Thanks, David. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. As David mentioned, I did have a team, but I want to specifically thank Roger Venables from the Property Management Department and Brian Beck, who kind of led the committee and actually led the efforts in putting everything together, and I'll go into that a little bit. As David mentioned, well, I'm going to give you a little background 2014, just as a form of reference, if you recall, the 2014 bond program was right under $300 million, $292 million, that had about 75% dedicated to transportation, and then the rest spread out between the parks facilities and then overall various facilities. This map outlines where all those different projects kind of laid out. You see it's a busy map, but you get to see how it's spread out throughout the city. And as we looked forward and we asked departments to put together their potential requests for a 2018 bond program, we had $1.6 billion of potential projects that we had to kind of whittle down. That's what we formed a committee made up of the various departments, again led by Roger and Brian Beck, Brian on the transportation side and Roger on basically everything else. But as David mentioned, well, let me get a little bit into how the committee worked. So in essence, the committee put together prioritization criteria that were used to try to whittle down those projects. You see here, I'm just going to touch on a couple, I won't go through every one of them. But project collaboration, for instance, is it a project that really collaborates with another project or another potential need that would be bond funded? Then it got higher up on the list. Public safety, is it something that's going to reduce times where we have times are too high, you have to meet the public safety requirements. You'll find one of the fire stations we have on here, there's a donut hole around where the city has grown where it needed to be addressed. And then leverage opportunities. Do we have projects? And we talked about the pre-planning funding that we asked for on the street side is where are we going to find those leverage opportunities out there if we can identify the right-of-way that's needed. And we can go to the various property owners. And so that's how different projects will move up. As I mentioned, you saw this slide, a version of this slide at the retreat. And David mentioned allowing some bond capacity to deal with partnership opportunities. And in the past, we've included these type of projects or money for these type of projects in the actual bond program. And this time around, we're leaving that out. We're leaving that bond capacity so that we can deal with those projects as they come up. And the council approves those on a case-by-case basis versus tying up capacity in a voter bond program that could be used for something else that's needed now. And down here, David mentioned a couple of these, but we've been talking to the state and the cog about East Lancaster and a potential grant there if we need grant match. And then one of the items that popped up as we went through this whole process is, if we ever get to the point where we have a foundation that approaches about a permanent supportive housing project and if it made sense, this was the right tool to be used. So we just wanted to lay out potential partnership ideas here. So David broke the news of the $399.5 million for the program overall. As you, as I noted in the 2014 bond program, 75% of the funds went to transportation this time around. We're at 65%. And so Doug did get overruled, as David mentioned. Although it is a growth of approximately $40 million in the program overall. You see the breakouts here. The way this is broken out is we're looking, we're recommending to have six propositions on those. At the end, I'll lay those out, how those would light out. But you say 65% for transportation. The other large portion, 21% for parks and recreation facilities, that includes community centers recommendations. And then the library fire safety, which are two fire stations. And I'll go through each of these individually. The animal control facility up north and police facility south. So I'm going to start with the streets and transportation side of things. So as David mentioned, one of the key things, that's right, Roger and Steve are passing out a listing of potential projects and the proposed projects at the top of the list of all the streets and then all the facilities and then a map in the back where those facilities are located throughout the city. As David mentioned, because we're not at the, where we're 100% pay as you go on our maintenance side, one of the things that we need to be able to address is to maintain our current needs, our current systems. So you'll see we're going to, we have a focus on that. We have a focus on safety improvements throughout the city when it comes to our transportation network, neighborhood safety specifically, but also to make sure that railroad crossing bridges and the like and street lighting is in good condition. And then the balance of the funds be after those first two high priority needs went to the building of capacity in our network overall. So on the side of maintaining the network, $65.5 million has been allocated to neighborhood, thoroughfare, neighborhood streets, thoroughfares. And in this time, for the first time this past year, we made a change operationally where TPW is responsible for park roads. And so park roads will be part of this piece of the proposition or those dollars. It's a 34% increase from the 2014 CIP. One of the things that we did that is included here that I wanted to mention is there's been a lot of requests from the city council and from just citizens about street markings. So as part of this, if this would go forward in 2018 and was approved, we would actually recommend in the 2019 budget of taking money out of the pay go that goes to streets and move it to pavement markings, $2 million that would allow us then to have pavement markings basically fully funded in our pay as you go side so that at least that one category we're at full maintenance on that. The revitalized established corridors, we're recommending you'll see the list in a minute. We have, as mentioned, established corridors within the city. This is within the loop and we're specifically talking about university and West 7th, the amount of traffic that those two streets have. How can we look at those? How can we reimagine those so that they become complete streets and better utilized by all citizens, walking, bikes, moving traffic through there so that they have better connectivity and better flow amongst those two thoroughfares. And then traffic signals. We need to upgrade. We heard, I noticed last week at the council meeting, all the issues about traffic signals and then being off. We have an issue with every time we have a major storm where we have lightning specifically. The older systems go offline, lightning, those traffic signals, the sequencing of them goes off. We have to send folks out and they have to physically touch every single one of those units to get them back. And that's a big workload. We can modernize those, have those done remotely. That's a change out of the types of systems. That's what we're trying to move to. On the safety improvements, neighborhood school safety, it's shown as a new category, but we specifically broke this out for transparency. Where we can dedicate these dollars on the school safety side, the safe pathways to school. In the past, it's just been done as part of redoing streets or going and addressing an issue when it pops up. So this is a program that will be very transparent going forward with the dollars that are set aside there. Ridge replacement is no change from the previous CIP. Same with railroad crossings. This is just maintaining our current network that we have out there. And then street lights. We've heard you over the last year to 18 months. This is 100% increase from the last bond program. We had 5 million in the last bond program. This is an increase to 10 million. And then finally, the added network capacity. As I mentioned, and I went over in the retreat with you all in the work session, I talked about us focusing on throughput, not necessarily long segments of corridors. And so we're really going to focus on intersections. And you see there, the intersections are increasing by 330%. It is an increase from 109 million in this category to 120 million, but we're moving more of the dollars to the intersections so that we focus on that throughput. And then we also increased the sidewalks and bikeways piece of this by 12% from the last program. So when you look at where these improvements and where we're focusing and the potential improvements will go, what you see in this gray box here are all the improvements. And then these are the ones that were, the ones in gray here and this box down here are the ones that we're recommending to do pre-studying on. Not all of these improvements will happen. Where we're going to focus on with that pre-study is one, some of them will be ready to go next time around or if a developer shows up ready to do something. On some of these, we'll be able to focus which intersections are going to give us the biggest bank for the buck. And so that's, but we are looking at all of these so that we can have them ready to go at some point if they're not actually part of the recommendation at the end of this year for this program. So I'm going to stop here and maybe it might be easier to take any questions as I go through these big sections like this. Sam. Excellent presentation by everyone involved. Obviously this is very important as we go forward with our growth and it's always a balancing act in these bond programs, taking care of the older parts of the city and then of course taking care of the newer parts of the city. It seems to be very well thought of. The thing that I would like is a couple of questions on the sidewalks, bicycle lanes, on the trails and walking, we're trying to get more people to walk. So a couple of things there. Are we going to go forward and present that component of this to the pedestrian and bicycle advisory commission, to our partners like streams and valleys, all those good folks. All right. That's question one. After this meeting or after this presentation, we'll have the public portion and we'll be talking to all those stakeholder groups. And as again to the park side, you'll see more about the trails. And then previously I had asked that, you know, this bond program be looked at by our experts on walkability for their suggestions, recommendations. Totally agree with adding capacity, but looking at different models of moving people around, right? Obviously. Okay. All right. And then the only other thing is with respect to these parks and community centers. Okay. All right. This is just on the transportation piece. Okay. All right. This is just a transportation piece. And then the only other thing I would say is talk to the T. They've got their make sure that this plan works with their plan because we want these buses to move in our city and we want to make sure that any intersection or capacity improvements help in those bus routes. That's all I have. Gina. I think it's a great presentation. It's the most exciting bond package proposed that I've seen in recent years. And it brought out the coverage like an old report or even got Sandy Baker in here. What I would request, Jay, Doug, David, I know you're not psychic, but it would be real good if we could include some type of proposed schedule or anticipated schedule when we roll this out. Because when people see it, you're going to see that in Michelle's presentation. Or you guys are good. Okay. We have a we have schedules and also more detail about the public portion of this at the end of the presentation. Okay. And we're going to get some none of this is written in stone yet. It'll be just like our last bond election that we took it out for 26 meetings and came back and changed a bunch of it. And Michelle is going to present to us a minute in a few minutes rollout plan for communication. You'll be welcome to have some input on how you want to change that. And they'll be contacting all your offices about meetings in your area to talk about this. Kelly. I am sorry. I'm going to disagree with Gina, because I thought 2014 we did an amazing job rolling it out and and having the conversations. And so really, this just adds to the excitement of how we are going to engage the community in rolling out the bond program. However, what I'd like to see is I'd like to see each council member have a say in some of the the street pieces that happen because I'm looking at some streets on here from district date. And I'm thinking your list doesn't quite match up to the list that I've been compiling for the last couple of years as I've driven around the street. So you know, once we start putting things out publicly, it almost it's like, okay, this is what's going to happen. So anything that we start to change, we have to be really careful about it. So I really would like before we do anything publicly, I'd like for us to have individual meetings so that we could talk about some of these things on that part of Michelle's going to be scheduling meetings with council members for them to go over with Jay and some of the others on this stuff. So on the neighborhood streets, we'll be working with each council member on the list that we have. And this is just based on the staff's list overall. So those get massaged as we go through this. Dennis, did you have a question? Yes. I'm looking at the 258 million on and that's total transportation, correct? That includes that includes the the 1% for art and that final number. Okay, good. Versus the 2014 was what? 2? 219. 290. 219 for transportation. Yeah, that's what I thought. So we're talking about 30. About 40 million. For 40 million more. Do we have that capacity done? Can we spend that? Yes, sir. We believe so. Okay. They've had a pretty good trial for the 2014 delivering it. So I think the understanding was that David and I have discussed this, that they could definitely deliver on this amount of money. Okay, Jay? Getting into the next section, this is going to cover the parks and recreation and all the facilities that we have laid out. So it's basically the rest of the propositions. And if you look at these pictures, we're going to do a better job about the skate ramp not being so close to a fence when we actually build them. It's a little tight there to stop. So on the park and rec and facility improvements, this map outlines where those facilities are going. As David mentioned, we wanted to try to make sure that we took care of the facilities that we already have, but also try to address some of the growth issues that we have going on. And starting with community park expansions. You see we have six community parks that are recommended. And they would be developed in accordance with the park and recreation open space master plan. So these are the type of amenities that ultimately would be built in the various parks, not every one of them in every park and it's specific to the park themselves. But there the six parks are located on the map there as you see them. Marine Creek Ranch Community Park, Alliance Gateway, North Park, Riverside. Some of these I can't really see it on the map, but you see the location Chisholm Trail and then the North of the park. Beyond the community parks, we have neighborhood park development. There's eight of these that are identified to have improvements. The amenities, the typical amenities that would come with those are outlined there. Nearly four million dollars. And again, you see a lot of that development is occurring in some of the areas where we have the fastest growing growth going on to address those needs. Walks and trails. The big amount here is four million dollars over in the Far East side. And this is the goal to try to connect River Legacy Park in Arlington and finish that connection over to this side of the road. Will that do that? I'm sorry. With this, with that four million to River Legacy, will it be connected to Arlington and be able to access their trail system with this money? That's what we're trying to get to that in connection with the improvements that Ken Newell will be doing through his development. We're hoping that four million dollars is whatever takes us from inside the loop all the way out to River Legacy Park right here. Yeah, I mean, because we're all aware that ultimately we want to connect even to Dallas by trail system. So this is a very critical piece long term and we need to connect to Arlington. I'm only speaking for myself, but I like to make that happen with Mr. Newell and get that happening as quickly as possible because that is a... Connecting to Arlington is huge. It's city-wide. Everybody wants to go there. And I'm telling you, that will be used heavily. That trail system there would be used heavily. That's the intent where Park really picks up and opens more and more of that piece into Arlington really becomes critical. The intent with the four million is to get that specific project completed. I know you work with Arlington to see they lack about a half mile on their connection. So we've had, I think, I believe the... Richard here, our coordination with Arlington on the trail connections. Those are all part of our master plans, right? Okay. There's been good discussions. And then the three and a half million that's also identified our four gaps within the systems throughout the city. So as you can see more than 50% of this money is going for that one project. Yeah, great. Community Centers, this is a big piece in this program this year. Nearly $30 million or about $30 million. There are two would basically be new centers, but a brand new center, Far North Fort Worth, the Northwest Community Center. And then the complete demolition and construction of a new center, Diamond Hill Community Center. And actually there's enough space on that park to actually build a new one and not demolish the old one until we complete the new one. So that's the plan for that. That is a very heavily used facility, maybe the most in the city, and it's also in the worst shape. We went through the property management department, went through an analysis of all the community centers to determine those that had the highest operation costs, whether it made sense to rehab or replace. And this is the, these are the ones that came to the top. They did that in coordination with Sonya's group and the parks department. Northside Community Center would be a complete renovation, design renovation of the nearly 20,000 square foot center. And then Sycamore Community Center would also have a renovation of it. And then we have, we currently have the Thomas Place Community Center and it's owned by the Fulworth ISD. We have on our longer term plans to do renovations and improvements there and a stats recommending that we should own that center and have it have it be a city property. So we're in discussions with the ISD about purchasing it. So we've had set aside a million dollars here to get that done. As you can see the new community centers are at the new standard 25,000 square foot model that would be the model that we would go forward with. The next area is athletic field lighting. Total of 10 fields would have lighting for competitive play. You see here Harmon athletic fields, North Park, and then rolling hills, three million dollars. And then I was going to put in pictures of the actual facility, but I thought I'd wait until we get into the public meetings. So with the trail drive project, which is a partnership project, the parks department is going to have to move its facility that's located right where the trail drive is going. And it'll be moving down to this area just south of James, the James Avenue maintenance facility, TPW maintenance facility. That's where they have their overall maintenance facility. The facility are 1940s, 30s, 40s era barracks that have been that were given to the city by the feds and they have been utilized as the parks maintenance facility. And they in my I go all the way back to my internships in my 30 years of working for nearly 30 years working in the city. They may be the worst facilities I've ever seen somebody work in. And really as part of the moving the trail drive facility and getting this done, that facility needs to become much more efficient and needs to be updated. And so the recommendation is that all these we renovate or actually tear those down and put in a new facility for nine million dollars for the parks department to be able to move forward with their work. And then the last item under the parks area is Rockwood clubhouse. This would include the clubhouse, a cart barn, and then renovation of the existing maintenance facility. This is hand in hand with the renovation of the Rockwood golf course that the new Rockwood golf course that will open this summer.  It's estimated to cost 6.6 million dollars. Oh, I'm sorry. I said the last item. So these items here include a universal playground for 750,000. The actual location has not been identified. That would be part of the process. But this was an item that came up and during the 2014 bond program that we were not able to include. So this would be the construction of 15 to 20,000 square foot playground with that resilient surfacing. 3.5 million dollars to match to use and leverage with our park fees and being able to acquire more parkland as we go forward for both neighborhood and community parks. And then with our ongoing contract with the zoo, we're recommending including two million dollars in the program to be able to partner with the zoo with their programs as they go forward as that contract requires the city to address utility relocations and upgrades when they make improvements at the zoo. Moving over to the library system, we have, we're recommending only one library and that's a replacement. That's a replacement of the Wedgewood library, which is currently less than 5,000 square feet with a more up-to-date larger 16,000 square foot library. And looking, the library department, looking at their needs, looking at it to relocate it a little bit closer to the McCart Avenue, Sycamore School area to be more centered where the population and the folks that frequent the libraries are. We don't have an exact location buying the property as part of the process, but we're recommending a little bit over 10, well about 10 and a half million dollars for the new library. The part of this would be the actual closing of the existing library and then selling the property. On the fire safety side, we're recommending two new fire stations, one new and one redo. Fire station 45, I mentioned the need for a donut hole up here. We're looking basically the area of Harmon Road and North Tarrant Parkway. We've grown all the way around there and there's a need to be able to improve our times into this whole area here. The fire department had that as a high priority, so we're recommending $7.8 million. That includes all FF&E and the apparatus. And then it's a three bay double company, but it wouldn't become a double company till out into the future. We're going to build it to that size. The projection is that it would get to that point at about 2025 or so or a little bit after that, but we would already have the facility ready for that. And then the replacement of fire station 26 down off of Helan. This is a old fire station. It needs to, it doesn't meet the needs of the fire department any longer, so this would be an actual demolition and then a two-story, a replacement with a two-story building. We would during construction have to move the companies to a different location and they'd have to serve that area from other fire stations, but it can be done. Jenny, do you have a question now? It's probably for Doug. Where's it? You want to wait till Jay finishes this piece? I thought you were through. We'll have a couple more. Okay. Animal Care and Control. This is basically the 2014 bomb program. The program included design of the new Far North Animal Control Center, Care and Control Center. This includes the funds to actually build it, 30,000 square foot animal shelter facility. It would help balance out, drive times, those kind of things, and allow the shelter to be up north. You see that? That's going in. There's no property acquisition since it's part of our Far North facility that's a joint facility of several departments. This is much needed. Obviously, right now, the only other animal control center is in the Martin facility. I'm not hearing any reports right now of any council members or tenants getting chased by dogs for bites like I almost did a couple of times. Animal Control is doing a good job, but we desperately need this facility in the north. Thank you, staff. All of you council members and candidates, be careful out there knocking on doors. There are still loose dogs out there. Good job so far, Brandon. And then the police facility. We're recommending, and this is the high priority for the police department, is to design, purchase land, design and construct a new South Patrol Division headquarters. Currently, it's located in multiple facilities. Overall, we would be able to eliminate two leased facilities through this process. It's almost $18 million project, but it would centralize the police operations in the South Patrol Division and make it much more efficient and also get the facilities to the size and needs of the police department where we are. I'm going to go in through here. This is just basically the layout of all the parks and community recreation and community centers. Nearly $86 million. This includes the 2% for art funding. And then the summary for the other areas. And when you look at the overalls, I mentioned the propositions. We would have six propositions being recommended at the $3.995. That includes about $3.5 million in art funding as part of that. And then before I get into the schedule and start taking questions, one of the things David mentioned is what's the impact to the operating budget? So we laid out what we thought how these projects would get completed, assuming you have to buy property, construction, design, all those kind of things. And you see there, you see the red numbers, that is associated with the elimination of rent that the police department currently pays for their facilities. So the end of the day, that facility will actually, the new facility on the operation side, assuming you're not adding any police officers, those kind of things, just the operations, would actually reduce their budget. But at the end of the day, through the end of this program, when you get done with the whole thing, it would add about $7.2 million to the operating budget for all these facilities to come online. On the schedule side, next month, Michelle will be coming to the City Council at a meeting with, once she touches base with you all with more specific dates for public meetings and the overall schedule for the public meetings and how we roll those out. We will be coming, those would happen between June, from June through October. We would then have city staff finalizing our recommendations in November, be able to come back to the City Council in December, so that you can finalize the projects in that December. And we have January kind of to fall back to in case we needed, before a February date of setting the actual bond election in May, if the Council chooses to have May 5th, 2018 as the bond election day. With that, before I turn it over, so Michelle does have some slides to go more specifically into the public education piece of this, but I'll take any questions you may have on the projects. I've got a question for Gina. Got a question for Doug in terms of materials.  Asphalt. In regards to the use of asphalt or concrete, if the existing street is asphalt, we'll optimize its utility and reconstruct it in asphalt. And if it's a current concrete street, we'll replace the panels or put it back in a concrete situation. In English, when you say panels, does that mean a concrete street will be replaced with concrete? If we're doing a whole replacement, typically we'll just replace sections of a concrete street because that's usually what's deteriorated. Okay. Thank you. Chuggist, do you have a question here? I have a couple of questions. All right. First, just a minor thing, but in your sheet, you show the police station, South Division, moving to District 2. And I think it's... I think that's just a typo. It's a typo. That'd be a long drive. Yeah, it would be a long drive. Also, I think incumbent on this is a lot of planning as the growth occurs. And I would ask that our parks folks look at the parks policy as we bring in, and certainly with Chisholm Trail and Walsh Ranch, the developers have planned a lot of park. But in our park acquisition, the biggest complaint we get in a new neighborhood is that the relays are all the developers all promise a beautiful park and all we take over is a piece of land. So we need to look at our parks policy, in my opinion. Obviously, when you talk about libraries and fire halls, and I know Jay's working on this, but land acquisition, getting out there, because a lot of this property is escalating in prices and we'll be looking in the planning process to land acquisition, and I congratulate Jay for that. Also on the area of parks, and I know we've got a presentation coming in that may be covered, but in the past we've talked about the need for a senior community center. It's coming in a bit. Okay, not all of us have seen the presentation. No, I was saying it's on your agenda for today. The other thing on schools, make sure we're coordinating with schools on athletic fields and lighting and things because most of our parks are co-mingled. And then finally, and I've brought this up in the past, let's make sure that arts projects are part of the design process, so that we're not trying to design the art after the fact that it's included in. Obviously, it's a separate category. I understand that, but we don't, in arts council, I think is doing a better job, but we don't need to be waiting two years after a project's completed before the art is called, or 10 years or whatever the number is. All right, great. Thank you. Janna. Janna, I do have a couple more questions for you, and I would like to see consideration given for a police substation, a real police substation somewhere in my district. You know, we were making due with reopening Cavill, and with the crime stats being reported, or even just the perception of crime, certainly District 5 should have a permanent police substation. That's just one. The other thing, I want to thank Parks because, you know, they have really brought us up to being at the level of acceptable service with Parks. We've opened up Parks all over the district, and that's important. But what has happened with us, and it's no fault of the present administration, but where the Eugene McCrae Recreation Center is, there was this beautiful, grassy knoll. Well, now it's going to house something industrial. And so the idea of Parks knowing where future land acquisitions should take place is very important. It's really kind of sad, you know, what's happening there, but there was no money, but at least identify where we should. And when you've got vacant land as your neighbor of a recreation center, that should be on the radar, but we didn't have money for that. And the last thing I'll mention to you is, I've been telling constituents in District 5 to start their wish list for the last two or three months. There is a growing, growing buzz for a swimming pool. You've got the same thing on your list that I did. Okay. Pools was my next question. So I knew 34 was going to ask that. You'd be surprised who's asking for them too. And the other thing, let's see. We had a pool who was going to bring up pools first, so you went. Yeah. Okay. That'll work. It'd be batting who was going to do this. So that's about it. But yeah, we need a substation. We need presence, whether it's a partnership with a private developer, I don't care. But we really need to have that. And I think that's one way we've talked about being addressed in the partnership side. If we find a partner that at the end of the day operates it so it doesn't become part of our operating side, like we've done the last few, it would be a good way to go. Thank you, sir. This was just timely because it was brought up to me at an Easter egg hunt last weekend, and that was lack of soccer fields. And I don't know if that's the lighting I see on fields, but I think they were just expressing an overall desire to not have to drive to another community for soccer. There's a ton of kids playing soccer in Fort Worth. And my kids don't play soccer, so it's my husband does. But just that desire, and I don't know if that's something that rises to the level. And I have to admit, I haven't read the master plan to see where it is on the priority list, but that's been expressed to me. Yeah, I think it's part of the community parks. And as they go through the process of identifying what are the needs at the various locations and also the public input process, I think that's worth counting. I think looking at the pools and looking at the partnerships on the pools is going to be critical to how we move forward here. But I had a question for Richard, too, on the parks and on these lit fields and partly in conjunction with ands on soccer fields. But Richard, a lot of the major cities have gone to having a programmer who programs these parks. I know Gateway Park sits under utilized lots of times. And if we light a bunch more of these fields, are we going to have staff? Are you looking at software and staff that will allow this online programming and somebody that's promoting it, that's going to these leagues and saying bring your tournaments here? We put all this money and we want to make certain somebody's saying let's use them and let's get the most events we can on them. Yeah, our approach for most of the soccer fields is to work with the soccer associations, let them run the program, bring in the referees. All we do is provide the facility and then field monitors to just manage the facility. So this this will light 10 soccer fields in the system. There's currently 15 lit so it'll take us to an inventory of 25 soccer fields. But about our overall programming, we may want to do that as future because I keep getting questions about why aren't we contracting with somebody to do all the gateway in all these parks and really bringing in in conjunction with our sports issue initiative with the CVB, why aren't we bringing in more small high school and independent league tournaments and things because we've gotten good facilities. We'll be glad to share with you the information because this this year alone we had all the junior college and college tournaments out at Gateway so it's the capacity is full at this juncture. So those that might be saying we're not at full capacity probably don't understand the program that's occurring. I just think we could answer some questions. Thank you. Other questions? Jungus? Just in follow-up to that, Mayor, many cities have sports complexes. Yes, they do. Yes. At some future date, I'd like to maybe talk about that because we do have the sports initiative and the thing about having a complex versus field scattered throughout is you also get the hotel and food business, not just a discussion on that issue would be good. That's a good point. And when I mentioned the schools, certainly athletic fields, you know Chisholm Trail Park, Chisholm Trail Park is associated with the school complex. Also the nanatorium, you mentioned those earlier, but that's where we need to talk to them about things that Crowley ISD is going to build our nanatorium. Yeah, both Crowley and Northwest have been looking at nanatoriums and love to have partners on those. That's a good idea, but as Gateway expands, it'll be even more likely to be a spot that's really a city complex now. I think we could really put that to use. I'm going to invite Michelle Gut up so she can cover our plan for the public engagement piece here.


Geoengineering is this attempt, instead of stopping human beings from, let's assume climate change is happening and we need to do something about it, it's this idea of instead of depending on shutting industry down, closing everything down, constraining everything, blocking everything, instead what we will do is we'll do some kind of effect in the atmosphere that will actually cool the temperatures. So instead of shutting down carbon, instead of shutting down carbon emission, we will actually not have any carbon limits, but we will do something to cool the atmosphere. And there were a lot of companies trying different things, universities experimenting with different things. I talked about this on a previous show. I think we went through three different mechanisms that are being studied out there and are being tried. And it's quite promising. Yeah, it's the scientist playing God. I love it. I love scientists who play God. I'm sure they do a better job than God himself. And it's a way that's pro-life, pro-life, pro-progress, pro-economic growth, and so recognizes that, yeah, I mean, global warming can have disruptive effects that maybe we want to mitigate. Well, there's a lot of criticism of this from, I'm sure you wouldn't get this, from the environmentalist movement. They don't want, they don't want anything like this.  That's what they really want. Climate change is just the most convenient excuse to shut down production, to shut down growth, to make us poorer. So, you know, one of the projects was at Harvard and the critics of geoengineering basically have argued that even studying the possibility of geoengineering eases the societal pressure to cut greenhouse gas emissions. They also fear that such research could create a slippy slope that increases the odd that nations or rogue actors will one day deploy it despite the possibility of dangerous side effects, including decreased precipitation and agricultural output in parts of the world. So, they don't want to use this.  But why do we care about greenhouse gases? Because who wants the planet? Well, if we can call the planet to offset that, why do we care? What they really care about again is to stop the life processes that lead to the emission of CO2. Anyway, their campaign and their efforts were fruitful. And it's official now that Harvard's geoengineering experiment has been canceled. So, it's not happening, which is tragic, sad, horrible for all of us and also for the scientists who've devoted significant effort and energy towards this. And again, it shows the power of the nihilistic environmentalist movement. I mean, it's just pure nihilism.  It really is, really is horrible.


Don't know what cloud your judgment worse your guilt or your antiquated sense of morality Bruce I forgive you for not saving me But why why on God's earth is he still alive? Batman has a history of transforming people some who are headed to a life of sure crime Some headed to a path of vengeance He takes these kids and gives them a new life a new purpose He enrolls them in school takes care of them. They also join him as his sidekick in his crime fighting is What he is doing good. Is it okay? Sure, it may be good-natured These kids now have things that occupy them schools to go to outlets to release their pent-up emotion But in exchange night in and night out they are risking their lives fighting crime at such a young age Jason Todd is the prime example of when being a sidekick being Robin goes wrong Jason Todd when he returns as the Red Hood stands on a line very similar to Batman Motivated by vengeance, but not tethered by justice like the bat Jason does not owe anything to justice like Bruce does Nor does he feel that he should and this explains his MO compared to Batman's the reason he kills and Batman doesn't First off who is Jason Todd? Jason Todd is the second Robin as We know Dick Grayson to be the Robin most known for his athletic abilities and combat skills as well as him being the leader of the teen Titans Tim Drake the Robin following Jason is known for his detective skills and his impressive intellect Jason to some is known for his anger, but I will commend him on what Artemis commends him his instinct Jason Todd was born to a father who would spend his life in prison and his mother who died during his youth So the orphan Jason would spend his night stealing to get by which on one night led him to the Batmobile a Prize he cannot give up the desperate Jason tried to steal a tire, but instead was met with the bat himself Bruce Wayne later took the kid in and because of his rough upbringing Jason had a darkness to him Anger and rage that was always looming in the background Batman would make Jason Todd the next Robin as an outlet to release his anger and to teach him the woven ideas of Vengeance and justice. This was a ticket out of a sure life of crime While Batman would teach him about restraint and doing things by the book This would begin to improve his attitude and his composure, but as he got older that darkness would escape every once in a while Later during a mission gone wrong Robin was captured by the Joker in A turn of events the Joker would nearly beat Jason Todd to death and will leave a bomb inside the warehouse that Todd's body was and As Batman got close to reaching his young protege The bomb detonated killing Jason Todd Unbeknownst to Batman Jason's body was taken by Rachel Ghoul and would be resurrected by a Lazarus pit and This is where we can delve into the mind of Jason Todd or now the Red Hood It is communicated by rage that the Lazarus pits can war people's minds when they enter it So when Jason Todd returns to Gotham as the Red Hood his anger his lust for vengeance increases Not only against the world, but seemingly against Batman as well It appears as though Jason is out to kill Bruce for letting him die But he wants Batman to truly suffer first and that begins by him taking Gotham away from Bruce Though an important thing to note is that Jason has forgiven Bruce for not getting to him in time However, the one thing he couldn't forgive Bruce for was allowing the Joker to still live after what he had done This is something in every iteration that Jason stresses How could Bruce allow the Joker to take Jason's life a kid who had become like Bruce's son from this world? Even worse, how could Bruce still let him walk this earth? Which is where we can truly begin to question Batman's ideology Jason Todd represents Batman's failure and the flaws in the bats ideology He is the grim and possible reality of being a sidekick being a kid in a truly evil world He is Batman's greatest failure He let the Joker kill Jason everything should have changed after the child died Which brings us to the second question should Batman even be taking these children out to risk their lives Because now again this kid actually died Though in the under the Red Hood comic Alfred discusses this very idea Alfred explains that these kids are a reflection of Batman's past They aren't there to serve a role in Bruce's happiness nor does he really need them out on the battlefield But instead Bruce needs them on an emotional level They are what Bruce needs to overcome the grief that he still has They are there to help him bear the weight of him losing his parents in young justice Batman defends the young partners as he states that he is there to make sure that none of the Robins or kids helping him Become like him Which could mean a number of things so that they don't become obsessed with vengeance obsessed with the mission So they don't lose oneself or identity Though moving back to the first point Batman's ideology Why doesn't he just kill the Joker in the Red Hood Outlaw comic? Jason mentions the revolving door of being Batman the cycle of chasing after the Joker Placing him in Arkham him escaping harming more people and Batman chasing him again. It's a game of cat and mouse that has real consequences for everyone But the two of them and this is evident in Jason's death However, the reason Batman does not decide to kill the Joker and his explanation is That it would be too easy If Batman kills the Joker he goes to a place where he could never return if Batman kills the Joker He becomes the Red Hood a being of pure vengeance as Shown in the Lost Days comic Jason represents vengeance at its purest if you look at the panel All of the words that are synonymous with revenge are bolded Plotted calculated Duel reconsidered This makes Todd Batman's perfect foil They both stand on the two sides of vengeance Batman stands towards justice and Jason stands towards rage So who is Jason Todd?


Hello and welcome back everyone. Today we're back on RuneScape 4, episode 3. Episode 3 already? Oh my god. Episode 3 of level 3 to all capes series thingy that I'm doing now somehow. So last episode, I'm going to move some of these. It kind of triggers me. We did Stronghold of Player Security and we also did Waterfall Quest. And we got up to level 30 attack, 30 strength, level 22 combat. We also got up to level 9 Dungeoneering in last episode as well. And we, because we did the Stronghold of Player Security. And now, I got a Mithril two-hander because I'm OP and I can. And now we are going to do missing presumed dead quest. Let's see, let's persuade him. Mysticate dead alfringer. What are you doing here, yeah? Wizards, they don't, I blame me. Wait, where do we go now? Go to the Wizards to our south of Draenor and talk to the Wizards. Okay, now we go back. That was quick. Okay. Oh, oh my god, what is, oh my god. Greetings, mortal. I am a flowered in God of the Underworld. Who might you be? Who am I? I'm a intrepid adventurer. If your words, their truth, I may have use of you. I sense many dead here. There has been a, without his, I have tried. Will the dialogue be like? It is just, I am the being of this world. So much dialogue. Ah, drowning in dialogue, I don't care. I was protected by the shut up, so we need to stand in the light. Oh my god. Okay, we're going to slay this person. Okay, now what do we do? Okay, after killing those, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, after finishing the cuts, then go through the door to the north.  Okay, I'm going to go into combat powers. Okay, rotate the bottom left machine once. Lift one twice.  Oh my god, we did it. We, we, we, we did it. Oh, we did it. We did it. We did it. Robcombatland. We're going to spend these on constitution. We get up. Agility, sure. There we go. That gave us a whole bunch of levels. 16, 9 agility, 5 prayer. That's great. We're good now.  Okay, so, that was fun. We are actually going to do that next episode because I have a good point. So yeah, thank you for watching. Remember to leave a like and subscribe so you know exactly when the next episode comes out. And yeah, bye.


This is T F N N the tiger financial news network Everyone bousel Chapman here. This is the tiger financial news network 10 o'clock Market update and what we're looking at is the dollars up to 42 at 34,819 This is nice action. Look. It's taking out the jet wave inside track repellent zone It's one of the reasons why I was looking this so close in city Maybe we should just as a trade get there three times long because we actually short But we haven't gone long for a little quite a little while now to add to our core position from October Anyway, we might have missed that because this is a nice breakout of this inside track repellent zone But it's not it's a half an hour into the trading day anything can happen It could double from here to the upside it could reverse every day We've seen reversals later in the day. So the day is young And but what is happening is helping this weekly chart. So this is go on I'll do more of this in my show the tiger technicians are coming up the S&P is balancing nicely It's got a little gray leg B to the upside It has a different pattern. It's broken out from its falling axe formation to the upside one to one It's done it already. So it's kind of it's not as strong as the Dow right now the S&P This is the Q Q Q coming up right here. This is the iShares this is the investor QQ trust series pulling back from the heights up 50 cents at 374 So actually now the Dow is leading and the others are not following it was a reverse yesterday So looking at the IWM the Russell 2000 very weak action that 200 period moving average It's just like a magnet. It just can't go above or below It keeps getting stuck there But if it's also traded the 182 level it pushes away and that's going to be very negative It's not done that yet gold gold at this point is trading. Oh down 10 and 1922 is not acting well because this dollar And this is going to be important if the dollar is breaking out to the upside If it closes on a weekly basis if it breaks above it, that's great But if it closes above the week of the 30th of the 10th of March the high of 105 in the dollar index 105 88 who that's going to be quite a break to the upside at this point That's going to be resistance. We're watching it closely.  I didn't do bonds in detail when I didn't Tommy show just a moment ago Yeah, bonds are down. Heels are going up and crude oil Still very strong.  We call daddy newsletter. See you in a few moments


What's going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today I bring you five things you need to know about the curse of Osiris DLC But before we get into that people do you want to win some epic loot? I have exclusive emblem and sparrow codes gift cards and much more to win some simply drop a like on this video Leave a comment down below and join my discord server linked within the video description But let's get straight into the video so the release time it drops on December 5th for both PlayStation and Xbox but it also drops on PC to now This I know many people were still wondering about as PC although definitely the best place to play destined to Does run behind and every other activity in terms of their release But this DLC will drop on all platforms at the same time Time frame though this thing will drop I would say most likely a weekly reset if not a few hours after but definitely the same time Across the world in my opinion though I would probably go with 5 p.m. UK time, which is roughly about 7 or 8 hours after reset time So at 4 there will be a new raid activity confirmed by bungee But they mentioned and stated in an interview with you or gamer. It will be a new raid Activity when asked if this meant a whole new raid by you or gamer They repeated again a new raid activity and the interview went on So this has led many people to believe that there will be just changes made to the Leviathan raid where I don't I Think because this DLC surrounds Osiris and helping his ghost find him and with the info of Osiris being trapped inside of all glass This may be the raid which returns hence why they won't say a new raid It does as well makes sense in a way the role glass raid is by far the best raid ever Yet there is still so much we can learn from it. We know Osiris is trapped in there somewhere I call the states within the poor median strike that she senses also is in there We're monitoring the pyramidians resonant frequencies as you explore I thought I'd recognize the voice of Osiris No Also within the DLC reveal trailer we clearly seen fighting within a volt glass Also, we had them day-to-mind destined to PC audio files where plenty of vendors do mention the volt glass So in my opinion and I am hoping if a complete new raid isn't coming that they somehow find a way to bring back The volt glass and give it us on a plate as a new experience Maybe we enter at a different angle changes will obviously have been made But who knows but a new raid activity is coming on December 5th with the Kershaw South DLC Expansion so at three there will be plenty of new faces coming with the DLC and old ones returning to like I mentioned About the DLC and surrounding Osiris and his ghost shell his ghost shells name is Sajira And I believe this will be the very first ghost shell besides out of the on that we interact with It is believed that we help her find Osiris within this DLC Which sounds like a great bit of story to me Definitely if he's located within the volt glass and then we have Osiris himself I call a raise mental the most notorious guardian ever I call her herself states and asks will he return as an alloy or bring death to us all Well within the trailer it's no doubt a flashback with missing fighting in the volt glass as his ghost shell is beside him But he does look a total badass and with that amazing looking armor too If anything of this kind is available for us to obtain as a warlock, I will create one I seriously will But yeah, did the DLC surrounds Osiris? I cannot wait to see his role Brother Vance will also return the trials of Osiris vendor from destiny one We all know him in destiny to his role at the moment is unknown But he's suggested that he will be located on Mercury I believe a new place for us to explore although the location of the lighthouse was there in destiny one And I do believe this would be the very place we find him now I know in the trailer we see the lighthouse being destroyed But this in my opinion is just a cinematic to when I call was talking about Vex from past and future have opened up a gate on Mercury and basically plan to wipe us all out and we build in their image and she goes on to talk about Osiris The one guardian who has seen this future I'm guessing this is corresponding to just that when she's speaking about it and the lighthouse will be there for us to go To and meet brother Vance, okay? So at to there will be a new level and power level increase at the moment Our level is stuck at a 20 and our power level maxes out at a 305 But with the cursor of south DLC both of them will raise our level can reach a 25 and our power level can increase to a 335 now our level increase in my opinion is what everybody wants something to actually grind for I just Seriously hope they don't make it too easy to reach it Maybe adding only a few activities to allow us to actually get to this power level Otherwise people will be there within a day or two which just makes things real boring real quick Let's just hope they get things right this time the thing about destined to and his DLCs It's a chance for bungee to give themselves a second chance Hopefully they get it right this time So the last thing you should know is the fact more all the exotics are returning in the reveal trailer We see three exotics which we know for certain that being the Jade Rabbit the Graviton forfeit and the Telesto But we also see two of the exotics or what people believe will be two of the exotics that being a foreign and a torch of malice Here though I am in two minds if we check out what people think these are and we zoom into this image for sure the weapon The hunter is holding does a lot the exact same shape as the four in my opinion But the guy doing at the front and a weapon he's holding although it does look like the shape at a touch of malice This could be just a lighting and the angle and it could be basically any weapon and it's hard to say for sure Although the touch of malice being a weapon he truly had to grind for a true exotic and I would definitely welcome back I just hope if it does come back, but you just do not give it out like they did with Amida multi-tool Hopefully there's a grind in place for us to obtain this weapon the phone However, I don't know how to feel about this one It would be coming back to a whole new game type in PVP. So what effects would this have? I'm guessing if it does return we would just have to wait and see we also see what's believed to be a new Exotic in the form of this trace rifle It seems to be shooting solar energy at the moment. We only have the cold heart That is the only trace rifle in the entire game. So yes, I definitely welcome a new one We also see a lot of weapons which all match the same design theme Many think these are actually exotics where I actually don't I think that these are just a new red activity weapon set All vex themed all looking great. But then again, we will just have to wait and see. They could be new exotics We don't know yet But guys we have come to the end of the video If you did enjoy leaving a like really does help me out If you are new around here and enjoy daily destiny videos Be sure to subscribe and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


Jill Schumacher unfortunately passed away recently, and although I'm not one to jump on what's happening in the movie industry right now, sort of a thing, I only bring this up because I was disheartened to see article after article saying the man that did Batman and Robin or the director of Batman Forever. It never addressed his true master work falling down. Batman Forever is not good. It's got Jim Carrey being Jim Carrey, which is great for me. I love Jim Carrey. It's got Vel Kilmer under the cloak or under the cape, under the cowl. That's fine and all.   And sadly that's what Jill Schumacher is pretty much known for. I mean his earlier works are actually pretty good. Particularly falling down. This is a movie I probably own on DVD, regular DVD, so it's essentially unwatchable because that level of qualities has been surpassed three times over now. I really need to up the purchase and get it on Blu-ray or on HD digital or something if it even is available. However, I have seen the film probably seven or eight times. I'm not one to dilly-dally on films. I see them once or twice and pretty much good. Falling down I kept coming back to you though because of its solid pacing, great performances, terrific writing and competent direction by Schumacher. You're not getting this Batman and Robin directing, all right? The camera's not tilted upward. There's no Michael Douglas nipples going through the t-shirt. There isn't neon lights punching through the city streets. No, this is a grounded, gritty drama. I don't want to give away the farm if that's an expression, but I'll give you a quick synopsis. William Foster, played by Michael Douglas, is at his breaking point. He's sitting in his car, AC stops working, and that's it, he snaps. Just like many of us have thought about doing, but we're saying enough not to. And he just abandons his car straight up. He's fed up with the way that the man has come down on him, how we pigeon-hold ourselves into this nine-to-five work week, the 40-hour hustle just to put food on the table. And what does he have to show for it? A kid who he can't see really, and a wife who wants nothing to do with him. After flipping out at a grocery store clerk because he can't use a pay phone without buying something, he does get one of the best-looking Coca-Cola classics I've ever seen. The can is just gorgeous. It's beating down the sweat. The sweat of the can is coming down the side, dripping. Everything's sweaty in this movie. I should point that out. He's in the hot, hot heat. He's just perspirating nonstop. He might have some Michael Douglas nipples by the time this thing's done popping through that tee. I can't confirm nor deny that. I should re-watch just for that. But he trashes the place with a bat in a pretty fantastic sequence. And this is where Robert DeVall enters the picture. We have ourselves a kind of a stereotypical sequence of events here where Robert DeValls, it's the last day on the job, last day on the force. He's just ready to hang it up. He's been working behind a desk. He's put in the time. He's got a thankless wife to go home to, who's just honestly the worst. But this is his last ride. This is his last hurrah on top of that horse. And he could ride off to the sunset or he might get killed trying. So many memorable scenes in this from the McDonald's-esque restaurant he goes into where he holds up a pathetic looking cheeseburger and says something wrong with this picture while in the other hand holding an Uzi. There's a trip to a gun store ran by a homophobic Nazi. There's a movie being shot at which point he blows up an underground sewer system. All sorts of stuff is just happening and I'm loving every second of it. I'm loving every minute of it. This is a Duvall Michael Doug film. If you don't like Michael D, this is gonna change your mind.  A lot of D coming at you. Big D. Schumacher has done some fantastic films outside of this. And just ignore the Batman stuff for a while unless you appreciate what he did from a comical standpoint, in which case, yeah, yeah. He gave us basically the best comic book movies ever to laugh at. But Flatliners, The Lost Boys, come on. St. Elmo's Fire. I believe in the hand and on it. I believe in the side and tear. I believe in something down to St. Elmo's Fire. Subscribe if you haven't.  I think we get the point I'm trying to make. Remember the man, not for the bad, but for the good things he's brought to the table. Go out and watch A Time to Kill, which he also directed. And then when you're done with that, come to the perfection that is falling down.  I believe in the hand and on it. I believe in the side and tear. I believe in my hand and down to St. Elmo's Fire. Thanks for watching the video. I try to put out new stuff on a weekly basis, so make sure to subscribe if you haven't already. I have a second channel full of more shenanigans and I'm also on Twitch now. So there's a lot of variety, a lot of options, and hopefully you can find these channels via links on this video itself, if I did my job correctly. Otherwise they might be in the description below, or you can just visit the channel page. All right, take care.


Live from London, England, extracting the signal from the noise, it's theCUBE covering Discover 2015. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now your host, Dave Vellante. Welcome back to London, everybody. This is theCUBE. theCUBE is here at HPE Discover. This is probably, let's see here. I think our fifth or sixth year doing HPE Discover. HPE Discover, historically now it's HPE. This is our first H, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Rob Streche is here. He is the director of software defined storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and he's joined by Jonathan Baston. He's the director of cloud service provider, Blue Sky Systems based in the UK. Gentlemen, welcome to theCUBE. Rob, good to see you again. Thanks. Jonathan, I didn't see you last night. There's so many people running around that party, but good to have you on. Thank you. Yeah, so big event this year, 13,000 people. Jonathan, you must be happy. It's in your home country. You know, have to go to Barcelona or Frankfurt. It's even better that I live about 30 miles away. It's very convenient. So that's why I love when shows are in Boston. So what's the vibe like been for you? What's the experience been like at Discover? This is actually my first HPE discovery that I've been to and I'm actually very impressed about the amount of turnout they've had this year. And there's a real good atmosphere of people wanting to find out and a lot of technology and what it can do for the various different markets. So far I'm extremely impressed with it. Yeah, you walk around, it's laid out differently this year, Rob, right? It used to be sort of, we were talking earlier with Jeff, it's laid out by the organization. Now it's got the four pillars. Right, right around the transformation zones that we're going out and looking at a lot of what we're doing on the hyperconverged and software defined side, falls into hybrid infrastructure or enabling end user productivity. So things like virtual desktops and how do you transfer them to on-prem and off-prem infrastructure as well. So, and I want to get into Blue Sky and have you tell us all about it, but you feel like sometimes a fish out of water as a product guy in a product group and now you're asked to sort of participate in these transformation areas or is it a more natural fit? I think it's very positive in how it brings a solution to our customers versus having to pitch a product. And I think that really has helped focus us in a good way at the outcomes for the customer. And we work, I think we work more across business unit than we ever have in the history of HP and now HPE. And I think that's really the key is how do we bring all of the pieces together? You heard about composable infrastructure yesterday. My team actually works as part of that with the synergy team that released their product. So, being that our software-defined storage is inside there, but also the provisioning of 3PAR and things of that nature through the one-view integrations we build with them. So, I think that this is actually the new HPE way of doing things is really cross-business unit, cross-solution. So, let's unpack that from a customer's perspective. So, start with Blue Sky Systems. Tell us, Jonathan, about your organization, you guys, cloud service provider, you focus predominantly in Europe and generally, but UK specifically also, Amia or Middle East. Tell us about the company, what's your story? Essentially, me and my business partner, we worked together with a previous vendor. And essentially, we saw where virtual desktop was going. And for us, we saw a real key start in the education market. And what the education market realized was that the cost of support of a virtual desktop far outweighed the cost of acquisition of the virtual desktop. So, what they were saying is, time to fix rates massively declined, time for deployment massively declined. And not only that, in education, when you're dealing with children, they tend not to always respect what they're playing with. And a lot of occasions, children either broke the software layer or broke the hardware. So, essentially, it's rather than replacing the equipment or re-imaging the machine that could take a day or half a day, they could now do it in a matter of minutes. So, they really saw the benefits before some of the commercial environment. However, the issue that we saw is that a large portion of the UK market is built up of small, medium businesses in terms of total revenue. Sorry, it built up SMB, yeah. Correct. So, what we thought is, VDI is a fantastic product. However, for most businesses, the cost of either supporting it or acquiring it, going long term, isn't really viable for those sorts of businesses due to it scales better on the higher end. So, we then kind of thought about, okay, the one thing about a virtual desktop is it needs to replace your desktop. So, what's in every desktop? Graphics card. What does virtual desktops not used to do? They never had a graphics card. So, essentially, they were always lacking the full capabilities of what your desktop could do. And VDI then released their grid range, which completely revolutionized the virtual desktop for the entire market. So, now you had office usage, which not everyone can know or not everyone does know, that even Internet Explorer uses 3D hardware to render the actual screen quicker. So, essentially, when it was released, we saw that as a holy grail of opening up the market. So, when we- From the standpoint of being able to replicate a desktop-like experience. Correct. But, of course, you still had the cost issue. Correct. Okay. So, we then looked at, and we're fantastic. So, what we can use is the scale of economical and then size it into a cloud offering. So, what we're doing is then making VDI a true multi-tenant system. But, there is a problem. When you're talking about some of the seriously large players in the cloud environment, it's all about infrastructure as a service. It's all about optimization. It's all about website and credit cards. Most small-medium businesses don't have the expertise and they're scared away from dealing with websites in this faceless product. So, what we wanted to do was bring the human element back to cloud. So, what we've introduced is a telephone number for one that you can physically call and speak to somebody. The fact that we will go to see you as a customer and understand how you operate as a business and not necessarily what you have, but also what you require to strive to the next big thing. And that might be increasing your capacity. It might be the flexibility. It might be you have an application that you've never been able to run before because the cost to acquire the hardware to run it was out of your budget. So, what we've kind of tried to do is to consolidate and commoditize the IT environment by utilizing the cloud infrastructure. So, that's enabled the small-medium businesses to rather have this large capex cost and worry about hardware lifecycle to then turn that into a easy OPEX monthly cost. A prime example is we were talking to a civil's company and they're extremely large. They have the money to do it themselves. The problem that they had was is that they need to flex up and down. Without utilizing cloud and doing it yourself, you have to always cater for those peaks and provide all the hardware for those peaks. So, what they decide is how do you annotize those costs and then across your other projects that you have running because a project might run for six months but the harder investment is three to five years. So, how do you have a direct cost-association? With our products being able to offer AutoCAD in the cloud, we then give them a monthly price per user, flex up and down, so that when they then have these projects that kick off and start, they no longer have to invest in the hardware and all the capital costs to go with it. It's literally, ring us up, I want five desktops for this project, have them ready. Make it disposable when they're done with it. Exactly. And you were able to get the cost down in part anyway by using a software-defined storage infrastructure. Is that my understanding? Correct. Let's talk about that a little bit more. Essentially, whenever you go to market with a product, you have to realize what you're selling it for and you have to be very aware of what your general marketplaces are prepared to pay. So, when you're dealing with SMBs, they don't want to pay. The prices at an enterprise may be happy to pay. So, the way to achieve that is by us consolidating our costs and reducing our costs. With any cloud-hosted company, you're all in data centers. So, what you have to do is reduce your data center footprint, reduce your data center power costs. The only way we saw a direct relation to achieve that is hyper-converged. So, to offer hyper-converged, you are then looking at your entire platform being software-defined. So, what HP enabled us to do was concentrate on the storage segments and make sure that the power that we had from our servers wasn't been essentially thrown at storage because you need a high consolidation ratio for the amount of VMs you can run on an individual host. With the technology that HP have offered with the VSA SOAR virtual, is it has an extremely low footprint and how it uses the resources of those servers. So, what it's done is enabled us to maximize the amount of clients we have per server and still have this hyper-conversion infrastructure. So, if you look at a direct math relation, the amount of storage we use, whether it sits in a server or whether it sits in the sand and the amount of space those disks take is identically the same. So, we have actually reduced our data center footprint by 50%. Okay, so you described earlier on this sort of crossover point. You said that VDI traditionally doesn't scale until you get past some number of users, right? Let's say it's 100 users or something or 150 or whatever it is. Yes. You're saying you're able to lower that crossover point or essentially eliminate it, bring it down to tens of users or a handful or was it more the case of giving the customer the flexibility of being able to turn it on and turn it off? So, is it a cost issue or is it the flexibility of the business model or both? It's actually both. We've had clients that signed with us in six months ago and they've doubled in size. Now, when you're talking about a traditional IT infrastructure or volume premise, you're then worried about can my server handle it? Does it have enough storage to look after those extra users? Does it have the power? Now, I need to buy a new desktop. I need the IT company to come in and image that machine and install the software. We're instead now with the likes of zero clients where it's plug and go, all of those requirements disappear and literally you then have a disposable object that whether it's the employee's laptop, whether it's their tablet, they can access this platform from anywhere. So, it's now using commoditized equipment to access a full-blown desktop from anywhere. Robert, I love these segments where the customer does all the talking. I got a breather on this one. It's fantastic for me. So, Jonathan used the term hyperconverged several times. I mean, we talk about, we quantify server sand, you guys have been a leader there. So, what's your perspective on the marketplace, the trends that are going on there? Yeah, well, I think what Jonathan is doing is he's doing build your own hyperconverged. He has a very specific set that gives him an advantage with his kit and I think that what he's found is that software layer, we help enable him to really have that advantage as he was talking about our own cost. And what we're seeing is that there are other people we have, the city of LA is here with us this week as well. And they have a very different model where they don't have people who can travel two hours in a car in LA traffic to go and service a disk going bad in an array and or deal with a server issue. So they went hyperconverged on our HC250 platform, Store Virtual, because they wanted to get out of the business and have highly redundant storage local and it actually gave them performance boosts to go to boot with that. So very different reasoning why they went hyperconverged but to the way you guys put it, it's all server sand at the end of the day and we kind of look at the way Wikibon puts it together is really what is going to be the key differentiator. I may want to consume it as build my own server sand. I may want to buy it as hyperconverged. I may take that up a level to composable where I include network in there. All of this is leading to that more composable infrastructure. When we kind of look at hyperconverged as being that on ramp to composable infrastructure. I also think that as over time, we're seeing for instance, large bank here in EMEA bought a couple of our systems and they were using it for branch offices and they found that it was so easy. They want to go all flash in those remote offices. But the reason for going all flash wasn't for performance reasons. It was because they didn't want anything spinning in there. They didn't want the serviceability issues with a spinning media. So when you look at how people are utilizing hyperconverged, a lot of it is taking a storage admin out of that role, making them a storage architect, being able to kind of bring people down to that IT generalist.  You could sell me an appliance. You could sell me just software. Right, we have the software only. We have it integrated into our Helion OpenStack distribution as a VSA in there. You can buy it as a hardware appliance in our 4,000 line. Store virtual 4,000 appliances as well. And Synergy has some VSA DNA in it. It does, it has some VSA DNA in it and it will have four of the JBODs that are in there that can hold up to 40 drives per bay. It will be able to use the VSA over that as well, which is all going to be provisioned by the Synergy Composer. That's part of the OneView family. We're tight on time, but Jonathan, I wanted to come to you and wrap in the segment. I said earlier that you're the kind of company that Amazon can't compete with, right? Because there's a zillion of you guys out there. You're high touch, you got the phone number. You're happy to show up and do whatever needs to be done. Do you look at it that way? Are you just 100% focused on the customer?  Or do you feel very comfortable that you can compete with them in perpetuity? There are always a concern. It's something that, you know, when you own a business, you always have to consider. However, the thing that we're seeing through looking at the market is there's a clear segmentation about public cloud and sort of like managed cloud. And that with the large public cloud, it's either very commodity based items like such as email and generic things like that. Or if it's a bit more bespoke, it's only the larger companies that are happy to go to the public cloud where they've got the expertise to deal with it. And we kind of have ourselves the market in the UK whereby it's the companies that don't want to do that. So they're always stepping away from public cloud and looking to people like myself to lend that technical expertise. Well, Jets, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE. Thank you. Rob, always a pleasure. All right, last word, bumper sticker? Yeah. On HPE? Discover? I think it's been great. The energy for HPE, the first one with over 13,000 people here has been unbelievable. I actually think the space has lent itself to give people more breath here and a lot of breathing room around the transformation areas. Excellent. All right, well, thanks again for coming on. I appreciate it. All right, keep right there, everybody. We'll be back from the UK right after this word. This is theCUBE. We're live from London. Right back.


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Okay, good afternoon and good afternoon and welcome to Vermont House Judiciary Committee. And we're starting our consideration of S184 and actually relating to defense of others and justifiable homicide. And we are joined by Senator Joe Benning. Welcome. Good afternoon, Madam Chair, members of the committee. The proper identification state Senator Joe Benning from Caledonia County. I have introduced S184 as a result of a correction that we all had made last session to a bill modifying justifiable homicide. The intent was there and correct. The tweak that we made left some cloud, I guess I'll call it over whether or not an individual acting on behalf of another who was under threat of lethal force could actually move to protect that individual if the person moving to protect that individual was not under the same threat of lethal force. That's a common law doctor that goes back centuries. You have the ability to act on behalf of another who was currently under threat of lethal force. The way that we had corrected things sort of muddied that up and there were questions that came about. So I brought this extremely short bill which merely attempts to correct that. And if you remember, there was a concern enough about it that both the chair of this committee as well as the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee joined in a letter to the governor to explain what was not intended. And this bill seeks to modify that to make it the correct version of what we actually had intended. And that's really all that I can say about it. I do know that there are folks who look at justifiable homicide and see that there is archaic language in there and wanna bring other tweaks to it. I tend to agree that there is a more in-depth conversation to have about that. But at this point, I managed to get a quorum of the Senate on to this bill and I would hesitate to have it mucked up in any way. We'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any questions? I'm not seeing any. So good to see you and thank you for your flexibility this afternoon. I appreciate it. Thank you guys. We'll see you. Yeah, take care. Bye. Eric, good afternoon. Hi, good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon. So you could have a walkthrough. I guess a walkthrough is appropriate. But next, just again, you could reiterate what Senator Benning said and help us understand what this bill does and does not do. Yes, I'd be happy to. This is Eric. It's Patrick with the Office of Legislative Council. Here to talk to the committee about Senate Bill number 184, which has come over from the Senate. It's an act relating to defense of others and justifiable homicide. It's actually very, although it's short, it's also very important language-wise to sort of see what's going on here and why this particular language was chosen. And that's gonna require me to share the screen if that's okay, Representative Grad. Sure, thank you. Yeah, so what I'm gonna do is we're gonna look at a couple of different documents really quick and it should show everybody what it was that happened last year. And this involves last year's act number 127, which was the law enforcement use of force, standards for law enforcement use of force bill that I know this committee spent a lot of time with. And there's a lot in that bill, all sorts of things about choke holds, law enforcement use of force, that sort of thing, none of which is addressed by this bill. This only deals with one particular piece of that legislation that passed last year that has to do with justifiable homicide and self-defense and defense of others. And that section, which is comparably small part of that other lengthy bill, is the one in which there appears to be an ambiguity that was inadvertently created and that the S184 attempts to create. So having said that, just to point out to you what that ambiguity is, it's gonna be helpful for me to just point out what the statute was before you enacted 127 and what it was, how it was changed in Act 127. So those are the two things we're gonna look at really quick, shouldn't take long. But the, can everyone see my screen now? Yes. Okay. So this is the justifiable homicide statute that was on the books, say roughly two year and a half, two years ago. This was what the statute was before you enacted Act 27. And we're talking about, again, self-defense and defense of others, both of which have been on the books for a long time have been part of the common law for centuries, the ability to raise when another person has been killed to raise as a defense that the killing was lawful either because you were defending yourself or you were defending someone else. And we're gonna focus in this case on subdivision two here, but you'll see that the language provided that if a person kills or ruins another person then they shall be guiltless. And that is under subdivision two.  So in other words, if the actor either use force or kills or wounds, as you see in the introductory language, if you've killed or wound another person while you are attempting to stop that person from committing one of those enumerated offenses, then you're not guilty. You can't be charged with the killing or the harm that you've caused because the theory is that you're trying to prevent the harm of one of these offenses. But you'll see the way the language is phrased there in subdivision two. It's phrased as in the suppression of a person attempting to commit one of those offenses. It doesn't say they have to be committing the offense against you, the actor. They're just trying to commit the offense. So that brings in the concept of it could be against you in which case it would be self-defense, but it could be they were trying to commit that offense against somebody else, in which case it would be defense of others. Either way, if you're attempting to stop that person from committing that crime, then you can't be charged. So it could be self-defense, could be defense of others. So this was the statute that was on the books prior to act 27 of last year. So then last year you passed act 27 and that modified that statute. As you see now, section four of the bill, I'm sorry, of the act last year, provided an amendment to subdivision two that we were just looking at. And that enacted, I'm just trying to get all of subdivision two on the screen at once there. And you see the way it's sprained there that it takes a common law principle and codifies. And that's this sort of expands on the notion of the defense. And it provides that if the person reasonably believed that he or she was an imminent peril and that it was necessary to repel that peril with deadly force. Now that's part of the common law that has developed around this defense. So that's reiterating that. But you notice the way it's phrased if the person reasonably believed that he or she was an imminent peril and that it was necessary to repel that peril with deadly force. See, it's, I think inadvertently potentially excludes the situation where the person believes that someone else is in the imminent peril from one of those crimes. Remember the way that it was phrased and the way this defense has always worked, it can be not only self-defense, it could be defense of others, which would also operate as a defense as an excuse for the conduct. So what happened, I think Senator Benning alluded to this already was that in response to this language at the very end of the session, last year, the very end, the last few days of the session, the governor sent a letter indicating some concern about the language that limits this defense to a situation where he or she, in other words, the actor was an imminent peril as opposed to other people. And in response to that letter, the chair, chair grad and chair Sears sent a letter back to the governor saying, well, just clarifying that that wasn't the intent. The intent of this new language that you see in front of you was not to eliminate that common law defense, defense of others. And so at least that letter was on the books for the time being, but the idea of S184, which you have in front of you now is to clarify that. So that, well, you have a letter on the books indicating, well, that wasn't legislative intent. That's obviously to a court that was reviewing the statute. Now, as it exists now, wouldn't necessarily see that letter. And the idea is to change the ambiguity, potential ambiguity in the language, so that you don't have it on its face. So that, regardless of what other sources might be used to indicate what legislative intent was, the language itself would be clear. And that's the idea is to clarify that point in S184, which I will now pull up. So you see, now go to subdivision two, which is just where, this is the third version of this we're looking at. So this is the proposal in S184. You see the he or she is struck. So it's clarifying here that it's not just gonna be if the person reasonably believed that doesn't say he or she anymore, it's the one in imminent peril, if the person reasonably believed that the person, in other words, the person themselves or any other person was in imminent peril. And it was necessary to repel that peril with deadly force and the violent suppression of et cetera, et cetera. So that's exactly the same as it was. But it changes it to clarify that it's not just the actor who might be in imminent peril. It's another person who could be in imminent peril as well. And that on behalf of that person, as long as it's the other criteria are satisfied that it's necessary to repel that peril-deadered force and, you know, when one of those listed offenses is being committed, then the defense would apply. So that's the proposed clarification to get rid of the ambiguity that may have been created by Act 27 of last year. So that's what's done in section two. You'll see also, now that was the bill was introduced. And in addition, while the bill was in committee, there was a change made in subdivision one above that. You'll see that there's another change there. And that's another way in which self-defense can be proven. In other words, it's not just subdivision two that we looked at, which is about defense when one of those listed offenses is being committed, but also subdivision one, when you're defending your own life or another person's life. So in that case, it's not just imminent peril, in other words, which subdivision two applies to, but it's actual a threat to a person's own life or someone else's life. In that case, you know, the existing language, and I don't know the history behind this, but the defense had been limited to either defending your own life or the life of your spouse, parent, child, sibling, guardian, or ward. Not sure the history behind that or why that was, but upon looking at that and certainly consistent with common law generally, the Senate decided, does it make sense that why is the defense of the other person's life limited to one of those particular relations and shouldn't it be defending your own life or the life of any other person? And so that's why you see that change in subdivision one. So those are the, and lastly, also added in committee with subsection B, this I think comes from the aggravated assault statute just to be clear that whatever other defenses a person may have under common law that they might also be able to raise that none of this language is intended to limit that, that all those defenses continue to be available and viable for the defendant as well. So that clarifying language was added also. And I think that's the upshot of the walkthrough. I can take the screen down now, that would be helpful. Sure, thank you. Yeah. Great, thank you, Eric. That's actually very helpful. Questions? Just a quick one, Eric. I noticed where they had military officers and or regular military in there today. What was the reason for them deleting that? I see they still have provost marshals and the assistant provost marshals under that bill. Just because it doesn't belong under state statute or military individuals? I'm not following that. Where is that exactly? Under the original, the first one you showed us. Oh, the original law. Way down to the bottom there. Oh yeah. I think that that is a, I don't know for sure, I didn't look into that piece of it. That was another piece that was done last year. It looks to me that looking at that change, it looks just like a modernization and updating of older language that may be outdated. Yeah, I don't question. I just wonder why it didn't appear in the new version. I like the new version, don't get me wrong, but I did see under Vermont statute that the provost marshals and the deputy provost marshals were included in the enforcement officers in the state of Vermont. Right, right. Yeah, that's a good question. I'm not sure, but it was Bryn who worked on this one last year. So I don't know for sure about that change, but I can follow up on that if that might be helpful. Yes, just curious, that's all. I don't have a problem with just curious. Oh, sure. So I have a question. So, to Bob, are you saying that 20 BSA, 2351A, and those are worth, okay, so those are still under the old common law, the original one that we changed under what was the bill number? Yeah. First of all, they put up the head military officers and regular officers, the regular military in the, and under this new one, they don't, tonight in one of those statutes would ever cover that, but I see in Vermont statutes where provost marshals and assistant provost marshals are covered in this particular law. Yeah. Okay, thank you. Martin, I don't know if you're answering that or not, but I'm gonna move it to the other side. Now I have a different question. Okay, keep going. Go ahead, Martin. Yeah, Eric, how does the court interpret, and I know this is current law, but I'm just curious, how does the court interpret necessary defense of the person's own life or what is the other part? I guess the question is the idea of, well, of the net set, yeah, I'm sorry, it was necessary to repel that peril with deadly force or necessary defense of the person's life. Well, how has the court interpreted that? I don't know if they answered that. That's a good question. Hadn't looked into that specific legal question, but I'd be happy to look at some of the case law and see what they might have said. Yeah, and I guess to be specific, I'm curious if, you know, there's the concept of, and I don't think our law says this at all, a stand your ground kind of law versus a duty to retreat. And it seems like which way that goes depends on how the court is defining necessary defense of the person's own life. I mean, I would certainly argue that that language suggests that if you don't need to use deadly force on somebody, in other words, you have an opportunity to retreat, then it's not necessary, but it would be interesting to understand how that's interpreted. Right, right, yeah, that's an interesting question. I'll take a look at some of the cases and see what, how that term has been interpreted. I appreciate it, thanks. Anybody else? So, sorry, I had to step out, but didn't we look at this last year or the year before or something like this? This is fairly new, right? We looked at it last year. Yeah, so Bob, I'm looking at these references here. I'm trying to find what you were referring to. I haven't found it yet, but. Do you still have that first version, Eric, on the common law that you can put back up on screen? Yeah, sure, yep, I can pull it right up. I think is that what you're looking at? Subdivision three there? Yes, subdivision three, exactly. Right. In case the civil officer, military officer, private soldier will likely call that to suppress a riot or rebellion. My question was, I see it's not in this bill and I'm assuming if they're called out to work under DOD and not state of law statutes, correct? We repealed that. Yeah, I think that's right. Well, we repealed that because maybe was it unconstitutional or was it anybody, remember why we repealed that? It was part of the supporters. The lawfully called us to suppress riot or rebellion or to prevent. We had a reason. I think it's because it was overly broad, I mean, to assistance serving legal process and suppressing opposition against him or her. I think there's a constitutionality. Is there a reason for that? Martin, do you remember it? No, that's right. That's right. It was way too broad. And if it was ever actually looked at by the court, which we didn't have any indication that it was, it would likely be struck down as unconstitutional. And I think we also just heard from so many witnesses that said like this is just a complete, you know, get out of jail free card basically that renders. Yeah, it was very counter to the use of force law that we put into place. I mean, it's kind of undermined that whole concept of the use of force law. I mean, it essentially says that for any purpose, essentially law enforcement could use force and that would be a violation of, it would be essentially a seizure, an unconstitutional seizure. Right, right. Now, I don't think there was any disagreement. I think DPS and everybody was on board that. That part should be on board with that. I think so, so, all right. I was just wondering why it wasn't there. Yeah, thank you. All the way to the bottom. Yeah, yeah. Good question. Good question. All right, anything. Okay, so we do have some more testimony. It'll be, we're still very brief on this tomorrow. But we'll finish it up tomorrow. So, great. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you, Eric. Okay, and so committee, just in terms of looking at our schedule, what we didn't get to today, S-130, I'm sorry, S-113 Medical Monitoring. We are hearing from Department of Financial Regulation, the Insurance Division, right at nine o'clock tomorrow. So that will be helpful, because I know that they did not testify in the Senate. So I'm glad that we'll be hearing from them in here. And I did just tell Chair Marquardt of Commerce that we aren't taking that testimony tomorrow in case he wanted to have anybody come in or whatever, just to give him a heads up. Because when we did this bill last time, it did go to Commerce. However, this is a very, very different situation this time around. And yeah, so we'll be able to also tomorrow morning we'll be able to hear from Marshall, Paul and Judge Zone on 224. So pretty much taking the afternoon testimony, tomorrow's afternoon testimony and fitting it into the morning. I think we will have the time because you're not gonna get back here tomorrow afternoon or Thursday afternoon from what I'm hearing. And yeah, yeah. And then so we'll see what happens with the Thursday afternoon testimony, but we can always do that Friday morning. We'll see how things are going with the budget and other things. And we are not meeting before the joint assembly on Thursday, so that give our members of Judicial Retention time to go over the report, whatever they need to do and not have to rush after having a long night. It's tomorrow and then a long day on Thursday. Yeah, Judicial Retention gets a special treatment. Do you want that? So let's.