From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny dollar Poor man here poor man. Oh, sorry, Mr. Poorman, but the answer is no I'm sorry, but it'll have to wait I'm gonna get as far away from this New England winter as I can Look, I've had a rough year of it I'm tired and I'm cold unless I can get down to where the warm balmy breezes waft in My office is down here. No, sir. I'm sorry. You see I just can't do it. Mr. Poorman, I've already made a plane reservation for Sarasota, Florida, and this is one time I'm going to Where did you say your branch offices? Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator is truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by a special investigator Johnny dollar to the tri-state life and casualty insurance company home office Hartford, Connecticut Following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the burning car matter Expense account item one, which I thought I was gonna have to absorb myself $129 transportation and incidentals to Sarasota, Florida It was nearly 5 p.m. When I got there so instead of checking into a hotel I taxied that's item two a dollar even I taxied to Earl poorman's office in the Conroy building He turned out to be a tall lanky easy-going fellow with clear blue eyes and already smiled Sit in an office and talk business this time of day here in Florida now Johnny Well, I thought from your call. This was a pretty urgent matter. Mr. Poorman. It is arson. You said yeah I probably but here's no reason. We can't go out to my little shack on the key and be Contrable while we talk about it besides Michael Wancher for dinner Mike my wife Gertrude Come on my Jalopy's right out at the curb. Come on Johnny Poor man was a misnomer for this man because his Jalopy turned out to be a spanking new Cadillac complete with air conditioning and all the Fixings and the shack anything but it was on St. Armand's key across Sarasota Bay from the mainland a beautiful two-story concrete and stucco job The big yard backed on a quiet bayou and there tied up at a private dock was a 24 foot lap straight speedboat Ideal for fishing the Gulf of Mexico after all as long as you're down here on expensive.  I'd seen in a long time Petite pretty and blonde and with eyes that you notice right away because they were almost green Eyes that suddenly narrowed as she looked at me and I wondered why Johnny Dollar did you say that's right insurance investigator down here to look into those fires? Oh? Any objections? No? No, of course not Just set your bags here in the hall Johnny. All right. Thanks, and wouldn't you like a drink after your long trip? Yeah, and you can get me one too scotch Johnny Martin's EVO. Oh great was soda please Thanks, I Take it Mike isn't too interested in the insurance business, huh? You know she used to be a singer dancer. Oh, well, this is a little different, but now tell me all well Actually, I guess we ought to wait until Arnold Carr gets back our car brothers Lumber enterprises Arnold runs the business and his brother Edward Well Ed just shares the profits real black sheep of the family from what I've been able to learn. Oh Anyway, they have yards all over the state There's one here in Sarasota one up the coast of ways at Fort Pierce and still another at Arcadia That's about 40 miles in and just east of here and there was one up in Orlando was Completely destroyed by fire a couple of weeks ago and a hundred and twenty thousand dollar claim has been filed a hundred Wow, that's where Arnold Carr's them in Orlando trying to clear things up Here's your drink. Oh, thanks. You're all yeah Well to the gods and goddesses and us Shouldn't I be up in Orlando then Arnold's on his way back here now? He lives here He just went up there to arrange for clearing off and selling the property you mean He's planning to just pocket the money if tri-state pays off. I mean looks like it, but I take it you suspect arson Yes, Earl suspects Arson Johnny and so does Arnold Carr at least he says he does but they have no reason no How about the other fires or attempted fires? Oh where at Arcadia for one But they got it out in time at least that's the way Arnold Carr reported it the way he let me tell it Mike There was another at the yard here in Sarasota Arnold himself discovered it one night when he was just driving around But nothing to indicate it was attempted arson. Well, the authorities up in Orlando found no indication of it there Mike, you know as well as I do that a lumberyard fire will obliterate signs of arson better than any other kind of fire in the world But she has a point the world unless there's some evidence of arson, of course Yeah, why sent for me well mostly because actually because Arnold Carr But he's given you no real reason none at all. I think he has a real reason, but he just won't tell us What do you see? He's gonna call when he gets in we'll run over to his place on Longboat key What about this brother Edward did you say I've never met him he's always stayed in Orlando I was wondering if he might tell things that Arnold is holding back. I had Edward Carr wouldn't know anything. You can never be too sure. I didn't look. Why can't you agree with me if I? Must be Arnie now. Excuse me Hello Oh, hi, Arnie Johnny dollar arrived, so we'll be well here. I'll let you talk to him here No, okay. No, I'll listen what before it was arson It was arson again tonight tonight. What's that? Arcadia just went up in flames the whole yard. Good Lord. Did you hear that Johnny? Yeah, I heard it Can you prove it was arson tonight in Arcadia and before in Orlando? I? Well, Arnie we'll be over just as fast. Oh, what no wait for me there at your home Well, but look now. I mustn't come here and I mustn't stay here because I now listen man you Arnie guess he's ready to tell us now a Suspicion began to grow in my mind a Suspicion that Mike apparently shared with me that our old car himself might be responsible for the fires After all he was the only one who had seemed to know about the two one successful attempts He himself had planted the idea of arson. He'd lost no time and filing claim for the Orlando burnout But Earl said I was wrong Arnold was too honest a man Earl had also said we were only 15 minutes from cars home So in half an hour pass we called him back got a busy signal After the fourth try the three of us took off an Earl's can as we pulled into cars driveway We could see him through the picture window sitting at his desk telephone in hand apparently engrossed in a call Then as we walked up to the door, I noticed something else Arnold car looked enough like me to be my brother Maybe that explained Mike's reaction when she first saw me Hey, Arnie can't you see he's on the phone in there? Well, at least he can do his hair his own doorbell Earl wait What's the matter throw the window? Oh, no, I'll stand back. Didn't you see from out there? No, what's wrong? Oh Johnny? Right through the forehead Earl Looks like a 38 Before I could stop him Earl took the phone out of the dead man's hand and called headquarters Mike turned pale and slumped into a chair And I gave the place a quick rundown check doors windows, etc. A Few minutes later an officious young sergeant named larkin arrived and took over Calibur straight through the middle of the forehead. We're all three of you here when it happened mr. Foreman mrs. Foreman and who are you the answer to your first question sergeants? No, none of us was here and this is Johnny dollar insurance invest hire you insurers guys work pretty fast You related to mr. Carr. No, why look a little like him Who busted in the front door the killer? I did when we drove up. We saw mr. Carr sitting there at his desk We rang the doorbell and knocked but when he didn't move you took things in your own hands and busted in huh That's right heaven moved anything.  I'm sure look for yourself. You call yourself an investigator Hey, Cummings will way check the area around that window beside the chimney out there for footprints. Maybe an empty cartridge case You folks get out of here so I can call doc Hanley over and get on with my investigation and no dollar I don't need any of your help. Well, thank you, sir. Your job is fires not Hey, where did Mrs. Pormin go out to the car? Why who told her she could leave who told us she had to sit here looking at a corpse All right dollar all right. Just be sure the three of you stick around town in case I decide to question you further Oh, of course sergeant. Yeah I'm not shot by somebody standing outside. What do you mean Johnny? Oh, I spotted that bullet hole in the window, too So I also noticed there were no particles of glass on the inside sill, but there were some on the outside Yeah, the shot that made that hole was fired from inside that room to make it look as though it had come from outside Then somebody was in there with Arnold Carr. Yeah, either somebody he let in or who had normal access to the house And he had to stop Arnold from talking about the fire in Arcadia Hey, how much do you know about his brother Edward? Nothing really outside of what Arnold told me was either the married family of any sort I mean he wasn't but I Arnold's death means Edward will own the business then well Oh, yeah, and he lives up in Orlando seen of the first big fire. Yes Sonny you don't think his own brother where can I rent a car take Mike Chevy? It's in the car for it at the house, but what are you gonna do drive up to Orlando my way of Arcadia? When I got to Arcadia only a few people were standing around the remains of the fire One host company was still working on it and a couple of police were poking about in the embers Walking toward it I almost stumbled over a little old man sitting alone in the darkness beside a palm tree hunched over his head in his hands sobbing He didn't even look up when I stopped beside You were you lost someone in the Farsie Only part of my life I helped build up that yard me and Mr. Arnold Arnold car He's been worried about it last week when him and me smell smoke and come over here and put out the barrel of tracers Was smoldering he knew know what that somebody was trying to burn him out That's why he stopped by tonight on his way home That's why we drove over here him and me and I brought my gun just in case When we got here too late already blazing When he's in the automobile pulling away with auto yes Frank he said to me I know he was the one trying to burn me out. He says who who all time or who do you mean? He didn't say Then he called the fire department that car that pulled away. What was it just auto big white? But he tied it in with whoever set the fire all he said was I knowed he was the one Do you know who it was he meant? He told me even if I didn't know I should never tell even the police. Well, who do you think it was? Break my word to mr. Arnie. Uh-uh never son. All right. Look old man. I'm sorry to have to tell you this Mr.. Arnie's dead What he what he can't be he was you Maybe you thought in the darkness. I wouldn't know you but I do know you get on not just a minute old time Mr.. Arnie's dead. It's because you killed him. What just like you set the fire. Oh, no, I'm not who you Act two of yours truly Johnny dollar in just a moment Back in the old days the very old days That is a girl named Cassandra had a corner on the Oracle market But nowadays you can do some foretelling yourself on jukebox jury for example You can help decide which of tin pan alleys new recordings are destined for the hit brackets And which ones are likely to spiral all the way down to oblivion Remember jukebox jury is yours to hear on most of these same stations every Sunday Now act two of yours truly Johnny dollar and the burning car matters Expense account item three five dollars fifteen cents gas for the borrowed Chevy to keep me going to Orlando Either the old man's eyesight was bad or he was just a lousy shot either way was okay by me I hated to slap him down, but there was no point hanging around Arcadia trying to explain things to the local authorities So after making sure I hadn't really hurt him. I appropriated his gun and took off fast He thought I was someone else even I had noticed a family type resemblance to myself in Arnold Carr Sergeant Larkin had asked me if I was related to him and now the old man at the fire had apparently thought I was the one who Oh, well I'm afraid I made the rest of the trip to warlander when somewhat less than legal time and at police headquarters I barged into the office of Lieutenant Cal Hudson without bothering to be announced To reach you but we got no answer to the phone at your house. That's very interesting I'm afraid I have the painful duty of notifying you that your brother Arnold down in Sarasota last night Why did you say very interesting mr. Carr? Had you already learned? Yeah, you're not the first one. Who are you Johnny dollar insurance investigator?  I think Edward Carr is the fire bug we're after and the killer wait a minute Briefly as possible. I told him of Arnold Carr's phone call to Earl poorman his emotional upset just before he was killed I told him Arnold had been murdered by someone inside the house someone close to him and that everything Indicated that someone could very well be Edward Carr That's still all just theory dollar without any proof I will admit that Edward is a pretty worthless playboy living off the profits of the lumbi art In any event the lieutenant promised to put out an APB on Edward Carr Now is it breakfast for the two of us item for three dollars and a quarter Before I left him he gave me Ed Carr's address 1726 Allen Place As I expected there was no answer to the doorbell at 1726, so I tried visiting up the street It quickly became clear that Ed Carr wasn't very popular and this otherwise quiet well-ordered neighborhood Noisy parties at all hours of the night cars parked up and down the street blocking respectable people's driveways Yes, you know once in a while you expect a person to have callers and such me I have the ladies bridge club every third Wednesday for instance But these are all ladies not like some of the trash that that man and his friends have Dancing and drinking and carrying on at all hours. Yes, you mentioned cars You know people like Mrs. Herford Robin. She's awfully nice and Janet Osterweilie Now she's a widow and you know she could have her pick of anybody she liked But does she ever look at another man? No, sir, and then there's Mrs. Harper.  Carr drove? Well, yes, it was a big white one and the make Well, no My husband when he was alive always drove a Maxwell and I guess that's the only kind I've got to know by name But mr. Cars is white only I guess that isn't much help to you Is it all the white cars here in Florida?  Oh, I really shouldn't use a word like that though. Should I but it fits wait a minute What blonde mrs. Harper mr. Dollar? I don't pay any attention to people like that Why you think she owned that house of his the way she keeps popping in and out all hours as if she Belonged there Mrs. Harper drives all the way up from Sarasota. Do you know who she is? I do not I refuse to pay any attention to people like and the way she dresses too like a Newly rich chorus girl with all her fancy clothes and furs and things. How do you know? She comes from Sarasota by the license on her car, of course Every city has its own number, you know that very well and hers is 12 w w something and you don't know her name Of course not Flaunting all those expensive furs as though she bought and paid for them herself And if there's anything I hate to see it's a little shrimp loaded down with furs now a tall person If there's anyone I don't trust it's a person with green eyes Thank you, Mrs. Harper Her description of cars girlfriend stopped me in my tracks That description could fit Mike Porman to the letter petite blonde green eyes and she came from Sarasota and Then I remembered Mike's reaction when she first saw me Her dismissal of Edward is a possible suspect. There was obvious friction between Earl and Mike too I figured it was just normal and a couple who'd been married for a while now Item 5 a dollar 30 phone call from the nearest booth I could find to Earl poor men at his office in Sarasota Well, you know where my kids Betty Yeah, well Yeah, well, okay, Earl. Thanks a lot No, no nothing that you need to worry about I sat down at a corner drugstore That's item 5 80 cents over a sandwich and a coke to try to think things out But I'm afraid I didn't like anything that I thought Finally I drove over to Allen place again. I parked a couple of blocks away and walked to 1726 I Wrang the front door, but knocked a couple of times Then I slipped around to the back door finagle a lock on it with a little celluloid pocket calendar finally got it open I Left it open for the sake of a quick exit if such became necessary I guess that was a mistake for a couple of minutes later as I rounded the corner from the den into the living room I felt the barrel of a gun pulled into my back out of town. Oh, yeah, I'll wait a minute. Don't move Eddie boy Trying to stall off pay me the five grand by saying you're gonna be out of town Okay, so you think I'm Edward Carr you kidding Don't you know what happens when somebody tries to stall me? I Don't know exactly how long I was out but when I came to it was dark except for the glow from a streetlight outside and What rouse me was the sound of footsteps feminine steps cautiously entering the back door Then briefly silhouetted against a window. I saw a trim petite figure that was all too familiar coming toward me And she saw me too hurt. What happened? What do you think did this who struck you? You don't know? Yes, of course It was Tony because you didn't pay him soon enough for the Arcadia job here Eddie let me help. No, just let me rest for a minute I thought that was Tony. I passed on the road in from Sarasota. Why'd you come over from Sarasota to see you? I know you'd be here. Oh, why why so the police could surprise you with the news of your poor dear brother's death Why did you come to the house because I hoped you'd come here? I guess Eddie You should have waited until I could raise the money to pay off Tony you made for killing Arnold too, of course, no You're trying to say you didn't kill Arnold, but I saw you from outside in the Buick. You'd swear to that, wouldn't you? I Don't know what you Eddie you sound like you don't trust me We're in this thing together. Yeah, you sure that What are you talking about whose idea was it to knock off Arnold?  I don't understand you Eddie. Yeah And I wish I didn't understand you Mike Mike. Come on. Let's turn on a light. No No, somebody sees this with Eddie you Are you kidding Mike? I Wait a minute. Who are you? You're that insurance investigator Johnny dollars that Mike told me let me out. Oh, no, you don't you're staying right here Mike poor man sister, aren't you well sister? So we went to the sister act before she married that poor man guy now Let me go that by a long shot. You may as well dollar what? Don't move dollar. Get his gun Betty. Get it. Yeah. Yeah, sure Here Ed good Ed car that's right. You know, we do look alike you and me. Yeah, sure enough for Betty here to have told me all I need to know don't believe him Eddie. He's lying.  She knew about us. She thought you might have something to do with the fire She was my friend. She was trying to get me out of this whole mess. I wish I'd listen to it Well, it's too late now, baby What are you going to do now? I gotta get rid of both of them and figure some way to shut up Tony's mouth You know, you'd never get away with it car. Oh, no, I'll call him.     I did Johnny Mike stay there stay right here Mike. I don't want to see it She was my friend Where's Earl I? came alone And I talked to Betty this morning. I knew your suspicions about Ed were right because See, I knew Betty and Ed were going together Earl didn't know Yeah, maybe you better call him Expense account items six nine dollars eighty cents gas and insinettles for the drive for the two of us back to Sarasota remarks Betty of course is already paid for her part in the deal and I guess it's pretty obvious what'll happen to Ed Carr and Tony Ricardo The insurance money in the car estates will be distributed according to Florida law Further remarks the apparent friction between Earl and Mike was only part of a normal married life They're pretty nice pair. Oh And I thoroughly enjoyed three days of fishing in the Gulf thanks to Earl Expense account total including all the incidentals I could think of 385 26 yours truly sunny dollar Our star will return in just a moment You don't have to be an efficiency expert to figure out that it's easier to lend your support to several worthwhile Fundraising campaigns all at once then it would be helping one campaign at a time that kind of efficiency is yours to enjoy through the United Community Campaigns CBS radio hopes that when the United Community campaigns are underway in your town that you remember how much good you can Accomplish with one gesture of support Now here is our star to tell you about next week story next week a case with a real twist One that I think will just about tear your heart out Sure nice won't you yours truly Johnny doll Yours truly Johnny dollars starring Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone who also wrote tonight's story heard in our cast were Virginia Greg Harley Bear Victor Perron Bob Bruce Harry Bartell Vivi Janus Tony Barrett and Junius Matthews Musical supervision is by Amarillo Marino Be sure to join us next week same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar damn cover Lee speaking


Hello, my name is Heiko, I'm a developer at Corpus Ventures and I'll present you now DM3. What is DM3? DM3 is a simple protocol for messaging, it's decentralized, it's open and it's secure. To achieve this, we built DM3 on established web-free protocols like ENS. The properties I just mentioned make it sensitive, resistant, we designed it so that there's no single point of failure and with DM3 users are in control of their data. Everyone can write an own implementation of DM3. The basis for DM3 is a registry where users can store their profiles. We used ENS text records for that and on the middle layer we have the delivery services, buffer the messages until they are delivered to the messaging app. On top you can see the messaging app. Since the registry is the core of the protocol, I'll now explain a little bit deeper how it works. As you can see, we have the public encryption key in the text record for the profile and also the public signing key and also important is the delivery service name, so there must be at least one name of a delivery service. The delivery service text record also contains public keys and it contains a URL. This URL is pointing to the delivery service instant where messages can be sent to. It's also possible to store data off-chain or on layer 2 by using CCIP. This allows the creation of DM3 profiles without high transaction fees or if it's completely off-chain you don't have any. And it also makes it possible to include external public key databases. This slide shows how a message would be delivered from Alice to Bob. So at first Alice types a message into the app. Then the app will retrieve the DM3 profile of Bob which contains the delivery service name he is using. In the next step, the app will retrieve the delivery service text record where there is the URL of Bob's delivery service. Then the message is signed and encrypted and sent to Bob's delivery service. The delivery service will push the message to the app that will be decrypted. And the app will look for the profile of Alice and that's needed because the signature needs to be checked. And if the signature is fine, Bob can then read the message. Besides the protocol definition, we also have a reference implementation. The reference implementation consists of four different packages. We have the DM3 web app. As you can see, screenshot here on the left side. It's also online available on the app.dm3.chat. Besides the web app, we have the React package. This can be used to include a widget of DM3 into other apps.  This contains the delivery service. And finally, we have the DM3 lip which contains basic protocol services. So we are working also on protocol extensions which take care of things like group messaging. These extensions are optional. If you want to write a DM3 implementation, you only need to follow the DM3 message transferred protocol. So that's our roadmap. Until now, we published the protocol draft and the reference implementation. A critical goal of DM3 is to enable interoperability between currently isolated Web3 messengers. We are now talking with many of those messenger teams to understand their needs. And yeah, please let us know if you want to join the discussion. After we finish that process, we'll publish the specification and adapt the reference implementation. Yeah, if you want to include DM3 into your app, let us know. We'll try to support you. That's it. Thank you.


what type of decision do we try to impact you know just like any infrastructure operational organization you can roughly organize your thoughts in three categories how do we plan an infrastructure system to better withstand environmental factors especially if they occur at a higher frequency at a higher severity those kind of things how do we need to reevaluate our design standards our design approach what kind of technologies and equipment is available that we can incorporate into our grid to make this grid more resilient so those are very basic and very important decision both to Gerritz and Brad's comments that will naturally evolve over time as these as this informed view that we have of the future will now inform investment decisions on our assets and incorporate technologies that may have not been available in the past so the data the insights that we are generating from both our predictions from our forecast what we expect to happen down the road will inform our today's investment decisions how we design structurally topography as well as from a technology and equipment perspective so how can we incorporate more automation the business cases will change some of that technology may have been available in the past but now with a revised view on the frequency and the severity of events you now have a better business case at a larger scale for deployment technologies the cost of technologies the last cycle cost all those kind of things have an effect on how we look at our investment decisions around the grid that's one category the second category is a little bit more focused on specific prevention you know many people talk about grid hardening where do we want to invest in underground facilities where do we still want to be exposed on the overhead side what kind of redundancy can be incorporated and go back into our existing facilities and saying what kind of measures can we take that will help us to better withstand any kind of events you know whatever nature that may be so that's a that these two categories are well-established practices where the new insights and data flow in to to drive and inform these decisions and lastly of course technology and analytics for that matter has a big impact on how we respond to these events so it's not just planning or a specific event prevention but now we're talking about how can we better respond to events how do we gather insights from our environment the situational awareness how we deploy our resources how do we understand what situation we are facing out on our system so that we can have a more effective and a faster restoration response associated with any kind of disaster so so that's high level kind of the categories and then we can dive in in each of those categories and saying okay so what specific technology what specific data points do we have what kind of activities can we identify here and and there's many examples if I go on the disaster response area as well as on the prevention side I want to piggyback a little bit on what Levente shared earlier it's not just the utilities internal data sets that drive that so what we're getting back from our equipment the meters the skater equipment our crews there's a lot of data points that we are collecting that inform our decisions and that we can analyze to drive better in decisions but it's also the remote sensing and environmental data sets that we can receive from the outside and I think a very promising technology there is clearly satellite deployments that really have changed in the past years there are lots of new satellites new data coming back and it is particularly interesting in that field because it is so broad scale so if you think of a large transmission distribution system like on course we're dealing with almost 140 000 miles of lines there's a lot of possibilities when we look at one particular location what we can do and how we analyze it but it becomes very challenging to identify the high risk and the response options when you look at it at scale over 140 000 miles there's limits how many eyes you can put on the system like this at the same time just physical limitations and so through remote sensing satellite imagery that is detailed enough and produces actionable insights for us there's a lot of opportunity there that allows to quickly identify those areas that deserve the human attention deserve resources another example is obviously in the in the planning area where we really try to identify what is the population growth especially here in north texas we are overwhelmed by just the investment volume both on the commercial and residential side we are connecting almost 100 000 meters new every calendar year just keeping up with the construction volume changes the topography of the grid how do we augment the system to address both the accommodate the growth that is taking place as well as the the the operational risk challenges due to weather so so you it's not a siloed only decision that all we are doing is only geared towards accommodating a big hurricane or tornadoes or a bad winter storm our decisions obviously are also influenced by where is where can we accommodate the new growth how we can get a timely construction completed to to address new factories new homes new subdivisions and all these things funneled together and and you can see how data analytics and and and complex modeling really helps us to make better decisions in all those areas thanks just to complementing in this planning decision how far in the future do you do planning for for encore I mean it's like how many years ahead do you start planning a new transmission or can you complement a little bit on that yes I mean as you might expect in any business you have you have different stages in your planning horizons so we would typically go out probably no further than five years that's a realistic planning horizon for us just you know the uncertainty increases dramatically if we go past that horizon so and then you take it back you have your high-level plans you expect where your growth areas are around your metropolitan areas where new subdivisions new growth will take place based on land use you know so you identify your redevelopment areas your your your expansive new development all those things and you get a general idea in what direction the growth in a population center you know which is different in the rural areas versus in the metropolitan areas so you have a general understanding where your growth goes and you try to position your facilities to accommodate that growth without incurring the risk of stranded investments where you're building over capacity where you're burdening your right payers risk cost that we shouldn't so that's kind of the long-term view what I call five years then you bring it down to you revisit that every year and then you basically have an annual review where you're revising your plan and make specific construction scopes that that then will be executed to expand the capacity in areas to improve the reliability due to maintenance or to accommodate specific customer requests that that require construction and so the annual plan then is what we execute and then but it's all based on the five-year plan that goes out thanks so going out to Brad Hagen mentioned that you know the availability of new data sources like more satellites is helping their could help in their case to be able to more practically make predictions also assessments of damage to have a faster response so in your case for earth can you mention a little bit about the kinds of data sources sensors satellite etc that you use and and how they you see changing the future the types of data for monitoring and response yeah i think he's hog is exactly right and it also plays into some comments Jared made is to really take advantage of the period of time we're in we're heavy investments going into infrastructure in north america you know the infrastructure bill has 73 billion dollars in it just for grid infrastructure if that that happens so for a period of time where there's a focus is how do you spend that well to reinforce the current infrastructure against climate impact and also a different growth pattern in our economy right now where that should be placed properly to manage risk i think it's also interesting right now and i'll get to the data that there's also mass support for deployment of 5g across the country and what's interesting is that smart grids and telecom go together at the same time because you have to have the communication infrastructure in order for an intelligent grid to be more responsive and reactive and resilient the way it operates so to this kind of asymmetric point that jared brought up these these linear networks are all linked together you know it's the telecom network it's the electric network itself as we learned in texas how you're how you're protecting the gas infrastructure matters because that's a key fuel you know for balance of the stability of the grid itself when you start looking at that it means you need to look at this linear infrastructure that delivers these services holistically and the only way to do that is look at all the potential risks that that are out there it's the age of the assets that are out there that the utility companies own it's the cloud changing climate conditions it's not just storms if you move out to the west it's temperature of the ground where you have pipelines buried potentially and you have rising ground temperature that can affect the fidelity of pipelines themselves in the delivery of their services so being able to merge together climate information current information of the environment that the physical asset is sitting in understanding the complementary nature of those different services coming together in a region and how they have to work together to be resilient to deliver the full service I call them fuse systems is you is bringing all that data together in a view that you can then query against scenarios of what what would happen today what would happen five years from now and start judging economic impact what what kind of industries are in that area how critical are the industries and the logistics they provide and the goods they provide where I think that's really important to bring that together is then that helps you direct investment it helps the the utilities of the world make better cases to regulators banks put pressure on and financial investors also of where they see the need in order to deploy capital you've got to have insurance that the economic vitality is there you need to understand what social services are in those areas and understand impact like that so I think this whole area of fusing all these different data sources of what's the economy in that area look like what is the environment what's the physical infrastructure what is climate change going to do bringing those together in a way that you can analyze and plan it is very very very important for the way cities plan the way banks plan the way utilities plan and that's something we're very focused on working with company like IBM but how do you bring those data sources together and make it easily queryable so you can start doing the kind of analysis in the planning phase you know if you're trying to basically adapt or the things you want to be doing right now to mitigate like I mentioned with pipelines where you've got you know leaking pipes of methane that are kind of undoing all the good you're doing with wind farms in west texas or when you have a big out power outage in california or in the third world you start turning on diesel generators and mass and there's in in the development where there's about 300 gigawatts of diesel generators there that you know you know again offset all the good work done in other places if you don't have a reliable electric grid so I think data is at the core of you know how we go into this more sustainable future thanks bread that makes a lot of sense I like the example of the pipeline temperature soil temperature so going to back to Jared I think that you can also add some perspective in terms of the kinds of data that you use in your within financial so in the same sense that Brad and Hagen commented can you give us a little bit overview of what kinds of data that do you and different sources and also types of data doing corporate and how you do that for different problems in the financial industry yeah absolutely so I mean when we think about physical risk you know I tend to break down the world in a similar way that the insurance industry has broken down the world historically which is you have hazards which are what you know particular companies might be exposed to how is the climate going to change what is the increased frequency of flooding of extreme heat events both chronic and acute and then you have exposures so are your companies actually located in a particular area where those hazards occur and then finally you have vulnerabilities and so vulnerabilities are let's say that you have an asset that is exposed in a particular area to a particular hazard and that hazard occurs what's the actual damages that are going to take place contingent on that you know chain of logic in that hazard occurrence and it turns out I think that we have a pretty good way as financial institutions and increasingly good technology that's out there on the hazard end there are a lot of different companies that are serving the financial services industry to really think about what how how is the climate going to change how does that actually materialize at a more you know localized geospatial level what does that look like in terms of you know multi hazard events and different frequencies occurring how can we think about that in terms of broad based or broad brushed geographic exposure but one of the things we don't have a very well right now is actually on the front of knowing where the locations of the some of the companies that are invested in are as you can appreciate this is not something that's probably that is widely disclosed across all industries there are sometimes national security implications involved in that public disclosure sometimes there are economic competitiveness implications involved in that disclosure and there isn't really a disclosure standard or method or financial institutions to actually get access to those geospatial locations so there are emerging developing data sets out there that allow us to look at where some types of businesses might be located but even when we can actually locate those businesses and know where the facilities are we often don't know how important those facilities are which is another critical step in the logic chain so if a facility gets hit is that 80 percent of production is that 10 percent percent of production for a particular company how important is that from the perspective of financial disruption the hurricane comes through and takes that production offline that's a question we can easily answer right now and has a lot to do with the lack of facility exposure data and then finally we get to the vulnerability and things which arguably to me from a financial institutional perspective is actually the most important for us to understand but also the hardest piece of information for us to get access to which is what actually makes a company vulnerable you know and Hagen and you know Brett have actually done a really good job of kind of laying out a lot of the interdependencies when it comes to broad-based you know grid resilience and some of the interdependencies on things like fiber optic networks and actually understanding a long value chain in terms of how it's installed what some of the underlying resiliency conditions of a grid might look like and that's something that we may not have the access to from the perspective of a financial institution but it is actually something that we can have influence over so when we talk to companies and when we engage with companies one of the most positive points of engagement we can make as a financial institution is actually to talk to companies about enhancing their resiliency issuing specific financing that will allow them to actually increase the level of resiliency that they've in adaptation that they've built into their their systems whether that's a grid or location of a generation you know location of their generation moving it from a basement to a third floor in a flood from district there are plenty of examples out there that we've kind of explored to actually be able to you know not only think about assessing risk but building resilience and that's an area where I think we do need things like new types of disclosed information disclosure standards potentially to really understand what are the actual adaptation and vulnerability actions that can be taken in partnership with the companies that we lend and invest to in order to build that resilience over the long term one thing I'd quickly add here is that nowhere in my opinion is this more important than when when we think about the concentration of risk in emerging markets when we think about resilience and adaptation and the ability of you know develop the physical risk you know one of the critical dynamics here is that physical risk will will show up in an asymmetric manner for a variety of reasons across developing countries now does that mean we should disengage from those developing countries entirely because they have higher risk concentrations on the physical end I worked in emerging markets for years and my contention would be no you know one of the things that we need to understand is what we can concretely do to actually build resilience and enhance the financing so that we don't have those physical impacts in the future without those deeper understandings of what is actually driving vulnerability what actually is a proactive adaptation response it becomes an exercise where we just look at risk and don't actually think about the things we can do about it as financial institutions yeah yeah that was actually very good perspective right that you don't just want to estimate risk to make decisions but you actually can cause change by actually helping people address the vulnerabilities and that that's very very interesting so going back to to Hagen can you tell us a little bit about what you see going more into the things we're closing now that what you think would be like the future let's say the perfect future in our for on core in terms of both the response and planning that you mentioned before in terms of how the technology would evolve and how the operations would run well I think in many ways I just realized this to be honest in many ways you know as an operational manager in a grid company we really look at the world in our grid very similar to how Jared described how he looks at his investments so if I you know in many ways however we augment however we invest in our grid and for that matter even how we operate and run our facilities today is very much how Jared would look at his portfolio of investments so all these factor that he describes are exactly the same factors that we have to look at with every investment decisions that we make on our grid and for that matter it's a life cycle decision that includes maintenance, life cycle what is happening down the road as well as up front from an asset perspective so in many ways the drivers to make good or better investment decisions in a changing and uncertain world are very much the same and so if you're asking me what would be the perfect world look like is that I have data on everything and the perfect algorithm that eliminates that uncertainty so that we can investment decision with a high degree of certainty without the risk of stranded investments or under investment in the areas where we should have done more so more data and more intelligence to turn that data into reliably actionable information so that's the perfect future that I pray for but obviously that is impossible but what we're dealing with is we are making progress in that direction on one side I think we all recognize it's not just climate change it's changing customer expectations it's changing technology it's the changing society how we use electricity how we depend on electricity you know 20 years ago if you lived in the country you had a different attitude towards your electric service than you have if you live in a metropolitan area you know was in a connected life so that there's a lot of changes around us that are going on that are driving these uncertainties and driving the change that we need to adapt to as we provide any infrastructure service or make investment decisions and so what we have to we are making progress there on one side there is the volatility because of the intermittency of renewable generation of all the change that is going on around us so the uncertainty is increasing and makes our investment less attractive and more uncertain and we know it's less quantifiable than maybe in the predictable world of the past on the other side we're producing more data we are having promising technological advancements that now can address that uncertainty and the volatility that we fail and so we really need to watch both sides predict and understand these changes that are going on around us with open eyes and then really not just make investments in our infrastructure itself but also recognize the value of information and data that allows us to make more informed decision on those assets so in the past you know there's an intangible assets called data that was just a cost center now we're recognizing data to be more of an asset because it allows us to address and minimize risk and uncertainty in our investment decisions and so that's the future we're moving towards the volatility will continue to increase the uncertainty but we're also producing more data and more technology that allows us to manage and handle that volatility and that's a little bit conceptual so but I think it finds its expression in those three categories that I outlined earlier we're making better planning and investment decisions we are smarter how we can prevent and harden our grid so data and technology will help with that and we are smarter and better in how we respond to disasters by having data available having people with mobile devices out there having satellite images out there so so in all three categories we're getting better and so each company needs to gauge itself how are we making progress how are we exposed to these uncertainties and then how with our data investments with our intelligence that the insights that we're gaining uh how can we address that to bring that risk back down to to stay attractive for our investors thank you so I'll give a also bread and cherry that chest to to wrap up as we are running out of time so I'll please bread if you can also mention a little bit more I like your you mentioned about 5g and how this is it going to impact the the kinds of decisions that we make so you can mention that in your final course I think Coggan summarized very well it's just I think you've got to look at the interrelatedness between these physical networks whether it's the 5g gas electric and also transportation networks you know the rail systems and the road those interdependencies between those have to go into a risk assessment to vitality of industry and community behind those networks and the way you look at them and so Coggan said it perfectly that to do that efficiently and effectively and I think the term he used reliable information trust it because if you're in the finance area or you're an actuarial in the insurance industry it's about trusted data and you know that's what we're very focused on and working with companies like IBM is how do you get the trusted data across these things to make good decisions with jaren yeah I think just in terms of you know high level summary of some of where we are and where we should go you know are the journey for financial institutions really I think started you know very recently on fiscal risk so it was really I think accelerated and brought to a lot of people's attention you know six or seven years ago um and so this is a it's a relatively new field and when that all kicked off you know the focus was on awareness how do we build awareness of physical risks as a factor within financial institutions and I think many of us most of us are painfully aware of physical risk dynamics being real affecting uh affecting financial markets in a variety of ways in creating systemic risk and I think where we're at right now is trying to find out new ways to use the data uh and and uh broader universe of resources including engagement with companies to move quickly from awareness to impact thinking about what we can concretely do to make change how do we execute actions that are going to build real resilience and what is going to be the unique role of financial institutions in connection with uh corporates around the world and municipalities and sovereigns in building that resilience over a longer period of time. Thank you very much for the great pleasure talking to you three today I hope everyone else has enjoyed as well so I think Hendrik now you can go back to George. No thanks thanks Bianca and thanks Brad, Jared and Hagen for a really wonderful conversation a very insightful conversation and thanks for participating in our in our event. I'm going to turn it over actually to Hendrik. Hendrik opened our event and he's going to close close our day here.  Yeah so I guess I have the impossible task to conclude today's sessions. I always like to look back and summarize what's sticked and of course I will not be sorry because we just heard too much but if you recall our first keynote speaker I think reminded us quite well about the human dimensions of the impact of climate change all right it's not just about the numbers it is it has real impact on people on businesses he also reminded us of that we can only be successful if we collaborate now the geospatial analytics and impact of this demonstration by Anne I felt may clear how impact modeling has become so easy so quick now it's never quick enough and easy enough but we're really catching up what Hagen described and Jared described with the increased volatility and technologies trying to keep up with addressing some of that they also show quite nicely how it has increased the accuracy of the predictions right and how it enables to understand the context of climate impact information right the vulnerability in these questions the presentation by Campbell and the chat with Campbell Bianca and so on hey reminded us that IBM is actually the leading weather forecasting company right using AI for a long time but it's not just about the weather right it's much more it's about the decisions you're making and we also learned how we can address that challenge of uncertainty which is inherent to forecast and but how we can actually use that information also to make better decisions the application discussants by Chitendra and Smith and Levent and of course a great panel we just had with Jared, Brad and Hagen also gave us a little insight on the real applications how to adapt to the impact of climate change so it's not just theoretical right it is about the right decisions it's about preparing tomorrow we have so we're not done so tomorrow we have an exciting agenda where we actually look at the role of the public sector and we'll kick off with Donald Wubbles who's a professor at URUC he is a presidential fellow he's a contributor to the intergovernmental panel for climate change so you cannot miss that right make sure you're coming back there will be a second keynote with a very intriguing title the climate dance in the triple helix by Lux Research also by an excellent speaker we'll then hear from two leaders from IBM Kumi and Centeno about our technologies and of course we're also going to conclude with an exciting panel tomorrow with government leaders so let me close by thanking all the participants thanks so much the speakers panelists for your contributions and we see you tomorrow thank you


Lipoprotein A, also known as LpL, is an independent genetic and causal factor for cardiovascular disease and heart attacks. At any level of LDL cholesterol, your risk of heart attacks and strokes is 2 to 3-fold higher when LpL is elevated. With a high enough level, atherosclerosis continues to progress even if you get your LDL cholesterol way down, which may help explain why so many people continue to have heart attacks and strokes even under treatment for high cholesterol. So it's suggested that doctors test lipoprotein A levels in a patient who suffered such an event if it can't otherwise be easily explained. What's the point of checking it, though, if there's not much we can do about it? To date, no drug to reduce circulating LpL levels has ever been approved for clinical use. Some researchers blame our lack of knowledge on the fact that LpL is not found in typical lab animals like rats and mice. It's only found two places in nature, primates and hedgehogs. How strange is that? No wonder LpL is an enigmatic protein that has mystified medical scientists ever since it was first discovered a half century ago. But who needs mice when you have men? The level in our bloodstream is primarily determined by genetics. And for the longest time, LpL was not thought much influenced by things such as diet. Given it's similar to LDL, though, one might assume a healthy lifestyle would help. However, the evidence has been lacking, but maybe that's because they've not yet tried a plant-based diet. We've known for years that the trans fats found in meat and dairy just as bad as the industrial-produced trans fat found in partially hydrogenated oil junk food, when it came to raising LDL cholesterol. When it comes to lipoprotein A, the meat and dairy trans fat appears to be even worse. Just cutting out meat, putting people on a lacto-oval vegetarian diet does not appear to help, but put people on a whole food plant-based diet packed with a dozen servings of fruits and vegetables a day and within four weeks, lipoprotein A levels dropped 16%. Of course, in those 30 days, they also lost 15 pounds, but weight loss does not appear to affect LpL levels, so you figure it must have been due to the diet. Now, if you're already eating a healthy plant-based diet and your LpL levels are still too high, are there any particular foods that can help, like for cholesterol? Even if the average total cholesterol, those eating strictly plant-based, may be right on target at less than 150 with an LDL right on target at under 70. There's a bell curve, with a plus or minus 30 falling immediately on both sides. Enter the portfolio diet. It's not just plant-based, but at specific cholesterol-lowering foods, if that's not enough. So like nuts and beans, oatmeal and berries, to drag cholesterol down even further. What about LpL? Nuts have been put to the test. Two and a half ounces of almonds every day dropped levels, but only about 8%. That's better than the other studies on nuts that found no effect at all. No effect at all, and no effect at all. Nuts. There is one plant, though, that appears to drop LpL levels 20% enough to take people exceeding the US cutoff down to more optimal level. And that plant is a fruit. Amlica aficionalis, otherwise known as amla, Indian gooseberries. A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study asking smokers before and after about their cough, their shortness of breath, the loss of appetite, and feelings of impending doom, palpitations, sleep deprivation, irritability, heartburn, and tiredness, as well as objective measurements from their blood count, cholesterol DNA damage to antioxidant status, lung function, and the amla extract they used showed a significant improvement compared to placebo in all the parameters tested with no reports of side effects. That's unbelievable. No, really, that's unbelievable. And indeed, it's completely not true. Yes, subjective complaints got better in the amla group, but they got better in the placebo group, too, with arbitrary scoring systems and no statistical analysis whatsoever. And of the two dozen objective measures, only half could be said to reach any kind of even before and after statistical significance, and only three were significant enough to account for the fact that if you measure two dozen things, a few things might pop up positive if only by chance. Anytime you see this kind of spin in the abstract, which is sometimes the only part of the study people read, you suspect some kind of conflict of interest. But there were no conflicts of interest declared, but that's bulls**t, as the study was funded by the very company selling those amla supplements. But anyways, one of those three significant findings was the LP Little A, so it might be worth a trot. I mean, in the context of a plant-based diet, which in addition to the weight loss can dramatically improve blood pressures, even as people cut down on their blood pressure medications, plus a 25-point drop in LDL-Bad cholesterol, plus a 30% drop in C-reactive protein and significant reductions in other inflammatory markers for a systematic cardioprotective effect, all thanks to this single dietary approach.


Hello dear friends! Today we will show you how to make a 3D engraving on a Watson CNC router. First of all, we should prepare a working file for operation. We will carry out all the settings in the ArcCam program in which we can visualize the result after all the settings are done. Pay attention to the preparation of the layout. The dimensions of the model must not exceed the edges of the workpiece to be machined. And to detailing when choosing the size of the field as this will directly affect the detailing of the workpiece when changing its size. Then select the machining tools and properly adjust the contours, depths and speed of machining based on the diameter of the cutting tool and the material to be machined. Watson CNC machines can process a large number of materials such as plastics, different types of wood, various composites, soft metals and many other materials. In this video we will use MDF. It is a very pliant and easy to process material that is often used in 3D engraving. Upload the file to the DSP controller. Adjust the starting point along the X and Y axes. Search for the point on Z can be done manually or using a special sensor. Start processing. In order to make the work faster it is recommended to use several cutters. To start with roughing we will use a straight end mill. It will remove a part of the layer from the workpiece so that the cutter and spindle will experience minimal stresses during the finishing process. Then run the file with finishing. In this case we will use a conical cutter with a rounded tip with a minimum processing step to achieve a more detailed working out of the layout. Wait for results. It worked great. We will be glad to help you with choosing the optimal equipment. If you have any further questions write them in the comments.


Hey guys, I'm Aiden McKinsey, and I'm here with Sam Atlaker, so today we're gonna be talking about her career in music because she's a musician and she's a songwriter and she does a lot with everything, I don't even know if I could get to describe what she actually completely does. So I guess we're gonna start off with how did you get into your career? So I have always just been one of those people who was really drawn to music from a young age. I even as far back as elementary school, I remember making up melodies and writing lyrics and so it was something I was just always really drawn to and I just always knew I wanted to be creative and have that outlet. So as a kid I would like I said just kind of make up songs and it was really just something I did for fun, but as I got older I found more of my outlet and more of my sound and I was performing in you know plays and musicals as a kid and then that led me to eventually I did some of the Christmas productions at Dollywood and that was where I really got to learn about really just like Dolly Parton in her career was a big eye-opener for me to kind of be like, wow, you know, she started doing what I want to do it around my age and I think that was a really big lesson for me and just kind of like how she got started. So from there that's when I started I picked up a guitar and started like really trying to figure out what I wanted to say as a writer and started really finding my voice so to speak. So it was something that was always kind of in me, but that was what really opened the door for me. Okay, so going back to Dolly Parton, would you say that she's your musical inspiration and she's the one that kind of opened your kind of like she was your idol kind of like in music? Yeah, definitely. She was I think probably the first artist that I really really dove into and wanted to learn about her and Taylor Swift because Taylor Swift she you know started releasing music around the time that I was about eight, nine years old so it was around that age for me so and they're really at least in my lifetime hadn't been an artist yet where they put so much focus on writing and just what it's like to create your own sound so those were definitely my first two big inspirations and I still love them both. Yeah, so if you had to choose a song either in this discography or in someone else's to describe you as an artist which song would you choose? I feel like as far as from the songs that I've written and recorded the ones that describe me I feel like it can honestly change every day. It's hard to just pick one that I feel like really sums me up. I know lately the song that I am connecting with the most that I've written is one called The Light Under the Lamb which is one that I'm releasing later this year. I do seem to be drawn more to story songs so that's probably why it changes a bit for me. Another one going back to Dolly Parton. I've always really connected with Code of Many Colors and that's always a song that I always say I kind of wish I'd written that one. Yeah, that's a good song. So what, tell me your story. So when you, what city did you grow up in in Tennessee? You grew up in New York? Yes, I'm from Knoxville originally and it's just about two and a half hours away from Nashville. So by the time I was about 13 I was able to start making trips to Nashville. And when I would make trips at first I was mainly playing shows. I would maybe come up here once every few months and play a show or two. And then from there I started to meet other songwriters and so then it started to become the trips were more regular. I was coming down here for a week at a time and just spending that week writing. And I feel like those trips growing up were what taught me a lot about Nashville and how the music business works and I feel like I really learned a lot from that. So I'm from Knoxville and I, you know, still before I moved, I live here in Nashville now, but before I moved I was pretty involved with the Knoxville music scene. There's a lot of really cool venues out there. So I would play live shows a lot, but there wasn't really many opportunities for co-writing or collaborating with other musicians. So that was probably the biggest difference, but Knoxville is what kind of gave me my start, but it also gave me that ability to still travel here. So going back to before you moved, what was the biggest challenge converting from Knoxville to Nashville? I think probably the biggest challenge with moving was probably, to be honest, not even music related at all just because I'd spent so much time here, here in Nashville before I even moved. So I kind of felt like I'd found my way and found where I fit in before I even moved here. So that was really nice. So probably the biggest challenge was honestly just the whole, you know, moving for the first time when you're 18 and it's kind of, it's just a big change. So honestly, it was probably just the whole, you know, it's kind of like going away to college or something. It was just so new and it's a little bit different away from your friends. But now definitely I've been here, oh gosh, almost five years now, which makes me feel pretty old, but it definitely feels like home now. So I think it was just that pretty normal having to get used to a new city. Yeah. So when you, okay, so do you write your own songs like all of them? Yeah, I've actually never recorded something that I haven't written. It's not to say that in the future I never would. I think it just kind of worked out that way because the songwriting process was so important to me with, you know, just how I got started. But down the line, I would definitely, if there was ever an opportunity, if I heard a song that I just loved, if I had the opportunity to record it, I definitely would. Especially because there's so many songwriters here in Nashville and, you know, well, just all over really that I admire so much. And so, you know, I may not ever get the chance to write with some of these writers, but I could, you know, still collaborate them, collaborate with them in a way if I'm able to record one of their songs. Yeah. So when you write your own songs, do you sell them or do you like record them for you? Or like, what's the process with after you write the song? Yeah. So it, everyone does it a little bit differently. And that's kind of the cool thing is that you can choose your own path with each song, really. So when I, it kind of goes back to when I first moved here, I had signed a publishing deal. And basically what that means is they own part of the publishing on my song.  And they also give you opportunities to have your songs pitched to other artists so that they can hear the songs and hear if that's something that maybe they want to record. And it also kind of goes together when you're an artist, they'll give you, you know, opportunities to meet producers to collaborate with, to meet with other writers who are wanting to really help work with artists from the ground up. So there's so many different ways to do it. I have had some of my songs recorded by other artists. The only way that I personally so far in my career have had that done is if it was a time where I was writing with the artist. So I haven't had a song just completely outside be recorded by another artist yet. But that would definitely be something that I would love to happen in the future. But yeah, that's kind of a cool thing about writing is you can kind of just choose your own path with each song. You know, sometimes I'll go in with an idea and be like, man, I really feel strongly about this one. I feel like this is something I might want to record. And other days it may be like, hey, this is a really cool song, but I'm not sure if I see myself in it. So I might try to, you know, share it with other artists to get their input on it. So it can kind of vary. Yeah. So in your personal life growing up, so who was your personal inspiration? So we already said that, you know, like Dolly Parton and Taylor Swift inspired you musically. So who personally inspired you? I was lucky to have a lot of really just like creative, talented, hardworking people around me in my life. Both of my parents come from a background where they're really into music and, you know, being creative and just into like writing and stuff like that. So it was really cool to already have that foundation within my family and then also just a lot of friends that I had growing up. Like I said, I can't kind of came from that theater and performing background. So I just, I feel like I was always around creative people. So I had a really good foundation growing up just different types of creatives to look at. So when you were growing up, what was what was the first experience you had in recording in the studio and making music actually like recording it? Yeah, I want to say, it's hard to remember my very first time recording. I want to say probably around the time I was 13, 14 when I first started making these trips to Nashville. That was when I started recording some demos of songs that I'd written with a producer named Michael Davy. And I believe that might have been my first experience in a studio. And so usually we would record whatever song we wrote the day of, which gave me a lot of experience in the future just to know what the recording process is like. But yeah, I think I was around 13 or 14 when I first recorded. That's really young. So when you were, did you release anything like publicly? I did briefly back then. Yeah, I ended up putting out an EP around that time. I think I was maybe 14 when it came out. And since then I've actually taken it down just because I'm about to release new music. And I feel like since then, you know, like, like you said, I was so young and I feel like I've really found myself and found my sound. So I kind of wanted just a fresh start, you know, but I still really like cherish that time of my life just because it's such a cool experience that I feel like is pretty unique. And like I said, it just taught me so much. That's awesome. Like when you started so young and then you went around and stuck with it. A lot of people don't stick with that, but you just continued it. Yeah, yeah, you got to do whatever feels right. And it was just kind of once I started, I definitely knew that's what I wanted to do. So that concludes my questions. But would you know I'm singing something? Yeah, I got you. I got you. And I conveniently had my guitar right next to me since we are, this has now become my work area since we're kind of all quarantined right now. I've mainly been writing at home instead of going to other people's studios. So that's been a little bit different. Something that I forgot, like totally forgot, but how has quarantine and COVID not prevented you from like how have you dealt with that from not. Yeah, I guess honestly the biggest difference is probably just the live shows. For the most part they have stopped for the time being of course we don't really know when that'll pick up again. In some ways it's actually been. It's been really interesting to see how you can still make music and it kind of challenges you to see. Okay, how can we all collaborate with each other but do this in a different way like we've been using zoom to do co-rights that's become really, really common and being able to like send tracks back and forth and even doing demos like at home. It's so crazy and so different and it's also kind of given me a little bit of time just to also just kind of play around with like content making because I'm always trying to, you know, film videos and do recordings. And stuff like that so in some ways it's been really cool to have this extra time to kind of explore all that but in some ways I really miss performing live shows so I'm excited to get back to that. But I'll do a song that I am actually releasing on Friday and it's called funny.  Thank you. I'm excited for that song to drop. Yeah, thank you. I'm excited to finally put it out. I wrote it a couple years ago so it's cool to see it finally get to come to life.


Hey everyone, welcome to figure fantasy. So today we'll be covering a complete comprehensive Currency guide for all of you from beginner up to advanced some of you guys might have missed Something so this is a video for Everyone, okay, so I won't be covering in this video Event currencies probably just a few because we have an event and it's part of the store And also I might have missed something in this guide So please just put them down in the comment section so that Everybody might be informed and I may also be reminded so to start off guys Our first currency is going to be your lucky coin. Your lucky coin is going to be used in a Lot of upgrading of figures some of them the store, but this is your general currency It's applied everywhere. So just the balance spending it Initially for beginner use it for upgrades enhancement, but again You can use it. It's a very flexible and very Easy easy to obtain currency so Every currency that I'll almost every currency that I'll be discussing has it obtained from just click on that and it will reveal The content where you can farm these okay, so there goes our lucky coin next up is our diamonds So diamonds a are Going to be used in your summons all of your summons including collab summons special banners You name it the only exception for I think that you can use diamonds would be fishbone, but That's very little percent. That's probably Two to five percent of you know of most of the time you're gonna use it But I would highly this discourage people to use Diamonds to buy fishbone at the start especially your beginning Once you're advanced and you have a lot of stock for diamonds probably yes But diamonds are ultimately or gems are ultimately used for summons only okay So we have next is your fishbone as I mentioned earlier.  This will this will really give you materials for the side letter and The next one would be your big three the big three you will be farming Using sweeps at 34 mostly because you would want these pink Equipments pink equipments are the way to go for every figure that you have so you have to mine these and Use sweeps here So you'll be also be using sweeps actually when you're going to be getting reinforcement material But as a beginner you're gonna be prioritizing to reach level 34 and mining these with your fishbones Okay, so again as I mentioned earlier reinforcement equipment or Material is going to be mined also here so 35 36 and going down so the amount just increases and The the rarity actually is also increased Okay, so where can you mine these? You can mine Them in your counter strike final battle final counter strike so you can use them here Okay, it's it's currently locked. So this one also uses Fishbones, but this is more for your advanced players. So this Currency here this will be used these currencies the figurines pavilion collection will be used here There are a lot guys. There is actually a lot of Here so figuring pavilion is also increasing of stats for all of your figures, but this is for more advanced So again, I just want to recap for fishbones Sweep for sacred tour for beginners Design letter you'll need that for all of your figures. The next would be big three Which is equipment the pink ones and the third one is in final counter strike, which will fuel your Private figurine pavilion for additional stats and bonuses. Okay next. There are a lot guys There are really a lot So we're gonna be going to summons Okay, you're limited blind boxes Can be obtained here. Okay again click on the obtain from these are Actually other summon currency This is actually used for some of the summon banners usually for for for night nine and What you call this and if you're talking about brand exclusives, they're not being used there so they can only be used in limited rate up and That's it limited rate up. So brand exclusive. You're gonna be using a different currency for that. Okay, so What else? Okay, going to your fully wish, which is this one Your fully wish do not use them here Okay, I repeat do not use your fully wish in the brand exclusive banner you only use your fully wish in Collab collab events especially for these Because right now in this event, this is the only you know There's the only way you could get special very special characters or figures that usually requires payment But if you save hard enough, you could actually get you could even get get her for free So again fully wish is a very very important currency to save for Please do because again Free to play will really benefit if you use if you use it only if you use your fully wish only for collab events Okay, next is going to be your clover sticker I'm gonna be more advanced here, but I'll go back here later. So the stickers are Here so your stickers are going to be used in figure upgrades Where's the recycle store Okay, so sorry what I meant was you can get your stickers here So stickers will be used in a while. I'll go back to the previous store that I was in Okay, so next is going to be your clover sticker. So your clover sticker these guys are usually used in increasing figurines XP So that is it once you are you won't you once you won't use them anymore because you have Five figures who are already at 220 you're gonna be using them here Okay, and the recycle store also for the stamp So the stamp is also used for figure development But once again, you have five 220 figures, then you will use them here as well We will go through the store later on where to purchase them These are just the currencies that I'm running through aside from the store. So reinforcement materials gonna go to Some of you guys are might might be scratching your heads because you don't know what reinforcement material is So your reinforcement material is this one So these are your enforcement materials. They can be you know, they can be Mined in the big three as I mentioned earlier Also, these are only available you can use reinforcement materials and only in pink So read a pink can be reinforced twice the plain pink ones Here you can reinforce as you can see it turns into stripe The next one is going to be the stripe so you can reinforce it to red So reinforcement materials are very important. You can get them in the big three So again, very very important that you open those stages up. Okay, so equipment By the way guys The equipment that is colored The purple in the purple in yellow the yellow Those are the currencies that you can use to Like for example, if you enhance equipment You usually use these but there are equipment that are yellow and purple and yellow You can use them also as enhancement equipment. Let me just Let me just Do some do some Sweeps here So that you can this one the purple and yellow You can use actually as enhancement materials. So let's go back there and have a sample This is quite a bit Okay, okay, so for this one, this is your regular enhancement material and you can actually use the purple and Purple and yellow border and the yellow border as enhancement materials do not sell them It's really really hard to find enhancement materials that are these types. So even old old equipment you can actually Use them as enhancement materials So if you are if you most of your figures are at pink already, you can you can actually add these The orange and yellow border, but for now keep them. I'm actually keeping a bunch So let's just do enhancement Although it's a small bit of experience going into your your equipment But at least you have more enhancement materials to include for your pink Gear or your striped pink gear. Okay, so duplicate figures Let's go to if you have usually if your figures are at five diamonds You would have duplicates. So what do you do with duplicates? You can use duplicates to Recycle as paints so you can you can recycle them. They are not here. They are Here paint coat conversion So I have duplicates of Vazir win and Zerola so I could actually Recycle one of them Confirm and they would be converted into the big three paint which you can use to paint your figures So don't forget those as well. So I'm just want to coat Had Sunimiko to give her plus five and plus five. There you go. So that is for your duplicate figures and Lastly again, I just want to cover this Some of you guys missed probably this So your design letter is part of your Sacred tour so your design letter your the materials that you are going to get here. Let's example Let's just do this because If this is Zero, let's say for example these materials you can get these in sacred tour so these are totally Minable as long as You have opened them. So that's just a sample. Just want to give you guys a sample. Okay, so Those are the other currencies outside of the store Some of them are in the store actually, but we're gonna be focusing more on currencies for the store Okay, so starting with this part. This is going to be store related currencies Take note. Do not refresh Store items because it's a hundred diamonds. Make sure that you don't really really refresh and starting with the fully store the best Purchases here are these three down below. So advanced care body These are the best that you can get with gold do not usually spend diamonds here for your purchases and for your attack or store Your attack or store is the best purchase would be your ultra blind piece using your Otaku heart again, just click the obtain from where you can you know get them So these are the best save for them and only purchase these three you you have actually a Lot available Based on my experience. I cannot even you know, I cannot even get all three in one month depends depends I think I had one time I got three in one month But this is refreshed weekly so again, this will really help you in building up your Ultra blind rarity of figures. So this is 60. So this is random again This will help you bolster or level up your existing figures. Okay for board game store You only have two currencies here. You have lucky dice and holy dice So it really depends up to you on Who you should invest on but I would suggest Invest it on figures that you want to level up with copies So that you won't spread all the resources with you know multiple figures So again, choose the best from the figures that you want to level up or get copies of and you know Just choose what you want from these so you have here The ones that are in lucky dice these ones and on top you have your holy dice So feel free to to select but focus it on one or two figures Okay, so for our club store Our club store we have here This is your friendship coin. This is obtained from Your club of course so for your friendship coin the best here is your eternal badge card Which I will be using now. These are also good at 9,000 But focus more on these three. This is also good, but again This has limited options And also limited applications, but for these you The yellow ones we usually use those So again, you can choose whichever you want to focus on for me I will go with this one because I will be needing an internal phantom badge for I think I need one so I'm gonna buy this Okay, so then one once it's in your so you can select You're gonna select this one the phantom badge select Then confirm I am Going to use this in Parogo So it's gonna be breaking through This badge There you go then Spend one badge to level it up There you go, so you can level it up further. So that is it for your friendship coin So Going back we have another currency, which is commemorative coin. So commemorative coin Okay, sorry, that is what I bought for the eternal badge. So for your friendship coin Preferably spend them in the eternal badge piece. I forgot Okay, and also these are good buys. I just have to select which ones the best buys here are the ultimate End time ultimate badge for your friendship coin Okay, so commemorative coin is done on our store for the on our store The best buys here for me would be your fully wish primarily Then your fully anniversary badge Because this can also level up or break through your badges. Any badge can you know can be Broken through by the fully fully anniversary badge, especially if it's a It's an exclusive badge. You will need this definitely to break through that specific badge Okay, and the last is a recycle store For the official merch the recycle store will open once you have five figures Upgraded to 220 yourself So you will unlock this because you won't be needing much of your stamp and your clover sticker To level up your figures. So you will spend them here So ideally your clover sticker you spend them in one two And this one this one is the first buy this only it can only be bought once and also I think that's it one two are your monthly. So you save for these two every month Your stamps you can use them for the eternal badge piece You could also use them. This is actually one time as well But your monthly buys here would be your eternal badge piece here the 15 and 100 So that's it Okay, so that is for your recycle store. I won't cover one two three because these involve Purchasing with real money for special This is going to be your Skin coin. So just click here on where to obtain it But again, feel free to buy any of these that you are you want to buy But take note they usually release some good figure figure skins here. So save up at least 300 Um before you purchase so that once any of you know the good ones drop you can buy them anytime here Let's go to the most store. This is quite a long video already. So I'll keep this very short. So Okay, so we're here at the sticker store Okay, so for collab snow a and night nine You use the stickers here this one the sticker you only use this for collab figures like for example, this one this one is for atsunimiko And you only use it for snow a and night nine do not use it for Your basic figures which are easy to get So again collab and only snow a and night nine figures Um unless you really need them. Okay, so off to Don't all do not actually purchase it here as well So you can actually purchase your badges if you could remember I'll just Go back badges preferably you get it here Okay in your club store. So going back to most store We're double the sticker store mar mar marble store These are good. These are green marbles you get these Primarily you can also buy these if you have a lot of green marbles actually but prefer preferably you go for these two first adornments you go for the The ones that are down here. So they are Figure specific and they're not random as for this ones the Ones on top these are random So again the priority is down here with with the figure the exclusive for for specific figure and Actually you the next ones would be either spring or summer They might be releasing additional boxes here spring summer winter or fall Those are I think your priority for marbles store sanny store These ones the prototype intelligence image intelligence These can be used as advanced Level up materials. I'm gonna show you where they are being used Let's say it's here prototype file. So you have prototype intelligence design manual and dynamic image So you're gonna use it here once you unlock Some of them Let's see an locked one. So There's also a stack bonus for that one. So let's go back to the store I'm just quick getting this guys because I know this has been a long video. I told you this was going to be comprehensive and Again going back. So veneer store. This are your um golden marbles. So these are Hard to get skins sanny store again. These two Fully wish is also good here And also for the sticker here sold out Those are the things that you should buy here fashion wardrobe. These are just skins. So, you know spend at your own pleasure event store For every for every event. There's usually an event store. So whatever the currency is you also go You always go for these ones for your summons and The bandage bear is usually used for the bingo It it could be a different version in another bingo, but again for the bingo. This is a bingo Currency the next one would be skin coin The next one would be fully the looks box and you know the rest It depends upon you and for the collab store if you're you know for the collab preferably you go with ultra figure card personal brand card Mikoto Misaka ultra figurine card. This is just a limited time for this event and depending on How how far you've unlocked? Then you could get you if you can't unlock for example 300 400 and 600 then you can get those pieces Definitely. So again for the store. These are the top four that you get For the store preferably Mikoto Misaka because again, that's a another copy of her So that is our very long and comprehensive currency guys. So I hope I was able to help you guys and Determining where to spend your currency Um, perhaps you missed some of the currencies, but if you're still here guys, please subscribe to my channel Sorry Almost I think 18 only 18 percent have subscribed so far of all my viewers. So Your subscription really helps and take care stay safe. This is the warden and I'm out of here