This is a beautiful round 480 x 480 display connected to a QALIA ESP32-S3 and this is our tester bed. So using the RP2040 Pico, I can run a test to program the ESP32, check all the pins, load in the code to draw a graphic and then when it's done it's like yay rainbows. So I just got these coming off the panel and what's neat is that rainbow design I actually had chat GPT right for me so I was like oh I wanted to show like every hue and like I could have done the math to figure out how to make this pop out but it did a great job so always using friendly robots to help with coding. Coming into the shop soon. Hello Lady, what's this? This is me testing out a 2.4 inch TFT feather wing. This is the original version which I had to like basically completely redesign because of chip shortages. Here's the new version prototype green and when I have a board that has feather connectors what I do is I grab all of these feathers here, I've got 32U4s and TINSI and ESP and SAMD21 and AVR and anything, whatever, RP2040 and I plug them in the back and I have one example code that I run on all of them that verifies the touch screen, so that's working yay, verifies they can read an image off the SD card that's these beautiful flowers and also let me see what else it does the SD card for reading the image, it does the touch screen of course it does the TFT and the IRQ for the touch screen as well so all things are tested with all these boards so this is ready to go to the food shop. Hello Lady, what's this? This is a round 4A by 4A display running on the new QALIA ESP32S3 board, the final versions and this is the circuit python code that's running on it and you're like whoa I didn't know circuit python had support well we do now thanks to Jebbler's Intrepid PR that's about to get merged for adding dot clock support this also comes on the heels of adding IDF 5.1 the ESP IDF upgrade which actually really improves the quality of the displays as well so the example I've got running here connects the internet and finds our latitude and longitude by using GUIP and then displays an image of the moon now the image of the moon will eventually be like the moon phase that matches with our location but just to get started I wanted to just have a moon but the color looks much better because we have all 16-bit color no blue wires run circuit python beautifully and no flickering coming soon


Hello everyone myself is Vandana. I am a senior software architect at Micron at Micron. I recently joined Micron I am working on some of the memory management, sorry, I need to be here some of the exciting feature of CXL memory management as such and particularly BPF is some of one of my Topic of interest as such I've done a lot of work on that as such so today I wanted to talk about Securing the Linux kernel Using the BPFS particularly the BPF and the LSM that has been used as such, okay so To talk about myself I have been working on Linux kernel as such like almost 24 years, and I've been working on Linux device drivers kernel subsystems we have systems like Networking and velvet systems as well as security as such, okay, and I'm also like like to Do presentations mentor People new folks that are interested open source Linux kernel as such So today I'll talk about the BPF LSM BFF So basically the agenda is to start with understanding the security. What are the basic security aspects that we look? What are the existing security framework that is there in the Linux kernel? such as the audit framework and Managing framework and then the existing enforcement policies that are driven through the LSM's and how BPF Fits into all of this as such and we look at some of the example demos as such So when we talk of security So the security starts from the very basic like the physical securities locks and all that stuff and then that we do more security starts with other is the securing the use accounts Passwords and file systems That is giving proper file access permissions and authentication process as such Another aspect that comes is the monitoring monitoring the system activities as such and that has been governed by particularly like Monitoring the log files monitoring the user active accounts file system accounts socket network traffic that is there as such and All that things in the Linux kernel has been done through the one of the framework that is there is the colors of Linux audit subsystem as such and Another approach taken to security is enforcement blanks the default Linux security is the discrete access Control that the security enforced through the permissions and capabilities as such but if some More security actual to implement the something called would call as the mandatory access control that can be done through the enforcement and that enforcement is done through the Framework that has been implemented through the LSM as such and some of the examples of the SL Selenix and the other LSM modules that basically Implements the enforcement policies security and smooth policies as such So when you say security aspects like basically what we would look be looking at in the signals or the events are the Activities that is happening or the system as such like the the process that are running they are executing and modifying the Different configuration it might be file configuration or the actual inter internal kernel resources as such and And those activities it might be Very well planned or what is expected it has to do Other than that it could be something not very good as a not very Expected that is some kind of suspicious program or malware that is trying to go in tempo or modify the useful resource as such for those activities has to be monitored or actions has to be taken as such Like someone some some applications trying to do some LD preload as such It might be doing as it is expected to do or it might be trying to load some library that is My compromise your system as such so though all those actions It might be legit or illegit as such so the The counterpart of those actions or events is the mitigation as such if something has been tempered or compromised how that what What appropriate actions would be taken to mitigate those damages as such so some of the things is like white listening means like one of the What is same the aspects of a dynamic kernel dynamic memory loading that is kernel modules so to ensure the integrative this corner modules white less than the kernel modules and If someone is trying to load Some malicious program through the kernel module than what actions should be taken as such also the activities like About the external devices USB devices preventing mounting of USB drivers so and also like If it has been Encountered or it has been known that there is some vulnerabilities in the libraries or in the library or in the binaries that has been deployed on to Various servers as such in the network in that case the mitigation action would be like going and patching all that servers with the corrected Libraries as such before it goes before it more damage happens as such so One way that we looked at is the Monitoring that has been done and in the Linux kernel the framework that is there is the Linux audit framework so Linux Audit framework basically provides a controlled access Protection profile that basically provides collects the information About the events that is happening that might be related to security or non-security events as such And that helps to track the track actions performed on the system to analyze like what is happening on system like It works by listening to the events report events And it does the work of logging them into the file as such and then basically The application that are using that does it on the monitoring and making use of this log audit log Audit subsystem basically they collect this information in the log files and then further processing is done on that On that events that has been collected as such So basically this audit framework helps you to figure out what if something bad is happening as such But in this case of audit framework it Does not provide the actual security additional security as such So if something bad has happened Then based on the logs that you can you get to know that that is bad is bad happening So but the action is not taken as miss as a security engineer What you do based on the logs you will go and update the policies security policies so that for the damage does not happen But your mitigation is not provided. So What do you say? Logging and mitigation. They are considered there. They are happening separately as such the damage has happened And you are trying to you are trying to make the system more secure based on the damage that is there as such So audit audit subsystem might not always be a good option as such. They say also it is like the framework that is part of the current so if New policies has to be added or some changes has to happen then that that that delays the whole of the Mitigation cycle as such So So that's where we look at another Framework that is been provided in the kernel called is the LSM. That is a Linux security Module as such so here in this case the Linux security module Basically, it is used to implement the mandatory access control as such By implementing the security policies and that can be done without modifying the kernel like from the security point of view application white listening has been Proved to be one of the effective ways to medicaid any kind of cyber attacks as such and those mitigations one of the recommended way is considered this LSM Linux security module as such so basically It LSM itself does not provide a security, but it provides a framework as such Whereby you can enforce the security policies and this LSM framework what it does it? It provides a set of hooks Which helps to mediate or various operations in the kernel because the hooks can be added at the various kernel subsystem locations as such and along with the Hooks, there is another security fields that is there Secure field that has been added to To a lot of kernel data structures as such so all that security information can be can be stored on Through this white basically are nothing but a white point is so like if you look at the Task structure, you'll have a security pointer for that and these these white pointers They are basically been used by the security hooks as such So just to give an a summary of this LSM that they are being categorized as a major major LSM's and minor LSM's as such And the example of major LSM is the AC Linux app more as such as You guys might be aware of as such and the minor ones. They are also Provide a particular functionality and they sit on top of the major LSM's as such and here in this case basically The framework It the LSM framing helps you to implement the security policies and It does through initializing the set of the hooks that can be added as such So wherever the security has to be enforced those security Hooks has to be implemented here. This is just it. This is an example and The of the security that is done through the one of the LSM taking an example of Vyama as a LSM as such and most of the code for this LSM resites in the security directory security dot c basically provides the framework the core framework of the LSM as such and the initialization happens with this security in it and Basically what it does it it will go and register the different security hooks for that particular LSM API that I'm just noted on is the Security and hooks as such so we are basically we pass the pointer to the data structure where all the security Hooks are being initialized So this is this area that talked about So here in this case again taking the example for Yama LSM as such So here the hooks that are been defined at the P trace Pre-trace access then peace they control and task-free. So these are the places where this LSM hooks will be Attached as such so based on I actually this there is a whole list of security hooks that can be implemented So if whatever the LSM that has been used it will define all this security hooks and the based on the policies that has to be enforced when that particular system call or particular Colonel code path has to take care of the security this LSM hooks get triggered as such So task repair is basically this is the function and that has been called when the process is terminating as such minute Does the work of releasing all the resources and I saw so at that time Based on the policies if some particular action has to be taken then that has to be implemented as part of the second Parameter that we see that is the function that would call will be get called when the task-free Apia is called as such So for example like a Yama P trace trace me as they These are the hooks for the P trace system call as such So the P trace system fall basically Internally in the pretrace dot see there is P trace me which goes and calls this function security underscore P trace and Internet it goes and called the LSM hook as such. So this is the way The LSM hooks are being called basic the LSM hooks there can be multiple LSM hooks Unable at the time and they are like linked lists They are changing the linked lists as such so whatever the function hooks that are being defined that will get executed one after the other So here just to give you a flow of an open open system call as such So open system call is basically the input parameters open system call goes the file name at the Various more parameters flag as such. So here in this case The system call is dispatched and the path name that is a file name is used to obtain the kernel data structure That is a file. I know that file file data structure and the I know data structure that represent the file that has been opened and If the input parameter that is a file name is correct and the permissions are been set then It will go for the further Processing otherwise it returns the error then then the normal Discrete access that is a discrete access control The security that is the default in external security where file permissions are checked as such So if the application the process was opening the file has the appropriate permissions or not That error checking happens if that succeeds then the if there are the LSM's that are being enabled and The corresponding LSM hooks if they are been defined then those LSM hooks will be called so here in this case like suppose an LSM is defined and there is a Hope for open file open file open event as such so this LSM hook will be called and based on the policies that has been implemented that will be executed and if suppose you have the LSM basically the framework works like Let me show you I have a diagram for that So basically LSM or LSM framework works The set of the hooks that are been defined in the kernel and from the user space those are the policies that has to be defined so the the policies Based on the policies they LSM hopes takes the decision suppose the Alice policy has been defined such that the File open should not happen for a particular a process a particular process or set of pause It should not open the files like in case of a configuration files or network network configuration files like every user will not be given the access as such so Based on the policy if the rule says that the particular user is not allowed to access that file in that case the LSM hook would return an error and then It would return an error and then that that that means that the that Enforcement of policy has executed as such and if that there's no enforcement or that is then the it would return The open system call will execute successfully and it will return the file descriptor Whatever it is that to the application as such But if the policies that have been enforced is checking that it is it has to deny the operation Oh, that's not allow the operation and then in that case particular It will appropriately take an action and return an error as such So that's how the LSM hooks works as such So basically now what we wanted to look at is The the way till now the LSM hooks before this LSM BFFR LSM was LSM framework is part of the Linux kernel. That is They are not implemented even as a kernel module that because it deals with the security It is it is in the in the kernels whatever the kernel Whatever the LSM that are defined and what are the Functionality has support those are been used as such But to cater to the security needs another framework that has been That can be very effectively used is the BPF framework as such So BPF framework can be used to implement the LSM hooks as such So here what we are going to look at is how this BPF framework can be used to implement the LSM and that Uh That is that the this framework got introduced in since 5.7 kernel That is a extended LSM extended BPF functionality. So basically that allows the Security is to design the custom policies Which can be injected into the kernel At a runtime and the the security policies can be changed based on the behavior Or based on the requirement use cases as such it does not has to be fixed as such So those can be implemented through the BPF programs So you can implement the BPF programs as per the security requirements and they can be run They can be executed runtime or modified as in one needed as such and that's where the BPF programs Will be exposed by the LSM framework as such The BPF programs implement the policies without configuring the kernel or without using the kernel modules So whenever the Prior to this there was always a concern of implementing security policies other than LSM kernel module So a kernel module was not a very secure V as such Because there is always a possibility of having Some bugs in the kernel module causing the kernel to crash and as such So to mitigate that to come up with that drawbacks LSM framework BPF framework Is a very good option where this dynamically the process policies can be uploaded as such And as a BPF framework provides the secure execution environment That also Eliminates the possibility of system getting crash as such As the BPF programs have this verified as such which gets Verified when the BPF programs are loaded and executed when the LSM hooks are Arranged as such in that particular kernel code path So to summarize BPF as such is it's a kernel technology That allows the cost developers to write the code That can be loaded into the kernel runtime as such And it also helps to make changes to the kernel code path or Add the logic that you would like to add as part of the security enforcement as such And basically like when you see a BPF frame what is consists of the instruction set The different types of storage objects and the helper functions as such And basically it can be considered as a virtual virtual machine Which Which runs the BPF program in the isolated environment as such and that is done by Executing this bytecode With the verify ensures that the bytecode that the program that is getting loaded Ensures the integrity some of the checks that it does that It does not have a loop Infinite loop or a cycling dependency is not there And all those checks have been done by the verifier as such And these programs they are event-driven and they run When the kernel passes a certain particular these these are the BPF programs that get attached To a particular hooks in the kernel and whenever an application executes that kernel control path and hits that particular A kernel control this will be a programs who would be executed and There can these BPF programs can be attached to different at different locations as such What you call as the hooks that can be attached to system calls function entry or exit kernel trace points network events Scheduling algorithms on various other places as such Okay, so lsm BPF programs is like these programs allow the runtime instrumentation of the lsm hooks as such so here in this case you can program you can What do you say? Define the BPF programs and attach to the lsm hooks as such so whenever that lsm hooks is executing The attached BPF program would be executed and thereby we can you can you can implement some policies That has to be enforced on that particular control path as such Okay, so basically what do you could do? This what this is helping is used to implement some mandatory access control policies onto that particular Kernel control pass means As such so here in this diagram lsm hooks into BPF programs go into lsm hooks and basically it uses the helper functions and set of helper functions like suppose any kernel lsm hooks are been attached to Add some policies enforcement policy policies at the process level as such so the different hooks can be at the process creation process Creation or exit time so the lsm hooks can be added at the apis at fork system call or exit system call or exit system call or task free those kernel apis as such And when when you see the BPF program, they are the written user space application as such And this BPF program might be implemented might go and access the data structures as such so The definition and syntax of that thing has to be taken care as such and are ones that if Also another thing that is needed to select to send that data to user space as such all those things has been taken care by the BPF library as such okay And based on the policies the action can be taken whether to allow that particular operation to happen or not as such So all that functionality goes as part of the BPF program And the places where the hooks can be attached And the policies can be enforced can be for the file operations like opening creating moving or read moving or renaming the files Or mounting un-mounting the file systems in case of process management scheduling the task process creation exiting the process or What things that are needed as part of the scheduling this then changing user group identity of the process that you might want to ensure that the What you say the System calls like set set uid get uid and changing the permissions all those are the places where The BPF Programs can be hooked as such and of course the network operations We use network layer socket layer or tcp IP layer or at the lower levels as such Okay, so basically The programs can be attached at most of the system subsystems within the kernel control paths And these were suggested on These are some of the header files that will give you the idea What are the different function function pointers that are defined which can be implemented as Which can be implemented and whether it can attach to the lsm hooks as such So the requirement one of the requirements that this lsm bp lsm implementation using the BPF has been added in 5.7 carol. So that is the base Minimum requirement that is needed and other than that some kernel configs that are needed For getting for making use of the lsm bpf framework as such okay So these are just the this BPF is one of the concepts that we need to look at as the It it can it show it basically is used to represent the format type the The date because the kernel data structure access from the user is the program bpf programs And from the user programs the kernel data types The whole data structure might not be visible as such. So for that the one of the this BPF time format has been defined Which provides the metadata which encodes the debug information about these programs as such Okay, and basically it is used to have an understanding between the Contract between the user space and the kernel space like from the view program supposed BPF program is written for task creation So in that case the task data structure So to access the different elements of the task structure The definition of task has to be available with the user space program as such So that has been done through this big framework as such. So that is where the kernel config provides that interface as such And also at the At the application level that is the understanding between the elf file because basically what we're doing is we are loading That binary into the kernel space the of the whole of elf format understanding has to be done which the Libbpf libraries uses the various Helpful functions go and extract that kernel data structures as such So Basically as an application BPF program Or you might not need to know each and every element of the data structure you can make use of the help of functions as such Okay, so that has been taken care by the BPF so when we say about the when you when you talk about Implementing the BPF BPF program. So that is basically a user space program Uh, which uh, basically, uh, which has to be compiled Compiled into bytecode that will be loaded into the kernel kernel space as such And that is done through this So the BPF programs, they are described. There are different programs as such that has been described So you have we have to the library library provides the macros for doing that so BPF BPF program as such and here in this case the library Provides the helper apis to deal with the LSM interface The BPF programs they can be hooked to the kernel probes or trace points or the other events And also they can be hooked to the LSM interface. So there would be a set of apis for interacting with the LSM hooks as such Okay, so here in this case this the way it goes is like the BPF programming It will have two parts. One is the BPF program and another is there is will be another application that would Do the work of loading this BPF program into the kernel memory as such and attaching it to the different hooks. So that's where this This this My mouse has not been seen. So here that's the attachment to the LSM hooks comes And that attachment or loading is happens from the application Through the BPF system call itself as such the BPF system call will do the work of loading that BPF program into memory and verification as such Okay, let's See one app like demo application that will give us a better idea Okay, so this I have for demonstration purpose. I've So this is My file that I am writing a hook for demonstration. What we what we will do is will implement a hook that will attach execute Whenever a nice Nice nice is a system call that is used to change the priority of the process as such So what we can do is we can enforce some policies that particular Like as a security policy like every every application every process should not be able to change the priority It's for other any other process. So this policies can be ensured by implementing the by implementing the BPF program and Writing and tracing The hooks putting the hooks at the nice system. So this is an example of a nice system call as such So here in this case, this is this is the program basically What we're doing is Like if you look at this This is the main application program. The one part is the BPF program that is another and another one is the do go and load that BPF program as such So this is doing the work of loading the BPF program Into the memory as such attaching to the hooks the related to the nice system call as such So here the These are the library functions that have been used to perform that operation. So here this This API basically does is loading Opening and loading the BPF program as such and attaching that BPF program to that particular hook And that says once this is done It is just waiting till that hook gets removed as such. Okay So other than that Let's look at the actual BPF Program that would do some enforcement as such Okay, so so this is this is the framework that has been used to tell us that Yeah, this is the hook that is to be implemented attached to the lsm as such so here you here The API is the set task set nice api where the BPF program would be attached and you're Basically, it's it's a dummy function Not doing much like if the nice value in the nice value that is used to set the priority If it is minus minus means if you're setting to a higher priority Value as such then that should not be permanent permitted So you're just checking the value if it is less than zero then return an error as such By default when you do a set when you do nice or re nice The process priority can be changed by any any any user as such Right. So if the if that Some enforcement has to be done Some policies has to be implemented then it can be done and here this is a very simple example as such Okay, so what we have to do is we have to compile this BPF program And the main application will do the work of loading that into the memory and what we'll do is We'll just look at the BPF trace pipe to see how this operations happen as such Let me see if I have compiled this All right, let me do it. I'll compile actually this I've taken Okay, so it is already there So here it has done attach the BPF program to the set nice. So what we'll do is in another This is the pipe that is there that's to that What to say We get all the BPF traces that comes from the BPF programs as such Okay, just like something the kernel log which what we get as such just bear with me My system needs Okay, so here in this case Oh, this is all about the LSM using the BPF framework as such our BPF been Used to implement the LSM or Linux kernel security modules as such So that's That's all I have for this talk as such any questions Okay, thank you guys


Yep, he did indeed and gets off to a flying start, Dan Buley, just like Leon Madsen, gate number one working a treat in the first two races. And so quite clearly you've got to make pay why the sun is shining. If you've got the inside gates early on, we do hope that the track develops and we'll see riders being able to use the full width of the track. So heat number three is here now and riders are up at tapes and you've got one and two in the world going head-to-head here off the outside two gates. Jason Doyle who has had an indifferent period just recently, his league form is just dip to touch though. Doyle is on the inside in red here, alongside him gate number two in blue is Kim Nielsen, lots of smiles that can come out of gate number three in white and Freddie Lingeren off the outside gate in yellow, big tussle there but Jason Doyle not quite at his best in the last couple of weeks. They've lost his way slightly with some of his set-ups, I think he's maybe been overthinking it a little but I'm really certain that it's not going to take him too long to find his best form. Brushes on him, you're almost expected to win off gate one in these early stages. So the tapes are up, he's made a smashing jump, I mean that was a superb start from Doyle, he hits the front, it's tight now with Smarsley and Lingeren battling hard coming down the back straight. Smarsley just, just about getting his nose in front there, Jimmy Rufus, Kim Nielsen coming in there and Freddie Lingeren was very much beaten up there down the back straight with that tough move from Smarsley, the championship leader. Now he's setting about Jason Doyle who used the advantages of the inside gate superbly well there, keep your eyes on Smarsley, he's looking very threatening in second place and Freddie Lingeren working hard to try and get the better of Kim Nielsen. Yeah, the Swedes battling in the back, Lingeren knows every point could be vital here in this Grand Prix. Smarsley keeps having a look around the outside, he can't quite generate the speed he needs out there but Jason Doyle can't see him moving off the line not at this early stage and certainly Freddie Lingeren continuing to put the pressure on Kim Nielsen. Yeah, he's got there, Kim Nielsen just lifting at a vital moment but Jason Doyle remains composed that's more like it from him and the inside gate has won the first three races but he did make a good jump as well, he dropped the club's absolutely spot on, hard charging ride from the championship leader, Smarsley, that forces him into second place he really doesn't hang about at all does he, he came charging through. So Jason Doyle out in front, three points for him, two points for Smarsley, one for Freddie Lingeren and Kim Nielsen unfortunately just missing out there just made a mistake late on in the race but nonetheless Smarsley was the entertainer there. Out without question, but that man there, Jason Doyle will be happy with that start, fantastic reaction without doubt actually reacted quicker than everybody Freddie Lingeren off the outside makes a pretty good start too looks like he's going to have the run around the outside there of Smarsley but Smarsley there, you can see Freddie actually stands the bike up he actually doesn't realise anybody's making a charge then he realises it's Smarsley has to get out of the way Smarsley draws, you think he's going to go straight to the line just hang on a minute, make sure you don't come around the outside of me I'll just move over a bit, back to the line because he can see Kim Nielsen's making everything covered there he did indeed, it was quite a hectic moment from the race but for Jason Doyle out in front he rode a solid four laps and comes away with the three big points and starts his evening in fine style


Hi, good morning, and welcome to today's products and focus as we'll see there the US 30 has continued to rise the last couple of sessions S&P making almost record highs again last weekend yesterday fifth straight rise and in a row and as you can see there were actually trading above potential Resistance at 16401 which now may act as support next potential resistance at 16598 and even the escalation in Your crane is not really dampening the spur of the US stock market right now So a few people were killed over the weekend at a road check point But and Even though there has been a little bit of disappointment in Japanese and Chinese data at the US market still seems very resilient So looking at the UK 100 similar picture real strong couple of sessions here an incredible five previous sessions Especially this one right here that we had on Tuesday So we're trading above potential resistance at 6666 next potential resistance at 6713 So things certainly looking on the up right now looking at Japan to do five It's come off a little bit, but that's been due in part to yen buying That we've actually seen so that reduces the competitiveness of the Japanese equities globally But nevertheless, they have had a nice run up until this point Has sold off a little bit today next potential support as at 14219 So if we have a look at that dollar yen position We're coming up quite close potential resistance at one or two spot 87 And most of actually being some good Japanese yen data does come out check that in a second Which is helping to to push that I mentioned before that there was pure Chinese data as ever There's a real mixed bag over there But we'll look at that in a second, but resistance at one or two spot 87 potential support remains at 101 spot 80 But we're a fair bit away from there right now If we actually jump on to West Texas Crude next This is really bouncing between these two ranges potential resistance Let's just say it's 105 potential support is at 103 and that Ukrainian Element will be helping to support these prices in the short term And I can see that the US dollars lost a little bit of strength versus some other Currencies today as well. So looking at gold gold's coming off again Trading below potential resistance at 1295 next potential support is at 1267 and Then Very interesting that it's come off again so much People aren't buying the traditional safe havens right now, which leaves me to believe the markets Just don't think that this Ukrainian thing is going to escalate too much further Otherwise, you'd be seeing a lot more yen buying than what we are just now We are seeing a little bit of yen buying but nothing too spectacular Let me talk about Japanese data. You can see here. This was yesterday And a matter of fact most of the most of the data has already come out I can't really see what the forecasts were but Most of them seem to be a little bit worse than expected. I'll beat this one here was slightly better retail sales was okay And if we actually have a look at today's data, there's nothing too major coming out today. We have to fast forward on to Wednesday, you've got Chinese PMI data coming out We have to keenly looked at and we've got Bankelemann England minutes quite a lot of UK stuff UK centric We've got the crude elementaries due out as ever and we could all Wednesday at 3 30 So if we finish up with your dollar your dollars drifting lower towards potential support at 3772 The closer gets to here. This looks like it could be relatively strategic in the short term Obviously depends if we get any decent data coming out and there's not a lot of US stuff or European stuff out tomorrow either So from a technical analysis perspective your dollar will probably relatively quiet cable However is looking to re-challenge potential resistance at one spot 6820 and it's having a go at that today as well So it gives you a bit of an idea of what's happening. So if you keep your eye on the chart for me I can see there's a number of seems to market clients who've actually been posting your own content on there Which is great. Make sure you make insights part of your layout Because this is updates from our global analysts team Which I'm sure you'll find quite useful and join me again tomorrow to find out what happens next


Gary, can you give us your reaction to that? A 3-1 win, your first game in charge. Could you wish for anything better? It was outstanding from everybody, you know. The supporters, I told you in the build-up, how important they were. From the reception that they gave me at the start, you created a positive atmosphere which rubbed off on the players and then the players responded and performed magnificently. If you're asking me, could I wish for anything better? Clean sheet, which we've been robbed of. It's as simple as that, I'm afraid. I've seen it again. I saw it at real time. It was never a penalty. Unfortunately, we didn't get any decisions today from it. There was a spirit about the side where they stuck at it. It took 70 minutes to get the goal, but once it came, we were in full control. The lads have been brilliant for me all weeks. You just look at the way they've gone about it. The work rate, the effort they've put in, how hard they've ran has just been unbelievable. We had to stay in there because they're a very good team. You look at the front three of them and then they can bring Tony on them, bring George Gouper on them. You look at the firepower they have. We knew we would be facing an unbelievable challenge but our lads have responded magnificently. Obviously, you wanted to cut the deficit today. You've done that. With ten games to go, you must be quite happy with where you find yourself all of a sudden. I said to you about the cliches. You can only go one game at a time and I'm afraid that's how you look at it. It's no good looking at game seven when we've got this one today. The main aim was to try and win the game, try and play with a little bit of style which I thought we did more so second half. You look at Jacob Butterfield's free kick, both free kicks to be fair. He was outstanding in such a creative talent for us. Slightly more frustrating note, you've lost Kelvin Mellor and Kellan Woods. That certainly limited your options on the bench but you were having to make changes inside the first opening half hour. How were they and how much of an effect did that have on your plans? Well, I've just said that to the players that they've had to deal with two changes like you rightly said in the first half. So it just stood together like we did and the impact that the subs had because we knew when we said it to the group it was about everybody. Obviously it was an ideal in terms of the plan but the lads that came on were magnificent in there and stuck with the rest of the group. Just quickly a word on Tuesday you've got a matter of days before we go again against the best team in the division.  Yeah, definitely but we go into it on the confidence of our performance today and knowing why we've got the result today and there's through hard work and the backing of this wonderful support that I said about in the build up to this game. Just on that you've got a very warm reception and they seem delighted tonight. No, they were magnificent. Like I said when I brought Blackpill here and walked out with Shewam and called the reception, it always stuck with me and today I've got another memory to take with me and I really thank them for the reception that I've got.


Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Oh, it's a bike over many. Do you believe in me? What would a name you consider? I'm not that creative. Well, I am, my friend. Miracle on 34 yard line? No. How about The Dig's Destiny? No. Nightmare in New Orleans? Wow. It's really when I become the second most disappointing thing in New Orleans. Ha! It's a brand new season. Mm-hmm. Have you met Kirk's cousin? He's right here. It's Ruben in the back. It's Kirk's cousin. Not Kirk's cousins. Nothing like your brothers. Really? You mean accomplished? Let's play a little word association game. One of my favorites. Kyle Rudolph. Big country. I was thinking Donner and Blitzen. Aaron Rodgers? You can't even try to say something bad, because he's so good. Oh, really? How about Danica Patrick's boyfriend? That's cute. Chicago style pizza. Trash. Or deeper than the Bears depth chart. Ha! Ha! Week one.  What do you think's most inflated these days? His ego? Mm-hmm. His salary? Or his dates? I heard he's a... He's a... He's a different kind of dator. What does that mean? He knows how to pick them. Ha! Ha! Ha! You know, on Twitter, I noticed you're kind of a motivational guy. What sort of motivation could you give me? Give it up. Stop. That's not really motivational. Ha! Ha! You know, Steph, you know what I think the biggest miracle is? This right here.


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All right. Are you guys ready? Ready to make some change and get some things started. I'm so happy to see your face in the place today. Please give yourself a round of applause for being making a difference and putting your words into effect and some action in the community. We love that very much. I'm going to start off by actually... Is Ivy Taylor here? Okay. I'm going to actually start off by asking Mr. James Howard to come to the front.  So I had to put my shirt on. We have a championship city building a championship school. Thank you. Good evening. Good evening. All right. We come to do a little work here today. One of the things I want to say is we want to welcome you to Wheatley. Bill is Wheatley Middle School. I was told to say that by the Alumni Association and also my classmate that we want to make sure that Wheatley remains Phyllis Wheatley. So it will be Phyllis Wheatley Middle School or Community School. Now, one of the things I do want to say that this community is getting an infusion of nearly $80 million. That $80 million is supposed to change the face of this community. And a major portion of that or a central focus of that is this school. Wheatley Middle School will play a major role in the investments as well as the improvement of this community. As you see already across the street, the Wheatley Court is beginning to be torn down and rebuild. There's also going to be infrastructure around the courts as well as this school. And one of the things I want to assure you that this school will remain a school. And it will remain a middle school and it will remain Phyllis Wheatley Middle School. So I want to let you know that up front. But one of the things we have to do as a school district, as an inner city school district, we have to focus on adapting to the changes of the times. And that adaptation is about making this school more accessible to the community. And by changing this into a community school, I think we will answer that call. Now coming up in August, there's going to be another event. And that event is to begin the implementation of various programs. We want to do this in phases or increments. That event between August and September is to begin the implementation of the various programs that we want to begin between September and January. Now these programs are basically going to be before school or after school programs. But it's going to be very important that you play a role in what those programs will be. And so we're asking you, one of your tasks tonight is to begin talks about those programs and how we're going to implement those things. And so we just want to assure you that we know that there's concerns in the community. But the major thing is that we want you to know that the children in this school will be safe. There will be precautions made into the implementation plan that will implement safety issues. Or address those safety issues. So without further ado, I just want to thank you. Welcome you to Wheatley Middle School. And on behalf of the Board of Education, as well as our superintendent, let's get it going. Thank you so much. Thank you, John. Thank you so much. I'm going to bring Ivy Taylor up to the mic. My favorite councilwoman. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? We appreciate you coming out again, spending your precious time to help us envision even better Phyllis Wheatley Middle School, a place that will be the centerpiece of our community redevelopment efforts. I think most of you have, I know I've seen several of you at some of the other meetings, so you may have heard my spiel about East Point. But for anyone that missed it, we are in the middle of a comprehensive community revitalization effort here on the east side. And we are building on the assets that we already have, the history, the culture, the people who have been here for years in neighborhoods. We are building on that to make the school and the community even better place to be. We're welcoming the new people who are choosing to live in this part of town. And we are creating new amenities so that we can retain the folks that have been here and continue to attract even more people. Now, education in the schools really is central to any community being a strong, thriving place where people want to be. That's why the work that you're doing here this evening is so important, because we want Wheatley to be really at the, we know it's at the center of your hearts. We want it to be at the center of the community so that you wouldn't just come up here if you had a kid in school, but that there would be something for everyone in the community, something that everyone could benefit from right here at Wheatley Middle School. Building on the resources that SAISD has already invested in this community and building on the tremendous history of Phyllis Wheatley Middle School. So again, I appreciate everyone's involvement and I'm looking forward to the final plan and us actually implementing it. So thank you again for being here. Thank you Ivy. It really is an exciting time and today is one of those how we're going to get things done. But let's figure out what we did last time we met in meeting two. What we accomplished, how to have the community involved while providing safety, choosing the entrances of the community services that will be provided. The entrance that we actually came in today was the second choice that we chose from last week. And we met with great community minded residents of course and learned more about what is happening for the Phyllis Wheatley Community School. What we heard in the meeting, how to interact with the community while keeping everyone safe. Old mindsets that focus on fears that hinder future progress. And of course this is one of the things, it's more like safety because we want to keep our history safe. But we also have to make sure that we open the doors for our children to create a history as well. So that's why we're here. That was some of the concerns we had. And then the improvements that we did. I know the number one thing was we met in the auditorium before, now we're here today. So I'm hoping the sound is a lot better today and you'll be able to talk to each other a lot easier. We also suggest that you televise this event to get more community involvement. As these projects go on, there will be more media that gets involved to make sure that we really get the word out in the streets to the people who actually live here. So that's very important. The goals of this process today is to identify the program and to sign opportunities at the Phyllis Wheatley School that addresses long standing community concerns and opportunities. We also want to develop these ideas and find partnerships to help implement them and create a concrete action plan for implementation. Now the guidelines for today is we obviously got to be inclusive. We want to make sure everyone's voice is heard and we want to know exactly what it is that you're saying and what we need to follow up on. Encourage open, honest and direct conversation. We want everybody's opinions but we also want to make sure we don't take up too much time just giving our own opinions. Make sure everybody at the table gets a chance to talk. Understand everyone has expertise in something. We all have a God given talent and a gift and that's the same thing with our knowledge that we have here today. So let's be respectful for everyone that is in the room. And if you need to clarify a question when necessary, please ask.  So our analysis for meeting two, thanks very much. Basically we accomplished three major tasks out of all that wonderful work that was done at the last meeting. And I think we kind of need to give ourselves cheers and applause again for that because that was incredible under very difficult circumstances. Okay, we read and we cataloged everything from meeting two, all the writing on the thoughts, all the ideas. We analyzed the ideas that were given for the frequency with which they occurred and for whether or not they were similar or dissimilar. And the third thing we did was we made a synthesis of all that information into what you see today. And I think those sheets are on your tables. One of the major things that happened in the last meeting was that we had very significant and important discussions about access and safety for the hours of the day that make up the school time and the hours of the day that will make up community access time. So the blue lines indicate one of the tables ideas for community access during school hours and the red outlines indicate access for non-school hours. So this is an example of one of those tables work. Okay, we had 13 major items that are activities that folks wanted to have available while school was in session. And they range from after school programs to expanding programs for over age students. Literacy programs are in there tutoring, all of that. The second set of 13 items are things that people wanted to have available when school was not in session. Small Business Development Center, after school programs, tutoring, college readiness programs, mentoring, literacy programs. We wanted to expand over age student programs again in the evening. Social services, community clinics, computer access, job training, behavioral health services, and ESL programs. And again, to reinforce what was said earlier, the main entrance had 60 people who were interested in having that used as a community entrance. And the second most popular choice was the entrance that we came in this evening for our meeting today. The third was an auditorium entrance and the fourth was a library gym entrance. And there we go. Before you start, Stephen, because you have a lot of awesome information. We have an awesome prize that we're going to give out later on today, but I need to make sure everybody is registered for it. So I have some tickets as Stephen is explaining. If you don't have a ticket, then just raise your hand so I can make sure you get one, okay? Well, one of the things we heard loud and clear in the last meeting, and this is a direct quote from one of the tables. Put us to work. Put this community work. Let the community work to build a community school, right? Don't have the school district build a community school necessarily. Don't have some consultant build a community school. If it's going to be a real live community school, it needs to be built by the community. It needs to be built with programs that the community has brought to the table. So that's what we're going to do in this meeting. We're going to be looking at what happened in the first meeting was we identified, you identified, the kind of programs that you felt like you need in this community that you don't have already. In the second meeting, we said, well, how would those programs fit in this building? How can we make sure that it's safe? How can we make sure that the kids and the grown-ups don't come crossing over each other during the daytime? So that's why we have some programs that can happen before school and after school and some programs that could happen during the daytime, but we're not going to be looking at those kind of programs, frankly, until January. This first phase of the programming is going to be just kind of a test, kind of taking it one step at a time about let's just get programs that we know can work before school and after school and on the weekends and let's test this thing out and work all the bugs out of it before we start bringing adults and kids together and that wouldn't happen until beginning in January. Does that make sense? Kind of take it slow. Get it right. So what we're going to do today is the third thing is you said put us to work. Let us be involved in some of these programs. Maybe you can run some of these programs. Maybe you can help get some of these programs started. Maybe you can work in some of these programs. There might be jobs for here for some of the people in this community running some of these programs because the community needs to have the first choice of getting those jobs. The money needs to stay in this community. So in order to do that, we want to be sure that we have a good idea about all the talent that's in this room right now and where you think you would like to participate. Right? Everybody's got their own expertise and everything, their own thing to bring to the table. All right? Next one. What we tried to do here then is we, you might remember that we talked about this earlier that we have a way of, we're bringing to actually to the San Antonio community a method for how to put different programs in different categories. Some of these programs are physical programs. They might be programs to modify the building or to do landscaping or to do physical recreation or something like that. Some of the programs might be cultural programs. They might have to do with some African American celebration or some Latino celebration or some Anglo celebration or it might have to do with different crafts or something that are involved in cultural programs. So we have that as a category too. We have the physical programs. We have cultural programs. You have, and we're just putting them in these categories. All right? We have social programs, social programs like health programs, family service programs, those kinds of programs, what will all be involved in social domain of programming. And then we have educational programs. That's not just what happens in the school, but it's workforce training programs. It's adult education programs. It could be early childhood programs. We also have organizational programs like for example leadership training and trying to help community organizations learn how to raise money and write grants and that kind of stuff. That might be falling in this organizational category. And then we also have economic category. That might be involved in writing grants and fundraising. It might be involved in trying to figure out how to get some of this promised neighborhood money to make sure where it's going and track it so the community is tracking it. So it's not off somewhere, somebody else tracking it. With the promised neighborhood money, the choice neighborhood money, the promised zone money, all of that stuff, it could fall in that economic domain for all those people that might be interested in that part of it. Right? And we believe, we understand that everybody in this room is not interested in all of those things, but each one of you have a different talent to bring. So what we've done is we've taken the programs that you gave us. You made the list of programs. It's always just been read out. And we're drilling down on every one of those programs and when you see this report in August, you're going to see every program is going to have a sheet like this that describes the program and how it could work. The program that you created, the community created, and what's it going to look like and what's it going to take to run it. We also have a questionnaire that's gone out to all the key stakeholder groups, all the organizational groups to answer, are you already doing a program like this? We don't want to start a program if one's already in place. So we don't want to duplicate. So that survey is going out. So that's also going to be a part of the tools that you can use to make these programs happen. So what we've done is we've taken the programs that you created in our first meeting and we've put them in these six different categories that I just described. And on your table, and I'm not going to get into this because Nika's going to do that, but all of those programs have been placed in these different categories. And tonight, we're going to ask you, since you said put us to work, we're going to ask you to show us which one of those programs do you want to be involved in and what kind of skill sets can you bring to the table and that'll give the school district and the folks that are responsible for coordinating this all this information about the talent that's in this room, the commitment that's in this room to make these programs happen. Alright folks, it's time to work. Again, we are here at Phyllis Wheatley Community School. This is meeting number three.  Now each person, you know me, I just start going, each person has three sheets that are in front of them. So the first thing I want you to make sure you do is you have all three of your sheets. This is how we hit the ground running. Just go into it. So again, right now today we're going to review and discuss the program categories, the needs and solutions at your table or how you want to participate. This is whether the first three sheets are important and the dots on the table are going to be important. I believe each color is going to be a person, right? It doesn't matter. Okay, that probably we'll worry about. What we're going to do is select which Nexus program categories, needs and solutions that you want to be a part of most. So on each sheet you have different colors. It looks like a blue and a light blue and a green and a yellow. Each one of those sections is the Nexus program. Okay, and what we want to do is know where you want to be involved within each one of those programs. Now you don't have to do all six. We just want you to do three. So which one that you have the most passion for is the one that we want you to choose. Now we're going to fill out your three cards for each of the program categories. The needs are solutions that you selected. You may use more than three cards if someone else doesn't want one at the table or if you want to snag some because you want to just do more than three things. If you are at a booth obviously there's not going to be. If you're at a booth please move to a table so you can actually participate in the project. And there's a few open tables over there or there's open chairs over here you can slide in. Now this right here is a diagram of the thing that's on what's on your table. So each one of these portions, each one of these colors is a different type of program. So I was talking to our Phyllis Wheatley alumni representatives and we were talking about doing a historic wall within the new building of the school where we can actually put all the things that Phyllis Wheatley won and the different records that they accomplished throughout the years. So that particular project, which one would that one be in? That would be in cultural. How we keep the culture of the east side of this school within the program. So those are the types of things that we're looking at within these different sections. Now we're going to go around the tables we'll explain some more if you don't understand. Not a problem. So it's time to get to work. All right does everybody feel pretty confident? They got their top three down. Good to go, good to go. Clap your hands if you're done. Because you're so fabulous. Great job, great job. I know you want to help me out and tell me what's your top three that you chose today. Come on girl, get on up here. You want to Amanda? Do me a paper and just stand right over here. Hey guys, my name's Amanda Garcia and I picked educational programs, social programs and physical programs. Fantastic, thank you so much. Let's see what did you pick sir? Give me one that you picked. Education of programs. Education, what was something? Social programs with emphasis on after school. I like it, I like it. After school programs are very important. And you gorgeous, what did you do? What were some of your tops? Topics were the educational, social and cultural programs. Okay, especially social and culture girl. Now I know you guys are one of the alumni here at Phyllis Wheatley Middle School so thank you guys so much for your input. We really, really needed you here. And I'm looking forward to some social events girl. I want to know what's going on. Alright, sir, what was your top one? The top one was, what was that? Social? What was the main part in social that you liked? After school programs? Fantastic, fantastic. What about you sir? What was your top? Oh you were with the same guys. Okay, let me get one more over here. What about you sir? What was your top over here at this table? Educational and cultural. And cultural, alright. Educational needs, what part of educational? Mentoring. Mentoring, also very, very important for our community. Alright everybody, give yourself a round of applause. I am excited. We're about to move on to the second phase of this whole thing. Now I did get a question earlier that kind of said how are we going to know that these programs are going to be implemented? Because y'all are going to help. That's why. This is what today was about. What would you volunteer for? Where would you be at? What would you help us with? Because the one thing we don't want to do is have people outside of our community coming in our community to build our programs. And then we lose our voice one more time. So again, thank you so much for your input today. One final thing that we want to tell you, but while he is doing that, please grab your evaluation sheet. That's on the table. If you don't have one, I will come bring you one. Let us know what you think. The good, bad, and the ugly. So we can improve anything that we need to improve, okay? And you can guys do that right now. Stephen. Okay, now we're going to close up with a little more of a presentation. We've talked all this whole three meetings. We've talked about the Wheatley School site. But the Promise neighborhood, the Choice neighborhood, the Promise zone, if you look at the maps, you know, this is just the Promise neighborhood and Choice neighborhoods, and this whole area is the Promise zone. And that's where there's a lot of money coming in to $80 million coming into that Promise zone. Wheatley School, the Wheatley School Community Center is just the hub of all the stuff that's going on and can go on, but it needs to be centered here. That's the theory. That's the concept. We've talked about this nexus of these six different areas, physical, cultural, social, that you've been working on, for example. But that applies not only on the school site, but it also applies throughout that whole neighborhood. Right? There's physical programs going on in the neighborhood. There's cultural programs in the neighborhood. So what are we going to talk about now? Wait a minute. Go back. Like I said, everything we've been talking about so far is about that Wheatley site. Let's talk about things that are going on outside of this site, but in the neighborhood. Right? Look at them. We've got the Wheatley Courts Project. If this is the Wheatley School site, we've got the Wheatley Courts Project over here. We've got a possibility for there's a big green space over there. Let's dream a little bit. How about if that green space right over there, you can see it from here if you look out the door. How about if that could be an environmental education center for the Wheatley School. It's not on the Wheatley School site right now, but with a little work, it could be. It could be a park. It could be an education center that's connected with the Wheatley School. We also have the Sutton Oaks Project. The blue is the housing, like the Wheatley Courts Project and the Sutton Oaks Project. That's already built and underway. Nobody figured out yet what AT&T Center role might be in this big development, in this big change of East Point. There's the Tynan Early Childhood Center. There's the new early college that Superintendent Perez has gotten started over at the St. Philip's College, the St. Philip's Early College Program, where the students in this neighborhood will be able to, while they're still in high school, will be able to take college level courses. That's underway. There's also money set aside to look at the whole New Bromphill corridor and how it might be improved, how a different, more retail might come in, what jobs might be brought in for the community. That's a whole project that's already being funded to look at that whole corridor. There's also the Bowdoin School. There's a great asset in the community. And there's programs going on, some of the programs, like similar to what we talked about. There's Medicaid programs. Well, there's programs already going on at Ella Austin, before school, after school, adult education, those kinds of things that need to be a part of this bigger picture. So we want to be sure, we want to be sure we're not just looking at this site. We're looking at how this site connects to all those other things that are going on out there and that they work together and not independent of each other. It's important to know that right now we're talking about the very beginning of this project, right? But I want you to know that we've been through this many, many times, and I'm going to walk you through right now a project that we started 10 years ago in New Orleans, before Hurricane Katrina in a neighborhood just like this. Economically disadvantaged, very, very culturally rich. And we had meetings just like this. We had people just like you signing up, put me down for this, put me down for that. I want to be participating in this. I want to be participating in that. And we had used that same nexus framework. We said, okay, in the physical domain, what are all the things that you want to see change in the next 10 years in Central City, New Orleans? And the community said this is on our list. And then we also went, Bobby? Bobby? The cultural domain. In Central City, we have the Mardi Gras Indians. We have jazz. We have all kinds of things that really weren't taken advantage of. You have a lot of those cultural assets here. We know, not exactly the same ones, but we know for one day for sure this is a culturally rich neighborhood. A lot of diversity and richness here. So how would we take advantage of that? Bobby, go back. So how would we take advantage of that by increasing the awareness and developing some of these programs, these cultural programs like you're talking about? In the social domain, the community said they needed health clinics. They needed housing. And right now, all of those things exist in New Orleans. The public housing has been completely rebuilt. In the same way it's being started to be rebuilt here. On the educational domain, a community school was created, much like the Wheatley School that we're talking about now. And all of these different kinds of programs that we're talking about, co-locating and co-working with the community school, they're already in place. We've invited the superintendent, Superintendent Perez and some other folks to come over and kick the tires. You know what I mean? Touch it. Feel it. Talk to the people that did it. It's not theory. This is how it's actually happening. And also on the economic domain, for example, there are a lot of jobs that got created. In fact, some of those people who signed up for those programs like you did tonight to help out with those programs, they now have full-time jobs running those programs. And we're going to introduce the superintendent to those people and hear their stories about how they started with the idea of a program and now they're running that program. Now they're writing grants to get money to keep funding those programs. In the organizational domain, listen to this. There were probably 25 different organizations in the Central City community 10 years ago. Now there's an umbrella organization called the Central City Renaissance Alliance that was created out of a meeting like this. All of the organizations said, if we work together, we can get a lot more than if we work against each other. So they're banded together and they formed something called the Funders Forum. So all the foundations, all the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation and all these people came in and they said, well, we don't know whether to give money to this group or that group but the organization pulled together and they said, you're not going to have to worry about that in our community because we're going to get together and we're going to decide who we want you to give the money to and we're going to share it with each other. And you know what the foundations did? They doubled the amount of money they were given because they knew that it wasn't going to be wasted and the community wasn't going to be fighting over it. So that's another thing that happened. Our point is by looking at all of these things together, the physical planning, the cultural planning, the social planning, the financial planning, the jobs planning together, you can get a whole lot more than if you look at them individually, right? And that's what's happening here right now tonight and that's what's moving forward with this community school and what we did was we asked the community in this process in New Orleans and you might want to do this sometime yourself here on the scale of 1 to 10. Well, they started off way down on the low-end side and now they're way up on the high-end side. So it's an opportunity for improvement. Back up. Bottom line is we're about to close this thing down. You told us in the last meeting put us to work, put the community to work. And with the superintendent Perez about two weeks ago, he said, I can't believe that the community said that. He said, I'm so excited to hear that the community really wants to do this because the school district really has a hard time. They got to educate kids every day. They can't do this kind of a program. It takes the community doing it. And now that you guys are stepping up to the plate, here's where we are right now. We're in July. This is the third community meeting. We've had one community meeting in May, one in June, and this is the third one in July. We're going to produce a report that's going to go to the school district and back to you guys sometime in August. In September, there's going to be an opening event. The school board member announced today that there's going to be an opening event and in the first few months up until January of this year, of next year, some of those programs that are going to be operating outside of the school time are going to be implemented. And then the building is going to get renovated to whatever needs for safety so that in January of 2015 the full-blown community school can start operating with at least three of the programs that you guys have suggested. So that's kind of where we are. There will be Mr. McClaren who's just walked back in the room has indicated that there will be more community meetings. They haven't been scheduled yet but there will be one in the fall to bring everybody up to speed again with what's going on. In addition to the opening event or the phase one opening event that will happen sometime around September there will be an additional community meeting happening this fall so everybody can keep track of what's going on and see how you can continue to participate and celebrate. And then along the way the plans will be done to make sure that the building is safe and secure for these programs opening up in September and then everybody will have a plan like this so you'll know where all the programs are going to be going on in different colors. At the end of the day some of you might have been involved in the early presentation that we made about how all this works and the best example I can show you is what happened tonight because everybody was working together tonight. Have you ever noticed like birds when they flock together it's a beautiful thing to watch it's kind of like what happens when communities flock together right when birds flock together they make beautiful patterns and they don't bang into each other they know they know where the next bird is and they're flying together they're not flying into each other not fighting with each other I think where we are tonight at the end of this meeting is we're flocking we got the beginning of the process where everybody knows here's the part I'm going to play I'm not going to play your part but here's the part I can play I'm going to expect you to play your part I'm going to expect Perez superintendent to play his part I'm going to expect the mayor to play his part everybody plays their part I promise you you will get there so I want to thank everybody for coming out tonight putting your heart and soul into it and at this stage of the game there's nothing but blue sky ahead for this project thank you alrighty people thank you guys so much and I appreciate everybody staying around everybody fill out the evaluation form because again this isn't the first or this isn't the last meeting this is just the last meeting of this particular phase so as we get into the next phases we want to make sure whatever it is that we do so I'm going to give away some free stuff this is where y'all screaming yeah woohoo free stuff okay who is under the age of 10 in here come up here one you got some young legs so you can go quickly oh here we go uh oh there's two of them who's going to get here first boom what's your name Carlos hi Carlos good he said I'm good alright what do you want to be when you grow up Carlos policeman ooh a policeman man we've got some programs for you we're going to work right on out you'll be able to come in secure everybody at the future fill it sweetly what's your name sincere that's beautiful how old are you 8 a firefighter a policeman and a firefighter y'all give it up for our precious babies in the house we just love them we trying to build a school for you guys so you can be nice and smart and give us money when we get old take care of us like we take care of you now alright so here we go okay this is what I need to help you I need your help okay raise your hand who doesn't have a ticket alright so what I want you to do honey is shake the bag shake shake shake now do a little dance while you shake it yes now is that good now put your hand in there and swirl it around okay now you pretty girl you go in there and you pick one out of there alright now give it Carlos right okay now give it to him and he is going to read it now you read those numbers uh oh there is a name right there read the name can you see it butch Howard say butch Howard there he is say there he is say woohoo come on down butch Howard you are the winner of today's oh it's this okay oh goodness what's in here you should have told me that before I picked the ticket do you know what you won okay hold this hold this for him now brace yourself because he is about to give you a big hug you just won a two night stay in New Orleans yeah for real there you go give it to him there is some New Orleans paraphernalia in there for you and we treat you to a two night stay isn't that awesome you so surprised thank you so much this is what happens when you come out and put your voice in the community give him a round of applause everybody give everybody a round of applause and I need the table host table host could you please come right over here with me please you guys have also won something you get to work at the next meeting the two night stay was a gift from Concordia so thank you guys so very much for that that was absolutely awesome and can you all please give it up for our table host that have been here probably everybody for the last few meetings trying to keep everything organized and you know we'll be here to do it again so again thank you guys for everything you can go home now we finished way early which is thanks to you putting in all your hard work we'll see you next time we'll make sure we keep you informed please continue to look at east point website facebook facebook page that way you can stay update on all the wonderful events that are going on here in your east side community


To survive, us humans and all other life on the physical plane, we need to build up and feed humus. Humus is enormously hungry. If you see a herd of animals on a piece of land, you're aware you have to feed them, carry hay and other fodder and the same soil where you have to feed the goats, the cows or whatever, underground if this soil is healthy there is another herd of animals and it's just as hungry and it needs a big amount of food and this food can be anything from compost, degraded organic matter, degrading rotting wood and other material, okay, is that understandable? It's the herd below the ground needs to be fed, if it's not fed it will die off gradually and that's what is happening in industrial agriculture. If you only add mineral fertilizer, this doesn't feed humus, to the contrary it's destroying earthworms and other earth life and we need organic matter, we need carbon in the soil.