Probably the single most important development that's had the widest ranging impact is the impact of the internet, the world wide web, the advancement in telecommunications, digital technologies, even as little ago as a dozen years or so when I first started working in the government. We didn't have email at our desk and then gradually all these tools begin to come into place and it really has speeded up the impact of technological innovation and technical advance. It has opened up the world to communicating in new ways and with new people that we wouldn't be able to before. It has changed the way science technology and innovation is done. It's now possible for researchers in two different parts of the world to collaborate with each other in real time working over the internet. It's also dramatically changed the way business is done. It's now possible for the smallest company in the most isolated part of the world to become globally known and have a global impact because of the reach of the internet. It also means that the way that we work has changed dramatically and we're now all subject to more competition than we ever were before. Companies can put together global supply chains where they're getting their research done in one country, their marketing is done in another country, their manufacturing is done in a third company, engineering and architecting is done. You may have teams collaborating where a group in India is working while people in the United States are asleep and you can therefore work 24 hours a day developing new products and bringing forth the next generation. So the pace of our lives has picked up in a number of ways and the way I think we do business has fundamentally changed in ways that we're only really beginning to see. Just to speak of a couple of other areas, I think we have seen a lot in the last few years of the biotech revolution and I think that we probably haven't seen anything yet when we get there. There are several hundred biotech based products that are probably, you know, have been working their way through the regulatory process. Again, the whole process of understanding the human body and developing therapies and cures that are unique to each individual that is a whole area that I think is coming. There are many things that governments I think can and should do. One important area that has always been important and has been a foundation of the U.S. economy is a federal government role in investing in research and development and traditionally that role in the United States has been toward investing for government mission related purposes. National defense, homeland security, health and welfare, space exploration and the innovation benefits that have come out of that research investment for many, many years were largely accidental, if you will. We would invest as a result of our missions and because U.S. industry was the most competitive in the world for a number of years, particularly the decades coming after World War II, we could rapidly reduce government funded inventions to commercial products and services. That landscape is now changing. Now that we live in a globalized economy, countries around the world I think have figured out how important science and technology is to the foundations of the economy. In the United States over half of our long-term economic growth is a result of technological innovation and countries are really figuring this out and they are working on strategies to make targeted investments in critical research areas to attract R&D talent from other countries. In fact, many of the Asian countries have been extremely successful trying to attract graduates of U.S. universities, you know, foreign to us but native sons to return home and work in their own industries. Putting incentives in place to encourage commercialization and to encourage activity to come within their boundaries. We in the United States I think have a somewhat unique challenge because we've always had this sort of accidental approach whereas other countries have been more purposeful in what they've been doing and because of our size and because of our strength over the years we've been able to rely on that accidental approach. I think that we now need to be much more purposeful and work on investing not just in basic research which so many people here in Washington is critically important to be on the leading edge of science and technology but it's also very important particularly when we look at these new areas like the energy challenges and the need really to do pre-commercial collaborative work to do pilots and demonstrations to move ideas a little bit farther down the chain toward commercialization than we might have been thinking was an appropriate role for the government in the past. In addition our education system is critically important. We need to make our entire population much more scientific and technologically literate. We all need to know how to use computers. We all need to know how to use the tools that will show up in our workplace. We all need to understand the history of science and technology why it's important why it needs to be nurtured and then we really need to encourage a cadre of really bright really innovative really imaginative people to become our next generation of scientists and engineers and we need to continue to attract those great minds from elsewhere around the world into the United States who can keep us on the leading edge of science and technology and then I think we need to be thinking in the United States about ways that we can encourage economic activity, encourage foreign investment, encourage research and development to be performed in the United States, other foreign companies to come to the United States to do their engineering to do their manufacturing because those are the things that are going to keep us growing over the longer run. I could go on for hours but those are sort of the basics. I see the research, the talent, the incentives for commercialization and collaboration and then I guess I would add a fourth piece. Our infrastructure is really important. The laboratories where people do their work all the way up to the airports and the roads and the bridges and the physical infrastructure that's so important to move people and things around the country. I think that there has over the years been a tendency for people who work in the technology and innovation policy arena to kind of all talk among themselves rather than to engage broadly in the political dialogue and really educate and inform and bring along the policymaking community. I think that there's been an enormous amount of improvement over the last I'd say 20 years that I've been following these issues. I think there are a larger number of members of Congress and senators who really understand the importance of science and technology to our society in a variety of ways. More governors are getting engaged and understanding it. But I do think that we really lack the same kind of consensus around the importance of innovation and nurturing innovation that we have in some other areas of life, you know, social security or some issues like that. And I really think that that to break through and to have the kind of policymaking agenda and structure that we need, the American public needs to become more engaged. And to me, you can't have a great social security program if you don't have a growing economy and if people aren't paying their taxes in. So I see that them as being hand in hand. And your children can't have a great future with lots of job opportunities if we don't have new industries, growing industries, leading edge products and services, because that is what's going to end up driving the opportunity and creating the the kinds of jobs that I want my children to have. As one of the real risks in the world, generally, I think globalization is a good thing. And I think it's wonderful that other countries are developing their scientific and technological capabilities, increasing their standards of living that has innumerable benefits to the United States. However, what it also does is create a rising group of competitors that we didn't face. Historically, and it creates an environment in which any product can be produced anywhere in the world and any job can be performed anywhere in the world. And as we see some of these new industries and new technologies come online, some of our existing infrastructure may become obsolete. I mean, take the auto industry, for example, one out of about every seven American jobs is tied to the auto industry in some ways, a very, very important industry to our economy. If the generation of manufacturers is successful in what they're trying to do, where they will someday have a car that's powered by a fuel cell rather than by a traditional internal combustion engine, you will not need a transmission plant, an engine plant, the same kind of assembly plants that we have now throughout the United States. And we can either be a part of that revolution, and we can build those capabilities in the United States and keep those great jobs in the United States. Or if we don't make the investments, and if we don't make the commitments to it, it'll be very easy to locate all of those new plants, you know, in other countries that are more hospitable to the new kind of manufacturing. So I think it's, you know, on the one hand, it's an incredible opportunity for us to stay at the leading edge of the new industries and the new technological capabilities. But there's also a threat there too, that if we don't, then there's other people out there ready to eat our lunch and move everything outside the United States as well. So


BTC voluntary burning, accidental loss affects over the long term. PU asks, could voluntary burning of Bitcoin inadvertently harm Bitcoin? Users or services might choose to voluntarily burn some of their Bitcoin as a deflationary gift to all other Bitcoin holders. I've even heard people say that when they die, they will not provide keys for all of their Bitcoin to their family. Instead, they will effectively burn some BTC by not providing the keys. This would have the deflationary effect of boosting price, but could it also hurt Bitcoin over the long term? Any serious side effects of burning Bitcoin and speeding up deflation? Alright, first of all, whoever said they will not provide the keys their Bitcoin to their family upon their death has to win the Montgomery C. Burns Car Mudgeon of the Year award. I mean, seriously, supporting the Bitcoin community and wanting to give a deflationary gift, sure. But burning your Bitcoin rather than giving it to your family, either you have a really terrible family. But even so, friends, charities, nothing, really? You're just going to burn it all? So, after that comment, let's actually answer the question. There isn't any serious side effect or risk to destroying Bitcoin, or losing Bitcoin, and creating more Bitcoin deflation for the rest of the holders, or owners of Bitcoin. One of the things that people might think is, okay, but what if we really start running out of Bitcoin? What if we lose out of the 21 million, 20 million of it? Does that then mean that we don't have enough to do transactions? Well, that's a bit equivalent to the other question I get quite often, which is, Bitcoin is only divisible to eight decimal places. What if we run out of granularity? What if a Satoshi ends up being too expensive to do anything with, and we need to have even smaller units? Both of those questions are related. Basically, let's say we lost 20.5 million Bitcoin, and all that was left was half a million Bitcoin for the entire world. What would we do then? And the answer is really simple. We'd start working on subdivisions of Satoshis. We'd start increasing the amount of decimal points that we use for Bitcoin, so that we would subdivide the existing pool of Bitcoin, to even finer units, smaller than a Satoshi. We'd go sub-Satoshi. In fact, this is already happening. The Lightning Network doesn't operate on Satoshis. It operates on milli-Satoshis. How is that possible, you might say? Well, by ensuring that settlement is rounded up, Lightning Network can operate on milli-Satoshis internally, while settling transactions at a Satoshi level on final settlement. That gives the aggregation of milli-Satoshis into Satoshis, gives the Lightning Network a lot of flexibility. This is not the last time this is going to happen. In fact, we are going to see sub-Satoshi units being developed. There are a number of interesting tricks to do that, including some techniques developed by Thaddeus Drijah, Tadge Drijah, who is one of the co-authors of the Lightning Network, a white paper back in 2014, and who has made some incredibly insightful and creative contributions to the state of the art in cryptography and cryptocurrencies. One of the things he developed as a concept, and I hope I am attributing it correctly, is a way to do probabilistic subdivision of Satoshis. If you are interested, look up Thaddeus Drijah, Tadge Drijah, and sub-Satoshi amounts. Very interesting presentation on that. Bottom line, we can go to smaller units. It doesn't matter how much of Bitcoin is lost or burned, it won't have any effect. It is truly a deflationary gift to the rest of the Bitcoin economy. It doesn't matter. If you lose your Bitcoin, everybody gains a bit of value on theirs. I hope it doesn't happen to you, but if it does, you're not hurting anybody else other than yourself. In the case of the Montgomery C. Burns winner of Car Manchin of the Year, you're also hurting your family, because you decided to burn your Bitcoin. Anita asked, sometimes people ask me, why is the limit 21 million Bitcoin? I couldn't find any information why Satoshi Nakamoto has chosen this number. Why not 25 or 18 or something else? Do you know? Someone else added, SJ added, Y8 decimals. The number 21 million is really quite arbitrary. It doesn't have any special meaning, as far as I know. I think it has to do with the fact that if you take a geometric reduction, as is the algorithm that calculates the issuance of Bitcoin, where you have the amount that's issued reduced by half at a set schedule, and you have blocks coming out at a reasonable rate that doesn't create too many orphan blocks, but is fast enough that you can get settlement within an hour, which is every 10 minutes. That's a reasonable first approximation for a block time. The initial reward for Bitcoin was 50 coins every 10 minutes, a nice round number. The amount reward halves every four years, again, a nice round number. If you work that out, that geometric progression produces 20,999,997 points. Just short of 21 million. So 21 million isn't really accurate. It's not 21 million, it's 20,999,997. If all of the numbers I just mentioned, 10 minutes, four years, 50 Bitcoin in the initial reward, the one number that isn't a nice round number is the 21 million. It's actually 20,999,000 in change. So it's almost 21 million, which makes me think that it wasn't the 21 million that was chosen. It was the 50 Bitcoin as the initial reward, 8 decimal places, which gives you 100 million. Again, it's a nice round number, and it gives you enough decimal places to operate, but also fits very nicely in integer arithmetic, so 8 decimal places works quite well. It's easy to do the math in most computer libraries. Finally, every ten minutes blocks. If you make blocks faster than ten minutes, you have a problem of having more orphaned blocks, especially if you have a large decentralized network. If you make it slower, then you don't get enough confirmation in an hour to be certain of your transactions. It seems to me that the 50, the ten-minute, and the four-year halving were the numbers that were chosen, and 21 million wasn't really chosen. Captain Hadakall asks, Do you believe that the number of Satoshis in a fully mined 21 million Bitcoin network will be sufficient to support a scaled number of users and layered applications? Meaning, as the price of Bitcoin increases, will network affect demand? Will the smallest unit be priced out of practical usage? Could you discuss the implications of a decimal place increase? Captain Hadakall has inflation in his parenthesis. Let's discuss this. First of all, I don't think that 8 decimal places is enough. I think we are going to see an increase in the number of decimal places. However, that isn't inflation. Changing the divisibility of your currency isn't inflation, because it doesn't increase the total amount of currency in circulation. All it does is change the units of the currency you already hold in your hand. They are still just as rare. There are just smaller divisions of them. That is a very subtle difference, but it is not actually inflation. You are not issuing more units. These don't get added to the circulation of the currency. All you are doing is cutting them into finer pieces. In practical terms, it is possible to change the smallest units. The most obvious way is to do a hard fork. A hard fork being a discontinuous, not backwards-compatible change to the consensus rules. The structure of a transaction is changed. The structure of a transaction is changed to change the size of the value field in a transaction. Change the unit from a setoshi to, let's say, a millionth of a setoshi. We add nine more decimal places. We subdivide a setoshi, and we have a millionth of a setoshi. To add six more decimal places and correct all the software to recognize that these are millions of a setoshi, would take a change that is not backwards-compatible. That is a hard fork. If you had enough consensus to do that, that is one way to do it. There are actually some possible ways to do it with a soft fork that has been proposed. One of the interesting things to notice is that second-layer networks, for example, Lightning Network, use sub-satoshi units. Lightning Network operates on milli-satoshis, which is thousands of a setoshi. What happens there is people are exchanging thousands of a setoshi, but they can only settle and close a channel at a setoshi level. If the balance of a channel is less than a setoshi, then they can't settle that. Basically, the Lightning Network and second-layer networks like that give you the ability to increase the number of decimals and do smaller and smaller transactions. As long as, when you batch them all together and settle, you settle with the smallest unit being a setoshi. You can actually fix this problem through the second-layer, but you can also fix it with a hard fork, or possibly some strange way of doing a soft fork that changes the transaction structure in a compatible way. Perhaps by introducing a new transaction version number. Hard to say.


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through so many iterations over the course of time. It's a question of, I don't know. It's a neurotic UI person. I think that must be doing this. Yeah, looks good. All right, we're good. Cool, so Mike, let's switch back over to the kickoff screen, to the agenda. And I'm still seeing a Udacity page. Awesome, okay, all right. I think we're ready to go. All right, well, thanks, everyone. Let's get started. It's just a little bit after the top of the hour. Thanks all for joining me, joining us. I'm gonna be very brief in basically introducing Mike McCoy as our new HC SIG chair to the organization. We, thanks for everyone for your involvement in the election. The election came and went a couple of weeks ago. And thanks everyone for your involvement. It was a good opportunity to help sort of get, set the guidance for the organization going forward. And Mike, I think he'll be doing a great job in sort of coming up with some new ideas of his own to put some spin to this great membership. And so I'm gonna just sort of settle over, fade back into the background here and hand over to Mike.  You're muted, Mike. Of course I'm muted, so there you go. Thank you very much for the guidance and everything this past week and carrying this group for two years. It's very much appreciated and this wouldn't happen without you. So I thank you very much for that. Everyone, welcome to the healthcare special interest group here and in the hyper alleged community. My name's Mike McCoy. A little bit of an introduction for myself for those that may not be aware of myself. I am currently the director of platform integration and technical partnerships at consensus health. And I'm also a consensus health of the spin-off of Consensus AG, the parent company that those that are familiar with the blockchain space may be pretty familiar with. I'm also an adjunct professor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital here in Philadelphia, where I'm part of the Institute of Emerging Health Professions. We teach a course every year that highlights something new within the health peer life science space. Particularly it's mostly based for clinicians, administrative folks, as well as those in business strategy. And this year of course is going to highlight more data science components as last year was more blockchain. This year is going to highlight more AI machine learning and some aspects of privacy enhancing technology that are part of cryptography and the broader blockchain space. Before we get started, I want everyone to give introductions themselves but per our rules here within the hyper ledger special interest group, we want to address the antitrust policy. Produce means that you don't want to be able to share industry secrets here. We want to be able to keep everything pretty open within the group and anything that could be potentially compromising shared in this group, please do not share that. And we'd like to be able to prohibit any Linux foundation meetings from potentially being any part of antitrust. Don't share anything you wouldn't want the broader group to see. All right. And now for those that are new to the group, please introduce yourselves. I believe we have Leah. Leah's a new addition to the group. Hi, Mike. Thanks to everyone for allowing me the opportunity to be here. I'm Australian. I live in Paris. I'm CEO founder of QuaFactor which is a blockchain based traceability platform that looks at medication supply chains, medical devices and healthcare. So personalized health records on blockchain. My background is as a clinical pharmacist in Australia and then I went into digital technologies, robotics and in the last two years I've been working on blockchain projects including a pilot for medication delivery to Venezuela and most recently on a personalized health record for patients, a women's health program in Malaysia. So yeah, thanks. Awesome. Great introduction, Leah. And then if we could have Ravathi. I am not familiar with you but you may be a concert member of the group. So if you could introduce yourself for my being. Hey, sure. Congrats, first of all, Mike. And my name's Ravathi but you can also call me Rai or Rai if that's easier. I work across four continents but right now at least during lockdown I'm in India. And amongst the various heads I wear I am on the board of PDP Foundation Network which is research for PDP based technologies, principles. I'm also a member of Collab Corporate which is a transnational tech cooperative. I'm a member of Lucia which focus on collaborative economy as an intersection of several of these heads. There are a few projects that I'm a part of which looks at healthcare data ownership and data cooperatives and deriving benefit from that for elders seeing as they are especially vulnerable to health emergencies like the pandemic and the data insights that are really beneficial there. I'm also a huge proponent of open source and I try to make to these group meetings more often but unfortunately I don't make it as often as I would like to which may be true for a lot of us so I'm really excited to be here and nice to meet you all. Awesome, thank you very much for sharing that. Mehul, if you could give an introduction for the group as you may not be, you may be a new member to Hyperledger healthcare special interest group but you are part of the Hyperledger community so please share your introduction. Well, thank you, Mike. Mehul Shah with Infinity Services. We are a Hyperledger dev shop doing a fair amount of work in the supply chain space and looking to find, you know how I can contribute my skillset to the healthcare space because I see so many good use cases coming up and I want to expand my horizons as well. So I'm here for two purposes. First off is, you know, learn more about how the healthcare space is contemplating the use of blockchain. Specifically I'm interested in how Hyperledger fabric and Hyperledger indie can be leveraged. And on the flip side, you know being technically proficient, I want to work towards more than just conversations, you know, I want to actually get involved with, you know, actually creating POCs and things along those lines and would be very interested in talking with folks who would like to take that idea forward. So yeah, thank you, Mike. Awesome, thank you for that. And also if we can give an introduction, everyone probably knows this individual but Brian Bellendorf, if you could say a few words in your experience with the Hyperledger special interest group as well. Good morning, everyone. Brian Bellendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger. And first off, thank you, Rich, for the handoff to Mike. Congrats. And really thank you for all of your leadership as the Chair of the Healthcare SIG. And congrats, Mike, for leading this from now forward. And the Healthcare SIG was actually the very first special interest group that was launched. Partly, I had spent a year working for the Department of Health and Human Services about 10 years ago on open source software as a way to accelerate health information exchange and walked away with that. Recognizing that one of the biggest issues was trust between individuals and healthcare organizations and between healthcare organizations themselves. And so when I jumped into the blockchain space realized that that was going to be a really big opportunity for this technology. And so I've been really happy to see this healthcare SIG be a real activity, a locus of activity around this domain and help spark a lot of great conversations and projects. So again, just really happy to see the peaceful transition of power. And I really always excited about what this SIG can do. Awesome. Thank you. And anyone else, feel free if you would like to provide an introduction for new members. I know Guillermo's been here a bunch, Alicia's been here before. So Erica is our vice chair as well. So if anyone wants to provide an introduction, please. Mike, I don't know if there's a right place, but if I can add one more thought, please. Sure. So just last week I joined this organization called Fight Pandemics. And I'm going to be contributing my expertise to the blockchain use cases. Yeah. That particular volunteer organization is contemplating. Yeah. So we can, we'll get into that later in the general meeting as we go over potential opportunities and as well as we have this COVID-19 virus pandemic support section of the meeting as well. So if we could just get into that more details later on, I think that'll be part of the conversation. Yeah, that sounds good. Thanks, Mike. Cool. Awesome. Hi, Mike. This is Guillermo speaking. Good morning, everyone. Thank you. And it's a pleasure to know that you are now leading the SIG. Congratulations for that. I believe that you're going to do a great job. And let me tell you a little bit about my background information of what I'm doing here in Mexico. I'm part of the, I have a company, a small company, but it's a very niche company. I have a e-mail record that came from California and also I have another agreement with a Brazilian company who is doing some kind of integration with the blockchain in the healthcare system in Brazil. Now we are trying to do the same thing in Mexico because I'm part of the committee of an organization that the name is Amity. I'm part of the group that helped to the government with new technologies and how we can use that technologies to help into the healthcare system either from the public sector to the private sector. So I'm glad to know that you have that experience because I believe that in our developing countries this will be a great asset to us. So thank you very much and congratulations again. And of course, Rich, congratulations also for letting us to know about the SIG in the past years. Thank you. Awesome, thank you very much for that. And one of the missions I want for this group is for in the future for us to have working groups that are direct and pertinent and can actually be implemented for industry. And a lot of that will incorporate some design sessions for open-source collaboration and then helping out the subgroups. In particular, our patient member subgroup, our payer subgroups and our healthcare interoperability subgroup have more direct resources, scope and a lot of other things associated with that. So we hope to create more collaborative working groups out of this for sure. Sounds terrific. Thank you. Thanks Guillermo. So we went through introductions. Thank you everyone for all that. As Rich posted in our chat, if you want to consider adding your contact information, if you are new, please add it to the HCSIG membership directory here so that others that are part of the SIG, if they want to be able to look you up or find people of similar interest, they could be able to do so here. So anyone new, you could be able to check out that membership directory. Community announcements, do you have any announcements, anyone that you'd like to share or that were shared in the rocket channel this past week? Anybody, please. This is Guillermo again. I'm not sure if this is important for you because we are going to have a Congress in Mexico with this organization that will be held in the 26th and 27th August, 26th, 27th. Of course it's in Spanish. It will be online and I can share that information just if somebody... Could you share that in the chat please? Do you have a link or detailed information? And also you can email me too. I'll put my email in the chat. For everything hyper ledger or relevant, I'm gonna probably use my personal email so that it doesn't conflict with work things. So you can email me just at this one. Let's email right here. So feel free. Okay. Okay, got it. Tomorrow it will be announced. So as soon as I have the link, I will share with you guys. Thank you. Thank you Mike. Awesome, thank you very much. And I'll put that in email to the group and feel free to add it in rocket chat as well. Sure. Thank you. Any other announcements from anyone that is part of the group here? Yeah, Mike, one suggestion. Yes, please. So I'm looking at the member directory and would you be averse to having me like go in and sort the list alphabetically? Sure. Have you organized it? I haven't been able to organize it yet, but yes, you could do that. Feel free to, it would probably be best to do that. All right, thank you. Awesome, cool. We'll thank you all for that. Now we're going to our strategic, or sorry, special interest group subgroup updates. We do not currently have any members of the subgroup that are a part of the meeting currently to give an update, but Rich, do you have any prior knowledge or updates that you heard from either Denise, Ravish or Steven? Sure, yeah. So Dennis is, he's out traveling. I believe we just got a little note from him that he's in Istanbul for the next couple of weeks. So he's on vacation or holiday. As far as the patient subgroup goes, as lead, they've been working on an e-consent solution. It's actually a very successful product that they're working on. They have some engagement back in Europe with some of the larger pharma organizations. This solution is actually done in parallel. So they're using both fabric and sawtooth to demonstrate functionality for this product using both platforms. And in fact, one of the things that we probably want to reprise, Mike, would be to have them provide an update on some of the work that they've done and specifically a discussion around the value add of either fabric or sawtooth. Cause it's a rare thing when we have domain expertise in both. So we're very closely together. So that I think might be something to consider going forward. Their team meets every other week. And so feel free to sort of loop in with Dennis and his team. I believe they meet every other Friday, if I recall. And it's, I should want to say nine o'clock Pacific. I think it's one, yeah. Either nine or one o'clock Eastern. Yes, I think it's, let me double check that. So, every other Friday at seven Pacific, which would be 10 Eastern, unless that's changed. So let's see, for payer subgroup, that's Ravish's team. And they are working on sort of an X generation pharmacy product. They have their product in hyperledger labs. They're actively developing against it. A couple of months ago or a couple of meetings ago, they did a presentation on that product. It's been so far pretty well designed. It's in active development. They're always, of course, looking for additional engagement from membership. So that would be a great opportunity to get involved in their group. They also meet every other week. And so you may want to contact Ravish regarding that. And then our most recent, the healthcare interoperably subgroup. Oftentimes referred to as his is run by Steven. And that's a really cool subgroup. They are very technical. They're using fabric to develop a semantic interoperably platform. And of course, semantics being slightly different from syntactic understandings. And so semantics, that's a real tough nut to crack. And so they're really focused on that use case. I believe it's immunization, specifically that they're looking at. And he meets with his group again every two weeks. I believe it's on a Monday morning. So it might be worth looping in with Steven if you have a very specific technical sort of background as it relates to interoperability in the healthcare space. So I think that's sort of where we stand with our updates. Yeah, usually we'll have a representation here for the subgroup teams, either the leads themselves or the proxies. But I think I know a couple of folks are certainly on holiday. And so that's sort of where we stand. Thank you for the update. Next up, we're gonna go into the ad hoc team updates. So the Wiki redesign team, I don't think we have anyone part of that at the moment. Rich, do you have any kind of background for that group? Yeah, this is just an ongoing request. So for anyone that has an interest or expertise with Confluent specifically, we're always looking for folks to help out. This really reflects some of the work that we wanna do internally for the SIG itself, as well as some broader design ideas or concepts as they relate to all SIGs with the intent of allowing members to sort of move a little bit easier between special interest groups with sort of a common understanding of usability. So it's always, this is just gonna be an ongoing thing, I think, and really it's a driver for looking for really good, very smart folks in this space as it relates to design and interface experience. And so yeah, if you have deep expertise with Confluence, we'd love to get you involved. It'd be a great way to sort of help drive, really facilitate engagement with new membership particularly. Does anyone here on the current chat have experience with Confluence or interface design that would like to have a session next week to discuss this or are connected with anyone as well? I've used it, Mike, but I don't have any experience with the design and the backing design, but I've used it and it's pretty effective to use between managing it for like a contribution. Okay, well we can message separately about that as well. So thank you, thank you for that, Leah. Awesome, let's go to an update with our friend Erica and about the use case development team and what's going on with that. Yeah, thanks, Mike. So this group, Rich has kind of gone over this before, was originally created for him to kind of give a high level overview of some of the practical applications of Hyperledger in some healthcare use cases on a really high level. And I'm actively working on the use case that I've gotten a little feedback on from another member. So my plan for the group is to complete as much as I can of the supply chain, drug supply chain use case that I'm working on. And this is written on a Hyperledger template and we're gonna add some visual graphics to it. There's three other use cases, provider credentialing, use cases involved in the parent industry and medical records that I'm actively looking for people to work on. We haven't had a meeting in a while because I really wanted to get my use case kind of off the ground and present it. So I will be scheduling a meeting and I'll be reaching out to the group to see who wants to be a part of it. Dennis has sat in on the meetings before. A couple of the other members in the group have fallen off. So I'll kind of be trying to revamp it here shortly. All right, thank you very much for that update, Erica. I don't mean to go back into the past, but we do have Stephen Elliott who has joined us here. Stephen, can you hear me? Yes, I can. Awesome, Mike. Welcome. So I don't often make these meetings. They're actually between meetings who have a hard stop in about five minutes. But I did want to say thanks so much, Rich, for everything you've done for the Hyperledger Fabric special interest healthcare group. Without your efforts, we would be, we probably wouldn't have a group. Thanks, Stephen, I appreciate it. And your wisdom has been very, very helpful in pushing things through. I appreciate it, thank you. And obviously this group exists by virtue of all the members that are involved in it. So it's really about orchestration and that's really about it. It's letting the good people do their job. Yeah, it's terribly difficult to find the time to do this on a consistent basis, but your consistency has been a real goal for me to try to emulate, so thanks so much. Thank you. And welcome aboard, Mike. I don't think we've ever met, but nice to virtually meet you. Where are you at right now? I'm based in the great city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Okay, okay. Yeah, I'm on the East, I'm in the West Coast in San Diego, but my job is really sort of on the East Coast, which is why I'm so busy at this hour. Yeah, that's, by the way, I love San Diego, been there many a times. We have a couple of members of the consensus health team that lived there as well. So welcome to our group. I guess for the next three minutes, if you have any updates in regards to the healthcare interoperability subgroup that you could give to some of our members? So we've been meeting reasonably consistently over the last several months. At the moment right now, a snapshot of where we are is really deciding how to implement a policy of consensus called proof of interoperability. Basically drilling through the FHIR model down into terminologies and ontologies such as SNOMED and Moink are its norm for some standard terminologies that we can use to validate data. So we can then say, well, everybody in the consortium now agrees that sex should be represented by some kind of undisputable mean of sex. There could be other interpretations of sex, but so that's really sort of our definition of what semantic interoperability really is, is taking that definition of sex, which is not really a use case. The use case is immunization, but I think sex sort of brings out the different interpretations that you can have and why it's so important to be able to say that the data is semantically interoperable. Anyway, we're sort of working through that at the moment. I also have an opportunity to do this with AWS. They have a hyperledger fabric stand up there. Initially I looked at it and it was fairly good, but then I looked at it a little closer and it was very expensive. But then they gave me a $300 grant, which is actually going to defer some of that cost. I'll go back and take a look and see if the price makes any difference. But I would like to do with AWS. I'm an AWS associate architect. So it makes sense for me to be able to do something like that. And I think it's good for hyperledger to be able to take some kind of a commercial grade fabric implementations if we can wrangle that and put things like proof of interoperability there. So I gotta go. I really do, I apologize for not making more of these meetings, but I did want to take this opportunity to say thank you very much, Rich. Thank you, Stephen, appreciate it. Hopefully I'll be able to make the next one. Are we gonna be meeting at the same time, Mike? So that's another, I'm going to send out a survey out to the group I've mentioned towards the end. But I wanna try and see if maybe, I know Fridays for some people have given me feedback in messaging that Fridays are a bit difficult for them to be able to come on to a call. So I wanna send out a survey and try and get a one, two, and three time slots that are best for the group as well as potentially, I've talked to David Boswell, who's the hyperledger community lead about having an Asian friendly time and then a like a Western Eastern friendly time pretty much for the world. So we are in talks of trying to coordinate that and yeah, survey will be sent out early next week. Okay, well, I gotta jump. Thanks so much, everybody. How about Stephen, before you drop, do you have a way of coordinating this interoperability project? I'd love to engage with you. I was involved in this conversation about gender and biological sex in nature for years as a clinical geneticist. I really gotta drop, there's a special interest page rich can point to the right direction. You can always get in contact with me by email. Thanks so much, bye everybody. Have a great Friday. Thank you, me too. So that was for the interoperability subgroup in our special interest group? Yeah, or is that in the semantic? No, no, it's through the SIG. Let me grab the URL, hold on just a sec. Do you have his email rich? Could you potentially add it in the chat? I'm not too comfortable about that, but I'll double check. I'll loop back around with Stephen on that. Thank you. So the link, yeah, link is in chat. Okay, cool. Because I struggled with this, I think, because semantic interoperability is so important. And we've struggled with this in the HL7 clinical genomics working group. And mostly about three, maybe five years ago when this whole biological gender sort of actually started popping up and how to represent that. And we were front and center of actually how to model this. Well, good. And I'm just looking ahead here. So I'm gonna copy over his email because it is public on the page. So I just sent that over. So, yeah, Jonathan, it would be great to sort of sync with Stephen on that. Like I said, one of the great things about that particular subgroup is Stephen's driving and he's a really bright guy. It tends to be very technical. And there's a lot of sort of meat on the bones and it's really good to sort of dig into it. So interoperability, if that happens to be something of an interest to you or you have some expertise around it, that would be great. Some of my background is interop as well. And so it's really cool to see that Stephen's taking the hard road on this, which is semantic interoperability, which is really tough stuff and moving forward. So yeah, good to know that you have some interest in that. Awesome, thank you. So for unfinished business here, we have since early March, that Hyperledger special interest group has focused on collaborative identity, identifying COVID-19 virus pandemic solutions, especially thanks to everyone that was able to continue with that. This is mentioned by Rich two weeks ago, but we wanna continue to thank everyone who has been very involved in trying to collaborate more so within the Hyperledger community to help as an aid for COVID-19 virus pandemic support. Here are some funding programs that have been posted since July, that are updated about a month ago. I'm sure we could have another update on there as well. I have to update this Wiki personally moving forward. So that will be coming in the next two weeks. Any other, does anyone wanna mention any details or any other funding resources they are aware of for COVID-19 related support in relation to blockchain technology? Yeah, just real quickly. So those updates are really reflective of the sites themselves. And so if we see any updates to the sites, those could push forward. So you'll see that some of those sites really don't update too often, which is probably a good indication that not a whole lot of attention that's been paid to it by those organizations. So generally speaking, if they're regularly updated, they tend to be a fresher opportunity or more engaged opportunity. Awesome. All right, and then moving on from the COVID-19 funding opportunity. It's very nice. Mike, I've just put a link to Creative Destruction Live. They've got a program for funding as well or workshops for, I think they use the Libra fabric. And so that's a grant that's available as well. Or a program. So they use Facebook Libra, you said? Yeah, I think theirs is based on, yeah, but anyway, sorry. Probably not appropriate, but anyway. No, it's appropriate. Yeah, just to know what's going on out there. That's interesting stuff. Definitely take that for a note. Yeah. Cool. Awesome. So the new business within the group is pretty straightforward, I would say. So I'm joining now as the chair of the group trying to do a great job in filling rich issues. And I think mostly I want to try and fill the consistency that he's being able to bring to this group. That's the biggest thing with any meetup group, any working group is being able to consistently have beneficial ideas, thoughts, and generating a solution. So I hope to do half of what he's been able to do for this group in the past two years. Some thoughts though, in ways I would like to see the SIG progress is, it's very beneficial because from the SIG perspective, we have a wider lens and the subgroups were able to go down to the weeds and be able to work on specific problems of industry. One, I think additions of a couple subgroups may be beneficial, especially those incorporating other groups within Hyperledger, as I believe Hyperledger Avalon and Trusted Compute Framework are going to be another subgroup that can add into the healthcare into a subgroup of privacy enhancing technology or decentralized AI. Those types of concepts and frameworks that I think we're getting a need from industry and adding aspects of federated learning working groups within the healthcare SIG can be truly beneficial as well. I also believe that we could have another, we would like to expand more on the use case development subgroup that Erica is leading with us. I think that is very key for clinicians and administrative and people that are working in the trenches to understand how this technology can truly benefit their everyday aspects of work. So I wanna be able to raise up those working groups for sure, as we already have some pretty successful ones. I wanna give more options for people to attend this type of meeting, and maybe we'd have one time a month where it would be split to people that are based more in EMEA and Asia, and then another that would be based for more in the Americas and potentially parts of Europe as well. So just more flexibility in the scheduling of how we can be able to conduct these meetings will be beneficial, along with specific POCs and pilots that could be demonstrated here that are more mature in their concept, rather than being early stage. And yeah, just connecting more of the broader industry together. Cause at some point in the process, someone's using a hyperledger tool set or technology within their stack, whether it's in the areas, whether it's Fabric, Brazil, Saltoos, from the DLT perspective. I wanna also help highlight some of the other technologies for people of healthcare and life science and how they can be able to benefit from using these other tools as well. And those are just a couple of initial thoughts, but that's enough for me. I wanna hear from others that have been part of the group for a while or that are just new to the group, how they believe this type of forum could be of benefit to them most.  Well, I think, so Mike, you know, my interests as far as I'm very deeply technical and actually I love to code and but I think it's, this is a higher level group and I think we, probably the intersection of the healthcare, the technology and the governance is a great sort of mix of touching on each of those. And cause I think that I'm very well versed in the technology, but I think I'm still struggling with governance and trust models and certain examples of like the COVID-19 and emerging applications of like AI, smart agents to actually do create insights or adore credentials, et cetera for healthcare. And this is an ongoing discussion. I know I'm on the ABMS American Board of Medical Specialties, AI subgroup that we're actually talking about how we implement AI into clinical practice. But this is also gonna be a topic conversation this fall in the UN meeting and if it's gonna happen in September about this intersection of healthcare, technology and governance and how we can combine all three of those into solutions for things such as COVID. So more of, you would say standards, governance, experts that could help make these things clear to those that are technical, what did you say? Yeah, I think it's bubbling up some of the technology. I mean, certainly a lot of this is for decentral identifiers, verifiable credentials, but how it intersects with existing technology with like X509 certificates or the direct trust framework, which is with the trust model for HL7 and or OpenID Connect or the heart protocol, which is an extension of the OpenID Connect. And so I think those are just like boilerplate sort of technology, but I think there is a lot of discussion about the applications of those technologies, the appropriate application of those technologies and how we govern them and how it impacts healthcare and impacts healthcare delivery models. And so I think there is, that I think is just fodder for great discussion for where this technology can get us and what's the limitations of this technology or what's the ethical moral dilemma that actually this technology brings. I mean, that was the great article coming out of Harvard about the technological divide of the have versus the have not of actually if you do have a immunity passport, what does that mean? And what does it prevent people who don't have an immunity passport from traveling from just the biasing people that actually like, they aren't now second-class citizens and don't have that the same rights as people who actually who do have an immunity passport, if that ever becomes a thing. 100%. Those type of challenges are something we're all trying to solve and I think having more discussion and even kind of design sessions within subgroup support too, like the interoperability support subgroup seems like that would be a great avenue to start with as well. And maybe having a broader session here to initiate that idea and thinking and then go to the subgroup to then dive in a little bit deeper as well. So I definitely think those would be. Yeah, and I think that at least like, having noticed that discussion about where those touchpoints are and then reach out to the broader community. And I know Brian's involved with the Lenox for Public Health Initiative and there's other trying to create policies or even like the trust over IP network. Like what is that? Like what are the problems that they trying to solve and can we like wrap this up into a nice package and explain or articulate and work through these problems and actually go to the broader community and to other organizations and to have these discussions and how we can actually work collaboratively to solve these hard problems that are facing us immediately. We're all being affected. Does anyone have any points of comment to that or something separate to add? I want to plus one sort of the importance of just the intersection of healthcare ethics and AI and their applications, how that affects the digital divide, the socioeconomic divide. All of these are important questions, I think. I am personally a huge sort of digital equity advocate and I know some of my peers have been really distraught while COVID has been great and we've been monumental leaps in adoption of blockchain in mainstream. It has also taken the world several decades backward in terms of data rights and digital rights. I think there are all sorts of interesting questions here and it would be lovely to explore that in the SIG. Also, looking at what we're talking about and connecting that with what you were mentioning before, Mike, something like this is sort of like a topic which maybe touches across the subgroups and you were talking about collaborative working groups and sort of promoting the different subgroups working together as well as seeing how that might play into the use case development group, for instance. I think all of these would be really lovely to explore and I would love to maybe hear more about your thoughts, other thoughts and maybe even Richard's sort of retro thoughts on how we can achieve this better and integrate topics like this into the regular functioning of the SIG and the subgroups perhaps. Absolutely, so I think, hold on. So I think this could be a very great collaborative effort with the social impact group within Hyperledger as well. There's been a couple of discussions I've been on going into their meetings of how we can help solve this problem but also help connect the dots in this as well. So I think cross-collaboration between others SIGs would be beneficial and then I'm sure we all have connections and resources that could touch upon these topics. I also, in a survey as well, I'm not also going to have the time, the requested time we can after the future but requested topics and topics of interest and use cases of interest. I'm going to send out to the group and what kind of discussions we would like to hear. So this will definitely be added and Dr. Holt's idea will be added as well but I want to get community to feel empowered to put in their thoughts because when we have these groups and gatherings not everyone may feel empowered to speak in front of everyone. There may be a bit shy but I think adding in the survey aspect too can help them feel more confident to be able to add in their thoughts of how we can be able to have these working groups be more effective too. Hey Mike, it's Erica. I just wanted to say I would love to have the group be more accessible to other clinicians like myself who might not have a background in technology but can provide a lot of input on like adoption of new technologies and really using the trenches and giving kind of a really different perspective on everything. I think it's really hard to get people like that to join the group because they are, we don't really have any background in it. So I just wanted to say that it would be nice to, I think the use case group is a great example of trying to bring more clinicians on just to give a really high level idea of what technology can do. And I'm trying to do that but I just wanted to say that it would be great to have more reach in that area as well. So, Erica, this is Alicia and you're right on point. You know, my background is healthcare and one of the reasons I was interested in was because Rich, when I met Rich in Cambia Grove, he actually invited me to this group because he thought I would be interested because even though my background is not technical, I have a lot of experience in different things from patient care to how things work from occupational health, from so many other different things, thinking from the patient standpoint, from the provider standpoint, and that sometimes what's a win-win for a patient is not the same thing for the physician, hospital, et cetera. So, I agree with Erica. It would be interesting to see and get the, you know, and I don't know if for you guys that are technical, find any advantages to that. No, that makes a lot of sense. First of all, technology can be cool and can be beneficial, but if no one's able to use it, it doesn't matter, you know. If we don't have the ability to let clinicians feel comfortable when they're using blockchain based systems or so on and so forth, it's not gonna be relevant and won't be used in the world. So, the more we can make the clear to people, the better. I know for one, I'm part of another group that's called ACT-IAC, they're based, it's pretty much like a DC government working group to help government industry understand newer concepts of technology like blockchain, AI, machine learning, et cetera. And within the ACT-IAC working group, I was part of a working group, I guess, within their subgroup that helped create a blockchain playbook that was relevant for federal industry, potentially creating a playbook for industry of healthcare and life science, or particularly, I guess, healthcare and clinicians, may be beneficial for us moving forward as well. That's something I think we could create a separate working group in sessions and make benefit to everyone as well. So, and also cross-event collaboration is great too. I know IEEE is looking to create a blockchain event based over in September and October, this year, and they've reached out to many of us in industry to kind of help support for the event. I know Eric is a part of it, as well as myself. And yeah, I think those type of events, now that they're all virtual, right, no one has an excuse other than, I just don't want to sit on my Zoom to come and see your thing, we could be able to help create more of those working sessions forward too. I just wanted to add something to Eric and Alicia's point as well, in terms of trying to do transformative digital change in healthcare, one of the things that I experienced, I guess, as working as a clinician transitioning into digital health technologies was bringing on board like the change management exercise of not just clinicians, but health executives, for example, and also regulators. And so, I'm wondering if we could also have these type of people in some of these working groups so we can get their pain points or difficulties with adoption of this technology as well, like where we need to bridge those gaps to get sort of that collaboration and top-down approach as well. Micah's point. Yeah, call for the exact changes to make the world go around. Yeah, exactly. I think there's so much resistance when it comes to those points around getting executives on board, and especially when they're looking at financial barriers to adopting this technology. So for them, especially when we were doing robotics and electronic health records, it was all about return on investment, and the cost savings and so on, not necessarily thinking about the patient care at the end point. But I really think if we can get those groups involved quite early, that would be great in terms of that change management and adoption. But I think that also, when you're talking about return on investment, that's one of the things that a lot of people in healthcare, they always think about, I'm going to see these three to five years, but with the technology changing so fast, I think it's becoming less and less time. And it's also trying to explain what they, I mean, really actually see the benefits. So when, for example, I remember people sitting in front of me trying to sell me a program or something like that, and it was like, okay, have you ever done this before? And I want to see the numbers. Where are the benefits? Because it's not an easy thing. I think a specific ask we could do is, okay, I'm a clinician and I want to be able to get a blockchain based system into my hospital or a network of hospitals. How do I do this? I think making IRB approved, like, I'm not IRB approved, but IRB guidelineed working groups and sessions. And I know for one, two people were all connected with and Wendy Charles and Sean Mannion in the healthcare blockchain space. They created actually a guideline of how a clinician could be able to use blockchain in their research and or a clinical from research and a clinical perspective as well. I think even expanding on those type of guidelines or making them specific to hyperledger tools and assets or under the hyperledger greenhouse, sorry, there's DLTs, there's tools as well. I think that could be a great benefit to industry too. And that could be a link that you could just send out to a person you're connected to in industry and say, hey, this could be a potential first step for you to understand what this technology is and why we believe it's beneficial. Those type of things would be of interest for me in the group to try and build out. What do you guys say? I was just gonna say there's so much literature out there like Wendy wrote a paper on compliance and things that healthcare organizations need to look at when implementing blockchain because there's so much that people don't know. I don't know, I think that there's a lot of literature out there that could be compiled and kind of reviewed when we look at this stuff. I know she has a great library, that you can dive back to, that we can look things up on as well.  She shared with me about summer of last year and I couldn't believe how many articles and educational resources she had in that, it was fantastic. So I think definitely a hyperlink made in our wiki page could go into things that she has, obviously with her permission and you'd have that. Yeah, I can ask her, it's all blockchain too, it's not just hyperledger, it's all blockchains in general, but yeah, it's healthcare and blockchain basically. Yeah, I think there's probably like 1,000 articles in there but it makes it easy when it's in one library to search what your topic you're interested in and get information. So it's, yeah, it's a great resource. Also one thing to add that I wanted to mention is there's this group called Artifacts. I don't know if everyone has been connected in with them yet, but Artifacts, oh, there's one new library, it's here. Richard's put it in the chat, that's amazing. There's also a group called Artifacts that is working with myself, Sean Mannion, Robert Miller, who's part of our team at Consensus Health, but also the leader of Artifacts is Dave Cachalca who used to work at Elsevier and some others and there's a bunch of academics and research folks. Erica, you'd be great to add to this as well. We are curating every blockchain literature piece from late literature to academic literature to gray literature and trying to timeline that out from 2000, pretty much 16, 17 until now. We also wanna have it more matured when it's from 2018 when things were actually not ICO scam type of solutions to now as well. And I think that could be a good resource to add to this Wiki page and then have people from the community add in their insights and thoughts as well. So man, I need to get on some surveys. I need to get some things going out for everyone to see. So this is good stuff for me. Would that type of additional working group or knowledge creation be a benefit to the group? I mean, I'm gonna say yes, just cause that's my background. That's what I do for work now for IBM. So yeah, I mean, definitely I think that evidence is gonna drive a lot of this stuff when you're trying to present it with the organizations you need to have evidence, you need to have not just a cost analysis but actual, is this going to improve? How is this going to be better than what we have now? And I think that's the way that we need to present it. Absolutely. I think this is, this is Alicia and one of the other things that I think about is actually seeing how some models have been applied and that they work. Like I was thinking, you know, I don't know if I'm pretty sure you're all familiar, how Estonia I think is one of the most advanced technological countries. They actually are using all of this. It's, it's an amazing, you know, so I'm wondering also seeing things that or reviewing things that actually have been applied on work. And also to add to that point, Alicia, at the moment the IMD business school in Switzerland is working on use cases in healthcare and they've actually, they're using my company as a bit of a platform to write about how a startup company goes in terms of exploring the industry and looking at revenue models and so on for this, for healthcare and blockchain. So they've got the professor overseeing it. So it's going to be, they're very interested in developments in this space as well. Quite advanced in Switzerland. This is great. This is great stuff guys. And we have two minutes left, so I don't want to burden us by putting an end. Rich, if you could, we have a speaker coming up. Is that on the 21st or is that on the 27th they said that they'd be able to present more of us? So that'll be our next scheduled meeting, which is two weeks from today. Awesome. So on 821, we have a new speaker coming on. I'm not as familiar with them. So Rich, if you can give an overview of their presentation for the group. Yeah. If you want to just click on the 821 link there, that'll, the social media card is there. And it's really, it's, St. Gitz is going to be presenting. Just go to, yeah, right there. You got it. So their team is going to be presenting on their blockchain solution in healthcare. This is a reschedule. We were hoping to have them this week. And they ended up, I think they ended up with an issue with, I think the team was taking their exams this week. So we had a reschedule for that. But basically, yeah, we'll have them in two weeks. It'll be a great presentation on their product medical chain, which is a blockchain solution in the healthcare space. So it'll be great. Awesome. Thank you very much. And hey, lots of great things to work off of and surveys to be added so that people can get, receive their feedback into everything. Everyone, thank you very much for the time. The recording will be added into the Hyperledger 8, the healthcare sig wiki here. And I appreciate the time. If you guys have any other questions or want to ping me separately, I'm pretty active on LinkedIn messaging and as well as all my email that I sent out earlier into the chat too. So thank you all for the time. And hey, we'll see you on the 21st. Thank you everybody. Great job, Mike. Take care. Thank you, Mike. Thank you, Mike. Bye. Thank you all. Thank you. Bye.


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Passengers side front fender is in nice condition, but no major dents or dings on there. And the passengers side front wheel simulator, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. Ocean Blue Metallic's got a lot of metal flake in it, really a cool looking color, really good looking. A lot of dark blues in there. Paints in nice shape. As you go down this side of this 2016 Chevy Silverado 3500, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises. You can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Very nice down that side. I didn't see any major dents or dings. Dually tub is in pretty nice shape. Got a little bit of touch up on it. Nothing too bad though. Back wheel simulator is in excellent shape and these back tires, these are very new. 80% of the tread left on these tires back here. You get a B&W hitch frame and underbody is in pretty nice shape back here. Has all the remaining factory exhaust so it hasn't been altered in any way. And the underbody is in really nice condition on this truck for being a 2016 GM. Lower rockers and cab corners are in great shape. I didn't see any corrosion on them either. And you get the nice factory chrome step bars on this truck. No major dents on the dually tub coming around to the back. The rear bumper is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents or dings in there. It does have the backup parking sensors. Full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. The tailgate's in pretty nice shape. It does have the locking tailgate and it comes with an access soft roll up tonneau cover. No rips or tears on there. Has the shock down assist. Now the bed does have a little bit of light due to usage. You do get that gooseneck hitch back here. Nothing a bed liner couldn't fix. And it is a truck so it's been used as a truck. Coming around the driver side, just as clean as that passenger side, you do get the nice mud flaps on here. Didn't see any dents or dings on the driver side dually tub. And for full disclosure, this back wheel is in excellent shape as well. Cab and doors on the driver's side all look really good. Didn't see any dents or dings. Does have the telescopic tow mirrors built in directional signals, LED side lights. They telescope out like so and fold in. Take a quick look at the back seats. Back seats are in great shape. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost. You do to get a storage container under here. Does have a winter front and factory floor mats back here. Carpeting's in nice shape. Inside and bottoms of the doors all look really good. I didn't see any corrosion on them. Really nice. This cab corner is in excellent shape as well. I'll show you the VIN sticker here. No previously owned in Canada trucks. Here, tire and loading information sticker. Inside the LTZ package gives you the black leather seating. 40, 20, 40 split-bent seating in the front. No rips or tears on those seats. They're in pretty nice shape. Power driver's seat. Lumbar, Husky, all-weather floor mats in the front. Auto headlamps, turned-out four-wheel drive. Factory brake controller tilt, telescopic steering wheel. Power windows lock some mirrors, Bose premium sound system and memory driver seat. These mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so you know that both sides are working properly. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. See, this one has 50,030 miles. You get the digital spinometer, compass display, instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the leather-wrapped steering wheel. No rips or tears on there. Bluetooth and information center controls on the right. Cruise controls on the left, and you do get audio controls in the back of the steering wheel. This one has the Allison heavy-duty six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. Also has the Chevy MyLink system. Has the factory navigation system. There's Highway 41. You can see that is working nicely. You get AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities. And then you get all your different apps here, including Projection Manager, where you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android, Auto, or Apple CarPlay. This is also where your backup camera shows up. I'll show you that once we start the truck. Down here are your more tactile volume and tune and climate controls, including the dual climate controls, including your heated seat buttons, power pedals, stability control, that's for your cargo lamps. That's also how you turn on your LED lights on the mirrors. Exhaust brake and your parking sensors, you can turn those off and on. Down here is 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in, and a 12 volt power point. Passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition as well. Smells very clean inside this truck. I don't think it's been smoked in. Headliners in great shape. You do get map lights up here, home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. And you can turn those interior lights on and off, on-star and SOS buttons in the mirror. Let's start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. Other than my hood's open. See if I can turn those lights on for you. There are those LED side lights. They are very bright, working nicely. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video. You've been able to verify the quality, condition, options, and of course, cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside. Now, under the hood, we have the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine and Jambay is very clean, runs very smooth. Once again, this truck has been fully safety to and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and it is 100% ready to go. There is the emissions sticker. 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Hello. In this video, we're going to look at how to answer a prompt in your history class, and this will cover essays, discussion, and other types of assignments you might encounter along the way. I'm Dr. Gene Price. One of the first things you need to do is make sure that you read the prompt carefully. This prompt is something you might see in an essay assignment. Examine the role of technology in depression-era politics. Look at the use of radio by President Roosevelt as well as his enemies. How much impact did radio have in defining political allegiances in the 1930s? What did this predict for the future? After you've read your prompt very carefully, you want to look at the component parts and dissect the prompt. The first sentence, examine the role of technology in depression-era politics. Another sentence asks us to look at the use of radio by President Roosevelt and his enemies. We're also asked how much impact did radio have in defining political allegiances in the 1930s? And finally, what did this predict for the future? It's very important to make sure that you read carefully the prompt, because many times students don't answer all the questions. And when you don't answer all the questions, your instructor cannot give you full credit for answering the prompt when you leave parts of the answer out. So make sure that you read the prompt carefully. Next, we have really four statements and questions in this prompt. The role of technology, the use of the radio by Roosevelt and his enemies, radios influence in defining political allegiances in this period, and a question asking you to speculate on what this might predict for the future. And by the future, we're not talking about our future necessarily as much as what happened afterwards in the foreseeable future. We can create paragraphs from these topics. In fact, we might even be able to create more than one paragraph. While the first topic, the role of technology in depression-era politics is pretty self-contained. The next prompt, the use of radio by Roosevelt and his enemies, really contains several topics within that one statement. The third statement, radios influence in defining political allegiances, could actually be split up into several topics and several paragraphs. And finally, predict for the future, again, goes back to one paragraph. So we see in this very straightforward prompt, we could actually divide it up into several topics and paragraphs. When we're looking at creating a response, we want to outline our response. If you get the question in advance, this is a little bit easier. However, even if you get it during the exam that you're taking with a time limit, you can still quickly sketch out an outline. It gives you the ability to plan out your response. Normally, in an outline, you want an introduction with a thesis statement. Clearly stated, you want main points supported by evidence.  One of the mistakes people often make is trying to write as they read, write the introduction first, write the conclusion last. Sometimes it's better, especially if you have time to think about your response. It's to develop your conclusion and your introduction after you address the topics. Then work on your conclusion first. Finally, after you develop your conclusion and you already have your main topics sketched out, then think of an interesting introduction. And again, make sure you have a clear thesis statement. What is a thesis statement? Usually it's a one or two sentence response that answers the question in the prompt. So think of one, maybe two sentences at most in which you can do this. Now, in a prompt like this, which may have several questions, it may not be clear. How do you decide on the major question? In this example, we can look at the final question as a good major question. What did this, the technology of radio and how it was used by politicians in the 30s? What did this predict for the future? Now you may select another question to answer, but this in the prompt itself is a well written question that you can use to address your thesis statement. And your thesis statement would answer this question. How would this set the stage for future media use by political parties? And you can answer that in one or two sentences. Finally, some things to keep in mind when you're answering your essay. Make sure you revisit and adhere to the formatting directions your instructor provides. Make sure that you're using primary and secondary sources. You also want to make absolutely certain that you cite your sources as necessary and that you follow the format that historians use, which is to Arabian or Chicago manual style. And that in your essay or discussion response, you observe proper grammar, stylistic and spelling conventions. Communication is very important and it's a key to developing an answer that is readable and one that is understood by others. I hope this helps you to formulate a response to an essay or discussion or other assignment prompt in your history class. Thank you.


You think they'll have the same mindset as you have right now about doing the work too much fire, and why they feel that way, and you feel a certain way? I feel like the people that came before us, we as black people, we can say, well, I don't like them saying anything because they don't know what my people struggled to do, but we didn't struggle through it. So really, we can't say, well, I struggled because we didn't pick no cotton, nobody just picked no cotton, it was nobody's house lane. So I feel like they witnessed it and they were there, it was used to put them down every day. It brings back those same feelings. That's why they take so much pressure. That's not even like different power. That goes back to those people yelling at them, posing them down, sticking dollars on them. That word was being sprouted at them. Wow, that happened. That's where the anger comes from, man. But you think they went through all that so that single word can still be used to impress us? No, wait. The word has to be used. Like, we shouldn't be using it either.  But, in defense of the word, here's a document, where one of the greatest African Americans, Walter Martin Luther King, referred to his friends as his nigger. So... He still didn't want no white man. Right. So I'm saying, we didn't create that nigger word as slang. We didn't start that in the 90s. We didn't start that in the 80s. They can do this in the 40s and the 50s. These are my niggers. We are the ones who made it cool or hit word. It's always been there. Their language, our language. And we still, even in the 40s, the 30s, the 20s, when we still hit holes and have to enter in on the brick roads and couldn't drink out the same water, they didn't like a white person saying that. I don't like a white person saying that. And I can't, there's nothing that can make me comfortable with that. Can I ask you a question? Sure. Why do I not like the word? Because I honestly feel a person's intentions of saying that, of Caucasian person's intentions. We've got an Indian term. This might sound as ignorant as it could be in the world. He's Indian. I mean, he was born here and everything, but he could say the word again, that would not faze me at all. Because of the history behind it. Yeah. And I feel like it also depends on how you use it, because the definition of it is Indian. That's right. It doesn't mean it's black Indian, right? I know what you mean. I think if a Caucasian person is around a black person, I do not just get my personal opinion. And I'm from Boston. I'm from the whitest area in the world. And maybe that's why I feel like that, but it's not them saying it because they're cool enough to have been around that many black people. It ain't that many of us up there.  Like, I feel like they're getting off on it. I think it'll be a little bit. But you know, you never know how they feel about it. I think it's because his experience with white people with saying the word has never been because he was cool with them. It's always been in a bad experience, which mine has too.  I don't like her. That's why I take offense with a white person.  Yes.   Like y'all say South Carolina is in the South, in general. It's like the suppressed states where the black still stick to the blacks and the whites just stick to the blacks. Go to Boston.  There's no mixture. I don't have a good experience with Caucasians. You know, at all. For me personally, your perception is your reality.  Power of endearment. What if he's just the whole Southern house of dollars? So their intentions might be the same, but just the way they show it. In Boston they might be more showy, but a white person here will help you out and be part of the KKK. I'll be the police. I'm talking about these people do not mullies. That's what we are. They do not cross that line. There is no just hey, we're all cool. It's almost like segregated schools and everything. There's the Irish, there's the white, there's Puerto Ricans and the blacks when the Dominicans all over here are potty. We look at Southie. They look at Dorchester, Rochester. It's not as mixed here. You can have it. There's rich black people here. There's real everybody's cool.  Are they racist? I'm not saying they're racist, I'm just saying they're racist. If you say cracker, are you racist? Yeah. Why? Because I ain't supposed to be calling them cracker. Because that's what I mean. If I call them cracker, I know what I'm talking about. So what do you mean when you call the white person cracker? What if I say it never? Answer that for me. What do you mean by calling them cracker? I said that's what I'm talking about. You need my help. I don't know. Is that just like that? That's my question. Do you need my help? When I said it, I meant to be written behind that. Nectar, you're putting a general statement if you would say that, and it's still, and it's still. What do you mean by that? Oh, I was going to be talking to you.  Oh. Oh. I mean, we're a cracker, I mean, if I'm calling somebody that, yeah.   It's not.   So it's a matter of respect. It's not, it's not just because you're black, you can say nigga. Or just because I'm black, I can call anybody a nigga. If they're not comfortable with the word, then I'm not going to do it because that's disrespectful.  Yeah, we don't do that, we don't do that. So what if they say what's happening? I still have some questions. White people don't go around calling each other crackers either, but I'm still in a position to do two words.  Like they don't even use that, but we done stole that word. Hey, I live in the ghetto, like, you don't even know what it means to be a group. Yeah, I mean it's acceptable, I'm going to say it. We did. Yeah. We did. So taking offense to it, I think it's hypocrisy. I understand, yeah.  I'm going to disagree. That's how it works. I mean, it's not right, but that's how it works. I'm not going to say, I'm not ready to fight every white person who said that. Yeah. I'm not ready to fight every white person who said that. We ain't never that cool with mine. I'm still, I'm very vocal and I'm going to check whoever felt comfortable in them to say it to me, because if they said it to my dad, he's not going to check you the same way on the track. If they said it to one of my cousins, they're not going to check you. This is me looking out for you. Hey, bruh, that's not cool. Exactly. Because I don't want you to come comfortable and say it to me where you go out on a rope and something like that. If you say it to me, it will surround them. If you get comfortable enough to say that to me and I do it in the dark and then we in the light and you say that again, yo. You perfect. Yeah, you done it. But how do you learn this? How do you learn this?  So if I'm like with kids, I can tell my son not to do something and I guarantee he'll do it. Yeah. And when it hurts, he won't do it. You tell him, hey, don't say it or anything. I'm telling you this is going to happen. And then they're going to happen.  Yes, but at least I can say I told you so. Yeah. But do you, you, okay, so you're doing it for self-access? I'm like, no, no, I told you so. No, even the, because it's like it is. Because the busted in the mouth might be me the next time because I gave you that, that warning. Oh, that's acceptable with it. But I'm saying if you want to give them a warning for the shoot next time, you're going to get a, like a repercussion to it. Okay. But I'm saying like, you don't have to teach everyone.  A lot of people live for, I told you so, and hey, I was right. Hey, some of you have to make that mistake on their own. But at the same time, though, if you call me me and do it, I'm going to let you know. Look, don't do that. I can't promise you what, look. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. But to me, just, yeah, but he's saying like, no, no, no, I don't want you to call him a nigga. No, I'm saying, don't say it around me. Okay. You know. What if it was a black girl who wrote crack on the board? You think we would know about it? No, we wouldn't hear what you're saying. So what role do you think the media plays in this? What media will boost it up? That's a hot topic right now. You think it's the reason for it. But how's everything important? It just kind of plays in the rock. Probably to take our attention on something that's more important, I'm telling you, it's stuff that's going on that's way more important than that girl writing nigga and us writing cracker. And then it's, we don't know, but they're taking your eyes off of it. I honestly feel they do that.  They'll distract us like what, two weeks, maybe. Yeah, but they had to distract us with something. Something really happening. That was really happening. And everybody's scared to cough around each other for two seconds and then, oh, the bowl is just gone. Yeah, and I think that was a smokescreen.  Because now, you don't see anybody still marching for a mic, Brown, you don't see any protests and stuff, so it's almost like, it's not, yeah, it's kind of a rare thing. But, the thing, no, this does not mean portrayed, it does not mean it's still happening. There are still marches right now from mic, Brown. There are still marches in the land, man. Well, okay, well, that don't prove things are taking the place of the big thing that's going on. Taking the mass from them. Yeah. The mass, we were all focused on, you know, the Ferguson situation and all of that. So when they threw that smokescreen up, there's still some loyal people down there in Ferguson who's probably still standing on the corner right now. But the mass, they distracted the rest of us. I don't necessarily see it as a smokescreen. I see it as like, this is another incident that just happened that's related to this one. You know what I mean? They're still talking about the shooting? They're shooting. I'm talking, shooting, I'm talking about the nigger, I'm talking about the SAE. Like it's still all related, you know what I'm saying? It's not the same situation, but it's still related. It's still a race. Exactly. It's right. They didn't take the attention off of this. They're just like, yeah, this is happening. It's similar, let's move to this now. It didn't take the attention off of anything. It just said, this is the same thing that's happening over here. I'm about to say it's involved in the world, shit, y'all feel free to disagree. But I've always felt that a white person who is not racist, let me not say not racist, not prejudice against black people, that's an extraordinary white person. Because if you want to look at subliminal messages, if you want to look at even obvious messages, everything around us from the news to media to everything else tells us that black people are bad. So for a white person to look beyond that, I think that's exceptional, personally. I don't think anybody would ever appreciate this. I feel like that's not, I feel like you can't find anybody without prejudice. Because you might find people who aren't racist, but I feel like in everybody, there's a little bit of prejudice. Because if you ask a lot of white people, you ask them, what is one food that black people eat? Fried chicken is the first thing they want to say. That's prejudice because you're boxing everybody into one category. So I honestly feel like there is nobody in this world that doesn't have a small bit of prejudice in them. Now they might not act on that prejudice and discriminate, but there's nobody in this world that doesn't have prejudice because I'm prejudice. Okay, when does prejudice become racist? When it's the action. There's a point. The definition of racism entails a person who is empowered above another race. Yeah, they did it, yeah.  That's racism. Now prejudice is a white person who sees a group of black people and chooses to walk on the other side of the street. That's prejudice. What if that boss is also black? It's still the prejudice. Is he racist? Is he racist? Is he racist? Yeah. He's still racist. No, he's racist. He's still racist. Take away the color. It's the act. It's the act like he said. When you act on it, it doesn't have anything to do with the color. Black, white, blue, green, he didn't choose to hide a black people because of whatever the stereotype of prejudice is. That's racism. Even if it's just the other way. I'm gonna throw that walking on across street races to the public. I'll do that too. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna.  I am. But is that considered racist? Yeah, I don't think the mass doesn't consider it racist. Walk on street, you're smart. Yeah, I'm not saying you're smart. You know how to make black people. You know how to experience. You're not gonna walk through a game. Yeah, I don't know you. Yeah, I don't know you. But we call white people who do that racist. No, I don't know. I didn't call, I just said it's smart. They call that prejudice. Like, and that's a justifiable prejudice. Isn't this doing a show? That doesn't always go well. Yeah. Exactly. So, if it was kind of black guys with glasses and suspenders and all of like, earth are walking across the street and the white person's still. Would you cross the street then? Let's go. It's a perception though. It's a perception though. Is it worth it? But I think, I think, you guys in general, I'm walking across the street. It's perception. Cause it's either one, either one, maybe look some type of way or two, I also like hearing that in front of them. I'm being honest with you. If I see five, I'm just a hood like boys got tattooed and all. I'm still gonna cross the street. I'm still gonna cross the street. Just like with the Trayvon, like walking. Like that's a perception that everybody knows that. Hey, you got a hoodie on. You're black and a white, they look like, it's just a second thing that, but if he had on a whole tie and a bottle in his hand with some suspenders, he probably wouldn't have sent it. So don't put yourself in that situation. Like, that's the conversation that my parents had with me. Like, don't put yourself in. It doesn't matter if you wanna send it, but that's real. That stuff is real. So I'm not about to wear baggy pants in a white-naked hood. With a hoodie and... Look suspicious. Yes, look suspicious. The thing is it ain't fair. It's not fair to admit. It's not fair to admit. But it ain't anything except, it's not fair. We don't have a long leash. We don't have it. So we have to do it. We have to do it to survive. It's not fair, but we have to abide by it. It is accurate. It's not... I agree with you that we shorten our leash because most of the ones with hoods on have walked around in brown people and have done a certain attitude to give them. The world, I'm just like, give them like you're too much. Give us more. It's not going to come to those perspectives. That's right. Shoot first, ask questions later.  I told you so. Ooh. It took a minute from happening, like... Thanks, Ace. Like what? I was telling him thanks. In the first discussion. Oh, yeah, you got to read the thing. Have y'all ever heard that hate comes from spirits? Yeah. You just can't be an evil. Yeah. It's not fair. Yeah. I mean, ever since I wore my hoodie, I've been doing this before the whole trip.  I'm really... You walkin' out of bed.