Why are house prices so high? In the ten years up to the start of the financial crisis, house prices rose by over 200%. Why? A common belief is that there are too many people, too much immigration, and too few houses to go around. This is a myth. In fact, during this time, for every four new people, we build three new homes. At the same time, mortgage lending grew by over 370%. So, where did we find all this money to buy houses? When you take out a mortgage, the money doesn't actually come from someone else's savings. No, it's actually just created electronically by your bank typing numbers into a computer. And it's those newly created numbers, the newly created money that you can use to pay for your new house. Since every mortgage works this way, all the crazy lending before the crisis created hundreds of billions of brand new money. And this new money flooded into property, pushing house prices up so high. Everyone pays more for a place to live, which means that after paying the mortgage or the rent, there's less money to pay the bills, and less money to spend with businesses and shops in your town. So, high house prices don't make us richer, they make us poorer. Well, actually, not all of us. High prices and big mortgages mean bigger profits for the banks. And with an effective license to print money, this guarantees they'll lend too much. So, if you want to keep houses affordable for ordinary people, we have to look to the banks and together take away their power to create money for good.


Hi everybody, we're back. This is Dave Vellante at Wikibon.org. I'm here with David Floyer, who's my co-host of this segment. This is the spotlight where we're doing a deep dive on software-defined storage. We've heard a lot about that this week and this year, actually. VMware Last VMworld in Las Vegas in August of 2012 really introduced the concept of the software-defined data center and software-defined storage really started to come out. David Floyer, we've talked about software-led storage, software-led infrastructure. I guess that term didn't stick, but it sure does within our community. So that's kind of our generic name. Dale Deegan is here. He really is focused on software-defined storage within HP's storage division. Dale, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Thank you very much, Dave. So you just heard Craig, he's kind of set up at a high level software-defined storage, what it is. I like this definition, it was clean. David, I think it's pretty consistent with our definition. Absolutely. Sometimes some of these definitions get a little too convoluted, so would you add anything to what Craig said or any color to sort of your view of SDS, Dale? Really, Craig covered it well. I think it needs to be open enough that it can be inclusive for the entire industry on that. And really just covering it on saying that we're taking industry standard type solutions and you can take the data services and apply those to servers or storage and then also orchestrate that management. I think that's a real open type of discussion that allows for lots of room. This event is pretty exciting because you've seen lots of different people talk about software-defined storage and I think we're in a good spot. We've been doing this for a lot of years. I feel like we've got a real proven track record with applying this in the industry before that term even came about. Well, it's kind of interesting because a lot of times companies will, startups will innovate and they'll be working their tail. And all of a sudden the market just comes their way and the wind is at their back. So you were at left-hand. You probably didn't use the term software-defined storage when you were at left-hand. It's a very prescribed term. So what, I mean, take us back to some of the thinking in the early days and did you see it in parallel with virtualization and the trends there and did you see it evolving into something like this? What did you see at the time and contrast that with where we are today? Well, I think the original founders of left-hand networks were looking at storage, and this was 10 years ago so they were looking at all the enterprise data features available and basically saying how can we bring this price point down to where more people could have access to this, to really bring it into a nice price range and with that they focused on a concept that I think just fell into the right spot at the right time and what I mean by that is they brought data services to commodity hardware that they could build and really just port from one X86 platform to another. The timing of that dovetailed nicely with the growth of virtualization. As the server virtualization grew, so did the growth of left-hand networks and about five years ago we were acquired by Hewlett Packard and really it was a wonderful fit. Hewlett Packard has the best technology for servers on racks and blades and at that moment in time I saw that this is destiny. There's some pretty exciting things happening and it felt like I was the only one beating that drum for a little while on that and to be honest and it was fun in the last few years we've gotten a lot more where people understood it and again timing is everything. About a year and a half ago we made a decision to rebrand this technology as Store Virtual VSA to be part of our HP Storage portfolio and really try to re-educate the world about the possibilities of being able to port this software not only to X86 but also as virtual machines into different areas and so we actually planned that we were going to launch Store Virtual VSA and talk to the world about real case studies of real customers that have been shipping it for a long time at VMworld and like I said timing is everything. Last year the theme was announced of software-defined storage and so now just fortuitously this has become a real rally point for us. We are able to showcase our leadership and the proven technology of what we've done with not only Store Virtual VSA but also we're expanding it across the portfolio to all of HP Storage and actually we have a new release of Left Hand Operating System which we're showcasing on the HP Store Virtual VSA. We announced this last week with a few new features. So I'm curious about why you went to virtualization because if you look at the history of virtualization storage was always the bottleneck because of the blender effect and all of those. So why did you choose to go that route rather than sticking on the hardware itself? What was leading you to that direction and what did you have to do to make it? Sure. I think there's a number of factors on that. As I spoke of the historical legacy of Left Hand Networks applied a Linux-based operating system onto XA6 servers. So now what we're able to do is we're able to take that same operating system on a physical array but also add it into a virtual machine and we've done that since 2007 and at the time there's an anecdotal story. It was created because the developers didn't have enough resources to test the code that they wanted to work on.  And we walked along and one of the product managers saw that and said, what is this? And wheels started turning and since we've been shipping since 2007, originally I think it kind of got sort of a lower class ranking because the servers and the technology really, it was kind of ahead of the game on what was the underlying hardware. It would consume possibly the entire server and so then there's no value in virtualizing. But as Craig had spoken to earlier, as we see the evolution in HP, we have the Gen 8 based servers and other companies, there's other servers, the cores are growing. The efficiency of the hypervisors is much, much more. The price of solid state is shooting down every day. The size of the actual drives is going up and so the economics of that is all coming together to where now we've have, it's quite reasonable and it's quite smart to take and have fault tolerant applications, VMs alongside their fault tolerant storage and the scale out architecture of the store virtual VSA allows you to linearly grow performance and capacity and it's just perfect fit with virtualization on here. Originally it was the perfect scale out architecture alongside with the physical servers that were virtualizing. Now we can combine it all together. You're seeing that in a number of the solutions here on the floor and I think HP's really in a great position here because we've got the best servers and we can align these forces to where all of a sudden now our customers can build their own converge systems within a few servers. They've got their servers, storage, backup, all of this taken care of in one solution. So part of the software led or software defines a storage or anything else is that you yourself can be managed by an orchestration layer or whatever layer is above that. Can you talk a little bit about the strategy that you have in that area? What are you providing for your customers to? Enable that? Yeah, I think the definition of software defined storage we spoke of earlier really splits into an orchestration aspect of this storage and also the data services and I think HP's nuance is that we can package those data services as a software package that can be applied to anything. Now the orchestration aspect of that because the left hand operating system was ice-scuzzy based really we've been involved with the open stack over the past few years since its beginning and HP's continued to have new and increased funding and development into that and so moving forward, open stack is a vital portion of our strategy because we want to give people options on how they can orchestrate and build their own clouds with this type of solution but in addition we're building an overarching management structure for the storage portfolio that's in parallel. So every effort we do in open stack will also be available at a portfolio level and as we look at this, I've been very fortunate position. I've just happened to be lucky to be in left hand networks at the moment in time that we were acquired. We're lucky to be acquired by HP, the best server company in the world and now we're looking forward and saying we can use all of this experience, all of these lessons learned and expand that across the converged storage portfolio. So not only can we virtualize in software defined storage primary storage but as Craig was speaking of, we have StoreOnce that we just recently released for DDoop and Backup and you can see a time where today we package it as VSA but I don't think it always has to be that way. I think we can have a portion of software that can be applied to servers and can start off with primary storage, give you high availability with lots of data services to be able to give you disaster recovery for those servers and then maybe within the application you can actually upgrade the features, you can grow your capacity, you could grow a feature set to have DDoop and backup applications and maybe even block and file and I believe that's where I envision us going. We're going to have one piece of software that will be unified across the storage portfolio. It will be the end of the spectrum. We spoke of earlier how you've got three part with amazing ASIC technology and that's one end of the spectrum that's focused on service level agreements and guaranteeing and always will guarantee the top performance. The other end in the cost optimized area, I think we can have a shared data services from one end to the other to where we have a software solution that covers all of those areas and at an orchestration layer there's unified management among all of those. It looks at a physical array and a virtual array as peers and additionally has inputs not only into VMware and Microsoft with the application integration but also an orchestration through such things as OpenStack. So can you unpack the announcement you guys just made? Sure, so last week we announced that the left hand operating system 11.0 was released and we did something new. We launched this specifically on the store virtual VSA as the first wave of this and because of, we did that because of some really interesting technologies. We've added in adaptive optimization which is sublun tiering on a per node basis and so now you can go out in a virtualized environment and not only provision any servers and storage but you can also set that up in the tiers of storage to where you have a high performance, high capacity solution. We believe this is the first scale out architecture with sublun tiering in software defined storage. So that's really big. The adaptive optimization. It sets you up for V-Vols, does it? It's very, very complimentary. We've had lots of work where we were heading down that direction for V-Vols and now the performance with this is amazing because you can think of every person has older storage that maybe they have to throw out, maybe they have to retire. What if you could take that competitive array, make that and use it for what it is, just the dumb drives that are underneath it, make that your tier two storage and have a new server with some solid state in it but you virtualize that as one array and now you have a very high speed performance solution utilizing equipment that you already had in there. This is that cost optimization we were talking about. So we got to geek out a little bit here. David, I know you're very excited about V-Vols. You put an exclamation point in your research note the other day. So explain V-Vols to the audience and the connection. Well, the challenge of managing VMware from a storage point of view is that you still have the LUN there. So if you provide any service, you have to provide it to the whole LUN basically. So you want to be able to split that LUN down into much smaller pieces and manage those at a VM level rather than a specific VM level rather than the LUN itself. So that's what V-Vols is about. It's enabling small objects, sub-objects to be attached to the VMware and breaking your LUN down into lots of smaller ones. So more pooling, more granularity. Absolutely, yes. And which is what you were talking about with the left-hand. Sure. Being able to use sub-LUN, sub-LUN tiering underneath that. And having that as the single point of control. Anything you'd add to that, Dale? With the Star Virtual technology, as I said, it's a scale-out technology. So you can scale this up to 16 nodes. And as Craig had said earlier, we've got some new packaging, a real affordable, a package of three with four terabyte solutions each. And that's under $3,000. So all of a sudden you have this insanely price-sensitive solution all the way up to the 50 terabyte solution. So if you can cluster 50 of those together, that's a giant, high-performance solution that was never available before, fully integrated with where VMware and where Microsoft are going with this. So I'm just very excited to be part of this technology. I raised my hand and said I want to be leading this. I want to be driving this because we've got customers that you'll hear from today that are proof points of what HP's been doing in this. And while a lot of companies out there are getting funding to go figure out how to do this, I feel like this has been what we've been doing for 10 years. It's had different names. It'll have a different name probably in a couple years, but we're going to still keep providing that value to customers. All right, yeah, well listen, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE and helping us squint through some of the SDS washing. You guys, like I said, have been there for a while. So congratulations on being in the right place at the right time and really appreciate you coming on. All right, thank you very much. All right, keep it right there, everybody. We're back with our next guest. This is the Software Defined Storage Spotlight. We're here live. This is theCUBE at VMworld 2013. We'll be right back.


Okay, good morning and it's Monday the 13th September. I hope you're doing well and had a great weekend as per usual Monday morning going to get you up to speed and some of the major news from the weekend and then have a look at the calendar of events for the week ahead and things that I'll talk about are going to be the US budget prospects of that passing a few things to be aware of for mansion and also some source reports about potential corporate tax rates in the US What's it going to talk about the breakup command from the state in China of Alipay on the latest crack down on the tech space Which saw that underperform in the Far East talk about Iran and North Korea on the geopolitical front and then weather watch as there's Another tropical storm that could form into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in the coming days For the week ahead. We'll have a look at some of the highlights being namely US CPI Tuesday retail sales on Thursday We've also got the new release of the highly anticipated iPhone 13 lineup and the new series 7 Apple Watch as well coming out on Tuesday is what's expected from that that event But let me get straight into an overview of the charts first to have a look at how things are performing And the most notable thing probably is the dollar index a little bit of a blip high as we've gone into the European Open the Dixie's now trading up just shy of two tenths of one percent So a little bit of weight felt in both major currency pairs in the top left Euro dollar and cable both down around 25 pips each respectively pretty flat though overall overall in gold and T note futures We have seen a marginal uptick in WCI crude Just as Europe have come in and just keeping an eye there This is on now daily bar chart and you can see here We've got that kind of double-topper price action that we had at the beginning of the month on the second and third of September Which is around these levels at 70 53 Which has also been a prior inflection point in WCI crude over the period of the last four months or so So some upside resistance of note just coming in in WTI In equity index futures Obviously after a bit of downside that was seen to finish off last week That did continue in the overnight Asia pack session as you can see here as evident in the S&P 500 However, just finding some support at that kind of Wall Street close on Friday low And we've just seen a bit of an about turn coming back up here and Looking at resistance here identified from that previous low that we saw on Friday and the overnight recommencement of trade high and which would be about four Points above the current price with pivot residing just above in the S&P 500 future for the moment All right. Well, look, let's get straight into it and talk about a couple of the news stories As I mentioned overnight in Asia The Hangsang tech index was down quite heavy again about three percent After reports as you can see here in the FT talking about officials seeking to break up and group companies Ali pay The plan would also see and turn over its user data that underpins its lending decisions to a new credit scoring joint venture With you guessed who? Yes, the state So they will do that joint venture on credit scoring which would be partly state owned According to two people familiar with the process Ali Baobai shares were down about six percent Actually in Hong Kong trade overnight so the latest in that episode of government looking to break up some of these tech giants over in China otherwise in the US the latest on the the budget is that Manchin Has told the CNN State of Union that he would not vote for three and a half trillion Budget bill adding that there's no way they're going to meet this September 27th deadline Which is obviously looming at the end of the month Separately on the back of this we've also had comments from the House Democrats Who are believed to be set to propose raising the top corporate tax rate to 26.5% According to people familiar with the matter which is below what Biden was pushing for which was 28% Democrats on the House and Ways and Means Committee are seeking To implement new taxes for crypto currency Tobacco all of this looking to help to pay for that trillion dollar economic plan that's been proposed by Biden Elsewhere some other things on the geopolitical front Neither of which I must up front say is particularly market moving and certainly It's not a rationale of why crude oil is moving this morning But there are things to be aware of because these are hotly contested geographic areas On namely Iran and North Korea and Peninsula So if with Iran the reason why they're in the news over the weekend is they've agreed to allow UN Nuclear watchdog access to surveillance cameras inside its atomic facilities In what's seen as largely symbolic move The positive step raises the likelihood that Tehran will escape formal punishment Therefore by the IAA at this week's meeting hence the timing Where they are expected to be censored for failing to cooperate with investigation to traces of uranium found at undeclared Nuclear sites. So that's the reasons there Separately North Korea, you might have seen some fairly what sound quite sensational headlines They successfully test fired a new type of long-range cruise and missile over the weekend Which technically speaking means then it could cover the entirety of of Japan Which obviously is the most contested within that region and the news comes just days after North Korea held its first military parade Since Joe Biden became US president So almost feels like we've been here before with Biden and G having that first phone call the end of last week in seven months And then we start to see the ante Just ratchet up a little bit on the peninsula, which is normally a show of kind of subtle force within that region Between the bigger top-level discussions happening on a broader context between China and the US. So the Korean news as Quite punchy as it sounds. It's really not that big a deal for markets because it's fairly common place And then on the weather watch something for any oil traders to be aware of Just coming on the coattails of Ida We've now got periods of heavy rainfall expected to impact portions of the Texas and Louisiana coasts Through the middle of the week Nicholas is forecast to approach the middle Texan coast as you can see here as a strong tropical storm today And could be near hurricane intensity if it moves to the right of the forecast track And remains over water longer. And so definitely worth just keeping that in mind as well if you're an energy trader As far as the Calendar is concerned for this week I'm just going to focus on a couple of key things rather than going to full details of which you can read From my morning note. It's available on my Twitter handle. I've already sent out this morning So starting with the US which will be the main focus, of course And the main things to look out for here is not so much today You can see today is actually being emitted from this calendar completely because of a lack of real big things happening So Tuesday then we get US CPI coming out And that's going to be quite key giving policy makers investors fresh insight into how persistent any concerns are around US inflation The year-on-year for August expected at 5.3 percent on a month-on-month basis Price increases have moderated somewhat But now the focus is shifting as to whether sectors beyond those most sensitive to the pandemic related disruptions They in themselves starting to remain a little bit more persistent in that sense so Exing out these Pandemic in the osyncrasies is underlying inflation actually proving to be a little bit more sticky And we talked about this last week the fact that PPI prices in China are becoming a 13-year high That means then that US import prices from China are going up and that's that game passed through then ultimately to the US Consumer and this of course is very key for that that whole idea about the timing and kind of process behind Tapering which we're expected from the Fed in the coming months Otherwise from the US sticking with that first and we get industrial production from US on Wednesday But then we get US retail sales on Thursday now the expectation is there for another fall If the headline is realized it would represent the third successive monthly fall in retail sales Downside in August like to come from auto sales Which has been driven by chip shortages according to analysts on the street and then Friday You get the September University of Michigan sentiment figure This is the preliminary ones interesting to get a bit of a gauge on where consumer sentiment is at last month in that reading We saw the weakest print in more than a decade mainly due to a slump in Expectations as personal financial prospects continue to worsen due to smaller income gains and higher inflationary trends Impacting the consumer psyche overall so that would be quite closely watched from the UK We've got jobs data on Tuesday You've then got UK CPI on Wednesday and UK retail sales comes out on Friday So quite a lot of focus on the UK as well from a data perspective But none of that of which will be probably impactful too much on the timeline for the Bank of England and perception over The tightening of policy in the future other interesting things happening this week called Drupal witching on Friday So refers to the date of which derivatives of stock index futures stock index options stock options and single stock futures all expire Simultaneously that normally just generates a bit of buzz around the potential larger volume coming through the market And obviously comes at the end of the week So something to be aware of and if an equity perspective You also have Apple California streaming is what the event is being dubbed by the company themselves and a new iPhone 13 lineup set to be announced by the company alongside a redesigned Apple watch series 7 In terms of the iPhone 13 smaller notch faster refresh rate displays a faster a 15 processor the biggest improvements We're expected to see this time round Smaller tweaks Apple expected to include range from a portrait mode for video Support for improved pro res video recording as well But as per with all these Apple events if you just go on to Apple Mac 9 to 5 wired CNET Apple insider you can already get pretty much Exactly to the tea everything that's going to be announced by the company and hence the reason often you see a bit of a buy The rumor sell the fact in Apple shares going into these events because hardly anything comes of a surprise because it all gets leaked By a very active blog sites going into the actual event, but it's nice to just be aware of for this week And so that is it as I said for a bit more of a breakdown some of those data points. I just mentioned You can access it here Also, of course, we've got the launch of our new platform amplify me happening on Wednesday The website is already now up and running So feel free to check it out in the in the meantime before I go into more details later in the week It's just amplify me comm. All right guys have a fantastic week ahead and I'll see you same time tomorrow. Take care


Hey guys, Realistic Gaming here. Welcome back to another video. Today we're going to be playing Squidward's canned bread hunt. Now as you can see, we got Squidward here and then we got like an evil squid in the background. Oh my god. That is a little terrifying. Alright, so let's go some stark game. Let's see what we got ourselves into. This journal entry number one. I found Squidaville. It has been a while since I visited this place, but I'm sure there's still some canned bread left. I'll go inside and see if I can find some canned bread, or even life for that matter. This place has been abandoned ever since the city went bankrupt. Even though I'm sure there is nobody here, it still gives me the creeps. Oh my god, okay, so if you guys remember Squidaville, it is like this community where all the squids live in Bikini Bottom. You have to live at a certain standard or something. I don't know, I forgot that so it's been a long time since I've seen SpongeBob. Okay, so it's so dark out here. Oh nice, we found one canned bread. Alrighty, Squidward seems like we got this. Oh, you can jump. Why did he jump like that? Why did I hear another? Oh my god, what is that? Okay, so there's like an evil squid running at us. No! Dude, this guy is quick. Oh my god, we need to break his tentacles since he doesn't have legs or ankles. Alright, let's go over here. I think we lost him. So we're being chased by this evil squid that is left and that was left behind. Okay, this is so weird. We're in here. I kind of want to...  Alright, let's get out of here. He's supposed to be way quicker than we are, so we have to get a head start.  Please let this be the last one. No, no, it's not. Oh my god, great. Oh, I see it over there. Okay, so that's the gate. I guess if we collect the last one over here, we can leave. Oh my god, I hear him like right here. Where is he at? I don't see his red light anywhere. Oh, he's right there. Okay, so wait, so we still need one more bread? Alright, well, let's search for the last one. Oh, I see it back there. Alright, it seems like our little friend, the evil squid, got stuck over there on a house. Okay, he escaped. He's out of canned bread. We stole all of his canned bread. Dude, he's legit spreading that as what? I thought he was stuck over there. Okay, now he's stuck right here. Got him right there. Let's go around. We don't want him to catch us. Alright, let's go Squidward. This is where your life, your life is on the line right here. Okay, I think we made it. We should be good. Okay, let's go to the gate. Oh, nice, okay. So we escaped that. Okay, journey entry number two.  I can't even, oh, I didn't get to read that. Okay, whatever, that thing skipped fast. Okay, he's back there. Oh my God, he's already running at us. Okay, this one seems like it's going to be a little harder because there's no obstacles to like get him stuck. And it's just like a free open path for him to run at me. Oh, no, let's collect this one. Dude, can you like chill? How is he so quick? Okay, let's see if there's something here where we can get him stuck. Okay, get stuck on the rock. There you go. That's what I'm talking about. All right, nice. So we got him stuck behind the rock there, which is a pretty good advantage because he is way quicker than us. Alrighty, nice. We got all the breads again. I'm out of here. Okay, journey entry number three. I found myself in the kelp forest and it seems that there is a gang. I have no idea if this gang is around anymore, but they seem to be territorial signs that are posted here telling whoever comes by to stay out. I see a campfire in the distance and also some canned bread. I guess it's time to collect again. Okay, so now we're going to face like a gang of squids. What? Oh, no, there better not be multiple of them. Oh my God, look at this place. This is not the squidville community anymore. Go away. Kalpozo's gang territory stay out. All right. Let's see what this place is. So we're on the kelp forest. Oh my God, there's multiple. Wait, I think there's just one.  Look at that poor squid. There's dead squids. They're bleeding.  I'm all out of canned bread. I am out of there, man. All right, let's get out. Let's get out of here before the evil squid gang comes over here. Oh, this area is restricted failure to the evil result in big, finer possible jail time. What? Oh, great. I see the red light over there. Okay, let's just be careful. What is it? Oh, they're like sunken Squidward houses. Oh, no, he's coming. Dude, get away. All right, let's try to get him stuck right here. This is not fair. This man is like five times faster than us. Okay, nice. Let's go around. I don't want him to see me. Oh, great. Now he's rushing at us. Dude, give me some space, please. We're brothers. We're both squids. Oh, my God, he's right behind us, guys. No, we got caught at the end. All right, so we were at level four. Okay, let's go back. Okay, found the old rusty gate. This says gate J. I don't remember gate J. Maybe I should check it out. No, I think I hear that thing behind the door. Okay, so I have no clue what he's talking about. Maybe the evil squid. All right, oh, yep. We're back to this spot. Okay, we're going to beat it this time. Where is he at? I don't see the red light anywhere. Oh, there he is. Oh, no. Oh, my God, no. Dude, how is he like right on us already? Okay, maybe we can get him stuck in this wall right here. Oh, great. Here he comes. No, he's like right on us. Oh, maybe this house. Thank you, houses. Right, nice. We managed to trap him there. No, I think this is the last can bread we need to get out of here. No. I got stuck on the house. All right, so this fourth level seems nearly impossible, but we're going to beat it. Third time's a charm. My God. Okay, so our best option is to like try to get the evil squid where stuck behind the house or something because if we just run out in the open, he's going to catch up to us pretty quick. Okay, he hasn't seen. Oh, my God. Okay, there he comes. Okay, there's we have four breads. Is there one back here? I don't think there was, right? And where am I going? Okay, it's a dead end. Okay, we got one over here. Okay, we got the last two on this side. Oh, no, here he comes. Come on. No. Okay, maybe we can get him stuck here. He didn't get stuck. He's right on us. Maybe there he's stuck. Okay, great. Now he's on us again. Well, yeah, there's this wall right here.  No, he didn't get stuck on the wall. My God, we got stuck. Great. Good thing he's stuck also. Oh, my God, here he comes. Dude, he runs quicker when you collect all the breads. We were right at the door. Oh, my God, how squidward. How? All right, you guys. So we managed to get all six cans of bread again. And it seems like I'm finally going to escape this time. All right, let's go for the gate. We won. There you go. That's what I'm talking about. Oh, that was a little hard because the other squidward, the evil one, he like sprints way faster than us. Wait, so that was it. Right, you guys. Well, this was Squidward's can bread hunt. I'll leave the link for you guys in the description because it's pretty cool. It's fun.  Well, thank you guys for watching. Thank you guys for the amazing support. If you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to slap the like button. If you're new to the channel, make sure to subscribe and turn that notification bell on. And I will see you guys in the next one.


I don't think you're wrong, man.  I mean, the fact that you can easily remove and attach the antenna at height with one hand, that's amazing. We love it for the possibility for climbers to go up the tower with this in a pocket rather than sending up a second rope. The functionality of switching them out is much simpler. And if the focus beam delivers like you say, we could get rid of most of our sector antennas. There's a lot of different products, a lot of different vendors out on the market, and it looks like you're trying to meet the needs of a couple different of those products. You've got some interesting antenna designs here. You know, these right here in particular are the horns. Horns are something that most people outside of the WISP or inside the WISP industry don't normally see. Whenever I think of horn antennas, you've got AT&T long-haul lines or something like that, you know, technology used decades ago that's kind of really fallen out of popularity. So whenever I came in here a couple of days ago and saw these, I was pretty impressed. If anything else, you know, they're visually interesting and definitely an attention-getter. Simper is a nice product, cool, small, and very nice. And with the twist and lock technology, it's really very easy for rigors like guys climbing up towers, like carrying these antennas and everything. With these, you could just do this within an installation within 15 minutes.  Really pretty cool, pretty cool stuff.


two weeks ago today Tom Wolfe became governor and he promised a fresh start but when it comes to accessibility and visibility even his political opponents have to concede he's delivered I Thomas Westerman Wolf I Thomas Westerman Wolf he was sworn in two weeks ago and promptly signed a gift bank he's also met with moms with sick kids pushing medical marijuana and LGBT activists and lawmakers he pops into their offices unannounced and has invited them to the governor's residence Wolf told me he enjoys meeting people and it's in his job description I think it's part of what you're supposed to do if you're a public servant political leader you're trying to get people together to convince them and and that that's really what this job is definitely two different approaches correction secretary John Wetzel was hired by the last time kept by the current Tom governor Wolf I would say that the buzzphrase would be accessible Wolf sent a letter to every state agency Tuesday praising the liquor control board and turnpike commission for adopting gift bands like his and encouraging them all to do the same he's also living up to his band was walking around the Capitol yesterday and ran into somebody who was wanted to give me a calendar I can't take the calendars but I didn't want to insult her so I said well I'll make a contribution so cost me a dollar fifty for the calendar and even Republicans are praising Wolf's approachability two weeks in obviously a little early to tell to make any real judgments but he's been very visible he's been very communicative and I think that that's it's good I think it's important for him to reach out I think it's important for us to work in a bipartisan fashion the governor is trying to forge relationships before the fight over that two billion dollar deficit begins we're gonna disagree on policies we'll have plenty of time to argue over those things but when we're not doing that we can at least sit down and break bread together it's been enjoyable for two weeks was two weeks but very enjoyable critics do say if there was one misstep it was ticking off Senate Republicans with a blanket rejection of Corbett nominees to boards and commissions and the office of open records good note over there though right now it sounds like let's hope that sticks around


Bed up with the everyday grind. Tired out from the summer heat. Want to get away from it all. We offer you escape. Escape. Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure. You are deep in a fabulous mountain cavern surrounded by a horde of menacing natives from a lost civilization. Held at the mercy of the most beautiful woman in the world. The terrible queen. Called she. Tonight we escape to uncharted Africa and to an incredible adventure as H. Ryder Haggard described it in his fantastic story, she. In those days, I was a professor of archaeology at Oxford. And though this may account for my being able to understand some of those strange events which occurred later, it was in no respect the reason for my becoming involved in them. No, the real reason was unbelievably simple. I walked through the caves of the dead in the terrible and ancient city of Kaur. Crossed the awful abyss and looked upon the flame of life only because I was one of the ugliest men in England. Because of my appearance, I'd made few acquaintances and only two close friends. Roger Vinci first and following his death, his son Leo whom he left behind. And it was that friendship which brought Leo Vinci to my chambers of the quadrangle. Late in the evening of the day, he became 25 years old. Today was the first I knew of it, Holly, when the attorneys called me in. Yes. They said father instructed them the week before he died to give me the letter and this little bronze chest. I'm not twenty-fifth birthday. Strange. I mean, the chest designs on the lid show Egyptian influence. It must be very old. And according to father's letter, it contains something over 2,000 years old. Really? Must have considered it rather important. See, he's closed the cover with the lead seal. Yes, I see. Any rate, Holly, the letter doesn't tell us much. Suppose we, uh... Suppose we see what's inside. All right. I have a geology hammer here somewhere, my boy. Here we are. Chisel, you hold it in place on the table here. Uh-huh. Go ahead. Ah, there. It's pulling loose. Yes. Ah, I did it. Well, it goes. What the devil is that? Well, it's a clay tower, an old Egyptian writing tablet. Yes, it's the kind used about the time of Nectanabes around 340 BC. But the writing on it, it's not Egyptian, it's Greek. Yes, and parts of it are broken away. Oh, it'll take some time to translate this, Leo. But father apparently did it, Holly. Okay, onto this paper. Listen, here's his translation. Read it. I am Anati's wife of Calakretis. Say this to you, my son. Forced to escape the wrath of the great Nectanabes. Ha-ha-ha, I thought so. Your father and I fled southward across the waters and wandered for twice twelve moons upon the coast of Libya... That's the old name for Africa, you know. Ah, that faces the rising sun. There by the mouth of a river where stands facing the sea, a great mountain carved like the head of an Ethiopian... What is it? Ah, nothing, Holly. It goes on. Following the river, we soon fell among... There's a row of asterisks here. That must be one of the places where the tiles broken.  To a hollow mountain where a great city once stood into the terrible caves of which no man had seen the end, and to she who must be obeyed. She who must be... What's wrong, Leo? I don't know, Holly. There's something familiar about that name, but... I've never heard it before. Strange. Wait, wait. Come on. Get on with it. She who must be obeyed, who did lead us by awesome ways to the place where the great pit is, whose voice is like thunder. And she did show to us the rolling pillar of life and did stand in the flames. And she spake onto mine as a large fragment missing here. Oh, pregnancy. There isn't very much more. I carried far away on the ships where I gave birth to the... and came hither to Athens at last. So I say to thee, by these things which I have told, seek out this place. Nor stay thy will until thou hast the secret of life for thyself, set then on the throne with a pharaoh. That's all, Holly. Now, what's it all about? Leo, if your father knew, he kept it to himself. I don't know. It's all very strange. Yes. Well, we'll know as soon as we reach the place. I was hoping you'd say that. If you decided not to, I think I should have had a try at finding it alone. I can't do anything else, Holly. It's more than curiosity. It's almost a compulsion. There's such a familiar feeling about all this. Even that mountain, Holly, shaped like the head of an Ethiopian. Yes, what about it? Well, often, our never since I was a kid, I've dreamed about a mountain like that. But why, Holly? Why should I? That was the beginning. And some three months later, we drifted down the east coast of Africa, south of Zanzibar, searching the miles of jungle shores for the mountain carved like a head. There were four of us in the tiny sailing dow. Leo and I, of course, along with Abdullah, the Arab boatman we'd hired in Arden, and finally a solid North Countryman named Job, my servant for many years. We'd got no sight of our landmarkers yet, and a native had told us of seeing it once, years before, somewhere to the south. So our hopes held high, and we were confident luck was with us. And so it was, until one evening, just in dark. That's a pretty stiff wind, Holly. Yes. You think Abdullah knows what he's doing? We'd rather close in shore, all right, Leo. I doubt if there's any danger, unless a squall hits. Hey, by Gowsey, we're strangers here in an even land and all. Anything could happen. It could, Job, but let's assume that it won't. How's the dory making out, Victor? All trailing along, all right, behind us. Being a bad spot if we lost it, we are guns, food, equipment, and everything in it. Yes, I know, Job. Leo, perhaps we shouldn't have packed the stuff that way, Leo. We should have kept it on board with us. No, no, Holly.  It would be a tough job loading that boat at sea. Well, we may not have had to, Leo. We've certainly found no reason to so far. But we will. I've dreamed of it. Hey, Master Holly, look! It's the wind, Holly. The wind's driving the water ahead of it. Abdullah, lay on to that tiller and head her into it. I'll give my hand, Holly. Come and play, Luz. Yeah, we've got to chance it. Hold on to the mast, Job. We shall all be down. Watch out, Leo! The great wave plunged over us, tore away the dory, swamped the dow beneath our feet, and hurled his headlong into the foaming sea. I've smothered, inviting the seer float, borne shoreward by the driver at the tempest. We were tossed at last, one by one, up onto the rain swift beach. The calm dawn found us huddled together on the sand at the fringe of a dark and forbidding jungle.  Into the north, the beach ended at the slope of a rocky headland. Leo and Job went to look at the wrecked dory, lying in the water's edge on a hundred yards away. When I searched the shoreline for some sign of our boatman, I found none, and we never saw Abdullah again. Oh, Holly, find any trace of him, Holly. No sign, Leo. The bed is gone for good. Oh, it's too bad. What saves the dory, Job? Wrecked. Not a chance of fixing it, but the equipment seems to be all right, sir. Oh, good. It's all there. Yes, most of it. The lishings held in the waterproof cases stood up very well. The only trouble is we're afoot. Yes, we're going to have a lot of trouble following the coastline. We won't follow any coastline, Holly. What? We're going up that river. Take a look at that headland there to the north. It shows up better from the wreck, Holly, but with the sun coming up now, you can see it from here, too. Why goom it, shape like a human head? That's it! That's the lemma! Right, Holly. And that's the river Colocrati has followed with his wife, the same one we're going to follow. Oh, but, Leo, with the boat gone, we shall have to break trail through that jungle and follow that riverbank. Yes, we'd better get started. Look, gentlemen, why can't we just stay here and try to signal some ship? No, there's not much chance of a job. They stay pretty clear of this coast. But anyway, this is what we've been looking for. I don't really know what we are looking for, Leo. It's been more than 2,000 years since Colocrati's went up that river. Things must have changed a great deal by now. Holly. Holly, that carved head up there in the mountain. It looks exactly the way it always did when I dreamed about it. It's incredible. I've got a strange feeling that whatever Colocrati and his wife found back there in the jungle, we'll still be waiting there today. For five hot steaming days, we pushed inland through the jungle, following the banks of the muddy river. Mire by mire, the creeping undergrowth became more dense. The river shallowed and became sluggish, and the swamp lands began to stretch out from the low banks.  Crocodiles slid away at our approach and bright colored snakes blighted out from underfoot. Mile after mile, we forced our way through those evil swamps. Each mile more difficult. Finally, came the morning of the sixth day. I don't know, Holly. If it gets any worse, we'll never make it. Excuse me, butting in, gentlemen. I say we should turn back. Oh, no, Joe. We've spent five days getting this far. Have you shamed away since? That's just the way I feel. We'll keep on as long as we can. Oh, what, Leo? I don't know. I stumble over something in the mire. Yeah, take a look at it. It's a rock. Look. It's a square stone. It's been hand cut. There's another. It's a section of an old wall of some sort. Or of a dike. That's it, Holly. A long time ago, the river was held between stone dikes along here. Like a sort of canal. It's possible that might have come from the swamp land. The dikes gradually fell to pieces. The river spread out through the jungle. Of course. And, Holly, there could be only one reason for building them. So that boats or barges could come in from the ocean to some kind of a city. A city, gentlemen. My mind, don't we turn back while we touch. A city. It had to be a long time ago, centuries ago, Leo. It could still be there, Holly. This place has never been explored. Nobody would ever try to come through these swamps. It may include us if we keep... Joe, what's the matter with you? He must be... Oh, oh. Look. Natives. Where the devil did they come from? I don't know. Oh, strange-looking boots. Look at those clothes they're wearing. Yes. I've never seen any quite like them. Except in... Do you recognize that dialect? No, it's a little like Arabic. I might try that. I've never had anything like it before. They seem to want us to come along with them, Holly. Yes. You think we'd better chance it? Well, they outnumber us that it won, Leo. Yes, and they're all carrying those stabbing knives. Well... Hang on to your guns. They don't seem to know what they're for. Let's go. Our strange escort moved rapidly ahead. Twisting and turning as they followed somewhere remembered trail of their own. We rested during the night on a hummock of dry ground and struck out again a door. It was late afternoon when we left the swamp and climbed up a long slope to the foot of the rock-walled mountain. Reaching its base, we entered the mouth of a great cavern and a short way inside led into a small side chamber, carved from the living rock and lighted by a reed wick floating in a jog of oil. And then the strange natives went away and left us and we sat about on the floor trying to plan some course of action. How long do you suppose we've been here, Holly? Close to two hours, I'd say. Must be dark outside by now. Holly, do you have any idea what race they belong to? They're not like any other natives in this part of Africa. Oh, I've seen people much like them in some of the villages in southern Egypt, Leo. But I don't know any more about it than that. Where those odd tunics to cotton or linen, I suppose, those bronze headbands must have been out of contact with the rest of the world for centuries, Holly. And that's what they are. And, oh, gee, no good so far as we're concerned. That's what I think. You may be right, Joe, but I still want to find out about the other things Emonati's wrote on the tile. Steve Korn, the pillar of fire, and she who must be obeyed. We've found the caves, at least. I can't see anything so terrible about them. Perhaps we haven't seen everything the cave. Oh, well. Nibahop. Oh. Zenibahop. Ah, little chum. Zenibahop. He seems to want us to follow him. Well, hang on to your guns. Right, you are. Stick close together. Don't let them separate us. All right, Joe? Come. Let's go. A strange guide led us along the twisting, browning passageways, rotting our way with a flaming torch that threw weird shadows on the walls of solid rock. Now, and then we passed side chambers lined with long rows of stone slabs. And then I saw that each slab held the sheeted figure of a human body. And I realized these caves were one vast crypt filled with the mummified bodies of some vanished race. Gradually as we moved on, a most remarkable sound began to grow louder, made up of the guttural voices of a crowd, the throbbing of drums and the moan of some strange musical instrument. Suddenly the narrow passage opened out into a great hallowed cavern where natives danced and postured in the eerie glare from a hundred huge torches placed about the walls. There stared an amazement. For the torches were flaming mummies tied upright to the posts. And the guide had lighted our way through the passages with a human arm. Nebuch! Org Jane! I... I think he means for us to walk toward that platform in the center. Yes. It's a pit of cold burning in the top of it. Nebuch! Yes, come on. Watch it, Holly. I don't like the looks of this. All right. Keep your gun handy, Leo. Stay right with this job. Does it look anything but friendly? Anything starts. Try to get on the platform. They've got no weapons except those stabbing knives. Well... Here we are. Now what? They're buying me that. It's quite some fire they've got built up. I can't understand what they need to do. Joe! Joe! Joe! Look out, Holly! They killed Joe! They're devils! Back against the wall, Leo! Watch it! Here they come! All right, you! Step, Joe, without a chance there. What are you left? Holly, let's try for the break. What the juice is this? Old man in a long, white robe. Hold your gun ready, Leo. We'll see what happens. Never, Andy! They're scared to death of him, whoever he is. Wait, he's coming our way. I presume you're speaking, this gentleman. Yes, but you do. Occasionally, natives from the south have come through the swamps, and we have captured them. I have learned many of the languages of the outside world. I am Bilali. Leo Vinci, and this is Mr. Holly. I am most sorrowful for the death of your companion. Oh, yes. Poor Joe. My children had no excuse. They know the law. From now on you will be allowed to complete freedom. No white man is ever to be eaten. Eaten? That is what would have been done to you. But rest assured, her law is just. And their punishment will be swift. Whose law? That of she who must be obeyed. Holly? This is it, Holly. We're still on the right trail. She has demanded your presence. I have come to take you to the place where she is. Tell me, Bilali, who or what is this she who must be obeyed? A goddess, a queen, a white woman? I could not say, my son. I have never seen she come along. Again through those tortuous passages, two of us now with kindly old Bilali leading the way. Until he left us alone at last in a large chamber hung with brilliant colored silks fitted with softer vans and lighted by crystal lamps. We stood there several minutes, not speaking, wondering, when suddenly the curtains across the doorway parted into most amazing figures stood before us.  I bid you welcome to the city of CORE, Colocrates and friend of Colocrates. I... I'm not Colocrates. I'm Leo Vinci, and this is my friend Mr. Holly. Leo Vinci. Vengeance. No matter, you will understand. Are you? I am she. You must forgive us if we find it difficult to understand this. What is all this, these caves, the natives? What is CORE? CORE is a great city that rose up and then died many thousand years ago. These are the caves of CORE. The city itself stands farther on and a huge crater at the heart of the mountain. Are you a descendant of CORE? I came from another place far away, and CORE was dead long before I found it. The natives know me as a fearsome figure in white, and they obey me. They have never seen you? No, Holly. Not one of them has ever seen behind these veils. It's amazing to think that Colocrates must have been here in this same place over 2,000 years ago. 2,287 years ago. Colocrates died in this very chamber. You speak as though you saw it happen. I did see it happen. I killed him. But you couldn't. That was over 2,000 years ago. Yes, and at that time I had been here in CORE for more than 500 years. Impossible. How do you know? You haven't seen me. But then you claim to be immortal. Yes, as he could have been had he stepped with me into the flames of life. As you can be my Colocrates, if you so choose. I hope you'll forgive me, but I can't believe anything so fantastic. Is it proof you need? Proof that I once did an evil act in anger and paid for it by waiting alone through all these centuries? Proof that my waiting is ended now? Then look upon it behind this curtain. A mummy? A mummy like those out in the caves. But look at the face. Leo, it's you. That's you lying there.  His wife, Ammonerities, fled across the mountains and later gave birth to his son, your ancestor. Then Leo, that clay tile has been handed down in your family for over 20 centuries. I have paid for my sin and I have waited. Knowing that someday my Colocrates would be born to me again would come back to Core and find me. This is though I had to. I dreamed of that carved mountain before I'd ever seen it. And your name, she who must be obeyed, it struck some chord in my memory the first time I heard it. It is your heart that must be obeyed now, my beloved. The decision is yours whether to leave me once again now that you have found me or to walk with me into the pillar of life. To love me and to become immortal. Yes. I feel somehow that this is the ending of something I've been moving toward all my life. Leo! But it isn't possible. Immortality. And how can you love someone you've never seen? Then you shall see my beloved. I've worn these veils for you and for you I... Look. The soft veil slid off from her shoulders and she stood revealed before us. The most beautiful woman the world has ever seen. Will you leave me now my Colocrates or come with me to the flame of life? I'll go with you. We talked the night away in the chamber. Leo and I fascinated by every word that fell from those lovely lips. She talked to the hidden knowledge of ancient lands, sang softly of her thoughts in rhyme and spoke once again the words of long dead poets forgotten by the world. She made us believe in her own immortality and in ours to come. And before dawn, Bilali with us. We followed her madly and joyously through the dim and dusty passage that led to the flame of life. We came to a great abyss with a narrow ledge crossing over it like a rainbow rock. There Bilali waited and we three went on alone. At the sight of the awful depths beneath us Leo and I shuddered in spite of ourselves and moved carefully step by step. She never hesitated but swayed along gaily before us like a feather born on a breeze. Finally we stood in a vast circular chamber a great bubble in the earth's crust whose walls were shining black basalt. Olly, yes. Olly, see there by the wall. It looks like the body of a man. An old philosopher, my beloved, who came here many centuries ago. He sat and watched the flame and could not decide whether he should become immortal. Finally he died. And you? He regretted becoming immortal. I could not have waited for Calacrates, Olly, had I not been immortal. But you, Leo, perhaps you have doubts. Immortality will not even belong enough with you. Where is the flame? Listen, even now it approaches. It advances and then retreats a never-ending cycle of life. It has moved along its path through this cavern since the beginning of time. Do not fear it, beloved sea. This time I will step into the flame alone. And when it comes again, you may join me. It's like the fire of the sun and the dust of a million diamonds. There is the great and terrible pillar of flame approached. She threw off her veils and opened her arms to it. And the eternal fire flowed over her. It passed and left her there, standing with her head bowed. You, are you all right? It didn't harm you? You know, my beloved, can one find harm in the flame that created life itself? Do you believe that... What? That... What's wrong? Tell me, what's wrong? The flame was different somehow. Now that Calacrates has returned, the curse of everlasting life has lifted. Leo, she's aging. Grow old. No, I... I do not. If I go, search for me. Search. Oh, no. No. Even as Leo's hands reached out to touch her, they closed on a dry heap of soft grey dust. I knew now that neither of us would step into the flame and I knew we would spend our lives searching through the world for she. I seemed to hear in my mind once again words she had spoken in those glorious hours the night before. I knew that Leo was hearing them too and that neither of us, so long as we lived, could ever forget that lovely voice. Nay, not in Coa, but in whatever spot and town or field, or by the insatiate sea, men brood on buried loves or unforgot, or break themselves on some divine decree, or would or leap the limits of their lot. They are in the tombs and deathless dwelleth she. Escape. Produced and directed by Norman McDonnell, tonight brought to you she by H. Ryder Haggard, adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield with editorial supervision by John Dunkel. Featured in tonight's cast were Barry Kroger, Larry Dubkin, Kay Brinker, Ben Wright, and Wilms Herbert. Special music by Ivan Dittmars. Next week. You are clinging precariously to a diving, pitching longboat lashed by mountainous seas in the center of a hurricane, and at the helm, driving you on, is a man bent on revenge and willing to kill for it. Next week we escape with F. R. Buckley's exciting story, Habit. Good night then until this same time next week, when once again we offer you Escape. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


After acknowledging compliance with all FOIA rules that we have followed, I would ask for the clerk to call the roll. Okay, Melissa and I am able to verify that the meeting was advertised in accordance with the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act. At this time, I will call the roll. Ms. Teresa Wilson. President. Ms. Melissa Gentry. I think she's on mute. Missy, I think you may be on mute. President. Mr. Ryan Coleman. President. Thank you. With those members present, I think we've established a quorum. Am I correct, ma'am? Yes ma'am. Okay, and we'll move into our new business. The first item being the adoption of the Articles of Incorporation approval of the bylaws and other matters relating to the organization of the Columbia Community Investment Fund. I forbid you those, Mr. Season and Mr. Norris. So at this time, do we need a motion to adopt those Articles of Incorporation bylaws? Yes, that'd be appropriate. And this is Brandon. Just to be clear, this would be the approval not only of the articles which have already been filed, but in the bylaws as you noted, but also several other actions that are listed in the prepared resolutions that you have before you. So that would include Ms. Wilson approval of your waiver of sole incorporator, you know, waiver of notice of this meeting, the election of the officers, which Ms. Wilson would be president in your capacity as city manager. Ms. Gentry would be vice president and her capacity as assistant city manager for development. And Ryan Coleman would be secretary treasurer, his capacity as economic development director. To adopt a fiscal year of July 1 through June 30. To authorize steps needed to apply for an employer identification number. To authorize generally the opening of a bank account, obtaining insurance, and to ratify actions of officers of the corporation prior to this date to the extent any have been taken. And to sort of authorize any other steps needed to finalize the organization of the corporation. Thank you, Brandon. Thank you for your motion. I'll make a motion to accept. Thank you, Missy. The second. Second. Any discussion. Okay, seeing none. Madam Clark. Call the roll. Mr. Wilson. Aye. Ms. Gentry. Aye. Mr. Coleman. Aye. Thank you. Thank you. And item two authorization to submit application for recognition of exemption under section 501 C3 of the internal revenue code to the internal revenue service. Brandon, is there any explanation here you need to give. There's a Jeff Allen on the phone as well. Jeff, are you there? I'm here. This is Jeff Allen, Mr. Wilson, and he helps and really guides our clients through this application process. I'm going to step to the side and let him explain this. Okay. So this is an authorization to file a form 1023 with the internal revenue service, which is the form that is required to be out from organization be recognized as a 501 C3 organization. It's a form that we would work and help you all prepare and get filed relatively quickly. As part of making sure the organization's in good shape for providing for CD status. Okay. Thank you for that. Jeff. With that said, is there a motion. I'll make a motion to approve. And a second. Second. Any discussion. Thanks. Seeing none, the clerk will call the roll. Mr. Wilson. Aye. Mr. Gentry. Aye. Mr. Coleman. Aye. Thank you. Okay. Item three authorization to submit application for recognition of community development entity status to the community development financial institutions fund of the United States department of the Treasury, the CDFI fund. Brandon, you want to take us through this item. Sure, it's a relatively simple application to complete and that and Jonathan, I would say feel free to jump in here if you've got any thoughts or can provide some color but the. It's it's maybe the first step in a series of steps that are needed to apply for new markets tax credits allocation. Only CDEs can apply for that allocation and so it's just we're asking the CDFI fund to recognize you this entity as a CDE under the new markets program. Brandon's exactly right it is overwhelmingly perfunctory. I can think of two sort of substantive aspects of it. One is that we are for the first time being asked to identify our service area. That's a topic Missy and we have been discussing and we'll confirm that decision before making that application. Second, we are required to identify at least several of our accountable board members to show that we meet the statutory requirement for being accountable to low income communities. There are some implications for getting at least several of our advisory board members approved ahead of making that application. Other than that it's really just identifying who we are, and I expect that that certification application will be due about two weeks after the NOAA the notice of allocation authority comes out, and the industry is literally on day to day notice at this point we think the NOAA could come out, you know, any day now so that gives you a sense of timing. Excellent. So with that I would ask for a motion to submit application for recognition of the Columbia Community Investment Fund as a CDFI entity or with that status. I'll make that motion. A second. Second. Thank you any further discussion. Seeing none, Erica. Ms. Wilson decided to call the roll. Miss Wilson. Oh, I'm sorry I miss entry. Mr Coleman. Thank you. Michael Brandon Jonathan we're not usually on this side of the, you know, call and making the motions right. Okay, you're doing a great job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other business that we need to take up gentlemen. If permitted, I would just make a couple of housekeeping comments. Okay. Go right ahead. Great. While I've got Michael and Brandon on the call. Guys, do we were we able to pull an EIN number? That's a, that's a prerequisite to getting that Amos certification completed. I don't know if you have any questions for us. I don't know. I don't know if we have a follow up on that. I don't know if there's any higher-ups yet. We have not. Okay. We will, we will check the follow up after this call. Jonathan. And I know that we want to have a conversation. On our side with, with our next steps. Yeah. If we don't have it yet, give me a call. We do this pretty routinely and we get pretty quick turnaround. So maybe there's just a, maybe there's a miscommunication on that. So happy to talk it through. Okay. We just wanted to make sure that we're providing of the deadline for. Getting certified. And Jeff appreciated your comments about filing for the not for profit status. I think everybody understands, we just want to make sure that application has been submitted to the IRS application is putting together the financial projections. And so I'll be reaching out to you for help with that aspect of the application. That fell off my radar. So let me circle back with you, Jeff, to make sure I know. In fact, I'll just ask right now, if you have a simple form that you can take any names away from to show me the kind of financial information you'd be looking for, I'm more than happy to prepare something for Missy's approval that you could use. I will send it over to you shortly. Wonderful. Last miscellaneous item, Missy, I believe Kylie and I are expecting to work with Lynette as kind of our counterpart to get you guys logged into the Amos system to get you an account on Amos. We can't do that until we have the EIN. But Lynette, I'm expecting to be our counterpart to make sure she's aware of how that system works. Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. Very good. That's all I have. Jonathan, one item that you, I think you mentioned it by email before this call, do you want to speak a little bit about the advisory board? I think you mentioned getting together with Missy to start reviewing names or finalizing names and things like that. Yes, happy to. Missy was very kind and got us a very good long list of potential candidates. We are narrowing that down. I expect within the day, Missy, that we will come back to you with maybe our top priority, top seven, and then who would be the next group below that if you didn't like some of those names or wanted a larger advisory board. At that point, I'd love to just reach a decision about who that slate of candidates are, get that approved. And that way we could start, whoever you designate, we could start reaching out to those individuals and invite them to join the advisory board. As I said, it would be important for us to at least be able to put, let's say, three of those names into our certification application. So given that we think that'll be due within two to three weeks, we'd love to keep the process moving forward. OK, sounds good. Michael, did you want me to go further into that? Like, what is the role of the advisory board? OK. Unless board members have questions, I just wanted to keep the sort of 2-2 items in front of us. That's all. Perfect. Do we need? Ms. Wilson, back to you. OK, I was just going to ask if we needed to get the executed documents. I think maybe Ryan had one to sign as well to Erica. Or do we need to get them to one of you? Brandon, do we need, or Jonathan, do we need originals of these documents to be submitted, or can we use scans? Or at least in the meantime? Yeah, I actually don't believe they require us to upload documents. I think we just literally, in the certification application that is, we just literally go through and we say, here's who we are. And then even, yeah. And so I don't actually think we need any documents submitted on their system. They sort of assume what we're doing. For purposes of just, I'm sorry, Michael, go ahead. No, no, no, no. I was going to say, just for purposes of record keeping, we, I mean, if we receive originals, we'll be putting together a corporate notebook that contains all the organizational material and would send originals back to the city and copies in whatever number are requested. Or if the folks with the city would prefer to keep the originals, that's fine. We can put together notebooks just with copies. But if we get the originals, we'll put together notebooks with the original sentiment, send them back. OK. Erica, what's your preference?  Yes, ma'am. We can handle it that way. OK. And from a timing perspective, on the 1023 side, if we could get scans of at least the side bylaws, I will need those for the 1023 side. OK. And I think those are signed by Ryan, isn't that right? That's correct. By the secretary, treasurer? Yeah. Yeah, that was Ryan. Or is this the document titled Organizational Resolutions of the Board of Directors? Or do the actual bylaws need to be signed by him as well? It would be. I think we would go ahead and ask for Ryan to sign both. So he would sign the Organizational Resolutions and the bylaws. And then Ms. Wilson, I believe you signed the only other two documents, and you've already signed those. OK. All right. I got those. I'll get mine done and executed, and I'll get them back to you all tomorrow. OK. Ryan, did you see that we sent out a revised draft of that right before this call, Ryan, of the bylaws? Yeah, I saw that come through. OK. OK. I'm not sure I get the right version. OK. Sounds good. And are you going to give those directly to get them to Brandon, Ryan, or to Erica? Brandon, who do they need to go to? Ultimately, if they come to me, that would be maybe the easiest way for us to compile everything in one notebook for y'all and send it back. So yeah, if you want to route them through, Erica, that's fine, or if you want to send it directly to me, that's fine, too. It was easier.  So Ryan, if you could go ahead and scan the bylaws once you sign those documents, scan them back to Brandon. That would be helpful. And then if I could get that corporation notebook to keep on filing the clerk's office, that would be helpful. Perfect. We'll do. Thank you. Got it. Thanks, y'all. Other business? OK. Seeing none, I will ask for a motion to adjourn. I'll make that motion. Second. I will second. All right. That first meeting is adjourned. Thank you, everyone. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye-bye.