May the 4th be with you today. We're taking a look at Star Wars tales of the Jedi numbers one through five So stay tuned Hey guys, welcome back to Comic-Ed and TV. We're all geek culture collides if you're new to the channel Don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos All right guys as I said today is May the 4th or May the 4th be with you And today we're taking a look at Star Wars tales of the Jedi numbers one through five My original plan was to dedicate one video to each individual issue However, I realized I Have not read these in quite a while So my my memory is a little foggy on them I did go back and kind of read the summary of the first one on The on a wookiepedia, which is the Star Wars wiki So we're just gonna go over flip through the books and Go from there So first we have Star Wars tales of the Jedi number one of five and This is the Ulrich Culdroma and the Beast Wars of Otter on under on part one As you can see here got a nice little image All the Star Wars books Are pretty much the same style of artwork. I I don't know if I really care for the artwork or not When we get inside you'll see what I mean With that being said also something I don't really care for with the Star Wars comics is the paragraphs of dialogue It's really hard to keep up with the story and everything when there's just so much dialogue You know, I do like a fair amount of dialogue, but there comes a time when It's almost too much like the old-school X-Men books just constantly Describing something so Let's go here and as you can see this was from Dark Horse comics 250 the US 315 and Canada back in the day This came out in October on October 1st 1993 Tom Vate did the script Chris goes at pencils Mike Barriero Inks Willie scoobert Letters Pamela Rambo colors Dave Dorman cover illustration Dan Thorsen edits Scott Tice logo and book design Excuse me guys part of my voice. I think I might be coming down with cold or something Been having kind of a scratchy throat here lately the other day is kind of sore and I have been coughing a lot too So bear with me guys It completely skipped my mind that today was May the 4th, obviously Because I'm kind of pulling putting this together at the last minute I've been so busy with work working on the other videos and everything Didn't really cross my mind that May the 4th was coming up So anyway, oolah quodroma and the Beast Wars of order under on Millennia ago the discovery of hyperspace travel brought the galaxy together Giving birth to a democratic union of star systems known as the galactic Republic From the time of its inception the Republic grew over thousands of years to encompass vast numbers of Inhabited worlds the survival of the Republic depended on two factors the wise governing of the selfless Administrators and lawmakers and the preservation of harmony and justice by a heroic warrior fraternity the Jedi Knights in those Glorious ancient days a great mini force sensitive individuals willingly entered arduous training under accomplished Jedi masters Taking up the weapons and knowledge of and the powers of the Jedi way Join us now as we explore the secret histories recorded in the Jedi holocron Tales of an age when the Jedi Knights were numerous and strong This of course is part of the legends line as it came out before Disney acquired Star Wars But here's the artwork it very simplistic Especially with the facial features I don't really care for it all that much I Mean it it looks okay very futuristic looking, but it's also very dark some scenes look a little bit better than others especially Biomechanical stuff here. They really do a great job with detail there and With monsters and aliens and stuff like that But overall I'm not really a fan of the muted tones and the more or less simplistic design of the humanoids it just doesn't feel Star Wars-y to me and then you have the Large amount of dialogue Not only the dialogue between the characters, but also these descriptive Bowls as well. It kind of has it's Somewhat difficult to follow when there's so much dialogue going on between characters it if I wanted to read the book I would read the book, you know But I don't I want to read the comic It seems like they're trying to take everything from the book and put it into the comic and Comics and books don't really work that way You know, I'm not saying Simplified or dumb it down for people But you don't really have to describe everything that's going on When obviously there's images to go along with it I don't know. I got these in a lot of comics that I bought from a former co-worker of mine That he sold me his entire collection for dirt sheet and And these were included in it ordinarily if I would have seen these, you know, just sitting on the shelf or whatever I don't know. I probably wouldn't have bought them But since they were included in the lot I went ahead and got it. I Figured why not, you know So here's the second one and This one Before I go into that, let's do the first one the first one it tells the story of a Jet Jedi master Arka Arka Jeff Who tells the story of the history of Andron? He has three three apprentices Droma his brother Kay and taught Donita Ulick is Too many he's very full of himself Very overconfident so Arka tells him the story to kind of humble him more or less and In issue two Again same people 4,000 years before the time of Luke Skywalker the Jedi Knights were the most powerful and respected force in the galaxy In those days a Jedi master named Arka of a Kate Arkania Sent three of his apprentices on a mission of peace and justice the three young Jedi are Ulick Quadroma his brother Kay Queldroma and the Twileck taught Donita Abored their ship the Nebula Ranger they crossed the vastness of hyperspace to an untamed world called Andron As the three Jedi Knights meet the Queen Ammonia meet with Queen Ammonia Ruler of Isis the Beast Lord stage in an unexpected attack on the Royal Citadel and The Queen's daughter Goliath is kidnapped Overriding the misgivings of his companions Ulick Queldroma decides to pursue the abductors as The Nebula Ranger takes to the skies over Andron Wild for over Andron's wild forests a seeker torpedo fired from the ground finds its target and again we continue with very muted tones very simplistic Designs for the human oids it very much the muted tones reminds me of being in Jabba's Palace It's just I don't know Not really a fan. I Do like the designs they did for the armor but and stuff like that As well as the biomechanical stuff But when it comes to human oids and the very simplistic designs and again the muted tones I just I don't care for at all It really kind of takes me out of Takes me out of the story Here they find the remains of Freedon Nad Freedon Nad was seduced by the dark side four centuries ago He apprenticed himself to a dark lord of the Sith in the tradition of the Sith There can be only one dark lord at a time Unable to become a Sith Lord as long as his master lived Nad came to Andron to make himself a king After his death his tomb became a focus of dark side energy and so his power passed from generation to generation For more on Star Wars and stuff you guys if you haven't already Check out Star Wars theory Very good channel, I enjoy it it teaches me a lot that I didn't know about Star Wars That was the conclusion or that was the entire Ula Kwodroma and the Beast Wars of Andron Story arc then we get into the saga of No Me Sunrider part one And I believe this is actually a three-part Story and they're all interweave. They're all interconnected Which will later find out I believe during the Sith Wars storyline the saga of And it looks like pretty much the same people Worked on this book as well the saga of No Me Sunrider The time of Ula Kwodroma is remembered as an important turning point in the history of the Old Republic It was a time when the dark side of the force rose up with unexpected fury against the galaxy and Nearly drove the Jedi Knights to extinction The names of the Jedi Knights who stood fast in those days still ring down through the ages Their histories and legends are recorded in luminous detail in the crystalline recesses of the Jedi holocron Another Jedi warrior whose skill in the art of Jedi battle meditation will never be forgotten is No Me Sunrider Journey with us now as the Jedi holocron reveals the unusual path No Me Sunrider followed to mastery of the Jedi way and Like I said the reason why I'm not Telling you in depth of how the story goes and everything because it's been so long since I've read these and I really didn't feel Like rereading them again as you can see there is a lot a lot of reading you've got to do and when I read a comic I Want to be able to sit back relax and enjoy it Not have every single thing described to me because Obviously I can see what's going on and again the very simplistic Colors muted or simplistic design muted colors very I don't know. I just I Don't care for it guys If you guys want to know What the stories are about? Go to Wookiepedia bring up tales of the Jedi and You'll go down to these these five stories or five comics take place the first thing you'll come to is the tales of the Jedi the golden age of the Sith that is a Technically a six-issue story war arc. It starts out with issue zero and ends with six issue five Then the fall of the Sith Empire, which is another five-issue story arc But it starts with one and ends with five and then after that You'll get to the tales of the Jedi Ulaquodrama and the Beast Wars of Andron, which is a two-part story Which are these two right here and then you'll get to the three-part story of the saga of milmy Sunrider These came out Part three of five came out December 1st 93 Four or five came out January 1st 94 and five of five came out February 1st of 94 And you can just go through get the summaries there Eventually eventually I Do plan on telling the stories on come again Probably during the winter or something when I've got more time, but for right now. We're just gonna go over the artwork and Stuff like that. So bear with me guy and I'm not sure at this time During the early 90s, I'm not sure if it's changed at all since then but dark horse really had a thing with Muting the colors muting the tones of the artwork and simplifying the designs on humanoid while really Popping out when it comes to biomech and technology stuff like that. So there's the opening crawl Let you guys read that and Again the same style of artwork. I just I mean I can admire the artists They do a good job. I just I'm more or less like the Dan Jurgen's Jim Lee style of artwork also, you know Todd McFarlane stuff like that really strong detail Bright vibrant colors. They can get gritty as well Again keeping with Centon and I believe Every issue of tails of the Jedi is the same style Same muted colors The same simplistic design with the biomech and Stuff like that really popping but humanoids being very E So there you guys have it The first five issues tails of the Jedi it It This was just tails of titled tails of the Jedi Okay So if you're looking for You know subtitled whatever the covers don't have that on these five however on the others they do Again this was these were just Titled on the cover as tails of the Jedi now when you get into stories such as the Freed on Ned uprising It's actually subtitled As well as Dark lords of the Sith and The Sith war But if you're looking for these just look under the title tails of the Jedi Chances are you will find it under that But like I said the first two This one and this one are the Oolah queldroma and the Beast Wars of Andron saga and Then the last three one two three Are the saga of no me Sunrider? So if you're into the Dark Horse Star Wars comics By all means go out pick these up if you haven't already They are kind of cool Once you get into the story But like I said, I can't really remember what happened in them. It's been so long since I've read them a few years now And because there was so much dialogue I didn't really absorb it all so like I can tell you what happened with Green Lantern comics and Superman stuff like that, but stuff that just overwhelms you with dialogue. I Can't remember what happens So Anyway, I'm Shannon for come again TV. We're all geek culture collides if you're new to channel Don't forget hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos. Take care my friends and may the fourth Be with you


nt and you see kind of a folder structure there and we've got uh assets nested within other asset types and so it kind of creates a hierarchy that allows us to effectively organize uh all of our different assets depending on either the type of facility that's involved or the type of system uh that uh is included and so what we do with that information uh that we store is we process service requests and work orders against those assets now service requests keep in mind typically come in from the general public uh they can issue a service request using c-click fix where they can call us up directly and we can process the service request on their behalf the service request then gets routed uh to a particular group or a single person and that person uh then after they determine what the issue is uh then performs work uh on a particular asset so at that point a work order is created and so what we're doing is we're tracking all of the service requests and work orders against a particular asset uh in addition to that when we do work orders we can also track condition and I think uh it was mentioned uh in one of the earlier items in your agenda tonight uh when we're looking at assessing risk one of the things that we do is we use condition and we create exploring metrics to apply to those assets so that we can compare one asset to another asset within the same class and determine which one has a higher priority in terms of devoting capital dollars or operation dollars to maintaining those assets next slide please so just to give you a a quick overview on how a process like this might work say for example a customer saw it's the summertime they saw water running down the gutter well they could go on seat click fix issue a service request in this case that would come into our customer care uh staff that work in the water department they would make sure that the category was appropriately selected and then they would forward that information to the appropriate manager so in this case the water distribution manager would get that request he would dispatch somebody on one of his crews to go out they would engage in completing the work they would process a work order in few works and attach it to that particular asset so if we had a broken pipe that pipe now has a work order associated with it that has a bunch of information that can be queried later on and so the manager then reviews the work order to verify that it's completing correct and then what happens to close the loop with the resident is that we provide comment within the service request and that pushes back out to see click fix so that the person understands that the city has responded to their issue and they get to see what it is exactly that we've done in that response next slide so he's as you can imagine there have been quite a few entities involved in this project up to this point Gustav mentioned a little bit earlier about the hosting that we're doing with GIS that's axem geospatial we contracted with DTS to use their view works product KCI technologies assisted us as a consultant they were there during the actual selection process when we were determining which asset management product we wanted to go with of course we have multiple departments across the city that have been involved in this and multiple divisions and sections within those departments so it's been a a very wide reaching project and will continue to be next slide please a couple of things that are interesting right now on the mobile app side of things so we can do this work on our desktop computers we can also do it out in the field using the mobile apps we have the ability currently to do work orders out in the field but we don't have the ability to process service requests in the field we can only do that from the desktop so very soon DTS will be releasing a new mobile application to allow us to work with service requests in the field which will be really helpful right now we kind of have a work around process to help us process service requests into work orders even though we can't see those service requests in the field we're wrapping up our implementation of the project and then we'll be going into closeout at which point the real challenge for the city is going to be to continue doing effective training to get people more familiar with the software and that's a process that will be ongoing for some time there have been certain groups within the city that have had an easier entry point into the software for multiple reasons and so moving forward we'll continue to keep our foot on the gas pedal to get more folks brought into the fold at the end of the day what we're really shooting for here is for all of our resource managers you know that are running groups of people or divisions and departments to see all of their staff fully engaged in this process because the real beauty behind asset management is as we get data rich we can start asking some really pointed and important questions of the software and allow us to make some really good business decisions on how to spend limited capital and operating dollars to best effect and that's really what we're after here with asset management next slide I think that slide speaks for itself great thanks much for the presentation here open it up for a discussion among my fellow commissioners this is when I'll start with Commissioner Overby I am very excited by this and I have been excited about asset management for years so I'm I'm really excited that you're getting it going I I recognize you're sent you're your comment about the training and ongoing training is going to be important and but I think it's exciting there's a lot to be that people are going to be able to do I hope that you can get excited people excited in the city all the city departments that that as long as each one of them can find something of value that you know that's worth their effort of doing the learning and also worth their effort of putting in content because a lot of times these kind of things get you know get to be annoying because people are just asking you to put data in and coding this and entering that and the actual person doing that gets no value from themselves and that's a that's a downward spiral of the information becoming outdated and useless so I realize we're at the beginning of this and I'm very excited I know Director Spencer has been like working on this and promoting this for years and years and years and I've been always supporting it so I'm really very excited and thank you for the report on this I can see a lot of potential in it and I know you're going to be on the hook here since Mr. Sexhauer is going to be heading away but hopefully we'll get somebody else in there to help you out and and this will be a real valuable asset in the community and at a certain point I hope that some of this information in the GIS format is going to be accessible to the general public one just quick question was who are you using as the cloud service provider for GIS that's Axem Geospatial okay so that's yeah you're not using one of the big you know big ones so that's great that thank you for that thank you very much yep I don't know whether they're using AWS in the background or what you know I was just curious about that it's it's Azure in the background it's Azure in the background okay great thank you very much okay thank you Commissioner Bose thank you for the presentation I have no questions thanks Kennedy thank you I also have no questions but I was a very informative rundown I appreciate it Vice Chair O'Neill Lovacco no questions just a comment first thank you and I love to see that this kind of investment kind of is paying off for you know for your ad teams and keep up the the staff training I feel like it's really important to also to what Commissioner Overby said is you know the more people who can use it and see value in it for their their pieces of projects you know the more buy-in so great job thank you great thank you for that it's cool kind of is all the data in there at this point like your pipe break history and all the stuff where you're still sort of transitioning some data in there we have all of the data upload that we need to do at this point is essentially completed and we will be adding additional data as we move forward in time but the building blocks for all of it is there so you might imagine that you know I'll give you a quick example at the water treatment plant I have some data fields that allow a user to input the model number and manufacturer name for a pump for example we may not have all of that currently populated but as we're doing work orders on those assets then we can grab that additional data and know specifically what we have you know what year something got installed so it's the attributes related to the assets that will continue to get populated great thank you and thanks for the the anecdote earlier about bringing some of these early wins to the life and checking the meter the meter repair history in an integrated way that's all great stuff and I look forward to sort of enabling even more of those analysis questions down the road just you know out of curiosity is the btv stat platform still a thing for us to be sort of telling data driven stories for the city overall yes generally we took a hiatus during covid the process has restarted and yes we are in the midst of that I do really see that the asset management software is going to enable us to do a much more sophisticated deep dive into our data as Rocky and Gustaf pointed out there is some data that will become more valuable the longer trends data we have in the system so you know we're still in the building mode we've brought as much forward as we've had easily collectible but you know to be honest there are certain assets that were recorded on pen and paper for years that are in filing cabinets and that information has not been brought in at this time so you know I think the real value of this is going to build over time yeah that's very reasonable is does pavement condition include the like the sidewalk condition inventory that we did a while back we have two types of analysis PCI pavement condition index and SCI sidewalk condition index two different tools we use we've just finished a citywide sidewalk assessment and be happy to report on that in the future but two different tools both of which will be in this asset management software great no thanks so much and lastly out of curiosity I was wondering what the license situation is do you have like a certain number of licenses for for DPW for parks so the the nice thing about viewworks is that you can make accounts for whoever needs them so we don't we don't have a limit nice we're able to expand as much as we need to right no thank you much I really appreciate the update here and I excited about this as an enabler of a lot of interesting analysis questions moving forward thank you both for all of your work on this and just certainly wish you wish you the best out west all right yeah nothing further on my end quick check with Mr. Golding do we have any interested members of the public interesting speaking on this one there is no one signed up for public comment all right there is no action requested on this item close out item seven at this point I thank you both for the presentation and update look forward to seeing seeing more out of this one in the months and years to come so thank you you certainly will all right directors reports all right so thank you very much I will be exceedingly quick thanks to the voters for the approval of both the general fund bond on town meeting day as well as the main street great streets tiff borrowing we were pleased to see both of those paths the challenge for staff will be building a budget now that has enough resource in staff to accomplish that higher level of work given that the tax increase did not pass so that is my challenge for the coming weeks the last item North Manuski Avenue parking management plan we went to the transportation energy and utilities committee earlier this week on Monday they recommended two to one to advance a resolution to the council this coming Monday night thanking the parking management plan committee for their work and for proposing a path forward for the implementation of North Manuski Avenue basically in short delaying the implementation the paving project on North Manuski Avenue by a year and thereby giving the community and the stakeholders the small businesses along the corridor a year to plan for the parking adjustments that will be made along that top block of North Manuski from Union to Riverside so happy to answer any questions on that there'll be a full item at the council meeting this coming Monday night and I'll leave it with that right thank you for that with that I'll go to item nine our agenda commissioner communications start with commissioner Bose nothing for me at this time thank you all right thank you commissioner Kennedy I also have nothing vice chair O'Neill Lavako almost nothing I just want to make sure that Holly got the notes in the chat there was a comment from Mr. Penya and he mischaracterized what I thought my statement was so I just had it in in the chat for the record about the pod community so just to capture that I will take a look at the chat log and make sure that's in the public car guys thank you and then just two thank yous one I wish Jeff was still on the signs and on South Union in front of Edmunds Middle School their sandwich boards I don't know what you call them talking about I have had kids in the Edmunds complex for so long I don't even remember it's over a decade and have I've had someone in the middle school for like for eight years now and so the safety South Union Street with the buses and the bikes and the cars completely disregarding the safety of kids those signs I think are fantastic so kudos to public works on that for getting stuff done that I as a parent and been able to and then also thank you to staff for for dealing with 12 overlay park and the challenges of parking for that emergency service vehicle I really appreciate the creativity they did come to the commission in December 2019 I know we were dealing with the pandemic but this felt like it took a long time so thank you that's it right thank you Mr. Overby I just want to relay one comment that I received about concerns about the intervail road road condition and I was sort of fact you know looped in with a communication between somebody who was communicating with I think assistant engineer no involvement and I just wanted to let the other commissioners know that there's been a big concern about the condition of a the road which we know we've been waiting to try to get that side you know the multi-use path on the side but particularly the crossing there seems to be a disconnect in getting repairs made to the railroad crossing and the person was saying that there was she was expected to call communicate with somebody at the V-trance about how to get that repaired so there seems to be you know the concern that I wanted to share is that there's a lot of traffic there's large trucks that go down there and people are trying to get ready to get in their gardens going right now and the and the condition of the space on either side of the railroad track seems to be the responsibility of the railroad owner but there seems to be a lack of communication in a way that's making that repair possible and I guess there's changes in the way that the repair repairs get done around railroad tracks like at the bottom of College Street there was those rubber matt rubbery kind of crossing things to make it easy for people to bicycle across and walk across and anyway the concern is that there really needs to be an escalated effort made to find a way to replace these to repair that and the methodology is different and apparently there's no way to do it and engineer Baldwin has communicated about that but this person was somewhat frustrated that she was being told to just contact v-trans and see if she could get something done about it so I'm just sharing that sense of frustration about why is it that a public citizen who's got a garden down there and who sees the the road and particularly the dangerous situation at the railroad crossing why there isn't a better way for the public works department to get that worked out so I'm sharing that with you all because I don't know if you use the gardens down there or not but anyway I just want people to be aware of that and I don't know what's can be done about it other than we do a bake sale and try to buy these new concrete crossing things to to fix the railroad track if if nobody's going to take take responsibility for it and people need to fix it before somebody crashes their bike and and is injured so that's my comment all right thank you for that Commissioner Overby am I now just to echo what Vice-Chair Lee Wavako said I appreciate on the the new signage on in front of Edmonds there the whole crew was out one day last week so Rob, Jeff, Leonard, Dave or Doug the other gentleman's name that was out was running a little late to grab my kids and didn't get the chance to say hello but I saw you there I appreciate your you're all getting eyes on the situation as well anyways nothing further on my ends close out Commissioner Communications and move to item 10 adjournment next meeting date April 20th it's from the entertainment I'll make a motion to adjourn the meeting all right so we have a motion thank you is there a second second all right a second from Commissioner Bose is there any discussion around that motion all right we will go to a vote then all in favor if we say aye aye aye any opposed all right we are adjourns good evening all we'll see you next time