you don't have a date or you're too early or you're too late, then it's not a compliance sign. And then anyone can just go rip down and say, yeah. That's an interesting question. So I don't know exactly how we wanna do that enforcement, but regardless, but enforcement, the challenge of who does the enforcing exists whether or not we do the permit. I just don't think that the actual concept of coming into the slackman's office and filling out a piece of paper that says I'm gonna go put up more pieces of paper, it doesn't seem like a smart use of our resources. Got, did you wanna respond to that? So that's a broader idea than I was initially prepared to respond to. But the one thing that I do wanna know is this is not all categories of signs. There's a relatively specific set of things that the amendment to the bylaws permitted and took out of zoning. So we haven't completely solved all issues with all signs. We've solved some issues with temporary signage of a certain nature being put up for certain types of neutral purposes. I don't think that Mr. Klein, that was your original intent. I think that's more or less what's been effectuated. So it isn't all signs, but that said there is going to be what Mr. Dunn suggests with any type of regulation of this nature is that there's gonna be an administrative process and there's gonna be an enforcement piece of it which is someone's gonna have to go out and say, you put in this application, we approved it, but your sign is still up two weeks after it was supposed to come down. I don't have a, I'm not gonna comment on whether or not, I would have to look back at the zoning bylaws and the town bylaws a little bit more carefully to make sure that we could achieve the bylaws, we can achieve the bylaws in Tampa to make sure that there's no conflict with that, with Mr. Dunn's proposal. I'm not saying that it's wrong, I'm just saying that I would wanna be a little bit more thorough than on the spot, saying that that's okay given the complex interaction between zoning bylaw, town bylaw on these limited category of notices. Thank you, I mean, I think that Mr. Dunn raises a very good point. I think the little kid loses her puppy dog is having to come in and fill out an application, but I think I'm hearing the council say that he needs some more time to go over this one more time and although I felt that I was ready to discuss it, I think the point as well, is that what I'm hearing? I wouldn't be comfortable saying right now that something that, which I think sounds like a terrific idea. It's just a different approach to this issue than the way in which this has been sort of presented both in terms of the board's previous comment as a draft regulation model. That doesn't mean I think we're bound by that because town meeting only voted to amend the zoning bylaw and amend the town bylaw. So innovative ideas that would be better than a sort of traditional regulatory framework or fine with me, I just would want to make sure that I'm sure that it can work without violating either one of those bylaws. I'm sorry, I know that everybody wants this to be over and done with because people have been waiting patiently. I just, I don't want to. Yeah, Steven, sorry, yep. Would this, would the attorney general's decision have be changed at all if we go back and kind of redo what went forward previously? No, so the attorney general is only reviewing it to make sure that the actual change to the zoning bylaw and the town bylaws themselves are legal, they are. So then we'll play around with it. Yeah, whether or not it's exactly as advertised or not exactly as we contemplated because a better solution has been come up with, they wouldn't get into that. Okay. I'm happy to reconsider this according to advanced ideas. So we want to move to table? I move table. Second. So, Christian, do you want to comment on this concept of having to apply or not? Why? Because of the millions listening at home. Although it's fewer now, I think, yeah. Christian Klein. So essentially that, I think the only thing that was requesting approval from the Board of Selectments office was if you're going to place a notice specifically on public property. And it was there to protect the town so that people just didn't come and tape things to the side of City Hall. But that you could put things on private property with the approval of the owner. And the sort of the basis of that was a prior discussion that was held in the spring with NSTAR, who's the owner of the telephone polls, who said that as long as we are not interfering with their ability to maintain the polls, then they really don't care. I think I'd still prefer to table till I can actually have the policy in front of me while I vote on it. So the internet actually came back. It's back. Mine's still loading. Mine's still off. It says loading, loading, loading. I have two of them and they both say, I've dugs and like. And also I'm pretty sure at town meeting what we approved was that the, was that where the change is to create the definition of notice, to move notices out of the zoning bylaw to put them in the general bylaw. And in the general bylaw, it was going to be governed by regulations as set forth by the Board of Selectments. So no matter what regulations you set, you're not affecting the decision of town meeting. I agree. Yeah. So to thank Mr. Chairman, if I may, I hadn't considered the distinction that you're about the public property application about what the, how that this application does apply to a more narrow scope. And that does, that makes me stress a lot less about it because it becomes less necessary. And I think that maybe the way to do this, Doug at all, if we decide that we do want to stick with the application, then it's a display of notices permit application just to make sure, to make it more clear that that's for the public property. Part of it might, would definitely help. I can vividly remember last spring, reading the policy and being very happy with the policy. And somehow I either didn't look at the forum or the forum wasn't there in the spring. I don't even know which, but it was when I read this, the forum this weekend that if I'm like, I kind of, that was when I seized up and said, oh my God, what are we doing? Mr. Chairman, if I may. Yes. One of the things that is the, is has already a win. Yeah. Is I hate to be wishy-washy about something, but if there's some specific pressing deadline that concerns people, one of the reasons we took this out of zoning bylaws is so that this policy can be changed on a moment's notice, well not a moment's notice, but it can change on a 48 hours notice in terms of having a meeting. So this board can adopt a policy tonight and change it by the next meeting. If there's some specific concern that Mr. Klein has or somebody else has about getting a procedure in place, I know that sounds silly in some ways it is. I don't like it, but if there's some specific concern that this has to be approved tonight, we could approve this policy as is and then tweak it by the next meeting. I don't, I just wanna put that out there that's not a splitting the baby situation because all you're doing is refining your own policy. So is there a specific, is there specific set of events that anybody is concerned about? We need to get this policy. Not that I'm aware of at this stage now. And Mr. Berner stated he'd like to wait until he can have the whole, and Mrs. Mahan as well, have the policy in front of them, so. Yeah, but it came in ready to approve it and then there was a bit too much discussion. Yeah, and I feel comfortable moving forward with it. I can take, so I'm Mr. Chairman, I can take another pass at it and try and do some a little bit, make it a little bit clearer and then maybe Mr. Klein and I can talk and make sure that this is, I wanna make sure that this has been terrific work by him throughout the whole process of initiating the Warren article, drafting a lot of this stuff for the Selectman hearing and helping this specific issue be prepared for town meetings. So I would wanna be respectful of that. I'd like to save the poor soul from having to come back here, but. Well, if I can just get a lower number in the order, that'd be great. Can I buy less than five? Make a note of that, Mariana, if you would please for the next time we have this on. All right, so a motion to table. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor, please stand in five by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed. So then the next one is in front of you hard copy for the handbook, regulation of public and private ways, parking, public utilities, which Mr. Kuro quoted from in the other meeting. Any amendments, changes, wording? Yes. Yes. What? You sat with us and did this. I know and you told me that I had to bring this to the board because you disagreed on it. Oh, right, right. I know it is. Where is it going? Steven. So page two under A2, the final sentence of the first paragraph, or the final three words of the first paragraph in the town, I would like to remove. And this goes back to the debate we had a few months ago over the Onington International Film Festival, hanging signs within Arlington even though they were holding their festival outside of Arlington. And when we heard that, my contention was that I was OK allowing them to put up signs because it still promoted the town of Arlington. And I still think that the town benefited from having those signs up. And I think that the language as currently written within the town might restrict our ability to do so and allow things that might benefit the town, and in a fringe manner even, that would not allow us to take action to support that, I think, by hanging potentially the signs. So I'd like to remove it. I know it's been a long night. And I was hoping that we'd get to this for 11 o'clock so we could have a vibrant debate on it, Mr. Chairman, which we were just making it. But that's where I'm at. And other than that, I'm very happy with it. And again, as we've been doing every week, thank everyone who's involved in this mental work. So is that a motion, Mr. Chairman? That is a motion. I'll second that. There's a second. I'll second that. Let me tell you why that motion is wrong. No, I mean, I understand the point. And I voted with this board. On the International Film Festival, although I wish I hadn't. However, the argument that was made is how much they do within this town outside of the International Film Festival actually being held in Kendall Square. So I think technically they still fit within that definition, if you would. But I hear what you're saying, and that's just my two cents worth. Mr. Kuro. I actually have a different twist on why I think we may have maybe an issue with this language. And this language is actually in the policy, too, which might have to be revised. But we say here to, it's to bless you. Oh, that's the guy. Sorry. Can't imagine why. Publicized upcoming events are to designate or promote the unique commercial, historic or cultural character or status of an area or district within the town. So it's basically just referring itself to events and geographical areas. But this board approved actually the Arlington Public Art Initiative where the youth art is going to be going up on banners, which actually doesn't seem to quite even fit the definition here. I think we might want to just rethink the wording a little bit, but I'm a little... Nothing is coming to me immediately. Because that doesn't refer to an event, it doesn't refer to a place, but it is actually promoting the cultural vibrancy of the town as a whole. So you're saying that is... Unless you would say... Promote cultural character. Yeah. All right, any other... So the motionist of an area or district period, right Stephen? And just delete within the town. Correct. And so can we also say this would apply to the policy, Doug? Or would we have to bring the policy forward and then vote it? I think we probably have to bring the policy forward. Well, just because we've done it that way around the time. I think it's just to be a matter of making the policy consistent with the policy. These are a broad set of principles and policies, whereas your actual application is a little bit more narrow. Yeah. But Kevin, I think this is noticed as being an issue that's on this meeting or discussion. Do you guys want to condense that vote? I'm comfortable with it. In other words, the topic is very clear. This is what's being voted upon. Yep. So if you want to make them consistent, I think that that's fine. Okay. I think we want to make them consistent though. Yes, and we don't want to handcuff our ability moving forward. Okay, so all those in favor of the wrong motion by Mr. Byrne, please signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed, aye. Can I say nay? Nay. Oh, you're nay too? Well, Danny, I didn't hear you before, by the way. I was still thinking about it. Yeah. Yeah. I think that everything that I would want to prove, I can still prove under the language within the town, including the... Right. Wait, why are you nay? I zoned out. Because I don't feel as restricted by the words within the town because the, so Stephen says he wants to support the International Film Festival, for instance, which is partly in the town and partly out of the town. And I'm trying to think of all the things that I would contemplate wanting to put up on a banner.  Would we put that up? Yeah, I can count that as being within the town. Like if we want to do like a Boston strong something because of something related to the marathon, is that related to things within the town? Like I just can't come up with anything that wouldn't also, that I couldn't also argue is within the town. Is within the town. I'm not sweating it either way. Can you take them all again? I didn't vote either way. I wasn't paying attention. No, I'm honestly good. I was looking at Charlie Lyons. If you don't take this and slam me over the head. Charlie Lyons retires from Shosh. That's what I was looking at, sorry. So if you get, I didn't even vote. I just wasn't paying attention. It's coming back. The internet's coming back. Okay, yeah, that's what it did. The motion by Mr. Byrne is that on this handbook under section A2, first paragraph, his motion is to remove the words within the town from this handbook and from the policy in the manual. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed, please say nay. Nay. I'm sorry, it wasn't me. I honest to God, it was a long name. I was reading that, it wasn't me. Like how did he get in that again? Kevin was just already resigned to defeat me. I was, I was. A day and save my day. Thank you, buddy. So 18, should we table as well? How much should we pass the... Oh, yes, yes, thank you. Yes, so now, all those in favor, as it reads, please signify by saying aye. Aye. And so 18, that's the full policy. Have y'all read it enough prior to this? Does it feel you didn't? Mr. Chairman. Yes. Mr. Chairman. Yeah. 18 is actually the betterment's policy. It's just a detailed rundown on how the betterment process works. We talk about the general, like it's a paragraph on betterments, but it's actually just limited to betterments. 18. But it's for the manual. Yes. Right. Right. So is there a motion? I move approval. Second. Second. Discussion. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed. Open your calendars, please. Excuse me. I believe we're here doing this already. So January... I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman, I'm still struggling. Okay, I'm ready. So the 16th of January would be Martin Luther King Day. So what would the world think about nine and 23? Oh, actually, I already have those down as dates. I think you're the same. You're the wrong year, I think. You're the wrong year. We need January. Of 2016. Yeah, but the 9th is a Saturday, right? Yeah. You're in the right year. It's already the 18th. What am I looking at here? January, 2016, Monday, nine, Monday, 23. And I also have two Selectman meetings down. Wait a minute. I have January, 2016 is a Friday. What day is it? Correct. You look at it November. Huh? It is a Saturday. November is 9 and 23. Look at that. Oh, wait. Here we go on. There we go. OK, never mind. Never mind. That's a great day. I'm saying, I get a different January, 2016. I got to go home. I got to get out of here. OK, so the 18th would be Martin Luther King Day. How about 11 and 25? I'm OK with that. Everybody OK with those? Yes. Yeah, that's good. I'm understanding that the 25th most likely will be the special town meeting that we've been talking about, which would make sense to have a board meeting there. And if we have a really big agenda, we could start at 6.50. So February. So the 15th would be is that President's Day? Yeah, February Vacation Week. So how about 8 and 22 in February? Looks good, unless anyone else. How are we all doing? Hang on the chair. Yep, it's good. In March. You want to do 7 and 21? 7 and 21. I'm still. I'm sorry. I take a. I actually like put them in right now, so I don't know who it is. I'm sorry, what was the March again? 7 and 21. Because the 28th would be dicey for me, but it shouldn't be predicated on me. April. So election will be Saturday the 2nd. So we have to meet the 4th for our organization, right? OK, so 4th and 18th. Patriots Day, 3. Oh, man. 4th and 25th, the 4th. I want to say 4 and 25, and if you have to add 11. Does that sound right? Well, if you have to add one, yes. You don't have to worry about that. And that would bring us up to. Do May or leave it. What else have with these four months? Yeah, so what was, I'm sorry, April was 4th. 4 and 25. 4 and 25. Because of Patriots Day. Sounds like a plan. OK, so correspondence received. Receipt. So second. Second. Oh, gosh. And so you two have a meeting tomorrow related to this, correct, medical moron? It's actually been pushed back, but I am meeting with him. OK. But this was what they sent us the day after the last meeting. Yes, to make it official. Yes. All right, so moved and received. New business, Mary Ann Sullivan. Doug Hyme. Doug Hyme. Tonight, sir. Adam Jetteline. I'll pass. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Really? Nothing? Do you want me to come up with something? I was going to say. I'm shocked you're such a busy guy. Mr. Byrne. Too late for new business, Mr. Grayley. Wow. Hate to break the trend, and I'll make it brief. Just want to say I'm going to do my usual plug. The College of High School cheerleaders competed at Wubin High School in their league competition. And they made the qualifying bid to go on to regionals, which will be November 15, Sunday at Wubin High School. Also, at the same time, I went yesterday, Sunday, because Allington High was last week, to St. Mary's and Lynn, where Allington Catholic High School also competed in their league competition. They also qualified to move on to regionals. And it's really not related to Allington, but it is because it's my daughter, Rebecca, and my best friend's daughter, Jackie, who are the coaches for Medford High School Mustangs, also competed yesterday and will also be moving on to regionals. So next Sunday, for myself personally, I have Allington High, I have Allington Catholic, and then I have my daughter's team, the Medford Mustangs, who, unfortunately, unfortunately, will all be competing against each other. I was going to say, when's Mahan be Mahan? It's right there, so, but it's nice. And it was really nice to cheer on Allington Catholic High School, and Ryan Gedron, which is the head coach for Allington High Football, came with about 20 of his players to the Wubin competition. And Serge Cliveo was there yesterday for Allington Catholic, Allington Catholic football coach to be there for his cheerleaders. And I just think it's nice when not only girls and boys support each other, but also the coaches do. So just wanted to put a little plug in for that. And that's all my new business. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Mr. Dunn. Nothing. Mr. Kuro. I had something to try to abbreviate it really quickly. I mentioned to the chair that the members of the Poa Laureates screening committee are interested in coming in to meet with the board to talk about potentially being designated as an advisory committee throughout the year to support the program, the chair's indulgence. Also, I was contacted by the chair of the Vision 2020 Fiscal Resources Task Group who would like to have a conversation with us about warrant ordering in ways that we might think about that. And I don't know. They invited me if I wanted to come go hear what they had to say at their meeting, or we could invite them in here to have that discussion. I think that the chair's pleasure. Sorry, Joe, I'm doing the dates too. Either way, the Vision 2020 Fiscal Resources Task Group would like to talk about potentially thinking about some tweaks in the way that we order the warrant articles and present that to us some ways to think about that. But I'm willing to go get the information and come back, or we can invite them in. Whatever is the chair's pleasure? Well, the chair's pleasure is that we're in charge of the warrant. And the moderator wants to talk about the ordering of warrant articles. And the finance committee wants to talk about the ordering of warrant articles. So, I mean, to be honest, if you'd like to go and listen and then come back, that's what I prefer. OK, I'm happy to do it. If we're going to have a meeting, then I would want all of those stakeholders in the room to discuss it. I find that conversation to be just circular. Yeah. I mean, like, it comes up every couple of years. Maybe somebody's going to have some brilliant way to reorder it, but everybody wants some other order other than the order than they is the order. So I have yet to find a compelling reason to do it. Yeah, OK. OK. And the other group, Joe, is that you want them to come in? The Pollet Lawry. They were screening committee per the warrant article, but they were interested in supporting an ongoing basis. They were talking about another warrant article. I said, I don't think it's necessary. And consulted with counsel, he thinks that we can do this on our own. So do you want to invite them in for a future meeting? Sure, I've talked to Lizzo, so. But I'd recommend not the 23rd. Right, Marianne? Aren't we kind of filling up for the 23rd? Yes. I think you may be able to have a better look, as we say. Yeah, I don't think it's working. The only other thing I want to mention, I went over to Belmont Town Hall last week, I think it was, on Air Noise. A number of the people who have been working on this and some of our neighboring communities were there. They had an incredible set of data that they had put together to really convincingly demonstrate through data the impact of Air Noise in some of the affected corridors. I think walking out of there, the conclusion was that with the dismissiveness that the FAA has really treated all the communities with, that our only real hope is to try to enlist Massport as an advocate on behalf of the communities, which hasn't been successful up until now. But that was the, I think what we walked out of there with the kind of a consensus that we should be talking to our delegations to kind of push on Massport to kind of, rather than being just acquiescent in the everything that the FAA has put forward, try to help us present the case on the Air Noise. I'm sure some of you have been getting phone calls too, and it's a serious situation. That's all I have. OK. So just again, we want to invite everybody to participate in Veterans Day. Parade starts 10.30 at Walgreens and ceremony at 11 o'clock at the Central Fire Station, Held, Rain or Shine. And Joe and I participated in the Town Day celebration and realizing the amazing support we get from sponsors and our own staff and all of you. And next year is the 40th Town Day. So we want to make it a big one. And we're looking for people who'd like to help us do so. That said, the next meeting of the Board of Selectmen is November 23rd. Motion to adjourn. Is there a second? I'm not sure. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Good night, Allenton.


Okay, well, I'm gonna start by thanking the Headland Center for the Arts where as Samantha said I'm currently an artist in residence and also the San Francisco Public Library for this opportunity to be able to read to you Day, so thank you and I'm gonna read from each of my Three books, so I'm gonna start with a poem from my first book American Dreams And I'll start I'm just gonna read one poem from there, so try to make that one a good one I'm gonna read a wild thing and Wild thing was written in 1989 and It was a poem written after a group of young African-American and Hispanic males were Running through the park and they were Engaged in just some kind of homicidal behavior and they allegedly attacked a Female jogger a white woman in Central Park and this and also evidently raped her and this really at that time divided the city and of course everybody was really shocked by this This crime and the youth of the Perpetrators of course since then there's been Littleton and Arkansas and even Younger people and more horrendous crimes in this poem.  Ah, we My sneakers glide off the cement like white dreams looking out at the world through a cage a cabbage and my mother's fat Holler and don't do this and don't do that.   Nobody touches my goal.  I do the wild thing. I do the wild thing My teacher asked me what would I do if I had six months to live?  I feel good It's a man's world my sound is king.  I like how the sky looks when I'm running My clothes are new and shiny my tooth gleams goal. I'm fast as a wolf I need a rabbit the sky is falling calling my name Leroy Leroy. I look up But blood busting blood busting my throat, and it's my homeboys LD CK and bean but hey man. What's up?  I was six years old He made me promise not to tell no one I eat cornbread and collard greens. I only wear adidas I'm my own man.   I scream. I said let's go It's 40 of us a Black wall of sin The god of our fathers descends down and blesses us. I'd say thank you Jesus now. Let's do the wild thing. I Pop off the cement like toast out of toaster Hot hard crumbling running running the park is green combat operation lost soul looking for Lieutenant Callie Jim Jones anybody who could direct this spurt of this spurt of semen rising to the sky Soldiers flying through the rhythm.  I know who I am My soul sinks to its knees and howls under the moon rising full Let's get a female jogger. I shout into the twilight Looking at the middle-class thighs pumping past me Cadres of bitches who deserve to die for thinking they better than me.       I've never seen a pig or a cow step on TV Her nipples are like hard strawberries. My mouth tastes like pesticide.   I feel good, baby. I just did the wild thing That book of poems American dreams ends with a group of poems called the breaking karma poems poems that I wrote about my Relationship with my mother or really about my lack of a relationship with my mother and so American dreams ends with the breaking karma poems one two three and four and my new book of poetry black wings and blind angels begins with breaking karma number five six seven eight and nine which ends that sequence of poems about my mother and There there's seats all down here For people who want to sit down and seats over there So this is a breaking karma number five one It is like a scene in a play His bald spot shines upward between dark tufts of hair We are sitting in a pool of light on the plastic covered couch Ernestine his last live-in ended up with but that is the end We are sitting in the beginning of our lives now looking at our father upright in his black reclining chair It's four of us then children new to Los Angeles drugs sex Watts burning Aretha Michael Jackson the murder of King Haven't happened yet.  My father's voice drops like a curtain. She doesn't want you She never did to Holding the photograph by its serrated edges staring I know the dark gray of her lips is jubilee red her face brown silk I start with the slick corner of the photograph put it in my mouth like it's pizza or something I close my eyes Chew swallow, and this is breaking Carmen number eight in that series came One I Haven't seen her in 10 11 years. I'm 24 25 years old my grandmother and aunt have heard I moved to San Francisco They call all the L's in the book the conversation is simple working. Where going to school where chemistry. Yeah chemistry I want to be a doctor. I remember them heavy coffee cream colored women Doily's food church. I don't remember passion or being loved There are hills in San Francisco steep stairways of cement trolley cars 1975 The city is it nice there nice How can I say nice doesn't describe the way my blood gushes how I bead my hair with tiny red beads hundreds of them beauty bleeding Yeah, it's nice here. I answer What do they want now after the rubber hose the tenderloin tube down my nose and throat? What do they want with me now? What do I need a grandmother and aunt for now after him after my father? But I am polite launder my life promise to call to Why didn't I call? After all I had the number their tongues wag at me as if I put myself on an airplane at 13 and said goodbye Well, your mother tried to call my grandmother and sister she did I counter she sent letters my grandmother's search I never got them your father probably tore them up. No, he tore us up No, he would be at work when the wet mailman came he I don't like him, but I can't let this pass He didn't tear up. No letters. She never sent one none You never answered our letters are called.  Oh well by now we love you to My grandmother and aunt call again awkward. How are you church? How do I tell her who she knows is gone? I do tell her he beat me and I want to tell her you slapped me twisted my ear rage But I don't because it wasn't the same he cast me out you found me My grandmother says I want you to talk with someone or did she say I have someone here who wants to talk to you? Hello, the voice is thin cold and in retrospect. I will realize drunk It's your mother the voice says I realized she probably got handed the same I have someone here who wants to talk to you lime that I got I Chat on a moment about college my job at the phone company say alright I can't feel nothing from her side except sinking it feels like a stone sinking in endless water I tell her again. I'll write and send her a picture Because my sister hates to take pictures and my brother already is getting hard to find I only have one picture of us together A color photo of three smiling radiantly young people This time when they call I hear the behind the scene machinations Violet a steel hiss from my grandmother the sound of the receiver dropping my aunt someone wants to talk to you I wonder who hi mommy. I say sapphire. She asked no, it's Donald Duck. Yeah, it's me Then I remember did you get the letter I asked excited? Yes She says her voice sounds like it's been ironed and frozen But I don't stop. Did you get the picture? I asked yes. Yes.  It's me now being laid out on some big board being ironed and folded Frozen to a small red speck that turns black in my chest, which is a box closing Breath where to find breath putting the phone down Everything seems so still and coming apart at the same time a box in my brain opens and the one that's in my chest closes and This this next poem is called she asked about my mother in Therapy she asked about my mother I Tell her about the moment at the airport for children one mother in a skirt holding a piece of tissue Child by child. We passed through a turnstile to the plane the last I turn and asked when are you coming? She says she doesn't know when she is coming. I was 13 I would not see my mother again until I was 26 the last time. We are all together is in 1963 at the airport even then of course our father is not there she is through with him I walk in the kitchen and a man is holding her.  We will assemble at train stations and airports to pay as they say our last Respects to a little woman who by the last or in the end was hard to respect Holding on to this weight depression and train stations at the airport I am afraid the person sent to meet me is not coming I was 26 when I went to find my mother in therapy. I passed through the turnstile again I am through running at last. I'm willing to look at this mother to look at my uterus holding It's hard tumors It was me who was coming in a pink dress ponytail 13 alone at the airport with my brothers and sisters my brother at the airport Did you notice him watch him pass through you a second time? I told him you were not coming. That's the last you'll see of that boy He will not prove good at holding on neither will you mother the therapist even the stranger at the airport asked Where was your mother? It is hard to explain not coming a mother being through or me Holding on to my uterus swollen with these tumors to the very last This next poem is called ghost. I actually wrote this while I was I was actually living in Brooklyn in a In a Brownstone in a garden apartment, which is which is actually a euphemism for living in the basement Yeah, and so then I went away for the summer I was at at Yaddo and they put me in this room which had 13 13 windows and so actually that's not what this poem is about but The windows are mentioned in here. So I thought I'd explain that to you ghost There are 13 windows in this room I see the tops of trees and sky my parents run through my mind My father scurrying like a mouse my mother is sitting Why have I come here and what do their ghosts want with me? I know I'm not writing poetry, but trying to build a bridge back to poetry I will go home to a hot stuffy room I have lived with their ghost the black haired mother her parents on her back We had all all but one come to bury her 12 years ago My father died at 75 a stroke my father myself or me myself Where is poetry the feeling I used to have will it come in the middle of exercises?  I see him frozen hurrying in a picture my father I sell them saw my parents together My mother never mentioned my father's poetry. I found it after he died I was in his room before his funeral I had come from New York to bury this father come to throw dirt on the recovered ghost of memory Willing to believe as I lay down in his room I was a liar then my sister says he got me while I was in diapers in his poetry He talks of sunsets and doesn't mention his parents.  I attempt poetry in a room I see my mother and father at the top of the sky my parents have come here home to help me ghost It's called an ordinary evening My sister tells me it was just an ordinary evening, but evening is never ordinary Is it once the Sun has started to climb down the sky things change? You and she were sitting in the den the olive green vinyl couch sports trophies new color TV Pictures of Kennedy and King we keep turning to the wall Plate glass door concrete steps to the backyard you were sitting in the den by the tone of your voice You could have been asking are there any more hot dogs left or saying let's go get hot Let's go get high. She said you just turned around and looked at her and said let's kill him. Let's kill the old man and This next poem Interesting they're side by side with each other So this next one is called blood on the tracks or I'm so lonesome I could die and blood on the tracks is from the is the title of a old Bob Dylan album And I'm so lonesome. I could die as a country in in Western song and in this particular poem I take on their persona. There's some references in here. So you can I want you to understand them I take on the persona of the young man Actually a couple of them, but the young man who killed John Lennon said that whole Kind of psychopathic personality and also there's a couple references in here to also to Hinckley who was another Murderer who focused on famous people Okay, blood on the tracks or I'm so lonesome. I could die Train yards uniform stations like flags and steel bathrooms.   We don't want silverware crystal. We don't want mahogany furniture. Where's the money bitch? She can't talk pit bull. She's dead The bottom of the base is thick crystal grapes.     I couldn't make and I want to kill Snakes poem is entitled sestina and And when I when I was in graduate school, I studied with Alan Ginsberg and I just knew we were gonna do the wild thing and So but when I got into his class, he said though We all had to we had he made us write sonnets and sestinas and villanelles and count this and rhyme that and everything So anyway, this was my my response to Going home at night and having to learn this thing Sestina Last night after school I finally got around to looking at the formula for a sestina and thought of crazy horse dancing in the desert And I asked is God gonna appear here.  You know the whole bit Wonders allowed if roaches get in poor people's ears when they sleep and a girl says, yeah Yeah, they do Running like roads out of nowhere out of lines and I fall back 25 years before most of these kids were born and I whispered to Chris It didn't make any difference which side of the line you're on did it when the wheel hit that dip and the Motorcycle flipped in the air in the light of a cervical vertebra snapped in infinitun Electron spinning like wheels around a dying nucleus of light scurrying under cracks and some linoleum and queens and Sometimes under the concrete the city is walking on. I see the cotton fields My daddy ran away from and his face the love pulls me like an eclipse to the worn Envelope of poems I found in his drawer when he died Lines crossed in gasoline burning and you know those old niggers back then had about as much a chance of making it as Butterflies at all switch. Is that why he did it and now time is a light Dimming as it burns brighter Turning me toward the dark then the light again. I hope See or in this side of the auditorium. I have the serious follow-along set Those of you I'm on page 85 Okay So the the next form I'm going to read is a prose poem and it's called my father meets God or the dream of forgiveness and So this is a poem exactly about what it what it says my father meets God or the dream of forgiveness Such a godly thing this forgiveness. It's like that scene and cabin in the sky You are at the pearly gates and like Lewis Armstrong or somebody with st. Peter.  So this I guess is how she gets in cabin in the sky That is a question not an explanation One thing you can see is she has my mouth Jesus.  I stop haggle and haggle from garnishing my check Get off the hot coals.  Well, maybe after you've been around a while So daddy I cut the mustard you were always talking about though. I never quite understood where that expression came from I Made my mark my first one at least make your mark. You would always say I remembered what you said all that stuff A man could walk out of prison out the past and turn his life around. I Knew you weren't talking about me, but but I remembered what you said and it I Decided not to let it hold me back. I walked away from it by walking into it Look look daddy God is showing a movie It's your life.   Look how you strive. Look look see daddy See the flag red white and blue see you in a uniform Defending it see the woman her legs open like your mother giving birth the nurse says it's a girl Sergeant Lofton is a girl.  You will tell her neither her parents are this is your girl She is properly dressed and plays with plastic dolls.  You're 40.   Is your last chance and you tell her stop stop go back There's a night a day nights days my daughter daughters lie about make my daughter especially Ramona sapphire I like that name actually her mama named a Ramona.   I'm going to Chicago and I'm sorry, and but I can't take you God always sat at the table with the white folks I never could understand why the colored boys in the service always sat together Me I would go get my tray and sit at the table with the white soldiers. You know, I'm surprised I'm so happy you're colored. What are you colored?  No, no, it's because you're so pretty God his voice is pleading now. Can you change it? Yes, she says it is changed. Are you sure? Yes says God. I know you're God, but give me some proof Oh Lord you men she says then snaps. What year is it year? Yes, what year is it? Why? It's the day I died. It's November 20 of 1990 Okay, you want proof? Yes, God you I believed in you and Jesus. I still believe in you even though you are Look different So what did you want proof of exactly that? That night those days that that something has changed Well, you know, even though I'm God. I can't change the past. What what you lying wench Why did you say you could if you couldn't? Well, because being God, I couldn't did double talk could what did what either you can or you can't either you did or you did Versus yeah, yeah, anything you want now. It's this funny stuff. Even though I'm God. I can't change the past So why did you say you could if you couldn't? Well, because being God. I did did what change it.  I'm gonna roll the film forward Look look daddy. See your girl run. Look look daddy. See your girl deposit that big check Look at your girl lift up the people. She's the nurse teacher poet healer.  That's what children are for look. Look. She's walking Where it looks like? Yeah, that's 14th Street in New York. She's singing. She can't sing. Why not? Well, I can't sing It runs in the family Well, what could she do? You know, I wanted to be a poet. Yes, I know Well, she's singing and how come I can't hear if you can hear don't be silly I'm God and her of course.  I Didn't mean that the way it sounded Anyway, she's singing that Billie Holiday song, you know, I saw Billie Holiday at the Apollo Count Basie Ella all of them What's my daughter singing and where's she going? She's singing Mama may have Papa may have but God bless the child that's got his own and where's she going? She's on her way to the bank my bank where I used to work You know, I was personnel manager for 20 years. I know I got a pension from the army and the bank I own my house. Is that the one you put her out of? I'm sorry That's the one they'll sell and she'll pay off her student loans and go back to school. I'm glad I know you are Where's she going God? She going to work. No right now. She's going to the bank to cash in she works for me now You know you she ain't dead. No, I ain't dead. I'm God.  She talks with the cut off tongue you gave her she comes with the amputated Clitoris she runs on the severed Achilles. She flies man. She's a poet what she doing I can't see so clear. She's still saying what a new stone something different different from the past Yeah, I told you the past is changed But then you said you can't change the past she changed it look see how the past changes Advances into the future see, you know, I went blind before I died I know but you ain't blind no more shucks may as well be I'm dead You're dead, but now you can see you can see what you did and what you didn't do She's all right. Your girl is all right.  Thank God. Oh, thank God You're welcome So I'm gonna turn to the last page in the book now 124 and This is a poem called today Today is a day you've been waiting for When you would finally begin to live when you would at last open the door This is the what the circumstance the more you have been withholding saving to give Today is the day you've been waiting for When you could sit down to your desk for hours take pride time find out what work is When you would at last open the door to your own self development what God has for you Today is the day you come out of prison live Today is the day you've been waiting for the tomorrow you pined away yesterday for I think love rhymes in a way with give You at last open the door to the possibility of now the core of life is the moment now how you live Today is the day I've been waiting for when you would at last open the door Okay, I'm not gonna read from my first novel push and Push was published in 1996. It's the story of a young African-american girl in Harlem. She's 16 years old and the book begins She's pregnant and she's actually pregnant for the second time and Our protagonist has fallen through all the proverbial safety nets they just have not existed for her and Not only she pregnant. She can't read. She can't write.  So the most of the story is written in the first person and I'm gonna begin at the beginning with her Telling you a little bit about herself. I was left back when I was 12 because I because I had a baby for my father That was in 1983. I was out of school for a year. This gonna be my second baby My daughter got down sender.  I Had got left back in the second grade to when I was seven because I couldn't read and I still peed on myself I should be in the 11th grade getting ready to go into the 12th grade so I can go on and graduate But I'm not I'm in the ninth grade. I Got suspended from school because I'm pregnant, which I don't think is fair. I ain't did nothing My name is Clarice Precious Jones, I don't know why I'm telling you that Guess cuz I don't know how far I'm gonna go with this story or whether it's even a story or why I'm talking Whether I'm gonna start from the beginning or right from here or two weeks from now two weeks from now Sure, you can do anything when you talk on the right and it's not like living when you can only do what you're doing Some people tell a story and it don't make no sense to be true But I'm gonna try to make sense and tell the truth else.   Which is saying I don't know why I call it that what he means is it's hot 90 degrees like summer days And there is no none. I mean none air conditioning in this motherfucking building the building I'm talking about is of course intermediate school 1 4 6 on 134th Street between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Junior Boulevard I'm walking down the whole hall from homeroom to first period math. Now.  Which is class sit down. We don't have assigned seats in mr. Which is class We can sit anywhere we want I sit in the same seat every day in the back last row next To the door even though I know that back door be locked. I don't say nothing to him He don't say nothing to me now. That is first day. He say class Turn the book pages to page 122 I don't move. He said miss Jones.  He slammed his hand down on the book and say try to have some discipline He is skinny little white man about five feet four inches of peckerwood as my mother would say I'll look at him and say I can slam to you want to slam and I pick up my book and slam it down on the desk Hard the class laughs some more. He say miss Jones I would appreciate it if you leave the room right now.  He don't know what to do He tried to recoup be cool say well if you want to learn calm down I'm calm.  He is shaking. I back off. I have one. I guess I Didn't want to hurt him or embarrass him like that, you know But I couldn't let him anybody know page 122 look like page 152 three six five all the pages look alike to me and I really do want to learn every day.  I don't cause trouble in fact some of the other natives get restless I break on them.     Witcher. I keep law and order. I like him Opportunity is my husband and we live together in Westchester wherever that is I Can see by his eyes Mr. Witcher like me too.  She's looking at me. I'm looking at her I don't say nothing Finally, she's saying so Clarice. I see we're expecting a little visitor, but it's not like a question She's telling me I still don't say nothing.  I got three names Clarice Precious Jones only motherfuckers.  White cut box got my file on her desk. I see it.  She knows so much. Let her ask you to talk him Come now. You are pregnant. Aren't you Clarice? She asked me now a few seconds ago The whole just knew what I was Clarice.   This hole is keeping me from math class. I like math class Mr. Witcher like me in there need me to keep those rowdy niggas in check.  Look, I Don't want to miss no more math class.  That's what my mother called women. She don't like cunt buckets I kind of get it and I kind of don't get it, but I like the way it sounds so I say it too. I Get up to go miss Lichtenstein asked me to please sit down. She's not through with me yet, but I'm through with her That's what she don't get This is your second baby. She says I wonder what else it's saying that file with my name on it.  I do is my work. I ain't in no trouble.     It has also been pretty oblivious to her her mother is now noticing that precious is pregnant for the second time and In this scene we she flashes back to the memory of when she first gave birth to her child The first child at 12 precious That's my mother calling me.  I know what's coming. I Keep washing dishes. We have fried chicken mashed potatoes and wonder bread for dinner.  I've seen one time who you want to know who Clarice precious Jones. I'm talking to you. I Still don't answer her. I Was standing at this sink the last time I was pregnant when them pains hit.  I don't believe it right under my nose. You've been high-tailing around here pain Hit me again as she hit me I'm on the floor groaning mommy. Please mommy.  What you doing?  She need help not no beating it.  You didn't know I knew the whole building knew Don't tell me nothing about my own child 9-1-1 9-1-1 miss West screaming now. She called mama fool Pain walking on me now Just stomping on me. I can't see here. I just screaming mommy mommy Some men's these ambulance men's I don't see them or hear them come in But I look up from the pain and he there the Spanish guy in EMS uniform. He pushed me back on a cushion I'm like in a ball from the pain.  What's your name? He say, huh? I say your name precious. I say He say precious is almost here.  I think he was God No man was never nice like that to me before I Asked if the hospital behind him where they're gonna help me they say hush girl You just had a baby, but I can't hush cuz they keep asking me questions my name precious Jones Clarice precious Jones to be exact birth date November 4 1970 Where here I say right here in Harlem Hospital 1970 the nurse say quiet confused then she say How old are you? I say 12 I Was heavy at 12 to nobody get I'm 12. Let's I tell him I'm tall. I just know I'm over 200 because the needle on the scale in the bathroom stop They don't go no further last time they want to weigh me at school. I say no why for I know I'm fat So what next topic for the day? But this not school nurse now this Harlem Hospital where I was born Where me and my baby got took it after it was born it on the kitchen floor at 444 Lenox Avenue This nurse slim but a color woman she lighter than some Spanish women's but I know she black I can tell it's something about being a nigga ain't color This nurse same as me a lot of black people with nurse cap or big car light skin same as me, but don't know I'm so tired. I just want to disappear. I wish miss butter would leave me alone But she just staring at me her eyes getting bigger and bigger She may she say she need to get some more information for the birth certificate.  You could get pregnant I'm 12 now.  I can't remember not knowing no I can't remember a time. I did not know but that's all I know. I didn't know how long it take What's happening inside? Nothing. I didn't know nothing The nurse is saying something.  She laughing ugly.  I do not know Mother she say what's your mother's name?  I say no, I've never been nowhere. She say reason I asked is I'm from Greenwood, Mississippi myself I say oh cuz I know I'm supposed to say something Father she say what's your daddy's name? Carl Kenwood Jones born in the Bronx. She said what's the fault? What's the baby's father's name? I say Carl Kenwood Jones born in the same Bronx She quiet quiet say shame. That's a shame 12 years old 12 years old She say over and over like she crazy and some shock or something.  She say was you ever? I mean did you ever get to be a child?  Did I ever get to be a child? I am a child I'm confused tired. I tell I want to go to sleep. She put the bed down. I do go to sleep Somebody else there when I wake up. It's like the police or someone asked me some question. I asked is where's my baby? I know I had one Knew somebody a nurse cap sweet smile me and say yes. Yes, Miss Jones. You surely did She moves the men in uniform suits back from my bed Say my baby is in special intense care and I will get to see her soon And won't I please answer the nice men's questions, but they ain't nice men. They pigs police.  It didn't four years ago when I had the first baby I was standing at this sink when the pain hit me and she hit me precious My hand slipped down in the dish water grabbed the butcher knife. She bet not hit me again I in line if she hit me this time.  I'm talking to you like that's something I was thinking I say You thinking while I'm talking to you. She say this like I'm burning hundred dollar bills The buzzer ring. I wonder who it could be don't nobody ring our bell less is crack addicts trying to get in the building You know, I actually I hate crack addicts. They get a whole race a bad name Go tell them assholes to stop ringing the bell my mother say now she closer to the door than me But I mean my mother don't move unless she has to When I go to answer the buzzer, I realize I'm still grabbing the knife.    It ring again. Stop it. I shout again.  I Want to say I ain't stupid, but I know I am so I don't say nothing Because also I don't want her to go hit me because I know from my hand in the dish water holding the butcher knife I am through being hit. I must stab us. You ever hit precious Jones again.    I say is into the intercom.   I pressed talk say get out of here.  I pressed listen Clarice, I'm so sorry about Thursday. I had only wanted to help you. I Mr. Witcher says you one of his best students as you have an aptitude for math She paused like she's thinking what to say next and she's saying I Called a Miss McKnight at higher education alternative each one teach one. It's an alternative school She paused again say Clarice. Are you listening? I pressed talk. Yeah, I say Okay, as I was saying I've called Mrs. McKnight at each one teach one It's located on the 19th floor of the hotel Teresa on 125th Street. That's not too far from here I pressed talk. I know where the hotel Teresa is.  I heard heard of first time My heart is all warm half of it at least think about mr.  So I guess that means she got the message I Go to sleep thinking 19th floor hotel Teresa an alternative. I don't know what an alternative is but I feel I want to know 19th floor. That's the last words. I think before I go to sleep. I Dream I'm in an elevator that's going up up so far. I think I'm dying The elevator open and it's the coffee cream colored man from Spanish talk land I recognize him from when I was having my baby bleeding on the kitchen floor He put his hand on my forehead again whisper push pressures You gonna have to push Thank you very very much It's your turn now So you raise your hand and then the microphone is gonna come to you and your say your question in the microphone Could you tell could you tell us how you got published in New Yorker magazine? It's a far cry from push to New Yorker magazine. How did you get published? That's where I first read Okay, how did I get published in the New Yorker magazine? well, I Was one of one of the people I studied with was a van Boland and she was talking with Alice Quinn and she inquired about my work and I also had worked with at the New York and Poets Cafe with Bob Homan and Miss Quinn had inquired about my work several years ago and at that time I For a lot of different reasons. I didn't I was busy. I didn't send the work that she requested or wanted to see to the New Yorker and Then when I signed the contract for a push My editor at that time sent a section or the whole book actually to the New Yorker and Alice Quinn was excited about Even though she's the best. She's a poetry editor. She was Putting together the issue of working with some other editors putting together the issue of the black New Yorker and She felt that an excerpt from push would go well in that particular Edition of the New Yorker. So that is how it got into the New Yorker Thank you much props for push I'm a teacher in San Francisco's writer's core program and I understand that you've done Some teaching yourself in our city work, too How did you handle these bouts with cynicism and the overwhelming hopelessness Associated with this kind of work Okay, well, you know, I was in I was in a lot of positions where The students in in my class this so this was before Clinton ended welfare as we knew it You know, I mean and so we had there were a lot of alternative settings. There were a lot of settings for People on welfare or people who had were no longer in the mainstream School system, which there is a lot of hopelessness and cynicism. So I was really in a lot of settings that were quite hopeful and That where people really wanted to go to school in what really Despite overwhelming odds. We're really trying to do something with with their with their lives It's interesting this year. I just completed in my first year of teaching at a university And I encountered more hopelessness and cynicism among the the middle class in upper middle class white youth Then I've ever encountered in in Harlem So I don't I don't think that that's necessarily You know a character trait of The inner of inner city youth. I think that the system has Failed over and over again and that the by the time people have been teaching 15 and 20 years They're burnt out. Maybe you should go on to do something else, but they're holding on for their pension And they become very disillusioned and bitter and they pass that that feeling of low expectation and And hopelessness on to their students, you know Are you ever afraid of being so honest? well No, I mean I I you know, I'm I'm as honest as I could get but I could get more honest, so So yeah, I'm afraid to get more honest. So That's my answer to that. I Really enjoyed your reading.  Oh my god. I think your language you really need to calm down your language So he's gonna be really happy about this night What my question is Similar to what the young lady was asking how Are you ever worried about that you go too far as far as language? Is there a line between? vulgarity and Honesty. Yeah. Yeah, I think you can probably go too far. I don't think I've gone too far, you know me But I think in in we're always as artists. We're always trying to push our limits. So in my My medium is is language and so I do have a tendency to push it, you know and I'm trying often to approximate the the language that I hear around me So in and a lot of what I write is is what I've actually heard, you know, I mean I Do think that you have to Do something with that language. I mean so in in push the the violence or the So the profanity or it's not just gratuitous, you know, I'm using it for a reason I'm trying to show you this this this child, you know How how she talks the the difference between how she actually What she says and what she really feels and and and also this is the language that she has available to her She uses the language that she has that she's heard from most of her life So does that answer your question, okay, we have time for one more, okay Besides studying with Ginsburg who else would you consider to be your poetic influences? Oh I think that my poetic influences would be almost everyone. I've ever read so, you know, so that goes into You know, I'm a lot of my poetry is influenced by the novelists I've read, you know Toni Morrison Alice Walker Ernest Gaines a lot of pushes influenced by Ernest Gaines a lesson before dying So so those are a lot of influences I draw on, you know In some ways pushes a protest novel and we go back to what Richard Wright was doing in Native Sun and Read the early Not the early all of James Baldwin's novels some of which are were set in Harlem and Petrie the street all of that was set in Harlem I can't you know, I just have read so many Poets especially black ones so thinking right here in San Francisco when I was here Going to San Francisco City College who I read Sonia Sanchez Donnell Lee Nikki Giovanni Jane Cortez all all those people Then later reading Lucille Clifton I Don't know who are some of your poetic influences tell me and I'll tell you if they're the same. Who do you like? Right Well, he's the best. He's a national treasure. Yes. Yes Yes Yes Yeah, I really like the poetry a lot of Willie Predomo and Paul Beatty all of those people came out of the the New York and then have done really really fine fine work


Live from Santa Clara, California, it's theCUBE covering Open Networking Summit 2017, brought to you by the Linux Foundation. Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're in Santa Clara, California at the Open Networking Summit 2017. Really happy to be joined by my co-host for the next couple of days, Scott Rainovich. And we've been talking a lot of providers and technical people, but now we want to talk to customers, right? We love talking to customers and we're really excited to have Roshesh Jethi. He's the SVP of head and R&D for the Americas for Amadeus, which is a big travel company. Welcome. Thank you so much, Jeff. Thank you, Scott. So like I said, we love to talk to a practitioner. So you're out on the front lines. You're seeing all this kind of talk of software defined and software defined networking. From your point of view, how real is it? Where are we on this journey? What do you see from your point of view? Super real. Have you searched for a flight lately? I have searched for a flight. Excellent. Then I'm proud to tell you that your flight search very likely was powered by Amadeus and it's running on a software defined data center. Completely. So this stuff is real. We are, I believe one of the first companies who have actually taken this from what was a very strong academic kind of research project onto like the startup ecosystem. But we're actually out there deploying it, running real world business, using a very purposeful and deliberate software defined strategy. And it's interesting because you said before we got on camera that you guys are actually, you know, very active participants in the open source movement and development of this stuff. You're not just kind of a participant waiting on the wings for this stuff to get developed. I mean, absolutely. And that's to me, that's one of the ways in which, you know, if you're serious about open source, you have to use it. You can't just talk about it.  But the other thing also is you have to contribute back. I think that's a big tenet of the open source community. And, you know, we all, and certainly the company we grew up and we've seen tech evolve through the ages. And a big part, especially in the last, you know, 10 years or so has been this open source movement and it's contributing back. It's one of the reasons I'm here. It's one of the reasons the conference organizers invited me to actually talk about how we use open source and software-defined strategy for our technology. That's cool. So where do you run the software? You run it private cloud, public cloud? You guys build your own data centers? So how do you run it? Quick history lesson or quick history, you know?  What kind of the, first off, where is Alameda today? For people that aren't familiar with the company. Right, so we're actually a 30-year-old company. We're celebrating our 30th birthday this year. The company was started in the late 80s as a consortium between four leading European airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Iberia and Scandinavia. And over the years, you know, so we started off which was very typical at that time as a mainframe shop. And that's where a lot of our core systems were built. We were a big provider of technology in general to the travel industry even though we were founded by airlines. So to put it in perspective, we carry about 95% of the world's scheduled commercial seats, airline seats on our platform. 95%. 95%. So we work with... Are available to purchase. You know, obviously 95% of the purchases don't go through yours as well. Correct, they are available. We are used by over 90,000 travel agents, retail travel agents, corporate travel, online travel. And we work with over, like I said, 700 airlines to offer the inventory. So chances are, you know, that if you travel on an airplane, you know, very good chances that our software was used to make the reservation. We also have airline IT systems and hotel IT systems. And we work with airports. And this is where we do departure control, flight management, baggage reconsolation, a lot of the backend processes. And we started the company essentially runs, we write our own software. We offer it as a service from day one. So we are one of the oldest software as a service providers in the industry. And obviously when we got started to do that, you had to own your own infrastructure. So we are pretty good at it. We have very strong kind of technical chops.  And what we're doing now is really, you know, very deliberately making the journey towards a cloud, both our private cloud. So taking our own infrastructure, virtualizing it and making it available as a service for our own applications. And then where it makes sense to leverage, you know, public cloud infrastructures that are available. So different apps and different clouds, is that? Different apps, different clouds based on customer preferences. The core reservation booking engines, they are on-prem in our own private cloud because we do have a lot of regulatory, security, privacy, and our considerations. So that stuff we keep kind of closed where we can keep a very watchful eye on it. But there are a lot of transactions. We're also talking about, you know, the volume of searches has grown up, right? Obviously Google's seen a lot of search volume. If you look at our business, it used to be when you wanted to book a flight, you'd go to a travel agent and they would look at a bunch of flight options and you'd pick one. And about 20 years ago, it was, we called it the look-to-book ratio. So you'd look at 10 to 20 options and you'd book one. You want to guess what it is today? The look-to-book ratio was 20 to one. 20 to one. That's got to be way higher. It's got to be 80 to one. It's more like 1,000 to one. 1,000 to one. And, you know, it's partly people like you and I who have a spare moment and have a vacation in mind and we are looking at options. But keep in mind, anytime you search, it has to come into our systems. We have to configure the journey. We have to price it. We have to make sure it's available before we offer it up here, right? So it's very transaction-compute-intensive. Even before it touches any of the back-ends where we do core kind of booking and passenger processing. And so to handle that scale, you know, those are the kind of very logical applications that make sense for the public cloud. And those are the ones that we've looked to move. Certainly for customers, we are a global company. We have customers all over the world. Some customers want to have some of these systems closer to their geographic locations. We look at all use cases kind of. So that's amazing to think of. You know, these things have so changed behavior in the way that we interact. I assume that 20 to one was a function because you would sit down.  Time to book that flight. And you know, maybe you don't get it done that day. You come back two or three times. But as you said, now it's grabbing little bits of time throughout the day whenever we can. But do you get paid like on some regular subscription or do you get paid on the transaction? Does that just increase your overhead? Whatever the ratio, 22,000 is? Absolutely, no. Our business model's been very consistent from day one. We get paid on the number of bookings we make and the number of people at board aircraft. I mean, roughly speaking, we have smaller lines of businesses but those are our two main revenue drivers. So if you see a lot of transaction volume up front, but it doesn't translate to a booking, which logically it won't. Yes, that's no extra revenue for us but we still have to service that volume because that's eventually the fund has gotten wider. Right, right. And so it makes sense to do that in the most cost-efficient manner. But without compromising quality, without compromising speed, because I mean, if you're like me, if you have to wait for more than two or three seconds, you're like, ah, I'm moving on. Oh, two seconds, it's milliseconds, isn't it? Absolutely. And by the way, I still don't always find the flight I want. So where are those extra flights? Can you provide those for service? Yeah, that extra 5%, those are under. No, that's a very different say. It's got nothing to do with open source and kind of what we're talking about here, but there's a lot of plot we're doing in there from an engineering perspective, which is looking at, for example, machine learning algorithms, and what you said is actually a very common complaint, is how do I find kind of the right set of flights? And more importantly, if you have certain preferences, you know, with airports or airlines or loyalty programs or time of day, you know, how do I provide you kind of context-sensitive results, right? And we are doing a lot of kind of core R&D work for that, but our customers are doing amazing work as well. You know, Kayak is one of our customers very close to kind of our offices in the Boston area, right? And they do pretty amazing work in terms of getting the context right and then applying machine learning technologies and artificial intelligence. It's very, very early days, but very exciting, very promising. Yeah, one of the cool features I like are these like fare alerts. I don't know if you use them, it tells you predicts, you know, this is going to go up, you better book now, or it's, you know, wait. Do you guys do that sort of thing too? Our customers do that. So, you know, we have a very simple model. Our customers are travel agencies, online, the American Express is, you know, Expedia's, the meta-searchers like Kayak, SkyScan, et cetera. The airlines themselves, whose product we host in our system and we sell. So a lot of our engineering work is done into offering kind of core innovation so that they can offer products for people like you and me, their customers, you know, that are the best products out there. So we focus on enabling them and then, at an operational level, we like, you know, try to do it in the most efficient manner and the most, you know, future proof that we can think of. What about, sorry, what about security? I mean, it sounds like a lot of sensitive data changing hands here, right? Where people are going to sit on an airplane, where they're going, but you must have incredible security demands on your data now. Yes. I mean, you understand it's one of the areas, obviously it's paramount to us and I mean, the good news is, look, we've been in this business for 30 years. We have really deep domain expertise in that. And also you'll understand why I don't, wouldn't want to talk too much about what we do and how we do it, but absolutely that's one of the- You just lock it down. The prime drivers of, you know, everything we think, you know, all the way from application design to things like, you know, the infrastructure planning and design to the physical level. I mean, everything you can think of and probably a couple of things you may not think of. Hopefully, hopefully a few things we didn't think of. So where do you go next? It sounds like, you know, you're enabling a lot of innovation on your partner side. You just mentioned, you know, Kayak and people writing some of the machine learning and AI algorithms to help the end traveler, you know, find what they're looking for. What are you guys concentrating? You've been at it for 30 years. What are some of the next big hurdles that you're looking to take down? You know, it's wonderful. I think being close to our customers and one of the reasons I'm in Boston, we're a European company. We're actually headquartered in Madrid. Our core engineering team, our central engineering team is in France. The reason I'm in Boston and my team's in Boston is, you know, we started doing a lot of business here in North America and we try to stay very close to our customers and when you listen carefully, and that's why we have two ears in one mouth, which is, you know, hopefully try to listen a lot. You do see their pain points. You do see where they're going with kind of their business and it gives us a chance to have a front row seat in designing new products that they can use. So to me, it's kind of two prong. One is, you want to offer the best technology we can to our customers at the best price point we can. You know, and obviously by now you've figured out it's mission critical stuff has to always be on. So keeping those kind of boundary conditions in mind, you want to be the best technology provider and then we want to innovate. So one of the things I'm seeing at this conference, there's a lot of friends from the service providers. We're talking about 5G technology and so with connected cars, with virtual reality, I mean, these are all trends that are going to impact us as travelers in a positive way. And so we have a dedicated kind of innovation team across all our business lines. We do a lot of work with kind of academic institutions with ETH and Zurek, with MIT here, close to my office in Boston. And there's just a talk full of possibilities in terms of what can be done. All right, I'll give you the last word. Impressions on the show. You know, what do you get out of a show like this? Why is it important for you to come? Oh, it's amazing. I mean, this morning, Martin Masato was there and he's the one, he's called kind of the granddaddy of software defined networking and virtualization. He's not that old yet, but he's going to like seeing that. Well, I read that at the Guardian, so it was one of the newspapers. But the fact is, we use NSX for virtualization now entire data center. We have close to 20,000 infrastructure devices. All our computers virtualize, 100% of it, right? And it's all using NSX from VMware, right? Now, this was a brilliant idea by a extremely intelligent and persuasive graduate to understand for, you know, 15 years ago that is, as he announced this morning, he's a billion-dollar business today, right? And we are actually using that technology and it's very real to process all of this. So it's great to be able to see what people like him, Amin from Google, is a great partner of ours. We use Kubernetes for kind of the container deployment strategy for our cloud network. You hear him speak about what they're thinking about in terms of investments and how the network is going to essentially drive the movement of data. I mean, it's just a phenomenon to get that thought leadership. I'm obviously very honored and privileged to be presenting to this audience and to share our thoughts and what we are doing. So, and just to see a lot of the buzz around here and what wonderful ideas are happening in the valley. This is where so much action is always going on. Great, great, great summary. Well, I'm glad you could take a few minutes and stop by theCUBE. It's completely my pleasure. Thank you very much, great meeting you. And have a great festival. All right, he's Roshesh. He's Scott, I'm Jeff, you're watching theCUBE from Open Networking Summit 2017 in Santa Clara. We'll be back after this short break. Thanks for watching. Help to bring a product called Checkpoint to Canada, firewalls, URL filtering, that kind of stuff. But you're also.


What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspyscaseBrace.com. 2022, Panini Flawless Baseball just sold out. This is a two box break picker teams number 14. And again, guys, appreciate the fill. Let's do this. Here we go. There's the customer names that I bought in, plus any of the R&Bs. There's about six teams there. So there's everybody there. And here are the names in the R&B with the numbers. Sweet, sweet. All right. So again, this is our last case we have here for today, so the meme can't get more, but at least for today, this is it. Here we go, first one. Good luck, everybody. Let's go, let's go.  I think I only hit one cleat. Also, has anybody seen what those J-Rod, Ken Griffey Jr. dual autographs are going for? Ridiculous amounts of money, dude. There was like one that sold for like over $10,000. There was an out of 10, I think, on eBay for like four or 5,000 already. I was just so surprised. I hit two of those on Instagram. I hit an out of five and out of seven. I was so shocked to see how much those are actually going for. So I'd love to pull another one for one of you guys. All right, here we go, guys. We have a one-bin-cho to 50. St. Louis Cardinals that's going to Alexander. Well, speaking of Ken Griffey, how about that right there, a little relic there? Four out of seven. That's going to the Mariners straight up D-Low. Nice RPA Velati. Look at that little Rockies logo, R. 19 out of 25. That's going to the Colorado Rockies and Oliver. Four out of 10, Otto Lopez for the Toronto Blue Jays. That's also straight up D-Low. We have a Emanuel Rodriguez for Minnesota, one of three. Minnesota twins going to Evans straight up. A little Jose Reyes. Look at that patch. Nine out of 15 for the Mets. Who has the Mets? David Chan, there you go, man. Sweet patch right there. Two more to go. Tim Anderson for Chicago, two of seven. And that is Chicago White Sox. Eric and Trey Turner, USA Baseball. Two out of 15, little Sapphire and autograph. Of course, all the USA Baseballs have been, teams are currently on, which of course, now a Philly. So that's going to go to the Philly's D-Low. A little post-it on here. So I got a new one. All right, let's go with the encase cards, guys. Here we go. Juan Soto, autograph. Two out of 15. That's for the Washington Nationals going to the R&B. And that is two. Going to Ed Aarons, there you go, man. This must be the relic, then, I guess. Or not? Yeah, it is. Mike Trout for the Angels. JP with that one. One out of 20, little USA Baseball down. All right, guys, there you go. First one in the books. All right, guys, here we go. First one is two of 20. Jim Telmay for Cleveland. That's part of the R&B, two. Another one for two, and Ed. We have a Mule Suttles and Cool Papa Bell. St. Louis, 13 out of 15. Now I just want to make sure that this is a back in the day where Mule's in and Papa played in their league. Then technically, I think that might be a randomizer. Let me double check what they have it on for the checklist. I'm not sure if eventually they played later on. Go to break checklist, flawless baseball. And yeah, so Cool Papa Bell and Mule are under none in the group break checklist. So that was their team in the league they played for. So that'll be a randomizer at the end. Everybody gets a shot. If it goes to an R&B team, then number three will win that, which is Nicholas. So we'll leave that there to the side. Grady Sizemore. Signature star signature swatches, three out of 15. That is for Cleveland. Another one there for the R&B. Three this time. It's Nick. Nice patch. Look at that. Benny Montgomery, nice prospect there, 19 out of 20. Another one for the Rockies and Oliver. It's a solid patch right there. We have a Tampa Bay Rays, Josh Lowe, 420. Rays is Big Dog Rob. We have a 6 out of 7, it looks like. That's Tyler O'Neill for the St. Louis Cardinals. Got an Alexander. We have a Riley Green for Detroit. Jumbo patch and autograph out of 15. Detroit Tigers is Mark. And last one here we have is a 5 of 15, Larry Walker for Colorado. Great play for Oliver and the Rockies. One more top loader. All right, you guys, put that box in there. And here we go. That's Rock and Rogue us. Oh, is that a duel? Yeah. Mookie bets. Flawless picks. Now this is weird, but this one does have a Mookie under Boston, but I guess just because probably in the same draft pick maybe. And then Francisco Lindor for Cleveland. So Boston Cleveland right there. So Boston is part of the R&B. And so is Cleveland, actually. Wow, OK. So that's going to go to 0. 20 of 20, spot 0. That's going to Nicholas. Nice. And last one here, guys. Good luck. It is a George Brett for Kansas City, 7 of 7. So more of a vet case than anything. No rookies in here after all. So Kansas City. Mark, there you go, man. There you go, guys. That was flawless. So there'll be one random out here. Everybody gets a shot at that. There's a dice roll. Everybody gets a shot. So I'm going to go by teams. If it's an R&B team, then it's going to go to the serial number team that has that matches it. So here we go, guys. Good luck. Roll five into one six times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six. Six times, six. Mariners at the top. So Mariners win that one. That's D low. There you go, folks. Appreciate it, guys. Like I said, no more flows for the time being, but hopefully we get more at JasperysKatesBrace.com.


Hello and welcome to the session. This is Professor Farhad in which we would look at an exercise that illustrate the concept of Restricted stocks. It's a form of compensation Adam company issues 20,000 shares of its restricted stocks to its CFO Maggie on January 1st 20 x 0 The stock has a fair value of a million dollar on that date the service period related to the restricted stock is five years Vesting will occur if Maggie stays with the company until December 31st 20 x 4 Let's basically illustrate what we are to what we are given here. So we're looking at a time period x 0 x 1 x 2 x 3 and x 4 those are the four five periods five periods. We granted the options here Maggie has to stay all that those five years and if she stays she will get 20,000 shares of the company stocks guaranteed We don't know what the value will be at that point But the value today is a million dollar The value at the end of the year at the end of year one at the end of year zero or year one for our purpose is 800,000 that's distractor it does not matter we record on the grand date We record the entry based on the value of the stock on that date So we're gonna record something called unearned Compensation a million dollar What is that million dollar the fair value? What type of account is unearned compensation?  It's not an expense. It's equity Then we're gonna credit common stock as a foot is showing the stocks 20,000 shares times five dollar power value 100,000 and anything that's left will be a plug to paid in capital and excess of power So this takes place January 1st 20x zero, which is right here before we proceed any further I have a public announcement about my company farhat lectures comm Farhat accounting lectures is a supplemental educational tool That's gonna help you with your CPA exam preparation as well as your accounting courses My CPA material is aligned with your CPA review course such as Becker Roger Wiley Gleam Myles my accounting courses are aligned with your accounting courses Broken down by chapter and topics my resources consist of Lectures multiple choice questions through false questions as well as exercises go ahead start your free trial today No obligation no credit card required Now here's what's gonna happen a year later Once the year has ended now we are ready to start to record our compensation expense Maggie state for a year now We can record the expense So now we're gonna take the million divided by five because it's over a five-year period the expense over five-year period And we're gonna record an expense of 200,000 We debit compensation expense and will start to reduce the unearned compensation by 200,000 now It's very beneficial for restricted stocks to do what to keep track of your unearned Let me write it off your unearned compensation because you're gonna see what what's gonna happen unearned Compensation we started with a million debit Now we credited it 200,000 Okay, now this is at the end of year X zero at the end of year X one will do the same thing We'll debit compensation expense credit unearned compensation again 200,000 at the end of X two will do the same thing we debit compensation expense We credit unearned compensation at the end of year four, which is X three again. We debit Compensation expense we credit unearned compensation. So so far we have reduced unearned compensation by 800,000 and we increased The expense the compensation expense by 800,000 over a four-year period, but here's what happened July 1st 20x4 six month right before Maggie is ready to get those 1 million shares. She left the company Now if Maggie leaves the deal is that's it forget about your restricted stocks What would happen if Maggie left well if Maggie left will have to cancel everything that happened thus far What does that mean? We have to act as if this transaction never took place. Okay? What do we need to do then we need to remove common stock? We need to remove common stock. We need to remove paid in capital Because those two has to be gone. We also have to remove unearned compensation as if unearned compensation never took place, which is easy All what we're looking for is another 200,000 and earn unearned compensation is gone And remember we have a compensation expense of 800,000 We have to reverse this because we recorded the expense now we have to reverse it So let's take a look at what we'll do. We'll debit common stock credit paid in capital thus removing those two We credit unearned compensation 200,000 not 20 200,000 I missed a zero here and by doing so unearned compensation is gone that 1 million is gone and This unearned compensation is gone. What's left is compensation expense that was multiplied by four Well, we have to reverse it. We debit we credit compensation expense 800,000 and all the compensation expense are gone. So notice what happened The journal entry will have to remove everything that you did thus far as if the restricted stock options Never took place removed their effect from anywhere on the financial statements And this is exactly what we did. What should you do now? Go to farhatlectures.com work exercises multiple choice through false questions.  Good luck study hard and stay safe


in historic Symbathons. Symbathons and Naysbier, nearby town, were the first two towns in New Zealand in gold mining history to get the telegraphs into them. But I'll tell you what, it's not the only thing that Symbathons is famous for. If you've heard of a man having to work for his money, the objective here is to get Mark through this piece of miners' cloth and then we might let him have a beer. Yes, he did get through. Yes, he did get a beer. No, he's not. Driving, but we need to get to Naysbier.