Trying to get the fan blade out of the frame. No! Almost! Am I going the right way? We're gonna say that's close enough. All right! Oh, it's like right above me. This is not gonna work. Let's try that. Ha! I did it. Hello there, my beautiful internet friends. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you so much for joining me here today on Faultless Joe. I am Joe, if you do not know me. I'm missing a foot. That's the title of this channel. And I'm gonna talk to you about the day 16 years ago that caused all of this, that caused me to eventually lose my leg that left me in pain for many, many years in the in-between and what actually happened on that day. I previously done a video about going back to the place where all of this happened. If you wanna see that, I'll link it up above. I think it's a pretty cool video. It's probably my favorite one that I've ever filmed because I tried to get like artistic with it. Let me know if I succeeded or failed there. I would highly recommend watching this video but this one will make perfect sense without it. Also, as we dive in today, if you would do me a favor and give this video a thumbs up if you like it at all, you know, I would appreciate it. It helps my video get out to more people. It really helps my channel and helps the algorithm here. So if you feel like doing that, that would be delightful but no worries if you don't. So I was 13 years old when I had an accident that caused a really bad ankle break that led to years of surgeries and procedures and more surgeries and more procedures and increasing pain until eventually at the age of 27, there were no good options left and the only logical thing for me to do with the agreement of my doctors and the encouragement of them was to amputate my leg. So that's decision I made two years ago and I've documented pretty much that whole journey on this channel but I've never really talked in depth about the day that I fell off the horse that I had that accident that led to all of this happening. So one thing you should know about me is that I was a horse girl as a kid. I loved horses and there was something magical about horses for a little 13 year old Joe. In fact, one day when we moved to Colorado we were driving down Black Forest Road. If you're curious, look it up on a map and there was this wide open field stretching towards the mountains and I thought to myself in my little 10 year old brain because that's how old I was when I moved, it would be the coolest thing in the entire world if one day I could gallop across that field, my hair streaming behind me as I was on this beautiful horse and I would just be this perfection of everything that I wanted to be. And guess what guys, that day actually came. This is gonna sound like a side story but I promise it's the same one. When I was 12 years old I became obsessed with Welsh corgis. I thought my life would be complete if only I could have one and my mom found an ad in the post office for corgi puppies. Now she did not want me to have a corgi puppy but she thought maybe I could help out with the corgi puppies, which was a lovely idea. I called the owner and she said, sure. So when the puppies were born I was there for their birth, which was awesome. And then I found out that this lady ran a barn and that's where I saw my opportunity. That's where I saw my in and I thought, you know what? Not only am I going to find a way to convince my mom that me having one of these corgi puppies is the right choice, I'm also gonna find a way to pay it off by working at that barn and being around horses, which is what I wanted anyway. So this was like a double win. And wouldn't you know, it actually happened. I give a lot of credit to my mom in the situation and also to the owner of the barn, Francis, who was absolutely lovely to me. These were pure red corgi puppies and she actually let me work off my debt there because they weren't exactly cheap but I didn't have the money for it. She let me work it off by working at the barn by mucking out stalls, by brushing down horses and I learned so much. I had no context or background for how to take care of horses or anything about them. I had never ridden one before to my knowledge and I got to be around them every day. Growing up, I was homeschooled, meaning that whenever I got done with the work I had for that day, I was done. And so I'd often be at the barn by two o'clock and I'd stay there until the sun started going down at five or six or seven and my mom would pick me up and I'd smell like a horse for days and I loved it. I promise this is all leading up to the day that I actually fell off the horse and shattered my ankle. As I worked at the barn, as I learned about horses, as I worked off my debt for my adorable little corgi puppy, Princess's name by the way, this is him and he was perfect. So it was never part of the deal for me to actually ride any of the horses, but the people at the barn were really nice so they let me ride from time to time. I never had really many formal lessons. I just sort of learned how to ride from picking up from what people were doing, from riding easy horses that basically taught me the basics of riding and it was awesome. And another very important point in this story is that this barn was located directly across the field, the field, the field where my hair was going to stream in the wind behind me and I was gonna be a beautiful princess riding on a strong horse and it was right there. And so I wasn't gonna ask but I always had in the back of my head if an opportunity ever arose that maybe I had a horse, I was gonna take it and I was gonna ride it in that field. I never did have a horse but a few of my friends who worked at that barn with me who had horses told me that they were gonna go riding in this field one day and I was ecstatic. I definitely got myself invited to that. I was like, please, please take me. I know I'm not that cool but please let me come with you. They took pity on me, the homeschooled girl that was like three years younger than them and were like, fine, yes, you can come with us. But, but, but, I did not have a horse so I needed to find one. I asked the owner and the owner's daughter if I could take one of their horses and they said, yes, absolutely. You can take Georgia. Georgia was an ex racing horse. She was a thoroughbred mare. She was chestnut in color and absolutely beautiful. And what I didn't quite realize about horses is that riding them in an arena, in a circle, you know, maybe jumping over a few things when they're in a contained area is very different than when you take a horse out in an open landscape, especially a horse that used to race and knows how to go very fast.  The three of us walked our horses across the road. We found a little gate to get in, right? I don't technically think that all of this was legal but I was 13, what did I know? And we mounted our horses and we took off and it was truly incredible. This was the first time it ever actually galloped. Like I thought maybe I had in an arena, but no, there is a big difference between a horse going in a circle and a horse going in a straight line towards the horizon because that's what they're built to do.  And that exact moment is when I realized, oh, I have not done this before. This is very different. It's thrilling and terrifying. I remember just sort of like holding on for dear life, the reins and trying to like keep my balance and my composure, but it was that thrilling kind of frightening that feels freeing and like I was actually flying and I was like, this is it. My hair is streaming in the wind behind me. I look awesome. This is a perfect day. And everything went well for the first couple of fields we went across.  And it was the third field we came to.  I was feeling a little bit more comfortable with the whole going super, super fast thing at that point. And then all of a sudden things started happening and things started happening really quickly. I remember the motion of going over her right shoulder. I didn't know what happened, but I found out after the fact that she had stumbled, she had tripped. Thankfully she didn't hurt herself. She didn't break a leg or anything like that. She kind of started to go down and I was already off balance from like trying to learn how to gallop on a horse going full speed for like the first time. And I could not stay up. I went over her shoulder. I remember that picture. And then I remember hitting like the back of my shoulders, almost my neck on the ground. It was a really hard fall. I remember darkness. Like I was laying in the grass with my eyes closed as I kind of came to you cause I did get knocked out for a second and hearing my friends running towards me cause they saw what happened and they were obviously kind of terrified. And I was like, no, no, I'm okay. And I tried to get up and then I kind of passed out. They caught me and I stayed on the ground and began to realize something was very wrong with my ankle. I had fallen off horses before, twice before actually once I broke my hand the second time nothing happened. It was all right. But something really didn't feel right. Here's the thing. We had been galloping and going in this field for a while now. My horse had taken off and there was little cell reception and we were not close to any road. So it was kind of a freaky situation in retrospect. At the time I was really out of it. I wasn't really thinking about how are we gonna get out of here when I can't walk? And also I lost a horse but we were able to make a phone call to the owners of the barn eventually and they brought a golf cart out to get us. I think I was in that field for probably about an hour with the pain in my ankle sort of gradually getting worse as I sort of came out of shock. They loaded me up in the golf cart. They took me to the road. My mom was waiting there and she immediately took me to the hospital. A quick side note about my lovely, beautiful horse, Georgia. For the record, I've said this in other videos but she didn't do anything wrong, right? She tripped. I tripped all the time in real life. I chose to ride her. Things happened, right? There's no resentment towards this lovely horse. But someone actually found her by the fence, by the road. They saw a fully saddled horse with no rider and from my understanding it kind of freaked them out but thankfully the horse got home safely. Everyone else was all right. So my mom takes me to urgent care first and there's no room at the inn. They are very, very busy. They say, you know what? I see that something's probably wrong but like it's gonna be hours. So you might wanna go home, just ice it, see what happens, right? This was from like a two second look. So we did that but by the time I got back home I was in so much pain, I couldn't get out of the car. So we went right back there and my mom said, no, we were taking care of this right now and I started getting x-rays and the pain continued to get worse and we realized it was actually a pretty bad break. The bottom of my tibia, which is the big bone in your leg had broken off and been shoved up an inch into my leg. Now, if you remember me describing the fall, I didn't fall on my ankle. I still have no idea to this day how I shattered my ankle so badly but it is what happened. The doctors were fascinated by my x-rays because they had not seen this kind of a break before. Again, it's not a good thing to impress doctors with new things they haven't seen before. They told me I needed to go to the hospital. I probably need surgery that night. We got there, they called in the surgeon, turns out the surgeon didn't get the message so there was no surgeon coming. They sent me home with pain medication and said, go see a specialist. You're gonna need surgery on this. Long story short, three days later because the swelling was so bad they couldn't cut into it because I didn't think they could stitch it back together. Three days later, I did have my first ankle surgery and it went okay but the problem is it didn't heal right so they had to break it again two months later and that led to everything that followed after that. Another surgery, a year later, an ankle fusion. After that, hardware removal. After that, that still didn't work so let's go on to injections. Okay, that's still not working. Maybe there's scar tissue. Let's open it back up and this went on for years. This went on until the time that I was 27. Like I mentioned before, during that whole time I still tried to stay really active. I did as much as I could but there was always pain. It got worse and worse and worse and to the point where I was not really walking that much. I was walking sometime but it was with a lot of pain and I didn't wanna live anymore. I didn't wanna live that life anymore. I couldn't do anything I loved. I was holding on to a piece of my body that was just dying and just causing me pain and suffering and there was no reason for that. There was the option that they could have replaced my ankle at that point but it wasn't a very viable option because at most it would have bought me like 18 months if it worked to maybe five-ish years but even then I would still need an amputation. I still have gone through another surgery. One that is not known to be successful in young people. One that would even more limit my mobility and I have to scale back what I was doing anymore and then I would still have to lose my leg and so I decided I'd rather lose it at 27 than 32 and that's what we did and the rest is history. Most of it which is documented on this channel in older videos. It changed the course of my life. It changed the course of being a teenager. I spent so many months and months and months on crutches and walking boots, taking pain medications like I said in increasing doses. It really changed my life but those moments happen and we can't predict when they're gonna happen.  I did get to realize my dream of just feeling gorgeous and awesome even though I was a 13 year old with bad skin and not a lot of social skills but for that moment galloping the field I was perfect. Up until the moment I took a tumble and everything changed. So that is what I remember of the day that changed my life forever. It is a monumental day in my life. It happened in August. I think it was August 16th. I have lost a little bit of track of the dates over the years which means I'm coming up on the 16th, yeah 16th anniversary of it happening but I'm finally getting towards the place with my leg. Now this one where I'm able to start doing more. I'm able to hike. I'm able to maybe in the near future run I can get on a bike sometimes. It's something I'm really grateful for. I'm able to do more now without a leg slowly but surely than I was able to do when I had that ankle that just wasn't working for me. So it's a decision that was complicated and overwhelming and a lot more than I expected but one I'm very grateful I got to make. Thank you for listening to my story here today guys. I really appreciate it. Thank you to my patrons for sponsoring these videos, for supporting me. You really helped me more than I can say. I'm really grateful for each and every one of you. If you're interested in joining my Patreon in financially supporting this channel and what I do here, here's a link on screen, how you can do that and also the link is in the description down below if you wanna click it. There are different perks and tiers and things like behind the scenes videos or bloopers videos or early access from time to time and updates and things of that nature so check it out. To you watching this video right now, thank you for hanging out with me for a few minutes. Thank you for listening to my story. I really appreciate it. I don't know who you are but I know that you are someone, you are a person who has so much value somewhere in the world watching this video with me, choosing to spend a few minutes with me and it means the world to me so thank you. I love you guys, I'm thinking about you and I'll see you in the next video. Bye guys.


Who should I be? What is my purpose? Do I really even think I am? Why am I here? What am I? Who am I? My ancestors, do you know who I am? And welcome to Constructing Identity with an iPad. I'm Clara Kruger, and I'm a grade 3 teacher in Mousshtras, Saskatchewan, Canada. In this session, we're going to look at building identity. In that quote from Patrick Rothfuss, he writes, We build ourselves out of our own story. In the book Wonder, there's this incredible English teacher called Mr. Brown. And he begins his year talking to his students about who they are and what kind of people we are and about knowing thyself. And he says, And learning who you are is what you're here to do. And I agree with him. I think school is a perfect place for students to begin to think about and about building their identity. In this session, I'll show you a range of iPad apps and assignments that I use in my classroom to help my students construct their identity. Last year I took part in a project run by the University of Regina with funding from a Shirt Grant. We looked at how to use digital storytelling as a way of bringing treaty education to the classroom. For those of you outside of Saskatchewan, treaty education is a compulsory part of our K-12 curriculum in which teachers are required to teach all their students about the signing of the treaties between the First Nations and the Canadian government in the late 1800s. Now, for this project, we were looking at the identity question, what does it mean to be a treaty person? However, you could easily follow the same process and look at another question, such as, what does it mean to be an American? Now, I'm going to be honest. At the beginning of this project, I had a very minimal understanding of what it actually means to be a treaty person, just like my students. And that's how I presented it. I said that I would be learning alongside my students, and together we would build an understanding of what it means for all of us to be treaty people. Now, luckily, there's a school division in northern Saskatchewan who has posted a video on YouTube about what it means to be a treaty person. And that's where we started. On YouTube, I searched Horizon School Division Treaty Person. And the first result is the Horizon School Division Treaty Education video. Below it is the video that my class created as a response. If you watch the Horizon video, you will see that they make three key points about what it means to be a treaty person. The first point is that you don't need a treaty card to be a treaty person. The second point is that all Canadians are treaty people simply because we signed treaties. And the third point, because the treaties were signed to last as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow, we are all essentially treaty people until the end of time. So as a class, we watched this video a few times, and we discussed these three points. And then we decided that we wanted to make our own video in that same style. Now, my purpose for this was to use the video as a benchmark to see what we knew at the beginning of this project and then compare it to the end of the project and hopefully see some growth and a deeper level of understanding. So this video that we created is deliberately simplistic because our understanding at the beginning of this project of what it means to be a treaty person was simplistic. We are all treaty people and have to have a treaty card. We are all treaty people. I'm a treaty person. I'm a treaty person. The sun shines I am. What was the first digital storytelling product that we created? It turned out to be an excellent benchmark for what we learned over the course of the project for my students but also for myself going into the project I'd never used an iPad before and I'd certainly never used iMovie and so you can see in that movie it's a little rough kids' heads are cut off a bit the iPad has turned the wrong way and so it's fun for both my students and for myself to be able to look back on that project and really see the growth that we've had over the course of the year. You can find all the projects that I will be presenting on my treaty education blog at treatypeople.edgyblogs.org On the right hand side under digital storytelling there are links to each step of the project and the video that we just watched is step one. The second step of the project was to figure out what it is to be a treaty person and what is a treaty. So we looked at first just at the time aspect of that. So we are in Treaty 4 area and Treaty 4 was signed in 1874. So we thought back to what this area would have looked like at the end of the 1800s. In particular what Fort Capow would have looked like because that's where the treaty was signed. So then students were asked to create a character that could have been around during the time of the signing of Treaty 4. They then used the Puppet Pals app on the iPads to create a puppet show introducing their character. So the Puppet Pals app is really great to use. It's fun and flexible. You can use the characters that are already provided for your puppets or you can add a character from a photo.  Then you can move your character around as you speak. The following is an example of one of our projects. Hi, my name is Misa. I was born near Fort Capow in a small TV. I am a girl, my hair is brown. I am 8 years old. I was in Fort Capow because I was getting flowers from this store. I'm excited because the signing of Treaty 4 is being signed tomorrow. After making our puppet shows, we went on to study the signing of Treaty 4 more completely. We studied the intricacies of the negotiations of the Treaty and then we decided to make a podcast using the GarageBand app. The assignment was for students to be in present day making a podcast and then in their podcast go back in time to interview the character that they created in the Puppet Pals project about the signing of Treaty 4 and about what it means to be a Treaty person. The GarageBand app is pretty awesome because you can easily create your own songs and your own music using a bunch of different instruments and also add your own voice and sound effects. Here's an example of one of our projects. Hello, there. This is news with Miki Z. I am your host. Today we're going back in time to September 15th, 1874. Oh, that was a bumpier. I'll have to fix that for the ride back. My friend Misa will be around here somewhere. We're going to interview her about treaties. Oh, there she is. Hi, Misa. Hi, Miki Z. What is a treaty? A treaty is a piece of paper that has a chief sign that says they have to give each other stuff. In the treaty negotiation, two spoke for the Canadian government. Alexander Morris spoke for the government. I just met him today. I think his clothes are kind of funny. Who did Alexander Morris come with? He came with 105 soldiers, two helpers, and an interpreter. I didn't see the soldiers, but whatever. What was the interpreter's name? His name was Charles Pratt. Who negotiated for the First Nations chiefs? Chief Kukush away spoke for the chiefs. What were you given in the treaty? There are reserves set aside for our nations, new tools to help us with farming and help with education. We will also be given money each year and the chiefs will be given new suits, medals, and flags. What did you have to give the government in your treaty? In exchange, we had to share our land. What does it mean to be a treaty person? To me, it means being a Canadian. What does it mean to you to be a treaty person? To me, being a treaty person means being bound by laws. Okay, it's getting dark now. I should go. Bye! A lot better than the ride there. Okay, it's end of the show. See you next time. We loved our iMovie app, the Puppy Pals app, and the GarageBond app. But by far, our favorite app last year was the stop motion animation app called Pick Stop.  And in the end, you have a series of pictures that put together give the illusion of movement. So we decided to use the technique of stop motion animation as a way of documenting our learning about the history of treaty relations since the signing of Treaty 4 up until close to present day. But before we can get started on that, we really needed to learn the craft of stop motion animation. Luckily, Pick Stop is very straightforward and easy to use, and even has built-in tutorials that explain step-by-step what you need to do. Our learning projects are some of our early work as we learned how to do stop motion animation. This first project has no sound because within the Pick Stop app there is no sound. However, you can export your Pick Stop movie to iMovie and then add sound from there which we do in the next projects. Once we got a handle on how to do stop motion, we moved on to doing projects about treaty education. So, our first project is about the signing of Treaty 4. Day 1 of negotiating, Treaty 4. Hello everyone. Tassie, my name is Tessie. Hello, I'm Charles Pratt. I will be your interpreter. Hello, I'm Alexandra Morris. I would like to negotiate a treaty with you. Day 2. If you give us this much land, we will give you farming lessons, farming equipment, school for children and payment of money every year. We will also receive new suits, medals and play. Day 3. Do you agree with that Chief Kukishui? Do you agree? Can I have your attention? Our land is not forgiving. It's for sharing also and it's too much land. We will negotiate to share this much land. Are you good with that? Day 4. No, this much land. Day 5. No, this much land. Are you okay with that? Day 6. Fine. Your turn. Charles Pratt. So do your turn. Now I will go get my things. The end. Residential schools. Hi, Mom. I'm the Indian Legionary.  Here's your residential school. Where are you going? Here's letters from your family. Finally, the residential schools are closed. I miss you so much.  After studying residential schools, we went on to look at the OKA crisis. This occurred in 1990 in OKA, Quebec, where the town of OKA wanted to expand their existing golf course to include the surrounding areas, which would have meant building on top of a traditional mohawk graveyard. In order to study this, the National Film Board of Canada's film, my name is Cahen Teosta, which is available online. This film was told from the perspective of a mohawk woman named Cahen Teosta, as she is arrested after the protest. What really resonated with my students was the fact that although everyone was arrested, most protesters were let go. But Cahen Teosta was kept longer than the others because she did not have a Canadian name, and the judge would not accept officially her mohawk name. So this is a stop-motion film that re-enacts the OKA crisis. Golfing's fun. We should expand. Yes, all in one of you. You can't build a barricade here. You can't build a golf course here. OK, mohawks, off to jail now. This is the army base. You'll be staying here for the night. See you in the morning, you mohawks. I've been Adam. Time to go. To the courthouse. These go last. Free to go. You're free to go. You're free to go. What's your Canadian name? Cahen Teosta. That's your mohawk one. What's your Canadian one? My name is Cahen Teosta. OK, you're free to go. Maybe that wasn't such a great idea. And that was the story of the OKA crisis. After finishing our unit on stop-motion animation, it was nearing the end of the year. And it was time to assess what we had learned about being treaty people. So for our final project, students were given the choice of using any medium to show what they had learned over the course of the project. One group of students decided to do a video similar to the one that we did at the beginning of the year, but what it means to be a treaty person. But this time, more in depth. In the future, as a Canadian, I feel guilty of the things that had happened. And I hope it doesn't happen again. We are all treaty people. I think we need people to take some of the first nations. Because of the residential schools, management and guide, the other first nations were sent to Florida. We as treaty people, we can make the future better than the past by being partners with the first nations. Another group did a common craft style video. What it means to be a treaty person. It is confusing to be a treaty person. We don't know why the Indian had nothing to do with the treaties. We feel sad about the kids that had to go to residential schools. The 60's group is confusing because it's good and bad. The good part is that the kids were placed in good homes. The bad part is that the kids lost their culture and no one could teach them their language and traditions. The OKA crisis doesn't seem fair to us because clearly there's a graveyard there. The graveyard seems more important than both. We want to make a difference. We want everyone to be treated fairly and we are going to learn from all these mistakes. We can make a difference. And one group wrote a song and produced it on GarageBand on the iPads. I see the stars they're flying up above what they are crying it's hard to think it's hard to fly oh Used to think the past was better but now it's worse. Sharing the land at first until the Indian act came. The act was bad. Now when I look back it always gets me mad. I see the stars up above what they are crying it's hard to think it's hard to fly oh We see the stars. They see the stars so high like we're on Mars we need to celebrate because we need to recalibrate I feel good, I feel strong but living on the sun sometimes feels wrong. I see the stars they're flying up above it's hard to think it's hard to fly So there you have it. A year's worth of digital storytelling exploring the idea of what it means to be a treaty person. Now the author Thomas King has written that the truth about stories is that's all we are. And I think if we think about that then it makes sense that as teachers one of our jobs is to help our students figure out what stories they want to tell. Thanks for taking part in this session of constructing identity with an iPad and I look forward to interacting with you either on Twitter or by email or on our blog. Thanks.


Good evening everyone, welcome back to theCUBE. Wrapping up day two of our coverage of HPE Discover 2023 from the Venetian Expo, Lisa Martin and Dave Vellante. We have a special segment up for you next. This is going to be exciting, Dave. Oh yeah, it's blast off. Let's literally blast off. We've got Norm Follett here, Senior Director of Space, Tech and Solutions at HPE and Jared Matthews, Founder and CEO of Astrolab. Norm, take it away, this is a special segment. Yeah, it's a special segment. I'm using my special title for it as well. So first of all, thank you so much for taking the time and working this in. I'm just super, super excited to introduce you to someone who I think is going to change the universe, our CEO of Astrolab, Mr. Jared Matthews. And he is really, he and his organization, we're partnering to take edge computing even further. You know, as you guys know, and particularly you Dave, we've been on the International Space Station now for a few years, the most powerful computer ever to go to space. And we've been doing, you know, edge computing and really revolutionizing what's taking place up there from a computational science perspective. But we want to go further. And we believe that the organization and the team that's going to take us further and is going to allow us to do some pretty exceptional things on the surface of the moon is Jared and his organization in Astrolab. So it's with great excitement that I introduce you guys to him and his organization. And I hope it's a long and interesting relationship both for us and for you. Oh great, well thanks for making it happen Norm. I really appreciate it. You've wrapped this wrap up a couple of times. But I understand you got to go. Yeah, actually I do, and I apologize for that. I just have another commitment, but I thought it was so important that you guys had a chance to learn about Astrolab that I wanted to discuss. Come on, what do you got to do that's more important than the queue? Well, I mean, you know, it has taken me a long time to get on the show. So it's all, leave it. Look, come on, you teasing us. Where are you, what are you doing? I'd rather not say. No, come on, really? Actually, I'm going to go to the sound check for John Fogarty. You guys might be part of that. Ah! Come on, Leonard's got FOMO, big time. He does. Hey, I know it's true, it's true. You know, hey, I was born on the Bayou, so I just got to go for it. Hey, all right, we're going to give you a pass then. I don't blame you. I appreciate it. Be gentle with him. We will. All right. And we hope we see you on stage with John later. Well, it depends on how the sound check goes. Hey, all right. With that, thank you very much. Thanks, Norm. Thanks, Norm. Jira, great to have you. I was telling you before we went live. I have a space industry lineage as well. So anything about space is near and dear to my heart. Talk to us a little bit about Astrolab. You have a great background. JPL, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory from anyone that doesn't know it. SpaceX, what does Astrolab do? Why did you start the company? Well, thank you for having me. I'm excited to talk to you about Astrolab. Yeah, Astrolab is a startup. We were founded three years ago. We're based in Los Angeles. And what we're doing is developing novel planetary robotic systems. I started my career out at JPL. And I ended up being there for 10 years working on a lot of the Mars rovers you may be familiar with, spirit and opportunity and curiosity. I was on the part of the design and testing teams for those as well as the operational teams. And then I moved over to SpaceX to run their spacecraft mechanisms team and develop things like the docking system that Dragon uses to dock to ISS. But the genesis of Astrolab was really started from being at SpaceX and seeing really the development of their Starship lander, which is going to be the biggest rocket ever created. And the opportunity that that represented in terms of what we'll soon be able to do on the moon and then eventually Mars. And so Astrolab is really developing the next link in the transportation network for the solar system. Ah, that's awesome. I'm unbelievable. So a couple of things. The last SpaceX launch where the rocket blew up and it was like the mainstream media was like, ah, big failure, but it wasn't. It was actually like an amazing success. Could you explain that to folks? Sure, yeah. We actually have a booked ride to the moon on Starship for mid 2026. And so because we are a customer of SpaceX I actually had the good fortune of going down to Texas and watching the first attempt to fly Starship. And from my perspective, it was a tremendous success. And having spent seven years at that organization myself, I'm very confident that they're gonna get there. They're trying something that's extremely hard, but they have a really incredible team and deep, deep experience now. And accomplishing really hard goals and have every confidence that they'll get there. So that was a milestone in which they collected a lot of data, obviously. And now they are basically in the process of analyzing that so they can take the next step, right? Yes. And what is that next step? Well, they're obviously gonna try to get to orbit on the next attempt. And that should start a long series of flights that will ultimately lead to our ride to the moon in mid-2026. And what's special is that the vehicle is able to put 100 tons down onto the lunar surface. And so it really changes what's possible to do not only in space, but on the moon and eventually Mars. And it changes the economics of it and the scale at which you can do things. And so if you haven't seen our rover on display here yet it's huge, it's the size of an SUV. And the reason for that is it's really sized for the scale of these vehicles that are being developed. And what we're doing is really solving essentially the last mile transportation problem for the lunar surface. Yeah, it sounds like Norm is messing up the PAs. I think so. We shouldn't have let him go. I know they might kick him out. Can you still hear us? Are we okay? He's rocking it. He's still here, it's all right. I'd love to know a little bit more about Astrolab's partnership with HPE. Norm gave us a great introduction to you and talked to us about that because everybody knows the International Space Station. A lot of people know about Supercomputers. What are you guys doing together? And as Norm was saying, we want this to be a long lasting partnership. What are some of your objectives? Well, so we have a fundamental problem on the moon or anyone who wants to operate on the moon in that there's a limited diameter pipe through which data can flow back to Earth. So there's limited bandwidth to get data back to Earth. And certainly for the first five or 10 years of lunar development in the coming decade, the main export from the lunar surface is gonna be data. And where HPE comes in is that, where their edge computing capability is, it's much better to send back refined data than raw data, right? And I liken it to some of our customers who are interested in doing mining on the moon. It makes much more sense to process the lunar regolith locally and extract the high value stuff than to send all the raw material back to Earth. Well, data is no different. You want to send back the insight and not the raw data that you're working with. It's the ultimate edge use case, isn't it? It is? I mean, so it's instructive. So we kind of answered it, but let me ask it directly. Why moon? I'll ask you a question. And then I'll talk about that. How big do you think the moon is? Let's see. Probably, I don't know. Let's say a hundred and... Compare it to like a, I don't know. Compare it to the Earth. Yeah. Maybe 300 moons? Actually, it's quite a bit bigger. I think the best way to visualize it is the surface area of the moon is the same size as Africa. So it's the size of the continent of Africa. Now, imagine if a new continent on Earth just popped up overnight in the Pacific Ocean. And all of a sudden, there was all this new land to explore and to derive value from and resources from. Well, that's essentially happening now because what's happening is NASA and private industry are developing the long-haul transportation network to get us to the moon frequently and cheaply. And so, all of a sudden, we're going to have essentially this new continent to explore and derive value from. And... This is not normally a cube interview, FYI. This is the cube after dark, Dave. Yeah, that might be it. They're going to bad moon rising. Okay. Jira, thank you so much for joining us. This is, like I said, a little unusual. But really awesome what you're doing with Astralab. Very aspirational. Like Dave said, that is the ultimate edge use case. We'll definitely keep our eyes on Astralab, what you guys are doing there with HPE. And we wish you the best of luck. Thank you so much. John Fogarty rocking away. Oh, there we go. Awesome. Wow, amazing. Thank you so much. Okay, so we got the moon. It's got kind of the next frontier, the next continent of exploration, and then as a way station to Mars. Yeah, and it's just like every other expansion of humanity beyond the current horizon, that's always been a huge economic opportunity, right? And I kind of liken it to, it's like we're in 1870 and the railroads are being built to California, you know? It's that level of opportunity. And I'm sure there were people in 1870 saying, why would you build a railroad to California, right? There's nothing out there. It was really hard to fund that back in 1870s. Nobody wanted to fund it. Actually, President Lincoln made it happen, so. Exactly. And now the two richest people on earth are pouring billions of dollars, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, pouring billions of dollars into developing a transportation network for the moon. And NASA is backing up their investment with their own billions of dollars. And so it's soon it will become not only frequent, but economical to send stuff to the moon. Crazy, crazy to even think that, but your analogy about the railroad was fantastic. It gives us that perspective of there's so much yet we don't know. There's so much of value, economic value that we can claim. So we're going to keep our eyes in this space. We're losing it. We're going to wrap. We want to thank you so much for watching our special YouTube after dark segment with a whole sound check going on. All thanks to Norm. We let him go early. You see what happens. We want to thank our guest and for Dave Vellante. I'm Lisa Martin. We're going to say good night for now. Join us tomorrow. We have a great lineup of guests for our third and final day of covering HPE Discover 23.


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ments to the main motion so rather than having to do the extra vote of whether to accept we can just vote on the amendments. My understanding of the motion to amend the motion so it's the motion and then amending the motion and that we would vote on the motion amendments the amendments the main motion yeah got right not too much yeah okay great thank you um so I I I don't want to I'm not going to wax forth about all of the wonderful contributions that the warriors make to our community that's been done plenty um but I will I concur um I think that you know I mean I'm I'm thrilled the warriors are here I would like to see I mean I would love to see I want to make a permanent home possible um you know their contributions go far beyond the economy obviously um very deep into our community um I'm I'm I'm a little dismayed that the conversation has essentially been shaped around this idea that the only way to keep the warriors is to have um uh what I think somebody um in a speaker suggested was a a zoning bomb um that's how it feels I understand that's how it feels to people who are just just learning about this and maybe in the immediate area um I I support the need for more housing and increasing density in this area and I just haven't seen any evidence um which I think we all agree is very important to convince me that we must have 20 22 20 plus story buildings in order to keep the warriors so I just think that's a false narrative that's really been like drummed up here tonight and it's um I'm I'm just I'm dismayed by that um I guess I'll I'll say um with respect to the question of increasing affordability uh in this in this area um you know I think that we have an opportunity to do that where people have called in and spoken tonight about how this is a wonderful opportunity for affordable housing but if we don't change some something about the way that we um are addressing our inclusionary requirements which I believe is kind of one of the only um options we have unless we get those voluntary development agreements I'm a I know that's an open question um to get to actually benefit from that significantly increased density and so I want to ask um Tony Kandadi as part of your review um you know we're not talking about in this case proposing an increase in the inclusionary percentage in an existing zoning context we're talking about a serious upzoning and so I think that that may have um some that may have some bearing on you know how hcdu would um would view a higher percentage for inclusionary so I just want to suggest that I think that's an arena for exploration I hope we can hear more about that element of it yeah thank you council member Brown and I I think that's right we can explore that as a an aspect of um a rezoning analysis and I think I was trying to draw the distinction between an increased inclusionary requirement and and an inclusionary requirement for density bonus that's higher than the base inclusionary requirement and I think those are all subjects for additional analysis and happy to report back to the council on I just wasn't prepared to say this evening that I thought that the proposal made by council member Cummings which I understand I don't I don't have any objections to or any concerns with but just requires a little bit further analysis absolutely and I appreciate that and I was I didn't want to put you on the spot about it but I will say um we don't have the opportunity to get we've been trying to get that item on our council agenda and we as two council members don't have the ability to do that in spite of a planning rec commission recommendation that we take it up um so we haven't been able to create space to have that conversation um in a public meeting of the city council so I think um this is why you you see it come in and these this is this is the only opportunity we have to talk about that um so just you know appreciate your willingness to explore it if um that we can get a majority of council members to agree that it's worth doing um yeah I of course I'm happy to um if any uh legal researcher analysis said the council directs me to you I appreciate yeah um well we'll see if um uh we can get a majority to agree on that um um well I'll leave it there um yeah I think I I'll just leave it there I mean there are many things I'd like to say about you know all the concerns that have been expressed about traffic um really you know ingress and egress out of the beach area with that increased traffic um all kinds of impact potential impacts to the surrounding low income neighbors which I think is captured um in uh council member Cummings amendments so I'm I want to support those and um I'll I'll leave it there okay uh I see council we're coming to you have your hand up do you have a further comment in regards to your motion before we vote to accept I just have one last question for staff so it sounds like the fact that we're deviating from the staff recommendation there's going to be some analysis that will be done on this proposed what's being proposed tonight and this will come back to city council I would not anticipate that um we bring back the we could bring it back as an informational item but um I would say whatever motion passes tonight if if council says 165 and 150 feet limits then we would go off do that number crunching and get going on the um environmental analysis that's how I would anticipate proceeding if the council would prefer that they understand that um those numbers and that we come back before proceeding then that's up to the council and we're happy to do that um so uh and the other approach would be to also you know keep things moving quickly would be to move forward and um and just provide an informational memo to the council to say based on our analysis of the heights that you've proposed here are the total numbers that we're studying as part of this I guess also the distribution of those heights within that that footprint correct right the the uh the council motion as I understand it would be 165 and I'm assuming that is for the um the taller building element at wheel works that's where the um the tallest building element was for scenario three and then um 150 feet for the other um elements um and I'll share my screen again here just so we're all clear um and my intent um Lee was I believe I used the term not to exceed 150 feet so I'm not sure that I'm trying to get every single building to be held at 150 feet they may vary in height or bulk or using that 150 but you know again try not to just get that monotone you know nine I think was nine stories that you showed some of those um but I just I don't know that the community is ready for a 225 foot building um and so I understand the I'm not an architect or a planner so I respect that work but yeah I'm trying to provide um sort of a bit of a ceiling and we also received some notes from additional planning commissioners trying to understand a little bit of a ceiling that can be expected with the possibility of of identifying a taller building but maybe some variation so um yeah looking here I think the taller building would be uh if we were working off of scenario two which I think was so the taller building would be yes in in that area there right in the income right and then um the other building heights of 150 in a and then two here in d and then I think the council I don't know that the council ultimately decided on what they wanted to do with c2 it sounded like several of you said um to not include that but I don't I think that's still out there as a question yeah I think um we I'll I'll I'll we'll see what the motion how the motion gets um sort of developed but I think scenario two is offered as a preference um lead to your point of the 165 not being that different from 150 um you know if we went up to 175 on that one building um and again these are all just figures that we're still figuring out um and uh this is a big project that I think will change a lot as we move through this um does that provide um that more uh that outcome that uh you know the design outcome or you know I'm just curious about your comment that you know 165 versus 150 wouldn't be noticeable and I don't know that that needs to be our goal but just curious to learn more from you on that I would say that that 25 foot differential would provide a better aesthetic so if we went to 175 so we went up 15 10 more feet than the ones 165 that that would be more noticeable as a kind of distinct difference in those building heights is the make is the seconder okay with going up a little higher on one building I think that's maybe what we could do if I could count some reminders if we to make the amendment yeah let's do yeah let's go ahead so basically what will happen we'll go ahead and ask the council to vote on whether or not to accept the motion to amend and the amendments and if that's passed then we'll go forward with that motion and if it's not then we can go back to the main motion and make some of these modifications that you're suggesting council members is that is everybody clear okay thank you Bonnie so this is the motion to amend and we can go ahead and take a minute to review it I won't read it unless somebody wants to read it but I think we've we've discussed it we can look at it on the screen unless there's any further questions I think we can go ahead and take the vote on that and go from there you don't need a moment just reading it real quick yeah take a minute I just want to be clear so we're voting on whether this will be the motion or we're voting on whether to accept this as amendments to the main motion okay and and if not then we'll go back to the main motion and we can have friendly amendments and further discussion if we'd like if yes then we'll move forward with this as the whole motion thank you as a rise did I interrupt you I didn't know if you're I just had a question on why the why limiting the maximum of housing units was put forth just curious sure go ahead what's going to come in yeah at the um I know that the planning commission and tried to set a limit on the number of housing and I think that um it seemed like with having the the very high heights that that um in terms of the 22 units the 22 stories and the other height um of the other buildings would accommodate more density in that area I think there's some concerns of having um you know really high densities in that area of people and so while we need to develop in that area it seemed like there was um some consensus at the planning commission around the 1600 being a maximum and hearing some of the conversations tonight increasing that to 1800 was my attempt at trying to see if we could take some of the recommendations from the planning commission but then increase that number similar to wanting to support the 165 and um not to exceed 150 feet really trying to figure out ways to reach some kind of compromise and then include language around affordability and and community input I believe the original staff motion was actually where the 1800 housing units came in so I was just curious about the maximum so it sounds like you want to try to cap um I think uh the staff uh motion was a minimum of 1800 units um I think this is to kind of sort of moving away from some of the staff um some of the staff analysis so I think I'd be more comfortable at this point by scenario to take a vote on the amended and then see if we can recapture some things as friendly amendments okay if if if you're amenable to them yeah procedurally I think that would make sense and you know forward with that I share I share your your sentiment so let's go ahead and take a vote and um open that so Bonnie um we'll go ahead and take the vote at this time as to whether to accept the motion to amend Councilmember Callentary Johnson I'm a no and that's because I also share some of the concerns that have been brought up folder no coming hi Brown Mayor Watkins no and so that passes with four in favor two against um Bonnie do you mind putting up the other motion and then we can go from there um vice mayor the motion failed I'm sorry the motion fails thank you the motion fails for uh voting against two in favor okay thank you okay I'll hand it back to you Councilmember Myers I don't know if there's elements that you wanted to to modify yeah I mean um so Lee my understanding just want to make sure um you do want us to choose a scenario um as well this evening I do think that would be helpful um and really what it boils down to based on how you have updated the motion here is just a confirmation of whether that um 150 feet on the remaining includes that um that parcel on the south side of uh sea so there was a taller building element on the south side of sea and then while while I'm I'm talking here um you also have a minimum of 1800 units identified and I just want to be clear that um with these heights um I don't see us getting to 1800 units um and so um and the total number will vary depending on whether or not that additional building height is included on the bottom of C2 and bottom of parcel C right you'll get more units if you include an additional taller building element um which actually would get you close I would say you know probably I'm just guessing here without doing the analysis based on where those different scenarios fall but I would say it would probably get you over 1700 units um if you have um that additional building element and um it would get you over 1600 units if you um don't have that additional taller building element and the taller just his bumper okay okay uh let's come back to that let's try to knock off um so Lee the if we added a so we're gonna act so I believe we're adding we're changing this motion maybe Bonnie you could make notes um with the one taller building at 175 if if the seconder is okay with that um yes okay um and so Lee you're saying that if we if we added for example a building at 165 in that in that corner area in the in this seat you could get closer to the 1700 units is that correct again ballpark estimate based on because because these heights don't line up neatly with the heights in the in the scenarios um so um scenario two had um let's see let me scroll ahead 100 I mean scenario two had 1500 and 79 units with um um heights of 160 and 120 so going up to um 165 or 175 and 150 you're gonna be probably at um you know adding maybe 100 units probably a little less so around um 1650 units ballpark um okay um I think I think my biggest goal is um I don't see support for a 225 foot building so I'm feeling like I'm just sort of now I'm starting to get a little bit lost in the weeds um let's go ahead and just keep it to the one taller building on 175 feet um and not to exceed 150 feet on the remaining um I realize that's going to uh change the housing unit up there so why don't we say um um uh 1600 to be uh closer I didn't realize the the motion as it was proposed it's hard to have all these moving pieces in the larger motion language so you know I'm trying to trying to understand what was intended in the original motion written by staff which included a lot more detail and now as we're starting trying to make some adjustments I I believe which was what the community is is looking at we're I'm starting to fall a little bit into a little bit of a calculation rabbit hole so um if it helps I can say that um with 175 and 150 I would fully anticipate that it goes over 1600 units and I can't say where that is going to land exactly but um that we we can model that and then study that as part of the environmental impact report great thank you me um that include I mean I'm happy to um again I'm I'm I do believe that what we want to do here is create a neighborhood I understand the the focus on always the focus on affordable housing we need a lot of other housing as well um the 30% uh inclusionary seem to be tied um to you know outcomes that Tony needs to do research on my suggestion um would be that we try to tackle that in um uh hopefully another agendized situation I I I'm I'm I'm I feel like we're spot using the 30% inclusionary in this one project and I'm not clear that that's really the best policy for us to do at this point so um uh Tony I would look to your recommendation but I don't think I'm going to tackle that one as part of this motion um in front of us um because it it it does seem that we have an adopted policy at 20% and now we're sort of going to spot change that and I'm not sure we want to go down that um with regards to this uh with this uh stage of the project right now again this is really a direction to analyze a preferred scenario and I think we can explore those options as we move forward okay I don't think it's necessary to give that direction at this evening's meeting thank you um the other thing that I wanted to look at um I just double check here um I think we're getting close um is the seconder okay with this so far it's okay I see if that's that okay um I understand also I just want to just final comment is um uh Bonnie if you could go up a little bit um roll up past the motion to amend um I think there was some language about the impacts to adjacent neighborhoods and creating a um a committee um I under definitely understand that the um the intent of that um I I would imagine that that a lot of this will come out um and again Lee I know CQA doesn't necessarily require displacement of affordable housing my understanding from what Sarah mentioned earlier tonight was that there is new state law that does have in a sense um mitigates this um situation which I I agree was occurring as places were getting changed out and redeveloped is that correct um Lee and that we will have to um abide by that new state law with regards to those mitigation mitigations available for um for any kind of housing displacement that's correct the state law is actually stronger than our local ordinance with respect to replacement housing right now so we would have to follow that and um I'll note that um related to this this this was something that the planning commission had suggested as well and staff had recommended that it be studied on a city-wide basis and included as part of the housing element and so um that is something that we'll be looking at um through that effort as well as how we can really address this important issue on a city-wide basis for um the preservation of affordable units and um how to limit displacement when redevelopment occurs I'm glad to hear that I think that's a much more comprehensive approach to it um because it's not going to be just site specific so I would be supportive of um that's good to hear so I think um I think we'll go with the the existing edits um Bonnie that are up above and uh vice mayor if the seconder is amenable then I think we're good to go for a vote I believe the seconder is amenable um and then I see council member brown has her hand up before we take the vote and then councilman thanks thank you I just wanted to make a quick comment uh because council member mires you said you didn't understand why um a proposal we'd bring a proposal to spot change the inclusionary and um it was I was a little surprised because it was right after I laid that argument out we've not been able to council members to get a conversation about this on the agenda for the city council to talk about on its own separately from this so we end up in situations where we make proposals like this to make the case that this is really important it's viable and it's a community benefit when we have the opportunity so I'd prefer that we have a conversation about that writ large we just can't seem to get uh you know we don't have the power to make that conversation happen so here we are okay thank you council member Cummings and then calentary johnson I guess to that point um you know as was mentioned by people who called in tonight you know maximizing the inclusionary housing and trying to figure out how to maximize affordable housing and this is something that was expressed and it's also why it was included in the um motion to amend because it's something that I think we you know we have a really good opportunity we can get 1600 units of affordable housing or sorry 1600 units of housing and have you know potentially 30 percent of that be affordable that's really going to help us as we're trying to meet our rena goals because the low and very lower the ones that are most difficult to achieve and when we call that out and make that priority and our recommendations you know it really shows the community that we're serious about that so that was the intention of this um I don't know if we need to provide any other direction this evening to bring back an opportunity for us to um consider increasing inclusionary requirements in certain parts of the city or for certain types of projects or zoning but if we're if the if it's been expressed that this is something that council would like to discuss then I think having it come back would be um something that sounds like would be supportive thank you councilmember calentari johnson and then I don't know if if council members you want to respond in any way yeah thank you um I just uh wanted to acknowledge that we we do have a larger housing um effort underway with the housing element and perhaps that is the space where we can explore this I I think there needs to be a study done to see what is feasible because we don't want to prevent affordable housing from taking place so um I know that agenda item is past but we'll have other opportunities with the housing element so we could consider a study of inclusionary as part of that process which was which was embedded in the um resolution so thank you yeah I don't the as the maker of the motion I don't think I'll add anything to the motion this evening but you know as we enter into the housing element I agree it seems like we have room for a lot of these discussions okay great I agree okay well I just want to thank you all for your time and energy tonight on this item and I want to thank the community again for coming out and speaking to us on this I think you know I too wasn't comfortable with the height and and I think where we landed it feels um like a big change but it also feels like it really accommodates a lot of the things that we want to see move forward and um we'll do it Santa Cristal and so I just appreciate you all um and your work and your thought and energy and uh with that we'll go ahead and take a motion I mean to take a vote on the motion before us so I can hand it over to you Bonnie okay thank you and can I just confirm that um it was scenario two right we were adding that okay yeah yes okay councilmember Callentary Johnson aye folder aye coming no and for the record um I'm supportive of the warriors and keeping the warriors in the community um but without having a commitment to affordable housing in this I can't accept I can't move forward with supporting this um Brown for the record this is about affordable a meaningful commitment to affordable housing for me as well I'm going to say yes and I just want for the record to recognize that um in actuality this evening we didn't talk about the various types of housing that we're going to be in here um we really are looking at the broader scale of putting the pieces down um we did not vote to not support affordable housing this evening so I just want want to be clear on that thank you I'm a yes um Mike I'm sorry sorry yes vice mayor Watkins I'm a yes too and I agree with councilmember Myers for the record and um we don't have our mayor here because she had to recuse herself um so then that concludes our votes on this item and that passes with foreign favor two against and um that is the last item on our agenda and again thank you all for a very long meeting and for your time and energy and to the community for sticking with us as well and um go warriors uh on thursday and uh we'll go ahead and join the meeting all right bye