Good afternoon. Alibaba is one of the largest internet companies in the world. Network infrastructure is critical to the success of the business. In this talk, I will share our journey of building our own network infrastructure. It started a couple years back. As the Alibaba e-commerce business become hugely successful, we also got a lot of DDoS attacks. Our commercial vendor devices cannot handle the level of attack that we experienced. As a result, we decided to build our own solution. To do that, we built a high-performance packet of processing platform using kernel bypass technology. DDoS protection was built on top of the platform. With our home-grown solution, we were able to provision tarot BPS of DDoS protection capacity with customized protection logic. It was not possible with vendor devices. As the size of our infrastructure grew, we decided to build our own switch. Because vendor switches were expensive and lacked the transparency and customization, we needed it. We started with a white box switch hardware from the market and a vendor network OS. Over the time, we expanded the hardware support to more switch hardware. Building our own network switch gave us the first-hand experience of the switch internal. However, a low-source network OS was difficult for us to choose the network hardware we wanted. This got us thinking about what the alternatives are. In 2016, we started deploying gateway servers with 100 gigaNIC. This gave us a significant performance boost compared to the 10 giga and 40 gigaNICs. We also expanded the platform to support more applications like a load balancer and the virtualization gateway. Leveraging our expertise in kernel bypass, we built a high-performance user-mode networking stack and a virtual switch. Compared to the kernel version virtual switch, our user-mode one can give cloud customers more than double the throughput and over 10 times reduction in latency. On the switch side, we announced a joint Sonic project two years ago at this conference. Does anyone still remember that? For the gateway side, we released a 400 gigaGateway server which can process more than 400 million packets per second. This is an incredibly powerful gateway. 2018 is an exciting year because we brought in lots of customized hardware to our network. Our smart link can provide close to bare mental performance while free up the CPU from networking and storage IO. RDMA offloaded the entire transport stack to the hardware. This gave us much better performance and significantly lower latency. Last year, we announced a high-performance block storage product that can deliver over 1 million IO per second through a single disk. And the RDMA is the key enabler of this product. While RDMA offers many amazing performance benefits, its APIs are very different from the socket. To help the adoption, we built a communication library that is easy to use while offering the performance advantage of the hardware. The momentum of our switch development continues. We bring up eight new switch hardware. This enable us to build the entire data center network using our own switch software and hardware. For the gateway, while we got incredible performance from our gateway servers, we know that we're approaching the end of the server-based solution. To keep up with the traffic growth, we developed a new generation gateway platform using programmable ASIC. With a new platform, a single device can deliver a terro-BPS throughput with several microsecond latency. In summary, Alibaba's diversified workload and hyperskill services give enormous challenge to the network infrastructure. At the same time, it also offers a great opportunity for us to develop the best infrastructure technology. We believe building our own network infrastructure is critical to the success of the business. Our journey started with moving from vendor solutions to building our own solution on commodity hardware. With the end of the Morse law, we started making another transition to specialized networking hardware to keep up the performance demanded by our business. Thank you.


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For Frigidaire refrigerators are made only by Frigidaire, a division of General Motors. For Frigidaire refrigerators serve in more American homes than any other make. And our Frigidaire presents Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston, the man called X. Listen to this news dispatch from Rome, Chief. The Italian government today announced the beginning of an all-out drive to destroy the secret Sicilian organization known as the Mafia, whose systematic terrorism against the Sicilian people has defied Italian law enforcement agencies throughout the years. It's been rumored, Ken, that the guns and ammunition the Mafia are using have been smuggled in from America. Yeah, that means a special responsibility in finding out how the Mafia is getting those guns and since this is out of the bill as jurisdiction, I'd like to take on this assignment on my own. Okay, but it's a tough one. The Mafia is hard to put a finger on. They've existed for generations, terrorizing their victims to the point where they're afraid to go to the law for protection. I'm sorry, but officially we won't be able to give you any help. Well, something done up this morning that might be a lead. Take a look at this. A pair of tickets for the Circus at Madison Square Garden tonight. Chief, look at what's written on the back of the tickets. Importante, Parelli. Importante. Who's Parelli? Here's the report I just received on him. Alfredo Parelli, famous Italian acrobatic clown, owner of a bankrupt circus, just arrived from Palermo, Sicily. Came to this country to earn money to keep the circus going. Palermo, Sicily? What's the base of the Mafia organization? That's right, Chief. It's only a hunch, but fear of making a direct contact with me could be a clue. Well, I think I'll pick up Pagon, stop him at Madison Square Garden to see the circus. Look at it, Mr. Therson. It's more like a musical comedy than a circus. Even the clowns are wearing nylon costumes. Now, when I was in the circus... Look, going up to the top. That's Parelli in the clown suit. That trapeze is six stories up and no net. I get dizzy just watching him. What's he going to do? Parelli swings from a two-bees bar by his mouth. He uses a steel and rubber bit and has been noted to as many as fifty-four loops, hanging by his teeth. The guy could get pink toothbrush from doing that. Now he's up on top now. There must be an easier way of making a living. To the office entrance. May I have a word with him? It's very important. You better hurry. He just has a few moments. Yes. Now, really, this is Mr. X. You wanted to tell me something? Please, Mr. X. They shame on it. The mafia. What about the mafia? Did they try to murder you on the trapeze? No, no. It wasn't accident. What about the mafia, Parelli? They're laughing at me. Mafia. What about the laughing lady? The mafia. They're laughing at me. Parelli. Parelli. It's dead playground. Was he murdered, Mr. Therson? Everybody told me it was accidental. Accidental murder, he means. Pagan, pick up a ticket to Palermo tonight. Me? Alone? What'll I do in Palermo, Mr. Therson? Go find out about the laughing lady. Then call me in Rome. I'll be at the embassy. Hello? Hello, is that you, Mr. Therson? Yes, Pagan. I found the laughing lady right here in Palermo. Go on. The laughing lady is the name of Parelli Circus. It's called that because the main attraction is a laughing lady clown. What about her? There's a price of 10,000 lira to anyone who can insult her and makes her stop laughing. Boy, the things I've said to her... What about the mafia? Any signs of it or all the guns? I've taken a job running the shell game and the sideshow, but I've seen nothing suspicious yet. Well, keep your eyes open. And remember, not a word to anyone about who is dead. To buy a circus. Mr. Therson, in Sicily, it's practical or old-joys. Lucky I was able to swipe. I mean borrow it. Sicily knows real poverty. 20 years of being robbed by Mussolini, and now the mafia is pitting its bones. You can't say that again. And Parelli Circus is the first good love they had in years. I wonder. The report I got in Rome indicates that after the laughing lady circus leaves the village, the mafia terror begins. Well, maybe Parelli could have been killed because he found this out and wanted to tell you. There's no more about that when I hear from the chief. Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Therson. This radiogram came for you this morning, and I didn't even take a peek this time. And this time I know you're telling the truth. I am? How can you tell? Because you still think Parelli was murdered. Of course he was murdered. The chief's wire says new evidence established. Positive proof, Parelli, death was suicide. Suicide? But it couldn't be. Well, why should he? What was that? Someone over there on the olive tree just missed welcoming you with a slug of steel. Where? I don't see anyone. Besides, nobody knows you're here. Look. The bullet landed here on the back end of this tree. Maybe we should leave. I don't think they like strangers here. Look at this. I'd rather keep my head down under the seat. An American-made bullet, 22. The mafia were probably going to be killed. Oh, let's go home. This is no place for a brave man. Keep going to the circus, Pagon. We can't turn back now. I think the laughing lady is expecting us. You don't think she had anything to do with that shot? Parelli's last words were... mafia, laughing lady. I don't think it would make sense, her being with the mafia. Why not? Because the laughing lady is Parelli's sister. Parelli's sister? Yeah. I told you the whole thing didn't make sense. First, this Parelli kills himself. Then he sends us after the mafia with the clue that it's the laughing lady that's connected with it. Then we find her. What have we got? His sister. It's crazy. You're wrong, Pagon. Parelli's suicide is just beginning to make some sense. He must have found out something between the time he sent with the tickets and the time I arrived at the circus.  There's the circus. You mean he must have found out that someone in the circus connected to the mafia was close to him? Someone near and dear. You mean maybe like a wife or a brother or...? Oh, a sister. Ken Thurston, senor Parelli. I knew your husband in New York. Alfredo! Mi casa! Mi Alfredo! I'm afraid cold, Mr. Thurston. Come on the show. I'm afraid senor Parelli is too upset to talk. I'll come back later. Oh, please. Please, you stay here. Why do you come here? Oh, please. If the American is a friend of Alfredo's, he is welcome. Senor Thurston, this is my sister-in-law. I'm a senor Parelli's sister. Oh, the laughing lady. In this hour of grief, must we talk to strangers? I'm sorry, senor Parelli, but I understand your brother made great sacrifices to keep the circus going. Sent money from America. What the business is that of yours, senor Thurston? Please, please. The gentleman speaks the truth. Alfredo went to America, so the circus might bring joy to his people. No, I don't know how he will carry on. This show never made me money. It's an awkward time to speak of it, but I came to offer to buy the circus. Buy it? What would you want with a circus that has no profit? No, no, no, please. That I cannot speak of now. Excuse me, please, senor Thurston. I do not know who you are or what you want, but my advice to you is to get out of Sicily now while you are still alive. I'll think over your advice. Say, Mr. Thurston. Yes, Col. Sure good seeing other American here in Sicily. I have a surprise as an American here myself. I feel I ought to tip you off, Mr. Thurston. This circus isn't anything you ought to buy. You'll lose your shirt in it. Think so? Worse than that. These people here don't take the strangers. Col, if there isn't any money in this circus, and if it's tough for strangers here, why do you stay? Can't go back to the States. Federal indictment. Thanks for the advice, Col. At least I could do for a countryman. Drop around to see my act, pistol rifle expert. Use a human target for my finale. Kind of sensational. I was snooping around the side shows like you told me when this gypsy dame came up and said she wanted to see you. Read your fortune-free. Her wagon is at the top of this hill. That'd be a good idea. I'd like to ask your gypsy friend, wife of Lily's widow and his sister, who owned this banquet circus, won't sell. Well, maybe it's sentiment. My family have owned the circus for years. Could be. It could be the circus is bringing in money from another source. Mafia, for instance. Here we are. Knock on the door of this wagon. She's inside. You wait outside. I was told you wanted to see me, Signorina. Never mind that, Signorina, Mr. Thurston. What's the gag about buying this broken-down circus? Well... That's right. Jane Bishop, Miss Omaha of 1937. I sell fortunes with a show. And what makes you think, Miss Bishop, that my wanting to buy this circus is a gag? Because buying a circus is a pretty expensive way of finding out how the mafia's using it. And who in the circus is working with the mafia? You know a cheaper answer to those two questions? Much cheaper. For the price of two tickets to New York. A ticket for you and who else? That's my business, Thurston. Fair enough. How soon do you talk? In an hour, say three o'clock. Meet me here in the wagon. I'll sneak away from the show just before the pistol act goes on. Pistol act? Yeah. I've got another job besides telling fortunes. I'm the human target in the pistol act. Must be a good racket telling fortunes. No overhead.  I got five minutes after three. She said she'd meet us here in the wagon at three o'clock sharp. I told you to leave the dames to me, Mr. Thurston. Step outside. See if you can see her. Hey, there's door. It won't open. Maybe it's stuck. Kick it. It's locked from the outside. The wagon. It's moving. Someone's taking the brakes off and pushing us down the hill. Well, our goods are cooked this time. We're heading for those olive trees at the foot of the hill. Hold on, Peyton. Mr. Thurston. Mr. Thurston. You all right, Peyton? On your feet? Yeah. Where are we going? Back to the circus to find Jane Bishop. The only person who knew we'd be in that fortune telling wagon. In just a moment, we will continue with a man called X created by J. Richard Kennedy. This is Wendell Niles speaking. Every good cook knows how much trouble it saves to have everything handy right where it belongs and easy to get at. Frigidaire engineers know that, too. That's why Frigidaire refrigerators are designed the way they are. The Frigidaire deluxe, for example, has a super-freezer chest that holds up to 50 pounds of frozen foods. 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Be sure to listen for the announcement. And now to continue with Frigidaire's Man Called X, starring Robert Marshall. Ken is in Sicily trying to find out how a small circus is being used to supply the dread mafia terrorist organization with American-made arms. His only clue, two words, Laffing Lady, spoken by a dying clown, leads him into a dilemma. For he finds the circus is called the Laffing Lady and its star performer, a woman clown, is called the Laffing Lady. Ken and Pagan are returning to the circus after an attempt has been made on their lives while they were waiting to meet a Miss Jane, the human target in the pistol act. Hurry, Pagan. We've got to get to Jane Bishop before she goes on. If she offers some information to us, she could just as easily get a higher price from the mafia, not the sale. Well, business is business. If she comes now, grab her, Mr. Therson, quick. We can't get to her now. The mafia would identify us. She won't look this way. I swear I didn't. I couldn't kill Jane. A thousand people see him bump off the dame and listen to him. I didn't. I couldn't. Believe me. Please, Signora, it was an accident. You lie. It was no accident. He killed her. He wanted to get rid of her. Why did you want to get rid of her? I hated her. I wanted to get rid of her, Therson, but I couldn't. I couldn't miss my target. Please, Signora Thurston. Have pity. Leave him alone. It's your fault, Signora. For years I'd tell you to get rid of this foreigner. Always you say no. Now we are in trouble. The police will come. Oh, Fred, though. He insisted that your call stay. I still want to know why Cole wanted to get rid of Jane Bishop. This is not your affair, Signora. He'll go, please. It is my affair. Someone tried to kill me a few minutes ago.  I wanted to be free, but I didn't kill her. She was my wife. But, Mr. Thurston, they've tried to kill us twice. And you're out here in this dark, looking at trees. Let's get back close to the circus line. Quiet, Pagan, and hold that flashlight. There we are. What is it? A bullet. The American 22. At the same time, someone let go at me in the jeep. But the tree's 50 feet from the tent, and Cole was... It may not have been Cole's shot. You mean Cole didn't kill Jane? Someone else plowed a shot at precisely the same moment he did. Someone's coming. Have you not caused enough trouble, Signor Thurston? Oh, Signora, really? Did you ever see cartridges like this before? Oh, they are the kind we used in the pistol act and the shooting gallery. You're sure? Certainly. I have a charge of the circus ammunition. Before it is too late, Signor, get out of Sicily. Perhaps I'm still interested in buying your circus. If that is what you're staying for, you may leave now. The widow of my brother and I sold the circus today. Signor Thurston, this is the bullet taken from the dead woman. Another American 22. Thank you. Matches the other two. Now, would you take me back to Senior Cole's cell? Cece, follow me, please. It's just like an American to help a countryman in trouble. Thanks for coming. I'll try to help you, Cole, but I want the truth. How could I lie to you now?  I checked and found you were lying. I love Alice Pirelli. That's why I don't go back to America. Alice Pirelli? Alfredo's widow? Yes. She needs me now. The laughing lady hates us both. What do you know about the mafia? How is it using the circus and who's connected with it? The mafia? I don't know. I swear. You're lying. Your wife Jane knew about the mafia and was going to tell me. She made the mistake of telling someone else and got killed. But I didn't kill Jane. I couldn't. If you didn't, whoever did is using you for a fall guy. Who was it, Cole? I don't know, so help me. I don't. Okay. You'll have to sit in jail here until I find out. No. Don't leave me here. Senior Thurston, a stranger just came with 50,000 lira for Senior Cole's release. 50,000 lira? The only one around here with that kind of money is the mafia. You think Senior Cole is with the mafia? I don't know. But I'm sure the mafia is getting guns tonight from the circus. I'm going to need you and your men. Why wait till tonight, Mr. Thurston? Grab the laughing lady. I have no proof she is the mafia agent yet, paper. But Parili said she was the mafia agent. She has chartered the circus ammunition and now she sold out her share of the circus. Yes, but Parili's widow sold out her share of the circus too. Oh. And someone in the mafia just bailed Cole out of jail. Well, maybe all three of them are in the mafia. You can find out how much each of the women got for her share of the circus. I'll know which of the three is the mafia agent. Well, that's easy to find out. But please, Mr. Thurston, arrest the laughing lady now. I can't. I've got a few questions I want to ask you in front of the townspeople tonight. You'll never make her stop laughing, never. No one will ever get the 10,000 lira prize. You find out how much each of the women got for the circus and I'll stop the laughing lady.  Here, on this paper, the amounts the two women got for the circus. Paper right up, folks. A win at 10,000 lira. Make it a lady stop for laughing. Thanks, Pagon. Stick close to Cole. You are it! Terror is being planned by the mafia for the people of this village. You and the widow, Alice Parili, know that the mafia is using your circus to distribute arms. You laughing lady, are permitting this crime. Out of fear of the mafia. You think your partner, Alice Parili, also fears the mafia. Your brother knew the truth and killed himself out of shame. When he found out it was his wife, Alice, who was connected with the mafia. You lying! Out of fear you sold your circus for a few hundred dollars. But Alice got one hundred thousand dollars in gold from the mafia. You and your brother will trade. Tell the citizens here where the guns were hidden before it's too late. Ah, in a livestock tent buried in the bails of a hay. Pagon, grab the widow. Alice, the mafia? No, she couldn't. The widow killed your wife because James was going to tell me about the mafia. You were blamed for it. But she, she bailed me out of jail. To make the story stick with the laughing lady. Your beloved Alice was leaving for Rome alone. Mr Thurston, you won the prize. Ten thousand a year. What a way to stop the laughing lady. I'll forfeit my winnings this time, Pagon. The laughing lady is going to need it.  I hope so. Now that the false laughter, the mask of terror is cleared away, the people can get the joy of laughter. They'll really try to give them. Here's the big announcement Frigidaire wants you to hear. Next week, Sunday, October 3rd, Frigidaire will present the new London Abner show. A full half hour of comedy with those two delightful, pine-rich characters. Yes, London Abner, the favorites of millions of American families will bring you a new half hour show starting Sunday night, October 3rd. Listen to Frigidaire's new London Abner show over most of these same stations Sunday, October 3rd. See your newspapers for the exact hour. Now, in saying goodbye to the man called X, we say goodbye to our good friend, Herbert Marshall. Bart, on behalf of our sponsor, Frigidaire Division of General Motors Corporation, thanks for the grand job you've done and for the fine performances of the entire cast. Leon Bellasco, Ted Von Elsall, the rest. And I'd just like to add, for all of us here in the studio, thanks Bart, thanks for being such a swell person. Oh, thank you, Ben, thank you. Thank you for myself, for Johnny Green who composed and conducted our music, for the many writers who contributed scripts for the man called X, and for our director D. Engelbach. Will you please express our appreciation to Frigidaire for the most happy association? It's been a great pleasure to be with you. The best of luck from all of us to you on your new show. So long, Bart, and so folks, this is Wendell Niles saying good night for Frigidaire. See you all on the new London Abner show next week. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


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We'd be recorded for others who might not be able to attend. I welcome everyone to this virtual community meeting regarding the upcoming West Side Alliance and Arlington High Street Reconstruction Project. My name is Greg Robbins and I am a project manager with the City's Fort Worth Transportation Public Works Department. On this call as well, I'll represent this from the Water Department, the engineering consultant who designed the project, as well as the contractor who will be performing the construction. They'll be around at the end to help answer any questions that you might have. This presentation is meant to provide you with some information about the scope of this project that's happening in your area and give the community the opportunity to ask questions and be providing information regarding the upcoming construction. Here's what the agenda for what I'm hoping to cover in my brief presentation. I'll be talking about the project as a whole, providing a summary of the improvements on each street associated with project, discussing the expected construction schedule and phasing, and allowing some time to end for questions and comments. So first we'll talk about the overall scope of the improvements associated with the project. This project is part of the 2018 bond, which was voted on and approved by the residents at Fort Worth. There are 7 streets associated with contract 14, which is this project. They are L place from 7th Street to Madison Avenue. I'm out of her place from Clark Avenue to Can't believe Boulevard. Washburn Avenue from Montgomery Street to Sutter Street. Harley Avenue from Owaso Street to Sutter Street. Stanley Street from Can't believe Boulevard to Conwood Avenue. And Gwinnett Street from Byers Avenue to El Campo Avenue. And Pentecost Street from Birchman South to the dead end. So next I'm going to be taking talking about a summary of the improvements on each street. The proposed improvements include new asphalt street, new concrete driveways. New concrete sidewalks on several streets as well as new ADA wheelchairs ramps. Let's start with the summary of improvements for Bell Place. So on Bell Place, as far as the underground utilities, we're going to be replacing the existing 8-inch water line. For paving improvements, we're going to be installing new asphalt pavement with new concrete curbs and fetters, and also reconstructing damaged concrete driveways. On Madeline Place, we will be upgrading the existing 4-inch water to an 8-inch. Where to Bell Place will be installing new asphalt pavement, new concrete curbs and gutters. We will be reconstructing damaged driveways, and we're also going to be replacing damaged sidewalk on both sides of the street. On Washburn Avenue, we're going to be up-sizing the existing 6-inch sewer to an 8-inch sewer, and that's located in the alley, it's not located in the street. It will also be upgrading the existing 6-inch water to an 8-inch. For paving improvements, we'll be installing new asphalt pavement, new concrete curbs and gutters, and reconstructing damaged driveways. Harley will be upgrading the existing 6-inch water to an 8-inch, and up-sizing the existing 6-inch sewer to an 8-inch, which is also located in the alley. For paving improvements, we'll be installing new asphalt pavement, new concrete curbs and gutters, reconstructing damaged driveways, and replacing existing sidewalks on both sides of the street. Kenley Street will be upgrading the existing 6-inch sewer to an 8-inch, that's also located in the alley. We'll be upgrading the existing 2-inch and 4-inch water within the street to an 8-inch. Paving will be providing new asphalt pavement with new concrete curbs and gutters, reconstructing damaged driveways, and replacing damaged sidewalks on both sides of the street. On Sanguinette Street, we'll be replacing the existing 12-inch water line, and we'll be upgrading the existing 6-inch sewer to an 8-inch, which is located in the alley. For paving improvements, new asphalt pavement with new concrete curbs and gutters, we'll be reconstructing damaged driveways, and replacing portions of damaged sidewalk on both sides of the street. Finally, Pentecost, Pentecost will be replacing the existing 8-inch sewer located in the alley, and we will be providing new asphalt pavement with new concrete curbs and gutters, and reconstructing damaged driveways. All right, so we'll talk briefly about the expected constructing paving and the schedule. It's shown here where it's provided by the contractor, and this is their anticipated schedule and paving for the project. Please understand that this represents the initial schedule provided by the contractor. You never know when there may be some slight changes or some delays due to weather, things like that, but this is the schedule that we're basing our paving off right now. So we're expecting to start our construction right there at the 1st of June on June 2nd. Pentecost Street will be the first street to begin construction, followed by Sanguinette, Kinley, Harley, Bern, Bell, and finally, Madeleine. We have 365 calendar days on this project to complete construction, so you see that we are expecting to end construction in the 1st of June 2022. You may also notice how some of the timelines overlap, and that's because the contractor will have multiple crews and contractors that perform different work. They'll be rotating the different streets when their work is complete. We've now come to the end of this brief presentation. We'll now move into our questions and input portion of the presentation. So if you have any questions, please put them in the chat and we'll take those first, and then anyone who may have a question on the phone. Yes, I haven't received any questions in the chat. Have you received any? No, sir, there's nothing in the chat on my end. Okay. A couple just popped up. Someone asked about seeing the presentation somewhere. Yes, so this presentation is being recorded and it will be uploaded here in a couple of days to the City of Fort Worth's YouTube channel. So you'll be able to watch the video again and share it with anybody else who may not have been able to come to the presentation. Okay, there was another question. How will construction affect egress from driveways during construction? So during construction, when we are actually reconstructing the driveways, you won't have access to your driveway at that time when we're actually placing concrete. It takes a little time to cure. So we'll make you aware of that when that happens. And so you can make other arrangements for those few days while we're waiting for the concrete to be placed and cured. But during that time, you won't have access to your driveway. Other than that, for the rest of construction, you should have access to your driveway for the majority of the time. And like I said, if you ever don't have access to your driveway, we're going to let you know before that. Someone asked about Madeleine getting a sewer upgrade. Let me go back to Madeleine. Don't believe Madeleine is getting a sewer upgrade. Soobie is our Water Department Project Manager. Soobie, can you confirm no sewer upgrades from Madeleine? No, we are not upgrading sewer on Madeleine Place because its existing line is good condition. Okay. Another question is the timeline, six months for Washburn, accurate. Let me go back to the schedule. So let me go back to the summary for Washburn here. So Washburn is getting both sewer work as well as asphalt payment work. And it's one of the longer streets on this contract. So I would imagine the six months is probably a pretty good estimate. Someone asked, how do we arrange for parking? Do you mind being a little more specific about what sort of at what point you're talking about? Is it just when you don't have access to your driveway? Someone asked the question on Madeleine, are curbs and gutters included? Yes. I think the answer for the parking, the answer, yes, it's during when we're doing the driveway. The answer to your question, yes. Oh, I haven't, sorry, I haven't scrolled down far enough in the chat. This is street being, okay, yes. So when the street's being paved, you'll have to park on a different side street or something like that or make another arrangement. When the street is actually being paved, it won't be, it's not as long of a time period where you'll be out or you won't be able to access your driveway. The main time when you won't be able to access your driveway is when the concrete's being placed. So that's, you know, a day to place it and then a couple of days before the concrete to cure. Okay, I'm sorry. Great. I have to say more on that. So the question about the driveway, so we'll let you know before we do the driveway and it will take a week to do the driveway.  And when they do that, they can park on yours, you can coordinate with that or you can park on the street. So by that time, this is at the street. So the process is they're going to do the carbon gutter first and then they go and do the driveway. So while they do your driveway, you can park on the street. You won't have to park on the street. You're not going to do both at the same time. So you don't have to worry about that. And then when we're doing the bathing, it's asphalt. There is no time you're not going to have access to your driveway except when we board, like Greg said, when we're doing your driveway itself. You will have access to the street all the time. So it's either all the street or the driveway. And then we do the asphalt. It will only take a day. So if we start in the morning, by the time you come home from work, the street will be done. So the only time you won't have access is when we actually board the concrete for your driveway and it usually take a week. We don't want to open the concrete for driving over it so early. We usually take a week to do that. Thank you, Mary. Okay, I see another question on Pentecost. Will you be only replacing curves as we don't have sidewalk? Or will you be installing sidewalk? So on Pentecost, no, we will not be installing sidewalk on that. It'll only be replacing the existing curves and replacing the asphalt and street. Okay, another question on Washburn. Will places currently without sidewalk get sidewalk? Is this referring to, if it's referring to gaps in the existing sidewalk, then yes, we'll be filling in those gaps. Okay, someone asked, can you show Washburn again? Sure, I can show Washburn again. Okay, someone asked, will water quality be impacted during disconnect from the old and connected to the new, i.e. temporary water lines above ground? So any time that we are replacing the water, in order to do that, you will be placed on temporary water during that time so that you should have a quick transition to and from the new and old water line. You'll be notified when that happens, at least a day in advance. You'll be notified when the switch is going to occur. And when you actually switched on a temporary, it doesn't really take very long. You'll only be out of water for a very short time period. And then again, when you switch back to the new water line. Oh, great. I have to add something on first. So your water quality won't be impacted. Before we switch you to the temporary water line, we're going to test it. We don't test on that temporary line before we connect you to it. And when it's that the quality for the water, we connect you to that temporary water and yes, it will be above ground. It won't be underground water line. So if it's during summer, if you're straight, being done during summer, it will get little hot and summer for your water, since it's above ground. During winter, we will ask you to keep your water a little bit running if you're in temporary during the winter. We'll give you notice before that and the inspector will be there and tell you what you will need to be doing. You don't have to worry about that and you want to be charged for any water meter at that time. Even if you left it running when you are in temporary because they're going to do an average for your water filling during the time when you are on temporary. Thank you, Mary. Okay, someone asked when you say fixing sidewalks, does this include cracks in the sidewalk? Yes, it includes sidewalks that are cracked and broken or pushed up or have fallen. Things like that. So we'll, and it's not just. It's not just that we're sealing cracks or anything. It'll be replacing of the entire concrete panel for the sidewalks regarding the curves on Pentecost. There was a question. If you do, okay, you don't have existing curve will you be putting a curve there? Yes. So we'll be putting a curve on the street, even if there wasn't one there before. Another question. If a homeowner has a sprinkler system in the right of way lawn, what happens to that? So we will try to preserve your sprinkler system as much as possible. If it happens to be damaged during construction, then the contractor will fix it and make it right. I see another question. If you have continuous water use and it hasn't been addressed yet, how will this affect the water line? I'm not sure what that means. So are you saying that if water is being continually used, how did we switch over to the temporary? Okay. So during the switchover from your existing water to the temporary, there will be a disruption in service. So if that's what you're asking if the service will be disrupted or not, the answer is yes for a very short time. I don't believe it's any more than an hour or so to switch over from temporary and then to switch back. I hope that answers your question. Okay. Somebody wants me to put the dates of construction back up. Sure. There you go. I think I saw everybody's question, but it's possible I may have skipped over a question. So if I skipped over your question, please let me know and I can address it. Jeff, I don't see any questions in the chat. Do any questions on the phone? We do have one. We do have one calling user. So if you feel free, if you're muted to unmute, if you still have a question and ask it, we're pretty far in by now. We've gotten most of the questions answered. So I don't anticipate any talking over each other. So I think we're okay if anybody has anything they want to just ask over the audio. Greg, there's one more that came in in chat. Madeline's near the end. Are we going to do any schedule updates like mid project? If things start shifting, are we going to put out a different schedule? I want to say that it's possible. This is just the initial schedule that was provided by the contractor and their expected phasing. We never know when something is going to pop up. If we find on one street that there's a utility that still needs to be moved out of the way, you know, a gas line or something needs to be moved, then the phasing may shift and other streets may get bumped up first or bumped up earlier or bumped back later. So we don't know at this time. This is just the expected phasing and schedule of the project as of right now. Okay, I see another question. How are we going to affect the water bill? So when you're on temporary water, it takes... I'm going to have Mary back check me, but it takes the average from the previous year's bill. Is that correct, Mary? Yes, the previous year they took the average for when we were on temporary. Okay, so when you're on temporary water, it's... They used the last year's bill for that month in calculating your water bill for that month while you're on temporary water. Okay, so I'm going to have a question. If we had questions later on, who do we contact? You contact me. I'm putting my contact information up here. So please... So I'll be the project manager during construction, so please give me a call if you have any sort of problems. And I'll try to... If I can't help you, I'll try to direct you to the person who can. I also have the contact information for our construction inspector. He'll be on site way more often than me, so you probably see him walking around, checking things, working with the contractors. So you can also grab him and ask him questions, and he can send them to me, and I can help answer them as well. But please, my number is here. My email address is here. Feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or concerns that you might have. I see one other question. In regards to the states, well, Pentecost takes the full June through October timeline. I really hope that everything goes a lot faster than what's on the schedule. At this point, I don't know. That's just what the contractor has provided to me. It's how long they think it's going to take. I think of now when there may be a slight delay between the curb and go to and the asphalt. Being a short section of roadway there will probably do the asphalt with Kenley and I think it's Sanguinette that are close. So that's probably why there's a little bit of a longer timeframe for that one. Thank you, Justin. I also put my contact info on there. If anybody has questions, they can contact me as well. Okay, yes, Justin did put it here in the chat. So McClendon construction is our contractor and Justin is going to is the contact for them. He put his number there and his email address in the chat box. Does anybody have any further questions or comments, concerns that I can help with. Greg, we should also mention that the contractor Justin team, they will come through with door hangers about a week ahead of time before they get to your house. So you will have some notification other than just a schedule of when they're going to start on your street. Usually those get hung a week ahead of time and then a second one like a day ahead of time as a second reminder. Okay, yes, that's good information. Yeah, thank you. I also hope we don't have a storm like we did earlier this year. All right, well, if there's no other questions or comments, then I think we can go ahead and close the presentation. Thank you so much to everyone who was in attendance today. Like I said, this is my contact information. Feel free to reach out to me by phone or email. If you have any follow up questions or comments or maybe something you thought of just just as soon as the presentation ended, I know how that goes. So I'll leave the slide up for just a little while so that you have a chance to copy the information down. And other than that, I hope everyone has a great evening and I look forward to hearing from you.


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Oh, Vinyl's back, I guess. Yeah, Vinyl's definitely back, you know. There are people. Such a pure sound. Well, no. Don't you think? No. No, Vinyl could. Well, you're the sound engineer amongst us, so all right. Yeah, Vinyl completely ruins the sound of things in that when things, well, here's sort of an interesting historical fact.   And then you can get a nice, you know, even sound and all of that good stuff. They took those masters, the vinyl masters, and the very first CDs that we all bought were just made from those vinyl masters. So that's why when CDs first came out, they sounded like harsh and awful because you were getting what the master had directly to your speakers. And so then they started remastering things, remember? For CDs. Remastered audio. Correct. And then it was like, OK, well, we can pull out all this extra high end that we added. And look, if you like vinyl with audio, confirmation bias is actually a good thing. Because if you like what you have, if you like holding the record, if you like putting the tone arm on the thing and watching the record spin, and or if you simply believe that vinyl sounds better, it will sound better to you and you will therefore enjoy it more and that's OK. Like, there's nothing wrong with confirmation bias when it comes to sound. People that buy $25,000 speakers like them better than the $500 speakers that somebody else might buy. Also, OK, one cool thing about vinyl is having listening parties where people bring vinyl over and now it makes music more interactive. You put on vinyl, each side is only 20 minutes or so. And so there's a lot of things. I at times have had a turntable in my office and I really like the ritual of every 30 minutes having to get up and go and flip it. It gives me something to do while it gives me a break of what I'm doing and listening to music when I'm alone in the office just grinding stuff out. So yeah, but yes, vinyl is back. We just released the latest Better Pill record, Live and Ain't Cheap, Die and Ain't Free, is available on vinyl and it's all red. It's awesome, so. Now, isn't there some science in the cartridge? Is that what it's called? Absolutely, yeah. That will affect the input quality or playback quality, I guess. Correct, yeah. And you can change out the cartridge, the needle, if you will, although the needle is part of the cartridge. So there are two separate things, but yeah, you can change out the cartridge on this turntable and put something. I believe they told me what cartridge is in it. I'm looking here. It is an Audio-Technica ATVM95E cartridge. But if you have a cartridge that you like better then you can replace it, that would be fine.


For the Loving the Gear session, parents and students will start the evening out with activities to do together for about 20 minutes. You will do fun, science, engineering and technology activities together. So let's get your science on. Kirsten will now give you a brief demonstration of each activity to get you started. Did you realize that we have 20 small receptors and 5 taste receptors? Today we are going to see how well our senses are without our sense of sight. For this activity, it is important that you make sure you inform your educator of any and all food allergies that you may have. For experiment one, put on your blindfold and we are going to sample liquids A and B. Can you figure out the difference between the tastes? For experiment two, keep your blindfold on and this time plug your nose. The samples here have similar textures. Can you figure out the difference between the two samples? This next activity, we will be learning how visual sensors work in robotics. We will be constructing our own binoculars and testing our own visual sensors. Your finished product will look like this. To put this together, add a scrap piece of paper in between the two tubes right here to make a space between the tubes. Tape the tubes together on both ends. Then, we will add the two pencils at the end on the outside of both of the tubes. Finally, we are going to create the blender. We will trace both of the ends here on a piece of paper. When you have it traced, we will cut the two circles out and attach it like so. Team member of your group lay down a strip of tape on your piece of paper that is 2 feet long. Make sure that it winds around so it isn't too straight. At a time from your group will be the sensor. Looking through the top of the binoculars and keeping the pencils between the tape down below, they will walk along and trace the tape on the paper. With different lengths of the binoculars, you can trade with other people in the class and compare your observations. As most of you have folded a paper airplane before. Today we are going to try something a little bit different. We are going to make gliders that can soar up to 10 feet. However, I am going to challenge you to not fold or bend the index cards. Using the materials provided, experiment with creating your own glider. We have paper clips, binder clips, masking tape, 3x5 index cards, and 5x8 index cards. And measure the distance that applies. Next, using two index cards, masking tape, one binder clip, or six paper clips. We are going to connect the two index cards with masking tape. First, try flying this like this and measure the distance. After measuring the distance of this, we are going to add some weight. You can use any combination of the materials provided. Once you have added the weight to your glider, experiment on different areas of the glider that you can put your weight. And then measure its distance. Notice that your glider may not have flown straight. We may need to add a little more detail. For the next activity, we are going to create a tail for the back of the wing. I have a couple examples of tails that could be used over here, but it's certainly not the only kind. Here is an example of the finished glider with the tail. Create your tail and connect it to the back and measure the distance of how far the sun flies. The materials added for this part of the activity, we have two drinking straws and two thin rubber bands. First, we are going to connect the two drinking straws to make it longer. We can do this by pinching one end of the straw and connecting it with the other straw. To connect the straw to your front wing, put the rubber band on the straw. The straw on top of your front wing. We are going to pull the rubber band all the way around, making sure that the front wing is angled in a V shape. Measure the distance of your final product. Here is just one example of the finished glider. We have the tail, body, front wing and the weight. All of these activities will spark a future interest in the science, technology and engineering fields for you today.