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Hey guys this is EKB news reporter Shelby Porter here at Velocity Market in Pikeville. I'm standing here with Paul Maynard, Public Safety Director for Pikeville. This is a very unusual scene. We don't really see this very often. Paul's going to kind of tell us a little bit about what happened. Basically we had an elderly female driver. She pulled up the velocity where the front doors are and from what we're gathering that she actually made a mistake, hit the gas pedal instead of the brake and she actually struck the building and made entry into the building. There was a cashier on the other side of the wall. Initial reports was that she was possibly trapped however when we got here she was not. We did some initial I guess investigation and that's how we determined that she had actually put the gas instead of the brake. Right now we did transport the cashier just as a precautionary matter and the driver's not being transported so we're working the velocity and the fire department EMS and police to get this vehicle out of here and hopefully get them back operating as soon as possible. So right now Velocity Market is obviously closed. Absolutely. You guys are working together in order to get it back up and running. No major injuries at that we know of right now. I'm not sure how the cashier is. She was transported as a precautionary not really to be sure what the injuries were before but luckily she wasn't trapped as initially reporting. But we do know that it's not life-threatening. As far as I can tell. As far as we know it's not life-threatening at this time we will keep you updated. Traffic right now is okay. Nothing's blocked just Velocity Market is closed but we're working to get that open. As you can tell behind us they're moving the car so I'm going to kind of let you see the scene a little bit. Just the front of the building you can see the window right at this time. So we'll keep you updated here on the EKB news and we'll have a full report on the EKB evening news at six.


And at different meetings and different conversations I've heard going on in the neighborhood, there's been some interest or comments on things people would like to see in the park or not see in the park. And so I thought it might be interesting to have people come and share their ideas and see how we build on them and see what we can do to improve the park. So we'll start. First of all, thank you all for allowing us to have a captive lead there in the top of the park. Beautiful. And then secondly, I want to apologize because I realized that I had somebody outside in the space. For the next one, I didn't realize we had not actually done all these other things. So thank you and I apologize. Can you start? I've seen those, I think. What are they or I didn't know anything about them? What they even represent? Oh, yes, Catherine Lee. She'll be in the presentations. Well, Catherine Lee is an abstract artist originally from Tampa, Texas, which is in the northern part of the Panhandle. And she now lives in Moorley, Texas. And she takes generic, not generic, what am I trying to say, organic shapes and like monoliths and stones and makes them into sculpture. And so those are pieces called sorrow, I believe. And there's three different parts of sorrow. I'm going to like, love. I'm not going to remember all of them because I, between that and other things, like, life, love, sorrow, sorrow. Three sorrows. Life, love, death. And how would they pay sorrow? She loaned them to us. She loaned them to Dresden Pudes. Dresden Pudes is a, if you don't know that, is a non-profit organization that was started by two gentlemen who were lawyers, Bruce Tarver and John Wood. And I have been involved since pretty close to the beginning. They were always looking for a space and place in San Antonio to do these kinds of things. The idea of having a well-renowned sculpture park. And, you know, when you talk to other people like the city of W.I.S.A., you can use a millennium park in Chicago, as an example. Of course, that's a completely different from our park. But the idea that you can walk through both having a sculpture and nature interact so that you have that combination of creativity that happens both organically and creatively. So, and you guys were very kind to allow us to have a three-year loan from Ms. Catherine Lee. And then, out here today, we'll go to the presentation, but we're asking if you would allow us to add a sculpture to the park, which is by James Searles. James Searles grew up, I hate this moment. I feel like it's Temple, Texas, or Tyler, Texas. I get those confused. The roses are not the roses, but... Temple, Tyler, Texas. Yes, I know, but I'm not going to agree with you on this one. Oh. So he's been around for a long time. He was a Texas artist. You may be familiar with one of his pieces that's downtown on Main Street. They put that roundabout on Main, over by Baptist Hospital in the library, and then you go down towards downtown. They put down... So there's one there. So he uses kind of his idea, and you'll see images, his idea is to take organic shapes, like plant shapes, and that's what he does for sculpture. And he's been around for a long time. He's one of our master sculptors here in Texas. He's been collected by many, many institutions, including the Eastern Art Museum. I think the McNay has one. I think the... I think Samma has one. But they're not... They're small. They're not in a space where you can feel it. And I think, you know, this part particularly, because of all the amazing trees, and the fact that you can really do that part in a way that isn't square.   That linear way that moves because of the safety of the history of that is just amazing to me. And I'm also an artist, so I might get a little too poetic. Please stop. So that... Any other questions before I start? Okay. So this presentation was put together by Adam Ceil. He's in Berlin, and so he's also an artist in town. I am going to try to channel him. So that's us. So the part of the thing was in... This is the list of stars and non-profit foundation is all the amazing things that happen in Hemstor Park during the 68th World's Fair. We've had art from all over the world. And we still have some of that still in center today. There's a... Smith, that's in the big name. Big Q. But anyway, so we'll start our presentation. So that's... Uh-oh. She went the wrong way. So here's 68. And we have lots of people coming through from all over the world. And this is a two-lots culture that I think still resides or parts of it or something similar to it still resides in Ludi. So we still have some of these treasures. There's Hemisphere, of course. That was done by an artist, Robert Indiana. You may know that McNay has a piece on their patio that says Love. That's Robert Indiana. He actually made the poster for Hemisphere. So the idea that, essentially, it has a history of having, you know, artists from this echelon all the way through including the incredible creative community we have here. So that is our Tony Smith. An interesting... I've worked at the McNay for 13 years also. So I always wanted to see if we could sell tickets to have Tony Smith come help us watch this. When we watched this thing, it was like watching a mag truck. We had to climb on it and start from the bottom down. This is a Catherine Lee. So they also have a Catherine Lee. So we're a good company as art collectors I guess in a sense, or art borrowers.  Let's dismantle all these things. And some of you made for this legend. So the workers came in. I will tell you this is three-quarter inch steel because I climbed on it. They took it apart and made barbecue pits and ice chess out of it. And I wish I had one of those today because that is a collector's item. So the McNay, when they chose to have it as their part of the collection, they made a deal with that. Actually, I think Robert Toe would pay for it to be redone. So that's why we have Tony Smith. But I like that combination. The way we live and the way we have rights. So this is a Richard Serles piece. And we're just showing you the parts that we've been showing you here now. It's called, we're taking excerpts from a store key, which is a huge sculpture part that goes for, I think, 23 to 30 acres and just rolls down the hills. I'm taking it to work. But this is some of the things that we looked at to kind of inspire and figure out how we wanted to move as a combination. So we're just going to move through some pieces. I don't know everybody's piece, but I think this might be, doesn't seem like it has color, but it could be. No, I'm not even going to pretend I know. And these are bomber headboards. This is also a collection from, well, we don't collect these, but the McNay has a bomber headboard given to them by Tom Slick that started the Mind Science Center and was an adventurer's gentleman. So look at this beautiful thing. It looks like it was there forever and I'm not, I don't know the artist, I'm sorry, but look at that. Isn't that great? It's the one piece of path. It's like these, these are slate pieces that are put down the ground. This that I know is, this is the pieces of the mail. But these are the kinds of things that can happen part depending on what comes to us. We raise money to, we raise money to continue, hopefully to have a movie exhibition so nothing's permanent. At the moment we have agreements with the artist to have three year lots. Because we figured that we would get an idea of whether everybody is interested in how this works and how it's working. I mean we're in it together as a cultural and creative experiment, right? Going backwards. So this one is Anne Wallace, local artist who we all love to know, well I did. She saw it with my sister to me. But this is a fact of practice part which you of course all know, I'm sure. But these are the, you know, Anne was looking at, of course nature and how it was dissected. So this is Captain Lee and she's been, she was very generous to us to let us go to her studio and offer us works. And she's a Wimberley and at some point we'll arrange something so we can all whoever wants to go, she's so kind to, I'm sorry, I don't have control. This is also her studio. And then we move to the park. So this is just the way the park is now. Here's our Captain Lee's over here. And I'm not quite, this is just Anne's putting together a way that people are interacting with these pieces. So we'll talk to Captain Lee, we'll just put them in, this is a photoshopped in when we present this to you. And then she came out and placed some of the places where this is her, where this is her talking to us about these pieces. These are wall pieces. She has, Sam had just acquired a piece of hers.  That's okay. That's okay, we'll go back. This is me and my team putting them in. That was a fun day. It was cold. But better this way because I just switch on these things. I don't have to do that. Captain has his idea when we find that you have some kind of, you know our public activities, they're hollow. She wants the musician to come and play them. How much do they weigh? They weigh about three, not to pick up by yourself, but not too bad, they're hollow. But I think that they look lovely there personally and the way she plays them they obviously feel like they're dancing. Okay, so this is Mr. Searls. I can read that to you if you know how about it. I am Tarot Texas, Tarot. He's been around a while. He's been a great influence in Houston particularly and he is collected as you can see pretty extensively all over the world. So this is an example of his works. You can see that most of these are interiors except for, of course, this one. Some of his work.  He's like a six foot something guy. These three are proposing for, this is actually coming as a moment for the Rockport Museum or our association and they are willing to lend it to us for three years. So that's where is the Rockport. You can see the dimensions. I think the white even though it's very, very, very organic up against the green and the branches and trees would be really lovely. It's like a reverse line drawing or something like that. So here's the location we're proposing and that's the apologies because something's already up there. Could you go back to that please? Yes, I'm sorry. I'm trying to figure out where I'm at. The fountain's in the front left. It's not very far. It's not very far from the Catholic League. It's maybe like a walk if you have one. Okay, I found it. My six houses there and there's the location if you look at it. The guy was out there but I think that they're having a way today. Yes. My apologies, that was my mistake. I thought things were further along. What was he? He was carrying a site and I again I apologize tonight. That was misunderstanding. I'm sorry. That's the piece there. That's the piece there. Well it's nice to see what they're planning. How big is that piece? 8 feet tall. That's the location. It was being and from the sidewalk do you have any dimensions in the area? Can you go back again? From the sidewalk does that go down? Yes. Nestle, I'm sorry. Nestle approach. Nestle approach is trying to approach the sidewalk. Well, there's a sidewalk there. Yeah, it's on the side. Oh that's true. That's a walking material. So that helps a little more for that. Yes sir. So it's in the narrow mozo? Yes, it is in the narrow mozo. And if we get approval, I don't know how to stop that. There'd be footings up so the flowers could grow around it. So the footings would keep it from being you know right on the grounds. There'd be footings up about 6 inches or so. 6-8 inches. So it'd be standing above and within the... How many posts or feet do you think it'll have? It'll have 5. 5. They're 8 inch diameter and then there's a plate on this side of it. I may get this right or wrong but it's 12 inches by 8 inches. So I suppose that'll encourage people to trample the flowers to go take pictures of them. It's pretty close to the street. She said it's out of the mozo. It's in the no-mozo. It's in the no-mozo as well that they wouldn't trample things if it's in the no-mozo. So that's the presentation. So we're ready to discuss it. Okay, here's my comments. I'll just give you my comments. First of all, the one we have at the top of the hill, we did not approve it. We made the park or approved it. And then it kind of came in and said we're putting this at the top of the hill. So it came in as a surprise. It was in the bulletin. That's what I found out about it. It was actually... My recollection is that they asked us for input but my understanding from what the commission that they got together to propose this had indicated to us that they could proceed with city park approval only. Oh. So they asked us for input which we gave but that was approved by the city park. My point is the second point is a lot of these angles are much larger open areas making park is a very limited area. And I understand what artists are trying to do. Artists are trying to find a place for art. That's my next point. We're going from one going to two. How far are we going in this in main park? I mean are you going to put art all the way down to Breckenridge? Is there going to be a connection? How far... How many pieces of art are they expecting to put in this park? We need a number. I doubt if you stop... I doubt if you're stopping at two something just tells me there's going to be one and there's going to be two and there's going to be three and there's going to continue. That's just my guessing of course. Third point is personally I'm not personally attracted to this type of art. I mean that's just a personal opinion some people may think it's gorgeous I personally don't like the art. I'm not terribly happy with the ones that put it in top deal. They just look like geometric shapes to me. So I mean you can like it if you like it. I'm glad that you brought this to show us what you're trying to put there because when the top ones were in the top of the deal I had no idea. All I knew was art was coming I didn't know what. And again it could be a missed communication somewhere it's all about communicating. I'm just reluctant to go from one piece to two piece to where it's going because it boils down to you have artists they want to place the good art and they found many parts and all of a sudden many parts is becoming our art display place. So that's just the way I see it. So everybody else will comment on anything which Rick. There has been discussion that they're trying to create a outside art museum or sculpture museum from Broadway to Botanical Gardens. Okay well that's new to me too. Yeah well it's all in discussion and it's part of like the Broadway expansion and the museum reach and all of that sort of to bring culture and artwork of various natures and they're going to call it outside sculpture museum. So your points are about how many pieces we will have or would like to have in the art. So I think we had a meeting last week to discuss that issue specifically. So the next step for us will be to have a master plan exercise between present areas and many parts. So we can start mapping exactly if we, as we do acquire more art where would it go? How many pieces can we make it more art? More art because you have a lot of artists who want to display art. Right but the artists are not coming to us we're going to them, we're finding pieces that we want to make art. We decided to open a call for art work. Well I'm just looking at the dimensions. You have one at the top of the hill and your next one is only about what? 6 houses down? If they're going to do an evenly spaced and manky part I'm seeing 10 12 pieces of art not that you're going to do them evenly spaced but that's just what I see. Right. You haven't gone very far for your next piece don't tell me you're going to go to the other end of the art and put the next one there and you're done. So I mean just tell me it's just a piece after piece after piece after piece I personally you don't have a number to give me No, no, no, we're just working on the master and now to bring to you and I just want these two. I will sir also reminding that these are just loans? For three years. Right. Now for the top one at the top of the hill is up for three years are you going to put something else there in this place? That would be probably a replacement of That's another question. That's another question. That's what I'm saying. That's one of the discussion conversations.  I'm guessing and again I'm guessing because we don't have the answers to this. It's just going to rotate. It's just going to rotate a different piece of artwork because Manky Park is now designated an art to play a display area. A sculpture part. Now if everybody agrees to make Manky Park a sculpture part that's fine. Personally I'm a gardener. Manky Park Community Garden. I'm on the board. Nature is my art. I don't need I don't need it. I go to Manky Park. Nature is my art. I feel it. When in my face it's not on my you know I see the ground. I don't need it. You're changing the natural sculpture of a natural area. Manky Park was designated a natural area park. And you're changing it. So that's just me. I'm going to get a couple other comments. Sure. As someone who has frequented Storm Cave. Pepsico Garden is another sculpture. As someone who's frequented Storm Cave that you mentioned Pepsico Gardens in New York. And other beautiful sculpture gardens I would say I am very exciting and culturally very enriching. There is a difference. You would definitely hurt that already but thank you very much for you. Yes, man. I also love the wildflowers to me they're much more beautiful than any other sculpture. And I'm concerned with sculptures. And people are going to be walking to them. They're going to be trampling the wildflowers. And we already have some of this this year. There were some people that came with furniture to me. And there was another place I look like I've heard about and said trample the blue barn. So I'm thinking that people are there. And also they're going to come to walk through this where they're going to park. And my third thing is so who actually decides on this? Who has the power of making that decision? It sounds like from the other ones maybe we don't even have and ultimately the parks department has final say. Who does? The parks department. So they reminded this project months ago that we came to Manking Park. I'm a resident of Manking Park. I've been on the board before. So we came to the board to let them know what could be done and how they wanted it done. So there was input from Manking Park Board at that time to proceed and in what fashion we would proceed. So that's how it all played out so to speak. Just a comment for two. So I'm hearing, I mean I like art, I kind of like view on you know whatever art is and the city buys the sculptures. No. Okay you said that was acquired from the Colorado defined loan. So that means loan. Well that's good when I paint anything. Okay and then if we that's how it works. So now he makes a very valid point because there's an argument still to make funds in one way towards Botanical coming around Lamar in and out. I don't like that at all. You talk about disturbing the looking kill of the neighborhood with the one way traffic pattern and we have parking problems in Manking Park. Now Gary made a point that maybe they can park at the Botanical Center because they have all that parking area that's usually not full because it would be, i.e. ultimately a tourist attraction which has pluses and minuses. So I mean you know I'm up for stuff. I like culture myself. I love the wall flowers you know and I went to Lamar and word them there. But I mean I'm just, the Parks of Recreation in other words has final say. So unless you have representation on it you'll you'll forget it right wrong or different like it or not like it. They decide but they're being polite. It doesn't matter what we think. Yeah. That's why we're here to have this open dialogue and that's why we want you guys to be a part of the master plan so that you can give us this feedback so that we can go plunk something down where you don't want it. And more than likely we're not going to want to plunk it down right in the middle of a bunch of wildflowers either. So that's what the whole master plan process is about is identifying the best places to place new art. I personally like I do have art but I know that there's a lot of enthusiasm and sensitivity about the wildflowers especially those who are planted or re-seated every year in memory of deceased residents and so and I think there's some particular areas that are kind of more designated for that purpose than others and I think that it would be best if you would avoid those sensitive areas. The first priority of the master plan would be to identify all the places excuse me a second. Would be to identify those places where we would not want to put art and then plan accordingly so it's a thoughtful process. This would be a good time to do that because the pattern of mowing is the same every year and so there's the upper level of art of just to the west of the Crescent and there's a big area that's a NOMO area and then down close to my house there's a NOMO area going down to the drainage area and then but since they haven't noted yet you can see it right now. You can see the pattern. I want to give it to Justin. I know he has a drone and take a fly over for us so that we can see exactly where the planting areas are right now. Because this year the wildfire is really great but they got up to about four feet tall so I'm thinking putting that in an area where we almost have to cover it up. It's not the best place to do it. Especially where you mentioned the guy was packing away out of the wildfire so I'm not going to get all into a different spot where you don't have that situation. We can do that. Yes ma'am. I'm in a peculiar position here because I'm a resident of the neighborhood but I'm also a journalist and I tend to as a journalist just shut up and listen but in this case I'm very curious about how this process conformed with the city's public participation guidelines that were passed by the city council in terms of public input and public participation in this decision. It doesn't sound like it met with those guidelines. Well in my point of view the board is your representation. I mean that's why they're here. Yes. They speak for you. You've elected them and they speak for you. I mean we can't have everybody in making part flow into one building and have a discussion and make a decision. That's what the board is for. So that's what we want to do. Who presented us on this situation? Good. I'm sorry I have to go take up an extra kid who came back from job to father. There's so much disagreement. I think it's a great way to do it together with the additional talk about. Yes the information has been slow to come about. The installation itself was actually late and arriving and the previous board and the current board have been alerted to its slow movement. We're really glad to have them here and we're excited to present what's going on. It was well over a year ago. Well over a year ago and we had the land use committee and the board all come together. I don't know if you folks know who's on the land use committee but there was at least four members of the land use committee and the board. We had a joint meeting and we got the thumbs up to go ahead so that's what we did. So I believe that there was community participation throughout the entire process although it was not needed to satisfy the parks department requirements. That was something that we did to get more input and make it more a cohesive decision. In this new phase we brought this to you now before it's installed so we can get more feedback for the first installment since we also have more information as a board now that we did previous. I think it is a great issue that the first one came out where I saw it in neighborhoods that that part comes coming next month. That's when I first heard about it. That part being a natural park. I mean how come sculptors can go in and you won't even put stones along the sidewalk for people to have respite seating when they're trying to go from the bus on Broadway to the bus on New Braunfels or trying to walk dogs and my back kills me and there's no place to sit. But that's a side issue. What's there what's been placed there I think is questionable but to just make it into a sculpture garden when it's supposed to be a natural park and that's in the neighborhood plan and it's been like this for I don't know a hundred years probably I don't I don't understand the the reasoning. There are a few misconceptions about what exactly is the park supposed to remain it's not supposed to be quote or quote developed but there's a large interpretation of what that actually means to a lot of different people and as far as the parks department is concerned it does not mean sculpture violates the spirit of that agreement so that was one of the first hurdles that we discussed with the board and beyond with the city as well Has there been an extra plan done for Minky Park for the park itself from the park itself? No there was one master plan that was done from an UTSA grad student about a year and a half ago on Facebook and that just showed in a very wide range possibilities My husband and I should both in the architecture and we have been directly involved with the project that happened at Minky Park and it was a great example in which the neighborhood got together and discussed what they wanted from the park and worked together with the city of San Jose department to develop a master plan and acquire bonds for projects and move forward from that but it seems that Minky Park hasn't had that and so there hasn't been any input on what exactly there's a lot of voices about if you remain in nature but there's never been anything formally done on it I would agree with that and that's what the master plan is now can investigate all the intricacies of this agreement that's a hundred and so many years old and see exactly what it says what we can and cannot do so that everybody is on the note I believe in the neighborhood plan which had broad community input in there was a stated desire to enhance the presence of artwork in the neighborhood if not in the park specifically so that should also be that goes back to number if somebody is thinking in number how many pieces of this art they planted at the end that would be six nobody can give you a number what are you saying? that's part of the plan you don't have a number you don't have a master plan yet but we need one before we do that and that's where we are right now I know that they're already putting the art in before the plan is made, it's my point the art is coming in, you're kind of planning and if you put the art in you say we're going to make a plan but the plan is not made we have a plan that says we're going to put one here and here and there and there at least I know there's going to be four or there's going to be ten there's going to be 50 but somebody please give me a number that's represented as not liking what is there that are just as many as not more but I'm really glad to see something happening in this completely undergirded I didn't say I didn't like it I'm just saying I need a plan I just need more than just saying we're going to put a piece of artwork here it's an unknown quantity that's the part of the plan that's the part of the plan it's not like we're destroying it these are temporary sculptures we haven't had an experiment but that goes back to three years but are they going to replace it with new art is it going to move on isn't that the discussion of course it I can tell you from the installations that I've done and did both the May and Friday I'm at the top of the hill those footings will go out because they don't fit in any other art they're specifically made pieces that are going in so they don't work for anything else so they would go away so the four-ton griddle does not well the pudding is eight inches there's only four inches in the ground so it's not like we're destroying the landscape it's four inches in the ground so I just want to say thank you very much for bringing this great presentation and I love I love interaction and what George said just to me it goes very important while we can look at the flower patterns and the growths and this and that if we don't do that now then your plan won't work at all because it destroys the natural and I want to know who's going to be on that committee so we make sure it's covered George can you be on that committee? My question is with the discussions that are happening with the questions that are happening the discussions that are happening related to the city's long-term plans to increase connectivity with Rockbridge Park and both would have asked your presentation principles and went through the typical stakeholder process of the city's managing of regional planning that are fitting with the other layers of planning that are going on with the new regional planning system the parks department has final input and they do develop this master plan in the direction that they're going where does it fit in with the corridor plan and the midtown plan and the other projects that are going on because those processes are already starting Well I think that everybody would like to see some type of better connection between many parks and residents you know see if you're walking with your dog during your family and you want to get across Broadway to enjoy both of these jewels that we have right next to each other but you have this huge barrier in Broadway that really makes it an uncomfortable area to navigate if you have your family pets and whatever so I think that would be one of the priorities that we would discuss going forward and integrating those plans is how to get more people safely in a much better environment so Broadway is supposed to be narrowing there's supposed to be trees we're using lanes all that so that in itself is going to slow traffic down it may make it more congested but it will be slower so I think for making park we should be definitely involved in that process in figuring out what works for us as we try to connect these two pre spots so since you mentioned the master plan being the next step the parks department initiated that process to have their big conversations about it how many? no it's really not a parks department exercise it's more of an internal exercise to get feedback on making park as we move forward so can you explain a little bit more of the relationship between Trace and Toreas and the parks department and how this original project installment is going to be a process that might be used we were completely unknown to the parks department we basically submitted an application and opened up the dialogue between the two parties and came to an agreement rather quickly I think it's misstated that you're saying we're connecting right to which part we're making park we're connecting the wrong way with the patented gardens and that's the lead into the main entrance and that's why the heart is being put there this is separate from this art situation so the city as a whole the concept that's being discussed is to connect the wrong way with the patented gardens so the way that it's being drained at this particular moment the city's perspective is connecting back to which making park with the patented gardens and so this application may have been something to be aware of that all of these layers of planning are going on at various stages one comment if you're getting traffic because it would be kind of an outside gap this is just comments I'm very proud of our park it's never full of trash it's clean thank you I pick it up every day every morning I want you to know I've heard the whole room's worth plus really appreciate that like we don't put up things for barbecues you can't have food or drink stands I mean I know a couple of the rules I'm not an expert on it but I mean it kind of excited me one day when I was at my place on Fuston where people brought their match to exercise in the park you know that's a use that's something where people can get together no they don't have drinks we don't have do we have a water fountain I don't think we have a drinking fountain I brought a drink well I'll look for that also another thing and then who's going to empty it but thanks for leaving comments that's all I have I really appreciate y'all coming we would just I guess not ready for this presentation but it was a great one and is there anything besides modern art y'all can put in there I'm sorry 300 years is 300 years of all kinds of stuff why is it just you know why is it you know I wanted to also mention that you know the recent goals of some of the more recent boards have been to connect more community actions together so we are now meeting here at Lamar we're trying to have different events afterwards you know we've historically dealt with a lot of development and just fighting over things and this is an opportunity for something that we can all have in common a gathering place maybe we can start to use it more instead of just being an underutilized space so I see this as a positive thing and yes it is temporary and yes we cannot make everyone happy but I would hope that we can kind of look at it as a whole maybe we can have some designer art bitches I hope that's not a comment I use the park every day so you know I don't buy this underutilized thing I use it every day I know other people that use it every day families that walk there people that walk their dogs people who look at the flowers in the park and appreciate that it's wild and like to think of it as the last little bit of country in the middle of the city I don't think of it as a space to put stuff and I'm concerned that in looking for spaces to put things that our park got chosen I'm I'm kind of tired of all the new stuff and all the encroachment on the neighborhood that the city of San Antonio has encouraged beginning with the pearl it has a lot to do with money and not that much to do with neighborhood any other comments apart I know people of varying opinions have expressed a desire to do some benches and at least a fresh granite tap on the side of the park that is that's a real fun society are there any other priorities she has a comment she would like to make I just said I like single benches not sleeping benches because we don't need that thank you because we will have sleeping in the park that's a great comment I just wanted to clarify I don't mean I don't mean underutilized by individuals but I can't I've taken my kids over there and we've walked in the park and walked the dog but if we're going to a park we're going to cross Broadway and go to Brackenridge I just mean as a community gathering spot we're not going to get a bunch of our neighbors and say hey let's all go hang out and make a park this is what I mean by that I know where you work with Parkler I've been here for a long time and we do have a lot of friends in the neighborhood who couldn't make it tonight but I know it feels similar to being with young kids but I have never been able to take my kids there to play in the park because people would be upset if I'm a two year old and they're beautiful but he still doesn't understand that and so not allowing connectivity we're not going to have to cross because it's strange to walk into a different area of neighborhood or people would like to play out because it's underutilized from that perspective that's a bit different than the Brackenridge and my point would be that Brackenridge Park is here and Brackenridge Park is here why don't you go to Brackenridge Park and it's a hundred acre park so why I walk my dog in Brackenridge Park and I cross the street and I go to Brackenridge and I totally understand I totally understand that crossing Brackenridge is probably the light's too long it's dangerous to some part but it does have it does have benches it does have kiddie playground it needs a dog park but it's not even go there and there are other green spaces in park besides park that are empty green spaces that perhaps some of this art better in but I still think they're trying to do the connection and I understand it I'm not arguing with it but there are other green spaces in Brackenridge Park as well to be considered that are empty unused spaces these are probably the grades I can just see one suggestion is that if there is going to be a structure in the park to have a path so maybe people wouldn't just walk over the walk I was attracting down everybody will stay on the path but it's nice a way to make it more walk it's a great point it's not people are going to walk the path to look at a piece of art they're going to drive by on the park and look at it they're going to drive by and look at it many park is used by walkers they're not walking it to look at it they're walking it because they're walking the art is going to be there the way it is now do we have any other comments? I bet y'all want a connection welcome to democracy in action you mentioned something before our meeting are there going to be a plexiglass titles we're trying to figure out some better lighting situation something that's nice small, sensitive a little bit more effective than what we have they're already misplaced they're very small lights they'll be aimed directly at the sculptures they're not going to be blinding anybody or shining into anybody's bedroom it's going to be a small light are they solar lights? we have solar lights right now we're looking for a better product if we don't have any other questions or comments you can go ahead and adjourn I do have a copy of the presentation that was created by me to say for our students that I can share to interested parties or post I want to make sure that it's a paper because it was some of these projects before I do but for internal purposes if you're interested in that I wasn't able to pull up some of the resources I received from the various people who have been involved in the town plan but I do have some information and images about what city documents are being produced related to plans to connect them that I'd be happy to share so that we're more informed of the overall planning process I can email them I don't know if we have email address spaces on the back but since I have all this I'm the best student plan is that just something we did or something that was posted on for Daniel, I was not on the board at the time this was a graduate student that you can say? yes so well I've already tried to email her and see if she wants to be part of the discussion again she declined last time but I just thought it might be good to have her input so there was her vision for the entire part obviously we're not going to do or execute her entire vision but she has a lot of history that she gathered and a lot of cognitive thinking and creative thinking went into that plan that she did so I thought it would be a really good start it would be our major and to start yes we've also we've been working for quite some time to look at the agreement that was originally made when the land was given by George McRach and some of the previous plans a white paper but this information for people to look at and see what's allowed and what isn't and what currently has been planned over time so that's an ongoing project that we've had that we've also been working on where what is the mechanism for the city park or whoever it is I am still trying to figure that out which is why I was asking some of those questions not in a necessarily cynical way but just because it isn't super clear to me as I've been extending those meetings you know how that has worked over time or now that they've kind of recently even the public participation law was passed and ordinance was passed and this switch to this regional planning model is relatively new so there's still a lot of education that the city is trying to do or not trying to do depending on your perspective about how those plans interact and who gets to be involved and so getting to the bottom of that I was trying to suggest reaching out to people in the association always we will definitely do that so we can give you more information about what that has to process look like and see if it's great for us but it has to be modern art right? I love the bust of Mr. Mankey you know and something that stays some little history something well I'd like to suggest some other forms of a bust a little history lesson and if you have additional thoughts or comments that you want to give to the board we can definitely start working on what this looks like Mr. Uresti is here for our representative you're going to comment on some updates for us thank you thank you all for your time let's talk about art actually I'm very happy as to what we all do here and all the association throughout San Antonio that I visited because in my part of town we don't have an able association and we have a piece of art right now that we don't see but I'll try to put a chain to it of course we need to get a closer look the session is over as you all know the 140 days are over so the representative of the government happens to take about a week off and then she took the open the new office and we'll go to the contact list meanwhile you all have my contact information as far as the legislation that was passed two major things that we want to touch on of course the school funding it's going to vary throughout the different districts in San Antonio some districts are going to receive $34 million we're not going to receive an additional $12 million some districts like Alamo Ice will not have to give it back as they normally do but they will keep the overflow that they have so it's going to be a benefit for everybody from all the way across the board a tremendous amount of money was put into public education, mental health and the piece of legislation that the representative worked on is a great unfortunate piece of legislation it was unique and unfortunately because of what's happening now in our world one of the piece of legislation that she passed and it's going to be a sign deal with the government down here in San Antonio is a bleeding kit that's going to be installed in all schools a bleeding kit and it's unfortunate but it's something that has to be because of what's happening and it's an order so children and students will be able to learn how to utilize this equipment in case of something major would happen in one of our schools again it's very unfortunate but it's a step that has to be taken and the representative stepped up to do this what she did wasn't able to get and she's looking into an accession was to have chips installed in each one of these in each one of these kits so that if there was a shooting and our first responders had to get there they'll know where that bleeding kit is and where that injured individual is that's what gets that worse it's sad sometimes it's it's worse than sad but it had to be done something that both sides of the aisle were getting it done and I don't think anybody's passing that it's these places has that passed yet? but it chipped in all the kids no no no chips I'm sorry no but it is there will be a chip inside the kit so that one is being used I'm sorry so that they don't know where to go where that kit is being that kit so they'll know where to go where that kit is being used and so that firefighters are first responders so they don't know where to go but that didn't get approved that's going to go well probably in the next session again the school funding is a major issue that's gotten through, that's going to help Elmohyche tremendously it's going to help the other districts tremendously and what I've done, I've given given me four piece of legislation so hopefully she's not going to make you into your website and so I hope we can get a copy of it I can promise everybody and a personal big plus for me is that my wife starts teaching here this year she's starting here this year we ate down the street of Berg right before the meeting she wanted to show off from your school I've already seen it so you'll have my wife here Leslie you're resting Leslie you're resting oh she's teaching she's been teaching for 25 years so you're going to have a master teacher it'll be a big plus for everybody so anyway if there's any other questions for me I guess I do because I don't follow everything like I should soundbite on how this financial legislation is nobody cares what happens at Elmohyche but the rest of the school districts how does it benefit them well San Antonio ISD for example is going to receive 34 million dollars additional from the state and those monies rather than the original plan where they're going to give $5,000 to each teacher is going to be left up for the discretion of the boards because you still have your librarians your paraprofessionals the districts are going to be left up to them I just saw SAISD doing an across the board raise for all permanent full time they just came out with that they've come up with a 3.5% of things across the board with additional stipends it's mixed up a little bit we need to pair teachers better I think they're adding an additional 175 master teachers also so yeah each district is going to be up to the discretion to decide where the money is going to go how much federal funds involved in anything that supports the school a lot you get a fortune in terms of a lot but it gets portioned out on the average school district across Texas about 7% of their revenue comes from the federal government 7% most of it comes from property taxes that's what the majority of the district does so again there's a lot of legislation out there there's thousands of pieces that were written you can begin to go over everything we're going to touch on what Gov. Hawkins touched on when she spoke last if you're interested in education issues that's what our August meeting is going to be next month next month is going to be about public safety because we've had some challenges in the neighborhood in the last few months I was just going to ask when are you going to be discussing the changes happening to lower Broadway Midtown that is the other reminder that I have the first public meeting related to the lower Broadway changes that go with the FON project for 2017-2022 is happening it's the 27th I posted the photo of it and the event into the Facebook page I haven't posted it to next story yet but if you signed up on that email certainly email you the specific information if there is public input meeting a lot of the planning has already been done and I did a request that some of the people involved with that come to this meeting and they turned me down they didn't want to present it in any of the associations until after they have this first public meeting but if you're very invested or interested in that it's a good one to attend because pretty much every group as anything to say about Broadway has been posting on their Facebook pages in the 20s there so if you have an opinion it's a good one to go to so can you re-post that on yes I can, thank you I'm going to go off for a second here the property taxes I know that does just come up again right now if you have a parent that you're taking care of their paperwork for them or the property of your own anybody that's 65 or older they get the exemption for the senior citizen the purpose of the district has been doing for many years is that they add a form in there that you have to fill out the question is forget how it's worded but something like are you still over 65 and it's an affidavit form that you need to have tonight and it's very important because basically what they're asking are you still alive because some children keep the exemption and a lot of people just go to the track they say well why am I going to say I'm still over 65 but if you don't fill it out you lose your exemption the person who is the owner is over 65 with these taxes so spread the word to your friends and neighbors your parents they don't send it to everybody they only send it to certain areas certain areas so if you've ever gone so and I can if people are interested in this since you mentioned this I can post the form on their county and prehistoric website but if you've purchased a new home or changed the title to your home or somebody who received a home from Dye's and you inherit it they will send you a property tax information form basically that has the ownership information and there's a section on it I believe it's section at what point would you receive it it's random there is no time so you could get it so double check you never know this is not a state issue but I talk to my brother every day and we talk about these things and I brought her up at everything so she would be surprised if she had lost it what's the form or what's the website if you go to bear county appraisals history I believe it's the dot word address I'll pray to you it's clear I'm sorry again they sent them out randomly they say it's a separate form I haven't seen a form but I know it's been in there for a long time I just wanted to bring it up because something that I talked about I'd like to keep you informed y'all do a great job spreading the word depending on the word it's form 50-114 it's the resident's home setting section application it's the first form it comes up if you search the website if you need help filling it out I did it all the time in my last job now let's meet my last name I don't know yet I'm going to be with the representative this week where she wants to go now so if it is my last name where do we have your information you have my cell phone number can you call me again so I can call me hi I'm sorry I'm a senator I couldn't find you all but I'll just make a quick announcement hi my name is Ana Alicia Romero I'm the senator Menendez's office it's good to see you all again I know y'all are ready to go so senator Menendez will be giving legislative briefings across the district so we have four scheduled across senate district 26 the first one will be next if you'd like to take one and pass it on senate district 26 next Wednesday 6.15pm you see all the dates there probably the closest one to you physically is the one at the education service center region 20 and the central library so both of those are pretty close to you all we hope you can make it out try to vary the dates it's an opportunity for the senator to give you a summary of what happened most of the time will be dedicated to Q&A so if you have specific questions about property taxes appraisal system what happened any other ideas that you have for the senate to study before next session so they can queue up for next session that's also what we're going to be asking what is the legislative process is continuous so we hope you can make it out call us if you have any questions invite your friends if you want to share thank you so much


What's up everybody? This is Dr. Ali Hader here, interventional cardiologist. Today's video we're going to be talking about the basics of coronary anatomy. Okay? Again, if you don't follow me on social media, check me out on Instagram at your heart doc or Twitter at your heart doc one. Definitely like this video. Please share it with your friends and give me some comments on what you think. So we're going to be talking about anatomy here. So this is the diagram of the heart we're going to use. Now, remember the heart's a three-dimensional organ and we're going to be looking sort of in two dimensions. So please keep that in mind. Let's get some landmarks. Over here is going to be our left ventricle side. Over here is sort of going to be our right atrium. Okay? The left atrium is going to be sort of sitting behind here if you can imagine. It's a posterior structure. Whereas the right ventricle is going to kind of sit anterior over here. Keep that in mind. Over here is our AV groove. Okay? This is the separation between the atrium and the ventricles. And that's important because that's sort of where the right coronary artery and the circumflex are going to run. Over here is our aortic valve. Up here is the aorta. These are our three coronary sinuses. And over here is going to be our left coronary osteum. And here is the right coronary osteum. In terms of walls, up here is going to be our anterior wall and antrolateral segments. Down here is our apex. And this is our inferior wall. So keep that in mind. Okay? So with that, let's start with the right coronary artery. This is going to come off the right coronary os. It's going to give this early branch called the conus. And we're going to get some of these marginal branches that are going to supply the right ventricle. The body of the right coronary is going to come down along the AV groove. Okay? This is our RCA. Again, this is the conus up here. And these are RV marginal branches supplying the right ventricle. Okay? As this wraps around, it's going to supply the inferior wall in most patients with the PDA, which is going to run along here. This is almost like a mirror image of the LED as you'll see. Now, depending on the anatomy, there can be other branches here. Often you'll have at least one, if not more, RPL branches that supply more of the infolateral wall. And everybody's anatomy is a little different. It can be small, they can be big, et cetera. So these are the basics of the right coronary artery. Moving on to the left, the left main is going to be coming off, again, the left coronary ostium. Okay? This is going to bifurcate, in general bifurcate, into the LED, the left anterior descending, which is going to be coming down here. We're going to get some diagonal branches supplying the intralateral segments. And this is going to come down around the apex, like that, and generally supply some distal infra-apical segments there. So this is our LED, put another septal here, put another septal here, this is our LED. Okay? These are going to be septal branches, of course, supplying the septum, and these are going to be diagonal branches. These are supplying the intralateral segments. Okay? Now the circumflex is the second artery coming off the left main. That's going to, again, go posteriorly, run along the AB groove. Okay? Now we'll probably get an early branch here. This is called this one of our OMs. So this is our circumflex. This is an obtuse marginal artery. And the body of the circumflex is going to run again behind us here, along the AB groove on the opposite side, mirror image of the right, and give some branches in the infralateral wall. Okay? So the circumflex, again, wrapping around, going behind, along the AB groove, and it's going to be giving off these lateral branches. So obtuse marginal 1 is the first branch. The second branch will be called obtuse marginal 2 and 3, et cetera. Now the higher the obtuse marginal branch is more intralateral, whereas as you wrap around and go more distal, these are more infralateral branches. Okay? So there can be sort of overlap between obtuse marginal diagonal, as you can see, depending on where they come off. Now in some cases, you may even have a third artery coming off the left main. So you may have a branch here. Okay? The ramus branch, ramus branch. Okay? So this is when you have a trifurcating left main. It's sort of just an anatomical variation. The ramus serves as basically the same thing as a very high obtuse marginal or a very high diagonal. It just happens to come off right in between the two, therefore it deserves its own name, the ramus. You'll see this in a small percentage of patients. Okay? Quickly by dominance. Black here. Dominance. So what is dominance? We talk about right dominant. Okay? This is an 85% of the patients, of people. This is when the PDA arises from the RCA. Okay? Pretty simple. This is like exactly what we see here. The PDA is coming off the RCA. Okay? Now the other people left dominant, 15% of the people will have that. That's when the PDA comes off the circumflex. Okay? So in that situation, that situation, this would be very small. The right corner area would basically only be supplying RV marginals. It is not very important. Okay? But the circumflex would be very, very large. It's going to come down along the AV groove and supply the PDA, which we would call the LPDA. Okay? So an LPDA means the PDA coming off the circumflex left dominant, whereas an RPDA would mean right dominant. And again, important to know because in these cases we don't really care much about the right cornering. Okay? So quickly now I just want to try to correlate some of what we know now to EKG territory. Right? So when we're trying to localize a patient with a STEMI, for example, we're looking at the leads in the EKG that are sort of representing which arterial territory is involved. So first off, down here on the inferior wall leads 2, 3, and F. These are going to be representing what's going on inferiorly and infralaterally. So the PDA, RPL, all the territories involved with the RCA are generally going to be reflected by these leads. Now, if you look, the circumflex also comes down and supplies these sort of infralateral leads. So the circumflex also can show evidence of leads 2, 3, and F. And again, it all depends on where these branches are actually coming off and what's being represented. Now when you are in these infralateral segments, like these distal obtuse marginals, or perhaps there's another PL sitting over here, you're going to get some lateral involvement. So think of this as behind us here, that's kind of the infralateral segment, right? That's going to show evidence of V5 and V6 often as these lateral leads. Okay? Now, looking at the LAD, in general, the precordial leads are what's going to show LAD involvement. So V1, V2, V3, and V4. Think of these as our anterior leads. Okay? Now V1, we call this the septal lead. So if you see ST elevation in V1, you know it's going to be approximately probably before the first major septal here. Okay? So that's important to know. Also, sometimes V1, which is sort of a right-sided lead, can also show up in terms of right ventricular infar. So if you have inferior elevations with a V1 involvement, think of a proximal RCA with right ventricular involvement. Whereas if you have all the precordial leads involved, all right? And V1, think of a very proximal LAD involvement. Okay? Now leads 1 and L leads 1 and L are sort of our high lateral leads. Okay? Now these are lateral leads, but they're more sort of the intralateral segments, right? So you're going to see this high obtuse marginals, ramus branch that we saw before, diagonal involvement. So oftentimes you're going to see precordial leads with lead 1 and L when you have a big LAD involving a large diagonal. Okay? But you could also see 1 and L involvement, sometimes even in isolation if there's an obtuse marginal branch or that ramus branch that we talked about. Okay? So that's again sort of the basics. Hopefully this gave you a little bit of the lay of the land on coronary anatomy and a little bit on its correlations with EKGs. And if you have any questions, please hit me up. Again, these were really basic. There's a lot of variations in patient's anatomy, but I think understanding the basics is critical. So again, please smash that like button, share the video if you liked it, and leave me a comment. Until next time.


Presented by shift for this is the Mike Brable show and it's time to know your foe in week two that is the Buffalo Bills a team the Tennessee Titans have now played in five straight seasons we'll go to Highmark Stadium in Buffalo where Mike Vrable has been a couple times in his life 615 is the kickoff time tough place to play it is it's a great crowd it's a great fan base a lot of history not to mention they're really good football team led by Josh Allen who had a big big game in the season opener on September the eighth against the Los Angeles Rams he threw three touchdown passes and was their leading rusher he's just got a lot of arm talent he can beat you inside the pocket he can beat you out if he scrambles to his right it's not gonna be good for any defense that's gonna be critical for us they're gonna run him he doesn't slide he's got a great stiff arm you kind of see him just making plays all over here is extended to play and then dive it in the end zone for a touchdown 6 5 2 40 he can do it all he got a lot better as a quarterback when the Buffalo Bills obtained Stefan Diggs from Minnesota and Diggs had eight catches for 122 yards in a touchdown in the season opener think a real instinctive and smart intellectual receiver who's hugely talented like he just has understanding route craft in and out of breaks changes speeds great hands it's difficult the real difficult part of playing the Buffalo Bills is their defense is as good as their offense seven sacks in the victory over the Rams and that big linebacker Tremaine Edmonds he makes him go if you get in long yarded situations with these guys it's gonna be a long day we're gonna have to be really good on early downs and Tremaine Edmonds has got the speed the length to kind of operate inside they don't do a whole lot they just say here we are come get us and you know we're gonna have to be really good and prepare this week Titans certainly want to run the football well against the Bills but you have to do everything well because this is a complete team Mike is the most impressive thing about these Buffalo Bills of Sean McDermott just how complete they are well I think they just all have an understanding of who they are the pieces what they want to do and again they're well coached but and they're talented they are definitely talented without question the Titans in the Bills 6 15 coming up next Monday night from Buffalo


Tommy here from warning systems and a lot of people have asked me about QNAP and I don't care for their devices because of their security posture This is the first piece of information I start looking at when I want to evaluate a product if I decide I like something I really start with the security because it can have some really great features But if the company that produces that product and maintains that product has really poor Security posture that kind of rules them out. They may be like I really want to use this It's a really great thing. It has exactly the features. I want it does this fast as I want It's at the price point I want But it also comes with a ton of vulnerabilities and a company that doesn't really care about fixing them That's why I start with security before I get too excited about those secure features So let's talk about QNAP today because they're in the news again here in January 22 But they've been in a news and a pass for the same reason and that same reason is ransomware because of poor security QNAP confirms QLocker ransomware uses HBS backdoor account a little more technical details are right here It is a hard-coded session ID We never like when the words hard-coded are in a CVE report because it never ends well Any company that thinks that they can hide something as such as a hard-coded session ID Credential of some sort and hoping no one else were to discover it is in for some news It happens all the time. These are not the type of problems. You want to see with your devices now? Let's talk about how they handle security at QNAP and this is an easy example Here's a security researcher that found the problem with their software and found a way to exploit it This is just QNAP ignoring security researchers now granted I will give them a little bit of benefit out that yes They get thrown probably quite a few people contacting them what they think might be security flaw but this is an actual company doing this and Pen tests are expensive so when you have a security researcher taking the time to look at your product and then Explaining how it's broken, but then ignoring them You're not really given anyone the warm fuzzy feeling that you are on top of your security game And the timeline tells the story here October 12th full disclosure report to QNAP I'll leave a link to the actual exploit in the details of it But the October 23rd sent another email October 31st automatic reply from QNAP support with a ticket January 26 Notification that you're running out of your grace period before this gets published January 26 QNAP helped us Hey, we confirmed the problem still in progress February 12th grace period it ended and the security researcher still waited till March 31st to initially post a blog post It's important to think about that March 31st date to say that's when they finally fixed it on April 16 That's a long dwell period to be told about a flaw in your system and not deal with it now Let's get all the way over to here and QNAP force installs update after deadbolt ransomware hits 3,600 devices and this is a little crazy because the threat actors who are doing this have a couple different approaches one They're hitting the people and charging them a small ransom. They're offering a master decryption key to QNAP QNAP also decided to force update a bunch of systems and even if the updates are turned off is what it sounds like So forced updates come too late because well who cares about force updates on a system It's already been ransomware and then the clarification of whether or not the update actually fixes the exploit I'm not a hundred percent clear based on reading through this and According to bleeping computer their updates don't a hundred percent completely address this It's just not a hundred percent address in here Also of note is the fact that with these QNAP systems the threat actors are also offering to sell How they got in to QNAP for a fee So there's a lot to unpack in that article the forced update the fact that the update is not Apparently fixing the system or is it I wasn't sure neither is bleeping computer because it's an older update But either way none of this gives me the confidence in their QNAP product Platform that they care about security that they're on top of it that they do anything more than write software to push product as opposed to Writing good software to keep a good reputation, but who knows they could change in the future this bad publicity Does one of two things forces companies to up their marketing game So they can sell more product and hopefully ignore security issues or actually stop and address your security issues Which I'm hoping maybe they do you know companies can turn around now I'll admit there's probably plenty of people who also are end-users buying things like synologies and just sticking them open to the internet as well Synology I think has a better track record of Security and updates and that's why you're not seeing Synology in a news or a very popular product I believe they're also much like QNAP bought by many end users who don't really think about much more than Reading article on how to open up some ports and forwarding those ports And this is why you have to think so much about security and the security posture of a company Now the final notes will be yes You shouldn't be exposing things you can say that but the fact that these companies all offer write-ups on The convenience of exposing the services so you can access these devices outside of your home There's always going to be a lot of people who don't go Yeah, I'll just put a VPN on this because that would reduce my threat surface. That's just not something the average End-user is going to do that uses these devices. That's why security is really important. This is why even for end-users I don't think I would even recommend a QNAP for people who are using this in a larger business Which a lot of people had mentioned that they do at least on my channel and commented Which is why they want to read me to review the product a company that can just force an update which probably means it force rebooted the system and If you're using it as a nice fuzzy target with your VM infrastructure that obviously can cause some very unexpected States of your VM. I don't really like a company that has that ability just to force it as opposed to you doing an update That's another concern that they had that ability to do and like I said, it's detailed out in a bleeping computer article I don't have a QNAP to really dive into it myself So I'm relying on the reporting there But there's enough information and data points to gather to make me not want to use the product And that's kind of my final verdict on here for those of you who will be asking in the future Saying hey, Tom Why not review one of these QNAPs if they make a dramatic change in the security posture? Awesome Maybe I'll take a look at them again, but for now That you've heard all my thoughts on it I'm gonna quit rambling leave your comments down below and head over my forum for a more in-depth discussion. Thanks


Live from Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE, covering Red Hat Summit 2019, brought to you by Red Hat. Welcome back to theCUBE and our continuing coverage here at the Red Hat Summit. This is six time around for us. Fifth time for Stu Miniman, so he still gets almost the perfect attendance gold mark. First time for me, so Stu, I have a lot of catching up to do. Stu Miniman, John Walls, and Steve Speicher now joins us. He is the Senior Principal Product Manager, a developer tools at Red Hat, and Steve, good afternoon to you. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Yeah, let's just talk about, first off, development in general. I mean, there's a lot of give and take there, right? You're trying to listen. What are the needs? Where are the deficiencies? Where can the improvements be made? But how much do you drive that on your side and how much do you listen and respond to what you're hearing from the community? Yeah, we do a little bit of both, and so a lot of it is responding to the community, and that's one of the areas that Red Hat has really excelled is taking what's popular and what's working upstream and helping moving along, make it a stable product or stable solution that developers can use. But we also have a certain agenda, or certain platforms that we want to present. So we start from various runtimes to actually container platforms, and so we want to have to drive some of that initiatives on our own to help fill that need, because we hear it from customers a lot. It's like, things you're doing are great, but there's all these projects that need to come together sort of as a product or unified experience. And so we spend a lot of our time trying to bring those things together as a way to help developers do those different tasks and also focus across not just the Java runtimes, which we hit a lot of Java. So you might have an in-product in mind, and you realize that there might be a gap in terms of development, and so you encourage or you try to bridge that gap a little bit to get to that in-product? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, so we do a lot of things to help build the pieces so that people can sometimes build their own experiences they want, because in the end, developers control kind of their own destiny, their own set of tools, and a lot of customers have their own unique requirements even, like some tools they develop in-house for loans, kind of regulatory reasons and other things. And so we have to, one, build the pieces, but also stitch the pieces together to help them have that kind of out-of-the-box experience, because some customers really don't want to do that. They just want to say, kind of a turnkey solution, but then we may need to make some adjustments here and there. But Steve, it's funny, it rhymes for me with what I saw 15, 20 years ago with Linux. A lot of changes, a lot of pieces, I want to take advantage of it, but boy, can somebody help me with this? And that's, of course, Red Hat rode that wave pretty well. Today, Kubernetes is even more sprawling. There's so many different projects, there's so many pieces. Boy, it is complicated, and therefore, how do I take advantage of that? What do I need to know? What can my platformer vendor do for me so that I don't have to manage that? Love it, you expand on that, give us a little bit of comparative trust, but what's the same, what's different? Yeah, and so there's different aspects, I think, to developer experience. One thing that we talk about is it just works sometimes. So if it's Kubernetes, we spend a lot of time making sure it's hardened and works well, so you're not debugging and spending a time on things that waste developer time. Instead, we focus a lot on that, and we also look at how we can build abstraction layers on top of that. So we built a CLI tool called ODO, which is a Streamline Developer Experience for OpenShift, and it's really focused on OpenShift. That way, the developer really just can focus on their application, they can deploy it, they can quickly work on the changes before they commit to Git, and then they can then also have a similar experience in the browser with things like Eclipse-J or Codewarding Workspaces, our kind of commercial offering behind that, and that takes actually using the platform itself to do development, which is really super cool. So now you can have an IDE in the browser, you can also have the workspace, like all your dependencies, like everything you would normally have on your laptop, you now don't need to worry about it, it's now containerized and quickly spun up as a way to do development, and it's really a thing that enterprises really enjoy because they get quick satisfaction, like they get the stuff off, the proprietary code off the laptop, they're using their container platform, and it's building the same way they would build when they deploy in the production. I mean, Steve, my background's on the infrastructure side, and the whole reason we have infrastructures to be able to run our apps, and the holy grail we've wanted is, my developers shouldn't need to think about the stuff underneath. We looked at virtualization, we look at containerization, the nirvana of serverless, as they call it, is that I shouldn't have to think about that. How are we doing? Because at the end of the day, I talk to users like, oh geez, well I need to worry, what if something breaks, or I need to understand the security for my environment? What are you seeing and talking to customers about from their app development? Yeah, so they're able to, it's like we hear different stories of like tool factor apps. So it's like if you stay in certain parameters, you can have a lot of success. And that's still kind of true today. Serverless kind of takes that to the next level, where you can really just have a predefined either a function spectacode to, and then things are real easy, and you don't have to worry about various aspects. But even though you look at the various vendors when you're working with different functions, it's even complex, like oh, I need to provide the security, I need to make sure all these things are wired together, how do I log these things, how do I debug when things across this mesh go wrong? And so it's like, it's getting better, but there's still a lot of work to do to continue to improve that. And you will see a lot of innovation happening in that area, especially the work that we're working on. Yeah, what kind of give and take do you have in terms of what, not only what is that community learning from you and the tools that you're providing them, but what are you getting back from that other than advancing a project or whatever. In terms of expertise, in terms of understanding, maybe a new way to build a different mousetrap that someone comes up with an interesting idea, and you're like, wow, didn't think of that. Yeah, and I think that's where, like the partnerships we've had with various companies before, Google obviously starting out with Kubernetes, even the Knative project last year, and that really took a different way of looking at serverless and moving it forward to say, yeah, this is a different way we thought about how we would do this on Kubernetes, even kind of like you abstract that API away, and it's like, it's just to Knative and serverless, and then Kubernetes is kind of implementation detail behind that even. And so that's really interesting to see things like that, and then also the recent work announcements with Microsoft and the Azure Functions, where people like, they may be into the event sources there, they want to make sure that workloads that they're doing, the functions they're building are running on good Kubernetes and Kubernetes is OpenShift, and so it's really kind of completing the life cycle. So I wonder if we could just step back to, if you talk about Kubernetes and OpenShift specifically, you've got partnerships with Google, and they've got the GKE and the Anthos stuff, you've got partnerships with Amazon, they've got AKS, these things are not fully seamless and interoperable, I definitely hear some confusion in the marketplace as to Kubernetes can run lots of places, but all the various, if you choose an implementation, well, that's your implementation, and you should run that everywhere, not I can't take all the various implementations and they're not inter-swappable. So maybe you could help expand on that a little bit as to what's the goal, where are we with this maturity here, and where do we need it to get? Because, boy, it definitely is a little bit complicated, at least from the seat that I sit in. Yeah, so it's somewhat complex. I think it goes back to your early days talking about Linux, you would say you'd have an application and it could run anywhere to have Linux, that's kind of true. There's always certain security settings or packages you have enabled, and that just holds true for the fact that Kubernetes world as well. You can lock it down a certain way, you can open it up a certain way, and so you see a lot of content that's delivered, assuming certain privileges they have on the system and other systems that don't allow it. And so I think more and more we see through the API standardization some of the work it's done in conformance testing, it really helps people know when they're getting in their hands on an instance, it's really a full-fledged Kubernetes, or the part that they care about the most is working out well. And so I see that can be evolved. I also see tools that kind of abstract even more, so like Kate Native as I mentioned, sort of serverless workloads or functions themselves, and then even how CICD tooling kind of works on top of that, like natively understands the platform, that platform, and those requirements to move those applications across the different systems, because we have a lot of customers who run OpenShift Kubernetes as well as many other Kubernetes kind of instances. So they have, we have this requirement to make sure we stay conformant, allow them to make sure the workloads are portable, and it's an important part to move it forward. So I still think there's a lot of work to be done to make these things a smoother process. It's a lot of interesting things going on though. So any interesting trends with the workloads, it's one of the things we always look at is, you know, am I just taking the old workloads, am I doing them in a new place, or you know, are there new workloads and anything jumping out at you from customers that you talk to? Yeah, so the, we talked, I know I mentioned serverless multiple times, the whole idea around this auto-scaling and only losing your resources when you need to is a big deal, so we see a lot more and more of those kind of small functions, single-purpose things that are occurring up until like machine learning, big data, it just continues on GPU resources. We've talked about running VMs in Kubernetes. When I first heard this, like four years ago, I laughed out loud and I realized, oh no, they're serious, this is something that happens. And yeah, it's becoming mainstream now. So now kind of everything kind of fits within the current orchestrator of those workloads. You're not laughing anymore, right? No. Because there's so many areas in which the concerns are certainly understandable. Secure is one of those, a lot of attention being paid automation these days, right, and a lot of opportunity there. Is there one, or are there a couple areas where you say this is kind of where we have maybe greener pastures in terms of providing developers with really unusual tools or really more sophisticated or more complex or effective tools than in any other or an area where you could use that kind of a boost? Yeah, I think there's a lot of, I think the one thing that I see in this area is still a lot of fragmentation. Like I'm not sure if I see like this kind of a single way that things work, seeing a lot of great work like with the Microsoft VS Code tooling pieces. And I'm just saying that from an abstraction way to bring certain things together. Nice work going on with Microsoft and the Kubernetes plugin for there. And we're collaborating with them on that to extend it for some of the OpenShift use cases. But that just kind of moves, I think more to meet the developers where they're at and we'll continue to invest across the different set of tools. Like the more I keep up with these lists of all these tools in the ecosystem, anytime I present it, someone says, oh, I didn't know about those, but here's more that I didn't know about. So this just continues to grow and people continue to innovate. And I think it's just, I think it's exciting because we continue to evolve it. So I don't think there's much in the way of kind of narrowing down on a smaller set of things. I think it's going to continue to expand in a sense. Speaking of expansion at Microsoft Build yesterday, there was an announcement of, I believe it's KEDA, K-E-D-A. Azure Functions with OpenShift. Help us parse a little bit what that is. Yeah, so what that's about is really taking the Azure Functions and allowing those workloads to run on OpenShift because they're targeted towards Kubernetes and of course OpenShift is Kubernetes distribution. So it allows that to happen. There's also that it's a unique auto-scaler that kind of allows workload to be more serverless run. So then also it ties into some of the Azure event sources, so like the message queue event bus Kafka that's there. And so now you can wire in your Azure pieces, you can run it across, you're either hosted Azure or on OpenShift with those Azure Functions. Okay, and just to clarify, this is today separate from the K-Native initiative that you were talking about earlier? Yes, that's right. So this is touching on some of those points and the idea behind this project, this is like an early dev preview and now it's like showing some progress, but they're looking and wiring in some of the OpenShift, sorry, the K-Native serving pieces to allow running in those applications on OpenShift, but also the K-Native event sources. So you can take Kubernetes events and triggers your functions and do some of these exciting things. Yeah, can I ask you, you're doing sessions here at this show, you know, how many of the people here are, you know, talking about serverless and looking at that bleeding edge or there are other technologies that you find them spending a little bit more time in the tooling space? It's a wide range. I'm always shocked by what some of the customers are like bleeding edge K-Natives, like, oh, you know, we saw whatever is 0.3 release out there with this and we'd really like this auto scaling capability because we're spending a lot of money running these applications that are not doing anything. So we like the better auto scaler that's out there. The others are really just like trying to understand more about container technology. I was just talking to a gentleman early after a session. He's like, this is what we're trying to do. We need to containerize applications. How do I build a CI CD pipeline around it? So it's a wide range of things you see here. We're certainly at the center of this inspiration, the innovation of the industry. I know you're an exciting place and it's kind of something new every day for you, probably, right? Oh, it is, yeah, especially when these big conference announcements come out. Right, gear up, right? Yeah, exactly. Well, good job, Steve. Thank you for joining us here. We appreciate the time and wish you well down the road. Thank you very much. I enjoyed being on. You bet, Steve Spiker from Red Hat, joining us here for the first time on theCUBE. Good to have you, Steve. Good to have you with us as we continue our coverage from Boston at the Red Hat Summit.


Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu this is Rami and Surah and this is part of the MCC Nightly Ramadan Reminders during Ramadan 2020 we hope that you and your families are doing well and may Allah SWT accept your fasts and accept your ibadah. In the last couple of videos I was talking about ring structure or ring composition in the Quran and how it's important for us to try to uncover new things in the Quran not rulings theological or practice wise because those have already been done we already know the rules that are derived from the Quran we already know the Aqidah the theology that's derived from the Quran but to find new pearls and I'll use that example because there was a there during the early Mufassirun period the people who were explaining in the Quran there were certain things in the Quran that they didn't quite understand and I'll give you an example one of them is mentioned in Surah Al-Hadeed in the chapter of iron and Allah explains or describes how he brought iron وأنزلنا الحديد we have sent down وأنزلنا الحديد now for the early Muslims who were looking at this they said well what does this mean this means you know and I mean sent down what we find we find the iron in the ground so they had to look at it linguistically and say oh there's another way that the Arabic language can can use this word which means of the hard not we have brought forth we have brought out and so that's what's happening now we know through modern astronomy and not even so modern it's been known for a while that the irons coming down in the meteorite so we can we can look at it with its original intent another example using the pearl example in Surah Al-Rahman everything's mentioned in pairs and Allah says about the pearls sorry about the the freshwater and the saltwater يخرج منهم اللؤلؤ والمرجان that he takes out of both of them لؤلؤ والمرجان the pearls and coral and so the early scholars they they didn't know about freshwater pearls so they said oh this is that sometimes you can use the dual to refer to just one aspect of it like in Arabic you say the two moons when you mean the moon and the sun or the two Umar as mean Omar and Abu Bakr so you can use one to refer to two but then one time and there's a story actually where a person got a freshwater pearl and he went into a court of scholars or a gathering of scholars and he said I bear witness that this pearl is from freshwater, so that ayah we can consider it to be on its original state. So we're going to be looking for these pearls in the Quran and that's what one of the things that I feel about the patterns of the ring patterns that we can look at it and try to find what are some of the patterns that we find here. So in the previous two lectures I discussed surat al-Baqarah and some of the ring patterns and ring composition that's present there and then in the second video was surat yusuf and some of the ring patterns there. What I want to do with this video is kind of is look at the entire Quran and we have to remember that the Quran was not revealed in the order that we have it right now. It was revealed there's a chronological sequence of how it was revealed and in next week's video I'm going to talk a little bit about that. But now that we look at all of the ayahs as they are in the mushaf. Can we find a ring pattern there? Can we find some patterns where as I mentioned it goes from it starts at one theme and then moves down and then there's a central theme and the author of this book that I'm looking at is called Structure and Quranic Interpretation. He says the meaning is in the middle like look for that middle meaning and then it works backwards as well. So can we apply this to the entire Quran starting at the beginning working down and then working back? And why this is also amazing is that when we find this pattern we have to remember that it was revealed, the Quran was revealed over 23 years and it was coming in different parts and different parts of surahs were revealed in different areas. But now when it's all put together in this final form we see this pattern. So we can refute some of those people who say that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wrote this on his own because how would he have done this? How would he have maintained this structure in something that was being revealed over 23 years but when it was finally put together it has this pattern. So if we look at the first few verses or the first few chapters, chapter two through five which is Surah Al-Baqarah, Ali-Imran, An-Nisa and Al-Ma'idah and these four were Medinan period surahs which have a lot of laws. But the beginning, one of the themes that we find there is in Surah Al-Baqarah about monotheism and the throne verse, ayat al-Kursi which I also describe the ring structure that is in there. The corresponding at the other end of the Quran is Surah Al-Ikhlas. So we find that. The beginning it's talking about monotheism and then we have Ikhlas. In Surah Ali-Imran there's a discussion about Badr and how the believers were victorious over the disbelievers. Now we go over to its corresponding or approximate corresponding surah at the end of the Quran and it's Surah Al-Lahab. So the damnation of Abu Lahab who died immediately after Badr. So there's a connection there between Badr mentioned there at the front Surah Ali-Imran and Badr or something related to Badr. And then in Surah Al-Ma'idah there's a recollection of a time where the disbelievers prevented the believers from going in to Mecca. And then if we look at its corresponding verse at the end we find crowds entering God's religion and the farewell pilgrimage. So at the beginning it says that when they were prevented from doing the Hajj and then it talks about the Fatiha and at the end. Then we can go on to Surah Al-An'am, livestock. Its corresponding at the end, Surah Al-Kawthar, the abundance. So the idea of livestock and abundance. In Surah At-Tawbah believers are the new custodians of the Ka'bah. We go over to its corresponding at the end of the Quran by sequence, Quraish who are called to the who are the former custodians of the Ka'bah. So in Surah At-Tawbah the believers are the custodians of the Ka'bah. At the end in Surah Al-Quraish the Quraish who are the former custodians of the Ka'bah are called to worship Allah. And then it goes on. So what's amazing and I don't have time to go through everything but you can see some of these similarities as it goes from the beginning and its corresponding from the end. I'll take another one. Surah Al-Furqan, Chapter 25. If we look at what it approximately corresponds to the end using this kind of triangle structure. So the Surah Al-Furqan Chapter 25 corresponds to Chapter 86 that it talks about the Quran separates the truth from the falsehood. There is also in Chapter 32 Surah Al-Sajda. Of course the whole Surah is about Sajda. If we look at its corresponding at the end of the Quran when the Quran is recited to disbelievers they do not bow and worship. SubhanAllah look at these these correlations. Okay so if we do this and we see this structure well then what's in the middle? We got Surahs 50 to 56 which are right there in the middle. It goes up and what do we have in Surah 50 to 56? Or right actually right before that? The last few Surahs 47 to 49 and then 57 to 66. Those Surahs what kind of brings them together at that tail end? Surah to Muhammad. The Surah of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And in its corresponding in 61 Ahmed the story of Isa alaihi salam saying I will bring a prophet named Ahmed and then it goes on. But when I was looking at this I thought to myself SubhanAllah if we're looking for the heart of the meaning of the Quran and it's taking all of these ideas and it comes down to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to him. The prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And another thing as well that it comes down to which is doing tashbih and glorifying your Lord. So basically it comes down to la ilaha illallah praise and recognition and glorifying Allah and then the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So if we really want to get close to the Quran we have to get close to the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He is the heart of the Quran. He is the one who guides us to the Quran. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to guide us during this month and for the rest of our lives to be closer to the Quran to be closer to the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to get us that much closer to the Quran and to Allah and to bring us closer to him on Yom al Qiyamah. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah.