New York City, it's theCUBE covering CyberConnect 2017 brought to you by Centrify and the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technologies. Hey, welcome back everyone. This is theCUBE live in New York City in Manhattan. We're here at the Grand Hyatt Ballroom for CyberConnect 2017 inaugural event presented by Centrify. I'm John Furrier with my co's, Dave Vellante, both co-founders of SiliconANGLE Media, our next guest is Parham F. Kittari who's the co-founder and senior fellow of ICIT, also part of the team and the lead around putting the content agenda together. These are the guys who put it all together really inaugural conference, great success. Turns out, we talked about it was going to be big, it's going to be huge. By the numbers, it's just a great beach head. The right people showed up. Welcome to theCUBE, thanks for joining us. Yeah, thank you for having me. Excited to be here, good to chat with you again. So before the event started just a couple of months ago when we were talking about the event. We were like, this is, love the name, first event of its kind, always wondering, will people show up? Well that's right, first time events, we've talked about this before. There are so many cybersecurity events out there and so many organizations competing for limited time and resources. So I think to have an event like this be such a big success in the first time speaks to the quality of the content and Centrify's role and ICIT's role in putting it together. I want to give you guys congratulations to you and your partner for running a really amazing company and event. You guys go big by thinking small, by being small, being relevant, your model and how you do business earns trust. It's very community driven, same ethos as what we believe in. So I want to give you props for that. It's not usually C, great execution, thinking about your audience and constituents. So congratulations. Thank you. Okay, so with that you got a lot of heavy hitters in your role that's got great community, big names, generals up there, you have big time C-sos. What's the vibe? You guys are dealing with this profile persona all the time. What's on the minds? I mean, obviously the general is banging his fist on the table, virtual table, or a coldness coffee cup, telling war stories. It's basically saying if we don't get our act together, industry and government. Yeah, well I think what's happening today and you know the business of the institute, we're a research driven organization. So as an organization that provides objective research, we have the fortunate position to be able to advise through some of these commercial and public sector leaders. And so in that advisory, we have a really good sense on the pulse of the community and we're able to hear directly from these individuals. We don't have to look at market research studies. We don't have to look at what some of these third party groups are talking about. We're able to communicate directly and we can actually see and feel their feedback to what we're discussing. There's no lag to your model. You have your fingers on the pulse. What is it telling you? I mean, obviously we heard the message here. There's some work to be done. There's some technical core, fundamental infrastructure things. There's application specific things. Obviously the threats aren't stopping. That's right. If you look at the program that was built, it really does mirror the way that the institute believes that we need to approach solving these issues and that comes with a layered security strategy. And so oftentimes you'll go to these events and we understand that there's organizations that are looking to make this into a more of a marketing opportunity for them. So unfortunately the curriculum and content only touches one or two core competencies which obviously really underscore what the sponsors do. What we've done here at Cyber Connect which is why Centrify is such a great partner. They understand that they may be one of the world's leading identity access management organizations but they know for us to have a cybersecurity renaissance and actually make that quantum leap that the general and some of the executives that you were mentioning were discussing all day. We need to have a number of different technologies discussed and have that education talk about things like the use of machine learning based artificial intelligence. Talk about how technology can enable automation. Talk about identity access management. Talk about like we just heard Terry Gravenstein talk about the importance of building a culture of trust. Security has a human element to it. People is one of the biggest problems we have so I think this is one of the reasons why this event to your point earlier is such a big success for the first year out. We heard a lot today about sort of the partnership or really the imperative of government and commercial enterprises working together. You do a lot of work in the government and there seems to be anyway our impression is there's a heightened sense of security for obvious reasons and board levels in the commercial side have really tuned in to security but still organizations seem to be struggling with what's the right regime. It used to be just an IT problem or a security team problem and as you really pointed out many, many times at this event it's everybody's problem. So what are you seeing in terms of things that commercial enterprises can learn from government particularly from the top and the top down initiative? Yeah, I think one of the themes that you've heard discussed several times today as Ontario again just talked about is having a seat at the table. I think there's so much media discussion about cyber security, all of our families, our moms, our grandparents are understanding that cyber security is a major issue. We're even starting to get some more general consensus that cyber security is a national security imperative and so I think this is helpful. I think now we have to start to as cyber security practitioners we have to speak in the language that resonates with so if you're talking to a chief operating officer and trying to educate them on the impact of ITOT conversions and you have to speak in the terms that it's COO is interested in versus a CFO, versus your CIO, versus your board of directors. So I think language matters, vocabulary matters and I think it's one of the things that we see starting to percolate up in some of the conversations that we're having. Given the humans are the main problem I mean we all have this assumption we talk about it in the cube all the time but oh my gosh internet of things is going to create this huge space of people to attack, huge attack maker. But if the humans aren't managing the devices is there potentially an upside there if that makes sense? Yeah so I think it all goes back to tomorrow morning we'll hear from Dr. Ron Ross and David from Centrify and they're going to be talking about security by design. NIST Dr. Ross actually put out a paper 800-160 which really talks about the importance of building better systems devices product so I think that we are moving towards automation, we're moving towards machine learning, we're already see it impacting a lot of our society and even down to your point the IoT devices we just put out a paper about cyborgs and the use of embedded devices in actual in humans and transhumanism. This is all a, the ship has, the train has left the station I guess you can say. I think what's important now is to not make the same mistakes that we did the first go around and pause and not put profits over security and privacy and actually understand that if we can't build it with security, certain security requirements there then we can't get that functionality or it may not cost the price point that we want it to cost which may have it been more affordable for consumers so I think we have to reprioritize. US companies generally have not taken that pause and put security over profits it's really been the reverse and many would say okay but it's actually worked out pretty well for US companies they dominate the technology industry. What do you say to those folks that say well profits are actually more important? Well I think it depends when you say it worked out well I think if you look at all those individuals that have been impacted by the breaches I think that's where people are starting to really understand how it's impacting us and going back to my comment about the national security side. This is no longer just about being able to steal your PII and maybe doing some fraud in terms of identity theft and whatnot when we're talking about metadata and capitalistic drag net surveillance and now if you're looking at who is stealing and curating this information it could be special interest groups it could be nation states so now this becomes a much larger issue and a much larger challenge. So it's a ticking time bomb is essentially what you're saying and so then that begs the next question does really government have to get involved to begin to impose its will if you will on commercial organizations? Yeah I think what's going to happen and we actually were talking about this lunch with General Alexander earlier today it's going to be a balance the government will be getting involved they are getting involved there's a lot of legislation being passed that truly is trying to make a bipartisan push to address some of these issues but I think ultimately that's going to be as the general kind of said earlier it's just going to be the government beating these folks virtually on the head until they start to do some self-governance self-relationship. Talk about your relationship with the general vis-a-vis this event he had great keynote inspiring obviously moved a lot of people talked about the general common defense versus civil liberties balance and privacy as you mentioned what more can you share about some of the things that he sees and feels strongly about that you guys are seeing in your research in the Institute because this is interesting because you got a guy who says I'm an army guy right who's now looking through the prism of the future with past history at the NSA command center cyber command center he's got a pretty interesting view and he sees both sides of the coin you guys are seeing that people in the tech business are like deer in the headlights we saw Twitter, Facebook and Alphabet you know like and then the center is trying to grok what Twitter does so I mean you have this generational gap you also have historical analog to digital transformation going on this is a societal impact this is pretty huge what does the general truly feel what's his vision what's his point of view these days yeah so I'm not going to speak for the general I wouldn't dare do that but I will say that if you listen to his comments on stage one of the things he does talk about and where our relationship is very strong is the importance of public-private sector collaboration the general actually received our pinnacle I'm sorry was named our pioneer last year at our Gala which is actually happening in a couple of days in Washington DC and he really if you listen to his message he underscores the importance of collaboration not just within a sector not just within government but cross sector and between public-private sector and between technology providers and government and legislative community so I think one of the things that I am comfortable saying is that he would encourage more collaboration more information sharing and more trust among these sectors to work together to solve these problems how should people measure success in this business that's a loaded question I think success needs to be at this stage incremental I don't think we need to be realistic in terms of how much quote success can we achieve overnight we've mentioned earlier the ship has sailed and so I think we need to do multiple things simultaneously we of course do need to continue to implement technologies and strategies that detect and respond to threats but I personally would say that the true success is going to really be accomplished when we start to deploy strategies and reprioritize so we're actually building more secure systems more secure devices I think that's going to be needs to go hand in hand and we'll hear a lot about that tomorrow with Dr. Ross would that imply that either you know the rate of growth of breaches starts to moderate or the amount of data or the amount of revenue dollars lost begins to slow down its growth rate at some point that's absolutely going to be the goal I think that is that a reality though? I mean given that everything's growing so fast in our business oh yeah I'm an eternal optimist I think absolutely we'll get there I can't tell you the time frame but I do know that venues like this and the work that ICIT is doing is really important to getting us to that point until we get folks in the media and on Capitol Hill and in federal agencies talking about these issues so then it's not just the security folks who are focused on this but a broader group I think that's the opportunity and you know as we wrap up day one here education and content value is what we're seeing I mean you guys see that all the time I know a preacher is a choir but again looking at mainstream media and some of the techniques that the Russians and other states have used to implement memes and the election conversations it's being gamified we know that so the media picks up on it because there's identity politics going on so I think there needs to be a wake up call I mean I think the educational process is critical absolutely what's next and that's where we feel very fortunate to be in the position that we're in because ICIT is a neutral third party non-profit and non-partisan research organization so what we're doing is putting out content we're not I should say this way the information comes out agenda in terms of how to couch it exactly our agenda is is national security our agenda is improving the security of our nation's critical infrastructure sectors improving resiliency and providing trusted advisory to these very stakeholders well get in the people here on the cube and having you guys come on and do this great event really opens up the door for more voices to be heard absolutely and we heard from your partner had some great things to say this has got to get out there so people the press can report on it that's right we'll turn on the cameras Dave what's your take on the event here obviously as inaugural event what's your analysis well I mean we touched on some big topics right I mean the general in particular he was talking about collaboration with the FBI you know snow rule of government privacy ACLU Jeffrey Stone I think you know my big takeaway as we were just discussing was and the general said this Sony for example he gave that example can't do it alone and we've been saying this for a while and John you predicted this you said a while back that the government's processes technologies know how is going to seep into commercial businesses as it has so often I mean you look at you know space launch you know radar nuclear energy the internet etc and I think the security cyber security is such a big problem only the government can help solve this problem well the government's always been dealing with the moving train and the corporations and the enterprise should have been buying shrink rack software loaded on a server that's evolved to buying more servers that have been pre integrated with software and buying silver bullet solutions and then leave it alone until something breaks and then fixes it and I think you know when we were talking and looking at this event my takeaway here is the moving train is never going to stop and the shifting of the game is going to be a cat and mouse good versus bad new technology versus reality open source certainly accelerated the role of the public domain treasure troves of information are being amassed whether it's wiki leaks or in the open source this is a problem and then there's no real real creative solutions I have not seen anything so to me this event takeaway is that this is the first time a step has been taken to saying whoa holistic big picture what is the architecture of a global society where nation states can compete with no borders in a digital virtual space be effective have freedom and then respect for the individual I mean no one's ever had that conversation yeah well we're excited to have it we've gotten really great feedback from just some of the conversations that we're hearing in the hallways as people are taking learning actionable intelligence where I can actually take this and instill it I think a lot of people are actually being inspired and that's something we need especially in an industry where every day it's about how you know cyber security folks don't get in the news when nothing happens as a commercial I think it's IBM commercial right whereas my nothing happened to work for my dad today right but that never happens it's always about what does go wrong so I think we need to be inspired and motivate ourselves well one of the things that we're excited about as you know we're community model like you guys are you look at some of the early indicators of how blockchain and even though it's kind of crazy you know bubbly with the ICOs and cryptocurrency and overall blockchain it all comes down to the common thread we see in open source software over multiple generations we're seeing in blockchain we're seeing in security community matters and I think the role of individuals and communities will be a big part of the change as the new generation comes up really fundamental so congratulations thank you okay Pairam here is inside the cube for our wrap up of day one of CyberConnect 2017 I'm Jeffrey DeValante thanks for watching


Welcome to the session. I am damn tensed. This is my first talk. So please pardon me if I don't. Thank you for that. After hearing all the deep inside, let's come to a very basic topic that is anatomy of a software patent. How does a patent look like? This is me. I am a mother to a 15 month old child who is sleeping over there. Normally who doesn't sleep? I am a blogger. I maintain my blog at Anveshadas.in where I transforms legalish to English and I am a lawyer by profession. I was working with a mortgage and now I have shifted here and I am a dancer. So disclaimer, this talk is not a legal advice. This is only to help you. The intention of the talk is to help you to read a patent document nicely. So when we hear the word patent, the first thing comes into our mind or the first thing we need to understand is what an intellectual property is. As it is very much evident from the term itself, intellectual property is a property created by someone's intellect. Intellectual property can be of many types. Patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, etc. So today our discussion is about patent. So what is the definition of a patent? Patent is a kind of intellectual property which is granted by the sovereign for a specified period of time. It is a monopoly right and it is granted to the inventor for his invention. Too many legalish term over there. Decrypted inventor is a patent. There are three points which I need to be discussed over here. The first thing is that sovereign means the authority for the government. Then monopoly. Monopoly right is the exclusive right of the inventor. Inventor is basically the owner if there is not any arrangement contrary to it. And the third thing is time bound. Time bound means it is granted for a specified period of time. It is 20 years. Just the same gap between Titanic release and Leonardo getting Oscars. So to get a strong protection like patent, the invention has to be useful, non obvious and novel. Now why a patent? Why do we need a patent? So before going into why do we need a patent, let's dig into the history of the patent a bit. The word term patent has come from the word latest patent as opposed to the closed letters. These were the open letters under the great seal of King of England. Under these letters by and through these letters, the king used to confer certain rights to its subjects. So the concept of patents by a letter we are conferring certain rights to somebody has come from there. And the main aim of patent is to create an equilibrium between a public good and a private good. The public good part is that so that the public can use the invention for their own benefit and the society can enrich as a whole. And the private good part is that so the inventor gets the benefit of his own invention and he can get incentivized. Then let's come to the patent document, construction of the patent document. So like every human being patent has a face and a body and a heart. So let's come to the face of the patent. Surely our face does not look like this when we see a patent but the face of the patent document is the front page of the patent document. When we open a PDF file or we take the patent certificate, it is the front page that is called the face of the patent document. There are many various things which is there in the face of the patent document. The first thing is the patent number. Patent number is a unique identifier granted by the USPTO. It is pertinent to mention here that I am specifically talking about US patents here. So this patent number is granted by USPTO that is the United States Patent and Trademark Office. And it is the mark of approval of the patent application. And there are certain specific numbers and some codes in the patent number which denote certain specified or specialized kinds of patents. These are called kind codes. Like if there is RE in a patent number that is re-examine patent and if there is PP in a patent number then it is a plant patent. If there is D in a patent number then it is design and if there is D in a patent number then it is defensive patent. Previously the kind code was managed on a certain different act. Now it has been managed by America Invents Act of 2011. The next thing that is there are the dates in the patent. There are basically three types of dates in a patent document. First is the application date or the filing date. The date it has been applied for, the patent has been applied for or filed in the office. The second date is the issue date when that is written as the date of patent when it has been issued by the authority or the USPTO. And there is another kind of date. It is called the priority date. Priority date, basically the application date is generally the priority date. But there are certain circumstances when the application date and priority date are different. When some document claims priority to the application date itself then the date of that document has to be considered as priority date. And the patent term is judged by or calculated by getting into knowledge of all these dates. And it is generally the system that it is first to invent not first to file. The next thing is the title of the patent. The title as it is like any movie title like Kung Fu Panda. When I say Kung Fu and Panda there is Kung Fu and Panda in the movie. The title is the same. It is short and specific explanation or definition of what is there in the patent. The next thing is the inventor. Who is the inventor? Inventor is the person who has conceived an working idea and actually or constructively has made or reduced the working idea into practice. So decrypted, conceived. Conceived means the person who has the idea constructively means who actually by instructing someone has made the thing into practice and reduced them into practice means making the working idea into a practice. Like any other intangible property patent though being an intangible property can be like transferable property. So if we look into a patent document we will be like many of the patent document will find a sign this word. So assigning means to whom the patent holder has assigned his rights or transferred his right by way of assignment or sale or license or something. The next thing that is important here to understand what is prior art. Prior art is the knowledge or the invention that is already available. That is called the prior art or the precedence. So if my invention or somebody's invention falls into that area of prior art then it won't get patented. So this prior art is very important and all this prior art and references and arguments will get on the face of the patent and as historical outline. Even the name of the examiner or the arguments everything is there on the face of the patent as historical outline. The next thing what we will find on the face of the patent is abstract of the patent document. Abstract of a patent document is a single paragraph explaining the invention of the patent within a 150 words. So it's basically a synopsis kind of thing. The next thing which is there is the representative figure. Representative figure basically depicts the basic idea. It is given by the examiner. By this representative figure the examiner gives the top level view of the product, method and process of the invention on the face of the patent itself. The next thing that is there on the face of the patent is the body of the patent. The body of the patent may not be as furry or soft but it is as fat as poor from the great Kung Fu Panda movie. Like it is awful of all drawings and written descriptions and diagrams and everything. It is often the body often called a specification. It is the specification serves two kind of things basically. One is public good and the educational purpose and second the legal obligation that a patent must disclose its invention wholly or fully. Also sometimes to understand a vague claim which we will go later. We take the recourse from the body itself. Let's discuss what is there in the body. As I said there are drawing sheets and different diagrams each separately numbered and it is placed just beneath the face of the patent. And there is written description. The written description can be of three kinds. First is technical, second is the summary of the invention and third is the description of the figures. What is technical written description that is mentioned here. The technical written description is basically mentioning the technical field of the invention. That is to which field of invention the patent relates to. Actually it is very useful to get the right kind of examiner for the patent to examine the patent. The second thing is that the summary of invention. In the summary of invention all the advantages, overview of the invention, context, previous endeavours on the same field. Subsisting patent and technical terminology to understand the patent itself are mentioned. And there are description of figures which describes the figure which is being referred to. In this point we need to mention one thing this is called embodiments. We get embodiments means the use cases. We get the patent on the working idea itself not the use cases. So we get the patent on the working idea not to the embodiments. Next thing is there is referencing a patent. Patent are written in a greed row column system to make it easy to refer it easily. But it is not that easy to refer or to understand. The next thing we are coming in a patent document are the claims. The claims as I said the patent has three parts. We covered face and body. Claims are the heart or the core of the patent. Construction of a patent claim. This section 112 of title 35 of the United States Code deals with the patent claim. Let's check what is there in a patent claim. The first thing that is there in the patent claim that is the preamble. Preamble of the patent claim denotes the type of the invention as described by the patent. It also defines any terminology which is important to understand the claim itself. It is very important to get the drafting of the claim very nicely in a proper manner. Because the claim decides the boundary of the patent right. What is the right granted by that claim or the patent itself. There are certain phrases which is legal or kind of vague which is there on the claim of the patent. This is called transitional phrase. Transitional phrase are the phrases which relates the preamble or which creates a relationship between the preamble and the invention as a whole. Or the any part of the invention or part of the claim which is set forth in the claim itself. This type of transition phrase that is open transition broadens up the limits of the claim. These are the examples of comprising. The word comprising is an example of open transition and composed of is an example of closed transition. Limitation of the claim. The limitation of the claim is described by the experts as at the core of the claim. As the claim is the core of the patent, the limitations are the core of the claim. Though every inventor does not wish to limit his or her invention. But it is very important to mention the limitations of the invention. To make the invention different from the state of the prior art. To make the differences between what is there already and what are the new things that this invention is bringing on. So there are basically two types of claim. First is independent claim. The independent claim has to basically satisfy two conditions. First they should have to define an working invention. And secondly they should be unique. And the dependent claim as very much evident from the term itself is dependent on the independent claim. If the independent claim gets invalidated, the dependent claim automatically gets invalidated. Now by now we have covered the patent document. But now we have a paper. So what do we do with the paper? What are the rights that a patent holder gets? Basically the patent holder gets three major rights. That is to exploit the product or process to make it to hire it to do whatever he or she wants. Of course within the boundaries of the legal requirements. Then to transfer it like any other tangible property as I said earlier. And the third thing is that if someone infringes his right then the patent holder has a right to sue. Which is very dear to some patent holders and which they do not want to let it go. Then at the end of the talk suddenly something comes in my mind. Why am I giving a talk about a patent in a FOSS conference? Nobody likes a patent here. So why am I giving a talk? Basically the FOSS people believes that software is idea and ideas can't be patented. They should be shared to enrich the society as a whole. But it is better before rejecting something it is better to know. And it is a very much prevalent system in US now. Which people now we have to read the patent document and patent is a very prevalent system in US. So that's why I have given this talk. Therefore we have come to an end of this talk. I hope it will be easier for you to read a patent document now. And it won't appear as a vague PDF to you. Thank you. Biological organism? It is kind of written that if a new plant or a new plant has been discovered. Or there are some new plant has been created through this thing. This is called plant data.


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And now, a tale well-calculated to keep you in. Suspense. I've been married for seven years and once loved my wife. Loved her as no man ever loved a woman.   Listen now to act one of till death do us part. Starring Sam Gray, and written especially for suspense by Ben Kagan. 10 months ago, when I was ill, when I needed her desperately, my wife left me, left me without a word. Then two months later, she came back without apology, without remorse, as if nothing had happened between us. But then I needed her no longer. But she came back to stay and stay she did, despite my anger, despite my hate. Well, I'm sorry, truly I am. I'll never leave you again, I promise. Come back to me as I've come back to you. But instead of dissipating my anger, she only made it more intense. Instead of abating my hate, she only made it grow. Her sudden meekness, her vaporish appearance, they only served to irritate me. But even more exasperating was the look of gentle reproach, which always seemed to linger in her resentful, horrible life. I had a peculiar, terrifying sensation that she could anticipate by every thought, and misjudging my hate as a sign of weakness. She pitied me, pitied me, as if I needed pity, as if I couldn't live without her. Paul, why don't you eat, Paul? I'm not hungry. But you've hardly touched your dinner. Now that's hungry, I tell you. You can't go on like this, not eating, not taking care of yourself. Paul, I'm worried about you. Oh, now you're worried about me. Now when all is over between us, when it's too late. All right, Paul. I won't argue the point.  This is really no reason to be angry. No reason to be angry. Her pretense, her shameless pretense, that nothing had happened, that she had never deserted me. For long endless hours, we sat facing each other across the room, with hardly any conversation to break the periods of dreary, oppressive silence. Mainly, I tried to bury myself in the newspaper, read a book, listen to the radio. It was useless.  Gradually, the months went by, and our relationship remained unchanged. A day, dull fear began to possess me. It grew into an annoying sense of impending disaster. Whenever she spoke, I thought the walls were closing in about me, crushing me. Whenever she looked at me, I thought the room was getting smaller, darker. And in the darkness, her eyes were riveted upon me, blazing, probing menacing. I was trapped. Hopeless they trapped. Do for the rest of my life to spend my nights in terror, my days in hate. Too late! Too late to do anything about it, too late to seek out help, to run away. Was it? If she were out of the way, if she should suddenly die, if I killed her. Oh, and the thought first occurred to me. But once there, it grew until it became an obsession which dominated every rational waking moment of my existence. I spent days deliberating the method I would use in taking her life with the least delay, the least chance of discovery. And finally, came to the logical, inevitable conclusion. Poison, I'd planned the murder with the utmost care and caution. First, I went to a doctor. I didn't use my real name. Or did I give him my right address? You can get dressed now. Yes, doctor. Mr. Bowman, how much do you smoke? Oh, only moderately, doctor. No more than a pack a day. Do you take stimulants? Stimulants? Liquor? Oh, only occasionally, doctor. You know, social drinking. Now, when did you begin getting your headaches? Oh, about 10 months ago. But really what bothers me most is my heart, that rushing sensation. Well, you have a functional murmur, Mr. Bowman. Nothing serious. As far as I can determine, there's nothing organically wrong with you. The spastic condition of your stomach, your recurring headaches and palpitations are merely manifestations of a nervous strain. Now, I can prescribe tranquilizers, of course, but frankly, I'd suggest that you... Yes? Can you take a look at the KG, doctor? Excuse me, Mr. Bowman, I'll only be a moment. Oh, that's all right, doctor. Take your time. I'm in no special area. I have been waiting for just such a moment to be alone in a doctor's office with an easy reach of blank prescriptions. The prescription pad lay on the table right at my elbow.  The rest was relatively easy. A reference book in the library, bad handwriting, then the pharmacy. In a section of the town where I was not known and could not be identified. Good evening, sir. Good evening. I'd like to have this prescription filled. Can you do it right away? I'm rather in a hurry. Surely. If you have a seat, I'll... This prescription is for you. Naturally. Why do you ask? It calls for a 30 capsules of morphine sulfate. Was it 30? I didn't know. Yes. May I ask why the doctor prescribes such a... Well, it's a sedative, of course. Why do you stand there and question me as if there's something fishy? Not at all. I only... I'm not interested in what you did or didn't mean. If you won't fill this prescription, I'll take it elsewhere. Oh, I didn't say that, Tony. I'm sorry if I sounded so suspicious, Mr. Woman, but we must be careful, you know. The law is very strict about this. Morphine sulfate is a sedative, as you say, but you can also act as a poison if used excessively. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, yes. Some people would go to any lengths to get hold of some poison. Oh, I see. Well, and I don't blame you in the least. I'm sorry I lost my temper.  Exactly. I'm glad you understand, Mr. Woman. Oh, I do. I understand perfectly. A man in your position has a great responsibility, not only to himself, but more importantly to the general public. That's right. That's right. I'll fill this for you right away. You wanted to wait for it, as I remember, Mr. Woman? Yes. I will. At last I have it. Now, during the course of the evening, perhaps while she was in the kitchen, all I had to do was lift the poison into her food. Maybe not a wine. We always drank wine with dinner, and then she drank it, drank it to the last drop, and I would be free. Free and not afraid anymore. That same evening, as I was approaching the home, I ran into the janitor. He was a decent sort of old man, except for one failing. He talked too much. As usual, he inquired about my health. Good evening, Mr. Versailles. How are you feeling? Oh, fine. Fine. Thank you. That's good. Glad to hear it. I'm glad you're feeling okay, Mr. Versailles. If you ever need anything, just let me know. Yes, I will. I will.  I can't stay here all night. You know, I have other things to do besides... I... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be rude, but see, I'm not myself today. My wife... What about your wife? She's very ill. Is she? Yes. That's why I'm in a hurry. She needs me. Oh, sure. I understand, Mr. Sell. I know how these things are. I could feel the pulsations of my heart and every fiber of my body if I climbed the three flights of stairs to our apartment on the top floor. And I could feel and hear nothing else when I saw her standing there. Hello, Paul. I've been waiting for you. You have? Why? Well, dinner will be ready soon, and, you know what? I've prepared your favorite dish, chicken cacciatore. Oh, thank you. Thank you, my dear. That was very thoughtful of you. You won't forget the wine, will you? Wine? No, of course not. We always drink wine with dinner. She hadn't forgotten the wine. Now I had to act quickly, carefully. The poison was in my pocket. As soon as she stepped out of the room, I pulled out the brown bottle, unscrewed the top, emptied the capsules, and poured the contents into her glass. The entire process took no more than 10 seconds. I stirred the wine thoroughly to make sure all the capsules had dissolved and then sat down and ate my dinner. Will you have some more pie, dear? No, no. I've had enough.  I will. Well, drink it now. I will, Paula. I've never seen you so concerned over me. Not in a long time, not since I went away. Well, stop talking and drink your wine. It tastes sort of bitter. Oh, nonsense. It's only your imagination. Now stop acting silly. Drink it! But I don't want any more, Paula, really. Will you do it, I say? Will you drink that wine? Oh, very well. You can really want me to. There's no reason to be angry. There. Are you satisfied? At last. At last, a few more moments, and she'd be dead. But those moments came and went, and nothing happened. She continued talking in the same melancholy, solicitous tone. It was enough to drive a man insane. 10, 15 minutes. They seemed longer than a year, and nothing happened. The poison didn't work. All night, as she lay by my side, I listened to her breathing, and not in this regular, undisturbed, I couldn't sleep. There was a dull ringing in my ears. Why? Why hadn't the poison worked? Suddenly, my flesh began to creep. I was paralyzed with fear. In her sleep, she had clutched my arm, and touched it with all her might. Both her hands locked together, her fingers crossing into my flesh. Try as I might, I couldn't break her grip. And for the remainder of the night, I had to remain thus chained to a creature I both feared and loathed. I deliberately came home later than usual the following evening, hoping to avoid beating the janitor. Perhaps he did suspect something. Perhaps he would attempt to stop me calling the police. I couldn't take that chance. But as I approved the billy, there he was. How are you feeling this evening, Mr. Grissel? Oh, fine. Fine. That's good. Serious terrible weather. I'd be careful on a day like this. If I was you, I'd take me a hot bath and go right to bed. I'll do that. His sudden concern over me made me furious. He was not only a fool, he was absolutely mad, mad and cunning. Determined not to be trapped. I dismissed him as quickly as I could. Once upstairs, I followed the identical procedure of the previous evening. Again, she drank the poison. And again, the poison did not work. Paul, you're hurting me. What are you doing? I must know. Are you sure you feel nothing? Yes. Should I? No weakness, no dizziness, no numbness in the fingers, no shortness of breath, not even sleepy tired? No, Paul. I filled her glass with poison. And the next night, I gave her still more.  I experimented with different, more deadly poisons. Mixing stricting sulfate, arsenine trioxide, opium, and follower solution in tremendous quantities. She drank dose after dose. I followed her around the room, watching for the tiniest symptoms. The results were always negative. The poison just did not work. This constant frustration of my plan began to undermine my health. My nerves were completely shattered. I had several dizzy spells that week and a sharp stabbing pain in the region of my heart frequently left me weak and helpless. It was on the seventh day that I had a slight stroke. It happened suddenly as I was watching her drink the seventh glass of poison. Fifty grains and still survive. Oh, Paul, darling, you must have fainted. No, don't pull your hands away, please. Let me massage them. No, I'm all right. Leave me alone. The sixth, Paul. I told you you should see a doctor. No, no, no. Let me up. I'll help you. Give me your arm. No, no. I can manage all by myself. You must do something. I've never seen you looking like this. I'll be all right. Don't, don't you touch me. Why do you hate me so? What have I ever done to you? Ever done to me. As if you didn't know. As if you didn't know. The next day, I walked with difficulty. My prescription blanks were all used up, but I was comforted by one thought. Upstairs in my trunk, I had hidden the largest, most lethal dose of all to work. I was determined that it should. Good evening, Mr. Bercel. I thought you'd never come home. I've been waiting for you for over an hour. Why? I have a message for you. Message? The police were here looking for you. Police? Yeah, they wanted to question you. For the only one reason, my prescription blanks had been traced.  Drink your wine, drink it, I say. But it's bitter, Paul. I don't know why it should be, but all week the wine has tasted bitter. It's only your imagination, drink it. Finish it. I can't, Paul. I simply can't. I've had enough, please. For the last time, what you'll do is I say, will you? We drank it. The eighth, the last, the largest dose. She drained the glass and smiled in her usual, perverted manner and remained alive. I feel fine. I don't understand, Paul. Why do you keep asking me all the time and always after I've finished drinking my wine? I had this problem. I couldn't control my thoughts. Perhaps I've been deluding myself all along. Perhaps it wasn't poison at all that I've been feeding her. Perhaps the drug is, all but drug is, had suspected my motive. We substituted some harmless ingredients and then notified the police. They'd all question me closely about the prescriptions. I would explain it. All those drugs were harmless. That would be the only logical explanation. I was determined to find out. I had to know. My fury and desperation, I did not stop to consider the consequences. I poured five grains into a glass and then swallowed the contents. For a while I felt no symptoms and I had a mixed sensation of disappointment and relief. But suddenly, my throat was tight and spastic. I was bathed in cold sweat. My vision was blurred. I knew that I was dying. The irony of the situation nearly drove me insane.  The ax behind the stove won't well a blow. There's a great deal of pain and effort, but it's light and sharp. Trying not to breathe, I crumpled behind her, closer, closer, until I came within striking distance. Now I would even the score.  I lifted the ax and brought it crashing down upon her head. I buried itself on the floor and the impact sent the dishes rattling. And then a dull, ghastly silence. I was too weak to rise. She's dead, I thought. As long as she's dead. My relief was momentary. As I opened my eyes for the last time, I saw her standing over me. Her face distorted. Her body rigid, intense and unscathed. As I lay there, dying, her eyes, her resentful, horrible eyes, were probing, searching, were probing. 3-D. Okay, no answer. He's home, I know he's home. I've been out front all the time. You got your pass, King? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, yeah, here it is. Okay, open up. Is that Vercel? Yeah, yeah, that's him. I guess we got here too late. I was afraid he was up something like that. You think it was poison? Can't tell till the medical examiner gets here. He's been raiding every drugstore in town. Poor Mr. Vercel, he was such a nice man. Up until about 10 months ago, then he went off as rocker. Why, they did it. You got any ideas? Account of his wife, I guess. They were the most devoted couple you ever saw. Crazy about each other. Like they just met. Where is she? His wife, I mean. We'll have to question her. His wife? Oh, she's dead. She died 10 months ago from childbirth. Both she and the kid. And you know something? From that day on, he was never the same. Kept blaming himself. Kept imagining things. Kept imagining she was still alive. He was badly all right.  Poor fella. I guess he wanted to be with her pretty bad.  But me, I'd call it sort of a reunion. You've been listening to Till Death Do Us Parts, starring Sam Gray and written especially for suspense by Ben Kagan. Suspense is produced and directed by Bruno Zirato Jr., music supervision by Ethel Huber. Featured in tonight's story were Elaine Ross, Jim Bowles, Carl Frank, Herb Duncan, Bill Lipton, and Barbara Cassar. Listen again next week when we return with The Imposters, written by Peter Fernandez. Another tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.


Check this out. So the vines look like this, right? Vines look like this. Nice vines. And then what we do, we take the flowers off, right?  Okay.  Okay. So many. Really nice. That was sweet smell. Really nice ones up top. Let me grab the really nice ones up top.


So today, social media with the internet really has opened up a whole new world for us to communicate. But some of us aren't doing it so well, and some of us are taking it a little out of context. In the floodings in Millington, Facebook or social media was critical in getting the word out to where shelters are and what is closed and where they can find help. And it's not because people were just relying on social media. It's because they couldn't get to their homes because of the flooding. But on their iPhone or their iPad or their laptops they had with them, they could access that and get to social media. So the bad, having a false sense of security for you to go into any Facebook site or social media site and make comments that are derogatory about your command, your co-worker, your military, or a policy or those kinds of things are as if you were saying it to your commanding officer, to your command master chief, or to the chief of naval operations. And as we change in the United States military and in the Navy and in society, our instructions, policies, guidelines have to evolve with it. Navy's Chinfo, chief of naval information, you'll find the social media handbook. And so you can Google, you know, command social media handbook, Navy's social media handbook and find it. You can talk to your public affairs office. They have a copy as well. And in this guidebook it talks about, you know, the good, the bad, the ugly. And this is where our policy, SECNAV and Chinfo guidelines are laid out for us. So whatever you say in these sites isn't secret and isn't confidential and can be used when it's necessary to call you into question on behavior or in violating a UCMJ. You still wear the cloth of our nation 24-7 even as a keyboard cowboy in the privacy of your own barracks room or your home on a Facebook site. You're still a military member and your word is still something that we're reading, whether you think so or not. Don't wait for things to happen to you. Make them happen for you.


Hi, this is Dr. Don and I want to go over problem 2.1.17 which was on the second quiz. Unfortunately, some of the academic problems you will encounter in homework and quizzes and exams are really at an awkward stage and this is one of those problems. It is too simple for Stat Crunch or Excel to provide a tool to do everything for you and yet it is almost a bit too complicated to do using an handheld calculator although you can do that. I like to do these using Excel using the native functions and I'm going to show you how to do that. We start by clicking on the little rectangle and then opening this data in Excel. This blue area is the way that the data opens in Excel. Everything else that is in white I have added using basic Excel functions. The first thing you need to do is to create a column labeled the lower limit and one upper limit. There is no easy way to do this. It is much faster just to go through and type in 18, 29, 40, etc. and then 28, 39, 50, etc. Much faster than trying to create an Excel formula to parse that although you can do that. The midpoint you can almost do in your head just by expecting. Looking at that, that is a class width of 10, half of 10 is 5, 5 added on to 18 is 23. But you may run into a class width that is not quite that easy to do in your head and so that is the reason I break things out. The midpoint I use just as simple formula is equal to the lower limit plus the upper limit minus the lower limit divided by 2 and that gives me 23 and then of course I just copy that formula down to give me the midpoints which is one of the answers they require. The next column I label relative frequencies and you need to be careful with this. It can be confusing because of the way that my stat lab and the text uses the terms relative frequency, cumulative frequency, and cumulative relative frequency. You need to differentiate those latter two. The relative frequency is just the number of counts in that particular class divided by the total and in this case it is B2 which is the count in that first class divided by the total. The total down here I got using the Excel sum function, sum B2 to B28. And then in this cell the dollar signs mean I lock that down using the F4 key or just manually inserting the dollar signs which means that as I copy down this formula you'll see that the relative cell changes appropriately but we've locked down the total so that as I copy this down I get the right relative frequencies and the relative just means what percent of the total are the counts in that particular class. The thing I saw a lot of students miss is this next column, the cumulative frequency. A lot of people gave me the cumulative relative frequency. You need to differentiate the two. Cumulative frequency refers just to frequency which is the counts. So this is the cumulative count starting with the number in the first cell and then adding on the numbers in the subsequent cells G2 plus B3 and then all the way down G3 plus B4 until you get to the total 365 which hopefully matches that. If they had asked for a cumulative relative frequency and I'll just show you that C, C, I'm going to call it CRF would be equal to the relative frequency in the first cell and the second cell would be that plus the relative frequency there and you copy those down and they should equal one. That's the cumulative relative frequency and a lot of folks gave me that answer instead of the cumulative frequency. So be careful of that. Look for that term cumulative frequency just means the sum of the counts. Cumulative relative frequency means the sum of the percentages. So I hope that helps.


Welcome folks, we are the Dow Industries trading up 68, Nasdaq is down 20, S&P is up 4, Gold contract up $3, trading at $17.99 an ounce, Silver up 15 cents, $22.54 an ounce, Light Sweet crew up 28 cents, $87.87 a barrel, notes and bonds. The 10 year note, down 3 ticks, trading $1.27.27, 30 year down 12 at $1.5508, King dollars down 157 ticks, 96, 384. Interesting thing about King dollar folks, you try to basically get some juice today, couldn't handle it, get back to almost flat, downtown again, bottom line, King dollar, false break top side yesterday, no day before yesterday, follow through yesterday, this thing wants to go to 89, so this is going to get really intriguing watching this whole thing shake out. Year is at 112, yen is at 114.72 and the British pound is trading out here at 135 to 1 US dollar, when we take a look at the spy and the way the spy is set up is this, bottom line, you're at 98, you're at 78 million shares, this is like a typical, this thing's going to blast off, might take on it, yeah, I mean, I don't think we're going to get to the highs, but we're going to see another months today like we did yesterday, this is like the resting day in between, bottom line, when it went to its lows it got exhausted, when we went top side Friday and Monday, bottom line, used a huge amount of energy, what you have out here today, you're building cars, that being said, you're still getting to higher price, that sets up the next big leg, and what does happen with these bars folks, most of the time they come in threes and we've only got two so far, so I expect that you're going to see another large surge into a higher price, we look at the NDX100, exact same setup, bottom line, you're up 12 cents right now, I suspect we're at 363 in the queues, 378 is game, gold, gold contract up here, we take a look at the gold contract, gold hit 1809 today, it rejected low at higher price up at that level, bottom line right now you're laying out at 1799, you've done 119,000 contracts which is not a lot of contract volume, so the bottom line is we need a lot more contract volume in order to sustain higher price, now that being said, what we had is that we had the dollar, as gold is higher, dollar start moving higher, bottom line they just gave it up in spades man, this dollar wants a lot lower price, dollar having a lot lower price, guess what, that is going to bring metals a lot higher, stay right there folks, come right back


Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another toyhacks.com sponsored video. But before I get started, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber of Patriot Prime Reviews, please consider hitting that subscribe button right now. That won't cost you a thing will help me and my channel out tremendously. Now, on to the decals. In the set we're looking at in this video is for Transformers Studio Series 86 Wreck Gar. And this decal set includes five decal sheets on a combination of foil and vinyl backing. So now without further ado, let's take a look at Wreck Gar both before and after toyhacks decals. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. In robot mode straight out of the packaging Wreck Gar looks great and very faithful to his appearance in Transformers the movie. Now Wreck Gar features lots of coloring, but there's not really a lot of paint applications. Most of his colors are just the color of the plastic. But man, he looks so good. I love all the sculpted details on this figure. He was actually one of my top five figures for 2021. Now take a closer look at the figure. He does have some great paint applications here on the head though with the faux windshield on top of the head. The red there in the center, the yellow pinstriping on the side. The eyes, I think those are molded plastic instead of paint. But man, they look good and love the mustache and little goatee. Moving on down the chest area all sculpted details that look really, really good. Got some paint applications right there above the bicep and down here on the forearms. More paint applications here on the wheels because I do believe these studs are all painted red. And yes, that proves it right there.  Moving on down to the legs, more great sculpted details on colored plastic. Until you get down here to the feet, I believe. Those are paint applications right there. I could be wrong, usually I can tell, but they pulled this off on Rekgar really good. And of course you got the tire here with the more painted studs. So there you go guys, Rekgar in robot mode before and after. Rekgar's robot mode gets a very G1 inspired look thanks to toy hacks. And the first decals you're probably noticing are the new chrome decals for the stomach area. And I love that. That is just like the Generation 1 figure with all that glorious chrome. Now taking a closer look at the head, he also gets new decal right there in the forehead. New ID cals, a 456 that I'll go over later in vehicle mode. Chrome decals there in the shoulders, yellow headlight decals right there below the chest, which is also reminiscent of G1 Rekgar. New red decals right there, moving on down to the waist. Red decals there, there and there. New decals here on the saddlebags. Moving down to the legs, we also get more G1 inspired decals on the upper thighs, down here on the knees and new red decals there on the toes. For the forearms, you get new decals right here that carry over this gray. This top section of gray is what the figure came with out of the box. Then you get this new decal right here that extends the gray all the way around and that's on both side of the arms. So there you go guys, there is Rekgar in robot mode after. In motorcycle mode, straight out of the packaging, Rekgar features a lot more detail than he did in robot mode. Taking a closer look at the vehicle. We've got great paint applications right here on the front with the little gold swooshes. We got a clear windshield right here that unfortunately shows Rekgar's head. We got red right in there for the headlight. The wheels, you can see a lot better in motorcycle mode I think with the red studs and the yellow rims. Got the details from the arms that carry over for the front of the bike. Right here, this is the cool stuff. We got flame decals on either side of the gas tank and silver details right down there for the engine. I love that, very reminiscent of G1. More molded details all along the back of the bike. We got the saddle bags right there with more great sculpted details. Back of the bike, we got the other wheel. So motorcycle mode looks really good but I cannot wait to see what Toyhacks does for it. So there you go guys, Rekgar in motorcycle mode before and after. Rekgar's motorcycle mode looks absolutely stunning now thanks to Toyhacks. And the first decal you're probably noticing is the new windshield decal. It's got this nice blue shade that looks very cartoony and that's what I usually like with my transformers as far as the windows is concerned. And what I really like about it, it hides the robot head. So I dig that, looks really cool. Plus on the inside, if I can get the camera to show, there are chrome decals. So a really cool look for the windshield. Also gets an easy rider bumper sticker right there which of course is a callback to the 1969 Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper motorcycle flick. Rekgar also gets new red rims and that's a throwback to the G1 figure that had red rims. New chrome flame decals that look amazing and that of course is also a throwback to the G1 Toy. New chrome decals right here on the sides. Silver decals right there in that circle. Chrome decals right there. Right here, I really like that. He's got saddlebag details and that looks awesome. He's got the leather straps and everything. Great decals right here for the seat. Back of the vehicle, we've got tail lights, a vanity license plate that says Rekgar. You actually have a couple of different options for vanity plates and an as seen on TV sticker right there. And let's see, we also have a 456 decal. And the only thing I can think of that 456 is maybe a shout out to the Squid Game. Maybe Rekgar was a fan. Now moving back here with this as seen on TV, here is an awesome easter egg that Toy Hacks put into Rekgar's decals. If you open up the saddlebag and inside you've got some as seen on TV products. Now I didn't put the decal in on this one. So I can give you guys a closer look but check this out. We've got a slap chop, flex tape, Dr. Squatch soap, a shake weight. And I'm not sure what this and this is. It looks like tin foil and I'm really not sure what the, oh wait, wait. That's Rick and Morty. What's that, the Florbus? Oh my gosh, I love these little easter eggs. I love Toy Hacks but still not sure what the tin foil is. So there you go guys, there is Rekgar in Motorcycle Mode after. Toy Hacks once again went above and beyond with their decal set for Studio Series 86 Rekgar. I absolutely love the Generation 1 throwbacks, especially the chrome abs and the as seen on TV easter eggs were hilarious. Now a couple decals I forgot to show off is here on the axe. He does get new decals for the tips of the blades and a new decal right there that covers up the chrome pin. And speaking of weapons, go to the Toy Hacks Armory and get yourself a Rekgar rifle to really make your Rekgar stand out. Now guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new videos. Also, if you're in any position to help out the channel, I do offer channel memberships here on YouTube and I got to give a huge shout out to all my current channel members. It's support like yours that helps keep this channel growing. Once again guys, this is Patriot Prime, signing out.