates the contribution process. The second task is CV check. For security fixes, the team follows a separate process by developing an open source tool called CIP kernel sec. The CIP kernel sec gathers CV information from multiple sources such as stable kernels, Debian kernel and Ubuntu kernel. The kernel team focuses on maintaining the CV-affected kernel 4.4 and 4.19 and may backport the specific CV commits to the stable kernels where appropriate. The CIP kernel sec provides simple graphic layouts as well as CLI interfaces. The users can get detailed information via those interfaces. It provides multiple information regarding kernel CVs. As I mentioned in the previous slide, the purpose of the CIP kernel sec is to track the status of security issues identified by CV ID in mainline, stable and other configured branches. This tool is public and can be found in the git lab under the CIP project. You can also reach it on the website via the QR code. CIP kernel config collects kernel configuration from CIP members to define the maintenance scope in CIP kernel 4.4 and 4.19 respectively. This is also the maintenance baseline by using CIP kernel sec. When CIP kernel maintenance review CV fixes, they consult with this CIP kernel config to see whether those fixes are related to CIP supported boards or not. If the fixes are related to the CIP supported boards, then the team goes ahead to contribute associated fixes to stable kernels. The third task is contributions. There are two objectives for the contributions. The first objective is to fill the gaps. As a result of patch reviews and CV check, we identify missing patches. Some patches are needed for CIP kernels to fulfill industrial grade requirements. So the team contributes them to upstream so that CIP kernels can be based on the stable kernels which include those patches. The second objective is giving back. Because we take advantage of upstream outputs, we are grateful for upstream activities. Therefore, CIP kernel team works on contributions of bug fixes and security patches to all stable kernels, not limiting to 4.4 or 4.19. These statistics show the counts of the contributions by CIP kernel team to stable releases. I reported the statistics at ELC North America 2020 in June. Since then, the team keeps contributing to all stable releases, as you can see here. Compared with June timeframe, the team added nearly 100 contributions in total. How we contribute are recorded in commit logs in stable releases. Reported by sign-of-by, act-by, in addition to authors and CCs, major counts in the total are around 1700. The last but not the least task is CIP kernel release. Again, one of the CIP kernel team's objective is to maintain CIP kernels safe and sound. Through stable patch review, the team identifies missing patches and contributes them to stable kernels. Also, CIP members want to backboard their preferred patches. They send patches to CIP mailing list for CIP kernel maintenance review. By incorporating acknowledged patches, the testing team starts testing. After everything goes well, the maintainer in charge tags it as a release candidate. Another maintainer checks and acknowledges it, then the CIP kernel is released. The announcement of the release is sent out to CIP Dev Mailing List. So, by subscribing to CIP Dev, you are notified of the CIP releases. As I mentioned already, CIP SLTS kernels are based on 4.4 and 4.19 stable releases. The first releases of 4.4 and 4.4 RT were done in 2017. We plan to maintain them to 20-27 for 10 years. The first releases of 4.19 and 4.19 RT were done in 2019. And likewise, we support them for 10 years until 20-29. Currently, 4.4 is released once a month. So, 4.4 RT is once every two months because commit counts for 4.4 are decreasing. 4.19 is twice a month and 4.19 RT is once every two months respectively. So far, we have steadily released kernels thanks to our maintainers by following release frequencies I just explained. I also reported the counts at ELC North America 2020. Compared with the counts in June, the team made 20 additional releases and the year total so far is 46. Toward the end of this year, several releases will be added for sure. Upstreams of current CIP releases are active and we are taking advantage of their outputs while we are contributing to them as I explained so far. However, because we intend to maintain CIP SLTS kernels for 10 years and the upstream lifespans are both six years, therefore, the gap periods should be maintained by CIP. Because maintenance of 4.4 stable release will be finished in January 2022, CIP start to maintain CIP 4.4 by ourselves. The CIP kernel team is discussing how to work on this. We have been relying on upstream developers and other stable contributors for their outputs. CIP cannot rely on this after the end of stable release maintenance, so CIP kernel maintenance would review each other's work. The details are still being discussed and I hope we can share with you the plan at some event next year. In order for the CIP kernel team to effectively work on these tasks, testing acts a very important role. Chris-san, chair of CIP testing team will share what the team is doing. So Chris-san, I'm handing over the control to you. Okay, thank you, Chris-san. So to start with, I'd like to go over the testing goals from this working group. So ramming towards having a centralized and distributed testing. So CIP is a global project with developers spread around the world. Not everyone has access to all of the different CIP reference platforms. So we want to host them all in a centralized way so anyone can access them whenever they need them. We aim to support our software over a long period over 10 years. So if we were to do that testing manually, the effort would be huge and it would probably bankrupt us. So in combination with our centralizing testing farm, we need the ability to run our tests automatically. And we're also very interested in open source collaboration. We want to work with other projects to use and improve their code rather than introducing us another test framework into the ecosystem. We want to avoid reinventing the wheel. So more on our open source approach. This diagram is similar to what you've probably seen before in other CIP presentations. The first step is, as always, is to upstream first to relevant projects. We then take the output of these projects and integrate them into our own setup. So specifically for testing, we're currently funding KernelCI. As a premium member, we're also helping to manage and steal the direction of the project. We contribute code and upstream and do code reviews on projects like Lava, KernelCI, Linares, automated test definitions. We then take the output of these projects such as Lava Docker, which we then we used it to manage our board farms and run automated testing. We then use that to test the CIP software such as the super long-term support kernels and our reference file system. We also use this setup to run testing on the Linux stable release candidates coming out from Greg and Sasha. So overview of our architecture. We split into three different sections. The source code is all stored on GitLab, more publicly available. Our CI builds are done on the Kubernetes cluster, which is running in Amazon. We bring pods up using AWS on demand instances. When we need them, when we don't need them, we kill them to save money. This spring up and taking down is all managed by our GitLab cloud CI tool, which again is all published. We use different size VMs depending on what the job is. So for testing, we might only have a very small pod because the pod just sits there waiting for tests to run on our board farm. So we only need a micro instance. There's no point in spending for a massive VM for that. Our artifact storage is again on Amazon using their S3 buckets and Lava masters running in AWS EC2 as well. We didn't have four Lava workers, which are the actual labs that host the boards which we're going to test on. These are dotted around the various member companies. So we have one at CyberTrust in Japan. We have one at Denx in Germany. We have one at Mentor in India and the fourth one is at Renesus in the UK. So at the moment, we're currently testing through all the CRP kernels. Every push gets built in about 30, 34 different kind of configurations which have been provided by the project members. And then they get downloaded and tested on the boards where appropriate. So you can have the boards. CRP has a number of reference platforms. These are platforms we support in our kernels and we test on them. So if you have one of these boards, you can reasonably sure that the code running on them should be fine. Most of them are all supported on the 4.9 kernel, 4.19, which is our latest one. Some of the boards are all supported on the older 4.4 kernel. They cover a range of articles, ARMv7, ARMv8 and x86. And some boards we also test using real-time configurations using our real-time kernels. In terms of tests, there are a number of test suites we currently run. We use a simple boot test, which runs on all the boards. We use the spectra meltdown checker tool, which highlights any of the speculative execution CVEs the system may be vulnerable to as reported by the system. This is just a checker tool script. It's not running any tests to verify that it's not vulnerable. At the moment, it's just using the kernels pullbacks to say, yes, I think I'm protected against this. We run a large sway for the LTP tests, Linux test projects. Some of them take a long time to run, but we're doing our best to run them all. And for the real-time configurations, we also run cyclic tests with hackbench running in the background to add some load. At the moment, GitLab's managing most of this. We use GitLab CI-CD. This is an example of a pipeline. So on the left, we've got a list of all the recently run pipelines. These are running on every push that's done to the CIP kernels, every tag, every branch, every release we make. In the middle is just a breakdown of one of those where you can see all the different kernel configurations that have been built and tested. A couple of them have failed there, so that's what's been blown up on the right, where you can see the actual build log. And you can see where the failure is here. There's a network driver that's got an issue. So now the developer, you can pick this up and investigate further. They probably end up building it locally just to debug further and run Git. At the moment, all this is happening automatically, which saves a lot of time for the maintenance team. They can have lots of different builds and configurations done automatically whenever they need to. So it saves a lot of time. To view test results, we view these currently in Lava. So Lava has an output you can see whether a particular test job has passed or not. You can break down further detail and see the individual test cases, whether they've passed or not, and click further through to see the actual log, which is relevant to that test case. One downside of Lava is that from the top level, it's quite hard to see what's working and what's not working, what's got worse. You can see where the whole job ran successfully. So the whole platform didn't crash, for example. But you have to break down, you have to go into much finer detail to see which test cases passed or failed and how many. So this is something we're hoping to improve by integrating with the Kernesee I project, which I'll speak about more now. So Kernesee I.org website has been around for a number of years. But last year, they actually formed into a Linux Foundation open source project. CRP joined as a founding member alongside Bay Libra, Collabra, Foundries, Google, Microsoft, and Red Hat. So we're working together to improve the project and the software coming out of it. CRP were contributing code and code reviews. We also helped manage the projects as much as we can. The next major step for CRP is to actually integrate Kernesee I's front end into our testing pipeline. So the benefit here would be that Kernesee I is a much better view for viewing all the test results and how many have passed and failed. And it also adds functionality such as automatically detecting regressions. So whether that failure is new or whether it's always been there. And I think they also support automatic git bisetting, which is something I'd love to integrate into our setup. There's a buff session tonight. And there's also a talk called let's test with Kernesee I on Wednesday evening. So if you want to learn more about projects, look at attending those sessions. Projects actually seeking contributors. So if you're interested in helping develop the project, or even if you've got some ideas on how to improve the current project, they're open to collaborators and keen to hear from you. So let me know. And that's about it from me. So I'll hand back to Kudo-san to sum up our session. Thank you. Thank you very much Chris-san. So let me conclude today's talk. CIP kernel and test teams follow upstream first principle and contributes to upstream. By taking advantage of kernel LTS, the team steadily releases CIP SLTS kernels and aims to maintain them for 10 years or more. To reduce CIP SLTS kernel release cost, the kernel team is closely working with CIP testing team to build automated testing systems. We are eager to recruit new members. If more people work with us, we can expand our activities more and we can contribute to upstreams and other projects more so that the whole ecosystem will grow. So please join us if you are interested in the CIP. 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The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents this is your FBI This is your FBI the official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society is representative in your community. In the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States nearly four million members are banded together to build better futures for themselves and their families. Their reasons for becoming equitable society policy holders are many but certainly among the most unselfish and far-sighted Equitable Society members are those parents who have seen the wisdom of an equitable education fund. Fathers and mothers in just 14 minutes the Equitable Society will tell you how to make sure that your children get the funds necessary for the education you want them to have through an equitable education fund. Tonight's FBI file the Phantom Mine. In the black market then he would be willing to pay for the same article if he were able to buy it legitimately across the counter. That type of person is always looking for an angle for a connection through whom he may be able for a little while longer to put off the ignominy of going to work. There is nothing such a person detests more than the idea and the practice of a day's wage for a day's work. Those people are known as operators and even when they continue for years to be small operators they never lose hope that one day through some miracle they will become Mr. Big Shot. In their eyes a Big Shot is anyone who does not have to work for a living but who makes his money through lying cheating or killing. There are those who have pictured this swindler as a criminal in kid gloves who wanted only money and who abhorred the type of criminal operation in which lives are lost. Such a picture is a sentimental caricature because the truth is that to the criminal whatever his type of crime may be no one's life is important except his own. Which is tied up to a dock along the waterfront of a large eastern city. It is early afternoon a bright sun is shining but below decks on this rusting trap dampness and bloom prevail sheltered by this atmosphere a man moves silently stealthily along a grimy corridor then looking furtively about he enters the engine room and moves swiftly to one of the engines. He stands examining it intently unmindful of the quiet approach of footsteps. What are you doing? I asked you what you were doing. Well I was going to tell you. One of the wipers and the engineer of the ship I never seen you I just signed on sir what's your name Louie Jackson sir what were you trying to do to that engine or nothing sir look may I go now sir What's that in your hand? Just a brush sir. Let me see it. What for? I smell kerosene. I think it comes from that brush Let me see it now and there is kerosene on it. So what if there is come on? I'm taking you to the captain. Good morning captain. Good afternoon Mr. Metcalfe. Captain I Hate to trouble you, but I've got to report this man Won't you just signed on? Yes, sir. Now what's your report Mr. Metcalfe? Well, I was down in the engine room a while ago This man came sneaking in didn't see me. He went over to one of the engines Started a fool with it when I called out to him. Yes. He refused to tell me why he was there Then I discovered he had a brush in his hand The brush was soaked with kerosene. I see I haven't looked at my engine jet captain I don't know whether they're damaged or not Let me know as soon as you inspect them. Yes, sir. Do you wish to press charges against him? That's up to you, sir Well, I'll question him you go examine the engines leave the man here with me. Yes, sir And thanks for being that alert mr. Metcalfe. You're welcome sir.  I mean yes from now on Louis keep away from that engine room till we get to see Let the local FBI field office special agent Jim Taylor is approaching the desk of agent Tom Allen Hello, Tom. Oh, hello, Jim. I thought you were in court today testifying in that Dexter case I wasn't any need for me to testify Dexter changed his plea to guilty. Oh Glad that file is closed. Yeah, so am I but it looks as if we've got one to work on now That's gonna be just as tough new one. That's right. Just came in as I got back from court the s.a.c. Assigned it to us. What's the story seems a man named refuel Fernando went to the United States Council in Barcelona Spain and confessed that he'd been an accomplice in a fraudulent bankruptcy in Barcelona No in Chicago Well, the council took Fernando story and sent it back to the State Department in Washington They in turn sent it over to the Bureau. Well, how does it get to this office? Well, it was sent to the Chicago field office first and they conducted an investigation on it How long ago did this bankruptcy take place 14 months ago in Chicago? That's right It's probably given everybody connected with it a pretty good chance to scatter. That's what the Chicago investigation showed You see the bankruptcy originally took place when Fernando a partner in the firm allegedly Absconded with $250,000 and then fled to Spain. Have you read the Fernando confession? Yes, it's here in the file I just finished reading it does Fernando explain why he waited 14 months before he finally decided to confess Yes, his partner in bankruptcy was a man named William Gilbert Fernando says that all he ever got out of it was transportation back to his home in Barcelona He says that Gilbert promised to send him $50,000 But that he never sent him anything at all. So this man Gilbert took all the money well Fernando took the blame That's it That still doesn't explain how we happen to wind up with a case in this office Oh, the Chicago office started to search for Gilbert. They learned that he'd changed his name and was headed for here They didn't find out whether he intended to set himself up in business here, did they Jim? No, according to everything they could find out he was headed here to buy a Liberty ship Well, Chicago also said that Gilbert had not only changed his name But that he was very adept at changing his appearance. Hmm. This makes the Dexter case look like high school stuff It's not gonna be easy. I'll give you that Well, let's go to work and see what we can find How does everything look your ship is in tip-top shape mr. Grant.  Yes, sir When do you expect to do the job? Well, we're a few miles offshore. You've made all preparations Let me put a charger powder under one of the floorboards in the engine room It'll blow a hole in the side of this ship big enough to walk through splendid and just to make sure After we sail I'll have him paint the floor down there with kerosene and you've got your story straight sure After she thinks I say we ran into a floating mine That'll stand up and take every precaution captain those insurance companies Investigate every angle in a case like this What do you collect from them? That's the grant 175,000 and the boat stood your hundred and twenty thousand. That's right Sounds like we're gonna make a good night's pay I'm gonna walk with me down to the teletype room expecting something Jim The SAC spoke to the Chicago office a little while ago. They said that has something for us on the Gilbert bankruptcy They say what it was. No, no they didn't They did say they had located Gilbert sex girlfriend though She was coming into the office there to answer some questions for them I hope she can give us more of a lead and we've been able to get so far I checked every hotel in town today. Nobody answering the description Chicago gave us on Gilbert is checked in recently Oh, he's been in town. I found out that much. Oh, well, you know that list of offices I got from the US Maritime Commission. Well, you mean that list that came in yesterday afternoon. That's the one I called the men who have been conducting the sales I found that they remembered a man of that description bidding on Liberty ships here six weeks ago. Well, did he buy one? No, I didn't Man, that would have been an easy way to trace you Then three days after he left here He tried to buy one in Boston, but he didn't have enough money to get one there either We've they've got those sales someplace about every week. Haven't they Jim just about I checked every one of them. He attended every sale there was up to about two weeks ago. Did he buy a ship at that one? No All of a sudden he stopped showing up Maybe he found a ship someplace Why do you suppose he's so anxious to get a ship? I don't know it's nothing in his background that would indicate he was interested in smuggling There's your message Hey, John, this might be the break we're waiting for is the old bird sex girl says that he's living here now under the name of Harry Grant Good evening, Captain. Hello, Mr. Metcalf. You know, I shouldn't bother you this late captain, but this couldn't wait What is it? Well, you remember the episode with the wiper yesterday. Yes, I have something further to report on him. Yeah, I Just couldn't help this captain. I've harbored a suspicion against him ever since I caught him in the engine room So I kept thinking about it all day today and a couple of minutes ago I went to his locker.  That's right him What in the world with my opinion captain that can indicate only one thing he aims to sabotage the ship Yes, he certainly appears that way doesn't it? Viewing our deal with the man is now. No, sir. I haven't but we can certainly Captain will you question or shall I look I've got to see you alone, sir We have something important to discuss with you Jackson. I'll handle him. Mr. Metcalf You go back to your quarters, but you need the evidence against him captain. I took it from his locker I have it right here captain. You better get rid of this guy see here You better talk respect. Please go mr. Metcalf, but I can't leave without her what he said get out What is this Metcalf? I've asked you to go to your quarters captain.  Louie, why did you do that because that charge is going off any second and he's been through your locker He found some powder and fuses now. I know I mixed up in this too. That didn't mean we lose There it is What happens now? When the report comes in I'll alert all members of the crew to stand by to abandon ship What happens with Metcalf? We leave him here. He liked the ship so much. We'll let him go down with it We will return in just a moment to tonight's case from the files of your FBI Already the bells of our colleges have called nearly two and a half million eager young Americans back to their books and classrooms To be given one of the greatest advantages of all a college education as a boy in our block Who'd give anything to answer that bell brightest kid you ever met all his life?  I've been looking for mr. Keating. I think I'll see my equitable society representative first thing tomorrow That's the thing to do see an equitable society representative as soon as possible or send a postcard care of this station to the equitable life insurance society Remember from the moment you set up an equitable education fund You make sure that when the college bells ring for your boy or girl, they will be ready to answer the call And now back to the FBI file the phantom mind The crime being committed in tonight's case from the files of your FBI is a serious one But it is only one of the more than 5,000 major crimes committed every day in the United States Your FBI cooperates in bringing this series of official radio programs to you Because it wants to acquaint you with the ways of the criminal so that you as an individual will be better able to cope with Every particular type of lawbreaker your FBI does this because it has a responsibility to you a Responsibility which involves fighting America's army of criminals to the best of its ability But you the individual citizen also have a responsibility It is up to you if you wish to see the crime wave conquered to see to it that you have a strong local police force and That that local police force is adequately paid Money saved by cutting police protection or by not allowing local policemen to earn a living wage is not in the long run Money saved for where protection is inadequate crime increases in one major city in the United States a City of well over a million population a survey determined that more than 50% of the local police were so poorly paid That they were in constant debt a companion survey showed that crime this year in that city has risen more than 50% Your local policemen's life is at stake when he puts on his uniform It is your duty to see to it that while he risks that life. He is paid a living wage The night's file continues in a waterfront house that is occupied by mr. Grant owner of the scuttle chip He is just greeting a visitor welcome home captain. It's good to see you. Have you got a drink? I need one sure Now take it straight. Thanks very well, and I'll join you Let's drink to the SS Marion green the best ship I ever skip it and the best one I ever owned Oh Where's Louis didn't he come with you? I'll be here. He was in the other boat. They're probably still asking them the same questions They ask me who asked you any questions the coast guard They picked us up after the ship went down sure from the road for about an hour before they started is what kind of questions Did they ask you where was I at the time of the explosion whether I saw anything stuff like that Anybody in the crew suspicious that it wasn't an accident. Yes Metcalf chief engineer. What did he find out? Louis had explosives. How did you deal with him? Louis knocked him out. We left him in the cabin after the ship went under That's right Yes, he just got here a couple of minutes ago. Where are you I'm still down town the coast guard just let us go with a suspicious What do you mean the captain tell you about the engineer Metcalf? Yes I thought he went down with the ship so did I What would you do that for what did Metcalf say when he saw you where is he now an emergency hospital? Hmm Listen to me Louis and get this straight. Yes, Mr. Grant. What is it? Get into that hospital and get to Metcalf But you had the right answer when you got that list of new registrations on all boats Grant bought a boat in the last two months. It must be one of the boats on this list I agree with you there, Jim, but we've checked almost every one of those names all but three and they're all owned by Corporations now this first one the SS Dorothy drew was owned by a corporation in Santa Monica, California The Los Angeles office is checking on that one for us with a two hour difference in time We might not get an answer until tomorrow afternoon Yeah, but there's nothing we can do about that son the second ship the SS Marion Green is owned by the black and white corporation Can't check on them until tomorrow morning either. Oh, I did get some details on the SS Marion Green though What were they well? She's a 4,000 ton freighter equipped as a lumber carrier She can carry about two and a half million feet of lumber. Did you find out what the black and white corporation paid for? Yes, they paid a hundred and five thousand the last owner said that the black and white corporation would have to spend about $15,000 in repairs to make her C worthy again. It's pretty good boy There aren't many 4,000 tonners around you can pick up for a hundred and twenty thousand. I know Now the ABC Handwin corporation owns the third ship. That's the SS Edith Summers That doesn't seem to be any way of finding out anything about them until tomorrow either Maybe we ought to call it a night Jim get a fresh start in the morning Yeah, I suppose you're right Special agent Taylor speaking. Hello, mr. Taylor. This is dr. Elliot over at the emergency hospital Yes, doctor anything I can do for you Well, I call police headquarters report this and they told me to call the FBI I've just treated a man named Joe Medcaff a shock He came to for a little while and explained that he was in a ship break, but that the wreck was no accident Now let me get the facts on this straight dr. Elliot this mr. Medcaff claims that there was a deliberate scuttling in the ship that he was on Is that right? Yes, that's right. Did he tell you the name of the ship? Why yes, he did. It was the SS Marion green Thank you for calling dr. Elliot. I'll be right over to talk to mr. Medcaff After four the week all over an hour ago. Why haven't we heard from him? I know I Can't wait around much more got things to do mr. Grant things to take care of Now I suppose you pay me off and I'll be getting along pay you for what the job I did Captain I'd like to point out to you that there's a man named Medcaff who by your own admission may jam up this whole deal So the deal's jammed up. I don't collect from the insurance companies And if I don't collect captain neither do you just a minute I made a deal with you to sink a ship. Well right now that ships at the bottom of the ocean That was only part of the deal The most important phase of it was making it appear to be an accident that you didn't deliver look can I help it if Louie Mess things he was your responsibility. You hired him. Mr. Grant captain that has nothing to do Who is it me Louie? Oh, hello, Mr. Grant. Hello captain What do you want me to put your chief engineer? What's matter Jimmy look beat I'm getting a little tired of these wild goose chases what happened this time Well, I got over to the hospital that doctor took me up to talk to Metcalf. Don't tell me he changed his story worse than that Tommy was gone. He was Huckered that happened a friend came in and took him out. He told the nurse. He was a shipmate of Metcalf's Did the doctor tell you what Metcalf said while he was conscious? Yes, he said he was the engineer aboard the SS Marion Green You know, it's probably the boat that Grant bought did Metcalf story explain why he bought it Yes from what Metcalf told the doctor the SS Marion Green was purposely scuttled And I think we'll find that that ship was very heavily insured Let Calf's the only one then who could prevent Grant from collecting on that insurance I'd said so the shipmate who came to the hospital and get Metcalf out must be one of Grant's men. I would think so You know, I hate to think of the treatment. They'll give him checked every possible record Jim every boarding house every hotel every rental listed At the real estate board there isn't a single Harry Grant on any of those lists Oh, Metcalf gave this waterproof pouch to Dr. Elliot before he passed out again Said there were some papers in it that he got out of a drawer in the captain's cabin just before he jumped off the ship Metcalf's sake. I hope there's something in here that'll tell us where Grant is. Hey, you take half and I'll take half I'll take these Doesn't seem to be anything here Jim except some paid bills. I think I've got something to listen to this It's a note to the captain saying I'll come aboard about 10 o'clock to discuss final plans within its sign with the initials HG Standing for Harry Grant. I should think so There's no return address on the envelope It's very common stationery too, Jim. There wouldn't be any chance of tracing the purchaser of his stuff. No, that's right. I Think we might find out where mr. Grant sent this from them. Let's get a classified telephone directory I think he's coming to you better stop hitting him. Why are you afraid? I'll hurt him. No, we want to talk to him Metcalf can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you Answer a few questions Do you remember being at the hospital? Did you talk to anybody at the hospital? What did you say to him?  Grant? There's a way Metcalf is the only one who actually saw Louie in the engine room, isn't it? That's right What's that got to do with it? Then he's the only one that can prove anything You forget about the doctor at the hospital. You'll blabber sure as you're born. What do you think my lawyer will say to him on the stand? I don't know you'll say doctor Isn't it possible that a man of mr. Metcalf's age might get hysterical and delirious after an accident like that? The doctor will have to say yes, and that will be all there is to it I see that means that if Metcalf is dead and can't be found the insurance company has to pay I Don't carry a gun Louie does don't you Louie? I lost mine when the ship went down you'll find one in that top drawer Get it and take care of him. Okay Try it and find out What is this? Special agents of the FBI Metcalf still alive Jim good job. What are you two doing here? We came here to serve warrants for arrest on the three of you. What are the charges? Conspiracy to defraud see here. That's a serious charge to make without any proof I think we've got enough proof on that charge and when we get back to headquarters We'll add another charge against all of you attempted murder Harry Grant captain Spencer and Louie Jackson were all tried in a federal court and convicted on both charges They are now serving long terms in a federal penitentiary Tonight's case from the files of your FBI was solved because special agent Jim Taylor noticed that there was no Stamp on the envelope containing the note found among the captain's papers He therefore reasoned that it had been delivered by some messenger a check of the messenger services listed in the classified telephone directory Revealed that one of those services had been summoned by mr. Grant to deliver the note to captain Spencer aboard the SS Marion Green a Further check of the delivery slip showed that the note had been sent from number 415 Ocean Avenue And it was at that address that special agents Taylor and Alan located the three criminals What was even more important than the capture of the criminal triumvirate was the fact that your FBI was able to save the life of an innocent person And thus once more your FBI by the speed of its investigative procedure Succeeded in performing its double function of protecting not only your property But your lives We will tell you about next week's exciting case from the files of your FBI Now Joe, I understand there's one thing you'd like to clear up about an equitable education fund. Yes, mr. Keating are these funds flexible and they be increased later if I can afford it and they certainly can many young fathers start with An equitable education fund that would pay part of a boy or girls way through college Then as the family income goes up the amount of the education fund is increased Your equitable representative will be glad to show you just how it's done Look him up soon or right care of this station to the equitable life insurance society of the United States Next week we will dramatize another case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation An authentic record of the operations of one of the cunningest of the criminal breed the confidence man its subject fraud its title the atomic swindle The incidents used in tonight's equitable life insurance societies broadcast are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation However, all names used are fictitious and any similarity they love to the names of persons living or dead is accidental Tonight the music was composed and conducted by Frederick Steiner the author was Jerry Lewis The director Sid Goodman your narrator was William Woodson and special agent Taylor was played by Stacy Harris This is your FBI is a Jerry divine production This is Larry Keating speaking for the equitable life insurance society of the United States and the equitable societies representative in your Community and inviting you to tune in again next week at this same time when the equitable life insurance society Will bring you another thrilling story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation The atomic swindle on this is your FBI This is ABC the American broadcasting company


Northridge earthquake 25 years later, scenes of destruction, collapsed highways, and parking garages. I'm Brian May. Thanks for joining us. And this is the actual epicenter. You see, it was 25 years ago, January the 17th, 1994, at 4.30 in the morning, when on this very spot, the earth began to shake. 20 seconds later, the 6.7 Northridge earthquake had changed this area forever. 57 were killed, 8,700 injured, and it cost $44 billion in damage. Today, as we stand on the exact epicenter, there really is no visible damage from that earthquake. But those who were here 25 years ago, remember it like it was yesterday. Video from shaking cameras in stores shows people rushing around. A seismograph pen jerks back and forth. So before the earthquake hit, the first thing I did was jump on top of my daughter. Seconds later, that's when all the shaking started. Rescue workers searching through rubble. I really thought I was going to die that day. The Northridge earthquake 25 years later, still among the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. In less than 30 seconds, 40,000 buildings damaged, 20,000 people forced from their homes. We wanted to get out, and we couldn't get out. We were trapped in the apartment. We were really scared. We were really scared. And then somebody came and pushed us forward, and we were able to get out. Scenes of collapsed highway ramps and bridges. I had not seen that level of devastation. Mario Rueta is now the chief of the San Marino Fire Department in LA County. 25 years ago, he was a firefighter in Los Angeles. The collapsed structures really didn't, you couldn't tell they were collapsed sometimes until you got close. Although there was one parking structure in Northridge that was a parking lot, reinforced concrete. And it looked like it had just been literally crushed by some giant being, unrecognizable. That unrecognizable parking structure was on the campus of Cal State Northridge, about a mile from the epicenter. The earthquake damaged every one of the 107 buildings on campus, including a total collapse of the parking structure. Today, a small garden of twisted rebar and buckled concrete from that parking structure is one of the few visual reminders of just how bad it was 25 years ago. Oh my God, the Kaiser building was, it was like a piece of cake. The whole thing was missing. That's what I remember. We lost major highways and roads, we had building collapses, we had people who were trapped, we had fires, we had loss of water and power. All of the things that we talk about being prepared for. The past 25 years have seen dramatic improvements in building codes and advances in engineering when it comes to earthquake preparedness. But the one thing that hasn't changed is the need for every person living in an earthquake prone area to have a plan. The science is extremely different than it was 25 years ago. We understand much more about how earthquakes happen. Unfortunately, one of the things we learned is they really are very random and prediction is not going to be a solution for us. People need to know that as we saw in a Northridge earthquake, you're going to be out of water for some time, you're not going to be able to have some food for some time. You may not be able to get back into your house because of aftershocks. You can't drive your car around, you may not be able to get to work. You need to have a plan. Know to drop, cover and hold, protect yourself, empower your family and your friends and yourself. We have learned a lot about earthquake preparedness over the last 25 years. If you'd like to find out more information, you can go to the earthquake page on our website, caloes.ca.gov. For all of us at Cal OES, I'm Brian May. Thanks for watching.


Hey authors, you think you're recording? Boy, should I make sure? Yeah. Hello. Haha. So this is just me Hi everybody and happy almost Thanksgiving and for those of you in another country, you don't care. So that's fine But here's the dealio. So we shot this incredible. I mean sumptuous very loving field together yesterday and And I don't know if you know but Mercury literally has gone into retrograde and boy It happened to us too. So the recording think gone I even contacted zoom and they said we're so sorry But it's like five seconds and then it went away doesn't make any sense because I actually saw it converting But let's move forward. I Excuse me I feel really bad about that and I didn't want that to be the reality because I know some of you really wanted to Participate and although I cannot change that reality for you. I can make some positive triage So I plan to do that for you right now and here's and I'll have to do it rather quickly. So this won't be a long Long dealio here. I'm gonna give you literally the bullet points of what we covered because you will need it and I'm sure you'll want it going forward and And and for those who were on the call and would like to be we reminded This is great for you and also for those who really loved that piece that I shared at the end I am really Thrilled and I am going to see if I can Offer that to you somehow let's see what's possible. I don't know Um, so gosh, I hope I still have that Um, I may have to do a different actually ending for you. So just roll with me. Okay. I'm getting my notes. So forgive me Notes notes notes so much is open on my computer Okay, here we go First things first. I'm gonna ask you to whitelist the email Bestseller at debbie dashinger.com. You see my name here somewhere use that people No, e debbie i then d is in david a ch Ingr.com bestseller debbie dashinger.com Everything that gets sent out will come to that email address on our launch date December 11th You're not going to get a million emails You will get one or two and you'll only get them when something notable happens read the body It'll be very important Look at what's attached. I always give you proofs and screenshots Amazon saves nothing and don't look to me to save it for you You save it. This is your proof of you being a bestseller Occasionally, there's something in there is noteworthy like you surpassed A well-known book or author You thought for social media one of the things we discussed yesterday is Going forward. I sent you marketing copy this week. Use it next week It's really good to use marketing copy for yourself because it lets people know you're up to big things and it starts to open doors You start to be looked at as an expert. So the more you're out in the public eyes social media Oh, she wrote this. Oh, she's being interviewed. Oh, she's whatever it is that you're creating in that space People notice trust me that creates a beautiful energy out there They don't even have to know you they don't have to buy the book But they'll follow you and that's what I want to happen for you The day of the launch december 11, please know It's a Big mofo day for me. I wake up at 12 o'clock 1 a.m And i'm at work for 24 and more hours to push our book to international bestseller It is not the day to send me minutiae It's not the day to send me questions and try to take me off track because i'm busy creating magic for all of us The only thing I absolutely welcome is if I send out an email and it will go to all of you with anything noteworthy that day And you want to write back congratulations or champagne or have a picture or yeah, yes, sir I'm so happy totally because that's something I can read and receive and then keep going on and we can all receive So please feel free to celebrate Even though a launch on amazon is 24 hours. I keep it open for another two days always And you'll notice all the marketing copies says 24 hours only I do this because even though it's december 11 here. It's another day in australia. It's another day in india It's you know, so to be fair to everybody when I say we say 24 hours. They can all actually purchase the book The ebook is going to go to 99 cents and that's just going to be for those short days And then it'll go back up to a normal price I sent you the copy and please feel free to tweak it as only you can or copy paste if it works for you The one thing we're not doing We're not giving away the title of the book until december 11th And we're not giving away a URL until december 11th The reason is people doesn't matter if you say don't buy it till december 11 They love you they're going to go buy it and we don't want to dilute the purchases So let's all wait for the actual URL and name till then You have me down to do a radio show. I think it's december 5th So here's the deal my radio station burned down in the fires and it is actually A horrific deal for the men. I've been working with for many years who own the station. I quite adore So there's a fundraiser for them in case you care on facebook I'm raising money for them because they in one minute they lost their home Documentation every contact on their list every memory shred of clothing You can't even imagine right and their business That said I can't do a radio show, right? They're not going to be up by december 5th. We know that So i'm happy to do a zoom because I can get everybody on and then i've been using zoom on some really cool media outlets So we'll still get great coverage for december 11 And I can send you that link and you can use it too You have several things coming down the pike a global press release a book video trailer and Even though the book video trailers for my purposes to get us out there in a big way and make us international Please know that it's also my gift to you So if you want to use it december 11th only Yes, use it on social media. Use it on your website. Use it in a newsletter. However you want to use it. It is my gift to you So know that it's done in a very particular way um for the business right so it's One and a half minutes generally occasionally tuned ever longer and it's just sort of Images with music set to it. You'll see how it turns out You we will get to see all of that Um, yes, you'll also get marketing copy the day of so you will get probably on december 10th The marketing copy. Please pay attention to the emails because they're quite important going forward um, it'll whatever you get will be important Sorry, I know we're going to be interviewed in a few minutes. I'm just going to get through all this material It's actually a lot You will get marketing material then too. You'll get a newsletter copy. You will get a tweet copy. You will get a facebook slash linkedin copy And it's really written very particularly to do a bestseller launch Uh, yeah, okay.  They wanted a facebook group I created it last night. Most of you already joined Some of you have not yet accepted the invitation go there. It's called anthology authors wizard And people said they really wanted to do an after the book webinar And that's absolutely something we can do together and I want to talk a little bit about the book proofs and the edits So there was a one person in particular who really brought this up So I just want to dress it in case there's any questions out there And make this clear for anybody who has this question So as part of the package you will see on the landing page and everything I've shared and the emails It's been out there. Yes, everything is edited Here's why I want to be clear On purpose these chapters are in your voice If you think about chicken soup for the soul, right? I'm sure you guys have read at least one of those You don't pick up chicken soup for the soul on any particular subject and go well That's homogenized like kind of the same thing turn turn chapter chapter. No, they're very distinct Experiences voices stories. That's an anthology So all of your voices your beautiful unique voices and stories have been retained The chapter stays in your voice What I want to say and may have been confusing Is when you receive back your chapter You didn't get it all redlined. In other words, it was all in black as though you had turned it in written But the truth is if you actually read through it There were changes typos were corrected punctuation We wrote back many of you know because you got questions about what is this or and you made some changes So it was taken care of proofing typos editing 100 percent The one thing we don't do is developmental And I don't know if some of you thought it was going to be developmental, but let me tell you that's like Probably a 5000 to 15 000 start package so that was never promised and Some were more edited than others because some were more poorly constructed than others The voice your voice is so important for the anthology. So Have that expectation your words your story are going to remain in your unique voice Also, your unique voice is going to be in today's podcast interview with all the authors And you'll see that when that's transcribed and goes into published magazine Definitely shows up in the magazine just like that from the interview today. It's actually wonderful to read like that I can I you know Okay, I was going to use somebody in our book as an example who has a real distinct point of view and it works with but You guys get the idea So, yes the sentences sentences have been Reconstructed where needed typos were corrected but not total rewrites And so for those who have not yet written a full book, please understand that's a whole different editing You'll need to know this when you get to that in your own book. There are different forms of editing and types of editors Someone who rearranges everything you've written Is called a developmental editor. So that's that I'm going to send you a url link and you're welcome to Read more about editing because you will need it when you do a book and you need to decide which type you want to pay for so okay I'm going to also send you a url because there's now a way for you to see Sorry i'm reading my notes and there's a lot of them There may be a way for you to see the book and the cover online There is a way there is not maybe there is a way for you to see the book and the cover online Before it goes to amazon to finalize you're going to love this website and this is just for us So look at it. Enjoy it. Read it. You're wonderful I'm excited that all of your unique personalities are shining through I'm excited. You're all so different. We're living in the age of definitely different, right? We're living in the age where if you ain't different like Who are you middle america?   Come on now, right? When we get to the part of purchasing a book, I'm sure you might be interested at least in purchasing one for yourself So I talked about this last night. I'm going to go quickly through it But there's been a million gazillion changes on amazon Create space has now been folded into kdp kindle direct publishing. It's definitely created interesting new paradigm impact And part of what that is in the folding is that we can't offer you a wholesale book, right? Don't get me started. So create space used to have it And normally we would send out a discount code. You'd use it and get it set But ta-da doesn't exist anymore. Thank you amazon create space So here's what we're going to do to kind of triage that and still make it work for you I'm going to mark down the print cover only for 30 days so From december 11th to january 11th mark your calendars You can purchase the book for yourself or to give us gifts holidays Birthdays new year's anything or just I love you. Here you go. We're going to be interviewed. Here you go Buy as many copies as you want at the wholesale price and know that on january 11th It goes back to regular price We have to do this because your book is not worth What i'm going to set it at right our book needs to be Representing the value it gives so just know it's going to go back up and it's okay. You will all be okay We'll just deal with create space and what they're creating but that's my go-around So yes buy as many as you want have them sent you one one dozen and you'll get it a great price So, okay, that's that and that they're them Yes, i'm going to send you this url that has the Has our it's us. It's our author's page. Enjoy it everything you need is going to be posted there for a launch super excited and Let's see if there's any more here is another another set So you've got the interview today Um Yeah, marketing copy will be posted. You've got the joint interview with me on uh december 5th And Upcoming is the press release and book video trailer and then final marketing copy will be emailed to you So you got to pay attention to all this stuff if you want to rock and roll It's going to be provided to you one day before the book launch. Okay people. I love you I adore you to the earth and beyond And I hope this was helpful. I'm not going to do the closing thing because we're doing our interview So i'm going to end this and actually make sure this Recording gets saved so I can get it to you and you have the updates Keeping the brilliant amazing amazing people you are trust the call you got to do this And trust your life. Love you