The signal oil program The Whistler That whistle is your signal for the signal oil program the Whistler I am the Whistler and I know many things for I walk by night I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak Yes friends, it's time for the signal oil program the Whistler Rated by independent research the most popular West Coast program In gasoline, you know it takes extra quality to go farther and signal is the famous go farther gasoline So look for the signal circle sign in yellow and black that identifies signal service stations from Canada to Mexico And now the Whistler strange story The choice When the door of his office opened Mark Fallon didn't have to turn away from the window to know that it was Harry Chang coming in for more of the voucher It had happened so often during the past five weeks that the sound of Chang's shuffling walk was sandpaper on Mark's nerve So instead of turning he sat for a moment looking out through the gold lettering that fell Fang importing company on the window looking down on the Grant Avenue Where they were putting up the first decorations for the Chinese New Year celebration Then when he was sure he had enough control to make his approach seem casual He idly swung in his chair and face the little bookkeeper. Oh Hello, Chang you back again. Yes Mr. Wu said I could check some items on one of the files if it's all right with you sure Mr. Wu's orders and only the office manager here, but I'm afraid Sam is locked up for the night Then perhaps you'd rather I waited till morning. Oh makes no difference to me. I'll get Sammy Sammy bring in the keys will you Harry Chang wants to get something out of the files. Yeah Have you right in thank you forget it by the way, how's your research coming? Sorry, maybe I shouldn't have said anything But everybody knows you're going through the files systematically and Everybody knows why my brother didn't steal that money from the company, Mr. Fallon If I can find the evidence that will get him out. Yeah, sure. I know only the jury said he was guilty Chang. Oh Come on in Saniel Hello, Chang more files if you please sure Let me see now. You want the carter file. How did you know that mr. Samuels? I oh Samuels just happened to notice that the last file you had out was a Carson C. A. R. S. C. A. R. T. Carter'd be next yeah, yeah, that's it unless you're taking the skipping around the alphabet. I didn't think of skipping around But perhaps it is a good idea if you don't mind, huh? Well, uh, no No, we don't mind What file do you want? I think I will start on Randall Randall Well, sure sure Samuels get them Randall right away. Here we are Well, I do it. Yes Thank you Thank you both Good night. What did you have to do that for? What what did I do? Why did you have to suggest that he starts skipping around? Oh, what took Randall, didn't he? Law of averages will take care of it sure sure in the same laws I will make him put his hands in that phony McAllister file any day You may want to change places with Harry Chang's brother in prison, but I don't mark you making something out of nothing Tell you I fix those books so they'll never spot anything They got by the trial investigation didn't they ever they won't get by Harry Chang I'll give you odds on that I get the odds This deal nothing will do but a sure thing Okay, okay, but there's no place to talk about it somebody's level to walk in maybe tonight. Yeah tonight We talked tonight If we don't want to wind up with a number for a name we better talk fast Yes mark the time for fast talking has come sooner than you expected But then you should have known you were in for trouble the day Harry Chang started going through those records When it was ABC You had time before he'd reach Samuel's forgeries in the McAllister account But now it's almost as if you could feel his fingers around your throat already and Something else you've noted Samuel's is calm about it Almost too calm and when he comes across the hall to your apartment later that evening He brings his girlfriend Lena with him Well mark darling, what is this no drink no bright same Don't mind in Lena. He just knows his own scotch better than we do. I had a couple of drinks before you came I didn't know this was gonna be a social evening and that takes care of little Lena Excess baggage again forget it. We didn't have anything important to talk about anyhow. No, not a thing Well, how about it?  I am excuse me. I come to talk to Samuel's Samuel's you got the wrong place. He lives across the hall. I run across the hall. He ain't there I knew you was his pal. I want to talk to him. Well, he might drop by later. What was it about? I'll talk to him.  Who's he? I'm afraid Sammy's gambling debts are showing. I've been gambling again. Has he so that's it I'll just come in and wait for him. You're not invited. I'm coming in Listen you two a bit bull gone if you like your teeth where they are get your foot out of that door. I'm coming in Okay, you Mark darling The things I didn't know about you don't forget it Don't you know I don't want to forget it mark. What is this? What happened? This is it Sam? This is too much now. We got petty mobsters hanging around Okay, how much did you lose this time? 6,000 but I don't have to answer to you for everything I do look We got enough trouble with Cheng without Radegin snooping around too.  Tell me what I'm gonna do more. Yeah, but there's something I've been meaning to tell you and now it's as good a time as any If Harry Chang happens to get lucky with those books Do you think I was sappy enough to leave him so they'd point at me wait a minute What are you getting that Samuel? I Mean while I was doing the pen work. It was easy enough to put your okay on every one of the vouchers And until I decide otherwise, I think you and I better go right on being the very best friend With the prologue of tonight's story the choice the signal oil company brings you another strange story by the whistler Now in place of a message about signal gasoline usually heard at this time on the whistler Signal oil company has asked me to devote this time tonight to something mighty close to your heart and your home Have you ever asked yourself what you would do if infantile paralysis should strike someone in your home? Treatment is expensive and long and iron lung cost $1,300 Fortunately, however, you wouldn't have to worry about cost for today the National Foundation for infantile paralysis Guarantees every victim of this dread disease regardless of age race creed or color the immediate scientific care which alone can prevent tragic crippling and Where does the foundation get the millions of dollars needed for this great mission of mercy? Why from the dimes that you contribute during the annual March of dimes which starts day after tomorrow? When you consider there were over 24,000 victims of infantile paralysis last year you can realize how much every dime counts So don't just say yes, I'll have to do something about that get out an envelope tonight Address it to March of dimes headquarters in your city drop in a few dimes or a few dollars Whatever you can spare then mail it tomorrow morning Infantile paralysis strikes suddenly Let us be as quick in our cooperation to stamp it out And now back to the whistler Mark There it is the phony McAllister account the trial Harry Chang's game of ABC's Your friend Samuel happy-go-lucky ways and your name on every one of the Forge vouchers Yes, you can add it all up, but it's one account. You'll have trouble balancing But at least you're sure of one thing you've got to see that Harry Chang never gets to the M file And you've got to watch Samuels at the same time That means you'll need help and an hour after Lena and Samuels have gone. You've made a date for yourself Well, here's looking at you Lena and do you like what you see I'm not throwing any rocks, am I? You've been known to By the way, Lena, you made a remark tonight about Samuel's not being able to pay off that debt to Radigan. Oh So we're not gonna talk business me. I'm sorry. It's Kevin if you want to I was just curious well Of course, I wouldn't know Sammy's personal affairs, but oh there was the cutest little bracelet I wanted and then we we haven't been going many places lately. Well, we Had to do something about that you probably could go places with the right guy and You're the kind of a girl who should have cute little bracelets. Well Tell me more. Oh, it's Just that if we were real nice and helpful to each other Lena This might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship You know something Mark I'll drink to that You were right Mark You've always felt you could count on Lena's the need ever came So for the next few days you're thoughtful and attentive and you begin to see her part in a plan that's taking shape in your mind But then something happened suddenly that makes you glad you were prepared It's New Year Chinese New Year's of course and you're alone in the office when Inspector Morrison of the Chinatown squad drop scene Sit down. Weren't you Inspector? What can I do for you? Nothing serious wondered how well you knew Harry Cheng. Oh well As well as you get to know anybody who works in the same company with you Don't know anything about his personal business and finances and so forth. No, I wouldn't know about that What is it seems Harry Cheng's been going around Chinatown trying to borrow money? $6,000 Yeah Mean anything to you? No, no inspector. It doesn't mean a thing But it does mean something doesn't it Mark yeah 6,000 it couldn't be coincidence, but it's exactly the same amount Samuels owes radicals He's going to sell you down the river for the 6,000 that Cheng is canvassing Chinatown to borrow The minute the inspector leaves he'll rush to the filing cabinet Locked you break into Samuel's desk and a few seconds later Sling lions a berry McAfee That's what I thought We're down to the office. Come in. All right. What are you talking about and what a file? Do you say what? It's gone. Stop stalling hand it over Mark. So it helped me You look at Samuels. Come on. Come on for the love of them. I haven't got it believe me. I haven't got it You've already turned it over to Cheng.  We'll have a little talk when I get back. Where you going? Never mind But you're not here when I get back out. Oh Hello inspector. Hello Fallon you again Samuels around Yeah, yeah, he's here inspector thought he might know something about our friend Cheng Yeah, he might have thought inspector. Why don't you ask him? I am sure Sammy will know how to answer your questions Even if I'm not around This is a surprise mr. Fallon. I hope you will excuse the state of my room. Oh sure It's okay, Cheng matter of fact. I really thought you'd be out celebrating New Year's. I have work to do Oh, I see you're still working on the Randall vouchers. You need them at the office. No, not these Cheng But I I was looking for a few of our other old accounts. I thought you might possibly have them here the The McAllister file for one No, I don't have it mr. Fallon. So I see well What's that? Yeah Almost forgot the children have been dropping them off the roof of the building across the way you can see them up there now Yeah Say that's a kind of a dangerous place for kids They try to keep them off, but they get up at a fire escape in the rear Children have no fear of danger No, I guess they don't oh well happy new year to you Cheng. See you at the office in the morning Will you see Cheng at the office in the morning mark? You didn't find the McAllister vouchers, but you found something else as you stood staring at the roof across the way The sharp noise of the firecrackers popping in your ear The plan isn't hazy in your mind anymore You'll phone Lena from the cigar store on the corner and 10 minutes later You drive into the basement garage of your apartment house. You carefully loosen the valve in one of your tire That's the first step The second comes at exactly 925 when you're back in the basement knocking on the janitor's door Hello Charlie say I hate to disturb you at this hour, but how'd you like to make a couple of bucks? Oh, it's me never turned on a chance to pick up an honest buck or is it not well relatively Charlie relevant I just want you to change a tire for me sure sure thing mr. I'm going back up to my apartment here the keys if the lock gives you some trouble just to work it around a bit I'll bring them up to you in about half an hour. Okay, no rush at all Charlie. Take your time. Take your time Yes by all means Take your time You're counting on that aren't you mark about 20 minutes of Charlie's time 20 minutes in the garage and the way from his apartment You watch him as he disappears down the corridor and then you slip through his apartment and out into the court behind the building You glance at your watch exactly 930 and Lena picks you up right on schedule Good girl Lena. She bring the gun. Yes. All right. This light over me in the driver's seat Yes mark you're in the driver's seat now and you're going to make sure you stay there You head up California Street over the hill and down toward Chinatown Then while Lena waits in the car you thread your way through the crowds on Grant Avenue More conscious of the cold steel in your pocket than you are of the dancing dragon and the firecrackers and the confetti You have no trouble locating the fire escape leading to the roof across from Chang Then you're looking across the gun sight Across the 30 yards that separates you from the figure bent over the book at the desk Your grip is steady and you squeeze the trigger slowly slow But your keys mr. Fallon or said are you finished already? Huh? Well, you made it fast Charlie I would have been faster, but I had trouble with the lock like you said. Yeah. Well, thanks a lot. Here you are Charlie Hey, this is five bucks mr. Fallon. I know keep it. You did me a big favor. Oh, that's darn nice of you. Good night Good night, Charlie. You just brought back the keys. I didn't go out through the lobby I didn't go out through the garage. In fact, I didn't go out at all We're completely in the clear In the clear and it was so simple just an extra loud firecracker in the New Year's celebration Just a slug of lead screaming across 30 yards and a figure slumped over a desk What the next morning when you step into the hall, you know something is wrong The hall seems to be swarming with policemen and standing before the open door of Samuel's apartment You'll recognize Inspector Morrison. Oh, good morning Inspector. What's going on? Good morning, Fallon Just coming over to see you see me. Oh, why about a friend of yours?  No, this time. It's about Samuel's Samuel's what about him? He was murdered last night. What did you say? He's dead Fallon I thought you might want to come down to headquarters and talk about it a little while. Well, look I Don't know anything about it.  You could give us some idea who might have reason to get him. Wait a minute Rattigan who? Sure, Inspector. I might be able to tell you I had reason to get him. Shall we get down to headquarters now? Though Samuel's is dead mark and suddenly you realize that this has worked out better than you'd hoped With Samuel's out of the way. You've got that sure thing you've wanted so long So naturally you're more than willing to tell the inspector the whole story of Samuel gambling debt And the baby faced hoodlum who was out looking for him in fact, you're so busy giving the inspector the information He wants that you're entirely unprepared for the question. He asks you when you reach the hall of justice Well, that's all very interesting. Now that reminds me I came to Samuel's door yesterday, too What were you two arguing about? arguing oh Oh, I guess we were a little sore at each other. I don't even remember what it was about now I thought you two might have been arguing about this guy Harry Chang Chang What's he got to do with this? Suppose we ask him Send in Harry Chang Yes, I forgot to tell you Fallon That's another interesting angle of this case Seems that somebody tried to bump Chang off last night, too Yeah, oh Come in mr. Chang be within a minute. Have a seat. Thank you inspector Good morning, mr. Fallon. Hello, Chang. I Just heard about your accident last night your head Bad no It's nothing Anyhow as I was saying Fallon Seems that last night between 9 30 and 10 o'clock, but the same time Samuel's was murdered Somebody tried to kill mr. Chang Now Did I remember to ask you where you were at that time last night Fallon? I Well go on Fallon We're listening. That's right mark. We're listening Where were you last night between 9 30 and 10? It's not an easy choice to make mark Your fine alibi with a janitor plants you in your apartment right across the hall from Samuel and right at the time He was murdered But there's only one way to prove you were not there and that's to confess to the attempt on the life of Harry Chang That's attempted murder One to five years in prison, but isn't that a lot better than murder in the gas chamber. It's up to you mark Name your own poison Well, how about it Fallon? I haven't heard you say anything yet. I Was out last night I see out That's not an awfully good start Fallon We already checked your apartment house You didn't leave it all night use your head inspectors Samuels was my friend You're not gonna sew me up for his murder. I was outside that door for a long time yesterday afternoon Fallon. I Couldn't catch it all but it seems Somebody was going to kill somebody all right so maybe I did threaten him But I tell you I was out of the apartment when he was killed and I can prove it I can show you how I I sneaked out of the building without being seen and I can produce a witness to testify That I was out of the building sneaked out Fallon why? Well, I Go on You don't leave me much choice inspector, but you might as well have it straight I was the guy who took the shot at Harry Chang last night and if you got the slug I can produce the gun to match it Will that convince you? I'd say it was a step in the right direction Where do we start looking for the gun? You can get it from Lena Merrick 384 Palmer apartment three, but you better break it to her gently inspector I don't think she's gonna like the way our beautiful friendship went sour The whistler will return in just a moment with a strange ending to tonight's story Has your car been acting different lately? Well, it has if you're a signal customer because signal gasoline is now better much better Than even a few weeks ago you see the ingredient necessary for higher octane in gasoline has become more plentiful So the octane rating of signal gasoline has been raised not just a little mind you but a lot Which means you'll now enjoy even smoother knock-free power as you take those steep hills in high Yes, you're going to like the new driving pleasure in today's improved signal gasoline and you're going to like the mileage too After all, you know a gasoline that gets more efficiency from your motor naturally gets more mileage from each gallon That's why we say in gasoline it takes extra quality to go farther and Signal is the famous go farther gasoline and now back to the whistler Well mark the books are in balance at last there was really only one choice you could make wasn't there? Too bad to tear down that beautiful alibi of yours, but it's going to keep you out of the gas chamber Of course, you wonder if it might have been better just to let Harry Chang go on with this game of ABC But it's too late to worry about it All you can do is dictate your confession to the police Tannographer and wait for the inspector to get back from Lena's with the evidence Yeah, come on in Chang. We'll need you too. Oh, well inspector. Was I right did you get the gun? Yeah, we got it and we stopped by Chang's place to pick up some files ahead.  That's right. Not that it's going to make any difference Well, at least I convinced you I wasn't at the apartment. So I couldn't have killed Samuels Who said Samuels was killed in his apartment Fallon? What? You see he went over to Chang's last night to deliver some important files Samuels was the one sitting in Chang's desk when you fired that shot and you didn't miss Okay, Chang you can take off that phony bandage now Let that whistle be your signal for the signal oil program the whistler each Monday at 9 Brought to you by the signal oil company marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories Signal has asked me to remind you to get the most driving pleasure drive its sensible speeds be courteous and obey traffic regulations It may save a life possibly your own Featured in tonight's story were Howard Duff and Jack Petruzzi Whistler was produced by George W. Allen with story by Adrian John Doe music by Wilbur hatch and was transmitted to our Troops overseas by the Armed Forces radio service. This is Marvin Miller speaking for the signal oil company This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system


Hope everyone's doing all right today. Hope we enjoyed our lunches. I personally had one of the boxed ones. It was a wrap of some sort. I believe it was chicken, but I had it in the past hour and before a presentation. It could have been shrimp. It could have been tuna. I couldn't tell you what it was, but my money's on chicken. So it was pretty good, at least from what I remember. So my name's Matt. I'm from Datara. This presentation is going to be on Datara, Cinder, and our Tenancy Integration with Cinder. So a little bit about me. As I said before, my name's Matt. I am a software engineer at Datara. I've worked in the industry for about six years. Previously, before I was working on OpenStack and Ecosystems, I worked on automation frameworks. I was working for Riverbed for a few years and was working on their SteelScript automation framework, which is the primary method by which they automate their Steelhead product. So currently, working for Datara, I am the author and maintainer of the Datara Elastic Data Fabric Cinder driver, which is a mouthful. Also the Docker driver, DCOS integration, Golang SDK, Python SDK, and I swear about half a dozen other jobs. That's sort of startup life. So I'm available on IRC or via email. On IRC, you can typically find me lurking on there most every day. So a little bit about Datara. We were founded in 2013 and were currently located in Sunnyvale, California. It was founded with the purpose of creating an elastic data fabric for private clouds and multi-clouds. We have some Tier 1 investors, some pretty big names out there, Andy and Pradeep. If you're familiar with those. So we have quite a lot of interest from folks who have created very large companies, specifically ones with performance interests. So in April 2016, we exited Stealth Mode and made our product available to the wider market. We have quite the broad data center DNA in our employee structure, people from Cisco UCS, Microsoft Azure, 3PAR, NetApp, EMC, Riverbed, quite a few different places, including the maintainer of LIO, who is our CTO. So about our product, Datara has the elastic data fabric. This is a high-performance, low-latency hybrid storage array. So many of the different features of this array include things like elastic scalability. It is a scale-out product. As you add more nodes to the product, your performance increases. It is policy-based data placement and management. So this is actually a very important part of the product. Almost everything is controlled by a policy of some sort. So say, for instance, you wanted to store your data in one part of our hybrid array versus another part of our hybrid array. That is a policy that you can set for that particular volume or group of volumes. It has a self-adaptive load balancer. So this is essentially a way that we self-optimize our product, not only from the front end and the access of it, but also where your data is placed and where it is accessible from. And actually, one of the things that I'll be covering today is the tendency and resource isolation. So from the very basic level of our product, everything is isolated by tenant. It is actually one of the most basic data structures if you access our product through its API. And so if you are ever accessing it, you are under a tenant, whether that be the root tenant, which has access to everything, or an individual tenant or sub-tenant, which has access only to a specific subset of the resources on the machine. The product is also very, very easily programmable. It has a highly scriptable API. And this is of particular importance, at least to me, because I am at least an API-first consumer. I'm one of the first customers of the API. And if it is not up to snuff, then I'm unhappy. So a little bit more in detail about the product. It is a cloud-independent storage as a service. So you can take our software, you can put it on pretty much any sort of hardware. We do have a sort of a regulated list of hardware that will get you the best performance with the software, but you can put it on pretty much anything. The important part about it is that it has a control plane that it can manage whatever data fabric it needs to underneath it. Currently, what we have available are things like NVMe Flash, SSDs, and HDDs. But it can do even things like managing replicas that are stored in cloud, or current public clouds. Just as easily as it can manage those local HDDs, SSDs, and NVRAM. So safe, for instance, in the future, when NVDem, or sorry, not NVDem, but 3D Crosspoint is widely available and is now this new tiering storage layer that you want. You just simply add a note of that to our product. The control plane will take that over and handle it and then tear to it as it needs to based on the policies that you've set up on the box. So to compliment this, so we have the EDF product itself, but as sort of a necessary compliment in this day and age, we have a global operations portal. Now this is a relatively recent addition to the product itself. We have a very good engineer working on it, and it allows you to access all sorts of metric information about the product that may or may not be currently stored on the product right now. So as the product is running, eventually data can go out of resolution. Things like that in this global operations portal is essentially your way to look at that data as it's been pulled off the product. So if you wanted to say plot or look at your usage of the product over time as your storage uses increases and you want to be able to predict when you need to add a new storage node in order to meet your customer's needs, the global operations portal is the way that you would find that out. So onto the main topic, multi-tenancy. So we have multi-tenancy and OpenStack. So if you are a bit familiar with how multi-tenancy is done in OpenStack, you know that the project concept in OpenStack is the concept of a tenant. And actually if you go back into the code, especially in earlier releases like Juno and Kilo, you will actually find that projects were called tenants and there's still a lot of vestigial things left over from that. So a project in OpenStack can be, it's essentially a way of sharing the same underlying infrastructure well between different use cases. So a project can be allocated more or less of any particular piece of infrastructure than another project. They provide flexibility in segregating resources among use cases. And for an example, business case, you have say engineering group A and that engineering group A is using project A in OpenStack and it has quota A associated with it. Now you have engineering group B, that engineering group B has project B and that's the project that it's using in OpenStack that project has a quota associated with it, quota B. Now let's say that group A has twice the head count of group B. Well, just assume that head count also means productivity and resource needs, though it doesn't always mean that. So in this case, since group A needs twice the resources of group B, you would utilize the project system and the quotas associated with those to allocate twice the amount of resources to group A than you would to group B. And so group A would be able to provision twice that amount than group B just with an OpenStack itself. Now moving on to multi-tenancy and Cinder specifically, Cinder uses this multi-tenancy to essentially set per project quotas, like we mentioned in the previous one in OpenStack, but those quota amounts relate to block storage. So you have your volume allocations that you can create. So the total number of volumes, you have your total number of snapshots, you have your total number of backups that you can create, and then the last one is the per volume size of each of those volumes that you create. And then of course the snapshots and backups are very much related to the size of the volumes that you are snapshotting and backing up. So most operations in Cinder that will eventually reach a backend, reach the backend driver. If you're not familiar with the architecture of Cinder, a call comes into Cinder. Cinder then calls the manager. The manager is managing the drivers on the backend and then the driver communicates with that backend product. And that's how you sort of abstract out the vendor backend. So once the call is passed all the way down to the driver, it actually passes in the project ID with that. And so because we get the project ID, that means that the backend knows which tenant is being used for these requests. And we can sort of make our life a bit easier in the process because we get that information. So moving on to multi-tenancy Cinder and Daterra, this information that you see on screen on the left is actually the Cinder.conf entry for the Daterra driver. If you were to set up Cinder to work with Daterra as a backend, this is about the information that you would place in there. It's essentially pointing the volume driver at it, getting the San IP of the actual backend it would be using, the San login, the San password, and a couple of Daterra specific pieces of information. Now the very important one is there at the bottom. So it's the Daterra tenant ID. So in this case, the important one we're gonna be working with is the one called map. So this is the feature that I put into the Daterra Cinder driver that I'd like to tell you about today. So valid values for this Cinder.conf option are map, some explicit tenant. So just insert an explicit tenant that you've created on the backend, or you can use none, in which case the root tenant would be used. So we have three distinct ways to use it. Now multi-tenancy, if we continue on with this, the strain here, the first one which I find to be the most interesting is automatic project ID to Daterra tenant mapping. Now essentially what it allows you to do is your project ID that you've set up in OpenStack and you've been working under, and so your whole team's working under the same project ID, that project ID will be passed to the backend. The backend then passes it to my driver. The driver goes onto the backend and Daterra sees if there's a tenant matching this, and if there's a tenant matching it, then it grabs that tenant. If there's no tenant matching it, then it automatically creates the tenant. The nice thing about this is that it means you don't have to go to the backend to manage anything. You just create a new project in OpenStack and Daterra automatically understands, oh, you need a new tenant on the backend. Let's go ahead and allocate the resources for that, and everything that you allocate under this new tenant will be under it on the Daterra tenant in the backend, or under the project will be on the Daterra tenant on the backend. Now for the other two, we have the explicit tenant usage in cinder.conf. So this is very useful if, say for instance, you have multiple ecosystems pointing at the same backend. So if you have multiple ecosystems pointing at that backend, you can use different tenants in order to segregate them because you don't want these different ecosystems essentially stepping all over each other. So explicit tenant usage allows you to do that. And then there's also no tenant. So if you have a very simple use case, you have one project in OpenStack or even multiple projects, and you don't really care if they might step on each other in the backend, or if you wanna let OpenStack itself handle it, then you don't have to specify anything. We'll just understand you want the root tenant or whatever the default is for your login. Now, a little bit more about Daterra multi-tenancy. So multi-tenancy, some of the features of Daterra multi-tenancy are that you can have micro-segmentation of users, tenants and applications. You can understand and solve that sort of noisy neighbor isolation through the QOS that you have for the tenant. And you have IOPS bandwidths and other cost controls, like Total Write, Total Read, even latency and controls on the backend under the tenant, as well as IP pool, VLAN tagging and such for network isolation. So here in this image, it gives you an example of having OpenStack, CloudStack and Kubernetes all running against the same Daterra backend cluster. So why do we care about backend tenancy? Because you have tenancy on the front end, why do you care about that backend? So the truth of the matter is, it's kind of weird saying it in an OpenStack presentation, is that not everyone uses OpenStack. There are other use cases for other ecosystems, such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, CloudStack, DCOS, all of these different ecosystems out there and even just bare metal, if you use the storage directly and provision via your own framework, you need to be able to have all of them use the same clustered backend because you have a massive amount of resources in this cluster and maybe not any one use case wants to use all of it or should use all of it. Most everybody still needs storage. So tenancy supporting back ends, such as ours, allow for a much smoother operation of multiple ecosystems and non-ecosystem combinations based on the applications to share the storage backend. So we have and hopefully have enough time for this. So here we have the Daterra EDF API. If I have enough time, I will go through a little bit of a demo. The demo is written pretty much directly against our REST API. Using the Python SDK, we do have a Go SDK available as well. The API is tenant aware. Everything that you do within the product is tenant aware. And you have streamable metrics and those metrics are available by tenant. So hopefully we can get through this demo. So let's switch over. I have the Daterra dashboard right here. Let's go ahead and start the Boston demo. All right, so what this is doing is it's setting up a whole bunch of projects. Well, really it's just setting up two projects and I need the watch over here. There we go. So in the other one, while that's setting up, it's going to be watching the the OpenStack client output for projects and for the volumes and servers. So up here in the top, you see projects. The projects that we've newly created are silver and gold. Just random names that I chose. There's nothing meant to be implied by the difference between silver and gold. We create the root project or sorry, a root volume and each of those projects, we set up a security group for it and then we clone that volume and essentially just boot it into an instance. Now once we boot that instance, we attach a data volume to it because usually your root volume is going to be much smaller than any data volume that you want to persistently store on, although technically you could persistently store on the root volume as well. And this is not nearly large enough to show all the information, unfortunately. So we're testing the connections to the servers and now it gives us the prompt. So if we look back at the Datara dashboard, the Datara dashboard is not showing metrics right now, which is great. Oh, there we go. So now the metrics have shown up. So these are actually not, this isn't any traffic that I'm running. This is just the root view of the Datara dashboard. It contains all the different tenants that are running on this cluster at once and it's an aggregate of all of them. And as you can see, the cluster is in use by somebody right now, but we don't want to see their view. We want to see our view. I've created two projects using the Cinder driver and I want to see ours. So we can look here and see which projects they are. So we have silver and gold. Those are the two projects and these are their IDs. These are based off of the UUID of the project. I just go ahead and append a prefix to it and then create the tenant on the backend. We can go and find these on the Datara dashboard. So the silver tenant starts with 6-1-C and the gold tenant starts with 6-3-6. So if we go to tenant management, we see 6-3-6 right there. All right, and let's go ahead and look in there and we see zero traffic in there. So we essentially see an isolated view of just this tenant's resources. Now real quick, before I run out of time, I'm gonna run some traffic and I believe that was the gold one. This is 6-3-6, so let's run traffic gold. It's running against the 6-3-6 project. It's just logging in there and running DD against the data volume. So give it just a moment. Let's check the API. So we're gonna get the gold IOPS and we see IOPS for gold. And you can see that we have IOPS going on, IOPS in bandwidth right there on the front for metrics and it includes only this one. So if we were to, oh, apparently it's gonna decide to clean up, which is perfect because I'm running out of time anyways. But essentially what I was going to show you is that if we look at the, sorry, the metrics for silver, we don't have any because there's no traffic running for silver. We only see it for gold because that's the one that has traffic running. Okay, so going back to this real quick because I have like 10 seconds. So for the future in the booth, we're always trying to improve our tendency support. So if you have any suggestions for features that we should add to it, just please feel free to drop by our booth and give us your thoughts and opinions on it and we'll give you an explanation of some of the more detailed oriented aspects of the data system. And the booth is available right over there next to Easy Stack and in front of Cloudify. So thank you for your time, folks.


And that is starting right now. So welcome everybody for joining us on the chat for July 2nd, as we head into the 4th of July weekend. I want to welcome Dr. Mike Morris from the Amherst public schools today joining myself and your town manager Paul Bachman. Before we launch into Q&A from the folks in the room and some questions that were sent to us, I want to give Paul a chance to operate any updates he might have. Sure. So two things, major things happened this week. First is I presented the budget to the town council on Monday. And that launched a series of meetings with the finance committee on every Tuesday and Thursday for the next couple of weeks and then a public hearing on July 13th in front of the town council. On Tuesday, the superintendent and the library director reviewed their budgets with the finance committee and will sequentially go through every department. And these meetings are at 2.30 in the afternoon. So you're welcome to join all on zoom. The second thing that came out this week was the University of Massachusetts at Amherst released its plan for returning in the in August, actually. And with a with opening up a lot of their dorms and having one out of seven classes being on campus, the rest of them being remote or online. So, so we were in conversations with Sam about the impact that we'll have on the town, our concerns and sort of a healthy dialogue along those lines. Great. Thank you for those updates and I just want to remind everybody in the room to ask your question you can use the q amp a function in zoom, or you can raise your hand from zoom and ask your question live in the room. If you're joining from a phone just press star nine to raise your hand. Mike any general updates you want to give us before we launch into questions. You know, I think the. It's funny school year ended. It wasn't that long ago but it's a soft end for for many people because it involved physically being in school and I think that's for many of us, that's our vision of what school year and means. So we have our principals for doing fabulous jobs, ending the school year and our staff with graduation ceremonies virtual graduations that were done in ways that were incredibly inclusive and some in person opportunities for instance Wildwood and some of the other schools had some staggered on site pieces where students could at least be at the school site and see their teachers on their last day of school the last week of school so that was only two weeks ago so not too far too long two weeks ago today actually. But this is not a summer like any other and that's true for the town as well as the schools. And in the time since then we've received the initial draft guidance from the state although a much more complete guidance is expected the next two or three weeks about return to school. We've basically been eating meeting just about every week. This being an exception this week being an exception but our school committee has taken very clear stand that they want the administration to start be start drafting up scenarios and space summaries and having the CDC guidelines of six feet between students. And so we've been working on that and next week, next Tuesday we'll have a joint school committee meeting between the Pelham Amherst and regional school committees, where we'll be able to offer a pretty detailed update on space we'll show some maps about where students fit and don't fit. We've got a visual sense of what this looks or could look like. We're also going to do an update based on distance learning surveys, we'll do a summary and analysis of those that occurred in the spring from family students and staff. And perhaps most importantly the school committee is going to be starting to consider priorities for the administration so really help driving what plans get developed. So we'll be talking about that on Tuesday night at the school committee meeting. There are two town halls which we'll probably talk about later on Thursday to solicit input from both elementary and secondary stakeholders and then hopefully voted that the following week on the 14th, so we being the staff can respond with models that conform to the priorities that the school committee set so all this is happening in real time, you know, something that people hear me say a lot is there's four operational areas we're talking a lot about one is maintenance cleaning, as it relates to safety, transportation staffing, and then space and so in addition to the instructional incredibly important instructional work that's happening. We are thinking a tremendous amount about logistics, because if we don't get the logistics right the learning can't happen and so that's sort of the work that we're doing on an ongoing basis. It's challenging work but it's also there's pieces that are exciting we're doing problem solving every single day. And so intellectually high stimulation and also problems that we haven't had to solve before that we're working on. It's been really been through the teamwork that we have I think the last thing I'll note, and maybe I'll send it to be honest we can put it in the chat or make it publicly as we have opened a fall 2020 planning website. It's located on our website. So the idea is that it's continually updated with you know survey results presentations made at school committee and we're trying to do one stop shopping for everyone who wants to find information from the district about that and so that'll be updated on an ongoing basis. And then when we actually get to plans you'll have that we have our guiding principles that our staff worked incredibly hard on and primarily teaching staff worked incredibly hard on at the end of the year so you can see what our guiding principles are for instance for distance learning at elementary and secondary levels if we have to rely on it next year around operation space food service all those pieces, and they really are wonderful guiding principles that as we come up with a plan will work to implement those principles in action. And that's probably enough talking for me for a second so sorry about that Brianna. Oh no that's perfect and we will get that link out when we share the copy of the video so we'll put it out on our Facebook and our Twitter channels and we'll also note it into the recording itself so people can have access to that. So it looks like we just got a question in a couple questions in from the room is ARPS leaning toward one of the two models presented to parents in the surveys at this point. I wouldn't say that we're leaning in any direction that's really where the school committee priorities will set the way that will lead what we're doing after this school committee identified six feet six feet between students to be the kind of the space piece what we did as a space analysis and also a transportation analysis that we're presenting back and the school committee will lead the way on kind of what priorities for in person versus distance learning we can have once those variables are known which will present on Tuesday. So that might be a good point to you mentioned a little bit in your opening statement there about the process and how people can offer feedback. And some of the upcoming events that are going to be taking place to do so do you want to dig into that a little bit right now Mike. Sure. So, we have a couple ways one is that the school committee would always remind me and I want to make sure that I share this that anyone can offer feedback to me Morris am at ARPS.org but the school committee directly is school committee one word at ARPS.org and that's a really good way for feedback to be offered. I think more intentionally there's two town halls on Thursday so week from today on the night there's one that's more focused on elementary level. And that's at noon and it'll be on a YouTube so very accessible for everybody if you have you know the link is is on our website. It's on our social media accounts was emailed out to all all staff and families. And that way questions come in through the text and it can be answered there's also some presentation component that I think the school committee will make will make on their initial thoughts on priorities. The same thing will occur at five o'clock in the afternoon and that one's more focused on the seven through 12 students on the secondary students but the model the school committee laid out is they're going to have a discussion about and about some draft priorities that they would like to provide to the staff on Tuesday the seventh get feedback on the ninth in those two sessions and then you know through email and other mechanisms. And then hopefully make a decision on the 14th we'll see if they're able to do that or they need more time. But it really is. Once we have the space and those variables are sorted. They want to come up with what the priorities are get feedback from the community and then move forward so that we have the staff level can then provide real options based on the feedback we receive from the community via the school committee. Great. Thank you. I have a question that just came in from the room for Mike. Have you reviewed the recent guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which recommends that children return to school. What are your thoughts on this. Yeah, so we have seen that I thought it was a very thoughtful document that they put out. There are multiple factors here where you have competing state agencies or federal agencies offering or in this case, private agencies offering really different advice. What I heard from the school committee was real clarity that the CDC are the government's best mechanism to talk about disease control and we're in a pandemic. One of the things I received from the school committee is this is a public health issue. And I understand what the pediatric saying it's a public health issue if students don't return as well. And I think both things can be true. But I'll say personally for me one of the things about three versus six feet is also about the quarantine rules. And this is playing out. It was just a case in California that this sort of played out in in a non-school setting but to be distance means six feet. And so, if a student return is less than six feet away from another student, and has like symptoms, then that other student would need to also be quarantined. And so, you know, how often does a student have COVID symptoms in school, right once COVID symptoms are fever, coughing, sneezing. We have students every single day in our schools who have that it could be allergies or there's a lot wide range of reasons so one of the things the school committee I think one of the reasons that I, I support the school committee is it's not just about who we get in school it's actually keeping them at school, keeping schools open because we know the line I've used multiple times in private and public conversations anytime someone pushes against the guidelines around COVID, COVID wins. Right and there's plethora of examples of that. And so I think from the school committee perspective they want to make sure the public health guidance drives the education piece. I think things will become more clear Tuesday night when we've done the space analysis that perhaps and I said this last week at school committee, perhaps more as possible than students not returning to school at all at any grade level may not get to all kids returning back five days a week. And that's really for the school committee to weigh in on. So we are reading all reports that come in I think they were really valid points made in the pediatrician article that that's being referenced. But the guidelines from CDC continue to be our guidelines as it relates to public health. Okay, we have another question that just came into the room more speaking to the more broadly the population in Amherst. And this is coming from Chris, could Paul comment on the added risk to citizens and students from the arrival of thousands of students from outside of Amherst and they're mixing into the local population. Yeah, it's that's been the topic of the week. Once the when the university revealed its plans on Monday. We have had conversations with Hampshire College Amherst College and the university and trying to get a gauge on how many students are coming back how many will be on campus how many will be off campus. What are their protocols for testing surveillance testing as asymptomatic testing whatever it is. What are their plans for isolation and quarantine if there is a positive. I don't think I think we will. There will be an impact on the town we have serious concerns about the impact on the town on multiple levels. One is the health of the of the popular of our general population, our year round population. And there is recognizing the age group we're talking about these are young people who have a lot of pent up energy who haven't seen each other since they were, you know, before spring break and naturally they are where social animals are going to want to be together. Typically we have parties in the town when colleges and session. There will and normally we are able to manage those in a pretty successful way. This day and age when people probably aren't going to be wearing masks when they won't be observing social distancing when they are might have larger than the 10 people. We have deep concerns, plus an environment where there's a fair amount of animosity to towards our police officers. It's a very complex environment we've, we're having those conversations with the university and the colleges, and hope that they will understand the concerns that we have, and even concerns such as going to big wire CVS. We've done a really good job in our town of observing social distancing wearing masks and things like things like that. And as long as students are over anybody coming into town is able to join in is, I hope that they will help us to keep up the good work that we've done. I don't think you can introduce that number of students into a small community like ours without there being some kind of spike of some sort. And then how we manage through that because these are decisions that these three institutions have made, and we will bear the responsibility for managing through them. We've got another question in the room that's related to this same concern. So, a concern about the capacity of our local health care system, especially with the large influx of students back in our community. They're wondering kind of university and local hospitals handle an outbreak. It's not my impression we're prepared for this. I say this with a lot of empathy for colleges making tough decisions and the students who want their regular college experience. Yeah, it's another good and I think Mike and I talk pretty much every day and I see the complex decisions he has to make and his team has to make colleges. It's an equally complex decision making process. And you're dealing with the sort of economics of higher education, and you're dealing with three institutions that have really suffered financially because of the free fall from COVID-19. So I really do, I appreciate that the writer identified that. We have asked that question specifically about the internal capacity. They are all very aware of what the capacity of our local hospital is. At the university, they have university health services. They are ramping up a center to talk about public health and that will help sort of be an epicenter area for them to provide testing. They believe I think all three institutions believe that proper testing against symptomatic asymptomatic and surveillance testing, which I think is really the key will help them move forward. And another comment from the room that again relates to this last thing you just said, will the results of COVID testing of students be shared with the town's health department. Yeah, that's it. If they live in Amherst. So the university is sort of an entity on its own. It's a sovereign part of the state. They get their test results independently from our health department. Our health department is part of the MAVEN system, but there's really close communication between our health department and the health department at the university, very, very close. They talk daily, really good, you know, very professional people at both ends. So, but the university through its system they get notification of any positive cases faster than the town does actually and they, they have been sharing any kind of information like that. They're encouraging them to continue that practice and to make sure that it's their entire community, not just the students living on campus but all staff, students and affiliates of the university. If they have a connection to the university that they are able to provide the testing. It's going to be at the initiative of the, at the university is a pretty big expense to do all this testing that they need to do and they want their building that they're trying to build their own capacity in house to be able to do that. So, real credit to them I think they're taking this very seriously. And it's a big job for them and to ramp up in a really short period of time. I'm going to see a hand in the room and I'm going to invite my friend Ken in. So Ken, if you could just unmute and introduce yourself. Thank you, Brianna, I'm Ken Rosenthal. I live on Sunset Avenue. I'm the father of a daughter in New Jersey, excuse me, who's an elementary school librarian, and her sister in Pennsylvania as a almost six year old who's about to go to kindergarten. And we see the problem from both sides and, and we see two important principles here. One is, it's really important to get children back to school. It's so hard to do this from home, the younger they are, more important is to get into school. And the second one is, it will be terrible to open the schools and then have a problem and have to close them down again. That would be very, very bad. And one very expensive solution for you that nobody will like financially. And I was a college treasurer and I understand these things, but the six foot separation is really hard for little children. And we think one answer may be to more teachers, AIDS in the younger, the classrooms of younger children, they don't have to be qualified as teachers, they could probably be young people who are out of work otherwise out of work, who would just work with the teachers and work with the children in very small groups so that they are separated and don't run together at recesses and times like that. It's very hard and of course all of those people would have to quarantine themselves at home so that they don't bring anything back to school. It will cost you some money. I guess put that on the table as a solution we've come up with that doesn't, isn't economically sound, but it may, it may work and I think tax payers like me would be willing to pay a little more. If we knew it meant that our kids were a safe our teachers were safe and they were able to go to school. Thank you. Thank you Ken and yeah so something similar. There's a New York Times article it's getting a lot of social media attention that that's focused on particularly having college students or recent college graduates. I think the conversation it's an interesting connection to the conversation and the questions the town managers answered and then also how people feel about their children and go into school. You know, I've been in conversations not at the level Paul has but with UMass in terms of their College of Education and what does it mean to have student teachers. And you know what's the community levels comfort level with having student teachers not just from the university but from we have some teachers from five or six different institutions higher education, given concerns and given particularly the trends of COVID and other states and age groups which seem like they're going up and higher numbers. So it's an interesting one I do feel like, and this will become a little more clear on Tuesday when we share our kind of space diagrams. We're very fortunate to have a significant number of staff members both in terms of what we are terming would be para educators, as well as professional staff in our schools and how we staff our schools will look really different because one of the pieces and CDC is six feet. It's also about keeping the same cohort together all day and that's not our typical model. And so I think what you'll find when we don't do that is we have a lot of adults that perhaps aren't typically in classrooms they're usually pulling students out who who will be in classrooms so as the school committee models gives gives a staff guidance I think we'll be able to start plugging in the staffing models of what it looks like and seeing if it meets people's level. Because we're doing a significant amount of frankly construction at two of our elementary schools and you talked about elementary schools can. We will have some pretty large spaces and this has been shared in public at two of our schools at Fort River and at Wildwood, getting rid of the quads and moving to kind of half spaces they're 1900 square foot classrooms those are really large and kind of a lot of learners. And so I think it's good feedback to think about other creative models. And I do want to note and appreciate the support we do receive from the town of embers for running our schools even on uncertain times and the more ideas the better so keep them coming. And did you have any follow up where you all set. Okay, I'm going to pull you out of the room then. And I do see that we got a hand from Ron so I'm going to pull you into the room Ron if you could. unmute and introduce yourself please. Ron I'm a member of the Pelham School Committee Mike. I read those letters from the community stressing five days a week they were compelling, but it still doesn't answer the question if the very virus doesn't spread. Why are the kids wearing masks. So, there's an implication in the requirement for masks that the virus spread somewhat. How do you trade off five days a week for the burden that's going to place on working families what do you do about that. Yep, and I think Ron highlights the tension point that that we're all facing and again I know, maybe I should have come on next Thursday Paul I apologize but I think things will become more clear as to what's possible from a space perspective, you know we're just working on the high school map in Summit Academy at this point, but I think once we're done with that, it'll become more clear what's possible, what's advisable what's beneficial right that'll be run unfortunately for you perhaps some of your job and your colleagues to work through but really the guidance is really helpful about the six feet because we were then able to literally go building to building, put desks in, put out the measuring tape measure six feet between where students would sit. We have a couple odd shapes room Ron Ron school in particular has a couple odd shapes rooms up in Pelham that that aren't rectangular or fully rectangular so we were able to do that you've got situations that crack a farm where there's built in cubbies in the rooms that we can't remove. So we had to account for that we looked at staggering rose so we have a lot of data that we're coming back with and I think that'll help inform the next piece of the conversation about what's possible. Thanks. Thank you Ron good to hear from you. Alright, thank you Ron. So, again, I know we're having a lot of these details forthcoming but we do have a question about what your thoughts are around busing in the fall and whether or not sports in person sports and team sports are a reality in the fall. So, in terms of busing that's another data point will be presenting on Tuesday night might be a long meeting so you might want to grab some coffee hot cocoa cappuccino I don't do caffeine so I don't really know the right words for it but Paul does know. And we'll have a lot of data to present, you know, we got multiple hundreds of responses around distance learning and we disaggregated by grade levels you can see how elementary families staff responded secondary family staff in the middle school students and high school students. We have a lot of data we're presenting on that we have done an analysis, for instance, our, our currently school committee policy is that we only would have to provide transportation for students who live a mile and a half or more from school. Our reality and it's been a reality for a long time as we transport every single student who wants transportation to our elementary schools state law is that it's two miles from the school. We have an analysis of how many students can fit on a bus, and in all three of those models are current model, if we went down to a mile and a half or further, we went to two and two miles or further. At the regional level, we have to drive all students because that's the basis of our reimbursement being a regional district so there's not a lot of wiggle in the region for the secondary student transportation. The elementary level are surveying showed that between 30 and 40 actually K to 12 showed between 30 and 40% of families said they would absolutely provide transportation next year either to help the district or because they felt like it was safer for their child. A significant other percentage that they might be able to do that so I think transportation is a complex piece of all of this. It's more complex of the elementary level in some ways because the district could the school committee could move to change who gets buses who doesn't at the regional level. It's harder, but it's simple because we have to be able to provide transportation for all students, and that'll be a barrier in getting all kids back for five days. So, we will talk loosely about that and we'll have some data on Tuesday night. But I don't think that'll be the primary point of the conversation with the school committee because there's only so much data you can go through in one meeting and still get to the dialogue you want to get to. The second part you mentioned now is lost in me Brianna I'm sorry. Sports. Sports. So, you know, I did see that Williams College Amherst College Mount Holyoke College Bowdoin College all have canceled sports for fall we're not a college we're high school so we're waiting on the MIA a which is the governing agency to make a decision. I interestingly have seen a couple other states. High school organizations and I have no knowledge that this is going to happen in Massachusetts but I, you know, become an obsessive reader about what's happening elsewhere is they've actually shifted the non contact sports to fall. So, like tennis and golf and being becoming fall sports in the hopes that a vaccine or some treatment will come and some of the contact sports like soccer football. Soccer some states consider soccer contact sport, some don't but football I think everyone contenders contact sport and some of the other higher contact sports could perhaps occur in spring if a vaccines here it's an interesting kind of model. Maybe an optimistic model in terms of vaccine timeline but we all need optimism these days and so I'm still waiting on MA I know they have having meetings and I got a survey from them the other day. They're trying to solicit input. So I think with the state guidance that comes out in a couple weeks from desi hopefully they have a decision because I know there's a lot of student athletes that are really anxious about what they're both anxious on both levels they're anxious about perhaps playing their sport is going to be really hard to do socially distance. They're also anxious about what will happen to their season if we don't have sports in the fall doesn't mean football doesn't happen for this whole calendar year or there's still some hope for spring so we sort of have multiple governing agencies that are going to give us that feedback, but it is interesting to see some creativity that I've witnessed from other states about how they might do that and tennis and golf are the two sports that I've seen as being some states have felt more comfortable moving forward and fall with but I have no knowledge of whether that'll happen in Massachusetts. Great. And I think we're getting closer our time but we have one more question that kind of answers some some of the things you've been speaking to today. So it seems that schools are going to need a lot of work in the buildings and maybe even paying additional people. Where is the money going to come from. I just bring Paul bagels all the time, you know he loves bagels, but no on a serious note, you know the state has provided us with some additional funding. I think one of the challenges is the state budget level, the state level our budgets only. We only know what our budget is in the summer. There is no state budget for the next fiscal year so we're all making some assumptions we don't know if those assumptions are accurate, they're optimistic or they're pessimistic. And it's a it's a real challenge with budgeting and I think the town of Amherst has done a really good job of making preliminary plans and knowing that we may have to have additional conversations over time. They've been a great partner to schools in that way, but it is. It is something that's on our mind we're trying to be acutely aware of our finances and we also know that our community has high expectations of the education that we provide for their students and hopefully we don't get into a conflict where those are pitted against each other and if that happens what we're going to do is what we always do which we share transparently information we have what we know what we don't know and have community stakeholders. Talk about the problem see if there's creative solutions and work through it and I think the big thing that I feel confident about is our school committee. It is dedicated to our students and dedicated to being good stewards of finances and dedicated to working with the towns, town of Amherst, town of Hallam and shoots brand levered as well to update them throughout about the situation but you know the last couple years even in some tough budget years we've been able to manage some deficit that that we had at the beginning of the year where there's health insurance. It's a particularly acute one where we received negative health insurance. I don't know was it a week into the fiscal year a couple years ago Paul something like that. And, you know, we work through it. This is a different challenge. There are more unknowns in this challenge. But you know, we're just going to keep on talking about it and keep on making sure we're staying on top of what we're spending and what our needs are, and keep on communicating that in public meetings that we'll have. We already had probably more summer meetings that we typically have, you know, summer usually July in particular is a slow month for school committees statewide that's not the case this year. But I think at the end of the day we still need to talk about budget and where some of these cost centers are going to come from and what tradeoffs we have to have. Like, on that one, the good news is the town is in a strong financial position we have the flexibility we raise we built up the reserves for purpose, not expecting to have to use it for this. We hope we still don't have to use it for this. The other piece of it is that the state has comes has come through in the federal government with some money, and different pots of money come in and tied up in different packages and so we're trying to place those pots of money appropriately there's some building there's some money that comes in that the schools cannot use for staffing but they can use for construction. We get money and so it's like making sure that we're maximizing the availability of funds that we get independent of the local tax dollars is really important. We're managing that on a daily basis because there's different money comes in all the time in little pieces that that I think will help us get through this. And we're, we're hoping for more we need more. And I just want to remind everybody to that we will have. We'll share all of the schools information about how to keep updated and offer your feedback throughout this. Additionally, the next few weeks in town will be focusing heavily on the budget. Next week we will have our finance director on the call to answer questions, as well as we'll be trying out something new doing a 24 hour. If you have anything about budget and finance next Thursday as well and we'll share out those details so if this if you have additional budget questions, please try to use that format and we will get you some details. So with that being said we've we're done. We're done with our time here today, unless there's any last statements you guys want to put out there. I'm good. Have a great Independence Day. Okay, having me. Thank you all for joining us. Thanks, Brianna. Yeah, have a nice day.


Hi, we are today at the make-of room with Adriano. The drone project has the aim to explain to students of high school and university how they can develop around STM32, around the STMens sensor and motion control a drone by themselves with their teacher. It's a project we have developed in collaboration with the University of Catania. We have used the blue coin with the MEMS Bluetooth low energy and a lot of other sensors and the Nucleo F446RA for actuation. Everything is connected to an app which sends the command to the robot which moves consequently. This demo shows two gears driven by two marks of three-phase BLDC motors moving in a perfect synchronized way. This accuracy is reached through the usages of our evolution work. Maxon recently joined our SP partner program with a leader for high precision motors so this partnership allows STM to target specific applications, as in this case robotics. We have a new family of STM32, basically the STM32 MP1 which is a mix of STM32 standard microcontroller plus two micropossessors so high-end products inside our families and on top also these two boards with the H750 series which is the high-end microcontroller we have. Graphic inside, everything inside to run either the real-time world or the micropossessor. BLUNET is an innovative startup, ST authorized partner. Together with Mauro and PerlaTechnica we realized robotally and with robotally we bring inside the school the ST technologies in a simple way for students. Robotally is a tennis mart city in which there is a robot cart that is an autonomous driving car that is able to move autonomously inside the roads of the city. The same technologies are used in the real world and ST provides the same technology to his client. So as students programming on the ST nuclear for example learn to program with something that he can find in his future in the real world or in his professional life. So we bind the school word with the job word. It's called Automatically Call for Bikers. It's a device that automatically calls for health whenever you fall from a bike or motorcycle and you are injured. So this board can detect whenever you're falling of course but also it can detect the presence of holes in the ground and the presence of high pollution. It transmits all this information along of course when you're near the medical session using the lower connectivity. We are here because we first participated in the ST open days in Catania. We participated of course with this project and we won the prize for best team. This is an enophonic greenhouse with the cloud technologies. It regulates autonomously light and humidity and temperature thanks to these two sensors activating a led and a fan order. It shows the sensors inputs here in the display and communicates with a cloud. With the cloud it's close to communicate with the final user thanks to a bot of telegram and a group. In order to give insight on the sensor values. We participated to the Nepalese innovation summer campus which was made by ST Rectonics which they show us how to program a nuclear 64 and then we had to develop a project which was shown in the last two days of the summer campus in Nectar. For more information please visit our website ST.com


Bonjour tout le monde. It is a real pleasure to welcome President von der Leyen to Canada. Ursula, thank you so much for being here. No matter where we are, NATO meetings, Canada EU summit, Brussels, G7 leaderships, I've always been able to count on your insights, your friendship and your steadfast values. Just ahead of International Women's Day tomorrow, I'm struck by the fact that we're here not only with the President of the European Union, but also with our Deputy Prime Minister, our Minister of Defense, and our Minister of Foreign Affairs, who all happen to be strong women leaders. That is always a pleasure to see. Every day, their expertise and dedication makes the future brighter for people on both sides of the Atlantic. The links that unite Canada and Europe are narrow, and our solidarity continue to tighten. Today, we strengthen even more our partnership, and we begin with the support we offer together with Ukraine. We're here at Canadian Forces Base Kingston to meet and thank the women and men supporting operations in Europe. This includes personnel involved in training Ukrainian security forces, Canadians in uniform who've been deployed in Poland to support Ukrainian refugees, and in Latvia to support NATO. There can be no doubt, just as the resolve of our brave women and men in uniform is unwavering, so too is the bond between Canada and Europe. Already, Canada has provided military support to Ukraine and put in place sanctions and punitive economic measures against the Russian regime. Together, President Evander Lyon and I also co-hosted an international pledging event for Ukrainians who've been forced from their homes, many of whom have become refugees. For as long as it takes, we will stand shoulder to shoulder together with our European partners for Ukraine. Today, I can announce that we are extending our engineering training as part of Operation Unifier until at least the fall and deploying CAF medical trainers to help Ukrainian forces with combat medical skills. We're also investing $3 million for demining in Ukraine and working with the EU to deliver energy equipment to Ukraine for their power grid. We will also deploy medical trainers of the Canadian Armed Forces to help Ukrainian forces acquire combat medical skills. Moreover, the European Union has granted Canada a partner status in terms of its regime of control of exports and sanctions against Russia. This will help us strengthen our cooperation in terms of sanctions applications. As I said to President von der Leyen, Canada will remain the leader of Ukraine's population for as long as it takes. Today, the President and I also talked about another shared priority, growing strong and resilient economies and creating jobs on both sides of the Atlantic. For over six years now, CETA has helped our businesses work together to create growth and opportunities. Later this afternoon, we'll be visiting a Canadian company that recycles lithium-ion batteries for clean tech like electric vehicles. Lycicle is not only creating jobs and building up our critical mineral supply in Canada, they're opening plants in Europe, too, so they can do the same there. Whether it's ways that Canada is leading or ways the EU is leading or ways in which we're leading together, this partnership means good jobs for our workers and resources that the world needs. So today, we're strengthening this partnership even further. During the visit of Chancellor Scholz last summer, we took the commitment to proceed to the first hydrogen exports to Germany by 2025. Today, we're announcing the passage to a new step with an improved action plan on hydrogen between Canada and the European Union. The new Canada-EU Enhanced Action Plan on Hydrogen will mobilize investment, support businesses, share expertise, and get clean Canadian hydrogen to Europe. Fundamentally, it's about good middle-class jobs, economic growth, and clean energy. This is on top of work together on protecting nature and fighting climate change to deliver a strong future for our kids and grandkids. There is so much that Canada and Europe share, a commitment to the people of Ukraine, to defending democracy and international law, and to protecting human rights, shared values like gender equality, and a commitment to growing the middle class and making sure people have good careers they can be proud of and build their families and communities around, and a belief that we can and will build a strong, healthy future for generations to come. Canada and Europe are friends, allies, and trade partners. By strengthening our ties, we have built a stronger and more promising future for all our citizens. Ursula, once again, it was a great pleasure to have you here with us today.