Live from Madrid, Spain. It's theCUBE, covering HPE Discover Madrid 2017. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Welcome back to Madrid, everybody. This is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. My name is Dave Vellante. I'm here with my co-host Peter Burse. And this is our second day of coverage of HPE's Madrid Conference HPE Discover. Sharad Singhal is back, director of machine software and applications at HPE and works in the labs. And Mike Woodacre is here. He's a distinguished engineer for mission critical solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Gentlemen, welcome to theCUBE. Welcome back. Good to see you, Mike. Good to meet you. SuperdomeFlex is all the rage here at the show. You guys are happy about that. You were explaining off camera that that is really the first jointly engineered product from SGI and HPE. So you've hit a milestone. Yeah, no, I came into Hewlett Packard Enterprise just over a year ago with the SGI acquisition. And we're already working on our next generation in memory computing platform. But we basically hit the ground running, integrated the engineering teams immediately that we closed the acquisition. So we could drive to the finish line and with the product announcement just recently, we're really excited to get that out into the market. It really represents the sort of leading in-memory computing system in the industry. Sherrod, high-performance computing has always been big data, needing big memories, lots of performance. How has the acquisition of SGI sort of shaped your agenda in any way or your thinking or advanced some of the innovations that you guys are coming out with? Actually it was like a truly a meeting of the minds when these guys came into HPE. We had been talking about memory-driven computing, the machine prototype for the last two years. Some of us were aware of it, but a lot of us were not aware of it. But these guys had been working essentially in parallel on similar concepts. Some of the work we had done, we were thinking in terms of our roadmaps, when they were looking at the same things, their roadmaps were looking incredibly similar to what we were talking about. And as the engineering teams came about, we brought both the Superdome X technology and the UV300 technology together into this new product that Mike can talk a lot more about. From my side, I was talking about the machine and the machine research project. When I first met Mike and I started talking to him about what they were doing, my immediate reaction was, oh wow, wait a minute, this is exactly what I need, because I was talking about something where I could take the machine concepts and deliver product to customers in the 2020 time frame. And with the help of Mike and his team, we are able to now do essentially something where we can take the benefits we are describing in the machine program and make those ideas available to customers right now. And I think to me that was the fun part of this journey here. So what are the key problems that your team is attacking with this new offering? So the primary use case for the Superdome Flex is really high performance in-memory database applications, typically SAP HANA is the industry leading solution in that space right now. But one of the key things with the Superdome Flex, is the active work, it's the flexibility. You can start with a small building block, a four socket three terabyte building block, and then you just connect these boxes together, but the memory footprint just grows linearly and the latency across our fabric just stays constant as you add these modules together. So we can deliver up to 32 processors, 48 terabytes of in-memory data in a single rack. So it's really this flexibility, sort of a pay-as-you-grow model, so people can, you know, as their needs grow, they don't have to throw out the infrastructure they can add to it. So when you take a look ultimately at the combination, we talked a little bit about some of the new types of problems that can be addressed, but let's bring it practical to the average enterprise. What can the enterprise do today? As a consequence of this machine, that they couldn't do just a few weeks ago. So it sort of builds on the modularity, as I was explaining. So if you ask a CIO today, what's my database requirement going to be in two or three years? They're like, well, I hope my business is successful, I'm going to grow my needs, but I really don't know exactly where that size is going to grow. So the flexibility to just add modules and scale up the capacity of memory to bring that. So the whole concept of in-memory databases basically bringing your online, your transaction processing, and your data analytics processing together. So you can then do this in real time. So instead of your data going to a data warehouse and looking at how the business was operating days or weeks or months ago, I can see how it's acting right now with the latest updates to transact. So this is important. You mentioned two different things. Number one is you mentioned that you can envision or three things. You can start using modern technology immediately on an extremely modern platform. Number two, you can grow this and scale this as needs follow because HANA in-memory is not going to have the same scaling limitations that Oracle on a bunch of spinning disks had. But you still have the flexibility to learn and then very, very importantly, you can start adding new function, including automation, because now you can put the analytics and the transaction processing together, close that loop so that you can bring transactions, analytics, boom, into a piece of automation and scale that in unprecedented ways. So that's kind of three things that the business can now think about. If I got that right? Yeah, no, that's exactly right. And so it just, it lets people really understand how their business is operating in real time, look for trends, look for new signatures in how the business is operating so they can basically build on their success and basically having this sort of technology gives them basically a competitive advantage over their competitors. So they could basically out-compute to out-compete to get ahead of the competition. But it also presumably leads to new kinds of efficiencies because you can converge, I converge word that we've heard so much, you can not just converge the hardware and not just converge the system software and management, but you can now increasingly converge tasks and bring those tasks in the system but also at a business level down onto the same platform. Exactly, and so the moving to in memory is really about bringing real time to the problem instead of sort of batch mode processing, you bring in the real time aspects and humans were interactive, we like to ask a question, get an answer, get onto the next question in real time. That's when processes move from sort of batch mode to real time, you just get a step change in the innovation that can occur. So we think with this foundation we're really enabling the industry to step forward. So let's create a practical example here. Let's apply this platform to a sizable system that's looking at customer behavior patterns. And then let's imagine how we can take the e-commerce systems that's actually handling order, bill, remediate, fulfillment, all those other things. We can bring those two things together not just in a way that might work if we have someone online for five minutes, but right now, is that kind of one of those examples that we're looking at? Absolutely, you can basically, you know, you have a history of the customers you're working with. You know, in retail, when you go in a store the store will know your history of transactions with them. They can decide if they want to offer you real-time discounts on particular items. They'll also be taking in other data, you know, weather conditions to drive their business. You know, if suddenly there's going to be a heat wave, you know, I want more ice cream in the store or it's going to be freezing next week I'm going to order in more coats and mittens for everyone to buy. So by taking in, you know, lots of transactional data not just the actual business transaction but environmental data, you can just exhilarate your ability to provide consumers with the things they will need. Okay, so I remember when you guys launched Apollo. Antonio Neary was running the server division he might have had networking too and he did like a little reveal on the floor. So Antonio was actually in the house over there and you can see him next door. And there was an astronaut at the reveal we covered it on the cube. And so he's always been very, you know, focused on this part of the business where the high performance computing and obviously the machine has been a huge project. So how has the leadership been? You know, we got a lot of, like you said, skeptics early on said, you're crazy. What was the conversation like with Meg and Antonio? Were they continuously supportive? Were they sometimes skeptical too? What was that like? So if you think about the total amount of effort we have put in the machine program and truly speaking, that kind of effort would not be possible if the senior leadership was not behind us inside this company, right? A large fraction of us in HP labs were working on it and it was not just a labs project it was a project where our business partners were working on it. We brought together engineering teams from the business groups who understood how products were put together. We had software people working with us who were working inside the business. We had researchers from labs working with it. We had supply chain partners working with us inside this project. And a project of this scale and scope does not succeed if it's a handful of researchers doing this work. So we had enormous support from the business side and from our leadership team. So I give enormous credit to our leadership team to allow us to do this because it's an industry thing. It was not just a H Hewlett Packard enterprise thing. At the same time, with this kind of investment there is clearly an expectation that we will make it real. And it's taken us three years to go from, here is a vague idea from some group of crazy people in labs to something which actually works and is real. And frankly the conversation in the last six months have been okay, so how do we actually take it to customers? And that's where the partnership with Mike and his team has come in so valuable because at this point in time we have a shared vision of where we need to take the thing. We have something where we can onboard customers right now. We have something where frankly when I'm working on the examples we were talking about earlier today, not everybody can afford a 16 socket giant machine. The Superdome Flex on the other hand allows my customer or anybody who's playing with an application to start small, something that is reasonably affordable, try their applications out. And if their application is working, they have the ability to scale up, right? And this is what makes the Superdome Flex such a nice environment to work in for the kinds of applications I'm worrying about because it takes something which, when we had started this program, we said, people ask us when will the machine product be? And from day one we have said the machine product will be something that might become available to you in some form or another by the end of the decade. Well, I'm making it, certainly with Mike, I think I can make it happen right now and it's not quite the end of the decade, right? So I think that's what excites me about this partnership we have with the Superdome Flex team, the fact that they had a same vision and the same aspirations that we do. It's a platform that allows my current customers with their current applications, like Mike described within the context of, say, SAP HANA, a scalable platform they can operate at now, but it's also something that allows them to involve towards the future and start putting new applications that they haven't even thought about today, that those were the kinds of applications we were talking about, makes it possible for them to move into this journey today. So what is the availability of Superdome Flex? Can I buy it today or? You can buy it today, yeah. Actually, I had the pleasure of installing the first early access system in the UK last week. We've been delivering large memory platforms to Stephen Hawking's team at Cambridge University for the last 20 years because they really like the in-memory capability to allow them, as they say, to be scientists, not computer scientists in working through their algorithms and data. So, yeah, it's ready for sale today. What's going on with Hawking's team? I don't know if this was fake news or not, but I saw something come across that said, he says the world's going to blow up in 600 years. I said, uh-oh, what's Hawking got going now? That's got to be fun working with those guys. Yeah, no, it's been fun working with that team, but actually what I would say in following up on Sharad's comment was, it's been really fun this last year because I'd sort of been following the machine from outside when the announcements were made a couple of years ago. And so, immediately when the acquisition closed, I was like, tell me about the software you've been developing, tell me about the photonics and all these technologies because boy, I can now accelerate where I want to go with the technology we've been developing. So, Superdome Flex really is the first step on the path. It's a better product than either company could have delivered on their own. And now, over time, we can integrate other learnings and technologies from the machine research program. So, it's a really exciting time. Excellent, I always loved the SGI acquisition. Thought it made a lot of sense. Great brand, kind of putting SGI back in the map in a lot of ways. But gentlemen, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. Thank you, okay. Appreciate you seeing it. Thank you. Thanks for coming on. All right, keep it right there, everybody. We'll be back with our next guest right after this short break. This is theCUBE live from HPE Discover Madrid. Be right back.


The purpose of which is to review some of the documentation, both that's been released by different entities at the State of Vermont, but also some of the work that the WCSU boards have done internally, kind of analyzing and assessing some pieces of that. And so the purpose really is just to kind of go through the documents. And if people have questions or are confused by anything or want more information, we can try to address that. And if there are questions, we can take note of those and do what we can to get it.  Yeah, I know a lot of people can be a little closer together. Yeah, I mean, you can pull people and chairs in and kind of around. Maybe the mic's not even necessary. I don't know. The acoustics in here are going to be a little challenging. The mic is necessary for some kind of interference with the sound. The mic is necessary for some kind of interference with the sound. So, if you can open to your... I was going to do something with draft articles and I... What I went through is I think the place to start with the draft articles is to actually look at the last few pages of them. Because I think there's a good way if there's an index. There's a couple of things I would point out to you. In... There's a listing of all the articles on pages two and three. But really, if you go to the end of them... On pages... Starting on page 18. And they start to list the articles by the ones that... And remember, this is a draft. And it was a proposal to the state board on what could be... What they're proposing to the state board. They may change this. But it was the first draft looking at it. They looked at which articles by looking across all the statutes in Vermont, they felt that could be amended. They, the state board, they could do with this draft article. They're the ones that will set up draft articles for those districts that must merge. That they determine to merge. So, in doing that, there's kind of like four buckets. There's a bucket of articles that cannot be amended. There's a bucket of articles that can be offended by the voters across all the towns. So, it's like if you were thinking U32 vote, when we... Both the budget for U32 is a cold vehicle and a vote. There's a third bucket of articles that can be amended if approved by the voters in each of the towns. That's a third bucket. So, it's like you would have to have a pass in each... And the votes counted by each town. So, East Montclair, Berlin, Middlesex, et cetera, would have to get a pass without having to pass all five towns. And then there's a bucket of articles that can be amended by the new board once the new board is in place. There's also... So, if you wanted to look at that, those are listed by page 118 and page 19. On page 20 is a process for amending the articles of agreement after the data merger plus 90 days. That can be done by the voters. And then there's a very important time on page 21 through 23 that kind of outlays the process in the articles of moving from the current board structure to the new merged board structure. I can go through that and take Matthew, but... And then I would take questions. One of the things I did for myself, like three or four weeks when it first came out, is I took each article and you'll see with my highlighter, I kind of put by each one, even though it was represented in the fine print, which ones could be amended, which ones could. You could see how I have, like, a no or can't be amended at all. The voters, voters have accounts. Sometimes I have one like here, article 11, that says voters one year later, which is the structure of the board. That was my way to start this out. Maybe people need a few minutes just to look over those in the box pages. Yeah, sure. And I guess I'd like to also start with the fact of a standard. I'm not sure in what extent the folks here either on the board or who are joining us today even know what these are or had a chance to look at them ever before. I just want to make a couple of points about them. So these were released roughly a month ago, I think. Or so. And again, they are draft. So they're not final. They could be changed or amended or redone by the state board in some way. But this is what they released. It's sort of the current draft that they're working with. It seems like the agency of education has had a fair amount of input and responsibility for drafting these. The second thing is just to reiterate for everyone is that these draft default articles of agreement are the ones that would be imposed in the event that the state board of education mandates or requires a merger. So it's possible that, I know, people will also have a feeling of some concern during degrees of feeling about the state-wide plan and the likelihood or not that it's important to realize that these articles are contingent. Sean, are you bent? Yeah. That's good. So yeah, I think it'd be great to start with the timeline just so that people are aware of the speed with which the state board of these divisions these many steps unfolding once this plan is issued. And since I did a summary, I'm happy to take a stab at the answers. So the state board is required to pursue its plan by November 30th, but it's permitted to do so before, which is important to realize because there are a lot of dates, deadlines, and steps that come after the board issuing its state-wide plan at specific intervals of time. So board issues are planned on November 1st and 7th of November 30th. We need to all those dates and steps to kind of move up. The initial sort of triggering event is the issuance of this statewide plan. If a merger is required in there, then the superintendent, actually the secretary of education is required to warn an organizational meeting of what they call the document in the newly union district. So let's assume for the sake of the conversation here that the state board mandates a merger of the five towns that comprise Washington Central. Then within 60 days, the secretary of education would be required to convene, actually, an organizational meeting of all voters from across that new district that they're creating. So voters from all five towns would be eligible to participate in an organizational meeting. That meeting, rather, has to be held within 60 days of the statewide planning issue and it has to be warned at least 30 days in advance. So I think I'm voting my summary of the plan as issued on November 30th. They warned the meeting on December 1st. The earliest can be held is December 31st. And probably the latest can be held is roughly January 29th. Depending on how you count 60 days. And it would have to be warned 30 days prior to that December 30th or so. That meeting, at which the secretary of education or his designee would call the meeting to order. And then there are a series of things that voters at that meeting would be required to vote on from the board. That would be like a town meeting, essentially. And I can list off all the things, but essentially it's are we going to vote on board members by Australian ballot? What's going to be the date of our meeting? There's a long list of things. Most of them are procedural or sort of basic. They also swear in the traditional draft depot articles and vision, a traditional board which would be comprised of or comprised of either of these. The chair and clerk of each forming district, each district that's being merged into the new union district is called the forming district. And the chair and clerk of each of those districts as of July 1st, 2018 would automatically be appointed to that board. And so we have a list in our packet today, the folks who are the chairs and the clerks as of July 1st of this year, the 6th of this year. The traditional board basically operates as a board with new union district as a special duties. It has to prepare a draft budget for the next school year. It has to warn and hold a special town meeting to members of what will be the new board of the union district going forward. It's all fun town. It has all central school districts in Washington Central. Voters from close would be warned to come to that meeting. So it could be potentially quite a crowd. That's the piece of whether you're going to do things in Australia about if you want to look at the details that Matthew's explaining this right now you'll be in article 8 and article 9. So it would be a kin to something similar for U32 with grade 7 to all the right counter district. Our annual meeting for U32 happens on town union. So what happens is that I just want to say that first meeting at the board of the union specifically says this is wrong. Well that will happen later but at that meeting there will be no distinction about where voters are from as long as they are from within Washington Central S.U. That sounds better. Yes. That's right. Yes, although and again I didn't get ahead. Do we know something? It's just I used to work where they just talked about it. I'm assuming that the 6 districts that currently make up Washington Central will be designated as warning districts. So that's all 5 K through 6 elementary school districts plus the U32 school districts. So there will be 12 members on the traditional board that chair and declare each of those. Pretty quickly there's a process that's laid out It's a different constitution when you get to the new board. So what will happen at that point is that Again, assuming that no other school districts outside of Washington Central are mandated to join with us which is an open question. Let's assume it's the 5 towns then the board of the union district at first would be comprised of 10 members 2 from each town and each town would nominate by petition candidates that would then be all assembled together on one ballot and the voters of the entire district across all 5 towns would vote on each again. The question is representative representative Matthew, I'm not sure this answerable question What's answerable is that there has to be 2 residents from each town they're voted on all by all the voters in all 5 towns That's illegal I can't say that they're representative all I can say is that they're a member on the board from that town Okay, so we can continue equal representation No, I don't think so There won't be equal representation in the end in the end in the end Okay, I misunderstood that So the division in here is the new union district would have 2 members from each town It will still represent 2 from each town So Is that right? 2 from each town Yes Although they must be elected by the voters of the entire district Does that make sense? So Matthew, just to clarify He's coming with us Thanks Sorry, just to clarify When you asked earlier about whether these representatives would be representing each town that would, at least my understanding is not be the case They're representing the whole out large district I understand that they have their town at heart So they're going to work on their town That's not the idea Perhaps, yeah I would expect that to be the case but it probably depends on their That's why Bill is saying it's hard That's why I'm asking the answer It's up to the individual to see 2 representatives from each town Yes That's not your question So the data isn't specified for electing those members but the draft article suggests that might be on town any issues have any collection on the large but it requires pretty speedy action on the part of calling the original municipal board having as many meetings as together if that is possible Once the new board has its first meeting the transitional board dissolves as the last official act a requirement is to present its draft school budget So there is one other time requirement As Bill mentioned earlier there are some articles that can be amended by the voters of the new union district before they take effect So that meeting has to take place within 90 days of the statewide planning as you said that happens very very fast I believe the transitional board is required to be responsible for warnings of that meeting and there would have to be some process by which I suppose people indicated whether or not they want it So I've been trying to catch up on that Matthew and Scott and Scott Lord stopped me if I go somewhere where she is I would say I'm the expert on this but I would read everything there is here It looks like that you put together a committee and it can be or it can be it doesn't have to be a transitional board but it can be a committee and you can warn them after 90 days if you have adjustments to the articles as long as they don't need they're already required and the voters can amend and where I got that was from watching the state board meeting and Don Russo Savage explaining this to the state board last week I do remember the mention that's why I'm looking at Scott I just watched it on the video today So the last the last thing that sort of is more required in here is that the new board would then have to call another special meeting on the New Union District to have a vote on a vote school and there are some timing issues all there again I believe they said May 5th we're trying to get everything up by May 1st May 1st night but you're right, it's very tight it's 14 days after the district meeting the new board the new board comes together to adopt a budget proposed to the electorate then we need 30 days of warning 30 days of warning and all that but the idea is that our budget numbers as well as the budget numbers of every school in the state has to be reported to the state so that they can compile the ball together and use them for calculating tax rates it's a rather I want to use the word extraordinary but it's an ambitious timeline and set of things to kind of have to contemplate so that's that timeline I guess I wanted to very quickly go over each of the articles and just there's 14 of others to mention what they are, what topic they cover and also what the agency recommended in some cases the agency or the state board has said categorically this article either can or can't be amended by this entity or that entity there are other cases where it says I think it's the secretary of agency suggests, but I have any questions about the time yeah on the institutional board I have this idea can we reorganize I think it's an awesome question I have not found any provision in this document for that situation I have not either I see if there's someone that can serve on the transition it's been the clerk or the chair it's been pretty tight that it says it's been the clerk or the chair as of July 1st, 2018 is someone resigned or is it able to serve or there's no contingency to that it's not that this is proposed rules the state board the state board has the authority on this that may be something we want to give feedback one thing that I might just point out is that it looks as though we're operating in parallel universes for indeterminate periods of time in which in one universe we continue as we are in the other universe we're emerged and we have to somehow prepare for both in one universe some of us don't exist whereas in the other virtual universe there is a specific group so it's going to be hard to work through it's got to be an old definition for that so when other murders have happened the boards as they're constituted now we need to keep operating past June 30, 2019 because the board that's in existence right now is responsible for the budget of FY19 our current school leader if there were to something come up where the board need to come to a hearing whether it be student or parent or otherwise related the current boards would have the authority for this year the boards have if there is a new boardage board why that has to operate and this is something we're talking about later on in the agenda and mom's planning even more there usually about now this time of year we're already planning for the next fiscal year and so the boards help us with that there's a lot of this going on internally but the boards are helping with direction and priorities and things like that so I've already started to deal with discussions as you all know with all the boards and the audience and I'll talk more about that I hope that helps yeah, thank you great, so just very quickly I'll run through the articles here so article 1 is the creation of the new district it specifies who the forming districts are about the legal name of the new district which students it's responsible there are three parts to this article one is specifying who are the forming districts that cannot be amended by the school board of voters so once that's handed down by the state board if he's drafted it was going to affect they're saying that won't be able to be the name can be amended by the school board who the entity educates in this set as being the students presiding towns maybe let's say voters can amend that article 2 has to do with the system operates under our tradition two specific years two years after the consolidation would happen this article can only be amended by the voters it specifies there's a number of articles in here that specify that really nothing should change in the two years after the consolidation we should continue to operate the same grades the buildings the school that we have should continue to serve the same grades no buildings can close so at least for the first two years the motion is that kind of committed that paragraph cannot be amended by the board of voters because it's the goal for the implementation of the requirements of Act 26 in Mexico and then I look at the first page draft default articles for consideration by the state board have these draft articles gone through rulemaking because I'm just wondering where does the state board get the authority to tell a local school district that can or cannot amend articles do you know any of the background of that at all at this point Mike I know it's actually specified in law Act 46 and 49 that this is one of the responsibilities of the state board of education is to publish these draft default articles of agreement so that's why they're doing it I think that's why they feel they have the authority to do it whether their legal interpretations are correct or not or whether they're these are can be questioned Mike I was at the state board meeting in June when the presentation was made and apparently the doctrine that they're basing this authority on is that towns and school districts are creatures of the state and the way that's being understood is that the state body given the authority to do something that's Matthew was saying it's in the law so the rulemaking process I'm not aware of the I don't think they have the authority to do the rulemaking process they are going to be sold I asked you about the state body standards it's just why you're good at mistakes some of it goes from state law and their interpretation I cited statutes that say because of this it's not limited to do that but again whether you accept that interpretation I just would like to how many voting members are here do you have a voting number as you look at it you feel good to work trying not to distract article 3 deals with attendance restructuring great configurations and the larger part of this is that things should change in two years this is an article that can be amended only by the voters in each number town and cannot be amended by the school and I guess I do have a question about in this question there are some places where they say that an article can be amended only by the voters in each number town but there's no provision in this document no I think there are other people if you have time to go to the last hour of the state board meeting last Wednesday I got a lot out of watching Don Russo Savage and kind of like what Michael was talking about there's analysis here there's suggestions to the state board and some of these things would like each member or all members she's done for the state board and I know it's not just Sheriff because I know there are no other attorneys in the state and sometimes and she said that sometimes we will recommend each member town you know the statue doesn't say it needs to be that tiny so they're trying to think about taking it into account especially something around school closure school reconfiguration of rate changes I actually remember talking about this article saying you know we're thinking you should make it more stringent that's our suggestions here on the that's the difference we should chow and suggest as you asked earlier Matthew there are recommendations from the agency personnel to the state board to think about making some things harder to do okay I'm going to try to run through these as quick as we can because I do want to talk about death and death submission just everyone so article 4 school buildings again the article specifies that no buildings can be closed for two years only in Salvation no school can be closed without an affirmative vote of the electorate of the new article 5 deals with finances and a large part of it deals with rust and deadness and capital debts article 6 is we own a personal property that deals with transfer of property to the new union district saying future sale of property to the town which is located so personalizes no later than June 30th the former district shall convey to the new district its assets of property and so on including the building contents for subsequent sale if the buildings are closed for sale ever or schools are closed at any point because they're kind of brighter for sure than usual so the asset has to be made available to the town to purchase I believe for $1 we've researched fees my name is John Ray I'm a Calis select board we've researched the deeds the Calis elementary school the town of Calis owns our elementary school district is owned by the town and so for the district to convey to the new union district where they're calling us the town would first have to convey it to the union district and right now our select board has been pretty clear we are not conveying any town property particularly for a dollar to anybody let alone be forced into doing such a an act by the state so that's why I that's at least one battle that's going to happen okay there's also a provision as we do in the school district so the building setting and for example in this case the article 7 is transportation employees and contracts this one cannot be amended by school board of voters there's just some provisions in here the contracts have to be in place or not in place how they should be and then to be negotiated according to statute article 8 deals with the organization meeting of the union district which we were referring to earlier the first meeting would take place after state-wide transit issue here's the list of business to be transacted and the last phrase of that first paragraph bill is where it says all those who conduct it I agree it's when you go to get to the new board I'm talking about the organizational meeting of the union district that is contemplated in article 8 which involves the electorate that's a public meeting in which the electorate is warned and invited to attend and then there's four votes basically in every one of these issues that's listed here okay so we're going to call the WCS new board to order and I think it's 5-11 we'll give our meeting a promise swearing in the transitional board electing officers adopting progress or other rules of order determine the date of the first meeting in the union district determine whether votes on the budget and all public questions should be by us running a ballot determine whether the life score of the business running a ballot determine what kind of it's a long list of things some of them are more consequential than others some of them are fairly straightforward things to do every year article 9 gives a transitional board we already covered that pretty well that one can't be amended by the school board voters do union district board school directors we discussed and had a question I guess bill for everyone about the voters of the district vote on all 10 school board members yeah they say it's across all 5 towns they vote on as many people who want to run they must select 2 from each town so we get a 20 candidates it's a vote for not more than 10 and make sure that you vote for 2 from each town so the example would be in Worcester there might be 5 people running even select 2 from Worcester and there might only be 1 running from Berlin and you still have to select 2 from Worcester and 2 from Berlin and we won't see a vacant forever right there is a weird part of this I don't understand it's in section C part 3 paragraph 3 countable ballots it's not clear anyhow I may need to just read this more carefully but it's not clear to me I guess it must be on the ballot that indicates article 11 of the presentation which we've already discussed the voters can later amend that they want to have 13 board members and they want to be from different places they can make that change later on I assume from all the discussion that you are assuming that all the towns are going to vote to become one school district that does not happen the vote at least according to the law a vote of the towns to join the new district is not required the law gives the state board of education the authority to force that merger on us article 12 commencing operations that's the date which is July 1st 2019 article 13 dissolution forming districts which basically says the forming districts or the existing districts would cease to operate on July 1st except for the purposes of article 14 deals with who can amend what article article 5 which deals with debt indebtedness which has obviously been a key issue for our situation and it implies that it cannot be amended voters in the board cannot amend that article in section A indebtedness leads that the new union district should assume all indebtedness that may exist on June 30th 2019 including both principal and interest of the forming districts and so the draft is adopted so we have the executive committee of the WCSE that has done a little bit of examination of this question Scott Thompson who's been leading our thought process on debt for quite some time wrote a two-page options paper we have our attorney weigh in on the whole question of indebtedness and the consolidation of debt and do we have any means or cause for disputing the state's authority to do this and so I'm going to ask Scott to give an overview of what you did and what you read in the Paul's letter and what your current opinion is Thanks as Matthew said I've been chasing my tail on this issue for three years now and what we had hoped was that the legislature and its 2017 tax to us sort of miscellaneous tax changes just act 73 of 2017 but they kind of floated us an emergency parachute that would have allowed us to essentially move assets and liabilities or assets or liabilities from the school districts to the towns and in that way be able to come up with sort of mechanisms for taking care of the disparities in debt that we enter into a merger with those disparities are pretty substantial and certain towns are sort of loser towns and one town is a big winner town but the idea is that for equity just for being able to go into a cooperative situation without people feeling that they've been shafted or feeling bad because they're profiting from having left off their debt obligations on somebody else none of that is good for upfront cooperation so back to this emergency parachute thing Matthew mentioned that the two-page paper in which I had options for dealing with the debt was sent to farmed out to our attorneys and the response was very thoughtful in my opinion understandable to me as a lay person which I was very grateful for and rather discouraging at the same time because his answer was sure basically you have half a marriage here you don't have the whole thing you have the authorization for school districts to take an action but you don't have the complimentary authorization for towns to pick up their part so it's kind of the sound of one hand clapping problem so as a result of three years of chasing my tail I essentially come to the conclusion that there really is no solution short of a pretty significant rewriting of the law that would allow our debt problem to be solved in a merger scenario so that's basically where I am after all of this there are comments on that and I know that there's a way on the school board a lot of deliberations respect our time and all of the different items that we might want to cover but if you have time to just talk about this in a little more depth I read everything but I can't say that I feel like I really understand all of it as well as I'd like to so your short and sweet assessment of where we are is really helpful probably the most helpful take away but if there is time to hear more from you about to just go through some of this there's a little bit more detail that would be great and if there's not time that's okay I think we have about seven to ten minutes before I think we should pull this to a close we can call the board meeting to word by 30 if you're willing to nobody's ever asked me to talk more about debt before usually it's just the opposite um Chinese if there's anything special that you're interested in or any of anybody here just so that I don't learn about things that are interesting but nobody else from Paul Scott I think there's a step back okay that's really important and Michael kind of asked the question earlier and I'm going to use a technical legal term which is called Dylan's Rule and that's a really important thing for whatever we want to talk about here with articles in Act 46 and Vermont is a Dylan rule state I won't quote you the number because I don't think I have it right but I know it's over 40 in the nation are where lovelies don't get expressed they can't assume they have power to do things they need to be expressly given to the mother state legislation as something was set down back in the 18th or early 19th century I don't know when Michael maybe you know when Dylan's Rule came about but it really is the key not just the debt but everything else so maybe you can talk more about that I don't know probably to a good job they're explaining it to people like us school board members yeah the basic problem is that any authority as I understand it I submit to the court no matter any authority that we have as a school board whether the town has municipality it has to be granted by the legislature and only specific powers can be exercised so the problem with the solution that the legislature tried to give us in 2017 is that it was only half of the solution it was only the school district half without providing the the flip side of that the town half of the powers that would have been necessary in order to make the solution work there's another thing in Paul's letter about whether he was just sort of speculating wondering if if East Montpelier were to be which is sort of the the big debtor town among elementary schools if East Montpelier were to be left out of a merger in a four town merger instead what would that do and it would help slightly instead of three million burden on western Calis in this manner going for the burden roughly on western Calis from Berlin and Little Sex so breaking out of East Montpelier as a standalone doesn't really address the fundamental problem in fact I don't think getting back to my bottom line I don't think anything addresses the fundamental problem and it's just my I'm very slow on the uptake but the debt problem follows instantaneously from our additional conditions and the definition of merger in Vermont law which is part of it that's one district budget a single level of education spending would be equal education tax it's just essentially what this boils down to I mean a very plain English the intent of this law was to bring more equity when in fact what it's doing is it's actually taking at the expense of the poor towns in the district is reallocating the resources to the wealthiest and to even put salt in the wound Calis which capital funds so that we don't take debt we say that money now goes to the merge union so that doesn't sit well with me there's one thing with this act but this has been shoved down our throats and I think I don't think the battle is over yet if it's forced on it's applied by the state I'm going to ask because we specifically told folks that if you weren't going to opine or I hear you in respect of your saying you can't wait to hear more of it in the next meetings but for this one it's just trying to keep it clear I mean that's what this is it's a reallocation of resources in a bad way for at least 17 years this does not go away if there's this carriage force are there any other reasons? there's someone over there just following as we all go forward here and that equally so our supreme court has said for decades that state agencies like the agency of education state board of education agency of transportation lifetime have no inherent authority the state board only has the authority that the legislature gives it so when you look at the draft articles that it says it cannot be amended the red flag goes out of my head and it's like in no respect according to who is it not cannot be amended so I think we need to always be asking that question oh what's the state? there's a big difference between the legislature and state agencies including the agency of education and the board of education if they have no inherent authority it doesn't say it looking at these articles again it's very important I think to be sure where's this directive coming from what's the legal authority for it these just don't assume it's the state board of education they must have inherent authority if they can do what they can do that is beyond correct thank you okay thank you are there any other questions? we're going to break that's when they need it okay if you click use the word recess because I want to continue you have 24 hours that's recess it's hard


Today we will show you how to run an MD5 checksum to check the integrity of your research files using MD5 Summer. To begin you will need to download and install MD5 Summer onto your Windows computer. Here I have two test files. If we open them we can see that they contain information. Once we open MD5 Summer we are greeted with the following screen. First we need to identify where the files are located on the computer. Then we need to select the create sums option and select the files we wish to check sums for. Click the add button and then OK. Next we are prompted to save a file with the MD5 checksums in. If this is successful a green circle will appear by the file name in MD5 Summer as seen here. This window can now be closed. To verify the sums we need to use the verify sums option. We then select the checksums to be checked and as we can see the files match. Again we can now close the window. However for this example I will now go back to the original file and change some of the data within it. Here I will change one of the Bs for AC and save the file. Now when we run MD5 checksum again we can click verify the sums. As you can see the program has identified that there is an error and a difference between the two files. This concludes our tutorial on checking the integrity of your research files using MD5 checksums. Thank you for watching.


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This is the Cavalcade of America, starring Shirley Booth and Eddie Albert. This is Eddie Albert. And this is Shirley Booth. And this is the Freedom Train. Now these three play the main parts on our Cavalcade tonight, a fantasy called the man who took the Freedom Train. But before we begin, here's Bill Hamilton of the DuPont Company. Good evening. Here's something to your advantage to know before you buy rainwear or sportswear for yourself or for the children. There are two kinds of water repellents, the renewable type and the durable type. Renewable water repellents usually come out when garments are washed or cleaned, and so must be replaced if the garment is to repel water. A durable water repellent, like DuPont ZLAN, continues to give weather protection through many washings or cleanings. So keep your weather eye open for the ZLAN tag on rainwear and on sportswear. ZLAN, spelled Z-E-L-A-N, is a durable water repellent and is one of the DuPont Company's better things for better living through chemistry. An original radio play, the man who took the Freedom Train, starring Eddie Albert and Shirley Booth on the DuPont Cavalcade of America. Specialty company. I'll connect you. Brooklyn Specialty Company. No, I'm sorry. She's out of town. You're welcome. Hey, here's the pestles you wanted, Shirley. Oh, thanks, Pete. Where's Eddie? Where else? At the water cooler, taking his bike carbonate. Again? Take my board a minute, will ya, Pete? Oh, I got stuff to do. You can read Captain Midnight just as well as the switchboard as anyplace. Brooklyn Specialty Company. Now this ain't the switchboard girl. Well, if you feel so bad, why don't you see a doctor? I did yesterday. Oh, what'd he say? He says I should get more sleep. That's what I've been telling ya. How can I sleep when I'm so nervous? Well, did the doctor say what made you nervous? No. It's because I don't get enough sleep. You got what they call a vicious circle. Well, it ain't funny. He gave me some pills, but I know they won't help. Well, Eddie, if you just stop lying so about everything... How can I help it? Don't you read the papers? Strikes all over the country, cost of livens, going up a depression's coming. Some folks say there'd be another war any minute. And I'll lie and escape from the zoo. Did he bite anybody? No. But when they were catching him, a policeman shot another policeman. Oh, Eddie, you know what I think's wrong with you. What? You're just not happy in your job here, that's all. I'm lucky to have any job. Employment's getting worse and worse. Oh, but you'll never be happy as a bookkeeper, Eddie. Why don't you stop that restaurant business like you and your brother playing? Well, this is no time to go into any business. Well, you and John used to think so. Well, during the war it was different. It seemed like as soon as it was over, things were going to be great. And look at them. Well, but Eddie, that restaurant John found in California would be a gold mine. I know it would. I could tell from the pictures he sent. And with what we got saved up, we could swing it. Wouldn't you love that? Ah, it's silly even to think about it. We got broke in no time. John didn't think so. Well, if John was here, maybe I'd feel different. But he isn't. So I'm just going to hang on to this little job right here. It's not much, but it pays there every week. Eddie, let's get married. Now? Right away. And live on what? Well, we can make enough between us and then there's some saved up. Suppose I get sick? What is a baby? Well, we just get along as best we can. Other people do? Well, I'm not going to let us take the chance. Not in these times. Oh, but Eddie, if we wait until we save enough on what we're making now, it's going to be ages before we get married. Look, it's not my fault. Times are so uncertain.  You think you were the only person in the world who had any worries? Well, if you think I'm going to sit around and wait for peace on Earth and no more war and no more depression and inflation and deflation and whatnot, just so you can sleep night, you're mistaken. Oh, Shirley. Well, I don't want to marry anybody with that much patience. Listen to me a second. Will you, Shirley? I'm sorry. I got to get back to my boy. Hey, look, should we have lunch together? I- I'm sorry. I've got plans, Eddie. Especially company. Just a minute. Hey, where's Shirley, Pete? Uh-oh, it's her lunchtime. I know that, but did she say where she was going to eat? Well, she ain't. She and some of the girls went down to the station to see the Freedom Train. Mr. Walsh, give them a little extra time. The Freedom Train, huh? Yeah, that's that red, white, and blue job with all the history stuff on board. Well, have you seen it? Well, certainly. Patriotic, huh? Well, not only that. It's free. Please keep your places in the line. So have you seen a blonde girl in a blue dress? Kind of pretty girl? They're all pretty, mister. She was with some other... Oh, there she is up in the front of the line. Thanks very much. Excuse me, will you? Pardon me. Can I get through here? Hey, who are you moving in ahead of? Sorry, Sunny, but I have to see this young lady. Hello, Shirley. Hello, Eddie. Do you come to see the Freedom Train? No, I'm just looking for you. Oh, really? Say, I'm sorry about that fight. You didn't mean what you said, did you? Yes, I did, Eddie. Well, get forward in the line, please. Well, Shirley, can we talk it over? Get forward, please. Come on, we can go on the train now. Do you want to come with me? Yeah, I ain't got the time. I'm due back at the office. Oh, come on, Eddie. You ought to see it. Well, all right, for a minute or two, maybe. Oh, it's beautiful. It's like a church.  I already have. Oh, look at him. Here's a letter from Christopher Columbus. Yeah? In Latin, too. And here's Jefferson, rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, it says there. Hey, come on, we haven't got much time. You know, Eddie, Columbus probably had his troubles, too. Oh, and here's the Mayflower Compact. In the name of God, amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dreaded sovereign. What's a compact? Oh, an agreement. Oh, and look at this letter from George Washington. Didn't he write nice? I really shouldn't be away from the office so long.  Oh, you just imagine that, Eddie. No, no, no. Look, here's a staff bangle banner. Imagine them writing all those phrases. Yeah.  And here's the Gettysburg address, Eddie. Oh, yeah, yeah, I see. Uh-huh. I guess they had bad times then.  Well, you're certainly not going without seeing the Iwo Jima flag. The Iwo J- Have they got that here? Sure, it's in the next car. Come on. Is that the flag we saw on the newsreel for the five Marines putting it up? Yeah. Hey, I'll bet John was right in there with him. Yeah. Eddie. What, Shirley? I wish you'd think over the things John told you when you saw him last. You mean about the restaurant? About everything, Eddie. Especially about having faith in the future. John had faith in the future, didn't he? Look at him now. In a grave in Iwo Jima. But he believed in something, Eddie. He believed in this country, just like all the men on this train. I don't mean us. Look, and I mean the ones that wrote the papers. Columbus and Washington and Lincoln. Do you think things was easy for them? I don't. I bet Lincoln had as much trouble sleeping as you have. Maybe Washington's stomach bothered him. And for all we know, Columbus was afraid of his boy. Shirley! Shirley! What, Eddie? I thought you'd gone. Gee, that's funny. What is? Where do all the people go? Who? The ones on the train. We're the only ones in the car. Well, that is peculiar. I guess the others are sensitive enough to get back to their offices on time. Yeah, but where are all the soldiers who were guarding the exhibits? I could put the Magna Carta right here in my pocket for all anybody's seeing me. Oh, maybe they're closing early today. Do you feel the floor shaking? Oh, that's just your imagination. Eddie, do you hear what I do? The train's going by. Uh-huh. It's this train going. We're moving. We're moving? Yeah. Oh. What are you going to do, Eddie? Well, I've got to get the conductor to stop the train. What else? A conductor? I can't understand where everyone went. If this is somebody's idea of a practical joke, it's a ghost. Oh, Eddie, they're not going to move the freedom train around just to play a trick on us. I don't care why they're doing it. They don't stop soon. I'm going to lose my job. You probably won't, too. Oh, make them walk or understand. Oh, sure. He'll understand. Why are you late, Fuller? Why all the freedom train ran away with me, sir? Oh, yeah. He'll understand. It does sound kind of ridiculous. Come on. Let's find that conductor. But where? He's probably in the car up ahead. Come on. What's up with that door? Kind of an adventure, ain't it, Eddie? Yeah, if we lose our jobs, it'll be an adventure all right or right. We won't go any further. Go back! Go back! We're not the only ones who are sore. Go back! Go back! We will go on. No! We will go on, I say. That conductor's lost his mind. That's what the trouble is. He don't look like any conductor I ever saw. Look at that funny old-fashioned uniform he's wearing. And that sore. Awesome. All freedom train stuff. That's all. Go back! We've gone on for 80 days or more. 80 days is kind of an exaggeration. Go back! I think they're all nuts, surely. They've all got funny costumes on. They all look like pirates or something. Go back! This is getting kind of silly. Come on, I'll ask him what's going on.  Where's the conductor? What conductor? The one in charge of the train, naturally. I do not fathom your remarks, sir. Well, it's nothing to get fancy about. I just want to go back to where I started. You too. Go back! I found the indies not before. Neither your cries nor the adverse winds of heaven or all the creatures of the deep from it are by my lady. I am not Columbus. Columbus? Eddie, look outside. Hey, where'd all that water come from? I can't figure it out, Eddie. Put the freedom trains on the ocean. The ocean? Yeah, don't look now, Eddie. But I think we're about to discover America. Starring Shirley Booth and Eddie Albert on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by the Defant Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Well, like in his girls, Shirley came to see the freedom train. They expected it, might be interesting, but they didn't expect the train to start off with them. And they certainly didn't expect to discover Columbus on board. We're going into the next car. We'll find the conductor if we don't get this train stopped and get back to the office. Mr. Walsh is going to find her sure. But what about Columbus? Don't talk like that, Shirley. If that was Columbus, we're just out of our minds or something. It was just some freedom train stunt. Well, whoever it was, he was one man standing against a lot of people and somebody ought to have stuck up for him. Suppose it should be Columbus. Suppose he didn't discover America. How would you like that? Oh, come on. Therefore, brethren, it is my opinion we are at your guard and he frowns on our settlement here at Plymouth. No!  Like a country chair. Looks like a meeting of some kind. Couged and denied that through sickness or starvation, the Lord had already taken more than half our number from armies. He must be the pilgrim. Hey, stop talking like that, Shirley. They can't be pilgrims. Well, look at their clothes. And listen to them. Good, brethren, the bitter hardships of the winter will soon be passed. We have come to a strange land to worship God in our own way and will be tightest if we falter so soon in God's service. God would not punish us if he desired we remain here. Brethren, we must return from once we came. Brethren, brethren, let us put the matter to the both then. And whichever course, half most in its favor, shall be pursued. Let those who favor going back raise up their hands and declare themselves. Now let those who will remain in Plymouth raise up their hands. The meetings seem affectionately divided. Brother Bullock had not voted yet. Declare thyself, Brother Bullock. I mean, you're ready.  They're all bombs. Raise up your hand and declare yourself, Brother Bullock. Shall the colony remain or shall it be abandoned? It's none of my business, Mr. All I want is a conductor. Do not avoid the issue, Brother Bullock. Decide. It's none of my business, Athenia. It's none of my business, Brother Bullock. Look, fellas, I've got to find a conductor. Come on, Shirley. That was it all. Nice of you ready. What? Not telling the pilgrims what they should do. I don't know how you feel, Shirley, but I want to get off this train. There's something awful wrong about it. I want to get off. There are too much air conditioning. It feels like it was a way below zero, like with winter or something. Listen to that wind. Yeah, look how dark it is. Maybe we'd better go back, Eddie. No, we've got to find out who's in charge of this train. Come on, there's nothing to be afraid of. Eddie, there's a man up there. Look, he's on his knees. Yeah, maybe he knows what's going on. Well, I don't think we ought to bother him, Eddie. He's praying. He's getting up now. Come on. He's got on a costume, too. Look at the soil. Hey, Jack. Jack? I'm at you, mister. Who's in charge around here? I am, lad. Well, it's about time. I don't want to go home. So do I, lad. In this winter darkness, I almost nightly dream I'm home. All I want when the war is done is to go back there and live out my days farming and sitting in the sun. Besides the blue Potomac. If God is good, I will die there. Where's your home, lad? Brooklyn. There's a saying that home is where the heart is. Yeah, so let's make the arrangements to get us back, huh? What's your name, lad? Eddie Bullock. Do you realize what it would mean for you to stop now? Yeah, it would mean it would only be about two hours late and I wouldn't lose my job. It would mean the loss of our cause, lad. None of us like it here at Valley Forge. We all want to go home. If we don't stay, we'll have no homes to call our own. Look, I've got to get back to the office, Mr. I can't stay. I wish you could, Eddie. We need you, Private Bullock. Valley Forge, huh? I suppose he thinks he's George Washington. Well, Eddie just likes the post it says. But he looks so unhappy. Well, I don't know what he's unhappy about. Mr. Walsh isn't going to fire him. Oh, Eddie, if just one should stop being afraid. Come on, let's try the next car. Excuse me, but this has got a mall beat. You know what I think it is, Eddie? It's a big-covered wagon. Well, I'm charged with a train. Well, my husband's leader is this wagon train. And here now, he's all hunting. I'm Mrs. Jessup. And these four tykes are part of my brood. They're lovely children. Well, how many you got? Oh, we're not married. And traveling together? We're engaged. Well, our preacher man can spice you up like that. Well, Eddie and I are waiting till we have enough money in the bank. Well, all part on me head was $8 and a max. It did pretty good back in Indiana, too. But a big-growing brood needs chances of their own. We think Oregon's the place for it. Oh, this is my boy Enos, my elder. Yes, Enos? What's the trouble with your tongue, son? Speak up. Marv is bad news. Tell me, son. Pa and Ezekiel got separated from the rest of us and some of them Indian devils. Go on, son. Well, we heard the shooting, but it was too late by the time we got there. Pa and Ezek both? Yes, ma. Pa and Ezek both. We got six of them red devils first, ma. That don't help, man. Take the young ones out, will you Enos? Yes, ma. We was wondering, would you still keep on for Oregon? Oregon's where us just have set out for. And Oregon's where we'll come at. Will you join us, strangers? Why don't we, Eddie? In Oregon, we could have our own place and all. Yeah, but gee, that's afar. Well, but Jessus ain't afraid. Well, no, but I'd be giving up a regular job. Oh, and young people need a chance of their own. And Oregon's the place for it. Yes, sir, Oregon's the place. What's she called? Or any major.  We have come. We have come to dedicate. That's better. I wonder if he knows where we're going. Pardon me, Mr. Lincoln. Oh, yes, son. Where does this train go? To Gettysburg. Well, I don't want to go to Gettysburg. Neither do I, son. There are several thousand new graves there. And a lot of people think I am responsible for them. The Civil War wasn't your fault, Mr. Lincoln. A lot of bright, important men tell me I should make peace with the South now. Oh, but you're going to win, Mr. Lincoln. I hope you're right, miss. Pardon me. But what does this train go after Gettysburg? It depends on the engineer, son. Well, let's get on with my speech. I hope somebody likes it. Through the strangest place, sir. 1929, World War II. What I want to know is where is Brooklyn, 1948? Well, let's try the next car. Maybe we can find out something there. It looks like my brother, John. One of my kid brothers threatening to marry him. He looks scared to death. John. John, gee. Gee, it's great to see you. What are you doing here? Oh, this is Uncle Sam's party. At all I know is we're headed for the South Pacific someplace. Don't let him send you to Iwo Jima, John. Where? Iwo Jima. You know, are there any humorines? Well, anyway, don't go there. When Mr. Whiskers asks you anyplace, Eddie, you go. You civilians don't appreciate that. Oh, I wish I was going instead of you. You can't be a marine with a near drum like yours, kid. You're doing your share in a war plan. I still wish it was me. Ed, you've got to stay here and get things set for that restaurant we're going to have. John and Eddie, do you really think we can work it? We can work anything we believe in, kid. Don't forget that. Don't ever forget it. Don't ever forget it. He's gone, Shirley. Yes, Eddie, I know. We've got to stop this train. We can't let John go to Iwo Jima. Come on. Where? Well, if I can't find anybody else, I'll find the engineer. Where's the train? There must be an engineer or somebody. Where is he? Even the freedom train can't run itself. Well, there's nobody here in the train, certainly. There's his license. Eddie, look at the name on the license. Eddie Buck. Eddie, you're the engineer. Me? That's what it says, Eddie. After all, somebody has to run it. Well, maybe I can figure out how to stop it. No, don't stop the train, Eddie. But you want me to let John go to Iwo Jima and be killed? John wants to go. He did go.  If you stop the train, John won't go to Iwo, but neither will the others, or we'll lose the war. Lincoln will never get to Gettysburg and Jesse will get to Oregon. And Washington will freeze forever at Valley Forge. And Columbus won't even discover it. Don't you see, Eddie? Freedom is you and me. You're the boss. You can drive the train any place you want to. You know, Shirley. What, Eddie? Maybe we ought to have that restaurant John and I used to talk about. You and me. It would be perfect, Eddie. I'm not just sure where California is, but we'll find it. Come on, train. Come on. I'm driving the train. You feel all right, Eddie? You feel I do? Hey, where am I? Who am I? On the freedom train. Looking at the Iwo Jima flag. Oh. Oh. I guess the flag set me dreaming. About John? 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