Most of this information comes from the Tax Guide for Small Business for Individuals Who Use Schedule C, Publication 334, Tax Year 2022, you can find on the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov. Looking at the income tax formula, we're focused on line one income. Remember, in the first half of the income tax formula is an essence, an income statement. Although just an outline of scaffolding, other forms, schedules flowing into these line items, one of those, the Schedule C, an essence and income statement in and of itself having business income minus business expenses, the net business income rolling into line one income here of the income tax formula. Here's the first page of the Form 1040, noting the Schedule C will in essence roll into the Schedule 1 rolling in then finally to the first page of the Form 1040 here. The Schedule C is the profit or loss from business, which is formatted in the structure of an income statement where we have income and expenses. We are now focused on the expenses side of the equation. So we're focused now on bad debts. So if someone owes you money, you cannot collect, you have a bad debt. So we're talking specifically about bad debt on the business side of things now. So typically that would be a scenario where possibly you did work for someone. For example, on account, they owed you money and then at some future point you've determined you're not going to get paid the money and now you've got this bad debt type of situation. Now note, there could be some difference in how you're going to account for that if you're on an accrual basis versus a cashed basis because on an accrual basis, the basis you would most likely be using from an accounting standpoint. If you're doing work on account, then you would have recorded the revenue when you did the work at some future point. Then if you're not going to collect on it, then you didn't really have the revenue. It's another one of those items where you have a negated kind of revenue situation. So what should you do? Should you reduce the revenue in the current time period? That's not normally what we like to do because we like revenue only to continue going up. The other thing we can do is create like an expense account of bad debt, which is similar to what we saw with returns and allowances situation where say inventory was returned, for example, where we made not an expense but a contra asset account still reducing net income in the same way. If it was a cashed based system, then we would never have recorded the revenue in the first place because even though we did the work, we haven't actually received the revenue. So in that case, when they no longer pay us in the future, we wouldn't have recorded the revenue in the first place, so we wouldn't have an expense necessary to negate the revenue. But most of the time, if you're dealing with a bad debt situation, you might have recorded revenue in the past and in the future when the bad debt becomes due, you might need an expense to compensate for the overreporting of revenue in the past. So there are two kinds of bad debts. You got business bad debt and non-business bad debt. So business bad debt is generally one that comes from operating your trade or business. That's the one you would think you might be having something to do with the schedule C here. So you may be able to deduct business bad debts as an expense on your business tax return. So in other words, if you say, well, I loaned my cousin money just because just out of the kindness of my heart and lo and behold, my cousin who never pays anyone back didn't pay me back. Well, that's not really a business bad debt. You were just you just gave your cousin money again. You should you should stop doing that because the trend has been set at this point in time and you should, you know, recognize that.


When researchers at the Emerging Pathogens Institute recently ranked foodborne pathogens to figure out which was the worst, number one on their list was salmonella. Ranked the food poisoning bacteria with the greatest public health burden in our country, the leading cause of food poisoning related hospitalization, and the number one cause of food poisoning related death. Where do you get it from? Well, I've talked about the threat of eggs. According to the FDA, 142,000 Americans are sickened every year by egg contaminated with salmonella. That's an egg-borne epidemic every year. But salmonella on eggs was only ranked the number 10 worst pathogen food combination. Salmonella and poultry ranks even worse. The number 4 worst infected food in the United States in terms of both cost and quality adjusted years of life lost. In terms of the burden of human salmonella poisoning attributable to various U.S. foods, eating chicken may be 8 times riskier than eating eggs. Due to strengthening of food safety regulations under the Clinton administration, the number of Americans food poisoned by chicken every year dropped from about 390,000 a year to 200,000, and rightly hailed as a significant accomplishment. So now eating chicken only seconds about 200,000 people in the U.S. every year. But isn't that a bit like some toy company boasting that they've reduced the amount of lead in their toys and so are now poisoning 40% fewer kids? Not exactly something to boast about. And the numbers have since rebounded back upwards. In the late 90s, human salmonella cases have increased by 44% since then. The rebound in incidence of salmonella infection in the United States is likely a result of several factors, but one important risk factor singled out is eating chicken. As the proportion of chicken carrying salmonella infection has increased. When people think manure and meat, they typically think ground beef. But when you look at E. coli's levels in meat, which is considered an indicator of fecal contamination, sure there's fecal matter in about two-thirds of American beef, but that number is greater than 80% fecal contamination in poultry, chicken and turkey. Why have we seen a decrease in the jack-in-the-box E. coli 0157, but not chicken-borne salmonella? In the last decade or so, the infection of beef and subsequent children have dropped, like 30%. But not only has salmonella not declined in the past 15 years, it's actually increased lately. One reason is that there was a prohibition of contamination with the deadly E. coli in beef. What a concept! So selling contaminated beef is illegal. Why is beef laced with E. coli, contaminated fecal matter, considered adulterated? But chicken laced with salmonella, contaminated fecal matter, A-OK. It certainly kills more people than the banned E. coli. It all goes back to a famous case in 1974, when the American Public Health Association sued the USDA saying, wait a second, you can't put a stamp of approval for wholesomeness on meat contaminated with salmonella. What could the USDA possibly say in meat's defense? As relayed by the circuit judge, the USDA pointed out that there have been salmonella outbreaks linked to dairy and eggs, for example, too. So since there are numerous sources of contamination, which might contribute to the overall problem, it would be unjustified to single out the meat industry and ask that the department require it to identify its raw products as being hazardous to health. That's like the tuna industry arguing, oh, there's no need to label cans of tuna about mercury levels, because you could also get exposed to eating thermometers. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the meat industry position, though arguing that you can allow potentially deadly salmonella in meat because, and I quote, American housewives are normally not ignorant or stupid, and their methods of preparing and cooking of food do not ordinarily result in salmonella food poisoning. What? That's like saying, oh, mini vans don't need seat belts in the back seat, because, you know, soccer moms don't ordinarily crash into things. Now, 39 years later, 200,000 Americans, second every year by salmonella, that continues to be legally allowed in chicken.


stions or thinking about how you might use this in your own work uh you know it's we'd love to have a discussion about that right and also if you have like if you have tried to do this right because this is really the intersection of modeling and data and you know whether you encounter challenges either in one or the other right how you go about analyzing later data what are those challenges worrying how you analyze them or things like that I guess just to share um I've tried doing some of this in GIS and been pretty frustrated and know that there's like I could do code and and like have freedom from clicking and that would be wonderful and just to have these examples showing what libraries you're using and you know some little snippets here and there just I feel like it's so much more accessible suddenly um so I just yeah really appreciate like one open source is amazing and then you know having you guys spend all this time putting this together in this way is um you know amazing resource for the John John's work I don't want to take about it it's it well thank you I'm happy that this this is helpful for you I mean I hope we just kind of showcase like we barely scratch the surface right this is a pretty pretty like you know basic introduction on this but I'm really happy that you see you know things or elements that you can kind of go into more detail on because it's really a lot of fun to do yeah sometimes it's just overwhelming like all the different ways to possibly do it and just to see like somebody's thought about this a lot and this is what they're doing and like I can at least start here yeah now that's that's what we've encountered usually you know with the ladder and and that's how I think often sometimes people just will just build another code just because sometimes it's also hard to understand what people have done is it's not well documented I think that's changing a lot but what we've always found with with our researchers that there's always the need for some sort of like stamped or approved workflow that you're like all right if you have to start you have to do this this is one way of doing it right and I think that we can always improve that type of information or documentation and kind of facilitate that exchange within the community which is going to help people that get started but also people that just want to you know don't spend time reinventing the wheel and just using what's been done and then use your time to do something new yeah I could see it's an investment and I just again want to thank you yeah for making this investment and sharing thank you for joining us on that note I just think it's you know especially if you're thinking about how to kind of use this sort of stuff or this is for everyone or you don't share with other people I also think it's this is a kind of fun example of how we can use things like Google Colab it's like a really good sandbox for kind of playing with a lot of this different stuff does because I know you know from personal experience when I was learning like how easily you can kind of get yourself into trouble trying to manage versions and repositories and libraries on your own machine and you can start breaking things up quite understanding why things are breaking whereas in a virtual environment like Colab you can kind of just keep everything within a still contained environment and it breaks you can just start over yeah I'd be curious what what you see where is the limit of that like this seems good for trying things and then at some point it feels a little insecure right and so I can tell you from making this what some of the limits are and the main one is RAM it doesn't give you that much memory and so with some for instance like going back to like topographic analysis the domain that we are working on was about a 160 180 megabyte raster which is actually a pretty decent size but it's a pretty small one by lidar standards and that was pretty you know pretty handleable for as you can see we can we could run flow accumulation across that we calculate curvature we do all that sort of stuff in just a matter of 10 to 20 seconds so the computation time is not the problem what is is that larger datasets particularly rasters and arrays have to be loaded into memory to be computed and once you get above like 500 to a gigabyte all your all your memory is gone basically in like 30 to 40 seconds and the in the runtime will crash so there's ways around that you could do things in a more tile approach like we had tons of different tiles you could just you know operate on all of them sequentially but using like really big datasets that's where this thing really starts falling apart just because we don't have the the memory access that you would really need to do something like that but other than that I mean as you saw we were actually saving all our outputs in you know proper geotip format so if you were doing this if you wanted to just get into play with this sort of stuff and use it in your own work which what I've done in the past actually is you can just download those geotips right back to your home directory or into your you know box folder or google drive and then just use them like you would any other output because like as far as co-labs concerned you're not doing anything special in turn it's not like a you know a weird format or a weird environment you're just using a virtual machine so all the outputs and everything that we're doing can be saved locally and used just like you would anything else so it's pretty powerful in that regard and it's certainly a perfect teaching tool that's helpful thank you yeah I imagine that the ram yeah I could see the little bar there telling us when we were hitting limits and yeah I know that these files can get humongous yeah and you don't get any warning either once the bar hits once it peeks out it just it's over yeah and this is raster so if we were to be in point cloud this would be way worse although interestingly white box tools we didn't play with it here but white box tools actually has the ability to handle point clouds as well so you could you could actually execute a full lidar workflow using these open source tools of like taking a point cloud turning it into a raster and so on it's very cool I have a question that's maybe a little bit out there or maybe just not really known but um with what you were showing us about all the different you know the resolution that you can get from this really or all the different you know landscape detail that you can see from this high resolution data um I guess I can see how that's you know something that's really important to have a handle on when the question that you're asking is something that you want to kind of solve on a human time scale um but in terms of like you know controlling things like channel initiation like how important are these little details when you're looking at million year time scales I mean is that I guess what kind of the angle I'm coming from this with this from is that I'm you know doing this work with trying to like reconstruct a paleo surface uh which is obviously going to be pretty low resolution I don't really have a choice in that but I'm just wondering you know what what kind of different results would I expect if I had access to all of these little details no that's that's a great question I mean and that's that kind of touches on some of the things we were talking about with like how we would use this data within modeling and I feel that for a lot of these things like for instance if you wanted to kind of run over a really large scale landscape evolution model on millennial scales of like running stream power and how stream power starts affecting drainage divide migration and capture and whatnot I don't necessarily know if you'd have a huge difference between using a very coarse resolution or a very fine resolution what I think the fine resolution really gets you is more in that kind of ideation or concept stage in terms of trying to understand what scale of parameterization or what scale feature do you need to kind of incorporate and are other parameters that you would need or your model would benefit from having included that even if you're not kind of using it the same spatial scale you know that those kind of smaller scale processes exist and are important in the landscape on these timescales and so on a longer time scale you need to think about a way of modeling them or incorporating them even if you're not running them at that same kind of high resolution if that makes sense I mean it's a super interesting question I would say that some of those stream captures and things that do happen at the headwater stream right and so detecting those channel heads plays a role now it is true that of course you have limitations so it is interesting to me it's such a you know it's a big question because it's always the and it kind of came up in in John's slides as well if you have high resolution topography is that appropriate all the time and it's not necessarily going to be the case right it's not that because the data is going to go to one millimeter resolution that you have to run the model one millimeter resolution by having the ability of you know even if you're going over geologic timescales just representing what that subgrade component looks like then perhaps you can run the model and then re-embed those features in future scenarios as well it is your question going to make me think about Greg and Kate Barnhardt work what they did that sat in that landscape that had nuclear waste right and they were trying to understand the evolution of these nuclear waste and where it would go so they had to run over longer timescales and of course they couldn't necessarily get back what the specific distribution of these features was not specifically the actual location but they could get a distribution of the elevation and kind of get a sense of where that subgrade plate at all so it it's super interesting and it does depend on your question and I think if we have the ability of getting that data then we can we can address where we want to include that and and not right and as a follow-up on that like I think just thinking about some of the things that I've done in my own work or things that I've noticed that you know I'm really curious about or they're interested in for instance like using stream power to you know model erosion of a landscape or relative erosion off you know heavily relies on the slope right of the channel in a lot of landscapes your kind of calculated slope is drastically different depending on the resolution you're using to capture that so for instance like the even in using 10 meter resolution data versus one meter resolution data in the old coast looking for the smaller stream values the 10 meter data under represents the length of those stream networks by an order of sometimes 20 to 50 kilometers and thus under represents or over represents the steepness by about two or three times simply because the large the lower resolution data is not capturing the small scale meandering of that's actually present in a lot of these river and stream networks so there's a lot of kind of really interesting implications for that right it's like because we get into that scale like what what scale of do we need to really accurately characterize the landscape and we saw that some things in many people's resolution is a good job but then when we go to the smaller scale we can see you know even if we're in a you know relatively steep mountainous environment those streams can actually have pretty significant meandering in the gravel bread river systems and that meandering is really really efficient at reducing the overall gradient of the stream and so then you can maybe think about what sort of kind of sensitivity tests or uncertainty do you need to propagate into your model to account for the kind of range of distributions that you might expect based on what you see in small scale but again like Paul said even if you're not using that small scale data itself like to evolve over over time the other thing I was thinking about is really the theme of these CSDMS meeting right because I think for those that really work at the interaction between topography and vegetation then I think those fine scale features are really going to be important from an ecosystem perspective where you have that you know smaller scale features and patterns and patches of vegetations does actually play a big role so again it depends on the question but I think for the for the theme of these years CSDMS I could see the fine scale structures really playing an important role when it comes down to ecosystem because talking about connectivity you know it's all about vegetation patches and size and distribution and that plays we know already from our work that plays a huge role when you look at transport yeah that's that's all really good stuff to think about so thank you for those thoughts any other comments general questions concerns no we're just gonna see this part of our first yeah exactly right John cool well then if that's that's everything if there's nothing from the Johns I think we can we can go ahead and call it an afternoon again thank you everyone so much for joining us especially in this virtual forum I'm glad that people found it useful and got everyone kind of stayed engaged with it yeah looking forward to hopefully seeing everyone next year at CSDMS or RGU or something else well thanks everyone and I think CSDMS sent an email about the impromptu happy hour so those of you that want to jump in I think there's a zoom get together which is informal over the two hours so I think from now to now and a half from now otherwise we'll see you tomorrow morning Kenyans well thank you all bye John is we Chris is weird to see you John all right catch up y'all later nice job bye Chris bye


This is a Witchspace News Odyssey Supplemental, I'm CMDR Buur. In this special report, Odyssey Alpha Phase 4 goes live and Frontier livestream a double whammy of interviews with two key Odyssey developers. To make sure you don't miss any of our videos hit like and subscribe, click the little bell icon and remember to select all notifications and to further help support the work of this channel, you'll also find us on Patreon, links to everything you need are in the description below. As we record this video, Phase 4 of the Alpha test for Elite Dangerous Odyssey has just gone live. Phase 4 of the Alpha is primarily a test of Frontier's ability to migrate the oodles of existing player data into the new version of Elite so that that process has hopefully as few surprises left in it as possible when the time for Odyssey's full release comes. You may remember that Frontier took a snapshot of everyone's account and status a week or so ago and that data is being used as the subject to inject into the Alpha after moving everyone's characters to the 50 light year bubble around Nervy that we've been locked into for the Alpha so far. As of recording there are some problems with a number of commander's accounts in Odyssey with ships or in some cases commanders themselves not being available. Frontier are aware of the issues and it is being looked at. This is exactly what this stage of the Alpha was designed to be testing so it's better that this happens now than on the release of Odyssey. We've linked in the description below this video to the issue tracker at Frontier whilst Frontier are looking at the problem it is worth registering your issue if you are one of the unlucky ones. We've also linked below to the forum post detailing this stage of the Alpha there are a significant number of known problems listed there which is worth familiarising yourself with before you jump in just in case you encounter a problem that is already known about. As I've mentioned this stage of the Alpha uses a snapshot of your commander taken from the main game and we will be restricted to the 50 light year bubble that we were in previous versions of the Alpha. In addition to what was previously available this new version of the Alpha also adds wing missions and the ship depo system 4 missions, power play, text brokers, search and rescue contacts and research station contacts. The current plan is for the Alpha to run through to the 5th of May with the full game becoming available on the 19th of May. So to kick off the duo of interviews last night community managers Bruce and Zach were first joined by Piers Jackson who is Odyssey's game director. After describing his role at Frontier with regard to Odyssey specifically Piers then went on to talk about the challenges of dealing with multiple teams all working from home due to the Covid pandemic and then described how the different phases of the Alpha thus far had played out and what they were expecting from phase 4. Piers was at pains to underlie again something that we've heard from Frontier on numerous live streams now that even phase 4 of the Alpha does not represent the full Odyssey experience and that numerous features are being held back for the full release. He also went on to describe in layman's terms the system of software development that Frontier employs whereby there is a main trunk of development for the game and the version that we currently have access to is just a branch off of that trunk that is further developed and added to completely separately to the main trunk of development which still has development going on in it. And in actual fact since the branch we're seeing was created the two builds have diverged quite significantly with just specific experience breaking bugs being targeted for fixes in the Alpha branch. The main branch of development has actually seen, in Piers words, thousands and thousands of fixes since the two builds diverged. The main trunk actually has a much wider range of content in it, the examples that Piers listed specifically were weapons, settlement types and the finalised planetary tech, more on that in a moment. Piers then went on to talk briefly about some of the improvements that were already being addressed in Odyssey as a result of the Alpha. NPC's swarming behaviour has been tinkered with, NPC's use of grenades has been adjusted to allow them to throw grenades tactically when the player goes into cover or is on a rooftop and they're looking into the issue of combat zone drop troops being run over by opposing factions player ships. So occlusion of players by walls etc has been improved indoors so that player actions are less detectable by AI allowing for greater use of stealth and he also spoke about tweaks to the crime and punishment system in the Alpha and how theft from installations in particular was treated in the Alpha and following on from initial observations the system was tweaked to make theft of objects from installations a little less risky. Piers then spoke about the 9 new engineers coming to the Elite Dangerous Odyssey that will all be able to make modifications to your weapons and suits and as examples he spoke about a modification that would make weapons switching faster and another that would auto reload your weapon when it was stowed on your backpack. He also highlighted two types of suppressors that can be fitted to enable silent takedowns one for use in an atmosphere and one for use outside of atmospheres. Before wrapping up his contribution to the stream Piers detailed the new tutorial system that will ship with Odyssey which will see new players taken on a mission that steps them through a settlement based scenario and an NPC encounter as an introduction to the new mechanics. For anyone who already plays early the new tutorial will appear in the style of a flashback memory before the player is put back into their SRV or ship which seems like a really cool idea. For the second half of the stream the team spoke with Dr K Ross the principal render programmer it's known for her and her team's work with the stellar forge system that creates and maintains the galaxy that we play in and planetary rendering technology that creates everything we see on the ground in horizons and of course now Odyssey. Dr Ross kicked off her portion of the stream talking about how nerve-wracking it was seeing people interacting in Odyssey for the first time after she and her team had spent multiple years working on it in the background. She was also keen to reiterate that the game absolutely had not been fully optimised yet and that covid driven work conditions had made that process harder as they ordinarily have access to a dedicated lab at frontier specifically for rapid testing of different hardware configurations and she was at pains to underline that we will see significant improvements to optimisation for the full release. She then went on to discuss the new planetary rendering tech and at this point previously unreleased images of the finalised planet tech was shown on screen and you can see those images on screen now. Just discussing how the alpha we're playing right now shows prototype and place holder terrain and object scattering, Dr Kay went on to describe how the final system will allow players to identify terrain that might be of interest from space just by looking at it such as the detail that Odyssey is able to display at distance. Dr Ross also pointed out that whilst Odyssey's terrain is constructed from a blending of procedural and handcrafted terrain features the team have pushed to create more canyon features to cater for the hooning and canyon running community within elite which was great to hear. The team then went on to discuss the scatter system and again she was keen to underline that the scatter system seen in the alpha currently is a prototype and that in the last few weeks it has been significantly improved upon to ensure that the placement of rocks as well as organics etc is much more realistic all of these features are being brought to existing horizon planets as well meaning that the placement of existing organics for example will again be more realistic but also that the introduction of Odyssey will mean that they are not necessarily in the same spot on a planet that they used to be. Dr Kay was also at pains to offer reassurance to the SRV community that the current terrain noise and scatter generation system seen in the alpha should not be taken as final and that they should see significant improvements in terrain navigability where appropriate in the final release. The interview then progressed on to talking about the multiple different flavours of terrain that can be present on one planet what Dr Kay has referred to as geomes in a previous stream and then she went on to address the use of physically based rendering in the update that should significantly improve the quality and depth of the visuals and colours that Illy is able to display. The issue of atmospheres and their appearance in the game was then addressed and the stream displayed the images you can see on screen now showing different colours of starlight being affected by the chemical composition of different atmospheres. Then the team at pains to point out that what we are seeing in the alpha is not the final product and the light scattering features being discussed simply aren't activated in the alpha which results in most of the atmospheric worlds having the same generic hue to them. The final light scattering tech in Odyssey will display numerous different colours and hues based on the chemical make up of the atmosphere present. After that pretty much sums up everything that was said overall two very interesting discussions the overriding theme being reiterated and underlined again from frontier the alpha is not the final build of Odyssey and doesn't include anything like all the features of the final product. There is still yet more to come when Odyssey finally launches on the 19th of May. That's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then 07 commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time.


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Hello everyone, thank you for taking the time to watch this video. I'd like to talk to you today about an upcoming City of Fort Worth project. My name is Bradley Radovich and I'm one of the project managers in the Transportation and Public Works Department's capital delivery team and I'll be the construction project manager for the upcoming Crowley Road, Ehrman Parkway, and Sycamore School sidewalk project. This presentation was originally meant to be given at an in-person community meeting with all affected residents and other citizens who utilize this street. However, due to the city's response to the coronavirus outbreak, the presentation has been recorded in lieu of the actual meeting. This presentation is meant to provide you with some information about the scope of this project and give you a little bit of a heads up about what to expect with the upcoming construction. Here's the agenda of what I hope to cover today in my brief presentation. I'll be talking about the project as a whole, providing some background, reviewing the scope, and providing you with information on phasing and schedule. I'll also cover some frequently asked questions. This project was prioritized for the 2014 bond sidewalk funds, but other locations had even higher safety priorities. This location was therefore a high priority for the 2018 bond. The location was selected based on the high pedestrian volume and safety for pedestrians, considering the high speed on Hewitt Street. The project scope includes installation of sidewalks and ADA ramps to improve safety and walkability for the pedestrians. City of Fort Worth, being one of the blue zone cities, encourage our residents to walk by providing them with safe walking facilities. The project is funded by 2018 bond funds, which was voted on by the residents of Fort Worth in May of 2018. An in-person public meeting was conducted for this project during the design phase on February 20th of 2020. We were happy to meet the residents and address their concerns. Slide 4 shows the project location and limits. The project limits are Crowley Road from Alta Mesa Boulevard to Everman Parkway, Everman Parkway from Crowley Road to Sycamore School Road, and Sycamore School Road from Everman Parkway to Hemphill Street. Sidewalks will be installed along the east side of Crowley Road and the north side of Everman Parkway and Sycamore School Road. All sidewalks will be made ADA accessible by constructing ADA ramps. We will also be installing three bus pads at the Trinity Metro bus stops. Each bus pad will be 18.5 feet by 11. A concrete pad that will enable riders to more easily board and leave the bus. Slide 5 shows a summary of a previously held design phase public meeting. Attendees were given the opportunity to ask questions. We wanted to share with you the three major points that were asked during our question and get these out of the way early in this presentation with our responses. Will trees removals be necessary? No tree removals are going to occur on this project. Will traffic lanes be temporarily closed or detoured? Yes. The outside north bound Crowley Road travel lane and the west bound Everman Parkway and Sycamore School Road travel lanes will need to be closed during construction. The closures plan to be only during the daytime hours and will be reopened when the contractor is not on site. Coming to the project schedule we have completed relocating the utilities that were in conflict with the proposed sidewalk design. We have also completed the acquisition of easements required for the construction of driveways and ADA ramps. We will be executing the construction contract in early June and are anticipating start of the construction on July 1st of 2020. Total cost of construction for the sidewalks on this location is $415,000 and it will take approximately four months to complete the project. To maintain traffic flow and safety of the construction workers, this project will be constructed with the outside north bound human street travel lane closed during daytime work hours. This lane closure is planned to only take place during the daytime hours when we reopened when the contractor is not on site. On slides eight and nine, I'd like to review some of the more frequently asked questions. I'm not going to read them verbatim but I'll just go over them. Basically the questions deal with concerns about access and impact to neighbors during construction activities. We understand these concerns and want to let you know that you will have access to driveways at all times during the construction and the sites will be restored to at least the condition that exists when the construction began. If there's any at any time, if there is a problem that you would like us to address, our contact information is given on the last slide. Please call me or Mr. Noel Sanchez the superintendent on site. The typical width of the sidewalk is going to be five feet and there will be some transitions to six feet at the curbs, at the ADA ramps. Where existing trees are located, they width of the sidewalk might be reduced to minimum of four feet to preserve the tree. Again, we're going to reconstruct the driveways and phases so that you have access at all times, which is very important for safety reasons. Irrigation systems will be restored or repaired and or adjusted by the contractor who has much experience in doing this. Those will also be left in at least as good a condition as they were found. And the construction materials left on site overnight, there will be construction materials left on the site but the contractor is bound to prioritize cleaning the work site every day before leaving and the travel lanes will always be open. So on weekends we will endeavor to keep the construction materials out of sight for long periods where the contractor is not going to be there the next day perhaps. Again, as we move forward I'd like to share these two points of contact with you. We look forward to improving the infrastructure within the city of Fort Worth and thank you for listening.


What is happening YouTube thanks for tuning back into the channel today right here with the Rust Belt mechanic. So today we made it all the way up here to Wisconsin where at Ryan's diesel performance and Kodiak trucks we're going to be doing something really cool for you guys today. We're going to be doing some driveline work. Mark with Kodiak truck is going to be hooking us up. We're going to be doing some custom transfer case work and we'll see what kind of trouble we get into with it. Make sure you guys stay tuned. Truck master! Hey can I get your autograph? Like this is a for real YouTuber. Like for reals guys. Hang on, hang on. I don't have a pin.  All right we'll get one later. All right cool. I'll give you a hug. So in this industry we all make mistakes here and there and I'll be the first one to admit that I definitely do the same. Over the last month or so we had the cab off. I had heads off about every single nut and bolt and on this instance come to find out that I kind of missed something. The the trans mounts that goes on the rear mount here we can have a look up on under it. See if we can get it here. Right up there those two little mounts that go through the trans mount. Guess some some dummy forgot to put the actual nuts back in the mount there. So I've been running around with trans mount kind of just flopping in the wind. It's a good thing I haven't been beating on it all that hard. Well I guess we live and learn. We'll get some new nuts. Basically this is just plug for your encoder motor for your shifting and your speed sensor in the tail. That's basically it.  Yep your clips hold your harness that run around to the back here. Yeah it's pretty straightforward. One of the things I always look for when getting one of these cases out is always check the front input. You don't want to see excessive movement there. We've had some that come back as cores and we'll show you some of them later. We got them under the bench that are just blasted. If this input can move also it'll end up taking out the range fork in the front of the case and you can have a symptom where the word acts like it kicks into neutral which is basically what it's doing. We can show you them parts here in just a little bit. We'll grab some and show that to you but this thing's nice and tight. It looks good but the truck only has 100,000 miles on so we're in good shape with this thing. So we'll do all our upgrades. We're going to knock this down. We're going to get a few of these bearings out of here. The front output bearing I don't like the idea. From the factory they got a plastic cage holding all the balls separated in there. We always use a metal cage bearing on those and you're locked in four wheel drive. If you're truck pulling you're pounding on the thing you get a lot of tire shake or anything going down the track. I don't like the idea of plastic in a bearing. So we'll put metal cage bearings in there and we'll get this thing all tuned up. We're ripping this thing apart. We ended up finding out where did that clip go? The clip here for the retaining ring on it is actually already got a snapped end to it. We get some zoomage on that one. It's already broken off as compared to that end. So only with 100,000 miles on this one at pretty light use and obviously a clean inner case you're still going to have broken crap. So as you can see this guy kind of knows what he's doing. He might be able to do it in his sleep three or four times. Do you ever sleep, Bill? I do. It just in when you see transfer cases in your sleep. So we're going to go over the internals here and we'll see what kind of we've got working with. Alright so Mark's got this thing all ripped apart in about 437 pieces and we did it like lickety split like. So you've been doing this for quite a while. Now let's go over individually these parts. What kind of failure points are we looking at on the transfer case for the LBZ? Sure for any of them what we want to do as soon as we get it apart is we check plenitary gear. Each gear on here we check for any movement. We also check to make sure the plastic thrusts down in here are not broken. That can be another issue. We're definitely going to knock our pocket bearing out of the input gear. Get that out. Always replace that. We've had a few that if you chance it and say well the bearing looks good I'm going to run it.  What'll end up happening is your trans will overfill the case and you'll take it in and they'll replace the input seal and it didn't catch the fact that these bearings crack. Very common on the Magna cases. Seven and a half and newer. They'll break their snap ring groove on the rear mainshaft. The mainshaft will try to go forward and it'll literally bust this pocket right out of the front but it'll hang in there and nobody'll see it and you can't see it in and around the spline when you look through the front of it. So it is a common problem and then basically we're just going to go through and look at everything else. All three in up style cases have replaceable pads. The 0102s had an integrated pad where it was injection molded on it much like the mode forks. The rest of the internals in this case are gorgeous. Everything's beautiful in here. All the forks are in good shape. All the internal pieces. We always check the range hub to the back the input gear for spline wear. Also check the back of the planetary when you're in low range. Everything is spec on. Now when you were talking about the differences in holding together the bearings with the plastic retainer for the front output, where was that one located at? That's located in the front case half which this is your front output shaft that comes out the front of the case and that bearing is located right on here and we will dig that bearing back out so you guys can see exactly what we're talking about. Here's the bearing that goes in there and all the cages that hold all these balls separate are all plastic. We're going to put a metal cage bearing in there. That's kind of crazy. I didn't know that these had retainers inside of them that were just plastic. When you're talking about as much wear and tear as these things get that we're doing plastic insertions into these bearings that's just nuts to me. So now as far as the pump goes here in the rear what kind of upgrades are we looking at on being able to beef up this case in the pump? Sure. What we can option is we do use the merchant case half in the back if somebody would want that we can upgrade to it. When we go to the aluminum case half we've never had a problem with the aluminum pump on the aluminum housing. The two metals are not going to eat themselves up but it's a cool deal to throw in there and you say you got it and it's a good piece and it's a very good design. The other thing we'll check out too is a slider clutch which is this piece which basically engages your four-wheel drive on the on the hub for the front output. We'll always check these for wear because when that snap ring groove in the back wears this thing can move in and out and it'll dance on the teeth on the front drive sprocket here and it can collide and cause wear. We'll look at that very closely also. The other thing we'll do is if we have a used chain we don't necessarily always replace the chains. We have a way of checking the slack in the chain against the new one. If it's within spec we'll run it. Those chains take an immense amount of power. Normally the only time you see chain failure is when somebody's running out of oil for a long long period of time which we can show you on a couple cases cores that came back. So that's some pretty interesting stuff and there's more that goes on to this than I originally had thought about it. When you guys are looking into transfer case rebuilds or if you guys are kind of trying to think about it doing it on your own think about everything that Mark went through today and realize that there's a lot more that goes on within this case than even I thought. Doing that whole engine build that we've done before that was nothing compared to the little intricacies and everything that's inside of these transfer cases it's kind of insane. So dealing with Mark here at Kodiak truck and driveline is going to be one of the best things that you guys can do. I will be sure to leave a link down in the description below and for the cost that these transfer cases the rebuilds and you also sell full ones already done right? Correct. We have reman units on the shelf ready to go. We can on assembly we'll talk about a little bit more about the rear case halves and the nickel coated updated yoke and all the goodies that you can do and all the things you should do. But yeah there is definitely more than just putting a case saver plate or that type of thing in the back. There's other upgrades and things you should look at really. Not if your case has got 150,000 miles on it you should knock it down and look at more than just say I'm going to put a back case half on and a plate in it or whatever method you're going to use to prevent the pump rub. Exactly once we're talking about the bullet proof nature of what these cases need to be able to handle especially when you're getting up into the six seven hundred horsepower range over a thousand foot pounds of torque. That's where you guys are going to need to pretty much bullet proof this and Mark's going to be the one to be able to do that one for you. Again I will leave the link down below to get a hold of him and the phone number for the shop here in Wisconsin. He's able to handle any needs you guys have give him a call anytime and he's able to answer any questions you might have as well. So when Mark was talking about some transfer cases that have been through the war this one right here would be the version of oh I forgot to put oil in it or we ran it for a little while low on oil. No that's not just a little while you done toasted it. So be good check your oil regularly and you know it would probably be a good idea to change it out every once in a while too. So as you guys seen on some previous videos here's our factory main shaft set up metal on metal we got an oil groove cut in it but it's still metal on metal a lot of friction. Our deal we've seen seen machine it this is plus or minus a half a tile the machining quality is fantastic. Second to none what we end up with is a machine down shaft we actually run three bearings not two this was an early design and we basically take all the friction off of it. You compare the two it's night and day I can spin this as hard as I want I spin this one as hard as I can it'll go forever. This benefits you in two-wheel drive because all your miles going down the highway you're spinning through from the input gear to the output shaft center on center takes all the friction and wear out of it. Some guys claim they pick up fuel economy I don't want to advertise fuel economy but we've done this for years and it's just a great setup with zero failure. Now that's what I'm talking about this this setup right here talking about something that's going to take you know all the questions out of the game and take all those extra you know failure points out of the transfer case are there any other normal failure points to the actual transfer cases say in my truck right here as it sits. Absolutely that rear snappering groove in the rear of the case when that fails allows the main shaft to walk forward and back and it simply will end up taking out the uh the mode fork in the back which we can actually show you an example of. Some people too made comments they were concerned that we machined this down so far that we weakened the shaft. Bottom line is if you're going to break this shaft anywhere through here truck pulling whole shot and boosted four-wheel drive launches you're going to break it at this snappering groove in the back that's exactly where all of them will break so up in the middle of this case we have plenty support between the backside of the input the bearing here there's plenty of beef in there it's not going to be a problem. All right so now when we're moving back and forth this is going to be our old transfer case shaft let's see if we can get a little bit of focus into it and the machining process is actually really really easy guys it's as easy as just snapping your fingers. Yep that simple and we go from shitty original shaft to look at that fancy stuff that's what we're talking about when we're talking about the machine surface for the new roller bearings. Okay here's our stock drive hub and here's our hub now with the engagement teeth on it already and our three bearings in it. So with this original one the bearing setup that they were using from factory how is that differing from the new style? There absolutely was no bearing it was strictly metal on metal. Metal on metal. So now here's our hub assembly it's going to go down on and there we are we lost all our friction made it more efficient. More efficient way way better guys that's the way that they're doing these transfer cases the right way. All right Mark so we're going to go through the pumps here and tell us the difference between the stock one and this is I'd say one of the merchant ones. Yep exactly this is the stock pump which we feel works we've had no problems with it in the with the aluminum rear it doesn't pump rub again we also offer this as an option we can put the merchant case up on which is a very very good piece and you know you got a total bullet proof setup. So we do offer that also as another option. Cool so we're going to go ahead and get this case together and get this thing back in the car. Look at that we'll get the brace back on it braces are excellent if you make any horsepower at all you would have a u-joint fail that brace will definitely help you from busting the backside of your elsen off we've seen a ton of failure in that area so by having the brace in there you'll take all the rotational load out between the trans and transfer case because the brace is now going to anchor it down up top they work great highly recommend it we've seen plenty just in the last probably five six years of trucks coming through the shop that didn't have that on they lost the u-joint and they go from you know a thirty five dollar u-joint a little bit of labor to the back half of a busted elsen that's coming out of a truck and that's going to be one expensive bit that is uh twelve fifteen hundred dollars to do a back housing and labor and everything else and pull the case out and get it all back together not going to lie mark this transfer case is a gorgeous piece of machinery right here what we've seen put together here that is something that is top notch best in the industry i'm going to recommend this one absolutely for anyone who's looking to get some uh drive line upgrades mark entering beast mode here what was the saying that you said i'm old not broken i'm old not dead i'm old not dead not only can you rebuild the transfer case faster than anybody in the business he's still slinging him up there too now mark one of the other questions that i know people have asked in the past and will ask continuously the transfer case is here realistically power that they're able to handle power they're able to handle is what most guys will ever be able to make because obviously if you get over 700 horse you got to build a model um on this particular deal we can easily throw a thousand horsepower at this case with no issues um if you were above a thousand horsepower it wasn't a daily driver it wasn't a street driven truck we might consider not putting the cnc main shaft in because you're not going to have the wear you're not going to put the miles on it just to totally increase the strength in it not that we again that we weakened it by doing that but going to the fact of this is more designed for daily drivers drivers at our you know a thousand horsepower or less um but uh yeah wait on if we did something that was 1500 horsepower we wouldn't put the rollerized main shaft in it because that's not going to be a daily driven truck still with this amount of horsepower and everything in the efficiency that we're able to you know now say that we're going to have to the entire driveline it's just an overall great build and something that is going to give you guys the power of the strength and the efficiency and driveline efficiency that's an awesome build all the way around so as you guys can see mark with kodiak driveline here is the best in the business that you guys can possibly get and this transfer case is going to be something awesome i'm looking forward to be able to test this thing out properly we've got the dyno day coming tomorrow with the big show we're going to be throwing this thing on there and then i've got the long drive back home this thing is going to be more efficient and it's just in all words peace of mind more than anything being able to have that heavy duty amazing piece of machinery under the truck that's going to have a good warranty and it's just not going to break on me nothing that i'm going to put to this thing is ever going to make it break so i appreciate mark being able to show us this awesome stuff that he's able to do again i will leave all the information down below in the description where you guys can get a hold of him the links to the transfer cases he's able to do anything and everything along in the driveline transfer cases for fords dodges as well big into that one is he's just a great guy to get a hold of and if you guys have any questions again he's able to answer any of those for you i appreciate you guys tuning in make sure you go check out truck masters channel as well he's got some really great information that we're going to be kind of tossing back and forth from this next two days here spent with ryan's performance diesel and kodiak trucks here in north prairie wisconsin appreciate you guys tuning in today thanks and as always you guys stay awesome


theCUBE presents Dell Technologies World, brought to you by Dell. Hey everyone, welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of day one of Dell Technologies World 2022 live from the Venetian in Las Vegas. They're excited, I don't know if you heard that. A group behind me, very excited to be here. Lisa Martin and Dave Vellante. We're very pleased to welcome Jules Johnston, the SPP of Channel from Equinix. Jules, welcome to the program. Thank you for having me, I appreciate it. And those people back there are very excited if you heard that. Big applause that we went live. So the vibe here is fantastic for the first live Dell Technologies World since 2019. A lot of people here, this expo hall is packed. A lot of momentum here, but there's also a lot of momentum at Equinix. Talk to us about what's going on. Well, so many exciting things for Equinix and this partnership of Dell sort of gives us a chance to share that with partners here throughout the conference. So we are very excited, as you said about, and we just renamed to the Fortune 500 this year, 77 quarters of growth consecutively. But underpinning that is having made huge investments in what is the world's largest footprint of global data centers, 240 of them on six continents in 66 markets, but then interconnecting them. So they have the connections that Dell customers need to the clouds. They have the connections that they need to all of their future SaaS providers. So that foresight to put together that interconnection network across our footprint has set us on the path we're on today, which we're very grateful to be at and really the things that are happening with Equinix and Dell together couldn't be more of the moment. Talk to me about that, the last two years, the moments of the last two years have been very challenging for everyone. How has the partnership evolved in that time? Well, you know, we together, Dell and Equinix, what we're doing is really helping our shared underpriced customers navigate the complexities of their digital transformation. And digital transformation is hard. You know, it's not one and done and it's not an overnight solution. And so what we are doing is partnering with Dell to think about putting a dedicated Dell IT stack in an Equinix data center to give customers that sovereign adjacency so that they can have that security proximate to all the clouds and everything else they need to participate in the ecosystem and then pairing that with these interconnected enterprises. So Dell and we are helping customers then be able to have some of their solution on-prem, some of their solution in the cloud, access public clouds and use that collectively to define what we're calling the intelligent edge together and that intelligent edge means so many different things to customers. But it is really our honor to work together with Dell to help each customer define that for themselves. Equinix amazing company. Like you said, it's, you know, I didn't realize it was that many consecutive quarters, but it's a 60 billion plus market cap. If you look at the stock chart, it'll blow your mind. Really incredibly successful. And part of the reason is funny. You know, 10, 15 years ago, people thought, well, 10 years ago anyway, the cloud is going to hurt companies like Equinix. And it was exact opposite. And that's because, you know, Charles Phillips used the joke, friends don't let friends build data centers, right? And it's not a good use of capital for most companies unless you're in the data center business. Now, of course, you have some of your own as a service offerings. What's the overlap with Dell? How do they complement each other? It's a good question because, you know, and we get that, are you and Dell in fact competitors? And no, we see them as wholly complementary. And in fact, we're working with Dell to bring to market things like what we call PowerEdge, which involves their servers and PowerStore, which involves their storage and then V-Rail, which is really the hyper-converged infrastructure. And those are just the first of a series of offerings we expect to bring to market with Dell. And if you think about metal, and Equinix metal that people sometimes think is a competitor, but what metal does for customers, is it really allows them to advance, have the equipment placed in our data centers so that they can access that capacity in according to spikes or needs that they have. That equipment in our data centers that's there for them to avail themselves of that capacity is most often Dell equipment. So we are really doing and executing that bare metal as a service together. What are some of the things that you're hearing from your partner community in terms of the partnership with Dell? Our partners must be excited, the momentum there. What's going on in the partner community? So that's near and dear to my heart, since that's what I'm responsible for, Equinix's global partnerships. And they are very excited about what we're doing with Dell. And to be honest with you, all of our top partners are also top partners of Dell. So it makes sense that we bring it together. So big categories of partners like the world's largest global network service providers, some of whom are here and who we'll meet with, the AT&T, Orange Business Services, those folks, in addition to the world's largest global systems integrators, Kindrel, Deloitte, Accenture, Wipro, DXC, all of these are partners that Dell and we will meet with together to further our, what we call Power 3, that together we're better because as much as Dell and Equinix are delivering, the customers most often don't have the experience they need to execute it without a partner. So they are relying on those partners to take what we're doing and make it their own. And so they're excited about it. It's a big opportunity for them from a revenue services and an opportunity for them to step into a next level trusted advisor status. So partners are excited and we're going to be spending a lot of time with them in the next few days. Do you see Equinix because these partnerships are not bespoke partnerships. It's an ecosystem that's organic and evolving and growing. Can it be, are you a dot connector in a way? Can it be a flywheel effect in your ecosystem? Well, I mean, so our ecosystems that we provide ride range of those from high frequency trading to connected cars to the internet things of many in content providers that we are, we do see it as our role to the 10,000 and growing customers that are in our 240 data centers on six continents that provide those ecosystems. It is our mission to continue to grow that and reach it because that does differentiate us greatly from another data center provider. And it's the combination of the ecosystem that you find and the people you can connect to at Equinix and then also the leverage of our fabric in order to be able to access your future needs. And there's a lot of technology underneath these, you know, it's that first layer one, I guess, if you will of the data center, right? And so a lot of your customers or your partner's customers, they just don't want to be in that business as we were saying before. I mean, it's just too expensive. The power requirements are going through the roof. So you got to be really good at managing power. You do. In fact, you know, so first of all, you're right. It's extremely difficult for them to also be able to make that kind of commitment to keep a data center they would manage themselves at the level that Equinix is able to invest. So it's very difficult for people to do it themselves but even show another point you mentioned actually about the power is near and dear to our hearts because Equinix is super committed to sustainability. And so we've made a commitment to wholly renewable energy. And it's something that we talk a lot about how we also help partners like Dell meet their initiatives or partners like AT&T meet their connected climate goals. So we are actually using that and coming together with Dell on that story and helping to amplify that with our partners. And that's, how do you do that? That's putting data centers where you can cool with the ambient air or is it being near the Columbia River? What's your strategy in that regard? And sustainability, I have to be honest here. I would be out of my depth if I didn't say. At the high level, yeah. So we are deploying some of the latest technologies about that and then experts, people who all they do is really help us to reduce the carbon footprint and be able to offset that, be able to use solar, be able to use wind, be able to take advantage of that. And then also to navigate what's available when you're in 240 locations on six continents, it's not the same options to reduce your power consumption and your burden are different in Africa as we just discovered with our main one acquisition than they are in India or than they are in other parts of the world. So it is for us a journey. And we've been assembling a lot of the talent to do that. But you're so large now, even a small percentage improvement can really move the needle. And I think because we are the largest, it is incumbent upon us to really set the standard and be committed to it. And we do see other people following, which is a good thing for all of us. Well, how important is that in your partnership conversations that partners have that same focus and commitment on ESG that Equinix has? Partners care a lot about it, but customers ask us both all the time.  Tell me about your commitment. And so we are committed to it, but customers are demanding it too. So it's coming from the voice of the customer, which Equinix is listening to, we know Dell is listening to it as well. I'm sorry, what was that? That the sustainability of the ESG demand is coming from the customer, as you were saying. It both, I mean, we want to do the right thing and we've made commitments to it, but our customers are holding us accountable to it. And sustainability is now a board level priority. It is for us and it is for companies like Dell and it is for partners and customers. It really is, it's up there with security in terms of the board level conversation. Where do you want to see the partner ecosystem in the next, let's call it three to five years in your business, you can look out that far. Well, I think that they, our partners, and that I mean Dell's and our mutual partners, you know, we are, we've been listening to customers with Dell to deliver a flexible set of options for how customers would consume Equinix and Dell. So our partners are going to be integrating a variety of those in order to meet the customer where they are in that journey, whether they want to buy Apex as a service, whether they want to buy Equinix Metal, whether they want to have a customer, a partner put together a bespoke do-it-yourself combination with other services. I mean the customers are going to demand a choice of options. I think partners are going to embrace multiple versions of that so that they can, you know, to meet the customer where they are and take them. Well that's incredibly important these days to meet the customer where they are. The customers have a lot of choice. It is. But everything that we're all doing is for the customer ultimately at the end of the day. Yes, it is. And you know, the customers are getting savier but we are all still early in this journey as far as the edge. You know, I mean, I think we are all still, we're all still grappling that for right now we like to say that as customers are looking to define that, the footprint that we offer together with Dell gives them an awfully robust set of choices for now. And then we want to continue to invest and expand to be where they need us. Well that's the thing about your business. It's optionality. I mean you can't, I mean the cloud has a lot of stuff but you can't get everything you want in the cloud. You can. And you can put anything in your data center. That's, you know, IT. You can't but you may not know what you need yet. And so that's one of the things we spend a lot of time having our solutions architects and ourselves people together but don't talk about future-proofing their strategy. So future-proofing that combination of on-prem and in an equinex data center and maybe some public and future-proofing leveraging our fabric so that they might elect different SaaS-based services or cloud-based services a year, two, five years from now than they are even thinking about today. And they may expand their edge over time because they may sort of see that as at the customer end point. Today most businesses are still sort of using a footprint like ours as their edge. But that could change and so we want to be there when it does. Yeah that's a great point because you don't want to necessarily have to rip it out every couple of years if you can have an architecture that can grow. Yeah sure, you might want to upgrade it. Well and that's one of the most appealing things about services like Metal where they also, they do sort of prevent that sort of rip and replace but they also help people navigate the supply chain shortages that are going on right now. So this has been a trying two years for supply chain shortages and being able to take advantage of Dell equipment already staged at Equinex Data Center and partners can then bring their customers a quicker immediate response. Have you also seen, you mentioned the supply chain shortages. Some of the many challenges that we've experienced in the last few years. How much of a factor has the great resignation been? The labor shortages, the cybersecurity skills gap on folks coming to Equinex saying, help, we don't have the resources here to do this ourselves. We have been fortunate to not to be, if you're asking about how the resignation has affected us as a company. No, your customers. Or customers it has. Oh okay, yes. So it is a challenge for them but it's an opportunity for our partners. So what I see there is it's been challenging for customers to hold on to that talent but partners are filling that gap and we at Equinex have been fortunate to hold on to a lot of our best and brightest and so we put them together with our partners and we try to help customers fill those gaps. Well that's the most important thing, filling those gaps. You ever been inside one of these ultra-modern data centers? I have not, not yet. It's pretty cool, isn't it? Have you ever had a tour of one? I've never had a tour of an Equinex data center but I've seen some modern data centers that will blow your mind. Well I mean they come with all the requisite biometrics and mantraps and all of the bells and whistles that are actually the first layer of physical security but then once you get into the data center then we get into the virtual and the digital security that you would expect.  Inside this data center is all the world's networks come together and peer and then we have inside there the most direct ROM reps to the cloud so you would expect there's a lot of wires and pipes running very neatly through a very secure, clean, pristine environment for sure. Amazing engineering. It is, we need a tour.   Awesome, I guess. I would love to, yeah. It sounds fantastic. We would love to. We'll bring a camera. Oh no, not allowed. No phones, no phones, sequester. So what are some of the things that you're excited about seeing and hearing the next couple of days as this is the first time we've all gotten to be together in so long? So, well, you know, we are excited about the conversations that we're going to have power of three that I was talking about. So, you know, we really pride ourselves on sort of having that combination add up to more to benefit the customer. And so this will be sort of a coming out party of sorts for Equinex and Dell will meet with in almost 20 different global partners that are really important to both of us. So I am most excited about those conversations and about the education I'm going to get on the ways they're thinking about integrating it differently because that is good choice for the market. That is good choice for the customer set. So for the enterprises out there. So that's what I'm most excited about. Awesome, sounds like tremendous opportunity. Lots going on this week. But thank you for coming on, it's my pleasure. An hour of Equinex and Dell better together the way that your channel partner program is growing and of course the momentum of the company. We can't wait to see what happens next year. Thank you. Thank you. Well, we will aim to deliver and thank you again for having us. Thanks, Jules. Our pleasure. For Dave Vellante, I'm Lisa Martin and you're watching theCUBE's live coverage, day one Dell Technologies World Live from Las Vegas. Stick around. We'll be right back with our next guest.


Hi, welcome to week 2. By now I hope you are all familiar with the platform. You heard the lectures, learned how to use the various features of the platform, posted a query, comment, answered some questions and learned something. So what do we have in week 2? Week 2 has four sets of lectures. In the first set I am going to talk about the various kinds of mobile access devices there are.  We have smart phones, we have phablets and tablets, there is a lecture talking about different aspects and properties of these devices. We have a very nice lecture by Sumit Kallra on Android, Android is the operating system on mobile phones. He will explain to you what Android is and its various versions and so on. And there are set of wonderful lectures by Navpreet Singh who will talk about networks, local area networks, metropolitan networks, wide area networks, how the internet works when you type a URL in the browser what happens is going to explain all this. And then we are going to have a set of lectures by Aditya Jagannatham on communication networks. You know our phone connects with the internet or even a voice call over using 2G, 3G and so on. What are these things? How much data flows over a 3G network? He is going to explain this kind of stuff. And early next week we are going to have a quiz, do not get worried it is going to be a simple multiple choice kind of exam there will be a set of questions it will be fun. You can use this quizzes to consolidate your learning. You can use this quiz to test yourself if you know the important things in this space. Quizzes are not to test you guest they are also to tell you what is important in that area. Have fun.


I'm coming in, I got it real nice and hot, so I like to start at the mid-shaft, roll it up a little bit. Hi guys, my name's Brian Hare, I am here on behalf of Free Salon Education, and today I wanted to go over another little styling thing. I had some pretty decent feedback from the blow-dry class that we did last week. I just wanted to go over, it's actually a really cool quick technique that I use a lot in the salon, especially when you're trying to make a really great impression, or if you've done a really, really exceptional job on someone's hair. And you just want to put that extra twist on the finish that just makes it look really, really great. So we're gonna jump right in. I've got my tool of choice today. I'm a big fan of Marcel Irons for this look, because there is a little bit of manipulation and twisting and turning and wrist work that you gotta do, so that Marcel just works nice and easy with that. That does not mean that it's mandatory, you can use whatever you want, whatever you're familiar with, but this is what we're gonna use today. I have prepped the hair with lots and lots of a thermal protectant. We're going in with a nice high heat, so you're gonna wanna make sure that you're not cooking the hair. I got Neuro from Paul Mitchell, they're Protect. All right, so I've divided her down the middle. I'm gonna do one look on one side, one look on the other. We'll start on the right side of the head. The look that I'm gonna be going with today on the right side of the head, I'm gonna have all of my curls going the same direction. It's gonna be, if you're thinking about it in terms of like, if you're doing perms, I'm not gonna be bricklaying these sections, it's gonna be much more stacked. I want all of my sections relatively the same size and try to get them as in a row as possible. So we'll jump right in and start with the more uniform side first. So we're starting in the back. Just like when we were sectioning for our blow-dry and I said you wanna get your section to mirror the brush a little bit so that it holds its foundation. We want a similar idea with these curls because I want these curls to hold some structure. So I don't wanna take a gigantic section and then apply it to an iron that's only this size because then any of that lift at the root that I'm trying to put in will just fall apart. So I'm coming in, I got it real nice and hot. So I like to start at the mid-shaft, roll it up a little bit. The hair towards the roots gonna always need a little bit more time to heat because it's newer hair, therefore less processed. So it's gonna need a little bit more encouragement to curl than the ends will. And then let that fall and then don't touch it. The big thing with this is that you wanna let these curls cool before you run anything through. Let that sit in a little bit and then I'm gonna slide down, curl back up, test it. When you can start to feel the heat through the curl that's when you know you've gotten all the way through and you're good to go. Unroll, unroll and then just let that end slide out. I'm not keeping it, I'm not really curling the ends but I do like to run the iron over the ends just to add a little extra smooth and finish to it. So I'm just working horizontal sections. Once I get up to a really wide section like this, this is where I was saying you want to pay attention because if there's too much over direction then you're not going to get a nice, that curl's just not gonna stay. So for this I'm actually gonna split this in half and then that'll give me two perfect sized sections for my curls to hold. A good rule of thumb for this when you're working is just to keep checking yourself. If it's super compromised hair then you're gonna want to get that heat low and make sure you're feeling because as soon as it starts to get warm that's all you need. My last section in the back, these are the sections all, everything from the parietal ridge up is where you really wanna pay attention and make sure that because this is what you have to look at. I was explaining this to my guests yesterday. You have to look at where this first ridge is gonna lie because this is the kind of stuff that plays into their face shape. If you want to accentuate cheekbones or whatever you wanna pay attention to where that first ridge is or where that first ridge is gonna fall because if you really need to make sure that you're not widening the look of their face then you're gonna make sure that the ridge falls a little bit lower than the center of the face. But if that's not an issue for you or you're looking for more volume then in these sections up top you are gonna over-direct up a little bit more to give yourself some more lift. Again, think about how much drag you want. The more drag you have, more casual this look is. If you get closer to the root with it it's gonna have a more structured look and it's gonna look more like a head of curls. So when I grab the hair rather than just grabbing it here I'm sort of over-directing it forward with the iron. So grab and then pull forward before I clamp down and that way I'm keeping it more of a natural fall and I'm really just applying enough pressure to hold it in place. I'm not smashing it onto the iron. How you take it out is just as if not more important than how you're putting this curl in there. All right, and this last one this is one of those important ones I'm telling you if someone doesn't have the perfect face like Dolly here you're gonna wanna pay attention to where that first ridge lies. You can start to see how these curls are sitting in here. So that first ridge is gonna hit roughly around the eye which could be really pretty. So if you want that higher ridge then you're gonna over-direct more and give it more volume, more of a base foundation for that curl. If you want looser, softer then you're gonna let it drop, do your curl down here and then you won't start to get that first kick out of the ridge until much lower on the face. Okay, so now, same thing, starting in the back to get a feel for her hair. Where the last time I was trying to pay attention I was trying to keep my sections the same or as uniform as I could get them because I wanted those curls to be as uniform as possible because I want this to end up like a big fancy finger wave almost. Over here, total opposite. This I want that kind of natural bouncy beachy, no two curls are exactly the same kind of feel. You gotta be curling them all sorts of directions. It's a fun look but still pretty similar application. So I've got it rolled up, you're doing great but only part of the hair is touching the iron. So by unwrapping and then rolling in a little bit I'm just touching some more hair and I'm making that curl a little bit less of the ribbon and a little bit more of like that wave kind of thing. When working around the face in this look because I am trying to have curls that are gonna bounce off of each other I still wanna be careful about which curls around the face go forward because when you have curls move forward and inward it closes the face off and isn't always the best look. So that nice dramatic look is always to have open the face up like theater curves. Okay so this is one of those spots where I was saying this side will differ from the other. So I've got this one last panel that I'm gonna work on and I don't want it to fall too uniform with the curls below it. So I can see exactly where my sectioning was. So I'm going to intentionally make this different than the last one. I got two good ones out of here. So I could either make this one one or three because it's the last section and it's one of the ones that's gonna give me the look. I'm gonna do three.  There is nothing like a wide tooth comb. You can use your fingers and everything but the uniformity of what a wide tooth comb is gonna give you works so fantastic. If you're going for more of a polished look I like to grab something like I'm using Quickslip from Paul Mitchell. So now I checked, we're cool, curls have cooled down. So we're gonna come in, I'm gonna comb this but this time I'm not looking for everything to come together. So I like to go in with some kind of texture spray. Give me some spray, give me some enjoyment and you see now it still has the polish of a nice finished look but not the uniformity that we have on the other side. All right guys, so that's it. I hope you got some tips from this, some tricks. Be sure to give me a follow on my Instagram at Hairstyle and go to freeselineeducation.com to download our app so that you can always stay on top of all of our classes. So thank you guys so much. I will see you next week.