because I'm such a nice guy there we go now okay welcome everybody to the second of November hyper ledger supply chain and trade finance extravaganza here after lots of work we're going to spend time here today talking about an ebook that many people as part of this SIG have been working on through uh actually probably most of this year here so uh hold that thought we're glad that you're here whether you're uh live or whether you're watching us on YouTube later on first off we'll do our normal stuff here hyper ledger all are welcome looking for lots of thoughts ideas um bring them all out uh to the rest of the the rest of the group here also please don't say anything confidential uh here I believe in the ebook we've gotten rid of any confidential stuff because this is the group that is an open source an open community here so with that let me scroll down a little bit here um upcoming events on the 16th of November uh tentatively we're going to have Gia Lorenzo Miglio PhD student who's been working on a report for the european commission on implementation of blockchain solution so he's going to spend a little bit of time with us on um November 16th and tentatively on November 30th we have dr mario rykel um from ppi payment solutions leader and uh he's going to talk about iso 2020 22 uh well however you say that um in cross part of payments and harmonization and most specifically he's head of an implementation group uh for non finance so right up our alley here on November 30th and then summer fourth hyper ledger member summit in tokyo should you be in the neighborhood there so with that let's get rolling here i've concluded a link here and if you're uh see the chat you can go and um bring up this link and then you can actually see the ebook as we are as it's currently constituent can put together we'll use that word rather than constituent it here um and our intent here is to walk through this ebook through the day so let me switch pages and go here oops let's bring this all the way back to the beginning and see where i was okay so um here how this came about way back when probably february something like that daniella barbosa had a biker ledger she sent me an email and said hey would you guys be interested in uh creating an ebook and so the next question was what's an ebook and we got into the little discussion and and the bottom line is trying to create a deliverable a marketing piece a highlight white paper actually white paper is probably the best description that describes a little bit of hyper ledger as well as describes a number of the use cases uh that have been successful within supply chain and trade finance and i think that's one reason why this one came out in 2023 because we've had some success stories associated with it so the purpose is really when we decided early on that the purpose is going to be more got geared towards a business audience and the solutions appropriate with that we are not going to spend as much time on the technical solution certainly over time maybe that's a place that we go for right now it's associated with business and what the values associated with that um this is a document that we've been working on we intend to have have it live and make updates to it later on so that if you're watching this and you don't see your solution in here you are more than welcome to contact us and possibly you can come into our future versions of this so with that let's go here and let's just look at the table of contents and we have a number of people that will speak here and share some of their insights as they they've done a lot of work as we've gone along here uh first off when we're in introduction first off a little bit of time here on what is hyper ledger and then we'll talk a little bit about what's happening in blockchain and in supply chain and trade finance and then we'll talk about our SIG specifically and then the meat of this is all the use cases uh there's been a lot of work going through trying to decide which use cases we provide uh within within this white paper within this e-book here and as you as you look at these use cases uh the ones a through g here they have very definitive numeric benefit that we were able to uh bring out and publicly say that uh numeric benefit and that was one of the major criteria for us including uh these use cases within our e-book here and then following the use cases here a little bit more about hyper ledger and we'll talk we'll talk about the future with this so with that Tomas would you like to talk a little bit about hyper ledger here you can get to be Daniella today yeah fantastic yeah thanks a lot Tom so I will just quickly cover our first uh two pages of the e-book um and thank you Tom Alicia, Jeff, Ned for all the hard work on the book um so let me just for those of you not familiar with hyper ledger let me just say that the hyper ledger foundation is an open global source ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies we're a part of the linux foundation and thus we are providing a neutral home for developers to collaborate contribute and maintain this open source software the hyper ledger foundation hosts a number of open source projects and we'll come back to that at the end of this book to a little bit more detail as much of the time we have right because the ecosystem is really really big and all of our projects are developed and governed as an open source technologies which means that all the hyper ledger projects are actually community led now one thing I would like to emphasize in regards to open source for those of you watching now or later that are not familiar with it is that open source software is a trans open source software development is a transparent process which is particularly well suited for blockchain technologies simply because of their distributed nature it brings together organizations and individuals uh with different requirements and basically enable them to work together um now to some of the goals of the hyper ledger foundation is to provide a neutral open and community driven infrastructure supported by technical and business governance it's also to foster the development and adoption of cross industry platforms which are powered by distributed ledger technology and finally to educate the public about the market opportunity for enterprise great blockchain technology so um you there is a couple of links here in the book and you are welcome to check out our website or also contact us directly if you'd like to learn more and we will return to our ecosystem at the end of the book after the use cases but for now Jeff please over to you so um oh okay by the way I'll mention this here we Jeff is uh Jeff Privitch is one of the co-chairs for the special interest group as well as Alicia who will be following right after Jeff here so thank you for your work throughout the year here together uh to bring this together so Jeff go ahead yeah just recap on what you're seeing on the page here so you know why use blockchain for supply trade and trade finance and what what aspects and characteristics of blockchain enable supply chains to be more effective and and again I'm always what I say supply chain is going to be supply chain and trade finance and so uh some of the very big issues around it is traceability um and immutability of the data that's in there and that becomes very important for transparency it comes important for compliance because of the data is that's being put into these supply chain blockchain is immutable um also uses smart contracts make that actions on on data that comes in especially around compliance uh more effective in dealing with issues quickly so blockchain is perfect for that traceability immutability because often if you get into situations as a vendor using rely on a supply chain the ability to to have immutable data that suggests maybe something went wrong with the product something went wrong with the the shipment of the product um maybe it was broken and so that immutability of that data coming in and again that results in traceability allows more efficient uh interaction between producers and retailers so those characteristics around blockchain over other systems is very important and again we're going to be giving some examples in here about how blockchain is very efficient and GSE for first paragraph reducing disputes that's a very big one fraud and payment cycles and so um and there's an example of how with um shipments more it can take me more efficient so um good overview here on this page of how blockchain has advantages over traditional IT systems good thanks Jeff Alisha you want to go some go to the next page here sure thank you okay so our next page is about us about our SIG the supply chain and trade finance SIG which was really created last year early last year by merging two different SIGS by merging the supply chain SIG and the trade finance SIG so our membership is global we have people with supply chain backgrounds logistics backgrounds trade finance backgrounds all professionals who are looking to learn more and really move the state of supply chain industry forward by using enterprise-grade black blockchain solutions by developing them by learning what other companies are doing by learning what the capabilities are sharing best practices sharing what's been learned through their work we have we regularly have meetings every other week that incorporate presentations by people from across the industry we have people who attend live from around the world and then we also have people who watch the recordings afterwards we share them on youtube we post those links onto our wiki so that people can learn from not just our live events but also our library our our ever-growing library of um past resources in addition to that in last year we've created a weekly news digest this was something that Andrea for Sonini really drove that initiative so every week now there is a there is a digest of current news what's going on in supply chain what's going on in trade finance especially related to blockchain and we also find other ways that our members can learn about different topics we're interested in and you'll see at the bottom of this page we've got flyers from a couple of different presentations we've had picture of Eric Valacate one of our former chairs speaking live at an event in toronto last year then over on the right that's a hyperlink to the youtube channel part of hyperledger's youtube channel this is the playlist specifically of webinars from rc so if you're watching this right now when you're interested in learning more all of these resources are great ways for you to learn more about specific hyperledger uses and also learning more about the sick and how you can take part so please do click through on the visitor wiki click through onto our linkedin page and follow and come join us for a meeting we'd love to have you on from that would love to have you yeah tom do you want to start talking about the use cases so let's roll here let's talk about this so how do we decide on these use cases I mentioned a little bit earlier certainly we're looking for supply chain and trade finance use cases so that was kind of the first category or the first gate to get through second is that these use cases these implementations needed to use some flavor of hyperledger one of the hyperledger projects within their solution it turns out that many of them are fabric related probably not too much of a surprise associated with that but at least the criteria was you got to be using one of the hyperledger projects and tomas will talk a little bit about the different projects a little bit later on next as I mentioned is a production the use case so the solution needs to be in some form of production and then next is that there needs to be some sort of publicly available numeric benefit and that could take many forms I mean yeah it could be in the terms of currency I'm saving these amount of dollars this amount again this amount of oh god why am I drawing a blank here anyways whatever currency it is here I mean it could be in that flavor as a cost savings or revenue enhancement that's always fairly challenging to do so we took it to the next level and said hey if you can put some sort of numeric benefit you made something happen happen more quickly right or you were able to use cost and just say a number you don't have to say the actual amount you just have to say a percentage amount that goes along with that but those are sufficient to show that there is benefit associated with this beyond the fact of oh blockchain is good and we like to we like to do those kind of things and we'll talk a little bit because in the additional projects there's a section of ones that we'll talk about more specifically and there's additional projects additional projects generally they were ones that did not have numeric benefit in some way shape or form in a public forum right or they weren't totally in production yet but there's something interesting or there's something that has as is more of a standards focus there so that's why we get into the additional project but still we wanted to share them with the audience here looking at what's going on in supply chain and trade finance so that's a little bit of an underpinnings associated with this and the criteria for inclusion inclusion here so let's go through and we're going to roll and have everyone kind of share who the people who have done most of the work in validating these use cases together with the organization we're going to let them share for a minute or two what they like about this just in use case so with that we're going to start with the provenance that I think that's you Jeff right that is me so this good example of how blockchain can be used to trace shipment in a supply chain of perishable items and in this particular case there's a company called provenance right and they have something called the venture platform so just for a minute think about yourself purchasing a bottle of wine anywhere in the world opening it up and then what the price is and it tastes bad it doesn't taste right it's not spoiled it just tastes bad that's that's the fear of all wine producers around around the world they get they get a wine through the retailer and it doesn't taste as it should so what was the problem well first of all they don't really know today but secondly the financial arrangements in these situations are the wine producer eats the cost so it's returned and I've done this myself but purchase bottle of wine it's not there's different ways wine can get ruined but you can tell that this has been spoiled as well retailers automatically take them back and the way it works today is it gets sent back to the producer and they eat the cost the producer is not in a position to say what actually happened to it they've tested it went left the winery but by the time it hit that store shelf and was opened up by the customer there's been some kind of issue so what blockchain allows them to do through the finish or platform is quite unique and what they're doing with some major wineries right now and again their business has been growing is the use of iot so inside bottle caps or on cases of wine again it depends on excuse me what the particular winery is doing they'll have temperature and pressure settings that actually go into the bottle cap and I've actually seen one of these and they were usable and they track from that winery who has sampled it by the way and done some extensive chemical analysis to see what the what the flavoring was they will track that through the supply chain so iot devices will send out the temperature and pressure and again pressure is mostly associated to say why is there pressure and wine champagne's and expensive wines can be put under conditions where some of the pressure escapes and the corks let go so they have both reasons but as the standard comes in the blockchain again it's immutable so now it can't be changed it allows them to trace the tracking of that wine the conditions from the time left that winery whether it's going across an ocean across the country what kind of conditions normal conditions conditions that they have been exposed to and they do have bounds around those that the just the just the companies have to follow for wine so for example that makes it all the way through let's say in the u.s. from california ends up in the midwest if it's september which a lot of them wine producers that's when they send their wine out if it's been exposed to 95 degree heat for two days that wine potentially get spoiled and so these iot devices continuously read off of conditions and send it over to the blockchain inside the blockchain again another advantage of blockchain over applications are smart contracts so smart contracts pick up this data and it can tell within the smart contract what's happening with that wine and before it hits that shelf and retail alarms go off and say this wine has been spoiled not for sale to the customer so prevents that winery from giving bad wine to the customer also attracts the finances so they know through the conditions of that bottle of wine that case when crossing the country or the ocean where that was exposed to environmental conditions that you waited that wine and so from a financial standpoint you got two things taking place one is the logistics suppliers know that the bottles are now being tracked so they tend to be more vigilant over the conditions exposing that wine and also if a supplier with the logistics company that's handled it from the supplier down the chain the spoil that's now in their purview and that's where the smart contracts can penalize that shipper for saying you're the individual to spill that wine so just to recap on this and it's been very successful so a couple of very big wineries there's a couple of french wineries that have now been put on the platform since this writing but again tens of thousands of bottles they've noticed already have not become one big NEPA producer to save them tens of thousands of bottles not being returned because a lot of that is associated with where most of it is transportation companies logistics companies being very vigilant on the penalties associated with these lines if they're exposed for certain time periods to conditions that harm that wine so again blockchain has a larger range of mobility with animal smart contracts renewable data coming in from iot devices so they know that there's no central authority that could be changing that data and also traceability so very good application of blockchain technology across items that are perishable and i know there's some olive oil companies are looking at the same type of solution beautiful thanks jeff let's roll to the next one here gsp in i think tomas you're gonna share a little bit about this one sure i'll quickly go through it i know we have still a lot on our plate so i'll try to sum it up and just to let you know that if you're interested in more details on this use case we have both case study written on it as well as the webinar and both are linked down here so please follow these links to get more info so global shipping business network in short is a trade data utility platform and it's built on hyper ledger fabric indeed as all of the project in this ebook now very briefly what is the problem so why did this come about so first of all global container shipping is very inefficient and it's burdened by paper based processes and some of the pertinent issues that are you know the gsbn is trying to solve is that the data among these multiple stakeholders is really trapped in the organizational silo there's a lot of manual and time consuming processes paper based you know edi uh fixed machine believe it or not um and clearance custom clearances take too long and are often subject to fraud and in fact one report i think from harvard business review estimates that that sort of customs fraud amounts to about half a billion dollars each year so and this brings us to high costs and poor customer service and there is actually a research done by by tomasiansum from coban haggum business school who was following the shipment of roses from kenya to netherlands and he found that the the shipping of the paper documentation following the container is actually caused the same amount as actually shipping that container which is just mind blowing and a report by the united nations social commission for asia pacific estimates that a region wide cross border paperless trade would generate almost 260 billion dollars in additional trades annually and this is basically what gsbn has been trying to do to optimize the flow of information across global supply chains simplify global trade and accelerate the digital transformation so basically we are talking about the large infrastructure for exchanging this information based on blockchain now just a quick word of why we are using the blockchain in these sort of applications so you know if it's so outdated right and we have all of this track and trace we have amazon or ups you know you can always trace your package well the big problem in global container shipping is that not only the data is fragmented but these companies are often in competition with each other so you really need a blockchain here to get this distributed trust right so if you want to have the digitized global supply chain where with the data reside right and having this distributed ledger to basically facilitate this trust is something that is needed in this type of scenario and just to finish up a global shipping business network right now handles one third of the global container shipments okay that's it about gsbn and please follow our case study and the webinar for more information beautiful thanks too much okay alisha you're up thank you next one on here members we'll remember that back in february we heard from if you want to look at dlt labs well a few months ago a few weeks ago dlt labs was rebranded as connects and connects has their asset track platform with a freight tool that is being used by walmart canada among other companies that's had a huge impact in creating a lot of benefits for their use walmart experienced walmart observed that the freight process went from being 11 different steps of the freight payment process went from 11 different steps to only five steps people involved in payments people on the accounts receivable side know that days sales outstanding this can have a huge impact on cash flow and then companies being able to to pay their bills well what had been more than say more than 30 days that is now down to less than 48 hours that that's a huge impact on cash flow management makes things a lot easier and a lot of stress shipment disputes think about when a company is saying you know this this didn't arrive and the logistics provider saying we were there or our drivers had to wait several hours before they were unable to unload before they were able to unload well now because of the tracking with the asset track freight these shouldn't just speeds have gone from 70% to less than 2% annually they've also seen they've seen a close to 5% ROI of their annual freight spend that's when you think about a company besides of walmart canada that really adds up so any company that has logistics where logistics is an issue this demonstrates that the connects platform provides a lot of value if you're looking in the ebook at the bottom of the profile we see the hyper ledger member case study we also see several webinars both the ones from arsig back in february and then a few years ago shannon hamilton of connects presented to the supply chain sig and more recently uh london wooden was part of a team that wrote a harvard distance review article on how walmart canada uses blockchain to solve their supply chain challenges i encourage everyone to go look at those resources and learn more beautiful well set there lisha yep go ahead thank you raid waltz okay i'll talk about our trade waltz here and trade waltz has some similarities to uh gsbn it's on east asia focus it started back in 2017 so pretty early on here and uh they had originally um 13 members now it's growing to 40 primary members 140 overall members that are using trade waltz interesting enough they started going in uh right before covid so um one of the issues is i got all this paperwork as tomas was talking about earlier with letters of credit and invoices and bills of lading i got all this paper but if you're not in the office due to covid then it's kind of hard to access all that paper here but having to trade platform i'll uh trade waltz here uh you're able to access all that stuff from anywhere and work together with all the your trading partners uh and the good news here if you look on the right uh green box there the um top item here increased operational efficiency by 47 percent in actual usage so that's the kind of numeric benefit that we're talking about in each one of these or bring bring wanted to bring out very strongly here so you know when you talk about 72 hours of process paperwork and in on japan or 235 hours to process it some places nage up or over 400 sometimes in africa in 350 per transaction reduction of 47 percent is is very material here uh and one of the fun fact here that uh back in 2021 trade waltz actually did some work where they moved bill of lading from their system over to another company's ethereum based system so the good news here is that none of this is closed this is open just like the idea behind all of the hyper ledger communities here and able to share with other blockchains out there so with that let's move on to the next one trust your supplier and alisha i think we're back to you and back to me so trust your supplier is a platform that was developed by us company chain yard and ibm for um the supplier management platform they work together um using industry standards and by working with global companies to build an entire team for their platform that does end supplier lifecycle and risk management and within that they're embedding information from third party verifiers and from companies rating systems so think about moody's analytics think about done in broad street that information can be included in both in both supplier and buyer profiles making it a lot easier to onboard um looking thinking about the results and over to the little results box on the right hand side of the page for one customer their business case showed that their supplier onboarding time went from 25.4 hours to a four and a half hours so this was reducing by 82 percent which saved them a million and a half dollars their supplier screening time aggravated aggregated screening time for one customer was reduced by more than 100 hours that saved two and a half million dollars so um also quality assessments the time on that went down by 26 percent and performance audits for one customer were reduced by 50 percent that's an additional two and a half million dollars these numbers add up these are the types of benefits that customers experience when using this platform if you look at the bottom of the page you'll see that there is a hyper ledger member case study you'll also see a member webinar um a hyper ledger member webinar on trustor's supplier and then a webinar where gary store from chainard came in and presented their platform to our sig and then a recent harvard business review article where they were featured a remedy for supplier onboarding problems so again strongly recommend that people interested in learning more click through on those resources and learn more about this company and the work that they're doing okay thank you thanks next up vertrax we got two more here vertrax jeff you're up gotta come off a mute yep it hasn't changed screen yet it's still on it's still on chain yard i am there we go user user air there we go okay uh so um next use case is uh again it's it's similar to the vinnisher in a sense that the key here is the immutability of data coming in from devices um on a blockchain solution and so um company called vertrax supplies supply supply chain management software to logistics companies and their focus is oil and gas bulk shipments and what these are when you talk about oil and gas bulk shipments these are short haul deliveries or what they often call transports where you've got several loading stations terminals around a metropolitan area and you've got the fleets of trucks and how do you optimize when things should be picked up and when should they be um delivered into whom and so on and so forth and so I am not a logistics expert any stretch but anybody out there who is knows how important linear models aren't how difficult it is to keep those linear models um accurate through assurance processes and so those aren't art and science companies keep that technology under wraps and so what vertrax does that helps enhance those linear models by optimizing in real time where those trucks should be where they should be picked up what products should be picked up and delivered to who and it's just it's a mechanism that occurs 24 hours a day vertrax through it's it's a blockchain it's a private blockchain fabric it pulls a lot of that data in and in real time it's more contract it gives updates to logistics people who can rewrite trucks for the most efficient mileage or the least amount of mileage to deliver all the gas who go to your local gas station sometimes you'll see a gas station's truck there with its name on it often you see it not and just a third party and that's due to some of these changes that occur in real time blockchain is excellent at pulling that data from our databases telling a truck don't go here now over here it's less miles through now it's effectively pick up the um product and do it to where it's going to be delivered through short haul companies whether they're only gas deliveries or they're delivering materials for construction they like to keep those trucks full and moving an empty truck one on the road is not generally relevant so linear models tend to optimize pick up and deliver pick up and delivery as much as possible vertrax it's out on top of that through iot devices and also again through it's when the smart contracts to ship data to its linear models in more real time plus you get oil gas delivery company sorry oil gas both delivery company delivering the same amount of gallons doing a lot less miles and we can see that we can see down there but cost savings range for $500 per mile and let's let's conceive somebody close to about 700 thousand dollars a year and um reduce costs the room the ability to deliver same volume through less miles and essentially what you're also going to do is you can now have your fleet marked like that you can deliver even more so that's the advantage of getting a blockchain in use of iot devices good deal thanks jeff let's go on to the last one here before we get to the additional projects ventura snap yes uh so to use the the movie dude where's my car well this is kind of how these guys uh the operate so you think about the efficiencies associated with the assembly line about how everything is there but this company was focused on what happens when these finished vehicles leave and then tracking that so you think about how many vehicles are are built and then the fact that there's not a good tracking system to get them from the factory to the end consumer so that you know they looked at this as you know here was an area of logistics that was full of paperwork inefficiencies um you know when is the vehicle going to arrive but also more data that we can put about a vehicle and i realized that some of it has to do with like recall work so they wanted to use the private blockchain as a way to store information about vehicles and then also be able to track them logistically from the factory to the end consumer so this is something that a lot of you know they're doing a deal with Mitsubishi Europe but not only finished vehicles but you think of all the uh the the companies that use vehicles just to track them um avis herds uh fleets so a lot of it is just a way to kind of just keep a lot of information about these vehicles after they leave the factory um tracking them being able to cut down on costs associated with transportation so right now they're looking at you know just the savings of around three to ten dollars per finished vehicle so you think about how that will add in you know really some savings there um it really is about taking a process that's very paper labor intensive silo getting information in about these cars where people can access them you know you have companies are dependent on cars showing up i mean come on how many of us have always heard about a car hey when's that car going to get here yeah well it's here it's there yeah it's it's in Detroit it's it's in Hong Kong right now when is it going to show up this gives more of an insight to the vehicles that have left the factory where they are and it really can cut down costs for those on the receiving end but also those that are shipping it so this is something that not only for finished vehicles but also for fleets rental fleets just company fleets information that can be stored about these vehicles it's it really has an opportunity to go beyond actually what their initial mission is beautiful thanks Ned for sharing Ventura's story here and pulling that one together here so now let's go on to additional projects so when i look back over the last six months or so seven months let's call it seven months here i believe we went through probably 60 70 different types of solutions use cases out there so the seven that you saw were the ones that met met the overall criteria now there are also ones that we thought were pretty cool also and wanted to include and share within this ebook but they didn't meet the major criteria and you see that up at the top on this if they didn't have publicly available numeric benefit they're not in production but they might provide some unique value uh they're not maybe uh not broad based they're very specific or sometimes they're standards and standards is we know blockchains of team sports having some sort of standard is usually fairly important to be in successful with a blockchain set of projects so with that there's i don't know seven or eight uh also additional projects here over the next three pages that you'll be a look in there's a link at the uh with each one of them so you can get a little bit more information uh a lot of them are coming from around the world where we would we tried to have some diversity not just u.s not just europe not just asia ones that are all around and you can see here the first one here ua trade connect where they had a challenge where letters of credit were being shopped around and sometimes somebody might get uh two sets of credit and they probably should only be getting one set of credit so ua folks built this solution uh in order to prevent fraud when you're actually out there shopping these letters of credit there uh be connected in the murky or similar type of situation to gsbn as well as uh trade walls and cross trade uh paperless trade uh system for down in south america here botanical water technologies they're hoping that they're going to be uh getting clean water to 100 million consumers by 2025 so they're they're getting going here and hopefully maybe the next version of this they'll move that up into 2024 and using it and being able to track and trace the water that is coming from agricultural uh processing there uh mobi do you want to talk about this alicia or anybody you'd like to talk about mobi mobi is um uh started a few years ago global nonprofit alliance of company of vehicle manufacturers and they have a platform they've done several different projects around battery traceability they're working with both public and private sector organizations and um if you look at the if you watch the sig webinar you'll be able to get more in depth on that on their work thank you and this is an example of a standard mobi they build stuff and really they're trying to drive standards in the mobility space that's mobi okay uh longevity here um again the shippers and carriers are tracking trace type of solution here there and and maybe jeff if you want to talk about go gas and then most specifically uh circular here with for one the mining board and uh store dot let me talk about go go gas here um um go gas essentially is a pipeline management system implemented in blockchain and so pipeline management systems which i have to distribute working with is where you nominate or you schedule um products to go through a pipeline and then of course you also schedule the is a consumer to pull it out of the pipeline these are heavily regulated pipelines around the world so go gas is enabled us in blockchain why blockchain well go gas also has to be tied into some um well let me take a look at go gas is not gasoline go gas is methane it's natural gas it's this gas is used both things and so forth like consumers use so it's based on on gases in that sense but you also have renewable gases coming from the renewable energy industry recycled materials and so forth and so those are delivered when you have a a um a block a block of gas or somebody's school theater gas put in there's a renewable certificate that goes with that and what blockchain is excellent in doing is as transactions coming and blocks are made on the blockchain there are private and public keys that go along with that and those certificates can be digitized and locked down by the owner having a private key and those were then transferred transferred to the owner's in the process of the transfer process so i hope i explained that correctly but blockchain is very good at digitizing certificates for carbon credits natural gas credits from renewables um as you'll see down below on circular there's materials that are mined and the certificates go with them and these are all poop off poop of authenticity and different lots of products form blockchain by far uh handles that much better or maybe the regular applications can handle the ability to digitize and quickly sign certificates and you know those are authentic they get transferred to whoever the plus the other material um go gas does that perfectly again it's it's a trading platform and blockchain which has which is rather interesting itself but also it's ability to handle different types of gas where they came from whether renewable or not and handle handable certificates so you know there's some genuine tracking of where these products came from the last one's circular both of those circular is a company that that provides blockchain solutions and there's blockchain solutions on hyperlipedic they're they're very good at implementing those and so the two at the bottom are what we call ESG environmental i forgot i got a block environmental social governance governance the other one's governance is governance and so um again this is where windout work handle them which is on other phones which is in these computers i'm looking at right now is mined out it was mined and to prevent minors from using child or slave labor we have only cd standards that's in the list of this or either but go ahead and look up only cd um their certificates electronic certificates that are cryptographically signed that go along with all the bags of 10th one that produced all the lots that are produced so when you purchase those you can tell your customers what you're giving us to if you're binary and so forth that this has been sourced ethically you know quickly through those certificates same with store docs a store doc with um co2 tracking the prominences of co2 emissions those come down to credits and so those credits are they stored in a regular application let's say sap it's not effective at doing that it really can't do that when blockchain comes in in blocks is that traceability through topography to show where that sort of the thinking that it's authentic and that you can use it and you can sell it and trade it just like currency based upon this blockchain's ability to track it and so these are good examples again it comes to esg very hard to get numerics out of those firms because essentially when they're pulling things up they want to make them way things go in the past whether it's a company or government so esg is going to be critical for the company to be able to do business because some of their customers are demanding ability to prove whether they're sourced their products Jeff is understatement there with very hard to get numbers out of this we had many conversations how do we create some numeric benefit associated with what's happening there with circular very hard to go to a country and that comes in and says we're no longer using chance there we can track it through our new software blockchain but we can't ask the Muhammad slave what you're using in the past there you go that's a tough one we know even not to ask it but yeah there you go so that's the additional projects you can look at all these again most of them have some links with some additional information here to learn more about these and I think most of the logos if not all the logos have hyperlinks on them so that you can go directly to either the solution or the company that created those so with that let's see here ups what's happening here why can't there I go we have I'm going to do a time check here we have seven minutes remaining before we turn into a pumpkin here so Tamash I'm going to let you talk a little bit more about hyper ledger foundation and then we'll do a little wrap up here okay cool so you want me to go to yeah great thanks Tom so I guess I have about five minutes so let me try to be concise here if you can just go for a next one please Tom thank you so as I mentioned earlier we at the hyper ledger foundation we host a number of open source projects and what we refer to as a project within hyper ledger foundation is really a collaborative effort to deliver a work item and each project has its own name developer community and goals as you can see here on the page where Tommy sharing we have a number of project listed and they can be broadly categorized as the distributed ledgers tools and libraries and since we don't have time to go to each one of them individually I would like to invite you to visit our website and see how to get involved how to get the code and learn more and all of these projects are also linked here in the book so you can just follow these things here one thing I would also like to highlight from this page are hyper ledger labs and these are the you know they provide a space where people can innovate and test ideas without the creation of an official project so please follow the link here to find out more Tom can you go to the next page please so hyper ledger fabric is one of our projects and it's the most widely deployed enterprise blockchain platform according to the report from blog data which is also linked here and you're welcome to check it out it offers a modular flexible architecture with plug and play support for components such as consensus and also membership services and as you can see you know in this ebook all of these use cases were actually built using hyper ledger fabric and here is also the short introductory video which you can also see to get more information on it next page please Tom a little bit about the community work with hyper ledger so we have a vibrant community which is global and is advocating developing and deploying blockchain technologies apart from the supply chain and rate finance special interest group which prepared this book you can we also have a number of other special interest groups such as healthcare telecommunications climate action financial markets and so on and you can find them following the link here as well we offer a lot of training and certifications for both beginners as well as advanced users and we're also organizing a lot of events both in person online and here linked you can find our event page as well if you're interested in finding more about the use cases of the technology please also visit our use case tracker and to get a bit more in that information please look at the case study library and all are linked here and as you saw in a lot of these use cases there was there was already some sort of case study linked and last but not least I would also like to invite you to join a hyper ledger foundation as a member our members are industry organizations both large and small and are working on this project if you would like to learn more about corporate membership also please follow the link over here now I have one minute left Tom if you can go two slides down one more please just quickly mention the hyper ledger global forum and that is our largest annual gathering of the hyper ledger community or in other words is the biggest enterprise blockchain event of the year the people who attend can hear directly from those who are actively developing these solutions using hyper ledger technologies and here you can also find some of the sessions related to supply chain linked from the hyper ledger global forum 2022 and also there is a link so you can see also other recorded sessions you know such as central bank digital currencies or our trade finance or health care and so on and please stay tuned for our hyper ledger global forum 2024 on the event site which will be announced on our event site also linked here at the bottom okay and I think I'm one minute over Tom but I guess still okay that's quite all right and I'll put a plug in for the global forum I attended in March of 2020 in Phoenix and that's actually where I learned about the SIGs and supply chain trade finance so it was in addition to all the other good reasons that was a good reason to go to Phoenix for the hyper ledger global forum way back when in 2020 so with that let's do a wrap up here certainly there's been lots of people involved with this the people on this page are the main people that have been involved with this ebook over the course of many months and a lot of research and a lot of work and so definitely thank you for all the people that on this page here as well as thank you to the folks who brought their solution forward I mean we're hoping that we're going to be able to include your solution in some way shape or form as your solution progresses out there in the marketplace so with that thank you very much for joining us today our listening to the recording 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Log entry, the catch scarlet queen, Philip Carney, master. Position two degrees, 25 minutes north, 128 degrees, 13 minutes east. Wind, light, sky, fair. Remarks, left anchorage Caillou Bay, Halmahara after unscheduled voyage to island of Batanta. Reason for voyage, grafters fought in the black pearl of Galaila Bay. Shortly before the Civil War, a daring plan was conceived to speed the mail between east and west. It was the famous Pony Express. On April 3rd, 1860, the first Pony Express riders set out from St. Joseph, Missouri with a pocket of lightweight mail. Along the express route, other riders and fresh horses waited at relay stations in order that the mail could be carried without a break. Ten and one-half days after the first rider left St. Joseph, a Pony Express rider galloped into Placerville, California. The mail had crossed the country in record time. For a short time, the Pony Express continued its colorful operation as the riders fought against hardship and danger to bring the east and west closer together. But while the service was fast, it was also expensive, too expensive to be continued. In 1861, the Pony Express was discontinued, but not before it had become a part of the American legend. Today, the Pony Express is remembered at both ends of the route. In St. Joseph, Missouri, is the Pony Express Monument, which recalls the courage of the riders. At the other end of the old route is the Pony Express Museum in Sacramento, which at one time was a relay station of the express. The Pony Express Monument and Museum remind us of the rich heritage that as Americans, we share and stand ready to defend. Tenth morning after we left the island of Bali is that we pushed into Malacca Passage and swung close to the 100-mile chain of islands that fringes the west coast of Palmahera. By noon, we trimmed our sail and started the channel run past Morotai. It was then that my chief mate, Gallagher, noted the receipt of a radio message in the log of the Scarlet Queen and came to the wheel to report it to me. As an NC skipper, the schooner Regina grounded Galea Bay, captain and made ashore. Which told only a part of the story. We found the Regina all right, 50 yards offshore, a stern awash with a main house, a back broken on a reef. It wasn't until we'd coasted by her on the landward side that we saw the rest. There was a man aboard. He was native and he was dead. He'd been hanged from the foremost and his body revolved and swung slowly from side to side as the current in the reef fought continually for possession of the battered hull. And so mutual continues the voyage of the Scarlet Queen written by Gildowd and Bob Tallman and starring Elliot Lewis. The Scarlet Queen proudest ship to plow the seas bound for uncharted adventure. Every week a complete entry in the log and every week a league further in the strange voyage of the Scarlet Queen. It didn't take me long to decide that I didn't want any part of this particular salvage and rescue job. I pushed the throttle open and swung the wheel to port to make the shortest turn possible back toward the open sea. The circle took us in towards shore and at the closest point the rest of the situation broke. All right, those studdies. What's going on? Keep down, Red. 50 caliber. I'd recognize that voice anyway. It'll make a sieve out of the Queen before we could get her out of range. Kill the motor, Red, okay? All right, we'll drift in. I'm mate, mate of girl and me. It's about so so we see this island. That's not where we're going. All right, Captain, that's where I'm going. With you or without you? We were approaching most typically native, set in the clearing in the Nipah Palms. 100 yards behind it was the fringe of the fairly large village of Galaila with the inevitable tin-roofed frame building belonging to the single Chinese trader. As we swung around the corner of the shack, I saw two more machine guns set up to cover the village. In front of their muzzles at the edge of the clearing there were four or five dark skinned bodies sprawled in the sun where they'd fallen. Two people waited for us in the shack. All right, get aside and sit down. One I took to be the mate. Swar the slightly built with a faint smile twisting his thin lips. The other was the ugliest native girl I've ever seen. Flattened nose, a squat sagging figure, the earlobes hanging almost to her shoulders from the weight of the G-Jaws shoved into the gaping perforations. I couldn't figure why anyone would want to take her anyplace. If one would carry a banner on one shift. Oh, sleeveling cow, get over there and sit down! Never mind, Lois. Now let's talk it over, Captain. The beggars are after my pearls. They were diving for me. We had fair luck and now they want them for themselves to take over the Caillou Bay and to trade to that Chinaman in the village. They wrecked my ship and... They would starve us out in time if we stay here and let them, which we don't think is a very good idea, huh, Grafter? You got any more to say, Grafter? I said enough, didn't I?  These Harons have been diving for quite a few generations. They don't have to rush machine guns for a handful of pearls. You don't have to hang them from a mast to keep them in line. What do you think of these fellow grafters? Ah, let them blow. That's all I have to say. Come on, Red, we're leaving. Okay, Skipper, I don't try it. Let them come grafting! We had to try it because there's no place to phone for help on Halmahara. The chair I threw at Grafter sent him off balance but it stopped things for only a second. Red got his hands on Lois too late. He automatically flashed twice and Gallagher's knees buckled. He crumpled to the floor, his hands clutching at Lois and finally dragging him down too. I forgot Grafter, I forgot everything but the red stain that was spreading from the sign of Gallagher's head running down his neck. Already soaking his jumper, I headed for Lois, I landed on him. Was reaching for his throat when... My head exploded under Grafter's gun muzzle and I went out of the fight. I don't know for how long but when I came back, Red was still alive. He'd gotten to his feet. He was half blinded by blood but he was still fighting. He'd lifted Lois by his belt and he was swinging his body at Grafter like a club with nothing but hard keeping him moving. I got to my feet and started across the room to help him but I couldn't get there. I grabbed the wall to keep me up. And the last thing I saw before I went out again was the squat, splay-footed native girl, Bona. She found a piece of broken furniture, she held it like a club and she was moving in for the kill. Then the picture swam in my eyes, turned gray and then blacked out. I was seeing again. I was still on my feet and walking. I didn't know where I was or how I'd gotten there but I was out of the shack, out of sight of the village. Then I remembered the final picture of Red. They didn't have a reason in the world to stop short of killing him. Suddenly everything went out of me. It was kind of a relief to pass out. I believe you're asleep any long time. You'll come awake now. Red? Red. Me no Red, Miss Singh Shee. For a long time, Trader Galella. Oh, yeah.  A grafter. Not hard enough. Who'd you say you were? Oh, Miss Singh Shee, Trader. You and House belong to me. Our Galella village boys, my friend, they bring you along this place. Yeah, why? Oh, I tell them. I wanna help you. You like to need help? I don't know what I need. What you and Galella boys want. Oh, what's your fast passage to a place of ancestor for those who belong to machine gun? You wanna get rid of grafter and Louis too, huh? Mm, hey, you help. The Galella boys help. They're soon all other dead long time. What did they do to Galella boys? How'd they say along you? Well, they tell me they find plenty pearls that Galella boys wanna take pearls back. Oh, they're true. Catch Merlapurl, Merlapurl. You talk straight, Singh. Maybe we all help. You listen. Long time, very big shock spurt. He say this.  How many wives go to a village, you suffer? I say they, and they found the black pearl. Oh, one black pearl. Grafter and Louis could keep all the rest, but they still wouldn't give it up. Must be a wonderful pearl, Singh. Bring them much money. Plenty of wives. You help poor Galella boys. They catch your wives. You catch a man belong along machine gun. Sounds like a fair trade. Singh, do you have any guns here? Oh, no guns. You have dynamite? Not dynamite. You savvy dynamite? Oh, savvy. Get your men official on dynamite. You know, one boy, he's strong swimmer. He swim to my ship. Oh, I know men are strong swimmer. One boy. You tell him go long way up beach. You tell him swim long way out. Come my ship from reef. You savvy. Oh, savvy. They're no sea from beach. Good. You go bring him here. He take note for me to ship. He bring back box with dynamite and gun. Go on out, chop, chop. They're good. Oh, they're so joyous. Boom. All other fly away to ancestor. It took a little better than an hour and a half for Singh's boy to get to the ship and back. Another 45 minutes to cap and fuse the dynamite. All right, listen, Singh. You take dynamite to beach near machine guns. Not close, you savvy. Stay in shadows. Oh, like a tiger. Yeah, like a tiger. Then as soon as you get there, you light all dynamite and throw it. Like a soldier. Not at the machine guns, Singh. Some on the beach, some in the water. Those at machine gun will fire at noise, savvy. Oh, what the matter? Throw it to machine gun. Because they may be hide black pearl.  Savvy? Ah, savvy. Oh, you best strong man. Best smart like a thing. I throw it to beach, to water. Then you come back here. Wait for me. Oh, you go. I go to their house. Grafter is there. When he hears dynamite and maybe machine gun, he runs out of house. And I catch him like that. Verlach, you sure, man? You have a minute for him to village tomorrow. I go now. After he left, I pocketed my 45 and skirted the edge of the silent darkened village I headed for the shack and the clearing. The gun was still in my hand when I heard the faintest rustle of almost silent feet behind me. The safety catch snapped off as I whirled and I was ready for a hip shot. But I didn't use it. Please, don't cut the thing. You're savvy. You belong to me? Sing what the devil are you doing here? Why aren't you on the beach with the dynamite? Oh, gotcha.  Sing if you mess this up. Look, you stay this place. Right here. I go to shack. You don't come along with me. Oh, sorry, sorry.  I didn't risk a look through the window when I got to the shack to see what was in store for me. I inched to a position about three feet from the doorway and waited. It wasn't for long. Then the first charge blew. And the answering burst of machine gun fire blasting at flashes and shadows told me that the reactions on the beach were normal. Almost simultaneously, I heard feet hit the floor inside to start for the door. I moved into position just as he stopped in the doorway. It wasn't grafter. It was even more to the point it was Louis. And I smashed my right hand automatic and all into the middle of his sneering. Freeze! Everything I felt, grief, hate, a continually beating desire to avenge Redwin into the blow. Get up, Louis. What are you doing here?  I'm talking to do first. So help me, what I'll do to you after that? I don't know. I got no talk with you. Don't, Louis. Help me keep my hands off of you. Be careful what you say.  Now sit down. What do you want? I want the black pearl. What the devil? What black pearl? Wait, wait. How about it? The black pearl from Galeila Bay.  We didn't get any black pearl here. We didn't even work the beds. We ran in here from some weather and the men is attacked. Why do you keep asking for it, Louis? Why do you think that I lie with a 45 on my face? I'm telling you the truth. You want to see our pearl, is it the pearl from a year and a half of working with the, well, Lucas, I show you in the table there. Sure, Louis.  We've got this sack off the ship. I show you what we sweat for. It was as almost as though he told me what he was going to do. And I let him. He opened the drawer. And I knew from the way his hand spread forefinger stretch for a trigger guard that I was right. I let him pick it up. And when I saw the glint of metal, I fired. His right arm jerked between elbow and shoulder and swung back loosely as fingers relaxed and the gun dropped back into the drawer. You've got a left arm, Louis. You want to try it again?  I saw you kill my chief mate.  You're crazy. Maybe you're right, Louis.  No? Maybe I was dreaming, huh, Louis? If somebody killed him, it wasn't me.  Louis, the pearl. Tell me where the black pearl is. I don't know what you mean. We don't have any black pearl. It is the truth. You machine-gunned the mailies that came after it. They wrecked your ship to get it, remember? The men in the village wanted, Louis. They want the wives it'll bring. Mr. Copter! Mr. Copter! What is it, thing? I can't turn around. I am a watchful, long window. But there's big danger of belonging this house. I think I know... What do you mean, thing? Make a step where from straight line to long window. All right, I savvy. Big danger. Come from big spirit. Ten seconds later, I learned why Singh had moved me. A heavy hunting spirit spiked in through the window. Louis collapsed into the impact. I didn't have to check pulse to know that the spearman, whoever he was, had cheated me out of the final payoff of Gallagher. Oh, very happy, Mr. Copter. I cut your danger away from you. Yeah, thanks, Singh. But you'll never learn about black pearl from this fella. He flies very fast, ancestor. Too fast. You come along me, we may be catch grafter, huh? Oh, no. All the same with this one. What? You mean dead? Fly on hoppy wings. Oh, very dead. How? Gallella boys put two dynamite very close alongside the machine gun. You killed him? Ah.  Now who tell you where find pearl?  No, why don't you? Ah, Gallella boys, I want you one thing. Poor girl belong to Gallella village. Poor banner.  Me bring her? Where is she? Oh, she along your ship. On my ship? Who took her out there? Oh, no fella take her. She take a fella. He hurt. She took someone, Singh. This fella, his name, Gallagher? No, not Gallagher. You think her name belong to me. What do you mean, Singh? Uh, you talking name, same time you come awake. What? Um, him name, um, red. Yeah, red. Are you sure? You no make mistake? Oh, no mistake. Banna, she big friend along red.  Singh, I don't have time to explain this in case you don't understand it, but I promise if Banna wants to go to the royal wedding in London, I'll take her there. What's that mess on your head? Never mind. That's Banna's private mixture, fish scale, sea weed and mud. If you try to take it off, I'll have a slit your throat. Besides, I got a gouge across my temple a half inch deep and six inches long. The great one will rest his tongue. The great one? Yeah. She liked the way I swung Louis around my head. Oh, right. If you knew what I've been through, I thought you were dead. I almost was. Then Banna walked in and clubbed those two with a chair or something. I passed out. She hid me till dark and brought me out here in a canoe. I promised her a trip to London if she wanted, but I suppose she'd rather have her Galaila village. Banna, you want to go ashore now? Ashore? Skipper, are you nuts? The great one will rest his raw. Ashore. What's the matter, Singh? She said her village was waiting for her with open arms. Well, I suppose he's right, but not Galaila. Her village is on Botanter. The joint where Graf, they wanted to go. They were going to deliver her to her husband for a big hunk of ransom. To get Banna back? Yeah. Red, let me tell you now, before this starts to make the kind of sense I think it's going to, I've been knocking my brains out, trying to locate a black pearl that held a lot of magic until we killed everybody in Graf's outfit so they couldn't tell me there wasn't any pearl. Oh, yes, there is. What? Yeah. Tell them, Banna, who is the pearl? One is the wife of the Sultan of Botanter. One was taken by force from one's place. By those the great one be together as saplings. One's noble husband pledged gold pearls and bright stones to equal the weight of oneself for one's safe return. That's quite a pile. Then your buddy, Singh, she honed in on the deal. He got the Melaids to wreck Graf's ship and made his own deal with her old man. Plenty wives for Galaila boys. How many? Only 200, and they must be buddy.  If those in whose care I rest would decide upon their demand upon one's husband, one is anxious to journey at once to one's home and husband. Poor Banna. She don't care who gets the ransom. She just wants to go home. We wasted three days getting Banna to Botanter, convincing her husband that there was no depth between us, and getting back to Kayu Bay where one of Kang's luggers was waiting impatiently with our sailing orders. By one that afternoon we'd wade anchor, picked our way through the reefs under power, and nosed into the wind-brushed waters of Malacca Passage once more. And by two men... Two men relieved as always to get their faces pointed toward wide deep water, jumped to their stations with a will. What starboard shape makes... Heavy gusts swung recklessly to starboard, sending the men at the rail tumbling into prone positions to escape its sweep, and the pull of the sail set a shutter through the ship. The deck canted beneath me. Our spot in the world took on the atmosphere of speed that comes only from leaning sails, rushing water at the rail and taut rigging, making a song with the wind. I'm not giving you much of a hand today, Skipper. Ah, forget it, Red.  All right. Take my watches then. I've earned a rest. No argument there, Red. But she took good care of you, though. And you can't always have a beautiful nurse. No, no, no. You and I are thinking of different kinds of beauty, Skipper. The picture of her when she waited until Grafton and Louis. Oh, that was real beauty. And the picture of that hair, that figure, those earlobes when we met her. Ah, that's real nightmare. But I love her. All right. If you want to cut in. Drink, Skipper? From this distance and with no gang fights in sight, I'm safe on all sides. You're cut in on. After you, mate. After you. Log entry. The Ketch Scarlet Queen. 5.30 p.m. Miles traveled from San Francisco. 20,221. Wind fresh. Sky fair. Carrying full sail. Ship secure for night. Signed Phillip Carney. Master. In the exciting history of America's development into the foremost industrial nation in the world, the McCormick Reaper stands out as a monumental invention. Back in the 1830s, the flat, fertile prairie lands of the Middle West were ideal for growing grain. The all-important crop of wheat was easy to sow and to grow, but harvesting the grain was a different matter.  Even a strong man could cut no more than an acre of grain a day. Farmers had to help each other to harvest crops, but unfortunately, all crops ripened at about the same time and had to be harvested in 10 days. So it became a practice for farmers to plant only as much grain as the men in each family could reap in that short time. Then came the mechanical Reaper, perfected by Cyrus McCormick. His first Reaper, made in 1831, was a dismal failure. The noise terrified the horses which pulled the machine. It didn't cut evenly and it damaged some of the grain, but McCormick was not one to give up easily. He kept working on his invention and secured his first patent in 1834. There was still no demand for his machine, however, so he kept working on it.  As the Reaper moved forward, steel fingers separated the grain into bunches of stalks that were cut by a sawtooth action resembling today's barber clippers. A large reel revolved around the cutting arm, each blade bending a section of wheat down and pressing it into the cutting action. McCormick sold two of these machines and opened a factory in Chicago. In the next two years, he built and sold 80 Reapers. By 1851, he was selling 1,000 machines a year. By 1857, 23,000. McCormick's Reaper caught on and was making farming in the prairie land productive and profitable. Over the great expanses of the West, our agricultural frontier was rolling toward the Rockies at the rate of 30 miles per year. Yes, at one time, the harvesting of vast fields of grain offered a problem of manpower. But it was solved by the mechanical Reaper of Cyrus McCormick who had the spirit typical of all American inventors. Somehow there must be a way. Let's find it. Queen stars Elliot Lewis as Phil Carney with Ed Max as Gallagher and tonight featured Jack Krushen as Singh with Ralph Sudan as Louise and Virginia Greg as Banner. Music scored and conducted by Richard O'Rott. The Scarlet Queen produced by James Burton is written by Gildowd and Bob Tallman.


The following video is approximately 6 minutes long and includes audio description for people who are blind or have low vision. Title card. This presentation was prepared under federal financial assistance provided by FEMA's Grant Programs Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Points of view or opinions expressed in this video are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of policies of FEMA's Grant Programs Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Title card. Cal OES Logo, Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Host and Wheelchair. Hi, I'm Richard DeVelder, Chief of the Office of Access. I'm here to discuss some functional needs at the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services. I'm speaking to you today from the California State Operations Center. The typical response during an earthquake, drop cover and hold on, may not be the right choice for those of us who have disabilities or are older adults with other functional needs. Office during earthquake. Earthquakes strike suddenly without warning and they can occur at any time of the year, day or night, nearly every state and territory in the United States. It is at moderate to very high risk of earthquakes. In the event of a major earthquake, the damage it can inflict could include power outages and down power lines, gas leaks, fires, broken windows and falling objects, which are dangerous for everyone and can be a greater threat to people with disabilities and older adults. We must plan for our response as if no one is coming to rescue us because they are not. It is unrealistic to believe that there are enough resources for everyone to receive assistance. Post in office. Those of us who have disabilities or are older adults need to adapt earthquake preparation and response as the decisions we make could save our lives. The following simulations are an example of what could happen in the event of an earthquake for a person who is blind or low vision. Blind woman on phone. Hi there, I'm calling about the document I just received. I want to make sure it's the latest version. It is cubicle with sight dog on pet bed. Earthquake. Oh, earthquake. Ninja, come! Baskets and folders, walking shelves. Come on girl! Come on! It's okay! Come on, ninja! Sight dog crawls under desk with woman. Good girl. Good girl. Good girl. Woman and dog get out from under desk. Host at women's cubicle. How'd it go for you and Ninja? It went well. It was a good experience. What is the message you'd want others who are blind or have a vision? I want people to be prepared. I want them to have a plan and be ready to act on their plan. And also make sure you include in the plan service animal. Definitely. Can't forget your service animal. New scene. Man walking out door with sight seeing dog. I think it's an earthquake. He cowers down over the dog and covers his own neck with his arm. It's okay. It's alright. I think it's over. Your glass, we gotta go. Man and dog walking past glass on sidewalk and toward down parallel. Stop! There's a downed power line! Man and dog stop where they are. Host with man and dog outside building. What is the message you want to give to others who are blind or have low vision when they're out in public and earthquake hits? Well, there's three things that come to mind. Number one is to take cover. Try to get yourself and your service animal and take cover. Cover your heads. Number two would be to make sure that you hold on to your service animal in case they are scared and that way they don't run away. Number three would be to as soon as everything settles down to try to get to a safe location and definitely ask for assistance if you need it. Host in office. We have just seen an example of how a person with a disability or older adult should respond during an earthquake. Have you thought about this scenario and made preparations for what you would do? Let's always remember that we are not helpless and we can take control of our plan and our response. Ambulance. Act as if no one is coming to rescue you. You are in charge. A simple buddy system is not enough. Lady helping man in wheelchains. We need to build a support team which include neighbors, coworkers, friends and family. Have practice sessions with them to ensure that they can help you. Know what you need and be able to quickly provide instructions to others on how to assist you. Plan for all disasters. Think about what needs you would have after a disaster. Man drags himself on foot. Would you need to evacuate or shelter in place? Use texting on phone. What if technology fails? What if the power goes out and you no longer have cell service? Then what? If you have a family member with specific emergency preparedness needs, think about all the different scenarios that could affect them. Be realistic. The government does not have enough resources and responders to help everyone. If you need to evacuate, how can you leave the area? What if you cannot independently get downstairs? Do you have family, neighbors or friends to assist you? Practice with earthquake drills. To know it is to do it. Being ready to evacuate or shelter in place is the key to staying safe in an emergency. Emergency items. In your plan, don't forget to build an emergency kit with essential items you need to keep with you. Backpack being put in closet. This includes medications. Pill bottles. Any consumable medical supplies. A whistle. Whistle. And something very important. Thumb drive. A USB drive that includes important documents. Driver's license. Like your most recent medications, copy of your driver's license or ID, emergency contacts. I really hope you take this to heart.


Your hairs are in my food. They're in my hair. They're everywhere. I have plenty of them out there. Welcome back to Life Lessons in Film today. We'll be making a sense of life through Moneyball. It's a wonderful movie and I'm super emotional about it. It's okay. It's okay. I remember the general thing of you know the Oakland athletics are in a total slump. Don't have a high budget and they're desperate. You know they're falling apart in terms of their franchise and so the general manager Brad Pitt's character tries something radical and after going to a meeting to make some deals, some trades picks up a guy that is doing a whole new way of putting teams together which is based on statistics averages and economics and all this kind of stuff. Not based on are they attractive? Will people follow them around because they have a crush on this player or because they have a attractive partner? All this kind of stuff. They just look at you know can they get on base? Can they can you squish squeeze out some some wins you know? Everyone's put everyone is pushing back against the change, against the evolution of a way of looking at the game. The coach still wants to continue doing it all the way. The reason I'm really sad.  The reason I'm upset is I always get super sad about when people that are that don't have the resources fight for their lives despite all the odds been being placed against them. I always feel so sad when they don't succeed in the way that they want to. This guy you know he finds Jonah Hill's character whose name is? It's Jonah Hill. They managed to get this team which the entire country doesn't believe in anymore. They are literally bottom, bottom league. Yeah bottom the laughing stock of the baseball league and he believes in them so much. He believes in the team so much. He used to he was a baseball ball player himself and he later he talks about how he in the past let himself be influenced by money and promised himself that he would never do that again. So there's a lot of I would say skin in the game for him emotionally. Despite the fact that he finds Jonah Hill's character and they make a success out of this new way of doing things they still and they obviously get 20 wins in a row and that is amazing record in world record and that's a huge accomplishment absolutely fantastic incredible without the resource without the financial resources because you know baseball there's a lot of money in there and it just spoke to the realities of a lot of teams in general that are under resourced under resourced or people in general from different walks of life that are under resourced and have to you know hustle and you know work around the system and eventually the Red Sox which does try to get Brad Spit character to you know to hire him. He doesn't want to they're offering a lot of money but he still doesn't want to because of that connection that he has to baseball it's not about the money and it's about the love for the team and he put so much work into this team and he believes in it so much and he wants to see it succeed and and so he sticks around and that is absolutely noble it says in the end of the credit they talk about how he's still working with the Oakland days and they still haven't won and it made me so sad because you know this is apparently based on a true story and it made me sad because of just that reality of you can really only go so far if you aren't if you come from a certain position in life if you're talking about people in society then then if you're poor you can only really go so far if you're talking about teams if you're an under resourced you can only go so far no matter how much heart you have no matter how much how much time you put in. How that plays a part in someone's self-esteem confidence how they see themselves right you can try a whole new way of looking at things and approaching life or or a job or any kind of method or technique but again if you're still given just the the bear like nothing right if you start from the bottom they might be winning 20 games in a row and they still lose like it'll affect people in ways that they don't intangible right they don't even understand because you know they're like but you know we're doing something that no one else has ever done but simply there's other forces at work that will still keep people only able to really achieve so much and then that's that level of confusion and stuff that's out of your control can really impact people in ways again that they they don't even understand. If you have the money and you already finding team players that already are all privileged themselves already coming from a more comfortable position versus if you are the open A's you already under resourced but then you have people that don't have confidence in themselves and then you question yourselves more like the great but at the end where Jonah Hill's like I just want to show you something and he shows a clip of a guy that gets a home run but because he's a guy that no one ever expected him himself he doesn't expect that he could ever get a home run yeah that he's that good a hitter that he just assumes I can't even try and get to second base automatically not the person that can do that exactly and that's that's the thing right you it's that complex that you have that it's so internalized that even when you do succeed you don't even realize it you can't even notice it you don't even look out for the possibility of success this guy didn't even look to see oh wait did I maybe I hit a home run I'm not gonna run he just automatically because of this internalized sense of inferiority he just decided that of course I definitely didn't hit it and he's running can't even see because you know you hit the ball and you can generally get an idea of like oh I wonder no that's because he's someone that just it's like it disappeared it's like he just assumes okay I hit it and I'm gonna go to first he's so blinded the idea of even seeing maybe that I got a home run because it's not even in his mind that that can be a possibility exactly there's no hope it's like you have been beaten down so much by life by people that you don't even have you can't even compute that there is a sliver of possibility that you could maybe even yeah come out on top that was something you're capable of yeah I feel conflicted here because you know it's one of those things where you're like okay this guy worked really hard the way of the world is that if you were him like Brad because character in that movie you started out with the small team the Red Sox wants you that means you are winning in life you go and play for the Red Sox you know and so I guess I was conflicted and probably it's just one of those things me being conditioned as well I guess this part of the conditioning in the world right there these levels and the Red Sox is another level right hierarchical you think and so that's where you'd say okay well if he'd gone there he would have won for sure because he's already applied this thing and he probably could have taken Jonah Hill's character along and would have been fantastic and so they could celebrate together look now people recognize it clearly you know we we changed the game we did what we were hoping to do yeah but again when I think about it right like I would like there's part of me that's that feels like oh that would have been great but at the same time would it have been really great because of that of the way that this guy sees this this is family to him this the Oakland A's it's like leaving it's like this this symbol it represents more than just you know he's there's that loyalty that he can't and and you know it also kind of feels like it's a baseball version of say an artist who is committed to their work and then a you know big company wants to buy it up and then it changes it exactly and it's not theirs anymore and it happens all the time and so for him to basically make that decision of no that again this isn't really what I that drives me yeah the thing that I know for for sure is that I definitely feel like he made the right decision because he says if he had gone with the Red Sox he wouldn't have really changed the game you ultimately because as much as the Red Sox adopts this new way over this new method it's still within the context of the system of it's just kind of co-opting yeah your your co-op that's basically the Red Sox appropriates this they can do that because they have money and so for it this new method to truly be a success it would be the underdog yeah if if the underdog actually succeeded that would be that would be the success to the game but with the Red Sox taking over and having that much money because even says the Red Sox talks about it he's like well you know when you have money the great thing about baseball is that the rules don't matter if you have money and that's the reality of life the great thing about life for people who have money is that the rules don't matter if you if you don't have money I mean if you have money the rules don't matter you can do whatever the heck you want but but like Jonah Hill points out is he says the fact that you had to get the big teams to consider your method that's a win too yeah and it really is it really is such a win and I think I definitely am sad that the way that I guess I'm also testament to the fact that the way that the world works is that it's really hard for people to see those little things as wins because the the things that we do see as wins you know the more publicized wins we start to forget about the little things in our lives that are successes we don't even see them because we're always driving and pushing for that bigger thing that is the much the one that's more valorized yeah but every single day you have a little win but you don't even notice it and so every time you feel unfulfilled because you're like I'm still pushing for that one big goal and I think obviously the fact that I'm sad might be testament to that I don't know I think it's it's relatable in a lot of ways it's you know it's remember to notice the other wins the little successes the the growths in your life beyond just this thing that you feel will be the thing that finally does it for you and it might not I mean I like the part too where and this is why the character is the one that is willing to actually try a different thing because he was a player no other or very few other general the managers of teams were first players so he looks at it from a player's perspective and he comes as a player that was expected to be the great one of the greats and completely dropped the ball no pun intended pun intended um when he actually got to the big league so he knows that scouts could be you know are fallible he's like you don't know you make all these promises to these young kids saying you know you're going to be big and he said people did that to me and by all accounts on paper I should have even been and yet you just can't know when it comes down to it yeah wow the commodification of human beings yeah that's a big part of that movie it's outstanding how yep I was just remembering how the news anchors were interviewing the players all of them just treat them again like they're not even people yeah asking questions that were just I don't even know well for them again but when they are that dehumanized and it shows you that you know people like dehumanization is still happening if anything it's worse than it's maybe ever been some ways but the the news anchors casters that probably they maybe they even start off and maybe they eventually get conditioned by their job where like you just have to you know they've started off maybe trying to be nice to them like I don't want to put it in that way that seems it's going to hurt their feelings and then you know they get to the point where they just say well this is what people want to know look at the numbers the people also don't see the players as people so they they want to know the hard questions they say like how does it feel like are you worried about that you're kind of you know you're you're you're you're you're you're you're damaged you're damaged goods now how do you feel about that yeah you know yeah because at the end of the day you're thinking as as a news anchor you're thinking well there's going there are 10 other people that are going to be interviewing you what is it about my interview that's going to stand out I'm going to ask the juicy gossipy questions that it's going to draw people in yeah so then I'm going to ask you about your personal life and you getting drunk and you're going to Las Vegas and party like crazy do you think you're capable and aren't you a loser right now exactly yeah they don't maybe see not even they don't have time also they're giving little snippets and back to you so they don't have time to actually get into why are you going to Las Vegas so much are you actually happy or is this actually do you find now that your life is in such turmoil that you know you have to spend all this time going to Vegas just to you know because you're actually feeling very numb inside maybe all this traveling has disconnected you from you know it could be all kinds of stuff there's no humanity and then that I guess it's also really interesting because when you think about when you go to watch a game right you have no clue what it is that these people that are you're watching entertaining you what kind of crap they just come out of exactly before they went in because this was before the game before the game you're getting asked all these personal yeah invasive questions yeah extremely oh yeah inappropriate questions about your personal life that make that really knock you down just before you go to play and play which is another reason why some team it's out of the ball in the barrel they're getting all these demoralizing questions from people that are dehumanizing them whereas if you're the top yeah they're just going to be like we just it's all praise and it's also you gonna get another home run this so they're already coming out of the gate feeling a lot better exactly which plays a big part which plays a big part yeah because I mean I can't believe it I I couldn't I don't even know if I would be able I I always I this is why I struggle to watch sports right never mind playing sport yeah I will I struggle because of things like that I struggle to watch people lose to see people lose yeah that makes me so sad you know not just the team but like people yeah who are fans yeah I think if you're maybe if you're too empathic it's tough I think what's just you feel for random fans in the bleachers exactly oh yeah I don't like seeing yeah Philip Seymour Hoffman's character my god what a nightmare yeah this guy is flunking a dead horse right because Brad Pitt's character comes in with this new method and he refuses he's like I want to be able to he already says he's already projecting that Mike won my contract and moving on yeah and he's like I want to play in a way that I'm going to be able to explain to in interviews next year exactly and he refuses for a long time to keep losing because he refuses to to apply this new method and I in my mind I'm like what is this what kind of person continues to use it's it's insanity right Einstein to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results it's insanity he keeps doing that I think it just challenges his ego too much he wants to believe that he knows what he's doing and when you have you know and it always sucks to get like you know when you when he has to take orders so there's that thing of like oh now he's trying to shake things up you know what's this guy I think he's doing I've been coaching for how long you know these little boys I'm actually down here with them in the dugout you know coaching them and this guy he doesn't even stay for the games you know so you get that you're not even connected to what's going on so how dare you tell me what I'm supposed to be doing so there's a bit of understandable that's understandable but then there's also just that ego of you're trying to do something new and he's just doesn't want to change from how things have always been exactly and I'm a lot of the people they're worried that way I've been doing this for 27 years don't you think I know and I'm like you've been doing it for 27 years and you've been losing for 27 years doesn't that tell you something and that's something I think that the Red Sox guy talks about people who don't they're going to be some teams who refuse to change despite the fact that you guys won 20 games in a row they saw you win with this new method and yet they will continue to forge on with the old two years later is only the Red Sox that were using them exactly yeah put a hair somewhere that I lost it oh honey it's okay let's record this image please your hairs are in my food they're in in my hair they're everywhere I have plenty of looking at people as objects and not as right because yeah players it's not just about how good are you at playing the game it's also you have to be be a handsome guy yeah you have to be with married to a beautiful girl sell the dream right yeah yeah it's not even that the player itself has to be good looking they also have to be with an attractive looking partner because then you've got people that are going to be looking at them together or whatever because there's so many eyes on them and then on top of that you also have to be good looking yourself you have to be with good looking partners and friends whatever and then you also have to act normal right yeah yeah that was very good but he just threw two weird yeah people so you can yeah and and he was throwing sidearm which is an allowable thing but it was very it was almost under sidearm it was almost like under throwing or under pitching underhand which is just too different for people what they're used to but it's working but it's just you know it just looks too or the guy that kind of waddles when he runs and then people just don't want to see things that is a certain aesthetic that people are used to and they want to see that reproduced over and over yeah it's like so crazy it's literally like when you go to buy produce and if the banana has um if it's like a twin banana oh no we can't sell two bananas people will be freaked out by the twin banana or maybe the banana looks really weird or it has a face on it you know that's a defective bit of a lump or something a bit of a lump you can't sell that that's literally what they're doing isn't it yeah so much food is thrown out because of that exactly so many so many people so many people are thrown out because of exactly so many actors i'm sure that would be great they don't because they're like no you got to look so much maybe i'm more symmetrical i gotta look more yeah if your beauty spot was above the eye that would be yeah but it's on smack gap in the middle of your nose we just we just can't so yeah i don't know why yeah there's some things about moneyball and if you guys have seen it if you haven't and this sounds like a good sell check it out yeah if you and hopefully at this point if you like our taste you know give it a shot yeah yeah let us know about any of that stuff down below yeah all right that's a wrap


Hey guys, I wanted to make a video and today to talk about the importance of Knowing your pharmacology and looking up medications I recently had a nurse reach out to me who said that she is so busy on her unit that Sometimes she just doesn't have the time to fully look up What a medication is how it works the pharmacology behind it and all of that which I can totally relate to and sympathize with because Sometimes you were just so busy that you just want to take shortcuts or cut corners to get caught up and I really just want to make this video not to criticize that nurse because There's been situations where I haven't looked up a medication and I probably should have or I've cut a corner And I'm sure there's situations in which all of you have but being in the ICU I Really really truly understand now even more so the importance of looking at medications before you give them and Here's a little example for you I had a patient who was on leave a fed which if you don't know what leave a fed is it is Also called norepinephrine. It's a cardiac drip that helps raise blood pressure and this patient that was on the strip Also was still had blood pressure meds ordered to keep their blood pressure down They're on this medication called prososin which I hadn't heard before or it just was unfamiliar to me and I when I took it out of the pixas I was like hmm I wonder what this is and before I went to go give it I looked it up and realized that it's a medication to lower the blood pressure It's also called mini press which that name gives it away a little bit more than prososin but I held that medication because if If we have a patient on a met on a drip to keep their blood pressure up Why would I give them an oral medication that would contradict that and bring their blood pressure down? So that is just a little example But there's tons of examples But that just stresses the importance of looking at medications before you give them even if you are so Busy at least look up just a general description of what it is like is it treating blood pressure Is it a diuretic? Is it an anti-arhythmic? Is it a medicine for pain control? You really just need to know at least that you don't have to look up all six to ten pages of how the Medication actually works in the pharmacokinetics of it and all of that You can say that do that at a time when you're not busy or when you go home after work Whatever, but you should at least have a general idea of what the medication is Especially if a patient asks you like why are you giving this to me? You need to know why you're giving that medication The only exceptions to this is if you are in an emergent situation where maybe you're pushing meds that the doctors order But the doctor is at the bedside ordering those medications Then that would be the only exception but if again if you're not sure what a med is then you probably shouldn't maybe have someone else give it or If you have time to look it up look it up But for sure when you're passing your normal meds or your PRNs look up the medication I appreciate the nurse who messaged me this and was just completely honest and I don't want this video to come off as a lecture or Anything negative towards this nurse because we all have done it We all have given a medication where we have not looked it up Or maybe we thought it was another thing and it was actually something else because medications have such similar names But with that I want to thank you for watching this video Make sure you get a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel and I'll see you guys next time