Welcome back to the channel in today's video we're looking at some more things that might help the new people who are coming to the game tomorrow and this is five things in New Atlantis that you should be doing right away as soon as you get to New Atlantis because it's very very important and we are here in the constellation building and we're gonna talk about that a little bit but before we get into make sure you hit the like button leave a comment down below telling me what your starting traits were and subscribe if you're new around here but let's get into it when you do the main quest line you'll eventually get to constellation it's not too long into the game and you're pretty much going to be doing it because you have to you will get to this area and you'll do a bunch of missions for them one not a bunch a couple of and you'll eventually get the lodge key you'll become a fully fledged member of constellation you'll get your own room upstairs but you'll get the lodge key now the lodge key will take you down this side here this is normally locked that's the front door and we go down here this will lead you to a very important room your workbench's room so unless you have a house and build your own workbench this is a very quick and easy way to go and visit everything that you need when you want to do research when you want to upgrade your spacesuit when you want to upgrade weapons there are also weapons and stuff here on the wall if you're brand new and you don't have many weapons and all the things that you need like credits and resources in the chests we've got an industrial workbench we've got the research lab we've got cooking we've got medicine stuff we've even got a first aid that you can steal out of but another thing that is here as well is your mission board which is very very important too I didn't want to accept that straight away nope so this gives you quests to do for a varying amount of credits obviously the higher the credits it might just take a little bit longer to do but every time you are in New Atlantis in the constellation this is the place to be unless you have your own house and you've and you've built stuff up now you want to run down here you want to turn right you want to run all the way into this room and right here is a master locked door for a pretty cool set of armor for a brand-new player there is a way to actually glitch this by getting close going into first person and looking through the crack of the door and then getting access to the mannequin and then you can open the mannequin and you can take the armor without even having to do the picklock it's a really good set of armor or last you for a while until you start getting legendaries and stuff next up is fast traveling again I've spoke about this in another video but for specifically in New Atlantis you can actually go to any part of New Atlantis you want you don't have to go on the train to get to a new area if you want to go to the commercial district you just hit the commercial district and travel straight to it which is very very useful because a lot of times well when you first start you're just going to run around and explore that's fine but for a lot of times you have to go in and out for quest you have to go here there and everywhere it's very easy and very quick and very convenient to do it that way next up we have something that you should be doing off the bat one of the quest lines that you can do it's kind of out of the way and if you didn't really know about it you would only come about it by accidents so you want to run all the way down here go through the lag that happens on Xbox Series X and go to Gal Bank once you enter in here there's this guy here called Landry Landry Hollyfield and he will give you bounty hunter quests where people who owe the bank money need to get them their money and he has about five or six different bounty hunting missions which is easy to do and you get a lot of credits like the first one's two thousand the second one's three thousand five hundred then five thousand then he just keeps going up and up and up so they're very easy and quick to do and you'll get a whole bunch of credits and it's fun it's you know it's interesting you know you get to see of a planet straight away and do and do things like that so definitely worth looking in next up what you should be doing is joining the UC distribution center which is also in the same area as the bank you go into this door here and you will actually find this place on the normal story quest but you'll have to come back later to take up the quest that they offer you so you talk to the people in here and they will offer you a whole bunch of quests it could be like up to two to three hours of quest line and it's a big part of the major story it's very interesting it's a very fun quest line and what will happen in the end is as you will gain citizenship to live in this new Atlantis which means you could buy your own apartment here and because it is such a long quest line it's you should very much be getting it as soon as possible because otherwise you are gonna struggle to catch up I guess but it's definitely worth it but also as well it's the tutorial mission so you're gonna learn the lore of the place you're gonna go in and get a whole bunch of credits and armors and weapons and rewards and loots things that will you're going to need in the in the game in general so it's definitely a place you want to invest some time into next up the commercial district has a whole bunch of shops and there are some shops scattered around that are really going to help you there's clothing shops which has bonuses and buffs to things like persuasion or hell photo too and they cost a little bit of credits but they're well worth having just to buff you up a little bit at the start of the game there's medical places to go to to get as much medicine and stuff that you can there's weapon shops there's ammo in those weapon shops that you're going to need and also ammo has no mass so if you can afford it and you can find ammo just pick it all up all of it as much as you can carry just take it because there's no mass but using the shops is very effective for the first like hour of the game and then you start to find new loot and different things and quest rewards and loot in chests but if you want to get like a little bit of power ahead start use these shops to be able to buff yourself up quite a bit now I said five things but there's a little sneaky bonus six now in most towns you get kind of like side quest forced upon you and they're called activities which is down here you can open them up and you could go through and see all of these things that you can do within varying cities but when you're in new Atlantis it will be only new Atlantis activities all of these are very quick easy fun quests and you get 2000 credits at the end some of them are occurring like this one I've got here with Kelton Thrush is a scientist guy and you can keep doing things and doing things and getting more rewards very easy and quick to do helps kind of like expand the the immersion within new Atlantis so it's definitely worth just just picking up a few of them and doing them and that's about it you know five things that in new Atlantis you should be doing from the very start of the game and for all you new people who come to Mara I hope this helps if it did hit the like button subscribe leave a comment all that fun stuff thank you for watching I've been easy now you guys have been awesome


Next talk in the session will be about building your first OpenStack application with OpenStack Python SDK. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our next speaker, Victoria Martinez de la Provence. This is building your first OpenStack application with the OpenStack Python SDK. It says a few heads up. This is not a training. I know that the title could be a little confusing but this presentation has been going through a lot of changes in the time in which I started checking out the tools that we already have and the latest updates within the OpenStack community with regards to this topic. So this is not going to be a training but an overview of what we have currently in OpenStack community for building applications on top of OpenStack. And so this is not a deep dive of the OpenStack Python SDK. We are just going to see how to use it but we are not going. So I don't want to bore you with the internals of code. It's implemented. I don't make sense for me so I don't think it's going to make sense for you. So how is it going to be this presentation then? This presentation is going to be free fall in which I'm going to start with a few anecdotes of how was my path on creating, working on building an application of OpenStack. Then we are going to see the tools we have currently in OpenStack community for this purpose and then we are going to finish with a few tips and tricks of building cloud-centric deployments for, well, clouds in general, not only about OpenStack. So I'm Victoria Martínez-Heracruz. I'm software engineer at Rehat. I'm currently working full-time in OpenStack. I'm not what you would say a cloud developer. I don't develop applications to run the cloud but I'm a cloud builder. Another thing about me is that I'm co-founder of the community in Argentina. I'm very proud about this so every time I have the possibility I mention it and it's one of these fabulous opportunities to do that. So here it is. So what is OpenStack? This seems like, okay, you are giving a presentation about OpenStack and I respect the audience to know about this but in previous conference I noticed that there is not a good sense of what it is and what is the current status of that and just between us. The amount of projects that arise in the OpenStack ecosystem is so wide that often we OpenStack developers lose sense of what is there and what is not so it's always good to do an overview of what is the current status of OpenStack but first let's see what is OpenStack in broader terms. So, broader speaking, OpenStack is what you would say an operative system for data centers. More specifically, it provides a set of tools that allow you to handle resources that can be compute, networking and stories, generally speaking, to a single entry point which can be, well in this diagram is the OpenStack dashboard depicted but it can be an interface or a script or whatever. OpenStack started being infrastructure service which the main components in the top of this diagram. We have different kinds of storage, the object storage and the blog storage. We have the identity project, also compute, networking and an image service. And then with time and with the, well, pike office, there has been a lot of new projects that are more like in a higher abstraction level that can be considered to be platform as a service in which we can talk about, for instance, database as a service project, through messaging services, telemetry, big data, share file systems, manila which is the project I'm currently working on, containers, orchestration, very much provisioning, DNS, you name it. There are other projects like this. These are not all but these are the projects that has been in OpenStack ecosystem for a while now and are considered like to be, you know, part of the big trend. So running apps on OpenStack. How it was a few years back at least. Now I'm going to tell you which was my first experience working on building an application to run an OpenStack. This started, this happened on a conference that is called Grace Hopper Celebration. It happened in 2014. We had what it was named the open source day and it was the topic of this open source day was to create, to contribute to projects that had social impact by using open source technologies. It was a really great crew, mostly people from rack space, and they invited me to be a guy for that workshop. Honestly it was like, okay, I have no idea about this, honestly, but it sounds like a great idea, so why are you going to say no? So I say yes, and I started looking into what was going to be done in that workshop. And well, when they started telling me what was the idea of this, they told me that we were going to leverage the scalability and resiliency that OpenStack as a platform has to cover situations in which there are need or desofters. For that we pick an application. We did a lot of research on one of the applications that caught our attention, which is a tool that allows you to gather, to collect data, and to display it in a way that allows us to react to those events in a more organized way. This application is open source, is great in PHP. That is not the best part of it, but the whole idea of the application is awesome, and we decided to deploy that application. For that we have to, you know, since this application was not intended to be run on a cloud, it wasn't an application, it's generally like any other else, right? We had to define a cloud-ready architecture for it, and the key of this was to be able to deploy this application in a way that was fast and that required no integration from us. That was writing a script to automatize that, right? So in preparation for this, since I was going to attend to this workshop, and it was like, okay, I have no ideas, I have to get ready for this. I tried to, you know, define an architecture for it like the simplest one. I came to this architecture that is depicted in this diagram. It is pretty simple as you see. It's just two web servers with running the application. One dv and one load balancer on the other end. So it's HA and can react to changes. And, okay, once I have this diagram done, it was like, okay, so now with the tools that we have in the community, how are we going to automate this? How are we going to write this script? And, of course, I ended up looking at the open-stack Python clients. Each of those projects I show in one of the first slides have a client. And it sounded to be like the most natural way of building my application in this case. But that started to lose sense pretty quickly. And let me show you just one example. Usually when you are building an application, you know, to perform, you know, trivial operations like create a server, delete a server, list servers, you know, to access to them, to launch them, to install things on them. This is an example of the least common for the Nova client. As you can see, instantiating the client is pretty straightforward. You just pass the user's password and the offer and the process you are working on. You can list the servers that way. It's pretty straightforward and you access the resources, sorry, the attributes of your resources through a dot-call. That's pretty normal. But now let's go and see, okay, I want an image for this server and go to launch, right? So let's see how glance managed this operation. You can see already that instantiating the client has a different signature. It has less parameters, right? You don't have the user and password there. You only have a token and now a URL. And when you are listing the images, okay, you access them the same way, but then you are handling a dictionary. Just to add more to this example, let's take a look on how Swift handle this operation. The connection is like a merger between the two we saw previously. Then we have to access to the container for Swift in this strange way that is get account. We don't know what we are doing that. So it's like we get the containers and we access them through a dictionary. Okay. I've been a software engineer working full-time. Open stock is like, okay, it is weird, but whatever. But someone that is, you know, trying to use the cloud and have everything working, like don't partner with the syntax, right? Ended up like this. This is the, you know, graphically visualization of how a probably cloud developer would end when trying to deploy their applications in the open stack. So this is certainly a problem. It is not, the thing is like there is a misconception of how people usually take the Python clients. This actually is fine that it happens because the clients were intended officially to create the command line interface we use for open stack. It's not, when they were developed, they were not intended for the users to use it, right? So this is okay. It's how to be, it's how we expect it to be. But of course, so if there is okay, then there is something missing. How are users supposed to interact with the cloud in the whole concept of the cloud in an easy way? So just to end up the anecdote of the race hopper celebration experience and everything, we ended up using, well, the diagram I show, we follow the same architecture, but we ended up using a library that is called Apache Leap Cloud, which I'm going to mention, I'm going to talk a bit more about that in the upcoming slides. So everything was perfect. We have all the applications going on and it was an amazing experience. And it led me, you know, the feeling that there was something to do on the open stack development area, right? So now let's talk about the libraries and SDKs we have currently on the open stack ecosystem that you can use, of course, based in Python. There are SDKs and libraries for a lot of languages. If you check it out, the, well, the wiki page that we have in open stack, at least all of them, you are going to see that there are a lot, several alternatives for different languages and it looks like a mess. But for the Python ones, let's take a look at the ones that I think is worth mentioning. So why we need libraries, why we need SDKs? As I mentioned, there is no way, like, there is no simple straightforward way to interact with an open stack cloud. So because we have a lot of services, we have one library per services, and we have, for each one of the libraries, a different user experience. So imagine that a lot of libraries and user experiences is painful for developers. So in Python, we have these three options. Let's start with this one, the one we use for the grace hopper celebration. It offers you an unified API. The good thing about this library in particular is that it allows you to talk to different clouds. It doesn't, it's not only for open stack, but allows you to talk with, I don't know, different implementations for open stack clouds. It allows you to interact with Amazon, with Azure, and you name it, there are a lot of clouds that allows you, that has plugins for Apache live cloud. The only thing is that, of course, this is not a tool that is being developed by the open stack community, it's third party. But it's worth looking at. Here is a sample of how creating a server for open stack would look like using this library. As you can see, it's pretty clear what it's doing, what is happening there. You simply talk the, take the plugin for open stack that you have for live cloud. You instantiate that client. You basically get a size for the server you are launching, an image that we want to use for that server. Simply with driver create node, with that information you gather for the cloud you have, you have your node running and working. Now, open stack shape. Open stack shape is a project that is a library to interact with open stack clouds that have been born under the open stack infrastructure project. The infrastructure of open stack is the project that is taking care of all the handling, all the processes and systems that take care of everything that happens on the open stack community. So it's a tool that was born to be used internally, right? It is not the case nowadays, of course, that no, there are application developers using this tool. And the main, the key word for, probably, but describe this tool the best is simplicity. The idea is that you get your access, your resources in a very simple way. This is awesome, right? But the only downside you have with this is that you don't have, you know, a finer grain control of what you are doing. If your architecture is slightly complex, then you cannot use this tool for deploy your application, right? Just a red flag here. This library is under development. It's expect to change a lot. The current version of it is going, well, I want to put this right there. You can use it, but please don't use it in production. Just that. So let's see an example of how landing a server and using this tool is going to be very similar to what we saw for the cloud. We simply create connection to the open stack cloud. We can gather an image from your file system in that way. You get the size for your server, very simply with, well, get flavor background, for instance.  And finally, the open stack Python SDK. Let's make a stop here for a moment and talk about the difference of why we mentioned the former tool where libraries, and this is an SDK.  You are not going to see Nova or Keystone or any of the names we use within open stack for you to manage your cloud. It is, you don't have to have knowledge of what's going on there. You simply say, okay, give me a server, give me an image, wherever. And you have a lot of examples to cover that. An SDK is much more complete than a library. This SDK is aimed for all type of users, users of open stack clouds, consumers of open stack clouds, that is you probably, operators of open stack clouds and developers of open stack projects like me. The idea is that you install ones and you can run anywhere in any open stack cloud implementation you have. So why I choose this tool among the three that we just mentioned. So, well, Apache live cloud, of course, I rather talk about tools that we are developing in open stack communities. So, of course, I rather to say with shade or open stack SDK. And in the case of shade, it was like, okay, this, it was a tool that was being used for internal purposes. So if there is something that is more targeted to what we are talking today is the open stack by the SDK. It's a very valuable use case that we are talking about. And whereas it's under development as well as trade, I think this project requires a lot more attention and a lot more of, you know, spreading the voice and showing how it's supposed to be used. So, this SDK is already on PyPy, so basically you pip install open stack SDK and you have it there for you. As mentioned, it allows you to write automation scripts that allow you to create and manage resources in any open stack cloud. Now, let's stop for a moment and talk about how is this SDK structure, what are you going to find when you interact with this SDK. Basically, it has been structuring a two-layer approach in which you have a connection interface and a resource interface. The connection interface is the one that you as an open stack cloud consumer are going to use. It allows you to access to your session authentication transfer and profile through two classes. One is the connection and one is the profile. And the resource layer, you are not supposed to use it, but it is there. You can access it. So, if you have needs to have a more fine-grained control over what you are handling, it is more aimed to be used by, I guess, open stack developers if they want to do something fancy or whatever. But resource layer take connection objects and it's not what you want to do. So, you are going to stick with the connection interface and with the classes that the connection interface provides. So, how is to create a connection with a cloud? It's for any cloud you have, it's going to be the same. You are going to instantiate your connection in this fashion in which you have the alpha URL, where you have your authentication, person name, user name, password. You can interact with all the services in your cloud just by this connection. Then, in order to create a server, well, I added a few more steps here. But, basically, you would need an image in which your server is going to use. Flavor, which is the size of the instance you are launching. A network, if you already defined it, but it will require another snippet of code to do that. And a keeper to access your server. Then, you simply specify, okay, compute clear server and you should be good with that. Another example is creating a keeper, as mentioned in the previous slide, for access to your instance. Here, I'm showing you how, if you have a keeper already in your cloud, you can find it by name. Or, if you don't have it, you can grab it from your local file system and upload it to your cloud in that fashion. There is some extra code that interacts with the operating system I'm using. But, the part of the SDK is a few lines only. And, since it was, like, okay, for the creation, the part of OpenStack is already covered, right? The only thing you need to have is something like the Python OpenStack SDK. But, something that, you know, come to my attention during the app creation workshop was that sometimes developers doesn't have a real understanding on how, how is to create applications or how to take full profit of the cloud infrastructure you have. So, I wanted to bank these appendix in which I want to leave a few guidelines for you for app creation on the cloud. After all, you know, it's sometimes that about the tool, but how you use the tool. So, let's talk about a common classification that has been gaining popularity in the last couple of years, I would say. There is a difference between cloud-ready applications and cloud-centric applications. The cloud-ready ones are the ones that are standard, you know, like Houshahiti in this presentation example, that are cloud-centric because they were not intended to be run on the cloud in the first place, but they can work perfectly when you deploy it in like in a micro-service architecture, and they won't fall short because of that. And cloud-centric are the ones that were born in the cloud, that were intended to work on the cloud. Of course, that may probably most of you will interact with cloud-ready applications not with cloud-centric applications. And whereas you have this cloud-ready application, it doesn't mean that you have to change all the code, you know, to start from scratch with your applications in order to have them running on the cloud. This classification is just so to mention that there is a new trend on cloud-centric applications and that there is a slight difference, but it's not so much. So, one of the probably cornerstones that I heard is that you have to take into account that the topology of your application is going to be dynamic. If your application has to change, it's going to change. It is not like usual, you know, virtualization spaces in which you were used to have, you know, your application all in one with your DV and everything just in one instance and you will take care of it and everything. The environments in the cloud change very dynamically. You are going to destroy and create new instances very frequently and that's the whole point of the cloud computing, right? The idea of having this dynamic topology is that you will be able to scale individual components easier, you will be able to simplify the maintenance and reuse of your applications. You are going to have more fault torrents and one example of how you are going to do this is, for instance, don't hardcore information about networking, delegated to the networking services in the case of OpenStack to Neutron. What else? If you merely storage, don't assume, please, that the storage that you have in your instance is going to be persistent, like, for instance, for all the static and non-stated data you have in your application. For example, your logs, right? When you install your application in your instance, usually you store your logs on their backlog, right? But what happens if that instance fails and goes down and you want to check it out, what happened with application? Then all the logs you have in your system are missing because the familiar storage is, as the word says, ephemeral. So you can use... It's advice for you to use persistent storage solution, like OpenStack, it can be the block storage sender or the object storage sweep. You only have to delegate that task to an external service. What else? Stateless. Stateless or finite storage limits the scalability of an application. If possible, you should be able to omit using... to keep a state. If you can omit it, try to store the station state in a highly available store outside your application. Just as we talk about the static and non-stated data, the same for a state. For instance, you can use database services to spin up DB instances to store all the states of your applications there. Standards. Okay, yes, this is not new probably. This is in general the same for all the applications you are going to develop in your lifetime, right? If you can keep with standards, the better. And of course, in the case of cloud, this is even more important because you are going probably to change environments pretty useful, right? Sorry, pretty frequently. So try to avoid using obscure protocols. If you are going to use, I don't know, a transport protocol, try to keep with it common once with HTTP or whatever. But don't use a protocol that is, you know, corporate just because it looks fancy or it has some features that cause your attention. Try to stick with the standards always. And don't rely on OS specific features. Since the application you are deploying should be able to change. If you need to change and you tie it with specific features of the operative system, then you are going to be tied and you won't be able to pull it to whatever platform you want. For instance, if you are using a new Linux system, try to use post-ex standards and not use an error. And automation. Cloud applications used to be installed frequently are on demand. What does this mean? It seems to be, you know, pretty simple, you know, common. But try to automate the configuration setup. Don't expect a user to be able to, you know, select configuration options or to... I don't want to say the L word, but if they have to sign a license agreement, don't expect them to be able to do so. Deploying an application on a cloud should be automatic. There should be no user interaction when doing this. And also the idea is that you can deploy your applications quickly and, you know, not having to touch anything. So, minimize the dependencies will require in this step. So that was pretty much it. Now I am going to open for Q&A. Any questions? Yes. Great talk. Thank you. Is Ushahidi still running on OpenStack? Or what's kind of been the evolution of that since then? What are the lessons learned that you've made out of, you know, that application and how it's evolved on the cloud? So it was in a public tenant when the public workspace cloud was up. So there is the live cloud scripts available, but I don't think the application is still running. Other questions? Yes. So how does the OpenStack SDK handle the differences between the various public clouds that we have in OpenStack? That's a good question. Compared to Shade and others that are built around that, abstracting that difference, how does it behave? So you can handle the difference between clouds using the profile class within the OpenStack Python SDK. You have to share a YAML file, I think, that has all the differences with it, and you will use it for all the clouds you want to interact with. Other questions? I have a question myself, if I can. Sure. I come from working with public clouds, so this Python SDK, more or less, it's comparable with what BOTO is for AWS, it's the Python interface to Amazon Web Services. Honestly, I haven't put my hands on Amazon, but probably if... Yeah, you can spin up instant tears and configure network. Exactly, yeah. You can interact with the cloud as a whole, and I don't know about BOTO, but in the case of Python OpenStack SDK, you can only interact with OpenStack Cloud. You won't be able to use the Python SDK for OpenStack to interact with Amazon, for instance, in Azure. Thank you. Yes, we have time for other questions. Thank you for the talk. You mentioned pushing State away from the server. It's actually a comment. If anyone here is using Django to build cloud applications, you can use the cookie session store. You've got signed cookies, cryptographically secure, and you can push your session state into the cookies. Therefore, you don't have any session state on your server, and it's built into Django. You can just use that. No state on your server for your sessions. Awesome. It's good to know. I'm going to take a minute just to mention that there is going to be a training on the developing native applications with Shade. It's going to be on Thursday at 2 p.m. at room E, and we are also organizing an OpenStack open space on Wednesday, that is tomorrow afternoon time. We don't know yet the time, but we are in the midst of it. If you are interested, please follow me on Twitter. I'm going to tweet in which time and where we are going to do that.


And then there's the red one behind the figures.  Let's watch. I need to start waking up before midday. I'm very tired. I just didn't sleep very good last night. You'll have to forgive me if I seem out of it. I'm hoping I'll wake up as we make this. Nintendo finally announced a new switch. And I have mixed emotions. My immediate reaction, which you guys didn't get to see as I groggily woke up in bed, was pure and utter excitement at how gorgeous this new switch looks and all the features it has. But as I lied there, mulling it over, waiting to get out of bed, I kinda bummed myself out. And it was partly me and it was partly just looking at Twitter and everyone else's reaction and me reading everyone else's reaction like, yeah, yeah, actually, yeah. Hold on a second, what the heck? But let's just look at the actual thing first for anyone that hasn't seen it so you can make your own mind up. This is the Nintendo Switch OLED model. Immediately, chef's kiss, Nintendo. You've done it. You've done the main thing other than hardware that I wanted to change and that I've been talking about for years now. You brought that squeak. You brought that screen out right to the edges with a gorgeous OLED screen, seven inch. You gotta love a seven inch. Even looking at some of the trailer here, you can see how much bigger it looks, how much bigger it feels. I gotta stop saying things that you guys can use out of context. Something else that's really nice. These white joycons, gorgeous. You know, nothing that hasn't already been done with modifications, but getting official white joycons alongside the release of Metroid Dread, really great idea and looks really sleek. It's gonna match a lot of people's PlayStation 5s. The console launches October 8th alongside Metroid Dread. You have a white Switch. The game has a white thing in it, so it does make sense. And the dock is white, too. It all looks very sleek, very new. I love the way it looks. It is gorgeous. Go higher than we ever been before. Whether Switch is pretty much the same as before. There's no D-pad, that's fine. It would have been nice, but that's just a little thing I've always wanted. It's chicken, the play breath of the wild, too, before me. I don't like that. Dude couldn't even wait to get home.  I'm not even getting comfy. I'm sitting on this uncomfortable shoe box. All right, this experience is good.  Nintendo obviously know the whole thing is a stand now. The entire back is a stand, much sturdier. So you have a really wide kickstand, and I like it. It's also adjustable, which is even better. Even it's, oh, so good. Enhanced audio is nice. I actually thought the base Switch had pretty good audio. It is nice to know that there are better speakers in this thing. That dock is gorgeous, by the way. Absolutely gorgeous. I love how it's all rounded. There's something about that that it looks like the Switch 2 right there. If you didn't know any better, if you didn't know it had barely changed. That looks like the Switch 2 just there. I love it. I love the back of this dock now. I don't know why, I just think that the back looks good too. The fact that the plate comes off completely, which is so much easier and nicer to work with. And then the only other change, the physical change to the dock is they've added an Ethernet port, which is good. I don't really, I mean, I'm upstairs. I don't really have a way of bringing an Ethernet cord all the way upstairs, but the wireless on the Switch and the dock have always been pretty poor. So rather than having to buy the adapter now, there's actually an Ethernet port in the dock. That should have been there from the start. It's nice that they added it. Just looks so good next to that TV, doesn't it? The white, I love that. I love the, even the color alone just feels fresh. It just feels better. The black dock, nah, yeah. It was just so ugly, it was so dated. From when it released, it was dated. Like from day one, it looked dated. This is a big black brick sat next to my TV.  Nintendo Switch OLED model, available October 8th. Sorry, sorry, hold on. Let me, you know, God. Again, when I saw it this morning, I was really excited. And I still am. And I know when I get it in my hands, I'm gonna love it. And I'm gonna think it's the coolest thing ever. And I'm gonna scream and yell and be super excited. Also playing in handheld with this thing is gonna be awesome. You know, playing the new Breath of the Wild when it comes out, going back and playing some other games on this new, bigger, crisper OLED screen. It's gonna look nice. It's gonna feel nice. But there is like this bittersweet side of it. Almost like a, almost leaning more towards the bitter. And I can't help it. Man, I can't help it. I'm trying really hard not to be negative, Nancy. I like being the person that yells and screams and gets excited for everything Nintendo and everything gaming. But I've been doing that for months and for years about a Switch Pro, about a better revision of some kind. And I've been realistic, you know. I was the person that wanted just a little bit, just a little bit. You know, we talked about a different Nvidia chip in there that enhanced the gameplay artificially. So it just wasn't really an improvement, but it would still look better. Just little things Nintendo could do to slap that new sticker on it. And it would be better, better hardware, technically. None of that is here. And I can't help but feel a little like there isn't really a huge reason to get this Switch. Beyond, of course I'm gonna get it. Like of course I am. And of course I'm gonna move everything over to that Switch too, because it's my new one and it's got a better OLED screen. As far as playing in handheld mode goes, this is quite a big upgrade. But the dock side of it has not really been improved at all. I mean sure there's an ethernet port on the dock, but when you're sat with it docked, which is a whole half of this hybrid system is playing docked, you're not gonna notice any difference at all. Whether you're playing on this or you're playing on a previous generation of Switch, there's literally going to be zero difference there. So if you're primarily a docked player, which I'm kind of 50-50 split, but when it comes to playing the big new releases, I always play docked.  Let's look at Twitter. These are just the thoughts that are running through my head. I hate to be that guy. The box looks gorgeous. I just, I do think that says something that so many people, like the most, the thing they're excited about the most is how good the box looks that it comes in. $349. And our favorite thing is the box looks nice. What has, what has the entertainment industry done to us as consumers guys? Like really take a step back and think about how our brains are being manipulated. I legitimately am excited to get this in part because the box looks nice. And it, and the, and the Switch is white now. Sure, I'll buy another one for $50 more than the previous one. Let's talk about that price actually. The price baffles me a little bit. I get that it's a better screen and a better screen costs more, but nothing else has changed. And the Switch has been out now for almost five years. So the components, everything in it, everything that cost what it cost when it launched has come down in price. There is such better stuff out there that the outdated hardware of the Switch should be relatively cheaper to make. So adding in an OLED screen shouldn't really increase the price $50. It should really just keep it around the same. I don't really get the extra $50 price tag here other than they can and it'll still sell. And that's the thing, like no matter what they released it could have just been white and it would have sold off the shelves with no other improvements. It kind of feels like Nintendo did the absolute bare minimum they had to do to release a console that they could charge more for. And we'll still all buy it. Whether it sells out because of us or scalpers this will be gone day one. Let's look at what Twitter has to think of the Switch Pro. The Switch? The coolest Switch. Don't buy it, it's the same Switch but the screen is new. Yeah, you already have a Nintendo Switch OLED if you plug it into an OLED HDTV. That's bad when you know the new 3DS had more upgrades on a system level than a Nintendo Switch OLED. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of what I expected though. I always wanted Nintendo to go all out but I kind of figured they would just do a new system. That was slightly better. I'd always go back to that example of Hyrule Warriors. The 3DS had Hyrule Warriors. It ran like poopy-smoopy that they had the new 3DS that was barely an upgrade, let's be honest. But Hyrule Warriors now meant it just was enough to tick it over so that it could actually perform a little better. And Hyrule Warriors on Switch, it drops into single digits. Like, I love the Switch but it's not performing to the standard that we should be at at this point. Like, its own exclusive games are dropping down into the single digits. We just needed something, a little something to just pick it back up to the double digits. That's it. I'm not talking triple digits. Just pick it back up into the 10s. It's really all we needed here. Just a little boost halfway through this generation. And there are people on the other side of the fence that are saying, good, good. I'm glad they didn't separate the audience here and drive a wedge in everyone that just bought a Switch with this new outdated model by releasing something that's better. But they still have done that. They've still done that. They've still released a better version with a better screen. Like, whether you have the previous Switch or you're gonna get this new OLED one, you still know there is going to be one that has games that look better on it because it has an OLED bigger screen. So they've already, that argument to me is mute. It's pointless. There's already going to be a better, more expensive version of the Switch. It may as well have a tiny bit better hardware in it too. The other one's outdated either way is what I'm saying. There's no separation there. It doesn't divide the audience any more than this model does. This model just seems so like, like it gave up halfway. This is not the Nintendo Switch Pro you were looking for. No, it really isn't.  At this point, I just, I agree, I guess. They haven't addressed it at all. And they keep releasing these new models without addressing it. Maybe these new Joy-Cons won't drift as easy, but they haven't said anything about that or mentioned anything about that. They keep releasing new Switches and new models and new colors and new versions without addressing Joy-Con Drift. Like is Joy-Con Drift unfixable? That just is part of the Switch and there's nothing they can do about it? Okay, all right, oh my God. I know, I know, I know. I just woke up. I just had my coffee. I'm a little grumpy as it is. I'm not a morning person. You'll have to forgive me. I am excited for it. I think it looks really cool.  Like, oh yeah, the screen looks better and it sounds better. That's my video, guys. There's not gonna be any like, let's look at this game compared to this game or let's look how better it performs or see how much better the battery is because even the battery is the same. So I guess it's just gonna be one of them things where I buy another Switch and I open it and I'm like, oh, I didn't need another one and we're all going to go back immediately. Like right now, we're in like the hype of a new Switch but once it's out, we're all immediately gonna go straight back. I can guarantee you, I will, you probably will, the media probably will. We're all gonna go straight back into 4K Switch and wondering if Nintendo will make a 4K Switch and it'll be like this never happened. You know, it'll just be another one of these revisions and it's gonna be out there and everyone's gonna be wondering what's Nintendo actually going to do next? What is, is there gonna be a 4K this Switch or are we just waiting for the new one now? Like what are the new, and it's gonna start cycling all over again. We're gonna have to deal with these rumors all over again from nothing from Nintendo, from Bloomberg reporting, from YouTubers to all these sources and fake leaks. It's gonna start all over again and I just, I'm just done. I'm just, I'm just, I'm over it. I'm sick of talking about a Switch Pro that doesn't exist, apparently. Or maybe it does still. Maybe it will happen still again. Who knows? But right now we have a Switch with a better screen and that's cool and you know, that's cool. And when I'm playing Minecraft in bed and handheld mode, I'll go, I can see an extra half an inch of Minecraft. That's great. Do I upload this video? I, let me, let me, let me, hold on. Let me just do what everyone wants. Well, what I would want. Oh my God, there's a new Nintendo Switch. It's got a bigger screen and it's got, it's got sound and the docket, like it's a bigger and it flaps. And then there's also an ethernet port. The GameCube had an ethernet port but now the Switch does too. Oh, it's so good, it's white. Oh, I can't wait. $350, why not make it $500? Huh, we'll, we'll all buy it. Nintendo, you made it. It's too cheap, honestly, is how I feel. Let me know down below if you plan on picking up the new Switch. I have very mixed feelings on it. I do really think it looks cool. I'm excited for the box and I hope I can get one day one. Other than that, I feel like the novelty of this new Switch will get old pretty quickly and then we'll all go back to waiting for 4K. But let me know what you think and subscribe if you like this video somehow. And can my Alexa seriously? Let me know what you think down below. I'll see if I have the balls to upload this video. Okay, bye.


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Actually, I thought Ellen was the only person that was not able to make it. We tried so hard to call her as all via email. She had a previous engagement. She's the only one that had said she wasn't available. Robert and Sabrina. Not made to. Good. And I had not heard from John, Dozier, but everybody was. I haven't seen him in a while. Oh, yes. I'm trying to make sure I picked the right meter number. You haven't. Customer service. You say Wardle number? No, I said Parking. I picked for the right zone. I was trying to remember. I took Tamika's phone. I don't have Robert's cell phone. Sabrina said she'd be here. She said she's on her way. Did you leave me to ask her how far out? How are you? How are you? I don't. Oh, yeah. One more week. One more debate. Yeah. Environmental debate tomorrow. Yeah. Unless he's been changing. Short time. He was my office landlord. If she was five minutes. We need to wait a couple more minutes for the fourth member to get here so we can have an official meeting. The office is very close. Yeah. Not quite welcome. I've been here about five. I had a sweat. I usually work at lunch. Oh, yeah. You didn't do your lunch. I didn't actually do it a little bit earlier today. So I spared you all. We just moved out of Olympia and into our social health. Our office. It's not much more pleasant than yesterday. You know, I can actually like... I'm always not really... You can see the government is in charge of our office. They're like, you can walk the ground. Because Olympia was just getting... Whether or not they had it. Well, I know that. But maybe... Foot-to-foot-trafficking. Great having the activity. The infrastructure is not here as the word is. Okay. The health assembly. Such a mess. The old office was at 7-1 Whaley. I do miss the space. It's really pretty. The venues are popular now. The four o'clock weddings. The four o'clock weddings. The three o'clock weddings. The three o'clock weddings. Your office is much cooler. Where isn't... It's on Richland. In between Wayne and Gad... And I live on Gadston, but on the Earlwood side. It's like six minutes door-to-door. I can even... It's on the bus route. To her mind. It became more than once an hour. Yeah. I didn't realize how long Gadston was until I was delivering a sign the other day. And it was something like 3400 Gadston. And I drove and drove and drove and drove. Yeah, I'm on the 3rd... 3100 block. 3100. So, yeah, I mean it. All the way in the Vista to Earlwood. Yeah, it's a long street. We have a lot of, like, parks and government mansions and things and breaking it up. Yeah. It sounded like her. Get her in here. We have one member coming, but let's go ahead in the interest of time to start the meeting. And we've got some very special guests with us today to brief us on a project that I think is a linchpin project for the development of Wall Street. And I'd like for Missy to introduce our speakers. Well, I actually haven't met them, but I hear y'all are making your rounds of the city. We're glad to have y'all in town. I've heard a lot about Clackin' Properties and we're excited to see what you have planned for Babcock. So with that, if you will introduce yourselves. Well, my name is Hugh Scheidel. I'm one of the founders of Clackin' Properties. My partner, my business partner, is at the building as we speak. So we're putting the finishing touches with the contractor. So I'm going to do just a couple of minutes about what we've been up to for the last several years. How we've been trying to make the Rubik's Cube of a cost-effective renovation of an iconic building work. Some challenges in that. We've been able to overcome those challenges. And I would say we've kept a low profile. And that's really kind of who we are constitutionally. We're not really flashy people. We just keep our heads down doing the work. But we feel like we're on the red zone now. That is, it's not done. It's not done until it's done. But we're close enough. The pieces are falling in place. So I'd love to give you a briefing on it. I'm going to do a couple slides on background. Then I'm going to turn it over to Katie. She gets to do the fun part of telling you what we're actually going to build, which we're really excited about. So who we are, challenges and opportunities, so who's clocking properties? We've been in business for 15 years now. We started in Richmond. And we are specialists in historic renovation. We do nothing else. I don't know why we got on this business. It sometimes is a hard business. But it is a gratifying business because you get to take buildings that have tremendous bones and turn them into something that's really special that can be used today. These are pictures of a mill we did in Charlotte that we just finished. And we've done four or five buildings in North Carolina. We got our start in Richmond. We did a dozen buildings there. This will be the first one in South Carolina for us. And this building, the Babcock, is different and unique in so many ways relative to this. This is one of a thousand mills. The Babcock is unique. There is no other Babcock. Just that fact brings challenges and opportunities. And I'm going to spend a few minutes talking about that. Where is that mill building? In Plaza Midwood. One of the interesting things about Charlotte is they've knocked down all their historic buildings. And so there are very few remaining. And so we were lucky to get this one. Just turned it into 149 apartments. So the Rubik's Cube of an adaptive reuse project starts with a building. And so if you think about the architectural details of this building, it was designed by a gentleman named Kirkbride with a particular view about how to care for the mentally ill. And one of the aspects of his approach was large open spaces both inside and outside the building. And that was a terrific way to care for patients, but it presents a challenge for a redevelopment. So if I did 14 or 15 similar buildings around the country, this will be the first one to get historic tax credits. And the challenge is the Secretary of the Interior Standards for renovation don't allow you to fill in these wards, these large rooms within the building. And so the corridor loss in this building is far higher than a typical project. The corridor loss is space that you have to pay to renovate that you don't get revenue for. So hospitals in general where you have the wide hallways that you can't fill in have a larger corridor loss. This building has a 40% corridor loss. A typical mill that we would do would have 25% corridor loss. So you've got 60% more corridor loss in this building from the start. So even getting the building for free, just because you can't get the density out of this building that you could out of a kind of a rectangular mill. And so overcoming that challenge that kind of structural challenge from the get-go has been a big part of what we've been working on. Another challenge that we've had to overcome is the deterioration of the building. It's been abandoned for some time and weather is taking its toll on the building. And just as a need to Columbia residents every time someone goes in that building at night to have fun it makes it harder for us to renovate. It makes it more expensive for us to renovate. So we have had to deal with the deterioration of the building which makes the renovation more expensive and puts you out of balance in this Rubik's Cube. And it's an historically sensitive building so as I said it's not a mill so the State Historic Preservation Officer the National Park Service are all very keen to know exactly what we're doing. And one one aspect of that is the windows. Now windows are important anytime you do a historic renovation this building in particular it's got 1300 windows. So we had to do a comprehensive survey of the windows where someone has to go out and look at every single window assess the various pieces the sashes and the mullions and the glass and the whatnot to figure out is this a window that we can save or is this a window that we need to replace and all the historic authorities and us as well we want to save as many of the windows as we can and we assessed at the time that we did that survey that we could save about 65% of the windows. And so the building has deteriorated since then but that's our goal is to save the lion's share of the windows. So other kind of project challenges and opportunities so obviously we needed to find the right contractor this is not this is not the kind of work that a regular contractor can do you can go put up a strip mall this is not a strip mall this is specialty work and the abandoned building credit you know we've been involved in this project for a number of years and the credit A has sunsetted several times while we've been involved and whenever the abandoned building credits we went out of the credit sunsets that puts downward pressure on the stack of capital that we can put to work so we've had to make sure that we've had to work to get that extended and we were part of the process for making this 12 buildings not one and so kind of navigating the abandoned building credit has been kind of a time consuming thing that we've been a part of you want to explain the 12 buildings sure well the abandoned building credit program says that you get a credit for up to 500,000 per building and the states there was always some dispute about what a building is and so the state said well we don't want to be involved in that we're going to devolve to the city council level the decision of what a building is and our architect Walter put together the presentation for Columbia city council to make the case that this is 12 buildings not one building and it was developed over a series of campaigns the buildings stand on their own they've got means of egress if you knock the other 11 down that one building could operate so we had a strong case that it was really indeed 12 buildings and so we get instead of a $500,000 credit a $6 million credit that was a big piece in solving the puzzle so that's one of the things that the state and city of Columbia exactly all the things that we're doing trying to get the lower construction costs helping with the tax credits helps with the corridor loss and the duration of the building a big part of the capital while we've been working on this the federal historic program that was not helpful so it's been as you can see, pluses and minuses where are we now we have gone through and renegotiated with the park service a design that got us a little more square footage while maintaining being historically sensitive we figured with Walter and the state historic preservation officer in the National Park Service to get I think with 6% more square footage that helped we've assembled a project team that's really expert in this from architect to historian to contractor to engineers and we've submitted for a HUD loan now a HUD loan takes a long time the amount of due diligence is mind-numbing but your tax dollars are put to good use because there are almost no HUD loans that go bad so they really put you through the ringer it takes a long time but once they say they invite you to bid you're pretty much a lock and we got the invite to bid last spring and so we've been in the process of proving to them all the things we told them we can do and we will be submitting our final application for the HUD loan in early December the plans and specs are here for you to look through if you'd like it looks like about four inches of plants they're about 95% complete we're still doing the final tweaks and we met with the city this morning meeting with the building officials making sure that we're going to phase the delivery so we're going to bring some units on while the building is under construction we want to make sure that we're in sync with the city about how to do that make sure that we're thinking about fire suppression and all the other things you think about when you're building a building like this that we're in sync with the city and that meeting went well so we're encouraged we'll be submitting for a building permit soon before the end of the year and we're very close to having our term sheets nailed down for both the state and federal tax credits that's another critical piece so if you get the tax credits right you get your HUD loan you get your building specs you get your building permit it won't be too long now I'm going to turn it over to Katie but before I do that I want to say something about dates so we've tried to keep quiet about when we're going to get this done because for the longest time we didn't know when we were going to get it done now we have a clearer and clearer picture but we've purposely fuzzied the dates so I think we have benefited I think the project Bull Street has benefited let's continue to work we're in the red zone we're going to get this done don't get too attached to any given date things can happen outside of our control but we're going to get it done so with that I'm going to turn it over to Katie I get the fun part podium hey guys I'm Katie nice to meet you you need oh I don't talk loud enough you might regret this in a minute oh okay I got you we're playing back for the grand opening okay so this is an overview with the project you can see the size of it I've got some amenity call outs in the picture we're posing to build a pet park a pool and a grilling lounge the way the building is laid out you've kind of got these little pockets that are appropriately best used as amenity spaces and then we'll also have they're not pictured here but we'll have some walking paths through those trees and I think most of these are staying we're saving 38 of the giant stork trees on the site so we're excited about that am I talking into this enough oh that's way better sorry you might not have caught all that so 146 we have living space is what we're going to be building in 208 apartments it's mainly one bedrooms one bedrooms and two bedrooms the studios are about 420 square feet on average the ones are 600 the twos are 800 and the threes are I think we have a couple big threes that are like 1250 so one of the ways to help with the cost issue is to get units really efficient and Walter is I'm going to brag about you for a second Walter is very very good at what he does he's most of what you do is historic architecture so he's designed an awesome project for us so we're really excited lots of green space lots of parking spaces I think we're parked either definitely above or at what the requirement is indoor amenities and outdoor amenities but there's some cool renderings about those later this is an example of a unit so this is a one bedroom unit you walk in let's see you walk in you've got to wash all units have full size washer and dryer this one is a I wish I could have gotten a picture of what this will look like from the inside because and correct me if I'm in the wrong part of the building but it's got these giant tall windows with the arches am I in the right place and so when you walk in you're just going to you're going to be flooded with this light and this building is awesome because of that the units are going to be out of this world the kitchen is going to have one of these windows the bathroom is going to have one of these windows I mean this we're really excited about this project if you can't tell this is a two bedroom unit this is a very nice two bedroom unit and this is in what are these aren't the day rooms Walter right don't tell me I have it in the wrong place on the map okay okay so these you walk in and it's a you can't well I guess we could break these out into we couldn't break these out into separate units right so this had to be one complete unit so that was the constraint from a historic standpoint and so what you get is a really awesome unit with a it's a two bedroom it's got an office and then it's got these four corners of light and this is going to be another spectacular unit again I wish I was able to get pictures of what this looks like today so you can kind of envision it but it'll it'll be it'll be great that might have to be my unit so we have two finished packages I wanted to give you guys an idea of kind of what these are going to feel like they're going to have granite and stainless and we're trying some new stuff as a company so matte black is is trendy so we're going to do some matte black fixtures and really bring in some modern stuff so that the historic aspects of the building really shine let's see Sarah did a good job on this on picking out everything she's with with the architect we've got two schemes two finished package schemes oh amenities so the amenities sections are kind of in stack so we've stacked them on three floors on either side that you can see kind of in the building layout there the floor one on the left side has a unit underneath it so we had to do something kind of quiet and then we're going to have the idea was to stack and mix lounges and fitness so that people are encouraged to walk to one another so if I want to walk to the yoga studio I'm encouraged to go to different sections of the building and I have a better chance of meeting my community members and residents and seeing everything so that was the thought behind that you can see some renderings of the fitness center down below so this is a little more information on the amenities but I think you guys probably want to see the pictures so that's the pool where's that located so that is right there's kind of two U shapes I call them the pool is in the U shape on the left okay who's that no I touched it there we go you really can't see it that much from the exterior it's kind of tucked away in a courtyard you can't see it from the front of the building so if I'm standing we're not used to seeing this part of the building the front of the building is down that's awesome I just realized that so if I'm standing this is the front of the building this is where you see the giant the cupola is about right here so your pool is right here and so it'll be really nice and private for the residents it won't take away and this is why the pool has to be kind of tucked away this building didn't historically have a pool and so we can't put a big swimming pool out front it's not historically appropriate but I think it to me it works right there I don't know maybe I don't like being out in a bikini in front of buildings so that's the pool I think this doesn't show some water fountains and this is pre-VE so I'm fighting hard to keep all of these design elements they're in the price that we have from the contractor now and we're full steam ahead on the scope so these are hopefully here to stay these design elements a lot of times you start with a very exciting design and then sometimes things get veed but they work within the budget so hopefully they get value engineered value engineered I'm sorry alphabet soup I try to avoid alphabet soup I should also try to avoid leaving the microphone so this is the grilling garden and I'll go back to where where this is wow this little light here is great this is the grilling garden this is kind of another one of these pockets here between these buildings this is all contiguous and then this one we'll accept for I think building four back here this building is not connected to these this is kind of one of these little thoroughfares covered awnings and so you've got a lot of green space put since we have a pool over here what can we put over there and so this is what we've is that separate building going to be apartments also yes, yeah and those are where the lofts are mostly and those on the the dining halls those will be great, these will all be really great units this is the grilling, oops one of the grilling garden so we've got a fire pit right here some grills, some seats you can see where the building is around it so this is the the timeline I'll let you guys look at it for a second but we're planning to start the cupola is in three yes, yeah yes yeah so this is the cupola but building one and two are individual building four is technically individual am I right and then everything else is contiguous so the plan is to close and start construction in the first half of 2020 so that's really soon to me, that's very soon he said we've been working on this not soon enough we have done a lot and we have a lot a lot less but still some still to do but we we have not changed the first half of 2020 date we plan to start and close in the first half of 2020 will be under construction until phase one is delivered so we're going to deliver this in phases phase one is this section right here and this is 66 units and 44,000 feet and that includes building two which is this again the standalone dining hall so that we're planning to deliver in the second half of 2021 are you going to get through all the phases and then people move in or will you kind of as you complete phases open those up for residents that's a really good question gotcha yeah our plan is to in part of the reason you can't see this here but there's a parking lot we're building right here is going to be parking so we'll kind of start on this corner and kind of work our way work our way over so it's not going to be awkward for residents living in phase one that people are still the goal for us is that they won't notice that they're living on it that's the hope and some you know we'll let them know that the other side of the building is under construction like the units that are right right when is the cupola scheduled that is phase three I believe that the first half of 2022 issues connecting phase one and two logistically I'm just talking about logistic if you've got phase two open and phase one open yeah do you want the pointer sure if you look at phase one how's that if you look at phase one you can see that and imagine if you will the parking lot beyond as she described so everyone there the wall that is buildings three and four in phase three separates the construction and then if you go to phase two there's going to be a parking lot just to the left of that so those people again can avoid the construction the idea is the construction traffic can come and go you've got a lot of trucks you've got a lot of people and then you don't want residents having to deal with that noise complaints etc so they'll be completely separate and then construction doesn't like the tenants any more than the tenants like the construction when you say wall it's a 20 inch thick I mean it's like not like a wall it's like a wall a real wall yeah this entire building is built out of 20 to 24 inch thick masonry walls from the ground to the roof and each of the small rooms if you notice in the floor plan there were big black walls shown those are the original walls and they're masonry and you'll never hear your neighbor tall how tall? 14 feet? 13 feet? I was in there this morning before meeting with the city and when you walk into this main part of the building here come on clicker it's got a drop ceiling a ceiling that's built below kind of like this ceiling there's mechanical tucked up over it and the ceiling tiles are missing in a couple of places and so in a couple of ways you're walking through you can kind of see how tall the ceiling is and what I like to do is squint and try to picture it when it's done and it's it'll really be a fantastic building we're really proud to be a part of it so phase one and two will the walk-in trail and all that be done in that phase? that is the dog park all that the dog park will likely come with the adjacent phases just because of where it's located it's by phase two it's by it's kind of right here and your pool's kind of right here and then this is where your grilling garden is and so the way I think about it is the pool will come online probably with these two phases here and we're actually there's an idea right now to swap these two for that exact reason because of the face you're making no pool yeah we're with you so we're going to try to think through how we might swap these and think through what that might look like but what I think about might happen is we'll start here the grilling garden and everything will get delivered all of this curb and gutter will go in these building entrances will be active site egress in and out of the building in and out of the site will be active and then this is where your construction boundary will be and so everything over will be construction only and then as I think Walter said or Hugh said you can really keep everybody happy or as happy as they can be and then my second question is lighting about how many lots I mean HUD is as Hugh said very particular and they're involved in everything from your design to historic they underwrite you really well and so they require and we want to build a safe site of course so we have at least one foot candle I think it's one foot candle across the entire site which is foot candle is how you measure it's not this bright um how would you describe a one foot candle one foot candle is sort of a standard for a safe parking lot and what across the site it's not across the entire site like in terms of amount of light how lit it is we don't want people like walking to their car and it being like dark and is that the question that you're asking I hope okay yeah we don't yeah we've done a photo it's called photometric study where you you figure out how much light you need and where to make it a safe site yeah brighter in the parking lots like with our shopping centers we build to a minimum we're actually doing a mixed use project so one foot candle averaged across probably you're going to have brighter spots in the project that's real important in the walking trail yeah when you want to strike the balance between feeling safe but like also not stadium lights there's a balance to be struck there yeah you're exactly right any other questions are you having to do a lot of infrastructure improvements like I mean I can't imagine like the water lines are in great shape there Chandler does the infrastructure include one gigabit service from Sega that will be a selling point I guarantee you that will be huge that system has a monitor on it what you call the thing that filters out the bad people y'all know what y'all talking about it has a server of some sort that keeps that way yeah I'm not technical or that technical let's see I think we're maybe $1.75 $1.65 in today's $1.65 that's the whole yep I think this is one of the last slides but I like your questions they're good so this is obviously not a small project it's not a simple project it's one of the biggest projects that I've ever worked on the most complicated you know moving all kinds of moving pieces but I could not I don't want to speak on behalf of you but we've got the best team assembled and stakeholders and support and without I'm sure I'm missing people on this list but without the support of everybody this wouldn't happen so it really does take a village so thank you well thank you for great report this is something we've been anticipating for a couple of years now your reputation preceded you and we're delighted to meet you in person and see the great work I would just blown away with the drawings that you had there things that are to come really exciting and I think it's going to be a project that kicks off the completion of Bull Street it's going to be the linchpin that keys the rest of the development and I can't wait to get it done soon I hope we are in line there one big one oh do I have another slide? oh how can you keep helping so one challenge we have with the building still being vacant is it's dangerous and so we want to make sure that the I know I was in a sorority so I know that you do things and people get dared to go into buildings and it's really not a safe place so if you hear about anybody going into the building encourage them not to we were in full hard hat closed toed steel toed shoes it's not we don't want any injuries between now and when we're eagerly starting construction this was in charge of security there is that huge are y'all doing that? I know Robert used to have cameras out there you still have cameras out there it's been a joint effort between the city property we have a great it's still owned by the department of millhouse it is a challenge anything we can do to help provide that security and back up to the security that you already have we'd be glad to do that I will say that the police on site now have stopped me and I'm wearing a hard hat and they've even said ma'am I'm okay I think yeah so that's it unless Hugh or Walter you guys have anything hi yeah I have all of them yeah oh no I was really curious about each phase and the garbage is it going to be one big can the area where they're going to throw the garbage is each building going to just going to be one for all I'm glad you asked about that so one thing that we've done every market we have apartment communities in different markets one market that we're in recently is the example project from the beginning and that's in Mecklenburg County and Charlotte and they handle trash valet trash which I had never heard of valet trash when I moved there but it's great you basically put your trash out in front of your door and they collect it for you it's awesome but you have to remember to put it out on time which I forget sometimes then it goes they take it to the dumpster and we have one dumpster corral valet trash that's a good question trash is the one dumpster corral valet trash that's a good question that's a good question so are you just going to have a dumpster corral or are you also going to offer recycling within the cellar? we usually do a big dumpster corral and within that we have the way we've done it in the past is we have the receptacles and then we'll have recycling toters in there and now I don't live in one of our projects at my building that I live in in Charlotte and it's all about recycling and trash collection it just depends on the servicer you get and so we'll start interviewing servicers and pick the best service for the project so you put the garbage in and recycle in the hallway and on a certain day they come and pick up it's all has to be kind of but that is an option that's what my community does it's a little more but I use the service where are you in the process of selecting the contractor? the contractor we met with the contractor and our engineers and designers with the city today we have a price HUD has our cost certification group has the price we're full seam ahead thank you all for that great report and we're excited about getting this project under construction getting the cupola painted before Tuesday yeah thank you thank you all for coming down thanks for having us channel you want to give us an update on the rest of the project you might have used this before but the laser pointer game changer I actually didn't prepare slides just knowing really I think the star of the show is the Babcock project I would like to commend Clackin Properties and Walter Parks Architects for being here they truly have kept their head down and kept working this is an incredible undertaking and the amount of effort and energy and time they have put into this project is really unbelievable so I'm glad to share that what we've been seeing and the progress they've been making over the past couple of years the one thing that we kept hearing about was time and time when is this going to get under construction we've worked on it for a long time but something that we love about Clackin is that they are not sacrificing quality for time and you can see in their drawings and in their renderings and in their finished packages what a quality group that they are and it's something that aligns very closely with the vision for bolstery because we want it done right and we only have one shot to renovate this building there's only one Babcock as I said it's a thousand textile mills and those are great projects but there's only one opportunity to get this done and have it done well and done correctly so I just wanted to point that out what a wonderful job that they've done so far as just an update on other things going on on campus at Bull Street you guys have probably seen a lot of additional construction at REI so that infrastructure, the extension of Boy Street and extension of Freed Street to Bull will be finished early January of next year we'll also turn over the REI Shell building to them beginning of next year for their tenant outfits and they will open in the spring of 2020 which is something we're really really excited about so be on the lookout for that in the park we've got irrigation underway now so there's continued movement there continued progress, we've done some renovation of existing picnic structures which are a cool amenity that will have their Merrill Gardens continues with their interior outfits so they're now upfitting all their units they'll open beginning of next year to residents and that's our first for rent project you know when they will start renting I had that question asked Saturday they already have a marketing trailer on site so you can go and get additional information from them about what exactly their time frame is I know it'll be early next year but exactly when they're going to start moving people and I believe it's still a little bit to be determined in the next launch of next year there's also some clearing and grading going on in preparation for the med school if anybody's seen that back along Hardin Street so that's been additional ongoing there and then the profit dixon project that we talked about last time amongst many other things but that will go to the county for a vote on that for the November 5th council meeting so something else we've continued to see progress on and hopefully we can get them into give you all an update on what they're working on lots of things happening lots of positive momentum where's the profit dixon it is right across from the first base building and Segra park so across the residential with retail that'll also have a parking component to which will be some for residential and in conjunction with office there'll be additional people that park there that are office workers and then the ground level will be dedicated to retail very good any other questions I can answer questions, thank you channel appreciate that miss you have anything else for the commission I don't, what about the next meeting date our next meeting is scheduled for December the 16th and we have traditionally not had the December meeting is it okay with y'all if we skip over December we will take that as a yes okay so y'all put it on the agenda okay you put it on the agenda but you're moving to eliminate it I think we put it on there when we were doing the whole year so when will be the next meeting that February February February 17th February 17th any questions from the commission thank y'all for coming and thank channel and others for arranging to have this good briefing from I think that's a very exciting project can't wait to, it's even better than I thought it was going to be can't wait to get it under construction we will be adjourned I apologize for being late I had a hard time


So Natasha Denona has finally revealed her dream collection, which we've known about for three weeks now, but finally we have more details. So I'm doing a shopper drop part two to all of the details on this collection. So I will link my original shopper drop on just like one of the promo images that we had. And I had to do a whole video based on that. But now that we know stuff, I'm excited to kind of update you. Now, before we get into it, one, I do not have the palette, but I will in the next couple of days. So stay tuned for that. Make sure you're subscribed if you want to see the video. But even that this might seem a little bit redundant, I want to give you my thought process behind posting this video, okay? Because it is simply just a short update video since I've gone over my thoughts and I will have a review very soon. So I got the idea to do these dedicated shopper drops videos from actually watching Sims channels. So if you know Lil Simsie, she's my girl, she's my favorite Sims YouTuber to watch. And I noticed she and other gaming YouTube channels, they will post like a five, six, seven minute video for the day on just a little update that's happening on the game. And I found myself watching those videos and being really excited. So I thought, well, I'll just do the same for makeup. And anytime there's an update, a launch that I'm really excited about even before I get to have it. To have fun just commenting on my thoughts, my anticipation, the details that we do know. So I've been doing this series since literally November of last year, but I've never given an explanation why I do these and where it's coming from. Because I don't think any channels do these update videos like me. But anyways, yeah, that's why I do this. It's just a different style of video that I know is not very popular in the beauty community right now. But anyways, let's get into what we know about the new Natasha Denona collection. So she originally, I guess, posted on Instagram, she posted on all of her platforms at the same time. But finally, she's revealing her collection as we've known about it for a while. And here is all the details. So this is available right now for pre-sale at natashajenona.com. On September 6th, it will be available exclusively on the Sephora app. So I believe the day I'm posting this, you should be able to purchase it on the Sephora app. I will have the link down below if you would like to shop through my link. And then September 7th is the official launch date. So that's when it will no longer be pre-ordered on Natasha Denona. And it will be available on Beauty List September 7th. If that is when you're interested. I have the whole list here.  So make sure you check out Natasha Denona's Instagram where she will have where and when the palette and collection will be available everywhere. But starting today, you are able to order it if you would like. And we finally have some new promo pics. So let's take a closer look. I'm actually gonna do a screen recording of the Natasha Denona website because the website has been updated. I used to hate Natasha Denona's website, but now it actually looks really good. Like look at this. And then we have the items and the collection below or right here. I guess so you'll be able to see the eyeshadow palette is $69 US dollars. The dream cheek trio is $48. The dream lipstick is $27, $27 for the lip gloss and $24 for the lip crayon. If you want live swatches, check out her Instagram. She has them. I've already watched all of them. I'm excited. And then you can get the full set for $176, which will save you a little bit of money. It's $195 for everything individually. Before you ask, I pre-ordered from the Natasha Denona website, though I think the palette might be available in my Estafora store tomorrow. So I'm gonna take a look at that. But anyways, here is the palette. We finally have some new promo pictures and the palette looks much better if you ask me in these pictures. So you can see right here, like this look. She has this tutorial posted on YouTube. I am totally going to recreate that look. It looks so pretty. And these are all tutorials that she has on her YouTube. If you want to see how she gets these looks. So this is the MIDI size. It is a MIDI size palette, thank goodness. My dream eyeshadow palette, which brings 15 of Natasha's favorite eyeshadows in the captivating constellation of shades inspired by elements of life that illuminate and intensify her creative vision. So I feel like on her website, we don't have the best photos. So I'm gonna hop on over to Instagram here and here you can see a little better. This looks a lot more purple to me than the original kind of blurry photos that we saw. So pretty, so, so gorgeous. Okay, that's the whole collection. Do we have anything else? If you go on her Instagram, you can see right here, we have some swatches of her showing off the glimmers and the shimmers. And I'm gonna have the swatches play while I explain some of the details of the palette. So right now Natasha's going to begin swatching of the shades. So there are 15 shades and to clear up confusion, two of the shades are pre-existing. So the black is black, which is sold in an individual and a mini Xenon palette. That's where those exist. But it is now in this palette and I don't have an issue with that because it's a black eyeshadow. You know what I mean? There's nothing wrong with that. And the second shade, while these are swatching, you can see Natasha Denona is taking her time because it was hard for me to figure out what the second shade was. I believe it is, okay. So I asked you guys on Instagram, I'm actually refilming this because I didn't know the second shade and even you guys are giving me different answers. Someone said Bellatrix from the Star Palette relaunch, Deep Dive from Bronze Serenity. There she did not say what palette it came from. See, that's the thing, I really am not sure but I know one of you guys know in the comments. So make sure you comment down below if you know better than me because I don't know. And I couldn't figure it out. So if you can comment down below, that would be so helpful. But black is black is definitely one of them. And it's interesting because in her Instagram video, she was explaining how some of the shades, she actually kind of revamped already existing shades. So there was a couple of shades that she mixed some pre-existing colors together. There's a couple of shades where she loved the color but she reformulated it or gave it a completely different finish, which I'm fine with to me. That is not a repeat as long as it is changed up. So yeah, okay, look at that. So gorgeous, that shade on the bottom of her arm. I can't stop staring at it. This palette is so stunning. We have two more colors to swatch before I move on. But okay, here's the thing. Natasha Denona swatches though, they always look way better than they actually swatched because I mean, she puts a lot of weight into her swatches to get a really satisfying swatch. But in reality, a lot of times they don't transfer onto the lid like that I keep that in mind, but this looks beautiful. Okay, so that was the last swatch. Here's the palette. I'm really excited for that duo chrome. So here's a closer look into the palette. Black is black right there in the corner is obviously the matte shade that's repeated. And then down below it, we have instinct, which is gorgeous. And then risk, which if you move in for shades that is inspired by instinct, but more peachy.  They say it's a multi-chrome metallic with shifts of green, pink, nude and gold. I'm so excited about it, but there are a lot of different gorgeous shades. And of course, I will be swatch comparing this between the glam and the retro. And it still gives me those vibes. There's a lot of cooler toned shimmers that I think we can get pretty close matches from with the glam palette. But I do think these promo pics look prettier than what we saw before, but I'm still really excited about this. This is the second time I'm saying this, this being the second video. But even though this might not be the most unique or exciting palette, I will say I love this color story. It's something that I'm very comfortable with. So I'm excited about it personally. And I'm excited to see how these shimmers swatch on my arms. But you're gonna be beautiful. But it really truly is like glam and retro had a baby, though from this particular photo, I can say I feel like it does like a little bit richer. It dives more into the plummy purpley tones, but we'll have to see. I haven't seen it in person. You guys will see very soon. But that's the eyeshadow palette. Those are the details. I'm still very, very excited about it. So let's go ahead and keep moving to the other products in the collection. We have the My Dream Cheek Trio, which is $48. So this has one cream blush and two different highlight formulations in the palette. She says this is kind of like the quads that she came out with, like the Bloom palette, the Bronze palette, but in a more compact form, meaning there's just one last shade. And I do enjoy her cream blush formula, though I found in a previous palette that it did dry out. So we'll see if that's the case with this one. Now the cream blush is in the shade Natasha, which matches the lipstick in this collection, which is preexisting. I own Natasha, it's a gorgeous color. So it's the cream blush version of that lipstick color. And then what are the other formulas? We have the Glow Cream Base, which is kind of like a cream to powder formulation. I don't reach for that formula that much, but I don't think it's about formula. And then the Dream Glow Powder, which is gonna give you that right on top of the Glow Cream Base. And Natasha does a really good job with layering her highlights and creating a really beautiful glow. And just looking at this, like you're gonna get a beaming glow with this. Personally, I find layering highlighters a bit redundant, but Natasha always creates palettes in which the formulas are meant to be layered and mixed and matched. And that is right on par with how she usually does it. As far as I'm aware, these are all new shades, though how many different shades of highlights can we get? I would certainly compare in my review how these look next to some of my preexisting shades. But yeah, I'm excited about this. And then there's a lipstick and a lip gloss and a lip liner. So the lipstick here is $27. This lipstick already exists. It's in the shade Natasha Denona. It's in the shade Natasha. But what she said about this one is it's in a clean vegan lip formula. So it's still the same color, still the same. I need a nude formulation, but it's clean and vegan. So I don't know if her previous one was not, but she said it in her video as if that was new. So it is clean and vegan. It's a gorgeous color. I very much enjoy the color. And she also is going to launch it in a lip liner formulation. So this already exists as well, but it is repackaged in the new Dream Packaging, which I don't really like, but I'll talk about that at the end. This I believe is the exact formulation, not like clean vegan, anything exciting about that. And then the very, very last lip gloss is in the shade Natasha as well. But it's never been launched in this color. This is in the I Need a Rose formulation. I don't love this formulation. I do not find that it's shiny enough for me, nor does it last long enough. It's not a lip gloss formulation that I'm reaching for over some of my favorites. It's subpar if you ask me. What I would recommend the most my favorite formula is the Lipstick, but I already own it and you might too, the lip liner, again, pre-existing but really nice. But of that whole lip combo, I'm not the biggest fan of this formula from Natasha Denona, but it's a gorgeous, mauve-y shade, cool, neutral, but still is able to go with a lot of different looks. If there was one thing in the collection that I'm not as excited about, it's going to be the lip gloss. And then finally, the packaging itself, now that I've gotten a better look, I'm personally not into it. It looks like there was an uh-oh on your makeup, like your liquid eyeliner exploded all over your makeup bag. It's what the packaging looks like to me. It just looks dirty. It makes it look a little cheap and un-lux. But that being said, that doesn't mean I'm not gonna buy it. Just because it's not to my taste doesn't mean it's not to yours. I'm really excited about this collection. It seems like a pretty wearable, more or less palette, especially with the cheeks, the lips, those are definitely very wearable and the palette can definitely be made wearable. Well, maybe this isn't the most exciting collection. This is true to what Natasha Denona loves, what she would wear. And I have to say, Natasha and I, we have very, very similar tastes. So I'm excited for this collection to come my way. I also filmed these videos to know your thoughts and to help me with my review. So comment down below any comparisons you wanna see, anything that I didn't cover that you would like for me to cover down below. This helps me prep for my overall review so that I can give you the best information possible. So I hope you enjoyed this little chit chat on what we now know with the Dream Collection from Natasha Denona. Really excited to have this coming my way. And I believe tomorrow I will be doing this video on the new Hourglass Palettes. So keep an eye on that. I've already filmed it. I filmed it this weekend. I just needed to edit it. This was a little bit more time sensitive. So that's why this one is going, okay. Anyways, this is for me to figure out in the background. I hope you guys enjoyed this video and have a good one. And I'll catch you in the next one. Bye guys, have a good one.