So I guess it's time to start. So welcome in the first ever quantum computing bedroom at Fosden. My name is Tomato Bay. And I'll try to introduce you to this world of quantum computing. And I'm also organizing this room, so I'm responsible for anything that goes wrong. So please, behave yourselves here. So yeah, you can maybe notice that that one dog changed from what was announced. That's just because my and Mark's dog kind of when we were looking out the slides, we figured that actually the titles matched, reversed, more than the way they were announced. OK, so introducing the team behind this room, it's mostly me, Mark, and Will. Me and Mark are co-founders of a quantum computing company called Protein here. And Will is a person who started so-called unitary-found organization which supports quantum computing by promoting it and issuing grants for people that are interested in putting in some independent quantum computing projects. So you can talk to Will when you are thinking about doing some no-project of your own. And you can also look up some information about the fund at Unitary Good Fund. OK, so I just told I would like to answer three questions. And those three questions are basically, what is quantum computing? Why should we invest in learning quantum computing and why should we do quantum computing with open source? And I'm going to answer them in a reversed way. So I'm going to start from the perspective of why quantum computing and open source makes sense. So the idea behind even having this room originally started back in the summer of 2018. I was in London, and I met one of the organizers at Fosden, and I was going to be a quantum computing talk at the local meet-up group there. And basically, the question came up, whether it would be a good time now to start a developer room on quantum computing? And back at that point, me and Mario were working on a review paper about quantum computing and open source, like all the different open source projects in the quantum computing space, evaluating them and comparing them and trying to identify what are the gaps and what are the strengths of these of these projects. And eventually, we figured out that this is a new technology which is going to potentially revolutionize many industries. And similar to AI, we kind of felt that there shouldn't be some kind of monopolization by just one other vendor and them owning the whole software stack, which would make it hard for other companies to develop their own hardware and capture some of the market. And also for that reason, we actually just thought that there would be a useful contribution from our side. If we could start a formal body that would try to govern the space and try to like steward people to publish their open source and make sure that companies govern themselves in a more like an opening governance models. And the whole thing is like a little bit more community-based this morning. So that's what the quantum open source foundation is about, and that's why the description of this room is posted up on our site. So if we check it out. Oh, shit, I never heard of that. OK, that's good. It's where I'm going. It's from the beginning, yeah. Can you stay between the two lines on your left here? OK. You are not on the video, otherwise. You should go. Here. No, between these two. Between these two? Yeah. Here's one line. Oh, between these two lines. Oh, OK. OK. I haven't been notified about that. OK, so that's good to know. All right. And do we have like a clicker or no? I can give you one. All right, yes. OK. Never mind. All right. So that's quantum open source foundation. So for those of you that are just joining us through the video streams and video recording, I was just describing the team behind the room. And that's mostly the team behind the open source, quantum open source foundation. Yep. What's right? Thank you. All right. So what awaits us here for the next two days is going to be two days packed full of talks. Today is Saturday. And basically, we're going to have the, I'm going to try it. You're ready for about 10, 10, 30 minutes. Huh? I have to turn it on? Deal. Beautiful. OK. It's working now. So today, quantum computing dev room, we're going to have talks by basically every major so-called full-stack quantum platform out there and some major open source projects. These are mostly often, yeah, often companies supported projects, but they open to contributions and they are released under open source licenses. So these are projects like Qiskit, Forest, Strawberry Fields, and the multitude of other libraries and projects. And I'm not going to dwell on them too long because there's going to be a dedicated talk to each of these. And tomorrow, at least for me, because the more exciting part is because we're going to have a portfolio of a total 11 open source projects that are less prominent because they are developed by, let's say, single main authors or contributors. And they're going to present their projects and we will try as a community to figure out ways how we can help. So we're going to hold a hackathon sprain in the afternoon where we will divide into different groups and each group will try to hack on that particular project, maybe just learn how it works, provide feedback in terms of your documentation works or not, what could be improved, stuff like that. And each group is going to be coached by the particular developer that is representing the project here. So if you want to make sure you have a spot and you don't wait in the line like people out there, sign up. There's only like 20 people signed up. And the capacity of Durham is like 90 people. So there is still some spots available. So why invest in learning quantum computing right now? Well, it's a good time because quantum chips are already here. This is, I think, the D-Waves chip. But Google, Rigeti, IBM, they all have their own quantum computing hardware and they are not the only ones. But a couple of them also provide access. So you are able to play with these devices even as an independent researcher or just random person out there who's interested. You can get access to these things and you can try them out, try what you can do with them. So it's no longer a thing which is a purely academic thing. It's a domain which is being explored also for commercial purposes which creates interest, creates jobs, creates opportunities. And there is like a fight going on. Every country wants to be labeled as being the progressive one and the one which invests in these technologies. So we can see that the China, European Union, USA, they're all passing these big bills saying that we're going to support quantum computing. And there's also a bunch of private funding going on and totaling $700 million into multiple companies. And the most funded ones or the ones raised the most money I've listed here. But there's a bunch of other ones including my company that isn't on the list. Yeah, and if you have ideas that you want to explore, there's also support for early entrepreneurs. Protonkier was founded as part of the CDL which is the most prominent incubator or slash accelerator thing in Canada basically. And probably the only specific to quantum computing or they call it quantum machine learning domain in the world. So applications today that are open now, I encourage you to Google out to see what's this about. It's a really good experience to go through this. All right, so in the interest of time, I still have I think 16 minutes. So we'll do a very quick overview over the paradigms of quantum computing. Each of these will be covered in depth today. So don't worry if you don't understand something, I'm gonna provide just like a very high level intuition behind these things. Okay, so the three patterns are gonna describe our quantum annealing, then discrete gate-based computation and the continued gate-based computation. All right, so in the quantum annealing, basically what you're doing, you are crafting energy landscapes that you want to explore. On the left, there is a particular example of what we're doing. It's an optimization problem for trying to find confirmations of a protein. This is so-called protein folding problem. And going through some hoops, you can express that as a so-called binary optimization problem. And what the quantum computer does is that it explores this landscape using some elements or properties of quantum mechanics, such as quantum annealing depicted on the right. And one of the biggest players in that space is D-Wave. There have been around for many, many years, I think making quantum chips since 2000, early 2003. I'm not sure they started developing hardware at that point, but the company is around for 15 years. I'll be corrected on that number probably, but it's the longest company that is around. And this is a little bit of math, but basically what it describes is just, oh, I have a pointer, cool. So what it describes is just like you have two variables, binary variables that are coupled by a constant. So you have quadratic terms and you have scalar terms and you are basically able to specify this polynomial and that polynomial describes the energy landscape and the device tries to find the assignment to these variables such that the energy of this term or this expression is minimal. And the way this is done is basically it happens on this chip and your goal is to embed your problem on the variables such that the connections between the variables are realized on the chip. So this is the problem of the so-called graph embedding and I'm not gonna elaborate on it, but it basically creates additional overhead in like putting the problem on the hardware. So we can imagine that this is very low-level approach. Like you can have problems here like missing qubits because they were disabled, they had some manufacturing problems or missing couplings and you have to account for these things when you are embedding. Okay, so just a quick code demonstration. How it looks like such that you have a, just a cursory glance. This is a very simple problem where you have four qubits here and they're all anti-correlated, which basically means that we have couplings of one here. And what both this system is supposed to be, but what the lowest energy state of the system is, is basically like automations of ones and minus ones. So these variables, they can be either one or minus one and to achieve basically the lowest expression value, you have to alternate them here. Anyway, this is how we do it. They have a pretty nice API. You just specify these couplings in a dictionary and then you embed it using this class and then you can directly sample using this interface. And you can use either classical samplers or you can sample out of the machine if you have access. It's basically transparent. So from a high level, this is what is going on. You have problem, you formulate it in terms of this quadratic binary optimization problem or Isling model is another name for it. Then you embed the problem, the problem's graph into the chip and then you sample out of it your solutions. And there's the wave leap, which is basically a platform which gives you access. I'm not sure it's available in Europe, but definitely it's available in the North America. And you can get one minute free of time to explore these things. Some more resources for people that are watching this on the video later. So the other paradigm is so-called universal gate-based quantum computing. And there you are designing these quantum circuits. An example of quantum circuit is on the right. So these are the gates. This is a gate, but this is also a gate. So this gate interacts with two qubits. That's why it stretches two lines. Each line is one qubit, I should probably explain that. And these boxes are basically measurements. So to read out the result of the computation you have to measure and collapse the quantum state. And that's depicted by this symbol. And the big players here are basically IBM, Google, Rigeti. The reason majority of these big companies are investigated this kind of platform is because this is actually where the majority of the theoretical results were proven at. Like all these Shor's algorithm, all these threats that we hear about quantum computing come from theoretical results on these kind of architectures. So this is the qubit. No reason to get too scared about it. I'm not gonna dwell too much. I just want you to see these equations first. These are two basic states and these are two complex numbers that. Together comprise the quantum state. And usually we depict the qubit as living on this sphere called the block sphere. All right, so here basically we don't have binary variables anymore, like during the computation, but the variables themselves are quantum variables. They are basically a combination of those two basic states. And you apply these operations and you read out at the end your result. So again, it's very, very low level. You're designing a circuit. It's almost like doing some board. You're not soldering it, but you are basically operating on a very low level. All right, so I'm gonna just rush through this. This is an example of how you apply two gates. This is the first gate, which basically does, to state zero does this and to state one does this. Yeah, not really important for the demonstration here, just for illustration. This is a different gate. So called controlled not gate. And if you combine these two gates together, you can create what we call maximally entangled state. So if you measure this, you can get one of the two outcomes. It's either zero, zero on both of these qubits or one, one on both of these qubits. And why is that? It's gonna be explained later today. I mostly wanted to share with this so that you have actual idea how it looks at the software layer. Basically you are writing Python code which generates this quantum assembler, you might think, or this is so-called quill code. So it's really low level instructions. Apply this gate at this qubit, apply this gate for those two qubits, then measure these two qubits and here's your result. And you have to be clever about what you're doing, such that you at the end measure something, which is gonna be useful for you.  Then that quantum circuit has to be compiled because the actual hardware platform doesn't support all the gates that you might think that you need. They actually super only subset of the gates, so-called fundamental subset. And that basically means that some of the gates here will be expanded into multiple gates in the series of different gates, which again like a little bit boosts or blows up your circuit of the computation. Which is basically the problem we're facing right now with the devices because each operation is noisy to a certain degree. So the more of these gates you apply, the less certain you can be about the result that you're gonna get at the very end. Okay, so some further resources about this for people that are interested, but mostly for people that are just gonna look at this over the internet or later just look at the slides. And very briefly about the continuous variable computing.  See this nice integral sign here as opposed to having two discrete states basis states here. And the big player in this field is Zandu and we're gonna have two talks from people from Zandu today. So they're gonna delve much deeper into this topic than I could. So yeah, I wanted to also give some further resources about this. They have nice API layer. I would almost say one of the best out there is like the API of the strawberry fields. And that's that. Thank you for your attention. And if you have any questions, please shoot me up for some time. Yeah, sure. You can assume nothing. But you said something that picked my interest. You mentioned that as you work with more gates, you have an increased uncertainty on the result. And that made me very curious. What do you mean by increasing uncertainty? Well, okay, so the question was, I mentioned during the talk that the more gates you apply, the less certain you can be about the result you're gonna get at the end. So when people are developing these quantum algorithms, they are operating in a fairytale world, basically, where everything works nicely and physics of the system don't interfere with the computation. Which is a big problem because reality isn't like that. In reality, we have noise. The operations we're trying to do aren't perfect. So these gates that I described are basically all, in some sense, rotations of the states on that block sphere. And you can imagine that the rotation itself can be imprecise. Now what happens if I do one imprecise rotation and then I end up a little bit somewhere else than I thought and I'm gonna apply another a little bit imprecise rotation. And after multiplying these imprecisions, they're gonna blow up and they're gonna basically make my state be somewhere completely elsewhere than I was planning it to be for it to perform the computation I wanted to perform. So there's remedies for this. There's so-called quantum error correction. And that's what the industry is aiming for, to find the good quantum error correction algorithms that will basically use multiple qubits, multiple hardware qubits as one logical qubit, but which is error-free, which basically is able to carry on the computation almost indefinitely long.  Sense of the word. So let me elaborate on that little bit. The big question right now is how do we use these devices even though they are not noiseless, even though that we don't have enough qubits such that we can realize this so-called quantum error correction. And that's basically the purpose of the research, or one of the main areas of the research right now, so-called noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing. Sorry? All your qubits get a different phase. The question, please. Yes, so the question was if all the qubits have like the same error in phase, I would say that's a question for an expert in quantum error correction, which I'm not. But definitely I didn't get the sense that this is one of the problems that they may be looking, no matter what. There's this little threshold theorem, so as long as your error rates per gate are below a certain threshold, you can correct them arbitrarily. There are different error models that people have tested. And they said, you know, when we build the devices, we're gonna see how much our theoretical studies of the error models match to the real error models on devices. And we have a more general form of that question, people, of what is the channel, the error channel, that's those matches the physics. Why are they symmetric, A, W, G? What was the trick talk there? With the current number of qubits, is there any problem that you can see of that you cannot do with classical computers or can you solve problems that cause less quantum computer than classical computers? So I want to drive this point home. Okay, so the question is whether with the current number of qubits, we can do anything on a quantum computer like faster or less expensive than we can do on a classical computer. And predominantly answer that question is no, we can't. And that's, we can't solve any useful problems on a quantum computer right now like faster or better than a classical computer can. Although that's something that we are basically trying to explore right now, like what is the point at which we will be able to? But yes, one of the concerns of mine, a long-term concern is that is the hype in the industry, which can completely destroy the whole space. We had things like AI winter basically when people hyped up artificial intelligence too much and then funding for artificial intelligence went down. And that's the thing that I'm afraid of in quantum computing as well. So yeah, not right now, but the question is maybe in a near term we'll be able to find some problems where quantum computing helps. And that's the concept of having quantum advantage, strong or weak. So to finish on a conclusive point, yeah, the answer to your question is no. Yeah, okay, so that's it, we're out of time. Thank you.


I feel like I should be wearing a suit for this. At least I combed my hair for once. And technically we're wearing a different type of suit and EMF radiation protection suit. But you guys have been buying a lot of the hackleback caviar that we have on Frankie Syringe Meat, which is honestly very, very like cheap and low price compared to these. It's $35 an ounce. But I figured, you know, let's taste the caviar. Let's see which one is the best if we want to really carry it on Frankie Syringe Meat because very minimum, these are gonna be like double to triple the price of that sturgeon caviar, ranging from like 120 to probably like 220, $250. Just for one ounce of caviar. And the thing about caviar is there's diminishing returns. If you're paying double or triple the price, it's not gonna taste twice or three times as good. Hey, it might taste 25 or 50% as good, but you have to keep that in mind. So when you have, you know, the $35 hackleback caviar, that's a pretty good idea of what the experience is going to be like. But these are, you know, there's a reason they're more expensive when you taste them. So let me show you guys what we have in front of us today. Seven different types. So we have these in order of least to most expensive, you know, one through seven, the most expensive being the seventh one, the least being the first one. And about half of these are Italian and the rest of them are Asia. Now caviar is technically supposed to be from wild sturgeon, either the Caspian Sea or the Black Sea, which are by like Turkey and Russia. But these Italian farmed caviar are from sturgeon, just not from the correct designation, which is why they are substantially more affordable. So the first one is a farmed white sturgeon, Italy. This would probably be about 90 to $100. This is a farmed Siberian sturgeon from Italy. This would be maybe 110 to $120. This is a farmed Osetra sturgeon from Italy. This would be $120 to $130. So basically different species of sturgeon from Italy. The third is a hybrid Asian caviar. The fourth one is a farmed Sevruga caviar, again from Italy. And the last two, the most expensive are Asian caviar. So I'm assuming these are either from the Caspian Sea or the Black Sea. We have one that's an Imperial Osetra caviar, and then we have a Imperial hybrid caviar. So four of these are farmed, the Italian ones, and then the Asian ones are supposedly wild. Did I forget to say the price on the last three? Well, the most expensive one is $220 to $230. The second most expensive one, and the third most expensive one are the same, around $170. So I guess, let's get started. Normally you would have caviar with accoutrements, like scallion, creme fraiche, egg whites, egg yolks, chives, a couple of things to break up the flavor, and they serve it on bellinis, which are like buckwheat pancakes. I just have some homemade sourdough bread here. We may or may not have that. And we have our pearl spoon. You wanna either use like a plastic or just something that's not metal so it doesn't impact the taste of the caviar. So we'll start with the Italian sturgeons. And with all this farmed Italian caviar, I feel like I should marry some like really beautiful young caviar girl, you know? That sounds like, you know, not out of the realm of possibilities. Maybe if I could actually speak Italian, it was half of a taller. So farmed Italian sturgeon, the lowest price one, very briny, a little salty, slightly buttery, nothing crazy to me. So the second one, which is still a farmed Italian sturgeon, very similar price point, but not as briny, a little more buttery. I like the flavor more. And those are black caviar's now. This third one we're trying, which is still a farmed Italian one, has a more greenish color to it. That's because of the species of the sturgeon. Way, way, way different flavor. And that's the, that's the Ossetra caviar, which is usually the more expensive breed of sturgeon. That one tastes a lot better. It has like more oceanic flavors in addition to the butter. It's definitely more complex. Now this fourth one we're trying is the first Asian caviar. It's a hybrid caviar, the lightest colored one. Way different, way different flavor profile. Almost tastes bready. Almost tastes like a little bread with that buttery flavor. No, no, no ocean flavor almost. I'm not sure where this is from. Might actually be a fresh water sturgeon. I like that one the most so far. And that would be around $140. So not too crazy for a special occasion. So now we're gonna have the farmed Italian caviar, the most expensive Italian caviar, and appearance-wise, it's actually one of the smaller eggs, which isn't as desirable and it's still really expensive. By far the most buttery one so far. Very rich, pretty balanced too. So I like this one just as much as the fourth one, the Asian caviar. They're both very good, but pretty different flavor profiles. This, much less of that oceanic flavor, almost tastes like bread and yeast. This one does have the ocean flavor, although it is a little more buttery. So now we have the Imperial Ocetra Asian caviar, which is actually the same price as the most expensive Italian caviar. Not as rich, not as buttery. Kind of plain to be honest. I don't think this one's as good. I mean, this one is still like better than the lower priced ones. Because these lower priced caviar, they have that like ocean brine and salinity, which a little bit of that's okay, but yeah. If we're comparing these two at a similar price point, the Asian caviar and the Farmed Italian caviar, this one, the Farmed Italian caviar, there's so much buttery flavor in that. That's by far the most pungent one. And then the Hybrid Asian caviar, I really like for that bready, yeasty flavor. So I guess this is it, the most expensive one, the Imperial Hybrid caviar. You know, it's like a combination of everything. There's a slight ocean flavor, there's a slight richness to it, but I think if we're gonna carry any of these caviar, so based off this tasting, and I'll go around again and try them again, I think we're gonna do the Asian Hybrid caviar, which is gonna be around $104, and the Farmed Ocetra caviar from Italy. I think these two have very interesting contrasting flavor points, and they're the best overall. The most expensive caviar, it has a very nice egg size, a nice presentation, but nothing really sticks out to me. So I'm gonna try this, I'm gonna try each of these on some bread, and we're gonna see if that makes a difference. One half of breakfast, huh? Plenty of Omega-3, huh? Hey, if the Russian, Ukrainian girls didn't want to come stay with me as a refugee, I bet they're changing their mind now, huh? Yeah, honestly, these first three, I feel like why not spend $20, $30 more and get something really special. This Asian Hybrid caviar, it literally tastes like bread. It's really interesting. So if you're someone who doesn't like fish at all, I would have no hesitation trying that. Yeah, this Italian Farmed caviar, the more expensive one, Sevruca caviar, probably the most pungent flavor overall. Lot of brine, lot of cholesterol, lot of richness, but it is balanced, it is balanced. You know this, the most expensive one is definitely not it. So we can put this one aside. These two lower priced ones, I'm not that much of a fan of. So, our process of elimination, that's very briny, too much like seaweed flavor. So again, we have a Farm Sevruca caviar from Italy, and we have an Imperial Ocetra caviar from Asia. And then the one I definitely like is the Asian Hybrid caviar. I feel like this one's really balanced. It's very balanced, the egg size is nice. Honestly, as much as I like the richness and cholesterol in this Italian caviar, the Farm Sevruca, which is one of the more expensive ones, because of the egg size and how briny it is, this isn't something that I would wanna pay so much money for, you know? I feel like it's not refined enough. So I think we'll go with these two. The two winners are the Imperial Ocetra caviar from Asia and the Asian Hybrid caviar. If we end up doing the seminar in May, we're definitely having caviar.  This is how I'm supposed to wake up every morning. I'm laying in bed and some beautiful Russian girl, taller than me, presents me with like eight ounces of caviar and some fresh homemade bread, 100%. Well, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining.  But yeah, my schedule's been a bit off this week. I haven't been sleeping that well, work-related stuff. So just wanted to do something a little different today. I honestly didn't plan on filming this because I eat caviar, to me it's not a really good look or humble thing to do, but I figured some of you guys would find it interesting and we should be carrying the two I like the most on Frankie's Syringe Meat in two or three weeks. So if you guys don't want this, definitely send me an email because when something's so expensive, you want it to be as fresh as possible, we don't really want to put it in the freezer and we also want to send it out as soon as possible. But you guys can go to frank-define.com where you'll see Frankie's Syringe Meat and all my other businesses. But as always guys, please drop a like on the video, leave a comment down below, subscribe and be sure to check that notification bell. Thanks again guys, I'll see you soon and my brain's gonna be twice as big from all this caviar. Maybe I'll remember something from once.


Hello everyone, thank you for taking the time to watch this video. I'd like to talk to you today about this upcoming City of Fort Worth Street Reconstruction project. My name is Greg Robbins and I am a project manager with the Transportation and Public Works Department's Capital Delivery Team, and I'll be the construction project manager for the upcoming Kimbo Road Phase 2 Street Reconstruction project. This presentation was originally meant to be given at an in-person community meeting with all affected residents and other citizens who utilize these streets. However, due to the City's proactive response to the current coronavirus outbreak, that meeting has been cancelled and this presentation has been recorded in lieu of the actual meeting. This presentation is meant to provide you with some information about the scope of this project that is happening in your area and give you a little bit of a heads up about what to expect with the upcoming construction. Here is the agenda of what I hope to cover in my brief presentation. I'll be talking about the project as a whole, reviewing the scope of work and providing you with information on the phasing and schedule of the construction. This project consists of three streets located in the Bonnebray neighborhood. These include Kimbo Road from Mesquite to the northeast cul-de-sac, Macomas Road from Kimbo Road to North Beach Street, and Altaview Street from Kimbo Road to Premier Street. As this slide indicates, we will be performing a full replacement of not only the pavement and underlying sub-grade, but most of the underground utilities as well. The contractor will be replacing the existing water and sewer pipes before placing the new concrete or asphalt pavement. The water and sewer service connections to residents will also be replaced. In addition, we will also be constructing new sidewalks and ADA wheelchair ramps on each street. The streets that are part of this project were chosen for reconstruction due to their current condition of their pavement and the need to replace the underground utilities. In this slide, you can see a picture of the current state of Kimbo Road on the left showing the existing asphalt pavement in poor condition. On the right is an example of a new asphalt street including new sidewalk and driveways. The final product for Kimbo Road won't look exactly like this, but you can expect something similar with the final product. In this slide, you can see the proposed improvements to the water distribution system under Kimbo Road in Macomas Road. A new 12-inch pipe will run the entire length of Kimbo Road, and a new 8-inch pipe will be installed in Macomas Road. New water services and meters will also be installed for all properties. A new 8-inch sewer pipe will be installed in both Kimbo Road and Macomas Road, increasing capacity from the existing 6-inch sewer pipe. New sewer services will also be installed to all properties. Each road will be fully excavated to remove the existing asphalt or concrete pavement, concrete curbs and gutters, and existing sub-grade to a depth of almost 18 inches below the current road surface. The road will then be rebuilt with reinforced concrete pavement on Altaview Street and asphalt pavement on Kimbo and Macomas, as well as new concrete curbs on top of stabilized sub-grade for each street. New sidewalks and ADA wheelchair ramps are also being constructed on both sides of all streets. This slide shows our expected phasing and schedule for the construction, weather-dependent. Construction is expected to begin in June this year and be completed in March of 2021. The contractor will begin work on all streets simultaneously in order to maximize the efficiency of his crews. Because there are no underground utilities on Altaview Street, the contractor will focus the efforts of their utility crews on Kimbo and Macomas Road, installing the new water and sewer pipes. This phase is expected to last until fall of this year. At the same time, the contractor will utilize his other crews to begin the demolition of Altaview Street in preparation for paving. Preparation work for paving will last until the fall of this year with paving beginning in early winter. When utility installation is complete on Kimbo and Macomas Road, the contractor will begin constructing the new concrete curbs and reconstructing existing concrete driveways in preparation for the new asphalt street. This phase is expected to be complete at the end of 2020 or early 2021. Finally, the contractor will begin constructing the new asphalt street on Kimbo and Macomas Road in February or March of 2021. At that point, the contractor will perform the final cleanup in preparation of closing out the project. A traffic control firm will provide the contractor with a specialized traffic control plan for use during the upcoming construction. This plan will provide for the safe and efficient routing of traffic in order to limit the impact on those who use the streets regularly. The contractor will provide adequate signage to indicate when lanes will be closed and where detours and alternative routes will be required. I would like to finish this presentation by presenting some frequently asked questions regarding this construction project and providing answers. Will I still have access to my driveway during construction?  You will be given notice by the contractor in the city when these construction activities can be expected. Will I lose water to my property? While the water pipe is being replaced along Kimbo and Macomas Road, you will be placed on a temporary water service. There will be a short disruption in service while the water line is switched over to the temporary service and again when you are placed back on normal water supply. Once again, you will be notified prior to the switch so that you can plan for it. How will my water bill be calculated while on temporary service? You will pay the average monthly amount based on the previous year. Will any of the roads be closed during construction? No, the road will never be completely closed to through traffic during this project. While access may be limited to certain areas of the street during working hours, residents will have access to their homes most times.  You will be notified by the contractor in advance regarding any disruptions to your access. How long will the project take? The total contract time is 275 calendar days. How wide will my new driveway be? We will be matching existing driveway widths unless they are currently less than 11 feet wide. This concludes my presentation. Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and watch. It is unfortunate that I was not able to meet all of you in person due to public health concerns and discuss any comments or questions that you may have, but I would still like to hear from you. My phone number and email address are provided here. Please feel free to contact me if you so choose. Finally, the contact information for the city's construction inspector is listed here. He will be your first point of contact for all questions and concerns you may have during construction. Thank you once again. I appreciate your patience with us as we move through the construction process and I look forward to hearing from you.


From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny dollars Well, it's about time Paul I began to think you've had yourself another boy Which one oh, I got it when there's a chance of somebody getting hurt you don't want your own man to take any chances 1836 homicide down in New York How much Well, it's been a long time since I've seen Randy saying maybe I ought to run down there and say hello The exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Act one of yours truly Johnny dollars Friends account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollars for the continental insurance and trust company home office Hartford, Connecticut Following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the wayward killer matter Account out of one six twenty seven fair to New York and taxi from Grand Central Station to 18 free things head for others me 40 My old pal Sergeant Randy Singer, uh, Lieutenant Randy Singer for the long face Uh-oh now, I know my luck has run out. Hi, Randy. Oh, what are you beefing about this time? Might as well sit down. I guess I say sure These insurance companies are usually with the loan might as handle things our own way What do you mean? Well a minute one of their clients gets into a jam and send somebody like you down to petters Johnny there isn't a thing you can do about this man. Welcome the company says something about his life being in danger Yeah, yeah, that's what he said. Well, is it true? Yeah, I got it. Why should his life being in danger? I don't think it's good. Okay. Okay Why does he think his life being in danger? Because he was a witness who was shooting a murder. Oh, where? What? Remember reading about the book who was still last week over in an alley on the first avenue? Well, you know anything about bookies? All right. Now did you read about it or did you? Yeah, I read about it. Don't tell me the whole week is going by and you haven't found a killer We haven't found them. Even with a witness for the crime is John Welkin Oh, Randy you're slipping Except for the description Mr. Welkin gave us we having a single solitary thing to go on. No fingerprints. No No, no clues of any kind. A weapon? 38 special make unknown the same one apparently that would use this plug Mr. Welkin. Just what happened already? Yeah, it was Tuesday night. It was last week that he got placed at about 2 a.m. Welkin was taking his dog for a walk for going to bed And he passed this particular alley and saw these two men struggling. He heard a shot, started his dog Put that out of yelp, galloped around in circles, tied up his legs in a leash, and down he went. The dog are Welkin Welkin, and don't be funny. Oh, Jacob, look where the killer came running out of the alley and stumbled over Welkin Welkin got a good look at him in the street light The dog pulled a hunk out of a killer's pants, killer smacked Welkin on the head and took off The dog kept yowling until a patrolman came around and found him there and found a bookie in the alley. Dead panties All I want to know is what you think you can do about it No clues, huh? Except Welkin's description. You give him a look at the muckbook? Yeah, and he came up with nothing. You find a gun? No, but let's accept it with a 38 to do the job Tried looking in the storm drains around there, and I get it Look, why does Welkin feel he's in danger? Because some full reporter wrote it up in Sunday's paper that Welkin not only saw the killer He's been trying to keep that quiet But said he could positively identify him, and when Welkin tied that up with the fact that the victim was a bookie Yeah, I see. That means the possibility of a connection with a syndicate Or if he didn't play ball with a syndicate, they decided to knock him off Well, now Johnny, we don't like to admit that there might be a syndicate in operation Oh, I'm not sure Yeah, the towns are absolutely clean Well, now I get to say All your hands and legs in uniform have to do as much in the St. Patrick's Day parade Be an hand to welcome important foreign dignitary Yeah, as far as sniffed apples off the truth stands over on Sands Avenue Johnny Exactly means that I think Welkin's right Book making is a racket.  Well, he's that's the one and I'm arranged for What does he look? No, Brian's just a third That's Tim Conroy and a man I'm gonna send over there just to port it in Then tell Conroy I'm going over there with him But Johnny, what for? What can you possibly do that we haven't done? Well, look, Randy, I'm getting such a nice big fat fee on this I have to at least look like I'm earning it Yeah, I'm not sure Oh, is that the goal of this? Oh, Conroy, come in, come in Who knows, Randy? Maybe I'll even solve a murder Conroy, get this wise guy out of here Well, here's the dollar, nice to see you again Hi, Conroy Yeah, you're doing old pal Johnny, darling I'll take him with you, take him anywhere, but get him out of here Yes, sir You'll be sorry you're being nasty to me, Randy No need to help me It was pretty obvious Randy hadn't gotten anywhere on the case I believe it or not, but he was glad I'd come along But my job was solely to protect Mr. Welkin So, in Conroy's fall, Conroy, we drove over to the little apartment building on each 53rd Go over to find a crowd knowing about in front of the place A crowd that included a couple of New York's clients Something's happened here Yeah, and I started to think what it might be Wilson, McCartney, what's happening around here?  Well, don't you see him laying there? What? What's wrong? What is he up to? Man named Welkin, John R. Welkin Hey, Johnny, dollar in a moment Here is a message from the National Heart Institute of the Public Health Service It looks like an electronic control board panel Banged with meters and switches It is knee-high and six feet in length Surmounted by what appears to be a cylindrical coil Its price is comparable to the cost of a new through-bedroom home But in human-wise, saved and repaired, its value is limitless This is the heart-lung machine Its development has opened new latitudes in heart surgery In closed-heart surgery, with a finger or an instrument inside the beating heart The surgeon must go by feel alone This closed method has been in use for many years And for some conditions it is still the method of choice However, a great many heart conditions cannot be corrected by closed-heart surgery Only with the development of the heart-lung machine Has correction of many of these conditions become possible Today, the surgeon can open up the heart Empty it entirely of blood And under direct vision make unhurried repairs of valves or other defects inside the heart Exactly what does the heart-lung machine do Its purpose is to function temporarily as a heart pump And to oxygenate the blood and rid it of gaseous waste In surgery, after the heart has been exposed Plastic tubes from the heart-lung machine are inserted into the two great veins That normally carry blood to the heart from the upper and lower parts of the body Once the hook-up is complete, blood-descent for the lungs is then cycled into the machine For it is refreshed and returned to the system To another tube inserted into the femoral artery in the groin No real heart was written and produced by the National Heart Institute One of the National Institutes of Health of the Public Health Service United States Department of Health Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C.  We got one on the way, Mr. Dollar How did that happen, Patrick, you know? Well, some kids were playing out here on the sidewalk a couple of mothers with him They heard a lot of noise up in Mr. Wilson's apartment Up there on the second floor What kind of? You see up there where the windows go down in the frame Yeah, I see, what kind of noise?  Anything else? No, sir, not even the dog For sure Then all of a sudden he comes smashing us through the window and lands here on the sidewalk Have you men been inside there yet?  He said Mr. Wilton's place is an unholy mess like a big fight Any sign of his feeling? No, sir, but the door of his apartment was flung open So was the back door leading to a cord in the alley Yes, sir, that's what Wilson told me That's the fire door that can be opened only from the inside So it looks like whoever did this to Wilton made his getaway through the alley No doubt about it Well, all I have to say is I hope this man lives We'll still find out, sir Here comes Dr. Trader Dr. Trader made a quick inspection And had a fake Wilton up to the department on the second floor Of course, he wasn't hurt badly, no problem He's a mediocre kid, may you talk down, you put it in the right place Quite frankly, Mr. Dollar, I think that it's shocked more than anything else After all, thrown out of a window Even if he did suffer only a few bruises and confusions Yeah, Dr. Trader, see what you mean Down by it Down by it How long before I'll be able to talk to him? Well, the federation I've given him should keep him asleep until the old day, mid-afternoon After that, you and your chief can question all you want My chief? Aren't you working under Lieutenant Stinger? Yeah, maybe I am Randy Singer himself came over and took charge While John Wilton slept, he and his men closed off the alley And went over it with a fine-tooth comb Meanwhile, since Wilton had all the police protection he could possibly need And then some, I went out and gave the fine-to-lunch He left Adam 2, 175 Then I took a cab, Adam 3, a dollar, even to the alley Off First Avenue, Wilton had witnessed a murder the week before Just why I don't know But I'm sure glad I did Yeah, because of a crew working on the street lights Who came up with some rather interesting information I'll tell you what I mean later And any event had led to Adam 4 at the time for a phone call You know, a fellow in my business has to have some rather strange contact My call was to one of them Who a man Lieutenant Randy Singer would have known by name, I believe Would probably have liked to get his hands on Or one of the points Would like to have had some concrete evidence against For, uh, not the number thing My contact's name is Smokey Joe Sullivan Ex-convictor, ex-footlegger, burglary suspect, numbers racket A man who's been picked up on more petty charges than you can possibly think of Yeah, in a city with an underworld of size in New York A man like Smokey's good to know On a case Smokey? This is Johnny Dollard How would you like to pick up a fast hundred bucks? That's right I'll be standing in the lobby of the hotel election And come out over and treat yourself Well, Smokey, you know me better than that Yeah I'll see you in the lobby of the election Then five a dollar ten for taxi over to the election Where I waited An hour and two hours No time to smoke you Then suddenly I realized why There must have been somebody important there in the hotel Who outside of the curb is a police car with a man in the uniform with a wheel No wonder Smokey hasn't shown up I found it out the third avenue, started around the block Sure enough, at the first newsstand A figure that has been hiding behind a newspaper, someone's separately What took you so long to spot that copper sitting out front, Johnny? Now look, Smokey, I asked you if you'd like to pick up a fast phenom Get down, Johnny I need some information What kind of information, Johnny? You've been taking any threats from the voices like me That I have to make honest bucks now and then Have you been working through the syndicate? Not Johnny, you know you don't ask questions like that But if the information I want is in the books of the syndicate You don't want me to play silly You know me better than that Okay Ask me questions Yeah There's twenty twenty fifteen You said a phenom to get the rest when you get the dope call me If there's any to get Okay, go ahead Ask me, all right I want to know how much I want to get anything And I may be playing the wrong If I find out anything, sir You call me on a phone again Maybe three thirty, four o'clock Sir, and Smokey Yeah If there is such information in there and you get it Maybe I'll double that Maybe I'll double that Okay, Johnny So is truly Johnny Dollar in a moment Times have changed And so has the man Fabius Rowe in the year eighteen hundred and sixty one Organized what has been considered the first airborne reconnaissance unit Of the United States Army His craft Are balloons Which was in constant use during the battle of Richmond Making observations every fifteen minutes But because of the balloons limited maneuverability And extreme vulnerability Military thinking and interest soon switched to the Heavier than aircraft experiments being conducted by the Wright brothers At Kitty Hawk, North Carolina Finally, in nineteen hundred and nine The army accepted the Wright brothers Forty-two and one half mile per hour aircraft Contrast this with the faster than sound aircraft The supersonic speed of our modern planes Contrast the skill, the technological know-how of the modern airman With that of the pioneers You'll agree I'm sure that Times have changed And so has the man And now act free of your truly Johnny Dollar And the wayward killer matter Prince of Cal, item six ninety-five cents for a cab Back to John R. Welton's apartment on each fifty-third Randy Singer's voice has found no clue to the identity of Welton's attack Welton's self is beginning to stir We'll be able to talk to him any minute now, Johnny Okay, good No, no, now get down, get down, boy Go lay on your pillow No, incidentally we found the gun that was using the Murder he witnessed last week Oh, where? Like you said, in the storm drain near that alley on First Avenue Yeah, but no, Prince No, Prince Randy, I didn't think there would be What time is it? Three fifty-one, why? I'm gonna make a phone call Oh, the phone's right over there Hey, Welton's coming to you Oh, what do you do? What goes on here? Oh, it's all right, Mr. Welton, you're gonna be okay Oh, please That's right Yeah, got it Thank you I beg you Yeah, I'm afraid we got here a little too late But you're gonna be okay, the doc says so That man, the man who attacked me The same one you talked about the murder? Yes No Smokey, this is Johnny Dolley Johnny, dollar Yeah? What? Twenty-three thousand four hundred and... Twenty-three Yeah, I got it, good boy What? What did you say about it? Well, meet you at the likes of today, six p.m. Okay, okay, the newsstand Mr. Dolley, what did you say about, about you? Yeah, Johnny, what goes? Funny, how would you like to make an arrest? Arrest? That's right, Randy The man who killed that bookie When you... You know who he is? Yeah, well, my sure do And, Randy, I'm ashamed of you All right, good boy Now listen, Johnny... This pup really deserves a credit Good boy Now, don't come Johnny, what under the sun are you talking about?  He did But he made no move to hurt the dog Well... Now, believe me, that doesn't make sense He would have put a bullet in him even before he struck you No, Mr. Dolley How about this so-called fight here in your apartment a couple of hours ago? He was the same man Yeah And did the dog attempt to fight him off? No Because there was nobody for him to fight You think he wouldn't have been heard down in the street if somebody really plummeted you? Well, he...  Over on First Avenue, I checked with a crew from the electric company They finally got around to fixing that street light Huh? Yeah That light's been up for nearly three weeks So how could Welton have seen another man in that alley well enough to make a positive identification?  Breaks my heart, Johnny, but... Thanks Okay, Welton, up on your feet $7.65 even for a night in the town Uh, Randy needed some relaxation I had to make 200 bucks to smokey Joe Sullivan Expense account total including a trip back to Hartford $315.17 And, uh, don't forget that two grand, you're promising After all, Welton's still alive For a while at least You're truly... Johnny Dollar Bob Bailey, originally from Hollywood And is produced and directed by Jack Jumstone Who also wrote today's stories Ferdinand Casper, Edgar Berrier Her Vigrant, James McCallion Paul Dubov, Lawrence Dobkin John Daener, Bill James, and Vic Perron Be sure to join us next week, same time and station For another exciting story of your truly Johnny Dollar Five facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio And television service