Statistics and Excel, uniform distributions with dice. Get ready, taking a deep breath, holding it in for 10 seconds, looking forward to a smooth soothing. Excel. First, a word from our sponsor. Yeah, actually, we're sponsoring ourselves on this one because apparently the merchandisers, they don't want to be seen with us. But that's okay, whatever.  Like our CPA six-pack shirts? A must-have for any pool or beach time. Mixing money with muscle? Always sure to attract attention. Yeah, even if you're not a CPA, you need this shirt. So you can like pull in that iconic CPA six-pack stomach muscle vibe, man.  Yeah, as a CPA, I actually and unusually don't have tremendous abs. However, I was blessed with a whole lot of belly hair. Yeah, allowing me to sculpt the hair into a nice CPA six-pack-like shape, which is highly attractive. Yeah, maybe the shirt will help you generate some belly hair too. And if it does, make sure to let me know. Maybe I'll try wearing it on my head. And yes, I know six-pack isn't spelled right. But three letters is more efficient than four. So I trimmed it down a bit, okay? It's an improvement. We'll basically build this from a blank worksheet, but if you do have access to three tabs down below, we've got the example, practice blank, example, in essence, answer key, practice tab, having pre-formatted cells so you can get right to the heart of the practice problem. Blank tab, blank worksheet so we can practice formatting the cells within Excel as we work through the practice problem. Let's look at the example tab to get an idea of where we will be going as we think about a uniform type distribution using an example of rolling a dice.  If we thought about rolling the dice an infinite amount of times, which we can imagine to be the entire population, an infinite amount of rules, we would expect basically a uniform type of distribution. Then we can imagine, well, what if we rolled it a finite amount of times and plotted out the distributions of a finite amount of times of rules, and we can compare that then to the uniform distribution. So that's what we will do. Let's go to the blank tab and let's first, so we're imagining the dice rule. So remember there's six sides on the die. So what would be the expected rules of any number if we were to roll it, let's say a thousand times. So we're going to say rules, let's going to say a thousand times, and let's format ourselves. Hold on a sec. Let's select the entire worksheet, right-click on the cells, and then format them. I'm going to go into the currency, negative numbers bracketed, make them no dollar sign and no decimals and okay. I'm also going to make it bold. You may not need to, but I'm going to work it bold here. Home tab, font group, bold. So there we have it. I'm going to hold down control and scroll in a bit. So I'm currently at the 265% on the scroll in. So I'm going to imagine that we roll it. Let's roll the die a finite amount of times, which is going to be a thousand times as opposed to the population, which would be an infinite amount of times that we can imagine rolling it. And then the outcomes, we're going to imagine any one number. The odds on each rule of any one number coming up is going to be equal to one out of six. So there's six numbers on the dice. Let's go ahead and format that number. Let's make it a percent and add some decimals. So six numbers on the dice. We would expect then a one in six chance on each roll for any one number on the dice. So let's then say, well, the expected rules of any number, expected rules of any one number, then if I roll it 1000 times and I have any one number, whether that be a one, two, three, four, five or six, I would expect how many times for that number to come up. Well, if each roll has a one six chance, it would be 1000 times that percent. So we'd get 167 about, if I add a couple decimals, home tab, number group, a couple decimals, 166.66 on forever. So that would be what the expected results would be in essence for one number if we rolled it a finite amount of times 1000 times. We would expect to see 166.66, you know, number ones, two's, three's and four's. Now note that this expected result is actually impossible to do, right? Because I can't get an outcome that's not going to be a whole number. So note that we're basically making a model here, a prediction based on what we know that we know can't actually happen in real life because I can't get a roll that's going to be not a whole number. The model is still, of course, useful because we can get, you know, we can get the expected outcome with the model. So if I then let's make a skinny C here and then the headers of our table, I'm going to say these are the dice numbers and then I'll tab and say these are going to be the expected number of rolls. I'll just say expected rolls and enter. I'm going to format these now by selecting these two up top. We're going to go to the home tab, alignment group, wrap the text and then alignment group and center the text. I'm going to go to the font group, bucket dropdown, make it black and then the dropdown, make it white. All right, so there we have it and I'm going to say the number of rolls is just going to be one, two, three, four, five, six, right? And then we're going to say what are the expected outcomes for each of them, each of them, if we roll them a thousand times is going to be is going to be 166.67 is going to be the expected outcome for each of them. So I'll just say this equals this outcome and let's say F4, that's going to put an absolute value or dollar sign before the B and the 3 and then I'll take that and just copy it down and put my cursor in the fill handle copy that down. There we have it. So the total then that we would expect to have in kind of our perfect world would be equal to the sum. And by the way, I'm going to start using some more keystroke. Sometimes you could hit alt enter here. Let's do that again. Alt enter and then it'll try to sum up what's above it. So notice that keystroke could be a lot faster. Oftentimes whenever you're using the sum function, alt enter and so there we have it. And then there and so there's the thousand rules. That's what we would kind of expect to happen. Let's put an underline here, home tab, font group and underline it. Let's make this into our kind of format that we've been using. I'm going to select these items, font group, drop down on the bucket. And if you don't have that blue, it's in this. I'm going to make it that blue. That's the blue I like and then font group, drop down and all borders. We can also make this one a little bit more skinny so that we can just trim this up. Let's do the same over here as well. Making that home tab, font group, blue and bordered. Okay, so there we have that. Now if we were to plot this, then I can plot this out and just say, okay, well, if I select these items, these two and I was going to the insert and I'm going to use a bar chart to plot this one. So charts, drop down, we're going to make a bar chart which is going to look kind of like a histogram. I'm going to pull this over, right? Because I'm going to say the numbers I want on the bottom and I'm going to close this up a little bit. And so then I need to adjust the data.  So I'm in the chart design and then the data. And what I want on this side, which is going to be on the y-axis, is just the expected roles. So I don't want this one or I could basically delete this one, delete and I want the expected roles. And then over here, I'd like to make sure that I have my actual labels, not the ones that they're going to make up. So I'm going to copy these items and okay. So there we have it. We're going to say okay. And it's picking up the name of expected roles. I don't really need the legend over here. I could add the names on the side. I could say these are going to be the data labels, right? I could add data labels and say there's the data labels. And then we could also add access titles if we wanted to. So on the access titles, this is going to be the results. So I could say this equals the expected roles. And on this side, I'm selecting it. I'm going to say this equals the dice numbers, right? So you can format your chart thusly. And notice sometimes now that I have actually my chart information, I might not even need like this whole bit right here, right? I might not need this stuff because now I've got the numbers that just basically represent it. So sometimes it might be nice just to unclutter things to actually delete this and then click on these little lines. So you get the lines and delete them so that you just get the numbers that are representing them. And that could be another format that you can use just as we build our charts. But you get this kind of boring uniform type of distribution. And if we were to write an equation for the uniform eula, it would be something just like f of x equals c. So for every x we have, we're going to get c. So it's a uniform distribution. And note that this is a family of distributions because it's possible that if we roll the dice less numbers, like if we roll the dice only 300 times, then we have a different distribution. It's still a uniform distribution here that is at the 50, right? I'm going to say 1,000 and bring it back there. Now, of course, in real life, we wouldn't get a uniform distribution because we're using a sample in essence instead of the entire population of infinite rules, right? We're just doing 1,000 rules. So we can simulate, okay, what would actually happen and compare a simulation of rolling the dice? So let's say we do a simulation of rolling the dice, and now we'll actually test this out and see how, and then we can compare to what the expectation is. That's basically what we often do, right? We're going to say this is the perfect model of the world, our expectations, and then we'll basically see what actually happens in the test and how close is it to the actual expectation. So we're going to go to the home tab, font group, make this black and white, and then we'll center it and then we're going to roll our die. Things are going to get dicey here. Things are getting dicey. So we'll do this by using our random function again, equals random brackets or random between, I should say between, tab. There's our formula, and I'm going to say we want to start at 1, comma, and go up to 6. So it's going to give me a random generation of 1 to 6 representing a dice rule, so that's just perfect. And then I can copy that down. I'm going to go down to 1,001, looking at the numbers on the right-hand side, because 1 is already taking up to get 1,000 rolls. So I'm just going to bring this down to 1,001 and note I can do that quite easily in Excel, even though it's quite a lot of rolls. It would be a lot more difficult to do this in the old days when you actually had to sit at the table and roll the dice a thousand times. That would be a pretty cushy job for somebody to be the dice-roller for the experiment, but now we can just kind of simulate it. And so then if we do that, then this is what it's spitting out for the random outcomes. So notice it changes again all the time, so I don't want it to change. I want that to be my generator. And now with the generator, I'm going to copy this whole column, right-click and copy, and then paste it, but hard-code it so that I'm going to say right-click and paste just the numbers. So now it's not regenerating every time, and my generator is still over there if I want to do it again. So let's go ahead and make this one, home tab, font group, black, white. Let's center this thing. And so there are our results. So now let's copy this same table from my expected results and then add the actual results in another column. So to do that, I'm going to put my cursor in column Q equals, scrolling to the left and just picking up the dice rolls. And then I'll just copy that down. I'll copy everything that's in that table down. Six, and then the total. And then I'll copy it to the right as well. And there's the same information that we pulled in from the table. Let's make us format it. I'm going to go to the home tab, font group, black, white, wrap it, center it. By the way, you could do it this way too. Let's do it this way, it'll be easier. I could select this entire thing and say I just want the formatting so I can go home tab, format painter. Just give me the formatting and then just put that right here. Boom, and it paste the format of it beautifully. Okay, so then let's take our actual rules, actual rules and compare it. And so I'm going to format paint this one again, home tab, format painter, boom, to get that. And then in order to get the actual rules, what I'd like to do is say, Excel, take everything in this series of numbers and count them if every time you see a 1. So we can use our trusty count if function to do that. So this equals count if brackets. I'm going to go over here, put my cursor in O2, hold down control shift and down on the keyboard taking it all the way down to the bottom and then we can have control backspace taking me back up to the top and so I can see the formula. So there it is, closing it up and we have too few arguments. Count if, I need to finish the argument, is a comma. What's the criteria? Second condition. Number 1. So count if in that range you see a number 1. Enter. And then I can copy this down. Now notice this time I didn't put a table over here and sometimes the tables are useful and sometimes they're not so I'm going to try to go back and forth between using the table or not. If I had a table that I was referring to I wouldn't need to make the cells absolute references. But here since I don't I could make them absolute by selecting F4 here and F4 so the range of the table doesn't move. Now note you can also use spills and arrays so there's actually multiple ways to do the same things these days which is really cool but also confusing so I'm going to try to mix in some of that stuff as we go. So in any case I'll do that. I'm going to copy this down put my cursor on the fill handle drag it down. So then I should have the same range here right picking up the same numbers this way and it's counting if there's a 6 in there. So that looks good. Now I can kind of double check by summing it up and I should still get up to 1000 so that's our double check that my range didn't get a skewed or anything like that. I could take the difference then difference between what we expected and what actually happened this equals what we expected minus what actually happened I can copy that down double clicking on the fill handle and then down here alt equals that's our keystroke for the sum function enter there we go with our differences I can go home tab font group and format this in the same formatting and then let's make all of this bordered and blue and let's put some underlines under here and underline so there we have it we can make this a little bit thinner maybe can make that little thinner I don't really need a space in between these two or this one we can close that up if we want to and so then we could make a histogram based on what the actual results are so there's a couple ways we can do that we could take a histogram of the entire column of results or since we've summarized the results in essence into buckets over here we can use our bar chart so let's use the bar chart I'm going to select this column holding down control and select this column because I want to look at the actual results and then I'm going to go into the insert tab and we're going to go into the charts and add a bar chart so there's the bar chart I'll drag it to the right let's make it a little bit smaller bring it on over to the right and so there we have it so then I'm going to go into my chart here chart design tab up top select the data so once again I don't want the dice over here so I'm going to select the dice only and delete it I'm sorry yeah we don't want the dice and now I deleted the wrong one sometimes it gets a little easier but I'm going to delete them both and add another one again and this is going to be the dice and then I'm going to say the column we want is this column hold on a sec I don't want the dice I'm going to say we want the actual rows and then delete this and say we want this that's what we want here okay and then on this side I want to make sure that it got my actual numbers so it looks like it's got one to six here but I want to go here and then pick up these numbers so that's the X and this is the Y actual rules clicked off okay so there we have it so I'm going to delete this thing down here and then we have the actual rules and we could also say if I hit the little plus button say we want data labels we can add the data labels like we did before and we can compare this to what we had in our perfect world summary over here so there we have that now you could also make a histogram from the data from the actual dicey rules that we ruled so I could select my data putting my cursor in O2 holding down control shift down arrow and then holding down control back space going back to the top insert another histogram and this time a histogram not a bar chart and then I can pull this down now the histogram is going to give us our buckets which isn't exactly what we want here because we would like it to number you know one to six but I can kind of adjust those buckets I can go into these buckets down here and say that I want I just want six buckets and then it'll give me something similar right and then I can say okay let's go up top and say that we want this to be our data labels and you can see that we get you know the same data points as we did up top I'm going to delete the chart title actual rules and so there we have that now we could obviously we have something different than than you know what we expect like in a perfect world right because we're taking an approximation taking a sample in essence from the population which would be the infinite number of rules so we could also then say well what if we did this multiple times so we can make multiple histograms to see that we'll get a different result each time with this random number generator and if we just played with our random number generator I could say make four of these generators right and then and then just copy and paste them four times so for example here's my number generator if I want to simulate us rolling a thousand rules four times I can just copy this entire let's copy this entire column right click and copy and then I'll just bring this over here and say that we did this four times so I'll say right click paste one two three right click paste one two three right click paste one two three right click paste one two three so now we've got four hard coded rules again this is rules number one rules number two rules number three rules number four so that would be quite long a lot of rolling to do if we were in the good old educational department statistical studies back in the day where we had that cushy job of just rolling the die a thousand times four times over but they have they've eliminated that job now because we can do it this way and the unions tried to stop it you know they was like they're like dude what are you doing we need to like this is an important job but somehow they couldn't hold out so so then we can make histograms of the four here and check those out so if I go from here holding control shift down let's do a quick couple histograms and we'll say and so notice each one of those even though I copied the same ones are giving me different results right even though I pasted them from the same thing so if I go over here and say let's hold on a sec control shift down control backspace let's just enter four histograms insert charts histogram histogram he made a gram of his toe and called it a his toe gram called it his toe gram this is his toe gram alright what are you talking about let's make this let's go down here and then say number we want six of these and so I'm going to say tab okay and so there's that one let's put some some chart titles or data labels on it the chart title I'm just going to say rule one and then we'll just check out what happens on rules to put in my cursor here control shift down control backspace scrolling down a little bit because I want it underneath insert chart histogram and then we'll put that down here and I'm going to say let's do the data labels and then go down here here access we want how many bends we want six bends close that up and then I'll put my chart data labels on that one and this was this is rules too man there's a lot of rules this is getting seriously dicey this is dicey business tell you what you thought fishing fish on the boat the salmon catcher people had dicey jobs there's nothing then I'm going to put my cursor on ad to control shift down and then control backspace and then I'm going to scroll down a bit I want this here insert and charts group another histogram and this is for the next one I'm going to put my cursor down here and let's say that we want how many bends do we want let's say six bends close it up add some chart labels and this is dice roll my spelling rules right I don't know I don't think that's how you spell rules I think you need two L's on the roll that's like a roll like a cinnamon roll oh man people are going to think I'm talking about cooking this whole time is that I started over I'm not doing it over just because people know what I'm talking about people know what I'm talking about okay so let's do one more and we're going to put our cursor on this one and control shift down control backspace scrolling down uno vase mas one more time insert charts histogram and we're going to say buckets are going to be number six tab closing plus button data groups this is rolls four not cinnamon rolls baking terms these are dice man we're in the gambling house rolling dice alright so you can see the point is that they're different they're different because it's a sample but what we would be doing is comparing that then to what we would expect in a uniform type of distribution and that would be how we can usually will be generating or approaching certain questions now obviously the uniform distribution the fact that it can be simulated with a line and a formula is quite useful because that gives us the predictive power right so even though it's not going to give us a certain prediction in a sample situation the fact that we have a general concept that we can approximate like we can approximate the examples here with a line and so that's what we would and so if we can and if we can do that then obviously that helps us for predictive power in the future now when we get into other kind of families of distributions that's kind of what we're looking for we're looking for the formulas will get more complex to simulate a line through or curve but if we can get a curve that can be approximated with a with some kind of formula then that would be great because that gives us that's what gives us a predictive power to then use that formula


Hi, my name is Ted Stressenreuter. I'm the CTO at SecretSource and today I want to talk to you a little bit about code reviews and pair programming as part of our recruitment process. At SecretSource, when you, as part of our recruitment process, you may be asked to participate in a pair programming exercise either as a candidate or as an employee. The purpose of this exercise is to establish what level a candidate is on on our professional ladder. That's it. If you are unfamiliar with our professional ladder, please consult some of my prior videos where I explain what the professional ladder is. Basically, it's a matrix that allows us to identify what level you are on an objective scale. The pair programming exercise combined with the professional ladder turns a subjective exercise into an objective one. In the ladder, we quantify knowledge and skill. During the pair programming exercise, we're looking for evidence of behaviors and knowledge that represent a specific level on the ladder. Note that this is slightly different from a test. In a test, normally, there is a pass-fail element that is not present in our pair in our pair programming exercise. Basically, in the pair programming, we're simply looking to see where on the scale are you. Are you at level eight? Are you at level nine? At level 13, we're literally trying to identify where candidates fall on a scale from eight to 13. And by the way, eight to 13 is a mind hack. We didn't want to use level zero and then only go up to level five. We wanted it to be something that you don't necessarily associate with better or worse. So don't pay too much attention to the actual numbers. At each level of the ladder, we provide examples of behaviors that represent the level in the given area. For example, for ownership, we provide examples of poor or low ownership, for example. I just do what I'm told. You don't take any responsibility for the work. What follows is a detailed example of how we analyze a sample HTML snippet. When searching for evidence, we are looking for the most salient features that represent an example of any given level. For example, right now, we're going to look at the HTML part. This comes directly from our professional ladder. These are the hints or guides on how we analyze what we consider to be levels nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen with regards to HTML. So basically in our professional ladder for the technical parts, we have four levels, eight, nine and ten, eleven and twelve, and then thirteen and up. These are guidelines. They're not written in stone or on a blockchain, just a Google sheet. The following slides provide some examples. So let's have a look. So here on this particular slide, you can see that the HTML is not very semantic. It's an incorrect or potentially incorrect use of the span element. It should probably be a label element. It's missing a form element. This is supposed to be a form. And we see this a lot in people who are JavaScript developers who have never done anything outside of a JavaScript library. They don't necessarily know that a form element actually even exists or that it should be used and why. And I can't state why. This is an example of what I would say is a level eight HTML. Level nine, ten, you see code that is somewhat semantic but not necessarily HTML five. There's still some reliance on JavaScript for things that are supported natively across all major browsers and have been for quite a while. There's perhaps an overuse of wrapper elements. Wrapper elements aren't necessary if you have something other than div elements because you can target different elements in different contexts using specificity and CSS. There's an unnecessary use of data attributes, for example. It could just be a hidden field. Levels 11 through 12, you start to see mostly semantic and valid HTML, no incorrect attributes. Everything is closed properly if required. There's some use of wrapper classes, but it's less and it's only for specific cases. And there's even some use of advanced attributes such as placeholder and autocomplete, unrequired. At level 13 and above, you see highly semantic HTML with what I like to call an intelligent embedding of elements. So the input element wrapped inside of a label element means you don't have to use the for attribute because it's obvious what it's for, right? I've never actually tried embedding multiple input elements inside of a label, but it might be an interesting experiment for you to try at home. Also, there's a minimal amount of HTML and that's a good thing. We want to keep code, we want to write as little code as possible when we're programming. The technical ladder covers about 70 topics on web development and general programming. Topics include planning, DevOps, object-oriented programming, HTTP, CSS, common programming language features such as functions, constants, variables, TDD, debugging, clean code, logging, MVC, and most recently some functional programming concepts in addition to several dozen other topics. This document exists so we all mean the same thing when we say the candidate has level 11 knowledge of unit testing and level 13 knowledge of CSS. Without this document, if I ask one of my co-workers what level does this candidate have, they may say, oh, they're great at JavaScript because during their interview, they communicated and they connected on a specific topics, maybe testing, for example. But I could ask a different person about the same candidate and they say, oh, they don't know anything about high-order functions or about using context properly. And both of them may be true and may be accurate, but you get different results. So with our professional ladder and with this using it properly, we get an objective result and we're all speaking the same language. While doing the code review and pair programming activity, it is crucial that you also make note of evidence from the other four areas of the ladder. For example, if the README doesn't exist, then that would be an example of poor communication, level 8 or 9. If the README does exist but is outdated or missing some critical details about how to run the project, for example, then that would be a 9 or a 10. If it is mostly up to date and includes working examples of the code or how to use it, that could be an 11 or 12. If the README also provides links to supporting documentation, contribution guidelines, links to supporting libraries that are heavily used, etc. And if it is well written, free of typos and thoughtfully presented using Markdown, for example, that would be a 13 in my book. Note that just because a candidate writes a lot, it does not mean they write well. Quantity is not equal to quality. You need to think about your audience. Although I use the README in my example right here, there are ample opportunities for finding evidence in these other areas. Does the candidate use Slack or email to ask questions or provide updates while working on the project? Are the commit messages clear and well written? Is there a development plan in the README or elsewhere that explains what order things will be done in? Are the estimates provided? Are they even close to accurate? And if they're not accurate, do they explain why? There's lots of opportunities during the whole interview process for us to understand where you fall on a ladder, on our ladder, where a candidate falls on a ladder. Often candidates will talk openly about what they learned while doing the project. It's important to engage in those conversations and sometimes I like to even ask, did you run any formal experiments? So instead of just trial and error while I tried this then I tried that, did you hypothesize about what the outcome should be given a specific input? Basically, are you doing test-driven development? Leadership can be a little bit difficult to judge during the interview process because there's not much opportunity. However, a good leader will always have a clear understanding of success and keep the moment's goals and objectives in the forefront of the conversation. Make a note, it's important to make a note of when the candidate steers the conversation, whether steering away from something that's not relevant or steering towards something that is. This is, in general, our hiring process as it stands today. The parts in green are the parts that involve the pair programming exercise. And you'll notice that as soon as the candidate passes our technical screen and is invited to the pair programming activity, we set the date for the pair programming activity immediately. Even though the candidate hasn't done the project and we haven't reviewed their code yet, and we do that to sort of put a stake in the sand and get the ball rolling. We can always reschedule if we have to. If the candidate for some reason can't finish the project in time because we're all busy people, many of us have full-time jobs and family. And it's difficult to find the time to finish a project in the amount of time that's scheduled. But we'd like to have that date set so that everybody knows what's coming up. Our internal developers, the code reviewers, have time to schedule set-aside time for doing the code review. They can be active in the Slack channel communicating with the candidates if they have questions. That sort of thing. The key takeaway here is that pair programming session is set as soon as the candidate is invited to do the test. So as soon as the candidate notifies us that they are finished with their project, we analyze their code, storing our notes in a document template that I've designed for doing code review for recruitment. This should not be an unfamiliar experience for reviewers as it is very similar to doing a code review for a PR. Once the programming session is complete, once the pair programming session is complete, the reviewers should meet briefly to finalize their report and findings. A final communication indicating the candidate's level and ideally an indication of whether or not the reviewers want to work with the candidate should be sent to the hiring manager and a copy to HR for our records. And it's really, I just want to say one more time that it's important to understand that when you're doing the code review and the pair programming session, you're not asking yourself, do I like this person? You're asking yourself where on our professional ladder does this person fall in the different areas and what evidence do they have they provided us with in this whole process? And that is basically our code review and pair programming process in recruitment at Secret Source. Thank you very much.


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Then you'd know what beautiful baronist has been seen billing and cooing with what broke ex-husband Well, it's kind of late to scoop George Fisher now, but I'll try Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator Johnny dollars to home office eastern and entity and insurance company Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Bilk baronist matters Expense account item one six dollars and thirty five cents gas and oil sandwich and coffee between Hartford and New York The penthouse of the Baronist Olga Jarvis Lay it off a thirty five story granite and glass apartment hotel on the east side I ran the gauntlet of suspicious doorman Supercilius desk clerk and snobbish elevator boy Only to find myself and what was destined to be a short-lived interview with a baronist But you have come at a more inopportune time Made of mine. It is her day off. I am rushing to attend a cocktail party, and I simply cannot find the key It is a most inopportune moment Well, I wouldn't want to keep you from a cocktail party baronist, but there is some information I'd like to have but I have told everything I know to the police So why not run along like a dear man and get your information from them, huh? my gloves It's made where did you put my job? Well, while you're looking maybe you can tell me when you first noticed the law It was when I returned home last night, of course, just two three in the morning asking for things at the time The police will know I called them immediately Anybody with you when you came back home My dear man is always questioning absolutely necessary After all, I did not fear my own father than you are now Why do you not go after the criminals who are responsible? Well some cooperation from you might help me do that Very well, I will tell you all I know Early last evening I had a few friends up for group We left for the theater at approximately eight o'clock After which there was a supper club dinner time thing. I came home. My things were gone Anyone come up with you if you must know yet Thomas got me home. That's Thomas Bentley your former husband Now you simply must excuse me the dollar. I'm terribly late. My friends will never forgive me You found more worried about your friends and you do about the robbery But of course the north of dear friends you replace it, but not so far those crickets and fathers are concerned Yeah, I know You're insured Expensive on item two fifteen dollars five apiece to the employees. I'd met on the way up But outside of learning that August penthouse was a gathering place for practically every screwball in New York I came up with nothing Things turned out a little better over at Center Street Or I met Lieutenant Lewis and of robbery who was in charge of the investigation Looks like an inside job to me dollar. What's the job on a lieutenant? Only two doors to the penthouse front and service neither one was forced service door bolded and double locks on the inside So if someone got in the front way with a key and seems reasonable outside of the furs and jewels nothing else in the apartment was Touched whoever did it knew exactly where to go. No ransacking the job was well planned and well carried out You got a list of those who have keys you can't possibly narrow them down the Baroness hands them out to her friends like costing confetti at a New Year's party we checked the obvious ones made hotel employees Haven't come up with a thing There were two full-length coats two jackets and a stole among the missing first That's right. Well, now the jewelry might not be too hard to handle But how did anybody get out with a load of fur like that and not be noticed? I don't think it's possible another thing that makes it look like an inside job The Baroness telling you she had some friends up last night. Yeah, she mentioned it didn't happen to mention vastly Udescu did you know So she has he was one of them the doorman tells us that while the rest of the party came down around eight Udescu didn't leave till 1130 might be interesting to know why particularly in view of the fact He's got a record suspected confidence game on the Fifth Avenue jewelry store or suspicion of shoplifting furs No conviction Could be we'll close this as soon as we pick him up. Maybe Parted up. You know something. We don't yeah, I haven't had an easy case in three years And I don't think you've had too many either My next stop was East 56th Street in the commercial art studios of Thomas Bentley Inside the converted Brownstone a lovely blonde and sir Parker and Steve pants was posing on a big heap of artificial smoke Under the glare of well-being lights. All right Yeah, that's it all right Smile darling make like you were enjoying it. No, no, no, no, no, I said smile I think of a nice cold extra dry martini that one All this yes Are you Tom Buffy? Yeah, what can I do for you? My name is Johnny doll. I'm sure it's the best you get You want to talk about that stuff of all good. That's right. We'll make it some other time darling. I'm pretty busy right now Yeah, I was wondering Well, what how you could be in full operation when you're supposed to be dead broke Trying to figure some tie-in between the hundred grand of insurance and my bankruptcy petition might not be too big a jump The beautiful Baron has always moved on with enough put down there. You better break that down for me I was only second number two on a list of four husbands. How could I top number four the Baron Jarvis? legitimate title bozing with bootle and he picked off after one year under the strain of keeping up with Olga Believe me. He hasn't decided the inclination of getting involved in Ford to help out such a number two And how come you're making a play for again?  How are you making out? That's so far. No guys are your place is open.  I know from nothing believe me Oh, I'm sorry to bother you Tom, but Joe says they're ready on the next set up Okay, honey, I'll be right back. I wanted you to take a look at this leopard skin costume for the jungle shot What about it? I'll take a look at the way the thing fits. It's ridiculous doesn't give me a chance to really expand my chest I was thinking if I wore some kind of a loincloth instead It would give you the opportunity to shoot all my muscles in place. I'll think about it Well, I brought one along with me just in case Tom. I'll put it on for you No sense in hiring a 44 chest if you're not going to show it off and with loincloth You can show the muscular play at my entire all day. Okay, honey. I'll go on the man a minute Sure Tom and I'll change costume with me one more How do they make in that way buddy the Hercules in the mind of a second class eight. Well, I guess we all have our troubles That's about me. Thanks. Yes, sir. Yeah, sure. It's okay, darling Oh a dollar. Yeah, where are you staying in town? At the plaza Why no, I understand insurance companies offer rewards for recovery of stolen property something like 20% Yeah, and no questions asked got something in mind Just wondering It was getting late in the day and time for the inner man to be cared for So I headed for the plaza bar on route.  What have you got on? Exhibit A and B dollars one emerald ring one diamond bracelet But familiar they were covered under August policy. All right. I do not care what is covered by way I Do not know those things. I do not know how they got into my apartment and I want to call my Assortment well at least I can be the last part of that you were at the barenesses last night, won't you and why should I not be? We have the most dear afraid for the rest of the party rest of the theater at 8 o'clock You didn't leave until somewhere around 11 30 11 30 and this is a creamy. I presume now But it might require a little explanation. That's why it's in the play they were going to do Why should I be bored all over again? I remain there comfortable having some dreams. Don't you do what time to join them at the leg lawn? How'd you get the first out of the building? How about the rest of the jury? I know nothing about you and I will say no more until I talk to my Okay, that's true this way In here Sergeant Ryan, let me make a call after you get through Ryan book him on suspicion Excuse me. You will regret this. I will come in for feeding to show you as well. Okay, that's true Ah What do you think darling? Well, you've got enough to book him on meaning it's not enough for you now on a quake How do you see it? Well, that brace for the praises around ten thousand the ring around three. I still got eighty seven thousand to go They plant the gun at him three one dollar and fifty cents double scotch. It's a plaza bar I could have saved the double half way through. I was called to the phone Why Oh, what's that I just happen to know where the loot is I'll be right there Benzie now with our star John Lund We bring you the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar I put in a call to Lewis and then after violating some minor traffic regulations and the composure of a few New York drivers I pulled up in front of town at the studio The headquarters car was parked out in front of Lewis and was waiting for me just inside It didn't take you very long dollar. No, I caught all the lights Where's badly back here The funny thing about people Well, what's that? If they'd stop trying to chisel the law they'd pay themselves a lot of trouble see what I mean Size of the hole in him looks like it came from that three seventy-five Magnum Winchester on the floor over there The rifle of that caliber is much too good for hunting elephants on a job like this Then they probably used it as a prop looks like they were taking some jungle shots in the studio adds a few complications After homicide arrived Lewis and then I went back to headquarters Baroness Olga Jarvash was there with a cute blood but the name of her to Werner. I Recognized her as the model Tom Bentley had been using in the snow scene The Baroness had his little trouble recognizing the ring and bracelet Of course, they are my new tenant most definitely mine. I cannot understand how about you they could do such a thing Such a wonderful dance and this marvelous party.  I'd like you to sign it But of course I will imagine back to be doing such a thing to me Turn me out to be a common thief this way, of course. I will sign it Maybe you'll be a little hasty about this all that. Oh, what makes you say that miss Werner? I was just thinking You found the bracelet and ring in the silly department. That's right. I don't suppose they were in that peekwood cabinet in the den, were they? What makes you think that? Olga remember that party at the silly the week of ten days ago the crazy one where he got the idea for that taffy pool How could I forget it was the best party we had all season if you wonder for one What are you driving at miss Werner? It's simple enough lieutenant if you've ever been to a taffy pool Yeah, rings sort of get in the way, don't they? Bracelets can too. It's a really in the mood for it. Oh, for the good How forgetful can I be? Of course the ring and bracelet were in the way So you took them off and put them in that peekwood cabinet? Yes, yes, that is exactly what I did I had completely forgotten about them. I sweet of you to remember that You reported them missing on that atomized robbery list you gave us. Oh, naturally, I did lieutenant There was a robbery they were missing.  Yeah Miss Werner's got a remarkable memory for the whereabouts of other people's jewels The Baron has signed a statement covering the facts about the ring and the bracelet It was witnessed with a flourish by her to Werner and more sedately by myself and the two of them left Well There it is dollar If those two weren't lying, Vasily Odescu is in the clear. Not even if they were he couldn't have killed Tom Bentley. Yeah I wonder if homicide can't present anything Anything new about the employees at August building? Their alibis are checking out one by one doesn't look like with Uh, Lewis and robbery anything turn up on that Bentley killing on 56th street? Uh-huh Keep us posted Not much help there seems pretty certain of 375 wings. I think it's a quick Ballistics will verify in about an hour. No prints on it so far. No witnesses It's like we're right back where we started from Express the count item four one dollar and 45 cents cab fare Driving my own car. I knew I'd never have found that little back street on the far side of Greenwich Village Well, mr. Dollar, come in. I've been expecting you. Yeah, I gathered that You look like the tide would be sharp enough to get what I meant That's what police said for this Well, the way you underlined your address and that statement and then batted your eyes at me wasn't exactly subtle But meant to be well now that that settled. What do you want to tell me about the robbery? And uh, how much do you want? Not very subtle yourself. I uh, you weren't thinking about my personality when you issued that invitation No, I was thinking about a thousand dollars. You've got expensive ideas A hundred thousand dollar loss is even more expensive You know where the stuff is if I could tell you that I'd ask for 20 percent. Well, what can you tell me? Come here. Look down mr. Dollar. Yeah, I can't show you any ads But there's some pretty fine photos hanging on the walls What do you think of them? Yeah, very nice But I like my cheesecake on the feminine side Hey Didn't I see that mass of muscle down as Bentley's earlier today? You did His name is Harley Townsend. Your boyfriend? My husband. Oh Congratulations, don't bother. He won't be for long That big ham has on his mind or his muscles and other people's money What's he got to do with a thousand you had on your mind? Well, he He has a key to all this penthouse He was with a dinner party last night only left like long about 12 30 and came back at 130 With Tom Bentley Starting to add up to a thousand mr. Dollar Not yet and try this Tom Bentley called him around seven tonight Harley blew up Said he wouldn't settle for 10,000 when he could get 50 and Bentley better wait for him and get over there And he tore out of here fast And he took some of these cartridges with him Pretty big caliber So are the rifles of Harley's they were using for studio Where's Harley now? I haven't a slightest idea You're not telling everything you know, maybe not if you can't prove it And I'm not interested in doing books as an accessory Sounds reasonable Spencer count item five one dollar and seventy five cents cab fare back to center street So her to wonder came up with something a dollar well if a thousand dollars is the going price on selling out husbands She has my time at that it's how in Tom Bentley worked it together Bentley wants to take a safe 20 grand for turning this stuff back and Harley objects with a three seventy five winchester I can't think of an either answer. Well, we'll take it out when we pick Harley up Not much we can do in the land We could try to figure out those furs got out of the building without being seen I got a couple of possible answers They could have been worn out on some woman's back or smuggled out by an employee uh Say a lot of those buildings have their service pickups at night. Okay. Yeah save traffic jams Why well somebody's posing as a cleaner storage man To carry them out without anyone paying too much attention. I thought of that two dollars Trouble is the side people service instance opens on the torn up the repairs No service calls or deliveries were made yesterday or last night When is that repair job supposed to be over sometime late this afternoon is tonight why Well, and maybe our boy could still use the service man gag not unless the stuff is still in the building You know, uh, that's the source for tenant Besides street by the baroness's apartment building might have been under repair yesterday But there was nothing wrong with it by the time we got there They went into the service entrance and checked with a night superintendent who was on the door Yeah, that's right the tenant street was fixed about five in the afternoon Getting regular service calls since then you keep a checklist of those calls. Yeah, it's your thing Right over here Check them in and out I don't seem much sense to it, but we do Yeah, here it is anything unusual about any of the tradesmen Don't know what you call unusual tenants a full stir came in three four florist boys. Oh, it's a lot of them Cleaner Licker delivered to a couple apartments. You do a run anybody taking any packages out Well, I wouldn't know about that particularly or don't pay much attention Coming in and out all the time. I guess maybe the laundry man is going to take something out. So nearly does What laundry man is that new seller? I don't think I've ever seen him before real big years kind of busting out a uniform Nice enough fellow could be harley. Yeah, it sounds like it What laundry was he from? I don't think I noticed just saw he was a new one Yeah, if you want to know why don't you know where we can find him? Sure, he only checked in maybe 10 minutes ago probably down in the basement laundry room right now The laundry room lined with wooden storage compartments and cluttered up with washing machines dryers and tubs Looks like a mad welter of confusion under the dim nightlight see him darling No, no, it's that You've got to be down here somewhere. There's no other way out one of the storage compartments Yeah, down at the end pushing that laundry cart. Yeah Okay, harley stop right there, please Jewelry shoe Must have kept him in an empty storage room overnight. One of us is better sharpen up on the target range There's a bullet hole to the sleeve of this mink That'll cost your outfit something dollar Well under the circumstances I don't think they'll mind Expense account item six 19 dollars and 30 cents hotel bill in miscellaneous Expense account item seven five dollars and 10 cents Gas and oil back to harpen expense account total 50 dollars and 45 cents yours truly Johnny dollar


Blackstone Publishing presents Starling Days, a novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan. This book is read by Sarah Borges. The task of recording roosts in London is difficult, owing to the number of small and ephemeral roosts. The Winter Starlings Roosts of Great Britain. B. J. Marples. Augury. Noun. The practice of predicting the future, revealing hidden truths, or obtaining guidance on the basis of natural signs, such as the flight of birds, from the Latin, augur, seer, prophet or official, who observes and interprets the behavior of birds, to everyone who struggles with black dogs, or inner demons, or any shape of sadness, and to my family, always. August. She wasn't expecting the bridge to shudder. It was too big for trembling. Cars hissed from New York to New Jersey over its wide back. That August had been hot, ninety-six degrees Fahrenheit hot. Heat softened the duller bills and clung to the quarters and dimes that passed from sticky hand to sticky hand. It was night, and the air had cooled, but humidity still hung in the red fog in Mina's lungs. Wind galloped over the Hudson, pummeling the city with airy hooves. The bridge shifted, the pylon swayed, and Mina closed her eyes to better feel her bones jutter, even her teeth shook. The day's sweat shivered between her bare shoulder blades, and the tank top felt too thin, and the down on her arms rose. She took a step forward along the bridge. The tender spots between her big and indexed toes were sore from too many days in flip-flops. She took the sandals off. They swung from her fingers as she walked. Under her feet the rough cement was warm. She wondered about the people driving their shadowy cars. Were they leaving over air conditioned offices, or bars cooled by the thwack of ceiling fans? Were they going home to empty condos, or daughters tucked under dinosaur quilts? The bridge was decked out in blue lights, like a Christmas tree, like those monochrome ones shopping malls put up. Still, it was beautiful. Mina readied her phone to take a picture. She watched the granulated night appear on screen. Sample complete. Ready to continue?


Hello friends and welcome to another episode here on the channel and today we're doing something a little bit different We're leaving off from our previous episode that we uploaded yesterday in regards to the hidden ability fossil Pokemon and the Specific den that you can visit in the crown tundra where you are able to always Guaranteed to get those hidden abilities on those fossils So obviously the main fossils from the sword and shield franchise generation are going to be the drake of ish drake of ish Octavish and then Octosalt as well But there are other fossil Pokemon in those dens that you need to be aware of as well But these are the four that we're mainly concentrating down on today because obviously and with this den It doesn't just give us the ability to get these fossils with their hidden abilities Even though we do have the ability patch It does give us the ability to actually shiny hunt these fossils a lot easier than the methods We had previously in the galoregion so you previously have to go and talk to the digging brothers and spend umpteen number of watts trying to get the fossils and one of each And then you'd have to visit the lady this NPC character here who you'd give the fossils to and she would merge them together and then you would have one of the fossil Pokemon now the issue with this is you had to Soft reset for these fossils. There was no other way to get them in the game So if you wanted them as a shiny forms, then it was a very tedious and long painstaking task But that brings us on to the crown tundra So we arrive in the crown tundra and like I said in our previous episode We discussed the den where you can get these fossil Pokemon now Available within the gameplay. You don't need any fossils to actually merge them together or fuse them together to create these These Pokemon you can actually just hunt them down in the max rate dens here So we did show you the exact location with where the red den is in the snus deep slope is Where I believe it is located in the crown tundra region So if you want to check that out You can go back to the the previous video and there is a guide to take you exactly to this den But in this den like I say you can hunt these Pokemon and you're gonna be able to get all of these fossils with their hidden abilities and There is the the possibility now to hunt these as shinies now If we hop over to serabee.net, they've got a detailed list of the Pokemon available in this specific den You can see all the original sword and shield fossils are there as well as Kabutops if you've got a copy of Pokemon shield and then Omastar and its Prevolution if you've got a copy of Pokemon shield Aerodaxal is also there and deli bird strangely enough deli birds thrown in to the dens as well So you've got a nice array of Pokemon that you can catch But mainly it is going to be those full Pokemon sword and shield fossils that we're going to be concentrating on I guess say the previous methods that we've had to be able to shiny hunt these Pokemon is Painstaking and I did it for hours and hours and days and I never even got a hidden ability fossil but until now where we are able to actually go into the game and Catch these fossil Pokemon in their shiny forms a lot easier and just an example for this video I'm just gonna throw up the fossils that I've been hunting recently So I've actually hunted the all of the all four of the original Pokemon sword and shield fossils So you've got the Draco's alt there You got the arctovish the arctos alt and of course Draco vish one of my favorites So you can capture all of those as well and in this den and like I mentioned before you can see from the list And serabee there is other fossil Pokemon available obviously in my copy of sword Which I was catching these Pokemon on you've got armor star and Aerodactyl there that are available as well in their shiny forms with their hidden abilities So you've got that added bonus as well You're gonna be able to get the shiny of these fossil Pokemon a lot easier now Using something like a seed checker bot and as I mentioned in our previous episode We do have a free seed checker on our discord They are more than welcome to use if you want to use these methods to get these shiny fossils The link will be down in the description So make sure you just click over to that join the discord join the community It's a great community We've got a great bunch of people over there and it would be great to have you over there And if you do try to hunt these fossils with this in their shiny forms I do wish you all the best of luck and I will link my previous guide as well It takes you through all the steps that you would need to complete to actually get these shinies And it honestly isn't that grueling and it is a lot faster Then it would be if you were softly setting for these with that NPC character in the Galar region So that about wraps it up for today my friends. I hope you've enjoyed this little update It is useful information I believe there are a lot of you out there that probably still haven't shiny hunted these also Pokemon and this den Gives you a lot of opportunity to get not only their hidden abilities But them in their shiny forms a lot easier and if you do get a shiny den It's always worth sharing it with friends as well and hosting it so other people can get these shinies a lot more freely They're definitely shinies everyone wants to have in their collection, but they were previously very difficult to get So hopefully with this information it makes it a lot easier for you guys to get a hold of these fossil Pokemon in their shiny forms So I'm signing off. If you enjoyed the episode Please remember to drop a like on the video and do consider Subscribing if you do enjoy this sort of content as well as all the other content that we do here on the channel and Leave your comments down below and let me know if you will be shiny hunting these fossil Pokemon and Which one you will be going after or will you be gone after all fall be interesting to hear So thanks for tuning in friends. Have a great rest of your day and I'll see you all for the next one So until then bye bye