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We have the ES mini, about 0.21% currently, trading at 4,880. Of course, we've made all-times highs in the SPX. And the Dow, Russell, trading about 1985, up about 1.5%. The NQ's sideways, 0.12%, trading about 17,460. The Dow futures trading at 38,156, up about 0.3%. The gold contract, again, not too much action going on in the metals currently. Trading down about 0.4% right now. The gold contract already at 2,021.40 cents. Same with silver. Silver's down a little bit more today. Down about 2.3% on some pretty decent volume as well. Copper, down about a percent as well. Trading about 3.74 on the contract. Let's take a look. Crude oil, again, we've had a volatile past few weeks, say, past month, with crude oil trading up about 2% right now. It's up to $74.76. It seems that a lot of the analysts and investors believe that drilling will resume, or lease operations will resume, in Libya. Of course, they're having a strike at one of their oil fields. Of course, how much it actually alleviates some of the supply issues and overarching complications, kind of in world trade and with some OPEC states. It's hard to say if that will bring the price down any at all. But we've been seeing some pretty wild swings really since about December 7. Of course, it's in a tight bound from about $70 to about $75. But every day, you can see just pretty volatile movement in the crude futures. Of course, looking at Tesla right now, trading is still downward. 207, 27, that has been a march downwards for Tesla since about, let's see, December 28. Of course, right there is trading about just above 26. See about 265 roughly, and we're trading down right now at 207.40, down about 2.25% today. So dynamics back up, of course. Stock never stays down for too long, trading at 115.18. Of course, we are off from a high of about 128, almost 130. Quite a lot of volume coming up as well. That movement down on lighter volume is, for me, I like that. Especially as someone who wants to invest in the stock. The dollar, trading at 103.35. We are not getting any kind of big movement to the downside with the dollar yet. So we'll have to kind of wait to see what happens with them. Or excuse me, with that, QQQ's at 421. Meta today down slightly. Disney up 2.2%, Apple up 1.26%. Okay, let's talk about Gilead. So they're working on a lung cancer drug, excuse me, drug. Obviously, you can tell from this movement, it did not work. Let's look a little bit about that. This is called Trudelvy. That was the drug that was being tested. It fails in lung cancer and raises new questions on antibody drug conjugates as a whole. So let's take a look at this here. Gilead Sciences said Monday at the Trudelvy, it's a quote unquote smart bomb medicine that combines an antibody with chemotherapy, did not significantly extend the lives of patients with metastatic small, excuse me, non-small cell lung cancer when given after first treatment failed. The result from a closely watched study called Voke 01 will be seen as a disappointment by many investors and oncologists alike. These kind of antibody drug conjugates are really new on the market and there's a lot of hope that they may be able to kind of resolve some very resistant cancers, but at least in the case of Gilead today, it did not really work. So we can see right now we're down about 11.2% in Gilead and again, that is on some significant volume as well. Let's take a look. We spoke about plug last week. They had dropped something significant. Let me get off the yearly here. Let me get like a one month. Obviously we had some big volume coming down here, even bigger volume. Again, there was kind of a fighty day right here. We're up now. We were speaking about them last week, they were down significantly. I can't remember the exact percentage, but we're up about 4% today. They had pretty bad earnings. They were trying to offer more stock to get some more money. Obviously the dilutes the equity and people don't like that. Okay, so let's take a look at why this is going up and this is what's kind of insane about this market currently. As of 10 a.m., this was up about 13%. Of course, we've kind of tempered throughout the day right now of about 4.10%. They're hosting a business update tomorrow. And for some reason, a large amount of people are expecting that they're going to have a positive outlook for the company. I tried to look up what was kind of fueling that conversation and I couldn't find anything. They have a, okay, they're getting huge influx of cash, about $1 billion, that's great, but that was from issuing the new shares. I guess that ensures that the company persists for a while longer, but I'm not really sure where the conversation around some massive update that they're gonna give at their meeting tomorrow is coming from. So I guess maybe people were seeing this as very low. I mean, it was super cheap, it got sold off a lot last week. And so maybe they're just kind of taking their bets in it. I'm not really seeing what is so positive about this stock right now, but of course, the market is really what's right. Let's take a look, I talk about, give me a second. Some cybersecurity companies, a lot I talk just about the industry and its whole. Sentinel-1 got an upgrade earlier, this is fantastic news for the company, we get off the one month. We'll go on the yearly, up about 5.27% today. They are also acquiring an Indian cloud security platform, it's called PingSafe, is for 100 million and is dubbed the largest acquisition in Indian cybersecurity startup. Okay, but this is great for Sentinel-1 as well and expanding kind of their operations. The deal is expected to close the first quarter of the fiscal year of 2025. Last year, it raised 3.3 million in seed funding. This is the PingSafe company, it's pretty good for it. 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Toll free at 1-877-927-6648, internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. All right, welcome back, folks. This is Jacob Schubfield and in for Tom O'Brien. They're saying it must be cold and St. Pete is a heavy sweatshirt. All right, yeah, we're like low 60, but in my defense, I'm born and raised here. So I mean anything below 65 and we're dressed up like this. I'm planning a weekend trip to Chicago next month to see one of my buddies from college and I have no idea what I'm gonna do out there. So yeah, any hand me down, let us know, Jacob at TFNN.com. Anyways, I believe we have Steve Rhodes on. Steve, can you hear me? I can, and I'm bubbled up too. I've got a sweatshirt on too. I'm freezing. You look great, Steve. That's the Florida Boy special right there. I am freezing. You set 65 as, I use it, it gets below 70, that heat comes down. Exactly, and as a rule of thumb too, everyone in Florida, their winter outfits just for some reason looks significantly better than our summer outfits. Yeah, I got an old T-shirt on and khakis or something in the wintertime. It's like the whole runway. So Steve, what are we looking at today? Well, so it's a rally party. So as everybody knows, the Dow, the S&P 500, the NASDAQ have made a new all-time high. So I thought we'd start by taking a look at this chart just to get a perspective. So the Dow is in the upper left-hand side, shows a new all-time high that we're trading at. Next to that, we can take a look at the Shanghai index. So we get a feel for China. Now, in the case of China, so first with regard to the Dow, we're trading above last year's high. Whenever you trade above the high of a prior bar out there, certainly whenever you trade above the prior year's high, it is bullish, period, end of story. That doesn't mean it can't top and pull back down, but you are totally in breakout mode. So if we take that, Jacob, and we apply that to what's going on over in the Shanghai, we can see we're trading below last year's low. So it's very bearish over there. Yes. So we don't see global capital moving over to the Shanghai. If we take a look at the Nikkei, it's approaching, but it's approaching its high that takes us all the way back into 1990 out there. So it's on its way up there, but it's still not an all-time high. Neither is the FTSE, neither is the DAX. Over in Australia, the Aussie 200 index made it within 10 cents today this morning, earlier this morning from its all-time high out there. But the point here is that the breakout that we are seeing is inside the US indices out here. I see. And in this chart here, what do we do? It's really important to understand, especially when we take a look at the large cap indices. So the Dow, the Dow gets trashed a whole lot, but where the Dow shouldn't get trashed is understanding how it's trading in major currencies out there. And so on the upper left-hand side here, we've got the Dow priced in dollars. Next to that is priced in euros. Today, made a new all-time high. This is a daily timeframe chart that we're looking at. We've got a new all-time high in terms of yen, a new all-time high in terms of Aussie dollars, a new all-time high in terms of Swedish corona, a new all-time high in terms of Great British Pounds. We're not a new all-time high in terms of Franks, the Chinese Yuan, the Renebi, and the Canadian Looney out there. But the point of those first, the first two rows out there is this is a rally, this is a global rally that we have going on. And that is the best kind of rally you could possibly have. In other words, you've got constituents in different countries that have their local currency and they're investing, they are buyers of the Dow. They are not sellers of the Dow. It could make the case that maybe, you know, and Yuan or Canadian Looney or something, but with regard to being at all-time highs in these currencies, that is a very bullish signal. Now all bull runs come to an end, but that's a very bullish signal and really important for people to understand out there. Got to take a look at these instruments, how they're priced inside the major currencies. The S&P 500, by the way, this is the chart for the S&P. It's also at new all-time highs for Euros, yen, pounds, Aussie dollars, and Swedish corona. Okay, so we've got that established and we've got a worldwide rally that's going on. And everything looks bullish, right? Well, maybe not. So most people know that the US stock indices are weighted, right? So if you take a look at the Dow, maybe the top 10, 11, 12 or so are about 50% of the weighting inside there, inside the NDX100. You know, I'm not sure if it's the top 10 or 11, 12, somewhere around, maybe the top 15, you get about 80, 50, more than 50% of the weighting of the indices. So when we're seeing markets that are breaking out, what I like to do, Jacob, is go to take a look at the equal-weighted ETFs. So these are ETFs that we're taking a look at. The bottom row are the Qs, the spies, the diamonds, everything that you and I, everybody inside TFNN, take a look at. If we, the top row, though, is the equal-weighted ETF. What you like to see is you like to see the equal-weighted ETF confirming what we see in the weighted side. That gives us a broader rally. So that would be a simple signal. Well, in terms of the QQEW, the equal-weighted ETF for the Qs, it is at a new all-time high. In terms of the equal-weighted Dow, which is EDOW, it is also at new all-time highs. But the issue is with it inside the S&P 500. The spy, absolutely at a new all-time high. But RSP folks, that is the equal-weighted ETF for the S&P 500. And not until it gets to a new all-time high and starts trading above it, can we really say that we've got one heck of a rally party going on? Does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely. That's a good way to look at it, huh? Okay, and in the case of the RSP, the equal-weighted ETF, it's trading with inside its profiles out there in its first resistance level, folks. Again, RSP is a ticker symbol, is $157.38. If price begins trading above $157.38, we're getting closer to a breakout message, but it has to take out its all-time high from earlier, from the middle of last month out there. So this is really important for everybody to take a look at and understand. The RSP, like I said, it's not as all-time high, but when we take a look at the daily, weekly, and monthly timeframe, each of them still have a topping pattern. So in the case of the daily timeframe, it's both a wave number seven. That's a little G on my system. It's a very small portion of the Chap and Wave. It's also got a rogment and indicator top. In the case of the weekly, it's a TD9 count top that's out there. In the case of the monthly chart, it's a rogment and indicator top that's out here. So it's got those tops in place. Not until those levels of resistance get taken out will I have a comfort level that we truly are getting ready to break out and move to new all-time highs. A second non-confirmation, this one is gonna be much easier to resolve than the RSP, at least immediately, is the New York Stock Exchange, the Advanced Decline Oscillator. And Jacob, that's the third panel that were the third area inside this chart, really in the middle out there. And when it gets down to minus 150, this is folks, what this is, this is the difference between the 39 and 19 period exponential moving average of the Advanced Decline Line. When that reading or that ratio gets down to minus 150, you are an oversold territory. Well, a couple of days ago, middle of next week, last week, we got to that, we got well below minus 150. And what the New York Stock Exchange is doing is working off its oversold condition. Only closes above this zero threshold line, this little red line that's going across it would tell us that fires are the ones in control. So there's two signals at the moment right now that just say caution. There may be a third or set of signals out here. That comes from the intraday charts for the ES mini. And here, the daily timeframe chart shows a rogment diminicator signal. That's a black diagonal line. Now folks, that is not a top. The top comes when it generates a bearish reversal candle. So that's one thing to be looking for. Turns out the five hour timeframe chart has a TD9 count top. So that is still in place out there. The four hour chart, no top just yet. The two hour chart has a rogment diminicator top. The 60 minute has a rogment diminicator top as do each of the other intraday time periods. But here, people may have noticed that in the 30 minute timeframe chart, it broke through a key level of support at 48.77. But Jacob, that lasted for one bar. And one bar break of support, no way that that's a true breakdown out there. So folks, we've got a true breakout that's going on. We don't have confirmation from the equated ETF for just the S&P 500, the RSP out there. And we've got some signals just simply to pay attention to. So tune in tomorrow at 11 a.m. to the Traders Ed Show. That's right, Steve. Thank you so much as always. You bet, Jacob. Take care now. Folks, stay right there. We'll be right back. You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market, you're going to need a crystal ball. After all, it's impossible to predict the future, right? Like any endeavor in life, before you decide it's impossible, get some advice from the experts. You might find that it's not so impossible after all for daily market overviews that give you direction on the key indices, selective stocks, and commodities. Subscribe to the Opening Call Newsletter at tfnn.com. 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Microsoft became, we'll go back to spirit. We definitely will. And what's going on with them? Let's take a look at Microsoft currently, became the biggest company in the world. What happened? Okay, they are being targeted right now and this is tying in again with what is the world gonna look like going forward? Well, they just suffered a massive attack by a nation state actor. Now, nation state actor is going to be essentially funded hackers. They hacked into high level corporate emails. A lot of executive emails were read. Let's take a look at what they said. This is what it looks like when a company is trying to kind of tell people what happened. The Microsoft security team detected a nation state attack on our corporate systems on January 12th, 2024 and immediately activated a response to investigate disrupt malicious activity, mitigate the attack, so on and so forth. As part of our ongoing commitment to responsible transparency as recently affirmed in our secure future initiative, we are sharing this update, which is very commendable because a lot of times I think companies will stray away from this. They're not required to disclose any of this, which I think is kind of a blind spot in our society. It's going just beyond disruption to profit, kind of disruption to operations. I mean, they're being targeted because this is a international company. They're in charge. I mean, a lot of the world runs off their operating system and it just shows you kind of the scope. This isn't just people hacking businesses, trying to get credit cards or other kind of identifiable information. I mean, this is very large, right? They're hacking the emails of these guys. So that's some big news that happened there. Again, you know, we were looking at Sentinel-1. They have a good AI for cybersecurity. We were looking at Fortinet, Juniper, all these. Take a look again, do your due diligence because the amount of cyber attacks is increasing. I was speaking last week how J.P. Morgan is dumping a ton of money into essentially padding themselves from these things. I think they had an 800% increase in cyber attacks on their systems just last year alone and with the advent of AI and more complex programs, these will only increase. Especially with more people on the internet around the world, these attacks will increase. So that's just some interesting news with Microsoft. I'll talk a little bit about two that they have the world's largest market capitalization. Let's take a look here. They have the assets remain there for a while. Let's take a look. So Microsoft eclipses Apple and relies on its diversification through artificial intelligence in the midst of fierce competition with Apple Microsoft has in recent days crossed a 2.9 trillion mark in market capitalization. And here's the thing, right? They are investing a ton of money. They are right at the forefront with chat GPT, you know, OpenAI's famous generative AI. For its part, Apple is experiencing a slight decline caused by concerns of the slowdown. Okay, Apple's also dealing with some other issues regarding some of their tech. Namely, they have to get rid of the heart monitor on it due to some kind of patent disagreement. Microsoft has diversification of activities. This is through their application suite OS cloud. This is going to be massive going forward and they mix cybersecurity with their cloud as well. I think Azure is, when a lot of these other countries around the world start kind of modernizing and getting into the whole fray and it is inevitable that this will occur and probably a lot quicker than we expect as well. You know, I don't see them really relying on homegrown kind of cloud systems. I see them essentially kind of renting it out. I mean, right? And this is cloud as a service now, which is pretty massive for storage as a service. It's pretty phenomenal. Obviously gaming is massive. They acquired Blizzard recently and artificial intelligence we spoke about. And yeah, they've diversified significantly well. And I think too, you know, looking at some of the other big tech companies, you know, we talk about Meadow, we talk about Apple, AWS, or excuse me, Amazon, I wouldn't just call that tech. You know, that's a lot of things going on there. But you've seen a significant decrease in the amount of workers in some of their more peripheral businesses. And of course, you've seen a little bit of that in Microsoft as well. But I think Microsoft has pretty adeptly nailed what their streams need to be going forward. And they're doing quite well for it. And we see they're the largest company in the world now, at least for the time being. I think that's pretty interesting. Let's take a look at Fisker moving forward up almost a dollar, right? 92 cents, up 17.75%. Okay, so what happened? Going parabolic today, shot up, this was at like up 40% almost today. That was pretty insane to see. In a regulatory filing, Fisker announced that it has reached an agreement with an institutional investor that could save the company some money. Among other things, the institutional investor has waved off any remedies it could have used on Fisker for failure to file its quarterly report in a timely manner. It has also released all leans on intellectual property granted in connection with Fisker's transactions with an automotive partner. Most importantly, the institutional investor has waved off all financial covenants on Fisker's cash reserves, which means the EV maker can now use that cash to run its operations. Okay, I still think Fisker's probably in a bad situation. Let's take a look. They had roughly 527 million in cash and cash equivalents of September of last year. Fisker's cash balance was down from about 737 million. 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Pretty good insight. You know, there's a lot of action that's been going on here. You know, it just hasn't been super attractive. And so let's take a look. We have UBS. They're actually seeing a 10% spike for gold this year, even with the rate cut speculation swirling. So let's take a look at what they're saying. Essentially, gold prices could close a year as much as 10% above current levels. Now anyone could say that, right? But let's take a look at what UBS is saying. UBS note on Friday describes recent price moves as minor in the context of the precious metals 15% climb through 2023 and said the power of the Federal Reserve's policy pivot should not be underestimated. Bouyan remains above the psychological level of 2,000 per ounce, $2,000. And the UBS strategist said forecasting arise to 2250 per ounce by the end of the year. And that is actually, I think pretty close to what we were looking at here as well. Analysts at Scotiabank retained a more cautious outlook but revised their price guidance higher. In a Monday note, they said that they had adopted higher gold and silver prices for this and next year and move their year and gold forecast to 2,000, to about 1900, excuse me, from 1900 previously. Okay, it's weird because you have a lot of unexpected, like unpredictability in the world right now. I know you have some people like Larry Fink saying that a lot of that is, what's kind of soaking all that up is Bitcoin but we've also seen a decrease in price of Bitcoin as well. Obviously there's just a lot of volatility with that, what was going on with the SEC. I think probably majorly you're having some issues in China which might affect overall some of the gold prices here but it'd be really nice to kind of see it pump off. We take a look at the GDX right now.  This is some big volume as well. We're moving a little bit lower but we're just kind of inching slower, about 2762 right now and it doesn't seem like there's a lot of juice left to go high or excuse me, go lower. Of course that is always difficult to say but again, I would check out that interview with Tim Orr that I had on Thursday. Of course too, you check out the gold report from Tom O'Brien to get some better insights on that. Let me just take a look here. Some interesting thing going on with the economy. It is so weird, right? I think a lot of people see it as negative. You have a lot of people now saying that they have higher faith in it. Of course we're at all time highs right now in the S&P 500 and I still think there's on large like a worker shortage for a lot of people. Let's take a look here. Walmart is actually going to raise the salary. That's for store managers. So let's take a look. Workers in America's largest private employer will soon be getting raises. Walmart announced last week that the average salary for store managers will go from 117,000 to 128,000 a year. That is almost a 10% increase. They'll also be eligible for bonuses up to 200% of base salary. Spokesperson for Walmart told NBC News in an email that there are approximately 4,700 Walmart stores in the US and that each store has a store manager. Walmart said about 75% of its field management teams began their Walmart careers as hourly workers. It's interesting. Not only responsible for exceeding customer expectations, that's fine. That's nice when you can see a company kind of retain employees and have them move up through it. So I think that's some good news as well, kind of catching up with some wages. Of course, we're looking at some figures, I think about two weeks ago, that said that wage increases actually has done an okay job of keeping up with inflation. We could take a look at this moving forward. Sorry, I'm having just some issues with the computer, but we'll get that going. Okay, perfect. All right, I'm gonna throw this up here. We'll talk a little bit about this. Of course, we had a lot of these Bitcoin ETFs pop up. XBTF, that is gonna be down about 2.51%, BITO, down about 3.43% and then BITCO down about 3.19%. Bitcoin is down as well. Let me get you that exact number, at least it was earlier when I was looking at it. Yep, we're down about 3.44% today, trading about 40,270. This will be as interesting, it might be the next step forward. These are gonna be stable coins, okay? And the idea of stable coins is you're supposed to have one unit that's pegged directly to essentially the dollar, right? So one unit equals $1. So let's take a look here. The CEO of Circle, the company behind the popular stablecoin USD coin, sees a strong chance that laws for stablecoin issuers like itself will come through in 2024. Stable coins, which allow traders to move in and out of crypto. It's kind of a weird generalization, but anyways, our $135 billion market, but they're for the most part unregulated. The US is yet to pass federal crypto regulation, even as jurisdictions around the world are approving new crypto-focused laws. Circle's boss and co-founder hopes that things will change. Speaking with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a layer said regulatory developments around the crypto industry were picking up around the world and that the US was more than likely to approve laws for stable coins than before. You're seeing desire from the administration, desire from the Treasury, from the Federal Reserve, by both chambers of Congress, and certainly on a buy, okay. But I think even more so is while you're seeing a lot of these private equity firms and big financiers getting into it as well. Digital dollars are happening around the world. Other governments are regulating dollar digital currencies before the United States. And that would be kind of cool to see, I think. And I see something like a stablecoin kind of probably being a little bit more palatable for legislators. Usually they're not as volatile and it kind of makes a little bit more sense to people, I think, who aren't, you know, kind of like ingratiated in that world currently. So I think that's a good look out for them and it'll be kind of interesting to see what happens with that. Okay, we were talking a lot about the buy now, pay later thing. I wasn't really a big fan of it and it looks like there would be some issues here as well going forward. Let's take a look at the key points here. Buy now, pay later helped fuel record holiday spending online surging 14% year-over-year, but now those bills are coming due. Consumers aren't sure how they'll pay them. I, yeah, the surge in use of buy now, pay later comes as credit card debt is at a record high and delinquency rates have nearly doubled over the past two years. It is unclear how often buy now, pay later bills go unpaid, but the people who use the services are more than twice as likely to be delinquent on other credit products, such as car loans or mortgages, which is pretty insane. Starting January has arrived and other installments are starting. The individual in this article is unsure how they're gonna pay them off and selling clothes. I mean, this is like, I, what I would really like to see is again, like how much loss a lot of these companies are getting from that and whether or not they're somehow able to write this off. I would assume there's probably not any collateral at all with this, but let's take a look here in an era where persistent inflation and record high interest rates are shaping financial decisions from any shoppers. And the service helped fuel a boom in overall online spending. Of course, we had a massive year really in like November and December. A lot of it, you know, attributed to this kind of structure. And it topped at about 220 billion from November 1st to the end of December, 222 billion. During the season, buy now, pay later usage hit an all time high, rising and staggering 14% from the prior year and contributing 16.6 billion to online spending. Online December Monday alone, buy now, pay later use spike, nearly 43% wild. Folks, stay tuned, we'll be right back. Are you ready to take your trading to the next level? Introducing Tom O'Brien's award-winning newsletter, Market Insights. Your key to successful active trading. Tom O'Brien, renowned for his expertise in the financial markets, has designed Market Insights to be your daily guide to profitable trades. Tom publishes his daily Market Insights newsletter every market day before the market open along with updates when warranted. Stay ahead of the game with Tom's real-time analysis and trade recommendations delivered straight to your inbox.  Ready to join the ranks of successful traders? 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Haven't seen cargo theft at this level ever. Nearly $130 million worth of goods was stolen in 2023. But since reporting cargo theft is not mandatory, the amount is likely higher. Back in 2014, we were taking in 100 or so reports a month. Now we're taking in probably 220. And this really is actually kind of crazy. There are a lot of these videos that are circulating online, like on Twitter and Instagram. And the trains that carry all the Amazon goods, and this was in California in particular. Again, I think this was like probably about a year ago. I think I remember some people also talking about it. In the den, the trains have to stop at these certain stations. And the news crew went down to kind of film was going on because this is where a lot of the people were hitting the cargo trains. I mean, the whole track was just completely littered in boxes and they just, they hit it, they cut open the boxes, see if it's worth anything. If not, they dump it, if it is, they take it and they run. I mean, you're talking like an entirely different layer from the topsoil of just boxes. This was all theft. And it was kind of going unprotected. Let's take a look here. Cargo nets analysis of fourth quarter 2023 data showed a 68% year over year increase compared with 2022. In the first 20 weeks of 2023, we saw a 41% compared to the 20 weeks before that, cargo theft reversed and goods being stolen at any point in transit. Pretty crazy.  Folks, thank you so much for joining me today. Tom will be back with us tomorrow. It's been great being with you these past few days. Have a great rest of your day.


Hi. So I'm from Circle Economy. I thought it was interesting to maybe give you a brief introduction about our organization before launching into how we use urban metabolism related topics in our work. So we're a social enterprise and our mission is to basically scale circularity around the world and we do this by delivering practical scalable solutions to cities and businesses. We do a variety of different types of work. So we do novel research for circularity. We help create strategies for businesses and cities. We offer a lot of workshops and do capacity building in businesses and cities as well. And then we also act as an ecosystem builder or network organization to bring people together or organizations together. And internally we're organized into sector programs and enabling programs. So we have a deep kind of focus area into textiles, food and built environment. But then also look at enabling programs which are more cross cutting like jobs and skills or finance and business models and also design and brands. And we've been doing this work for about six years mostly in Europe but now more recently across the world as well we're getting more requests. And in the last few years we have embarked on a mission to go digital in order to meet the demands of all of these requests around the world. We want to enable our beneficiaries to help themselves and to use our tools and processes and frameworks and so on to enact circularity in their region. So I work in the digital team and I work across the organization to develop the system internally to help digitalize our processes and also to build the community externally to distribute and disseminate those tools. So our cities program a few years started I think six years ago but in the last three years we've been working with about 15 cities and we work with them in a process called the city scan. And that process usually takes about a year. It's run with a series of workshops in the city where we bring together the relevant stakeholders and we work together to find the most relevant opportunity for circularity in that city. And we do this using as much as possible the data that's available in that city. So we work with relevant companies and the municipality to try create a map of the materials in the city and then work together with policymakers or relevant organizations to figure out what the key topic areas are and then develop those strategies. And recently we've been really been hounded with requests from all over the world in Asia and Africa and both the Americas. So we've been looking to create this process into something digital. So this is our vision is to try and create what we've been wanting to absorb it into our digital system which we call CircleLab and we would like to create this an environment then for cities. So can we help cities find their circular opportunities and what can we do. So this is just to frame how CircleLab for cities fits within a broader picture. We develop tools for cities and businesses in different topics and in different regions but it all lives together in one kind of bigger digital ecosystem. So today we'll be talking about this cities component and where the vision for the cities component is to provide urban change makers with suites of tools that are based on data as much as possible insights from the community and help them to create circular strategies in their region and actually act out a strategy. So the aim is to create pilot projects to create policies programs etc. Okay. So I'll talk a little bit about our approach to how we've been building this and what stage we're at now and what we see in the near future. So the first thing when building digital products is to have a look at the user. So who's the person who's actually going to be logging on and looking at the tool and we broke down a little bit what our universe of users are and we see that within a city or in a big organization there's normally some kind of key decision maker and we instead of dealing directly with the key decision maker as our user we actually look at the people who are speaking to those key decision makers so we call them sustainability consultants either acting within the municipality or externally to the municipality and they usually are creating reports or guidance for those key decision makers and they work alongside partner research institutions and also with local businesses to try and understand and get the map of what they'll be reporting or communicating and deliver it to that key decision maker. So we're focusing on this Jennifer and Louis type of persona and we spoke to a lot of Jennifer's and Louis's and we came down to what their problem is which is what can I do to implement circularity in my region and they want to do this using evidence they want to do this by bringing people along and bringing organizations along and also aligning to what the political priorities are in the region as well. So in order to answer that question the first thing that we had to do was turn our scan process which I mentioned earlier into something digital and structured so can we guide them along a series of steps that will allow them to do the work that we have previously done and give guidance on that throughout the way and then in order to do that we have broken down what the primary modules are that would support that process so the blue ones are the ones we're focusing on currently which is a digital MFA digital material flow analysis what can we display about the materials in the region and a knowledge hub for cities which is what are the cases in your own region or in similar regions or in relevant other regions and policies in those regions that are related to the circularity in your city and in the future we hope to develop other performance gauges as well so what's going on with the sectors what's the maybe the circular jobs or the circular gap in the region as well and this should help to create an evidence-based picture of the city which will in turn support guiding the users through the scan underneath those we need to create an opportunity scoring framework which helps us to understand which opportunities are best placed for that region and then underpinning it all is a big community platform so if we link it back to this the urban metabolism topic we send to our decisions and our opportunity framework around what data is available so if we can find information about materials in the city we'll use that to guide what the opportunity should be and then the better the information about the urban metabolism is the better interventions we can design okay so let's have a look at what the content is that flows in here so with the materials all right so I think we all know that how very scarce the material flow data is and how very unstructured it is or how sparse yeah how sparse it can be so what we've done for now we're testing this well we've done this in Europe and we're doing it we'll continue to roll it out for other countries around the world but we're having a look at what's what we've taken as data that's available on Eurostat to combine it into national national sectoral material flows so this data is already available if you look at there's already some country level material data some product information what materials go into which product and then what the levels of consumption are about those products within a country so we can turn that into a kind of country level flow and then use maybe some geospatial analysis to scale it down to a city to a nuts three region and then locate cities within those nuts three regions so this is our first pass to get an idea of can we get a high level comparison across different cities and different regions and we can look at things like what's the you know what even what's the usage of word or consumption of word within one region to another and then we can focus our interventions about where the data is the most available and the most trusted what we're working towards through this is creating city level IO tables so we've got a kind of top-down version of getting to nuts three into cities and now we're looking to activate local communities within those regions to start building bottom up data to integrate those two sources from a built environment perspective we're building stock modeling maps at different levels of granularity and resolution and then so that we can overlay what's available in the built environment in these cities as well so typically our approach is to do a low granularity kind of model top down and then build it up with with local partners bottom up and a key component of all of this is what we call data alliances so working with organizations who already hold public data or maybe proprietary data to try and combine it in different ways and we work with public organizations and private organizations to do those but the material data is only useful if we can link it to a series of case studies about circularity so we work we work with our partners as well to gather all of these case studies and link them to the material flows that's the crucial part of course so once a city has identified that maybe they would like to run an intervention regarding bio-based materials and construction then they need to see what other relevant cities have done so we build up the knowledge community to write and read those case studies and we currently have about 10 contributing partners contributing organizations and we're working to try and streamline the process of uploading those cases and feeding and writing them and curating them but these and these are fed into our circle lab for city's tool at appropriate moments so if the user is looking at biomass in a region then they'll get relevant case studies for that topic of interest and then lastly a quick overview of how we're looking at the scoring so I mentioned that we're trying to identify what the opportunities are in the city we have a framework ready for opportunities but now comes the tricky part of actually assigning priorities to those opportunities so this is just an example of how it kind of works at a high level we're looking to say so what's the you know what's the level of opportunity of installing say a biodigester and then scale looking at that across two cities and we combine two types of scores one we call an expert score which we develop with working groups and local partners and try and use local models and local feasibility frameworks and another component is an elastic or algorithmic score where we look at the actual content that's in the research so what's in the body of research that's available about this topic generally and look at that in relation to the city it's a little bit of like natural language analysis and trying to link it back to the opportunities in the city we can chat about it afterwards if you're interesting if you're interested it's very very cool okay so now let's see I wanted to give you a quick overview of the prototype itself so at the moment we've been testing it and with the users this year we've developed a prototype with them this year and we're looking to release a v1 early next year in q1 so what you'll see now is just the prototype that we've been testing recently so final design not not yet final designs but just to give you an idea of what you can what they're looking at so first thing of course is that they enter a city which they're interested in and we hope to have full coverage as soon as possible here and once they've selected a city then they get what we'd call this opportunity radar so around the radar you can see what is our framework of circular opportunities that we've worked we've developed over the last few years and the opportunities that are the most relevant to the city at the moment based on our scoring framework the knowledge base and the materials data gravitate to the center and the user is able to then explore the opportunities that are the most relevant to them or at least to understand the range of opportunities that are possible in their city they'll be able to read a little bit more about what that opportunity is and then also to adjust the scoring factors so they'll be able to see what is it that got them to that score and then what if they would like to change it up or down there of course are able to do that it's more guidance and just to create some try and create some order and then underneath that they ask to say would they like to focus actually on one sector or material so first you get a kind of overview of the city based on top-down high-level data but then you can deep dive into looking at a particular sector or combination of sectors or a particular material and combination of materials so over here we've loaded some publicly available data scale to the city and you can have a look at what is what's actually flowing through that city inputs and outputs and you can drop down and look at some different aggregations like embodied emissions or we're testing which fields are the most valuable to the user right now because even as Aristide said there's a lot you can use and we don't want to bombard the users we want to just give them only the few things that they really need in their context to make their decisions so same same principle with construction they're able to deep dive into which sector or you can only see in the background here but the sectors are also profiled into relevant with relevant data points so for example which ones are have the most jobs or sorted by emissions or sorted by gross value add and you can see here as well that once they've selected some kind of area of interest this is where the Knowledge Hub comes into play so the case studies that are relevant to the to the selection get get listed in the relevant place in the tool and then they're able to search for other relevant cities to find comparable case studies in cities that they think are comparable and lastly underpinning this or what we'll develop later is a data platform to help support uploading data for the local partners as well so currently we do this manually with them and we're working on a system to try and structure it and get them have an online environment where this can be uploaded and we'll have a kind of unified system with the data definitions it's an ongoing mission I think maybe many of you here are probably involved in similar projects so that was my introduction in CircleLab I thought it might be valuable to say what the kind of partners are that we're looking for in case any of you have been are interested in anything that we're talking about so on the one hand we're looking for knowledge partners about any of the topics related to circular circularity in cities so either from the material data perspective maybe the most likely but even the knowledge base or the opportunity scoring framework with regards to particular opportunities and then of course building the actual technology and data system is a challenge but also a very interesting challenge and of course community builders across all of these topics maybe we can work together to integrate our systems so if you have any questions or comments or would like to get in touch these are well please get in touch with one of us thank you


dedicated to the strength of the nation. Radley Wee-Hale, Zachary Scott in Above Their Comrades, a United States Army and United States Air Force presentation. And our here is our producer, the well-known Hollywood showman, C.P. McGregor. Thank you, thank you, and greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to your theater of stars, where the great names in motion pictures star in plays written by the nation's foremost authors. This is the true story of the founding and establishment of the country's highest award to its heroes, the Congressional Medal of Honor. In the principal role, we present Mr. Zachary Scott. And above their comrades is the stirring title of our play. The curtain for act one will rise in just a moment. But first, here's Wendell Niles with an important message. Friends, your army and your Air Force men have a job to do.  You see their business is peace. Yes, your army and your Air Force have as their mission, preservation of world's peace and maintenance of security for America. And they're deriving satisfaction from serving their country and from making for themselves a career of self-improvement. They're helping you as well as themselves. Give them the support they deserve. And our once again, our producer. The curtain rises on act one of above their comrades, starring Zachary Scott as Henry Wilson. The list of America's military heroes form a scroll of honor, long and glorious, etched by the deeds of the brave, remembered in the hearts of the grateful. And atop the list are those few who through some deed of unbelievable valor have earned the highest decoration America awards to her defenders, the Medal of Honor. Our story tells how this highest military honor came into being. It's the story of a shoemaker, a soldier, and one of America's outstanding public servants of the past century, a man who, had he not died while serving his country as a vice president, might have been president of the United States. You see, these three, the shoemaker, the soldier and the statesman, were all one man. And his name was Henry Wilson. Henry Wilson did not win the Medal of Honor himself, for there was no such award when he served as a soldier. But Henry Wilson, almost more than any other American, was responsible for its creation. Let's start with Henry Wilson, the shoemaker. The year is 1834. And Wilson, a determined young man, pauses in his work at the appearance in the shop of his employer, a rather pinched-faced individual named Legro. Mr. Legro, oh, Mr. Legro. Yes, Wilson, yes, yes, what is it? Mr. Legro, I'm once again making preparations to leave your shop. Leave? And for what this time? I want to go into business for myself. For yourself? You insane, you don't know the shoemaker's trade? You've been in here only a short time, takes years to learn this trade. Yes, but I've been learning. I'm sure I know enough to go out on my own. Oh, you do. Well, what about our agreement? You've contracted to work for me for at least six months longer. What about that? I'll pay you. I'll pay you for my release. Pay? Where would you get any money? I've managed to save enough to buy myself out, Mr. Legro. Here a little and there a little.   I haven't helped you.  For he had soon built up a profitable shoemaking business of his own. And as every young man in such a position is quite certain to do, Henry just happened to be walking a young lady of long acquaintance home one spring evening. Well, here is my gate. Unfortunately, it is. Miss Harriet. Yes? We have now known each other a considerable length of time. Quite considerable. As you know, I make shoes. I must confess that in pondering what I'm about to say, I've worn out a pair of my best shoes pacing up and down. Yes, Henry. I suppose I could say it best this way. I want more than anything else in the world to be your devoted husband. Oh, Henry. I too wondered what I would say if you should ask me. I don't know what to say, except kiss me. Henry Wilson's personal affair has prospered. But a non-selfish desire of serving others soon led quite naturally enough to a desire to serve in the legislature in his home state, Massachusetts. At a big gathering following the election, beside the platform which had been erected, a nervous man is talking to the leader of the band. Now have you got it, Herman? I think so. Well, I'll keep it to you once more. Your band plays after Mr. Wilson speaks. But before the refreshments, have you got it? Yes. Before Mr. Wilson, after the refreshments. No, no, Herman, after Mr. Wilson, after. Dear, they're introducing now. My good friends, Mr. Wilson.  It was inevitable that a man of Wilson's talent and desire for service should progress in his career to the Congress as a representative of the state of Massachusetts. And then in 1860, as a United States senator, we find him discussing a new responsibility with his wife, Harriet. I'm so proud of you to think that my husband is now the distinguished chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. And husband of the beautiful Harriet Wilson, an even greater honor. Oh, now, Henry. Well, a senator can be in love with his wife, can't he? Oh, my dear, you always make me feel so important and so wonderful, even when I'm tired. Harriet, you have been feeling stronger lately now, haven't you? Yes, Henry. I think so. You know, Harriet, now that I'm chairman of the Military Affairs Committee, perhaps I'll be able to do something about that favorite project of mine. Oh, yes, your soldier's award. Yeah, that's right. I'd like to call it the Congressional Medal of Honor. And once established, a precedent would be set for awarding outstanding bravery. You've convinced me about your award my dear long ago. Well, let's hope I can do the same thing with those members of Congress who are against the medal. Oh, I'll accomplish it. Just like I once bought out my apprenticeship. Here a little, there a little. Of course you will, my dear. In that regard, I'd like to have a dinner tomorrow night for Colonel Monet. He's a member of the French Military Commission here to survey our army and make recommendations. I want him to recommend this award. Anyone else coming in? Colonel Ephraim Ellsworth has promised to drop by for dinner. Oh, it's always lovely to have Ephraim. He'll be leaving right after dinner to join the president. Mr. Lincoln has invited him to a big reception at the White House. Oh, wonderful for Ephraim and his future. Yes, indeed. Well now, my dear, you're sure this dinner won't be too much for you? No, Henry. For you, nothing is too much. Well, Senator Wilson, I must say the best cooks are not confined to France. This has been a superb dinner. I'm glad you enjoyed it, Colonel Monet. Of course Colonel Ellsworth here is our starboarder. I most certainly am. Too bad that the Madam Wilson was unable to join us. She's not been quite herself, and I insisted that she remain in bed at the moment. It is nothing serious, of course. Oh, no, I'm sure it's nothing. Colonel Ellsworth, it is just a small matter, but my curiosity has been aroused. You Frenchman, eternally curious. I was wondering, in France, we military men always wear our medals at social functions. Colonel, I notice you do not wear yours. Is it a custom? We have no medals in the American Army. No medals? But I do not understand. But surely you must have some way of rewarding the soldiers and officers who distinguish themselves. I'm afraid we don't, Colonel Monet. Oh, is it a possible no medals at all? I agree with you, Colonel Monet. I believe that we should have some tangible way of expressing appreciation for our soldiers. Particularly, I am interested in establishing an award for outstanding valor. Senator, you'd better come at once. Your wife has fainted. Oh, you'll excuse me, Colonel Monet. Of course. Ephraim, you'd better go and get the doctor. I'll get a doctor here as fast as I can. Well, Henry, it seems to be pneumonia. Doctor says the crisis has not been reached. I don't know, Ephraim. I'll feel right about this. Henry, I know that nothing possible can harm Harriet. Nothing? You make it sound better. Aren't you going to be late for that reception at the White House? I'm not going, Henry. I have sent regrets to the president. Nobody, Ephraim. It isn't every colonel in Washington who receives an invitation to an important affair at the White House.    God bless you. Doctor says you may see her in our Senate at Wilson. She's going to be all right. Oh, thank heaven. I'll be going now. All right, Ephraim. Harriet and I both thank you. I know. Tell Harriet the star border is looking forward to that next dinner soon. Goodbye, Henry. Yeah, don't try to talk too much. Henry, I was sorry about the dinner. Was it all right? It was perfect, my dear. And your Colonel Monet? He's on our side. Oh, I'm glad. And what you said, here a little, there a little. Maybe? Yes, I'm sure of it now. And I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going first to get you out of that bed and fit as a fiddle again. Because I want you to be in that gallery when Congress convenes again and I introduce my resolution. Quiet. Quiet in the Senate. Quiet, gentlemen, please. Mr. President. Mr. President. The chair recognizes the senator from Massachusetts. Mr. President, as chairman of the Military Affairs Committee, I would like to put on the docket the following resolution. That the Congress shall cause to be created a medal of honor to be awarded to those soldiers who shall most distinguish themselves by gallantry in action. No problem. Mr. President. The chair recognizes the senator from Illinois. Mr. President, I move that the resolution of my esteemed colleagues from Massachusetts be tabled. Such an award as he proposes smacks of monarchy. In the long and glorious history of our great nation, we have always struggled to maintain our democratic principle. Mr. President. Full agreement with the senator from Illinois. It is quite true that we must maintain the principles of our free republic. Gentlemen, gentlemen, there must be quiet in this chamber. Senator Wilson, I am afraid we must postpone this discussion. I have just received word that armed forces of the Confederate States of America have attacked Fort Sumter. Gentlemen, this means war between the states. 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Remember, only the best can be aviation cadets. And now, act two of above their comrades, starring Zachary Scott as Henry Wilson. Senator Henry Wilson's efforts to have Congress create a Medal of Honor to be awarded for valorous deeds to members of the Army have temporarily been postponed. The Confederacy has attacked federal territory and preparations are being speeded to put the country on a wartime basis. We find Wilson and his wife Harriet, completely recovered from her illness, talking to Wilson's friend, Colonel Ellsworth, at Senator Wilson's home in Washington, DC. It's a terrible thing, this war between the states. Yes, think, American against American, brother against brother. War is never pleasant, Harriet, but this. Henry, this is going to be the hardest job of all, leading men in armed warfare against the men who only a few months ago were brothers in arms. And what about Washington? Do we have troops enough to defend the capital? I think so. While we're virtually surrounded by Confederate territory, we can always summon enough federal and militia troops for the protection of Washington. Well, that's reassuring. Oh, there's not too much to worry about at this point. As a matter of fact, I'm taking my regiment over to occupy Alexandria tomorrow. Oh, I didn't know that was planned so soon. Will there be trouble? Surely there must be some Confederate troops in Alexandria. Only a few. We're allowing them a few hours to leave. Then we'll disembark. We're going by boat and occupy the city. Well, Ephraim, good luck for you. Thank you, Henry. Take good care now. We wouldn't want anything to happen to you. Well, you're making this sound so ominous. Now, don't worry, Henry. If I can't take care of myself, I have some very brave men in my command to Will. Well, I dare say there won't even be a shot fired tomorrow. The men are all disembarked and in formation, Captain. Good, Sergeant. Hatties, Hatties men. As you know, we are now in Alexandria. From the docks here, we will march in and occupy the strategic points of the city. We expect no opposition. But remember, this is Confederate territory. Any questions? Comedy, tension, forward, up. Here comes Colonel Ellsworth, sir. Captain, halt the men. Oh, yes, sir, Colonel Ellsworth. Comedy, halt! Captain, you see the Confederate flag over that inn? Oh, yes, sir. I'll tear it down. If you please, Captain, I prefer that privilege myself. Oh, yes, sir. Let me have a couple of men. I'll give you private Brownell. He's one of my best men. Brownell? Yes, sir. You and these two men go with Colonel Ellsworth. We'll be back in a couple of minutes. You wait here with your company until we return. Hold it here. Brownell, you and your men cover me. I think I can reach the flag from the windowsill. Yes, sir. Here it is. Well, Colonel, you certainly sweated that one out. Easier than I thought. I was sure someone was inside the building. Now, the place is deserted. Well, we better have a look, so you just to make sure. Look out, Colonel, you're making me. Good work, Brownell. You got him. I'm all right. I'm OK. He missed me. How about Colonel Ellsworth? He hit the Colonel. Colonel Ellsworth is dead. Brownell, Senator Wilson, I said you wanted to see me.  Thank you, Senator. Colonel Ellsworth was a very dear friend of mine. I want to thank you for trying to protect him at the risk of your own life. It was all on the way of duty, sir. No, it was more than your duty.  You could have been killed yourself. Anyone else in the outfit would have done the same, Senator. We all thought a lot of Colonel Ellsworth. Well, Brownell, I want to express my appreciation. And there's something I want you to know. I've been trying for some time now to get a bill passed to create a medal of honor for outstanding bravery. And if successful, I'm going to see that you are awarded that medal. The death of my friend Colonel Ellsworth has made me all the more determined that men of your caliber shall receive the recognition they deserve. Thank you, sir. With the nation in a state of crisis, Wilson's duties as chairman of the Military Affairs Committee occupied is every moment. Then, late in 1861, Congress adjourned. Immediately upon adjournment, President Lincoln summed Wilson to his office. Oh, come in, Senator. Come in. There's something I want to talk over with you. Thank you, Mr. President. I know you feel the tragedy of the event that has befallen our nation. Yes, Mr. President. And in a very personal way, the loss of my dear friend Colonel Ellsworth. I have that report. However, we must pursue our objective with firmness in the rights as God gives us to see the right. Wilson, you've been doing a fine work in the Senate. Thank you, Mr. President. I have in mind for you an assignment, a special assignment. Is it permanent? No, just between sessions. It will terminate when Congress convenes again. Is this mandatory, Mr. President? No. No, I'll explain it and leave it up to you whether you want to accept. I'm appointing a commission to study mobilization and manpower requirements. I want you to serve on the commission. I'd like to, Mr. Lincoln, but I feel I could be of even greater service in uniform. Uniform? Yes, sir. I've been offered a temporary commission as Colonel in the Massachusetts State Militia. I'm going into active duty between congressional sessions. You're going me one better, Wilson, serving in the regular forces. I don't like to refuse your offer, Mr. President. But I do. That's quite all right, Wilson. I'm sure you will be of invaluable aid to the nation in uniform. I'll be back when Congress reconvenes, Mr. Lincoln. And there's one project in particular I want to take up again. Creating a medal of honor. No wonder they call you the soldier's friend. Good luck, Wilson. And when you return, good luck on your soldier's medal. Members of the Senate, I move to take up Senate joint resolution number 82 to provide for the presentation of medals of honor to the men of the army and the volunteer forces who have or who may distinguish themselves in battle during the present rebellion. Mr. President. The chair recognizes the senator from Illinois. Before the discussion goes any further, I should like to ask why we need such a decoration as Senator Wilson proposes? For one thing, we have no army medal. But Senator Wilson, is it not true that we already have a decoration known as the Order of the Purple Hearts and also one known as the Certificate of Merit? That's true, and it's not true. What do you mean? The Certificate of Merit was originated during the Mexican campaign. What's that got to do with it? As the name implies, it is just a certificate, a scrap of paper. It's an award. And a soldier wears a scrap of paper. What about the Purple Hearts? He can wear that? The Purple Heart was originated by General Washington during the war for independence. Does it matter when it was originated? The Purple Heart is now obsolete. It was awarded only once. It no longer is a gentleman. It can be revived. The Purple Heart is not a man's hand. The discussion is getting out of hand. You are now quibbling over small matters. The clerk will read the roll, and a vote will be taken on the resolution. California? California votes on. You're not again dramatic that vote aye. Illinois? Well, there it is today. Come here and sit down. I have something to tell you. Yes? You've often said in your struggle to establish the Medal of Honor, here a little, there a little. Well, this is really very little. It just arrived this afternoon, and it's for you. Well, it's a pen. What bearing does a pen? Don't just, my dear. This is the pen President Lincoln used today to sign your bill creating a Medal of Honor into law. On July 12, 1862, President Lincoln signed a bill providing for the Army Medal of Honor. It was a triumph for a zealous advocate, Henry Wilson, and a triumph for all those brave soldiers who, through their valor in the field of battle, have earned the right to wear the medal. As long as America must call upon her brave men to defend their native land, there will always be those who distinguish themselves by gallantry and intrepidity above their comrades. They are the winners of the nation's highest award, the Medal of Honor. The curtain falls in the final act of above their comrades. Our star, Zachary Scott, will return for a curtain call after this important message from Wendell Niles. During the recent war, 60,000 physicians volunteered to safeguard the health of American soldiers, sailors, and airmen. Today, a small fraction of this number is asked to help regular Army and Air Force doctors keep our ever-growing Army and Air Force the healthiest in the world. There are three jobs for these physicians. First, preventive medicine to maintain highest health standards possible for soldiers and airmen. Second, medical and surgical care for the sick and injured. The third, research to improve medical knowledge not only for the benefit of military personnel, but for the good of people everywhere. If you are a practicing physician or surgeon, you may be commissioned in the grade for which you are qualified, up to and including that of Colonel. And you will have the vast resources of the US Army and the US Air Force medical research facilities at your service. Right to the Surgeon General, US Army, Washington 25 DC, for full details. Now back at the microphone are star Zachary Scott and our producer. Zachary, I wish I could give you a citation for your fine portrayal of Henry Wilson. Thank you, CP. When the Hollywood Coordinating Committee told me about your invitation to do an authentic story based on the Medal of Honor, I was very pleased. The invitation really came direct from General Hanley. Oh, I didn't know that. By the way, it was a good story. Thanks to the author, W. James Bastion. So I got interested and did some research on my own about the Medal of Honor. Oh? Yes, maybe your listeners would like to hear a couple of facts about it. I'm sure they would. Since this is the very highest award our government gives for conspicuous gallantry, the wearer rates our greatest respect. And admiration. That's right. Now, do you have any idea how many medals of honor were awarded in the last war? I could guess. All right. But remember, there were over 13 million in service. Well, let's say about 1,000. No. The latest figures I could get show only 332. In all branches? That's right. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. Now, do you know what that means in percentage of recipients? You mean the number of men per 100 who received it? Per 100. But CP, only one man received the Medal of Honor out of approximately every 40,000. Amazing. But you know, I think everyone feels that each man who went into battle was a hero. And if needed, would have served beyond the call of duty. I most certainly agree. Well, I've given you my facts and figures. Now, what facts can you give us about your play for next week, CP? Next week, Zachary and ladies and gentlemen, Yvonne DeCarlo comes to our Theater of Stars in a dramatic play titled Seven Candles. This is the story of a woman's intense love for her husband, which overcomes his disordered state of amnesia to regain their former happiness and affection. Fine. I'll be listening. And please extend my thanks to the good general for the invitation. So long, CP. I'd be glad to. Goodbye, Zachary. We feel the generous next week, ladies and gentlemen, when we bring you Yvonne DeCarlo in Seven Candles. Until then, this is CP McGregor saying thanks for listening and Cheerio from Hollywood. Zachary Scott appears with the courtesy of the Hollywood Coordinating Committee, which arranges for the appearance of all stars on this program. Script was by W. James Baskin with music under the direction of Eddie Scravan. This program is transcribed in Hollywood for release at this time. Wendell Niles speaking.


My name is Bonnie, but you can call me B, and even though my partner A is in here, I can still have the WQQQQQ Club. I moved around a lot as a child, like a lot. I was always just really interested in photography and video and audio recording, just sort of documenting everything. I became interested in mobile technology specifically. To me, it represents an accessible form of media production. So I came to MIT as a graduate student in part of Media Studies, and as such, I was assigned to be a researcher at the Center for Future Civic Media. Center for Future Civic Media is in a certain way the heart of the business because it enables us to work with the civic process. You know, media is really central to how we see ourselves, to how we connect to other people. The latest project I ran was called M Generations. A generation of people who came to this country. And then the next generation who use mobile technologies every day. Then we had two adults as well, one of whom would drive from group home to group home. He worked as a social worker, so he was always on the road, and he would film in the car all the time. I do travel like 100 miles every day, seeing my clients who are scattered in various towns. The other members of the group or teenagers watch his footage and say, oh look, I didn't know he drives all around the state for work all the time. Now he's driving, it's midnight, he must work all the time. And do you see how on the top right it says pause? Audubon chose not to supply these kids with high-end video cameras, but rather to equip them or have them draw on the cameras that they carry with them every day in the form of a cell phone. What's terrific about that is that students become active viewers of the world around them. They are potentially always all the time documentary filmmakers. Chemistry class. Watching what their peers were filming really got people more excited, I think, to go back and film more about their lives. At the end when we showed the final video to the whole congregation of almost 300 members of this church, that I think was very embarrassing for a lot of people, but it was also hopefully a moment of pride of like, yeah, look, this is me, this is my life, and now you know a little bit more about me. I think the main thing is that it's never about the technology ever, and of course we at MIT have to remind ourselves that all the time, because we always have new shining technology around, but it's never about the technology, it's always about the social processes behind it. How does it get used? What impact does it have on human beings?


We just got word about a chemical storage facility where two employees went missing, they're still punched in and they're suspected hazardous materials inside so we're about to enter the building. We're checking the door to see if it's hot. Once we get inside we do a 360 sweep of the room. So we came back and we sampled the powder and the two liquid jars. Once we identify the hazards and we know what we have downrange then we're clear to take the casualty out through the decontamination line to get them in medical.