All right. Can you guys hear me? All right. Thanks for stopping by, and I think we have more people coming in. So today we are going to talk about cloud operations and security, and just a little bit of introduction about WAN clouds. And I will also give you a little bit of a demo of our platform. So we specifically focus on the day two operations when it comes to OpenStack. So our goal is to improve the availability and visibility of your OpenStack deployment through a platform that is simple, scalable, and flexible. We started a couple of years ago. We provide both services, and also we have been working on our platform that I will share with you in a little bit. We're based in Santa Clara, and we have global offices as well. So the problems that we have been trying to solve is that once your OpenStack is deployed, somebody is going to be stuck with it on a 24 by 7 basis as day two operations. Problems will occur. OpenStack is not one of those things where you just deploy it and forget about it. People are going to be touching it on an ongoing basis. And as they do, problems will occur. So the goal here is that how do you quickly resolve the issues? How do you set up proactive checks? How do you make sure that the services that you have that are enabled through your OpenStack are they working as expected? Currently, basically, the biggest problem is that a lot of these things are done manually. And obviously, as you do things manually, problems will occur. And more importantly, it costs a lot of money, too. So it affects your overall availability because things take a long time, and they're done through manual effort. So what we believe is that is it really necessary to every time find a needle when a problem occurs to find a needle in a hair stack? Can we give you a magnet instead of basically every single time go through finding that magnet? So there are three things that we attempted to solve that I will share in the demo. One of the areas is log analysis. So when a problem occurs, you can collect a log which could be for a single component like Nova or Cinder or Neutron. And we have been able to build a custom algorithm to give you the answer literally in 30 seconds to a couple of minutes. Things that takes three hours or four hours today and manually going through those logs will do it in 30 seconds. The other area for us is services assurance, which is very important because you want to make sure that the services that you have enabled are running as you are expecting them to run. The other area is setting up proactive checks and rules. Because OpenStack is something that people are going to be touching every single day, if not every single day at least a couple of times a week, you want to make sure that nobody goes and changes something that causes a problem. And then you're trying to basically troubleshoot and discover what and who changed which configuration parameter. So as I mentioned, three areas that we are looking at, one is basically the analytics part. And that's where we say why every single time look for a needle in a hastig, why we will give you a magnet. The second thing is from our perspective when it comes to assurance, when something goes wrong, can you give you an ability to set up these assurance tests before it becomes a crisis? Can I give you the tools to discover if something goes wrong that you have a warning? The other area is that it's your cloud. You set your rules what's important to you. And every few seconds, we are going to track those rules. So if anybody goes and mucks around with your configuration, we're going to report it and get you an alert. So what we believe is that with this process, we will so far what we have looked at is getting a time reduced from hours to literally seconds and minutes. We will give you 95% plus productivity gain of what you are dealing with with your OpenStack deployment issues today. And that is through analytics it takes. As I mentioned earlier, when problems occur, on average, you spend an hour or two to troubleshoot. If I can get you to a quick diagnosis literally in seconds in a minute, that gives you a huge productivity gain. And more importantly, it improves the availability of the deployment or whether it's in your development testing environment or in pre-production or production. We give you a lot more insight as to what probably caused the issue. The second thing is the assurance. You set it up once. You don't have to have resources locked every single day trying to basically run scripts. We have automated that process. And the other area is compliance where you set your rules once against your deployment. And we will go and track those rules on an ongoing basis. So in every area, the overall idea is to give you increased visibility and predictability about your OpenStack deployment. So we specifically, again, are focusing on the day two operation. Now, what versions do we support? We support all the community versions. As far as the log analysis is concerned, we are working on Mitaka. But from Icehouse all the way to Liberty, we support them. We have also, you can deploy your OpenStack through, for example, Miranta's Fuel, or you can have Red Hat distribution or any other distributions out there. We will go ahead and support it. This platform is SaaS-based. So you can go ahead and try it out today. And this is, we have defined packages for it. And you can on chiab.net or whenclouds.net. The other area, obviously, we also provide services in addition to the platform that we have around OpenStack containers and dockers, as well as Cloud Services. So I'm going to actually switch to give you a little bit of how the platform actually looks. So give me a second. OK. So this is how our platform looks. What you see here is in this case, let's say there is a problem that you experienced. Through log analysis, we give you shorten your time to basically get to the diagnosis of the issue. In this case, in this log file, you see three components we detected, Cinder, Neutron, and Nova. And if you look at it the way we are actually tracking the failures, obviously in this summary, things that are successful you are not obviously interested in, things that are not successful, like the API calls that didn't go successful or core service errors is what we are going to look at. So for example, if you look at one of this call, which was a launch instance, things started to go fine. And what we show you here is at some stage, we were expecting this statement in your log and in this sequence, and we didn't see it. And we list the core service error alongside that as well. So this process, essentially, I'm going to try to actually see if I can upload a file here. It's this quick. These are the versions that we are supporting that we have looked at, including Red Hat, including all the community versions. As I mentioned, you can have a private distribution through Red Hat or others, Merantis, et cetera. We have tested it against all these community-based distributions, and it works just fine. In this case, I've just taken a file where there was an issue, and I'm going to try to analyze it. And I just want to share it with you that how quick, instead of you going through thousands of lines of log files, I can quickly diagnose the issue and give you, basically, the analysis that you're looking for. So the same file I was showing earlier, which gave me the analysis, and I can quickly now go to the root cause analysis of the issue. The other areas that we have is, from integration perspective, you can add your deployments by just providing, for example, Alt URL, a username and password. And you can give it whatever name you want to give it, and it takes literally two, three seconds to add your deployment. However fast you can type. We also have done integration with LogStage. So one is you can actually upload your log file, or we can have you integrate your LogStage server, and we will be able to pull log files from there as well. The third tab that you see here is you can actually share your deployment with other colleagues or your partner as well. And in this case, if I have, for example, in this case, I have four deployments. I can share one of the deployment with my colleague, and this way I'm able to collaborate with him on service tests and other things. So in the case of assurance, basically what we provide is this we actually built on top of, really, to make this very consumable. We will extract all the components that you're running in your OpenStag deployment. And as you look at the various components, you can enable, for example, whatever tests that you feel are important to you. For example, just for test purposes, I've enabled these tests. And you can configure them to your parameters. You can set an SLA here. So for example, SLA could be that I want 100% of the time this should pass, or it could be 95% to 98%. The other thing that what we have done is you can tweak the values here. You can set your benchmark. And as you are done with it, you can either run the test on demand or you can actually schedule it. So schedule means that twice a day, right now the way we have configured it is twice a day, it will go out and run these tests. So if there is a problem, you will get an alert through email. And this way, in case that issue, before your customer reports or before your user report, that issue and it becomes a crisis, we make sure that in case there is a failure, we give you, like in this case, I can give you full details of the failure. And you will see the last five failures and what actually happened. So as I mentioned, the other advantage here is that you set your profile once. Your infrastructure or your things will actually change. You can go add more functionality to your deployment. You can enable more components. And as you do that, the profile that we have set, the tests that you have set, always remains centralized. So you don't need to go change any scripts here. This is done once. And the whole idea here is that I can actually save you time and the DevOps person or one or two people that you have assigned to this, all of a sudden we can actually free them up. So the whole idea here is that from our perspective, we want to take the manual efforts out of the day-to-day things and give you tremendous productivity gain by doing this automatic. Do it once. You can tweak them as you go along. If your benchmarks change, you can go ahead and make the adjustments. But once you make the adjustments, you don't have to go every single day. And you can schedule these tests, which will run a schedule. And then you can also enable them on demand. The other thing that we have here is what we call operational rules. And in the operational rules, we define basically key pair values. And in key pair values, what happens is there is OpenSec has very big config files. So against each deployment that you have, I could, for example, set up values that I'm just going to try to configure something here. This is false. Default, Napoleon, and that's a controller node. And I'm basically saying, go track this, right? So every five seconds or every few seconds, it's going to go and make sure that these values remain the same. The reason we did this, that when a problem happens, what is the first natural question that people ask? Who went ahead and who changed what? So this is actually to create an answer for that. And through us tracking these operational rules, in case somebody goes and has changed something, we will actually tell you we will create an alert. And through this alert, you can say that, hey, my expected value was false. And by the way, actually nothing is set. So that's why it became an error. So again, our intent here is to make sure that we make the environment that you have or the deployment that you have highly predictable and make sure that it is available through these values. The other area, which is actually as beta for us right now that we are looking at, which is critical VMs. And what this really means is that in your deployment, either you could actually look at a tenant or you could actually get a subset of instances or machines that you feel are running your production application. And the question here is that if anything goes wrong with any of those machines, I want to know instantly. So here we are providing visibility related to that specific question. And as I mentioned, this is in beta phase right now. But we will give you a full audit of those machines if there is an error associated with that. For example, in this case, these alerts are coming in. And if I basically go to one of the alerts, I can tell you the exact error trace, the instance ID, the user that it belongs to. And I can give you a full audit trail of that VM. When was it created? When was an error that occurred? And when was the instance deleted? So this gives you a full picture and visibility of what is happening in your environment, especially the critical VMs. Or if you have an important tenant, that you say, if anything happens with this tenant, I need to know instantly. If any VM fails, or if you're migrating VMs from one hypervisor to the next, and during that process if something fails, we are tracking all of that. And in this case, it's instant. So within that second, as it happens, we are actually ingesting a lot of data from the deployment. And we are making sure that we report it as soon as these things happen. So the whole idea of chai is to, literally, the meaning is the word chai tea is grab a cup of chai, sit back, relax, and let us do the hard work for you. Let us try to remove the manual efforts. Let us try to remove, you know, shorten the time that it takes to do some of these things. Because today, I can tell you that a lot of these things that we have felt at ourselves, this happens manually. So we are trying to automate a lot of the things, make the environment more predictable. At the end of the day, we want to increase the availability of your OpenStack deployment. So you can add them. You can add from a single pane of glass. You can perform all these functions. So people have written, like, small tools here and there.  So this is to provide both reactive and proactive support for your OpenStack deployment and worry about the day-to-issues and problems that are occurring. Again, we are striving to make more additions to this platform in terms of real-time analytics as it happens. And we believe that with what we have today, we can make your life a lot easier, especially if you are in the DevOps and support role to make sure that the environment is highly predictable. We do have a booth in one of the right corners, I believe, it's B16. And please do come by. We can discuss in more detail with you on some of the areas or components that we have built, how you can add your deployments, how we can actually do this today. This is a software as a service. So you can go sign up and start using by going to chiab.net or vanclouds.net. From either side, you can go to sign up. We have a 30-day trial package that you can start using. The other thing that we have also is to, in case you require a private deployment, we can create that also in a SAS manner, but private to you, both front end and back end will be private and you can attach your deployments. The other thing that we have is some customers have asked us to see if we can deploy this on-prem and we do have that model as well. So with this, I'm going to wrap up my session and if there is any question or comment, as I mentioned, please do feel free to come by or queue. We are here for the next whatever time today. The time is left in the summit. And also you can contact us through our website and also we would be happy to share more details with you if you have any queries. Thank you very much.


Welcome to ToffeeTV, to the Everton News Daily, it is May 25th 2018. Callum Connelly has been included in the England Under 21 squad, that will play in the 2 on tournament. I think Tom Davies and John Jo Kenney I think are already in that squad. Always a good tournament, good levels, good standards and those players will obviously get more experience of playing in tournament football. He's been playing at Ipswich this season on loan, even though he completely left back and we didn't have a left back for the first part of the season, he was allowed to go on loan. But they're quite well in the end of the playing, I think, in midfield at times, so he will go with the England team. Wayne Rooney, this keeps rumbling on, but reports from the Washington Post saying that Wayne has held very positive talks with DC United. That's it really, we know that Wayne wants to speak to whoever the new manager is, wants to speak to Marcel Brands, possibly before making that final decision. But it seems that on the DC United end, they're very happy, he's happy with what they are offering, but it's a case that he probably still wants to play in the Premier League for one more season. But it's whether he gets the chance or not, it seems again, and we use that way, it seems, or it's been reported that the hierarchy at Evan would probably like to get his wages off the wage bill there and get that a little bit lower. But it's where a new manager would have some time for him, basically, would have plans to use him. So we'll wait and see on that. I don't think we'll get, unless he's really, really convinced by DC United, I don't think we'll get a categorical answer, just yet DC United have not been in the best of form this season. And it would be, it wouldn't be an easy team to go into, but maybe, you know what, maybe he just fancies the challenge. We've been linked with Yasin, Brahmi, the Porto winger, I think we got, we were linked with them a couple of summers ago. We've been linked with them by Ajog, which is the newspaper there that seems to like putting stories that we've been linked with them today. Again, it is another winger, we've all been linked with these wingers all week. And finally, the main story that Romero Funes Moray has been linked with the move away to Mexican side Monterrey for £10 million, which wouldn't really give us any kind of, well, we bought them for £10 million, so we get really nothing back for them for what we paid for them. The club, Everton seems to be positive in responding to an inquiry, it seems. Mexico would probably be a good place for them to play because he grew up actually in Texas, so probably used to that kind of, you know, that kind of lifestyle, you know, and obviously coming from Argentina, the language body wouldn't be a problem as well. So that would probably be an excellent place for them to play football. I'd happily, happily see this move happen. I think he's one of those players that ever need to shift off the books. I don't think he's good enough for the Premier League. He's just seen his well cup dreams dashed obviously because of that injury, but I just don't see him fitting into an Everton defence going forward. So £10 million seems a little bit short though because as I say, we paid, we paid around that to bring him in, so to not get any, any more back for them, but Everton might just be trying to, you know, get whatever they can for them, get them off the wage bill and start again. So we're waiting to see on that one. As I say, that's the main story today. There's not much else going on. It's going a little bit quiet. It is Friday. Hopefully everyone out there will have a very, very good weekend. Let's hope so. Let's hope so. Thanks for watching Toffee TV. I'll see you later.


My name is Simba, Simba Rashi Machemeze, MA, Future Design, second year and my project is a VR based cricket training program, even more than that, focusing on wicket keepers. That's the guy that catches the ball, you know, the guy that throws the ball, the guy hits the ball and the guy who catches the ball, the guy with the gloves. I've been curious, you know, about future technologies, about what we could do besides, you know, the known, so VR and I thought of like, you know, what better way to learn a new program or a new software, new technology with something that you know and you're passionate about. And I love cricket, as most Zimbabweans do, so it just, you know, it made perfect sense for me to try to put them together. Yeah, I don't have much experience in programming and for VR, that's, you know, that's what it's about.  So I'm learning, you know, it's a steep learning curve, but it's doable, you know, it's a software. So, yeah, that's one challenge. Another challenge is, you know, I guess because VR is, VR in training is not so common. So the existing, you know, places that use these platforms, they're not very forthcoming in terms of information naturally, you know, because they're also entry level. So you're kind of flying blind a lot of the time, which is great because you're learning new things. Hey, you all got to be there, man. It's something that we've been working on for some time and we've, you know, we've put everything into it. And I speak for myself and my fellow colleagues that we hope you see what we see.


Yeah, definitely wasn't us, but I don't think you panic, I think you just, you come back in tomorrow and you just make the corrections, you know, we know we have to be better, we for sure have to be better, knowing all three phases and you know, you get hit, you get hit in the mouth like that, just about how you respond and you know, we just gotta come in with the right mindset of making the corrections and you know, moving for it. Maybe a little shell shock, there's so much expectation you guys are so high break play and then it's 17-nothing early, how tough is that to dig out of and was there almost a feeling of maybe disbelief or anything? No, not really, I think, we don't try to find any excuses or make any, we just gotta play better. You gotta come out, you know, trying to make plays and you know, doing everything we can to put ourselves in a position to win the game and today we just, we didn't do that, they played way better than we did. You know, it takes all 11, we all gotta be tied in and you know, on a flight, we work today and I'm sure we all think as individuals and as offense to hold, we just, we just have to be better and for us to have success in the run game, we just gotta be, you know, tied in, being locked in on what we gotta do each and every play. Did they pack the bunny? I guess you're probably used to running against pack boxes, but did they do so even more so than most today, the Cardinals?  In that first half, you got hit behind the line, or at, or behind the line eight times negative three yards, what were you seeing that was happening to allow you to get hit like so early after getting the football? I mean, they just did a good job on defense, of disrupting plays and we just gotta be better on offense and that's what it comes down to. We got to be better. I don't think we need to make no excuses, you know, you can see it out on the field, we have to be better on offense and for us to have success and do the things that we need to do. There was a point when the offense gathered and we saw something from you that we haven't really seen a lot of. You got emotional and you're really getting after them. What were you saying to them and why was it so critical for you to say that at that point? Yeah, it was just telling us that, you know, we got to play better, you know, we look kind of like a days ago, just walking around, not playing how we play, not, you know, playing up to the standard that we all talk about, that we try to do each and every day that Coach Braves talks about. And just trying to remind guys, you know, we got to pick it up, got to play better. Those guys, you know, hitting on all cylinders on the side of the field. So just trying to pick these guys up, trying to be the best league that I can and, you know, get the guys going so we could play better. I'm kind of surprised, Derek, that they just haven't seen that much from you before. You're kind of surprised that it came to that, that you've had to, you know, take matters into your own hands a little bit. That's what it's like. That's what I'm gonna do. So that's probably different from, you know, y'all seen me, you know, do something like that. But, you know, I'm proud myself on being leader of this team. And that's what it takes. That's what I gotta do. How should guys respond to a game like this? How do you how do you expect guys to respond to a game like this? Come in, watch the film, get coached, you know, be critical of yourself. Be locked in this week, each and every day. The leaders got to hold, you know, everybody accountable and we got to be leaders.  We got hitting the mouth and just by hiring respond like I said.


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Hello, my name is Matt Clark, and I'm a Lieutenant in the Denver Police Department's Major Crimes Division. This critical incident debriefing is intended to provide you with information regarding an officer-involved shooting that occurred in the 1,000 block of Monaco Parkway on Monday, December 28th, 2020. You are about to see relevant video footage and learn about other evidence and police procedures related to the case, so you have an understanding of the details of this incident. The use of deadly force by a police officer demands a thorough investigation be completed. The Denver Police Department is committed to ensuring a full and timely investigation of these serious incidents. This allows for a comprehensive examination of the officer's actions to determine compliance with state statutes and department policies. In accordance with legislation passed in 2015, the investigation of police shootings in Denver are conducted by a multi-agency investigative team made up of members of the Denver and Aurora Police Department homicide units, as well as the Denver District Attorney's Office. All critical incident investigations are actively monitored by the Office of the Independent Monitor. A word of caution. The images and information you are about to see may be disturbing. When a police officer uses force to arrest a suspect or defend against an attack, it can be graphic and difficult to watch. In addition, there may be strong language used by those in the video. Viewer discretion is advised. This officer-involved shooting incident occurred immediately after three individuals committed a home invasion robbery at 950 Monaco Parkway. In this incident, an innocent homeowner was shot and killed, and another individual within the residence was shot and critically injured. To protect the integrity of future prosecutions, this debriefing will focus only on the interaction between the Denver Police officers and the three offenders. There will be no discussion regarding the home invasion robbery, the homicide, or the aggravated assault that occurred in the residence. On Monday, December 28, 2020, at approximately 11.20 a.m., a resident called Denver 911 to report his neighbor located at 950 North Monaco Parkway was being attacked. Denver 911 was attacked by two workers, two men in yellow vans, one were in an orange heart and happy to attack them. Are there any weapons involved? I think someone saw what appeared to be a gun. This residence was on the southeast corner of East 10th Avenue and North Monaco Parkway.  Denver Police officers were nearby and promptly arrived in the area. Officers located the previously described sedan, which was determined to be a black Honda Fit sedan that was occupied by one of the suspects. As the officers neared the vehicle, another suspect, 38-year-old Joshua Ham, exited the residence and began running east. The driver slowly drove east attempting to allow Mr. Ham to get into the vehicle, but she quickly sped away southbound on Magnolia Street as officers neared. Joshua Ham was taken into custody without incident in the 900 block of Magnolia Street. He was found to be in possession of a Ruger 9mm semi-automatic handgun. This weapon was not loaded. About the same time, Denver Police officers Crystal Thomas and John Repchar arrived in the area and heard a gunshot fired as they were nearing the residence. Immediately after this, the officers observed the third suspect, 47-year-old Larry Ham, run out of the residence. Larry Ham proceeded westbound on 10th Avenue towards Monaco Parkway holding a brown handgun in his hand. The uniformed officers stopped their marked Denver Police vehicle on 10th Avenue east of Monaco Parkway. The officers both issued several verbal commands to Larry Ham directing him to stop. The officers pursued Mr. Ham on foot as he continued westbound. Mr. Ham ran into the northbound lanes of Monaco Parkway where he blocked the path of a northbound motorist driving a grey Jeep Grand Cherokee causing the driver to slam on their brakes. Officers continued to give verbal commands to Mr. Ham, which he ignored. While holding the handgun towards the driver, Mr. Ham racked the slide of his firearm multiple times. He approached the driver's door and told the driver to get out or I'll shoot. Mr. Ham pulled the locked driver's door handle and also unsuccessfully attempted to break the driver's window using the bottom of his firearm. The driver of this vehicle sped away and later called police. After the grey Jeep Grand Cherokee drove away northbound, Larry Ham was exposed to the officers and was still holding the handgun. The officers were positioned in a yard east of Mr. Ham when they both discharged their duty handguns at Mr. Ham. None of the officers rounds struck Mr. Ham, however bullets did strike a vehicle traveling southbound on Monaco Parkway. No one in that vehicle was injured. Mr. Ham ran west across the large grassy median on Monaco Parkway and continued north into the Monaco Locust Alley. While running, Mr. Ham threw the handgun he was carrying. Officers lost sight of Mr. Ham and began setting up a perimeter. Shortly after, Mr. Ham emerged back on Monaco Parkway. Corporal Jeff Jenkins, who was approaching from the north, observed Mr. Ham in the southbound lanes of traffic and recognized he was attempting to gain access to a vehicle he had stopped in the southbound lanes. Corporal Jenkins activated the overhead emergency lights and siren on his marked Denver Police vehicle to make Mr. Ham aware of his presence in the hopes it would cause Mr. Ham to abandon his efforts to get back. To forcibly take a vehicle. This action had the desired effect. Mr. Ham began traveling east across the large grassy median and walked back towards the northbound lanes of Monaco. Corporal Jenkins, a uniformed officer, stopped and exited his marked police vehicle. Corporal Jenkins drew his duty handgun and began following Mr. Ham as he continued into the northbound lanes of traffic. Corporal Jenkins issued multiple commands directing Mr. Ham to get on the ground, which were ignored. Corporal Jenkins began walking in the northbound lanes of traffic in an effort to stop northbound vehicles so Mr. Ham could not confront another driver. Two vehicles in the northbound lane had slowed and stopped ahead of Corporal Jenkins. Mr. Ham quickly went towards the driver's side of the rear vehicle. When Mr. Ham could not open the driver's door, he went around the front of the vehicle to the front passenger door. Mr. Ham opened this door and quickly entered the vehicle. As Corporal Jenkins approached the passenger side of the vehicle, he observed the driver was fearful and did not know what to do with Mr. Ham and the passenger seat of her vehicle. Corporal Jenkins's repeated commands to Mr. Ham were ignored, and Corporal Jenkins recognized that less lethal options would not have been affected in stopping Mr. Ham. Corporal Jenkins was specifically concerned for the safety of the driver and recognized she could be kidnapped, harmed, or killed. Corporal Jenkins was positioned outside the front passenger window when he discharged his duty weapon multiple times, striking Mr. Ham. Corporal Jenkins was aware of the driver's proximity to Mr. Ham, and he directed his gunfire in a manner that ensured the driver would not be struck by the fired rounds. Officers quickly worked to free the driver from the vehicle. Other than cuts from the glass of the passenger door window, the driver was unharmed. Officers removed Mr. Ham from the vehicle and detained him. An ambulance was immediately called and promptly arrived at the scene. Mr. Ham was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced deceased. Following a police shooting, any officers involved in the incident are separated and assigned to a supervisor once a situation is stabilized. Involved officers remain in the company of the assigned supervisor throughout the initial investigation of the incident. Through the investigation, it was determined that a total of seven rounds were fired by three Denver police officers. At the scene, investigators recovered a brown, Springfield arms, 9mm Hellcat, semi-automatic handgun. This was the firearm that Larry Ham was holding as he fled the victim's residence and was the same firearm he possessed when he attempted to car jack the first vehicle that was northbound on Monaco Parkway. This firearm was forensically linked to shell casings that were recovered within the victim's residence. This firearm was also determined to have been stolen in a residential burglary that occurred several days prior to this incident. Investigators met with and interviewed the victim of the first attempted car jacking. She described Mr. Ham running in front of her vehicle and having to slam on the brakes to avoid a collision. She further described observing Mr. Ham manipulating a handgun, which caused two live rounds to be ejected from the gun. These rounds landed on the victim's vehicle and were later recovered by investigators in the area between the front windshield and the engine hood. The victim further described Mr. Ham attempting to smash the driver's window of her vehicle with the handgun while shouting at her to get out of the vehicle. She described being terrified and recognized she only had seconds to react before she would have been a car jacking victim. Detectives interviewed the driver of the vehicle Larry Ham entered. This witness described Mr. Ham entering the vehicle and immediately pushing and aggressively moving her arm. She believed the officer's actions prevented Mr. Ham from doing anything to her and relayed she believed the officer saved her life. A toxicology report revealed the presence of amphetamine, methamphetamine and THC in Mr. Ham's system. In the days following the incident investigators identified the third offender as 44 year old Tamika Dudley. Ms. Dudley was found to be in possession of the Black Honda Fit sedan that was used during this incident. That vehicle was determined to have been stolen during a residential burglary several days prior to this incident. In relation to this case Ms. Dudley was charged with first degree murder for felony murder, two counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of first degree burglary. Joshua Ham was charged with first degree murder for felony murder, criminal attempt first degree murder, two counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of first degree burglary. Both individuals are presumed innocent unless proven guilty. Detective subsequently linked the three offenders in this case to three additional residential burglaries that occurred in the vicinity in the week prior to this offense. All officers assigned to uniform patrol duties in Denver have been issued body worn cameras. These devices are generally worn at chest level by patrol officers and are capable of recording both audio and video. Prior to being activated by the officer the body worn camera maintains a 30 second video buffer. Once the officer activates the camera the 30 second buffer video is captured and the camera starts recording both audio and video. It is important to note that a body worn camera captures a general perspective of what is in the camera's view. However this footage may or may not be what the officer actually saw or perceived. At times an officer's movement or hand positioning may inadvertently block the camera's view. Additionally the camera may not capture light in the same way as an officer's eye. Here is the relevant raw body camera footage that was captured by the involved Denver police officer's body worn cameras. Again viewer discretion is advised. All officers assigned to uniform patrol duties in the week prior to this offense. I insist on still northbound locust Monica O'Alley. OK. He headed to the west. We need perimeter setup on this ASAP. Police stop! OK. He's trying to go eastbound towards Monaco again. Watch out. I think he dropped a gun in the median area. I don't have eyes on him now. He went eastbound, more towards the southern half, eastbound. Black male. He's wearing, uh, was wearing one of the orange vests.  Stand right there and don't go anywhere. People are pointing to us that he's, uh, east towards Monaco, east towards Monaco. I'm going to go stand back over here. One, two, and three. I'm going through your passport. I'm going to get all three of them. We just had multiple shots fired from somewhere. I thought that's where that gun is.  Our what?  I don't know if that's him.  You mean the guy on the ground right here? I thought, I don't think that's, I don't think so. This is an OIS where the shots were fired by the suspect. What the? Shots were fired by the suspect. We're just north of 10 Monaco. I'm 23 out of my fired shots as well. I'm just trying to confirm the male suspect that had the vest on. Do we have him in custody somewhere? The what? Okay. Four doors to down the tall standing truck. Let me get over there and look at this guy and make sure. That one right there is the house he ran out of. Suspects came from that house. Red brick suspect ran from that door right there under the light. Did they? What's that? Should I give you my gun? I shot mine too. Did we find the gun over here? I don't know. He was just carjacking her. That's it. Let's look over here. There was a car coming north. She was in the car. Do you have the gun over here? What's the exact address? Do you want to help walk with this? Yep. You shot? Yes. We're on this shooting a shot. We shot a lot of shots. This area needs to be looked at. When I pulled up. I stopped there. He ran across the intersection with that cop. I got in behind him. He was walking. He was trying to get in the car. He was trying to get in the car. I don't know. Our counter is back now. We didn't see the gun here. Can you look for a gun? In this area south down. I'm going to scene secure. I'm going to turn off.  Get on the ground now! Get on the ground! Get flat! Get flat on the ground! Get flat on the ground! You're getting that car! I'm shooting you! I will shoot you if you're getting that car! I shot him. Get him out of here. I didn't cuff him up. I think he just got blood on him. All right. We'll get down to second. He was trying to car jack this. Bring that ambulance up to us. He's been shot three times. Right in this side. Right in this side. Right in this side. Right in this side. Right in this side. Got 13 sand. Clear the air. I'm going to need a perimeter scene, crime scene put up. Take 10th to 12th. I'm going to need a sergeant down here for an officer involved shooting. Just take Monaco from those blocks up. You have to take my gun. What's that? Should I give you my gun? I shot mine too. Did you find the gun over here? I don't know. He was just car jacking her when I got up. Come on. Let's look over here. There was a car coming north. Hold on. She was in the car when I shot. Can we get her checked too? I think we have to get someone else. But you shot. Then you're going to have to be over here too. He shot over there. I shot here. This area. This area needs to be looked at. So when I pulled up, I stopped there. He ran across the intersection where that cop is there. I got in behind him, walking to him to get on the ground, get on the ground. He started trying to get into cars. So he didn't have, he didn't see a gun here, but he was car jacking cars. He was trying to get into cars and he got into this car with this female. And that's when I shot. Can I turn it off if you want me to stay on? The Denver District Attorney will review the details of this incident and determine if the officer's actions were in compliance with Colorado law. After the district attorney renders the decision, the Denver Police Department Internal Affairs Bureau and Conduct Review Bureau will complete an administrative review of this case. The details of the case will be presented to a use of force review board which is made up of community members and police command officers. This board will determine whether the actions of the Denver Police Officers were in compliance with the high standards expected of every Denver Police Officer related to policies, training and tactics. For additional information regarding the investigation of critical incidents or the Denver Police Department's use of force policies, you may visit denvergov.org Thank you for taking the time to view this critical incident briefing.


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Income tax 2022-2023, business owned and operated by a spouse's tax software example. Let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation. Here we are in our example Form 1040 populated using LASERT tax software. You don't need tax software to follow along, but it's a great tool to run scenarios with. You can also get access to the Form 1040 related forms and schedules at the IRS website. IRS.gov, IRS.gov, starting point. We're going to start with the single filer and then move on to married and then think about how we might have a married situation where both are participating or owners of the business. So single filer Mr. Anderson, we don't have any W2 income, but rather Schedule C income flowing through to the Form 1040 line 8. Note that that's coming from the Schedule C. Let's jump to the Schedule C to see that. This is our business income, profit or loss from business. This is in essence an income statement, 120,000 income minus the 20,000 of the expenses. Business deductions gets us to that net income in essence of 100,000. That rolls into the Schedule 1, other income and adjustments on line 3. That totals up at the bottom of Schedule 1, flows into the 1040 as we saw with the 100,000 here on line 8. We also know that there's going to be self-employment tax, which support accounting instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Which is a key component with our current topic of thinking about a business owned by spouses, a married couple. So let's look at that. The Schedule C totals up down below at the 100,000. That then is going to be used to calculate the self-employment tax, not this one. Here it is. And so that's going to be taken the 100,000 calculate the self-employment tax, which is in essence the employee employee or portion like equivalent to payroll taxes, social security and Medicare. That's at the 14,129, which is flowing into the 1040 page to not just the income tax, but now this social security and Medicare, the self-employment tax in other words. So then we know that we're going to have half of that tax is going to be deductible on page one of the form 1040. So if I go back to the 1040 on page one, we get to deduct half of that 7,065. We can see that as well on the Schedule SE taking half of that amount, rolling that through to the Schedule 1 page 2, adjustments to income. There's the 7,065 totaling up at the bottom, pulling that into the 1040. So there it is here to get to the adjusted gross income of the 935. Then we've got the standard deduction, which is the 12,950 for a single filer. It will be doubled when we move to a married filer. And then we've got the qualified business income. We'll jump into that later, but I'm going to rely on the software. It's calculating at the 15,994 for now. And then that's going to get to the taxable income of the 63,988. If I go to page two, we've got the tax calculated as well as the self-employment tax. So total tax, 23,821. I'm going to assume we paid 30,000 on estimated payments. And that gets us to the refund of 6179 in our starting point. Now we could mirror that over here in our worksheet as well. I'm not sure how much I'm going to jump back on over here to the worksheet because I want to focus in on our differences in the software. Because we looked at the worksheet in a prior presentation. So let's take everything the same now. But now let's say we move up to married filing jointly. So now we have Mr. Anderson and Mrs. Anderson and no dependents. We still have the 100,000 flowing in the same. We still have the 7,065, the same. The only difference here being is that we've got this big difference of the standard deduction jumped up from 12,950 to 25,900. Because we've got the married couple. And then on page two, the tax calculation, federal income tax has changed because of the rates and the filing status. But we still have this number for the self-employment tax, which is the same. Now you might say, well, what does it matter then if I allocate the Schedule C income to one spouse or the other? Because they are now joint as one entity. So you can see clearly on the Schedule C, we're allocating it to Mr. Anderson, not Mrs. Anderson. But what's the difference? Who cares? One of the major differences is going to be the self-employment tax. The self-employment tax may not differ if it was owned by a different spouse. But it's going to be paying into the social security of the individual, even though they're married. As a married couple, if you're trying to maximize the amount of benefits you're going to get in retirement, you want to think about how can you pay into social security so you get the most paid out of social security in retirement. So there's a misallocation here if it was owned by both spouses. So now that you got the question, OK, well, what if it was owned by both spouses, then what are my options? Well, one is that you can have a partnership return, because in essence it's a partnership then, but then you would have to file another return, which would basically be a flow-through entity, and then the K-1s would be used to populate on the tax return. You'd have two K-1s from the flow-through entities, which would help you to properly allocate the self-employment tax through the flow-through entity. So that's one option that could be used. Another option is you might be able to have community income. So here's just a quick recap on that. If you and your spouse only own unincorporated business as community property under the community property laws of a state, foreign country, or U.S. possession, you can treat the business either as sole proprietorship or a partnership. So state with community property. That includes Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin. So in that case, you would think, well, if it's community property, we should just split this thing down the middle, and each of us spouses should get an allocation of an equal amount to our social security benefit thing. That's what you would kind of think. And so I'd say, okay, one way you might be able to do that is to assign it not to a taxpayer in the software. We're going to say now it's joint. By the way, if I assigned it to the spouse, then you'd have the same thing, but in reverse. So now you've got the same 1040 here, the 100,000 flowing through everything is going to be the same, except that on the Schedule C, it's now being applied to Jane Anderson instead of Neo Anderson, and all the benefits are going to go to Jane's social security number. If you then say it's joint, which you have to be careful to be able to make sure you can do depending on where you are located, then we have the one Schedule C here once again, but it says up top now it's Neo and Jane Anderson, and then everything else is the same. It flows through to the 1040. It's all the same for income tax. Income tax evasion. Next purposes, but when I go to the Schedule SE now, I have two of them, Neo and Jane. So now that nice and easily allows me to populate one Schedule SE while still being allowed to have two self-employment tax calculations, which the total should still come to the same total, but now for their particular benefits so that when they get their benefits, it should be allocated to them separately, and that could be a big deal when you're trying to kind of maximize your social security benefits that would be coming out at the end. I got a different check mark here. This is 1413130. If I go back on over here and I say it was for a single taxpayer, it's 14129. So it's pretty, so obviously again, this, because it's a flat rate that we're using, this one's coming out to be the same. That's the total taxes. It's just being allocated between the two and it's a rounding difference. That's why it turned red. But it's still 14130. So that looks good. That's to be expected. So that's one way that you can do that. Now, if you're not able to do that, then another thing you might be able to do is have a qualified joint venture or to have a partnership return, right? So if you and your spouse each materially participate as the only members of a jointly owned and operated business and you file a joint return for tax year, you make a joint election to be treated as a qualified joint venture instead of a partnership for the tax year. Making this election will allow you to avoid the complexity of form 1065, but still give each spouse credit for social security earnings on which the retirement benefits are based. So to do that, you may be able to basically make two schedule C's allocating the proper amounts to each schedule C. So for example, to make this election, you must divide all items of income, gain, loss, deduction and credit attributable to the business between you and your spouse in accordance with your respective interest in the venture. So if I was to go back on over and say, notice that this one split it 50-50 as we can see here. Now, if you were trying to maximize your social security benefits or whatnot, it might be more beneficial to have one or the other spouse allocated more of the income depending on their other information with regards to putting money into the social security and you can try to plan out what would be best for social security. But if the agreement was something other than 50-50, then you might be able to use the joint venture kind of system to allocate it differently, to allocate the income differently or a partnership. If you use a partnership, you have to file a separate return and then you can use the allocation methods to allocate whatever the allocation agreement was, whether it be 50-50, 60-40 or whatever. And then or you might be able to file in essence to schedule C's which might look something like this. I would have to take this schedule C. This is kind of tedious. You'd have to say, okay, I'm going to say, let's add another one. And let's say this one is going to be for the spouse and the first one is going to be for the taxpayer. And then I'm going to say this is going to be 120. Let's say we'll take, well, let's just make it easy and make this 100,000 and just to give an example. So the whole 100,000 and let's say that it's going to be 60-40. So let's say we're going to take that 100,000 minus 40,000, which will leave us 60,000. And then on the second one, it would be the same information. And I won't repopulate all the information, but I'm going to say this is for the spouse. And the bottom line is that this would be the 100,000. And then I'm going to take minus 60,000 of it, which is going to leave us 40. So that comes up to the 100,000 again. Right. And then if I go back on over here, now I've got a schedule C, but now I've got two schedule C's, one for one spouse at the 60,000, the other for the other spouse at 40,000. And they're both allocated to the two spouses. And that would total up to the schedule, the schedule S-E then I have two schedule S-Es, which I tried to differentiate now to allocate based on whatever our agreement is in a similar way that we might do in a partnership that might be different than just 50-50, which may not have a big impact or any impact possibly on the federal income taxes, but could have an impact on the social security benefits that you would get. Right. That's kind of the whole mess that has been created here that we are finding ourselves dealing with. So if I go into then page one, then you still have the 100,000 here. And on page two, we still have the same social security that has been calculated, social security and Medicare, the self-employment tax. But now we have a different allocation based on the two schedule C's. So if you're going to make that election, you want to do some more research on that and think about what your best option would be. So if you're a married couple and you're in a community property state, you might be able to do the easy thing. One schedule C, splitting everything down the middle, which means that your allocations to the social security will be split down the middle. Or if you want to do more complex planning for the amounts you're going to get from social security benefits possibly because, and you want to allocate that differently or for whatever reason, or you have a partnership agreement that's different than 50-50 or you're not in a community property state, you can think about maybe setting up a partnership flow through entity, which allows you then to have a breakout that's other than 50-50 if you so choose. But you have to do another tax return and use this K-1s that will then flow in here. And then you can use the K-1s to do the allocation, which will then drive the social security, the self-employment calculations. Or you might be able to do this method with basically two schedule C's possibly looking into a qualified joint venture situation, which is tedious, because then you have to basically populate two schedule C's in accordance with whatever allocation you're using. And I've never actually done that because I'm in a community property state, but that's another option that you can basically drill down on and look into and see if that would be easier than say a partnership return in that situation.


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All right, I think we can do this reasonably expeditiously. So Northwestern will be hosting the GM5 meeting in Bethesda. Please make note of the dates. It'll be the 28th and 29th. So unfortunately, that means travel on Memorial Day for people that observe Memorial Day weekend. As Terry alluded to, and as you just sort of saw a preview of, initially, the plan had been to think about using this to explore international genomic medicine implementation projects. But just due to the closeness of Memorial Day weekend to now and the fact that none of the international groups had actually been contacted at this point, we decided it actually probably made more sense to delay that for GM6 because there's probably a little more lead time when international groups are involved and really focus on wrapping up what's really been a two-year process. So this meeting will be happening very close to two years after the original GM, I guess we're calling it GM colloquium, not GM1 since we heard about that earlier. So what we want to really do is see if we can summarize the four meetings that have been held since that initial or the four, including the initial colloquium. And try to come together and review what it is that we've learned from engaging this wide variety of stakeholders. We've effectively talked about many of the places that are doing implementation projects. We've talked about integrating with payers, and you've heard a lot about the payer meeting and some of the work that was done on that. You've heard a lot about the funding opportunities that NHGRI has put out based on the discussions in this group. I think we'll have some clarity by that meeting of who some of those awardees are likely to be. And we've had this meeting where we've really had, I thought, a really good discussion about what the role of societies were and how do we think about education for the various stakeholders, whether they're patients or whether they're physicians or other health care providers. And so what we want to do is use this meeting as a chance to sort of revisit that and refocus our energies going forward on what makes sense to do. One of the other things I think that's very clear that came out of this meeting was that there is probably additional discussion to be had with the societies around the idea of clinical practice guidelines, best practice guidelines, and other levels of maybe non-randomized controlled trial based or evidentiary based approaches since we're very early in the game. And so I think we still want to use this meeting as an opportunity to maybe have a discussion about some of those issues in the context of how do we move forward in terms of filling the pipeline to get us to the place where we're actually able to have some clinical implementations that are maybe even able to be funded by payers and to be more broadly assessed for their outcomes. Since the meeting will be held in the Washington, DC area, one of the other things we thought was a great opportunity for this meeting was to engage the key federal partners. We have had several of the federal partners have people in attendance at these meetings, but we'd really like to think about what are the opportunities with things like ARC, I guess that's just not showing up. CDC, CMS, FDA, DOD, we've had good participation from the Air Force at a number of our meetings. VA is another one that wasn't on this list where we've had some good participation. We'd like to reengage, they have big plans. And then obviously as we think about outcomes, PCORI seems like a very important partner in terms of thinking about what should genomic medicine look like going forward. And I'm sure there are others and would welcome suggestions from you in a minute about what those others might look like. And then in addition to those groups outside of NIH, there's a variety of groups inside of NIH that we'd like to reach out to and see if we can engage at this meeting, including NCATs. One of the partners that's always made a lot of sense I think for us as we think about genomic medicine is the network of CTSA awardees and what they may be able to bring to the table. I know that in eMERGE most of the eMERGE consortium members are also affiliated with CTSAs and so we think that trying to leverage that and what NCATs goals are going forward makes a lot of sense. We heard quite a bit today about cancer and so engaging with NCI in a more formal way seems like it makes a lot of sense as well as heart, lung and blood. Those are some of the key stakeholders where genomic medicine seems like an early and initial good source for interactions. And then even though it's really focused on more fundamental studies, NIGMS is also funds a lot of genomics work and so it would make sense for us to engage them to the extent that they're ready, they're in the process of changing leadership and so hopefully that'll be maybe a little clarified by then. And then to invite anybody else from NIH that makes a lot of sense. So this is sort of the outline of what we're thinking about for this May meeting and so maybe I'll stop there and see if that resonates with people, see if people have suggestions for other stakeholders that should be involved or for people that we've missed that aren't on these lists. So we have Jean here first I think. Child Health is particularly interested in this. That should be on the list for sure. So we have Joan and then Chris and Alan. I was just going to suggest that HRSA may play a role in being here. Great suggestion. Yeah, I just want to say that for the Air Force side of the DOD component we've had a lot of interest from the Navy in kind of picking up our current study and probably by that May timeframe we should know what that implementation is going to look like and what their level of involvement will be. So they might be another good partner. Well that would actually be I think a really nice extension. So they're actually effectively talking with the Navy. That's fantastic. Yeah, it's pretty unbelievable. Well they want all things joint right now so it's kind of working in our favor. Excellent. Great. Alan? Chris maybe you mentioned this already but I think re-engaging the EHR vendors would be a good idea for this meeting since we've heard that's a real bottleneck for many of us. Obviously Rex gave a very abbreviated summary of this. I'm not absolutely certain that that would be the right venue for this particular meeting given that in some ways some of the output of this is going to be looking forward to the international meeting that we're going to hear about which may have less to do with some of the on the ground EHR but I think it is something that's important for us to consider as a planning group to say you know at what point do we need to bring that up as a prioritized topic? Yeah, it may be for example as Josh mentioned Emerge is engaged with the EHR vendors and had them at a meeting really around that general topic. It may be that a second round of meeting with them through Emerge and then eventually and obviously through Emerge and its growing collaboration with PGRN might make sense for a place to have that discussion and then a report back in the future. So we have I think Pearl then Jonas then John. I'm a little hesitant to offer these but just because we refer to them commonly I was just wondering about Office of Civil Rights for HIPAA. Should they just know what we're talking about and maybe even more tangentially with the Office of Human Research Protections. But I think you know not as a speaker but. Yeah it's a it's a it's a it's yeah you know and it's an interesting time for them because you know as you know with the advanced notice of proposed rulemaking and with I think increasing uncertainty about where that advanced notice is heading although maybe somebody else in this room knows more. Last I heard there was increasing uncertainty about the timeframe for the implementation of that. I don't know if that's actually a good time or an awkward time to engage them so I think it's an interesting point for discussion yeah. I mean one thing with the context of the Secretary's Advisory Committee of Genetic Health and Society when we invited them to come about the specific issues about lack of clarity around family history data they actually took that back and created a statement about the family history data which is actually much more liberal than any of us would have ever imagined that they would have come up with so I think if there are targeted issues that we've identified that fall into their purview where we could you know explain the problem to them and say if you can provide any clarification or assistance they might well act on that. Yeah there was in conjunction with recent or well I guess a year ago a merge meeting there was also a data sharing, return of results discussion and they actually did send representatives who participated very actively in both of those in those discussions and so there's certainly willingness on their part and I just the question is whether this is the right time or not and but that should be the planning group will certainly discuss that and reach out to them and see if that makes sense. Jonas? Since there are some non-trivial big data governance issues in this sort of framework it will be interesting to bring the NSF big data and data sciences people. Is that just a suggestion? Many of us would be interested in the financing of trying to get genomic medicine implementation to work and so I'd like to learn more about the third party payers and how people solve that problem around the country and what works and what doesn't and I don't see that on your list. Sounds like we need a 14 day meeting. Well I think to some degree John we tried to address that at GM3 but more at the payers meeting and so we would have some review and status from one to four maybe not I mean that's a topic unto itself that could take several days and so maybe we can touch on it I'm not sure that we can do it in May. We may want to think about having some kind of a separate effort or some subsequent effort for that but maybe we can work with you on kind of identifying what are the key issues that could be addressed in sort of a sub-segment in May. Well and I think a related piece is that there's still quite a few as you heard from Derek earlier there's still quite a few outstanding issues from the payers meeting and so it may be that at this meeting we'll be able to report on what some of those outstanding issues from the payers meeting are and that'll set the stage who knows for genomic medicine seven or eight. Hers is a key education partner so I don't know if you thought about inviting them or having some discussions with them. Well keep in mind before Marin and Jeff maybe you could head up to the podium. Keep in mind that where we're trying to go at least what was proposed was to unify our efforts in the U.S. genomic medicine implementation so that then we could present more of a united effort in September or whenever we meet with the foreign folks. So yes, right, so HRSA would be one of those but it sounded like you were trying to take us further than that, just HRSA. I would say from the VA I know you've invited the folks that are responsible for a million veterans program and the Biolab side of the Office of Research and Development but you might want to consider inviting David Atkins who's the lead for the Health Services Research and Development part and that's where I get my funding from VA to do implementation research and so forth and he also used to be the director of AHRQ as you may know so he's kind of pretty savvy guy and Seth Eisen who just left that position I think he's been charged with trying to look at the million veterans program and how it might relate to kind of assessing outcomes, et cetera. So especially with our EHR and all that so Seth Eisen might be somebody as well. Great, thanks. Any other comments? Wonderful, thank you Rex. You milked that one slide for all it's worth. Great and then last but not least by far Jeff.


We're just five days away from Halloween and the next production produced by Brainer Community Theater is aiming to get you into the spooky season. Clayton Castle has the story. Dark, spooky and thrilling are all words that are being used to describe Brainer Community Theater's current production of Woman in Black. The two-man play features Patrick Spradland and Kevin Yeager in the starring roles. I play a gentleman who has undergone a terrible ordeal earlier in his life and he has hired an actor to help him retell that story to his family so they understand the trauma that he has suffered and along the way in working with the actor this gentleman fills in all of the other people that are important to the story so I play maybe seven different characters. Kevin Yeager plays the actor and says that despite it being a two man show with a nearly bare stage the story will capture and retain the audience's attention. The line between the play within a play and the story and the play itself all becomes very blurry and very muddy and I think the audience will find that they get swept away in the story and forget that it really is a play within a play. Spradland saw the production in London and says it is a perfect show for the current season. It's a nice piece of writing and it's a good ghost story for Halloween which is timely to the season we're in. What's also unique about this particular production is that Spradland theater director at Central Lakes College is also the director of Woman in Black. It has its challenges because I want as a director I want my actors to immerse themselves into their roles and just concentrate on that and not worry about what's going on around them and get distracted but if I'm acting and directing I find myself disconnecting from that sometimes. The chemistry between Spradland and Yeager is evident and as Yeager put it this show suits his talents like none other. Because I'm kind of naturally drawn to heavier content as an actor so this is I would say I don't know philosophically speaking a little closer to my wheelhouse of what I enjoyed doing. The Woman in Black opened earlier tonight and runs the rest of the weekend reporting in Brainerd Clayton Castle Lakeland News. The production runs Friday and Saturday night as well as a Saturday matinee the Woman in Black is being performed at Central Lakes College in Brainerd. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Great to have you back for another episode, which happens to be the 229th already of Think Tech Hawaii's human-humane architecture. And we're broadcasting live once again from the opposite, we should say beginnings versus ends of the world, with you DeSoto Brown in your Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hi DeSoto. Hello everybody and hello Martin. And me, hi DeSoto. Wouldn't you wish so still back in Munich, Germany? So I'd rather be in Honolulu. Thank you. You can be in Munich. I'll be here. You're welcome. I thought you wanted to ski with me. You just said no, no, no, no, no, no, no. All right. So we're still reporting under the three threats of seas, which is climate change, COVID coronavirus and civility through increasing civil unrest through social inequity. And architecture certainly has to do with all three areas. And that's very critical. And speaking of critical, let's remember some people who were, we remember as very critical minds on the island, who were not afraid to address issues like that. And one of them is very familiar to you, DeSoto, because he is your architect, right? Who is that? His name is Vladimir Asipov and he's a famous mid-century architect of both commercial buildings and private homes. And he is the person who designed the home that I grew up in and will be moving back into at some point in the future from 1948. So I know very well the work of Asipov. And about one and a half decades later, he declared the war on ugliness, which was, of course, a peaceful, yet powerful kind of professional declaration of that he didn't want to put up with what he saw was going on in the big building boom era around him, where he tried to be more sensitive than he thought others. And then another person we just recently thought about again, his name is Chris Smith. And Chris Smith in 2005 on a convention provoked the audience. He was on a panel and he said, can anyone here design an interesting building? And, you know, most architects would probably vainly say, oh, yes, my buildings are very interesting. But to put it in perspective, what he might have meant, he is the architect, for example, of the HMSA, which is my health insurance, by the way, not that it matters, but on Kiamoko Street. And the goal was, as rumors say, and we will look more into that in the future, that the determining factor for the building was not formal but performative because he wanted that no son, which is problematic in Hawaii all the time for keeping us cool is ever going to pass any glass. So that being said, again, he had a performative versus a formal approach and might have meant the interesting more performatively. And then about a decade later, a Kurt Sandburn, who wanted to be called in the show I did with him, most activist journalist, in 2016, one of his final articles was labeled when protection fails and ugly Honolulu emerges. And that basically, you know, he had been living in San Francisco for a while, but civil beats basically told him that because he's not on the island, you know, he's not qualified to talk about what's going on in Honolulu, which really, you know, pissed him off, excuse the term. And so Kurt, hope you're well. We have to get you back one way or the other. We miss you. And so here we are. I guess it's the Soto, you and I, who have to do that here and now, right, because for right now, yeah, who else wants to, right? And let's let's get the first picture up for that, because we want to operate in the tradition of the three mentioned gentlemen who are heroes from the past, in regards of architectural criticism, because they were howlies, right? They were not from here. Asipov, we have to add was genetically Russian, and he grew up in Japan. And so the two other ones are basically American and Kurt grew up on the island, but Chris, I don't think he did. And he moved back, I believe we believe to San Diego some years ago. So again, we keep believing that being partly off and removed from the island, as I occasionally are, is a good thing.  And you confirm that when, you know, you share the stories that I bring from other places that all of a sudden, you know, gives us a clearer perspective. So to that regard, what we see in here is from the last summer, when I was following our cross cultural connoisseurs, Joey and Clara, to their stay in Barcelona.  And I said, Hey, son, you know me, I don't do that.  I'm a public transport guy. I want to hop on a train or a bus. And I found one. And that was an express bus that only took had two stops. And doesn't the distance and the location up there at the top right that I Googled reminds us of back home? What you were saying that this was probably a trip comparable to going from the Honolulu Airport to Waikiki, where you live when you're here in Honolulu. And yet you are able to get on this bus. And as you said, make only two stops and get there not only very quickly and very directly, but you are also able to ride in a bus which could accommodate your your bag, your suitcase. And it lets you off right where you need it to be. And you pointed out that if you were to try to take a similar trip here in Honolulu on the bus, you would not only not be able to carry luggage, a piece of luggage, you'd also have something like 29 stops you figured before you got to Waikiki. So in the case of Barcelona, you had a much more direct, much faster and much more accommodating way to get there than you would have if you had tried to do it here in Honolulu. All right. So something to learn from that. But never mind. Let's jump the bus, which I did last time and I did the 29 stops.  So thank you for that. So let's jump the bus and ride the bus. Let's go to the next slide. And before I'm almost home, this is about the second to last stop before my Waikiki grant. And this is basically then getting us through Cahuillo Avenue. And Cahuillo Avenue is the is the sibling of Calacaua Avenue that runs parallel to it. But they are very, very different nature, right? Calacaua is our glitzy mile. And Cahuillo at least was and is changing dramatically, which we'll talk about is has more gritty green. Is that fair to say? Yes, it is. And one of the reasons it ended up like that was because in 1971, because of traffic, Calacaua Avenue and Alawai Boulevard were each made one way. And Cahuillo was left to have two way traffic, which makes it a lot more congested, not as smooth, not as calm and nice as the traffic on Calacaua is. And I think that's one of the reasons it seems more gritty. In addition to all the other things that you mentioned alike, the photograph of the homeless person, which is in the upper left on Calacaua Avenue, they do sweeps regularly. They clean things up. There are people sweeping the ground literally all the time. So you do not see that as much out there where the expensive stores are. And yes, there are very high end stores lining Calacaua Avenue. Yeah. And there are some new developments on Cahuillo. One of them we reconvened when our exotic escapism experts, Suzanne was with us. And you choose to take her and me to Denny's, which is at the range of Cahuillo and Capahulu. And so one more slide, next slide, that we have been recently on Cahuillo a lot. The bottom right is the show quote, when we were out of our quarantine, but I still was only with the Department of Health and my university health services emails that I had sufficient vaccination. And the restaurant that had no problem with that was Paya, which is on Cahuillo. And it's in the building. It's the base of the building where our friend Ron Lindgren was put when he was with you, a keynote speaker on the national adocomomo symposium, which you see at the very top right. And the one who gave the name to the street we see at the very bottom left, right? Soto, tell us who that is. That is Prince Jonah Kalaniana Ole Cahuillo and Cahuillo Kalaniana Ole, pardon me. And he was an important person politically. And the reason you pointed out very interestingly that in this statue, he is dressed in Western clothing. And that was because he was a delegate from the territory of Hawaii to the Washington, to the national, you know, United States Congress in Washington DC. So of course, he had to dress that way in this statue depiction. However, he's also wearing a shoulder cape of feathers, bird feathers in a traditional Hawaiian style. You asked why his statue is not on Cahuillo Avenue that's named for him, but instead on the beach.  And in fact, that's why this stretch of beach at Waikiki is called Cahuillo Beach. So he's there where his home was. But as you pointed out, he is totally overdressed. And the woman who is walking past him is dressed much more appropriately for the setting. Yeah, let's just assume he was undressing himself as well when he was back home on that. He was. He was. He did. So okay, so now from your treasure box of historic photographs, next slide, in the next couple slides, you will show us the history of this particular part of on Cahuillo Avenue that has just been gotten redeveloped. So that's how it looked back then, Ryan. Right. And so we are going to look at the place that we're talking about which has a new structure that's going to be the focus of what we'll be talking about in this show and for some others to come in the future. And it's this corner, which is the corner of Cahuillo Avenue on the left and Cane Capole Street on the right. This is property that belonged to Queen Emma. She was the wife of King Kamehameha IV. They are the people who started Queen's Hospital and her property in Waikiki is the Queen Emma estate, which helps support Queen's Hospital. And until the 1950s, this large piece of property was not developed. And in fact, they didn't even construct roads through it till 1954. So you see here the fairly new roads in 1957 without anything built on the property. But you do say there's an abundance of trees. And there's a big banyan tree back there that we're going to be looking at as this little story continues. Let's go to the next slide. And here is that same piece of property as it looked after the first building was built on it in 1960. And that was a supermarket called The Food Pantry. The Food Pantry not only fulfilled the needs of regular people in Waikiki who lived there, but it also had a gourmet section, which I always remember as a kid was very intriguing because it had a lot of weird types of food in it that I'd never seen before, such as a bottle containing a rattlesnake so that you could eat rattlesnake meat. Nobody ever bought that bottle containing a rattlesnake. But you'll notice there's the Food Pantry on the left, but the space on the right is still empty. And you'll notice in the background there's that big banyan tree. Let's go to the next slide. Which is zooming in, right? Which is zooming in. And again, here is the Food Pantry, which was there until a short time ago. And that's going to be something that has something to do with the development we're going to be talking about. And talking performative, right? This is a very utilitarian building type, but a fine mid-century one because there's performative measures as the canopies that shelter you from the sun and the rain. And then there's this interesting sort of like double facade kind of fake front thing that you see at the very left. So indeed, did you say that was a Pete Wimberley binding? Is that right? You know, I was just trying to remember it was by somebody significant, and I think it was Wimberley. So again, that's a totally utilitarian building, but it still has these nice mid-century touches, and it opened in 1960. Let's go to the next slide. And this is that big banyan tree that I was talking about that was already on the property. When this was developed, the banyan tree was left in place, and there was open space around it as well as a parking lot. In the late 1970s, as there was a plan to redevelop the property then, people suddenly rose up in anger when half of the tree got cut down in getting ready to get rid of it entirely. And there was so much quick and sudden anger about this in the community that they stopped cutting it down and they left it, which is why we are going to see it is still there today. But this is as it appeared in 1965. Let's go to the next picture. And this is the other building, which was built on this same piece of property next to the food pantry. This is the Royal Theater, which opened in 1964. I went to a number of movies there, which I remember very well, including The Godfather in 1972, which you see is on the marquee right then. And I vividly remember going to this theater to see that film, because it was so good. The Royal Theater was demolished in the 1980s, and it was replaced by a restaurant called Banyan Gardens, which of course made reference to the Banyan tree that I've just been talking about. But that eventually closed. It was turned into a lower end restaurant, and then the property was entirely cleared on just this corner. And there were food trucks and other types of temporary food sellers there. And this corner went through some changes. And The Godfather being a mafia movie theme, as we know, that's appropriate and suitable for Cujillo, because Cujillo is not just gritty grain, but it also has some rough sides, right? There was crime, there's prostitution, and it's the other side of Waikiki that we see. The building, another very nice, fine, tropical, exotic piece of architecture, again, with a sort of row of slab posts there, and then these kind of canopies that remind us of Queen Emma Garden by Yamazaki, again, and providing sufficient shade and shelter from the elements. Very nice piece of, as you said, utilitarian, but exquisite tropical, exotic architecture, and too bad, it's not there anymore. And when we go to the next slide, this is how we recently remember the side when everything was demolished for quite a while. The food pantry was still there, right? Until until recently, but large parts of the block were basically, and before the redevelopment, they used it as for sort of a more mobile sort of vendors. And when Joey and Clara were on their culinary shaved ice trip to Malta, that was an inspiration when Suzanne and I took pictures of the shaved ice vendors and gave them some clues about practice back in Hawaii. And next slide, the tree, and everything has changed, but then the tree has always been there and was obviously one of the prime things to save, although land is very valuable in Waikiki, but luckily that one survived predator capitalism so far so good. And on the next slide, and these are pictures you gave me because I was not on the island when that happened. You can see there's quite some rubble and quite some stuff, so the tree had to go through quite some challenges there. Correct. And this is where the food pantry was. This is after the demolition of that building. And I believe that the new building, the Liliya, which we're about to look at, because it has a supermarket or a market in the ground floor of it, I think that that was partly one of the justifications for them being able to build it, was to replace the food pantry with a large food store because Waikiki has a lot of people in it, and that was the only supermarket. Yeah. And another justification slash deal we're going to get to in the next couple slides. Right, right. Yeah, so also on the site but across the street but still on the Queen Emma property in the early 1960s when those other buildings were built, these small two-story walk-up buildings or three-story walk-up buildings were also constructed with low income or low cost apartments. And instead of demolishing those as part of this building being built, the new building being built, these 1960s buildings were refurbished and that was done so that the development was fulfilling a requirement, a zoning requirement or a permit requirement, to include lower cost rental apartments. So they are functioning as part of the deal, which allowed the high-rise to be constructed. It has to have some lower cost apartments in it as well, but that number was reduced because these other buildings were kept. Yeah, we're obviously as Delcomomoers, we're happy mid-century gets saved. However, if you want to be nitpicky at the top left, a show quote from many years ago, almost half of the decade now, 2017, the two of us did a show that was called Sun Slated Hawaii. And what's so iconic about it are these vertical wooden slats that cover the staircase. And in that one, and we took these pictures back then, they were also the guardrails. So I'm wondering now if this aluminum guardrail sort of is a retrofit or an interpretation, but in any case, again, overall, they're pretty much kept in the original and that's a good thing. And next slide, they're comprised of several buildings. So it's not just one, it's a couple of them that we see here. And we see it in the final execution up there, a picture we took. And at the bottom, we see the renderings by the developer. And they're sort of depicted as sort of hip, as you can see, you know, our automobiles, architectures show to be continued in the future. You see that Ford Bronco pickup with a surfboard, you see the Vespa, you see a T1 VW bus and an American car down there from mid-century. So obviously, mid-century seems to be hip again, which is good, which helps to keep the appreciation of it. And next slide, talking hip and howly at the same time, probably the most iconic one, which is not on Kohio, but it's sibling Kalakawa, is what our exotic escapism expert, Susanna, as being representative for many others says, this is the building I like the most, is this is the Bank of Hawaii, and by Pete Wimberley. And again, he was not from Hawaii, but he chose to live there and work there. And he did a pretty good job in saying, I want to build not like where I come from, but I want to adjust and adapt to these very specific conditions of tropical exotic, which he did. Next slide, Ron Lindgren, who's not physically with us because he chose so, but he will be with us by his opinions that he allowed us to quote, and we will. And Ron, we know you're one of our favorite viewers, so hopefully we can lure you in being a special guest in the in the next volumes of this one here. And one thing you said is rightly so that usually, unless it's like a stark architectural branding with Richard Maya, that we will get to, oh, there's actually he is there at the very top right. The architects don't always play a significant role in the developments. They seem more like the facilitators. And at the top right is a project that got pulled, which is on Alamona Boulevard by Howard Hughes, that was supposed to be Richard Meyer. And the gentleman you see at the very top left with hair was me at the age of what my emerging generation is now in the mid 20s. And when I was at the Prairie at the University of Nebraska, we did something that I miss so dearly and I feel bad that I don't do it with my students because of just the remoteness we have and the being so removed from the landmass is doing a quick trip, which took us actually, you know, with airplane, you can almost be as fast, but it's more costly. But there we were able to hop into a car. And after eight, nine hours, we arrived in Chicago, which is where that building at the bottom is. And that was in the early 90s, the hottest thing, or one of the hottest thing that was there, which doesn't seem so hot, which means it was a little lost in the early 90s. And that was what we thought was Richard Meyer, but I wish I actually affirmed that was sort of maybe copycatting Richard Meyer. And that is Solomon Courtwell Buens, as it says up there. Recently, this project has been remodeled pretty much back to its original by Starbucks. And you see an R on the on the right side of the building. So this is one of the few Starbucks reserves that only few cities in the world have. This is a special brand within the Starbucks brand. And they do special brewing with special coffees. And so Tokyo has one and obviously Chicago has one and Hawaii has one. And where is that one? It's even on Wahoo. It's even like Kiki, but probably on Kalakaua, right? No, because unlike what we were just saying, where all the high end stores are and Kalakaua today is, you know, it's notorious for these incredibly expensive European based mostly stores that are designer stores. But our Starbucks reserve is not on Kalakaua with all of those, you know, the Tiffany and the Hermès and the Louis Vuitton. No, it's on Cuyo Avenue. So Cuyo Avenue has been upgrading itself in recent years. It's gotten cleaned up a great deal. And while there still are pockets that deserve to be cleaned up, a lot of stuff has been done that makes it a lot more friendly and a lot more walkable and a lot more things to see and do that aren't quite as sleazy as some of the stuff used to be. And so we get to boast that we have a Starbucks reserve as well, although it's not quite as huge and noticeable as the one in Chicago that you are looking at right now in this slide. Yeah, and it's on the corner of Seaside and Kohio in the, what was it called, Waikiki Trade Center or something like that. That's correct, which is a hotel. Which is now a hotel. That's right. And these things are both good and bad. They're obviously good because they raise kind of the level of, but it's also gentrifying. The reserve, you can still get your coffee. I mean, Starbucks coffee is costly to begin with. And in a reserve, the normal coffee is actually not more expensive than in other stores, but then the very special brews in there sort of are. Anyways, we're at the end of this appetizer talking Starbucks here, a little taste of what we're going to continue next week. And we're going to start out to reveal that the island already knows the architect, Solomon Corbwell-Beuens, because they have been active on the island before, but that one we have to save and will for next week. So see you then for volume two of the Lillia Living Wall Waikiki. And until then, stay very tropically exotic. Bye-bye. Bye.