Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we are going to discuss about the Syrian situation and what's happening there on the ground. To discuss the issue we have with us, Prabir Purkhais, the chief editor of NewsClick. Welcome to NewsClick, Prabir. So there are two narratives that are coming from Aleppo. One is that it has been freed, it has been liberated and another about the brutal violence that is going on there. So what is actually happening there? Well, you know, the interesting part is also the language used. On one hand, the western media, almost uniformly the entire western media is talking about the fall of Aleppo. The same time when they talk about Mosul, for instance, is the liberation of Mosul. When they talk about Pamirah, where ISIS has recaptured as they are calling it, it's recapture of Pamirah by ISIS. So each of these cases, the language seems to be very different. The second part of it, and I think that's very important to understand, that urban warfare is brutal. The other part of the so-called fall of Aleppo you must understand, there is western Aleppo and eastern Aleppo. And the eastern Aleppo is a much smaller part in population terms than western Aleppo, which has been under the control of the Assad forces right from the beginning. Syrian government has controlled western Aleppo and it has about a million people. Eastern Aleppo originally had about 300,000 people. Now how many people were left before this offensive? We really don't know. There have been various figures. There have been figures as lowest 25,000 to 90,000 by the Russians to United Nations, which has said 250,000. We really don't have any clue about the figures. But it is clear that 250,000 is a gross overestimate. About 35,000 seem to have come out initially when the pocket was half liberated. So you already saw about 35,000 come out. Six to 7,000 went to the Kurdish areas, rest came to the government areas. And this process is continued. Now it's also true that in the evacuation which has finally been agreed to with a lot of difficulty, the Russians give the eastern Aleppo rebels. And again the eastern Aleppo rebels are really the forces led by Al Qaeda today. So they were given a safe passage to Idlib area. About 7,000 to 8,000 people have been evacuated. But it is very clear and this Robert Fisk, for instance, has written that there are very, very different narratives depending on which side you are on. And it's important to realize most of the narratives of the western media really come from what is called the white helmets. And white helmets have been funded, about 100 million dollars have been funded by the British and the American government. Because if one could look at the different media and the social media, a lot of photos being circulated and the questions are being raised that do they actually belong to Aleppo or not? So I mean, what is the interest of these western media houses or the different things that you have pointed out? What is the interest that these narratives are being drawn from? It's very clear that the western narrative in Syria has been that Bashar al-Assad's government is illegal and should be overthrown. This has been by all accounts not only a civil war but a proxy war. So that's been the picture from the beginning. It's a western governments, NATO governments along with Qatar and Saudi Arabia and Turkey earlier. Turkey has come out of the equation a bit right now. These have been the ones who have instigated the war in Syria which in some sense the Syrians have been the victims. No excuses for Bashar al-Assad's government. That's really not the point but nevertheless this has been a proxy war. That's very clear. So they are interested in vilifying Bashar al-Assad as much as possible in some sense also to give strength to their original narrative that Bashar Assad is a villain and we are the good guys irrespective of the good guys being Al-Qaeda or ISIS which is what the two opponents are. You talked about the pictures that have come out. You know manufactured news is really what I would call as armed propaganda and this has been what the really the UK and the US is perfected starting with the weapons of mass destruction if you remember that this has become something which they seem to have now created in terms of being able to control the global narrative. If you look at for instance entire global media most correspondents don't exist in most parts of the world. So they get the feel from AFP, Reuters etc and which are today highly doctored. Probably it seems to be a very complicated and complex situations. A lot of parties are involved. So there's a Syrian, Russian, Iranian section then there's a ISIS section and their affiliates and this force is also. So can you just throw some light on this complexity and what actually is the geopolitics of that area currently? It's clear that Aleppo is a watershed. Aleppo was the second most important town in Syria after Damascus being the most important the capital. It was a commercial capital of Syria. So it had a bustling industry. It had a commercial zone. It has one of the oldest souks in Middle East, West Asia. In fact Damascus and Aleppo are supposed to be the two oldest urban settlements that we have in the world today which still continues as urban settlements. So Aleppo is a very important city for Syria and it's also true that in 2012 when the rebels or the Al-Qaeda forces took over where Eastern Aleppo that they dismantled the industry in fact took it to Turkey. A lot of the industrial equipment was sent to Turkey. So Aleppo has really seen the ravage of the civil war for the last four years. So it's fall to Assad's forces is certainly a very important landmark in what's developing. If we look at the map of Syria you will see the most of the settlements people who are there densely populated areas run from south west to north west up to Latakia. This is the area which is most populated. It has a significant part of the what they are calling the Alawait population as well but still majority Sunni. So this is 80% of Syria's population and major towns are here. So if you look at this belt then today the picture is apart from Idlib which is the district which is north west of Syria. Apart from this there are now pockets near Damascus, pockets near the Jordanian border, pockets near Homs and Hamas where there are still some of the Syrian rebel forces which owe allegiance to Al Qaeda and Haral Shah. So the two major elements which are there in this area and this is slowly going to be mopped up. Already there are agreements of the kind which allowed Aleppo evacuation to take place. Similar evacuation has been going on and the troops the rebel troops have been going to Idlib which is which has become the quote unquote where all of these forces are ending up in. So what's going to happen is this this entire area except Idlib is going to be slowly removed of all these forces. So this is one part. The other part of it is of course the eastern Syria which is largely desert which has a few towns Derasaur, Pamera is an old town not such a big one as of now but it has historical importance and of course Raqqa which is the supposed headquarters of ISIS. So these are the three towns which are the Derasaur is under siege. Pamera has been taken back by ISIS and you have Raqqa which is still controlled by ISIS. These are the three major towns but eastern Syria is largely unpopulated and has some oil wells but apart from that there is not much of significance economically or in terms of population to eastern Syria. So that is not their main target as far the Syrian government is concerned. Their targets has been the western part of Syria. The northern part of Syria has this additional complication. There are Kurdish pockets which is the Rojava cantons that they want to create with a contiguous border from right from contiguous pockets right from Hasqa up to Latakia that's the northern part of Syria and apart from now the area near Albab Jablus this is the part where the Turkish forces have come in the Kurds really control almost the entire part. So the question is what is the relation between Turkey and a Syrian government on one side and the other part of it is what the Kurds are going to do. De facto there seems to be an understanding between Kurds and the Syrian government still apart from the little breakdown which took place in Hasqa where there was some fighting. There seem to have decided not to fight each other and even in Aleppo there seems to have been de facto coordination between the Kurds which are really in the north of Aleppo city. They are really occupying a part of northern Aleppo city and the Bashar al-Assad government. So Syrian government forces so that is still there. Turkey after the coup and Russia's role in supporting Erdogan there seems to have been a thaw and Russia-Turkey relations. It appears that they are not going to fight each other. The Turkey-Russian relationship improved because of the coup and Turks' disillusionment or tension with the United States. Now this is a temporary scenario. What Erdogan is going to do in the long run not even Erdogan may be aware of. That is one of the imponderables in the situation. But at the moment Turkey and Russians are not fighting each other. The Syrian government has not intervened militarily beyond Aleppo city. So northern Aleppo which is where all this is happening. The narrow strip about 35 to 40 kilometers from the Turkish border up to Aleppo city. That part of it still is contested between the Kurds and the Turkish forces and Turkish supported rebel forces with the Syrian government forces really taking a back seat on that. So that area still remains mixed. Otherwise I think we are seeing a resolution of the Syrian conflict on the western side. But the northern side with Turkey and Kurds remains complex. We still do not know which way it will go. It is going to go. And the eastern side has this issue. It is linked to Iraq because here is ISIS also in control of Mosul. And also having seized Pamirah recently there is an issue over there. And the fact that the Kurds are also coming closer to Raqqa. So there is a triangle over there developing which is to be studied. But I must point out one thing. That the Pamirah when ISIS seized Pamirah again they came from Mosul. And it does not appear that the Americans did anything to hinder that. So it appears that the Americans want that the ISIS move back into Syria rather than strive and work with Syria to see how ISIS can be finished or contained. What is the way ahead for the Assad government if you look at this entire situation. And I mean there is very rare global response to it. So what is the way ahead for them?  The bigger player is of course the United States and the NATO forces. If they keep the pot stirring, if they support the proxy war, they continue to support proxy war in various forms. They give them anti-aircraft missiles and so on.  Even if it takes, it gets resolved one way which is in the Syrian government's favor. It can still go on for quite some time before it really falls you know completely under the sway of the government forces. So it really depends on the United States. The question is Trump had initially talked about having a different kind of policy for West Asia where they would not intervene. The America would not intervene militarily so much where he thought that you know there could be possibility of accommodation with Bashar al-Assad.  Most of them are really different kinds of what would be called the neocons. So they all seem to also very aggressive military policy towards West Asia. So whether it what will be Trump's policy is the big uncertainty. As we know our knowledge about Trump, what he is going to do is has been rather limited. That's all the time we have for today probirian as the things proceed will be coming back to you on such issues. Thanks a lot.


Someone asked me why I use Linux. And that's actually a question that I've never been asked before. And it got me thinking, why do I use Linux? Well, I've already said that I started using Linux full-time because I wanted to do a Linux podcast. But why did I stick with it? And I think that the answer has to be is that I hate Windows. And it's not that Windows is unusable or anything, but every time I went back to Windows after using Linux, I found these things that just drove me crazy, like being forced to reboot after an update or having problems with my fans being louder than a 747. For whatever reason, my computer doesn't like Windows. So I've had way more success with my computer running Linux. And that's one of the reasons why I like it. But there are many other reasons too. I really enjoy the community. I really enjoy being able to customize my computer. So there are just so many different reasons why I use Linux. So the question I have for you, my community, why do you use Linux? Let me know in the comments below. See you tomorrow.


We're just going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here So we got our first look at the Chucky TV series today. The first teaser came out. We're supposed to get something next weekend at Comic-Con I'm still certain we'll get something at Comic-Con. This is just a Little bit of what's to come next weekend. Hopefully hopefully we'll get something even longer This is only like 20 to 30 seconds of a tease for what's to come later this We now know if the premiere day is gonna be October 12th on the USA sci-fi network. So It's gonna be an October 12th On the USA and sci-fi network and the pint size killer doll that we all know and love Chucky Charles Lee Ray Once again voiced by Brad Dorff. He is back and it was so nice to hear that laugh during that teaser It was just so refreshing to hear that laugh once again because it's been so long over four years over four years at this point diamond scene he shared some more insight into what is going into Motivating this TV series or some of the motivations with the TV series and gave us some more details about Jake that I kind of already touched on In the past in a recent video. He was this was shared with entertainment weekly They're the ones who drop this but he goes on about about Jake the main character is 14 year old gay boy is a 14 year old gay boy who's bullied and sort of lost after the recent death of his mother He's a young artist making sculptures with doll parts He finds Chucky at a yard sale and buys him but it turns out that he gets much more than he bargained for and One of the things that I wanted to do was bring this franchise back to its roots or Child's play roots and I have the protagonist to be kids But since with the first couple of movies we'd already developed and having kids I wanted to explore something different. So this time we're exploring young teenagers Which I do think is very refreshing something that again, I'm glad he pointed out These kids are slightly older than Andy and the other people we saw Tyler in the past So Jake like I've talked about he's recently dealing with the death of his mother and Here's some cool images of the TV series Here's Jake walking with Chucky in what I'm going to assume is this the hallways of his school Although to me for some reason this looks like an emergency room Pretty sure this is Jake's school Mancini also reaffirmed his intent to dwell back into putting Chucky back Into movie format his incarnation of Chucky any whether or not that be on the big screen or not I have I don't think that'll happen. It's probably be more straight the video stuff But he said that there are plans to still do that whether that be in additional seasons of the series or in tandem with them Potentially he says we're creating a broader Chucky universe with the TV series that now could span over different media So what I like about this is him admitting that he's not even opposed to doing the TV series simultaneously with future movies So of course what could end up happening if this ends up being a success because that's the only way this stuff will happen We'll get a Chucky season 2 Chucky season 3 and Chucky season 4 Now I'm going to stop a season 4 because I again would not want to see this go above four seasons I would much rather it be a four season show and Jump back into the film stuff But if they're somehow able to do it simultaneously along with certain seasons then do that too Maybe you can have like a long gap in between one season and another because of the fact that this is going to be a new movie coming out in between Season 2 or season 3 or something like that a movie in between season 1 season 2 Who never you never know here's some more images of Jake in the classroom setting with Chucky We do see in the teaser. We do see the character miss Jolly. I do want to point that I believe we see miss Jolly In the teaser setting up her yard sale. She's propping up Chucky I'm assuming that lady propping up Chucky in the teaser is missus jolly. So that erases my speculation that it's gonna be Tiffany somehow or even speculation that it was gonna possibly be Janelle Moná playing her cuz it's clearly not Janelle Moná playing her in the Teaser again assuming that lady was miss Jolly. Here's another image of Jake throwing Chucky away After what I assume relates to something that happens at school earlier in the day or earlier in the afternoon rather And he wants to get rid of this doll because he realizes this doll is Trouble we also get to see Devin Sawa because I don't believe Devin Sawa and the character and the role that he plays has actually been confirmed But there were some steals a release showing him with Jake at what looks like Jake's house And you see the Chucky doll on the table. He looks like he's in a work uniform safe to assume Devin Sawa will be playing the father of Jake now What I also want to touch on is I want to then throw out there. Do not be surprised if Devin Sawa plays us plays a Care plays more than one character. I'll just say don't be surprised if he plays more than one character Don't be shocked at that. We already know we're expecting to see Glenn or Glenda So I feel like they'll have another set of twins and I think Devin Sawa might be playing these set of twins, but Here's another image of Devin Sawa clearly in some type of trouble that will come Later on in this in this first episode. I'm going to assume I'm going to assume that what we saw was kind of just a compilation of different scenes throughout the Season or the episodes that have been filmed and not necessarily the whole one single first pilot episode death by misadventure Which again, I believe is the title death by misadventure. I've already speculated. I'm not speculated. I'm positive that Devin Sawa as Jake's father is going to die That's just gonna be another thing to further the narrative with this toxic bond That I'll say Jake will develop with this doll who Indirectly will help him find that confidence that he needs to come out as being gay a part of this community and Give him a voice that he Desperately needs because he has so much that he's dealing with and it's gonna be nice to see this character Overcome all these things here We have a shot of Zachary Arthur in his role as Jake clearly very troubled by something that's going on One can only assume it's related to him being very Bothered or turned off by the things going on with this doll that he purchased at this yard sale now What I do also want to point out is since he bought him from this yard sale I'm giving the details diamond scene revealed about him and the stuff he sculpts It's safe to assume that he will try to take Chucky apart at one point and that's not gonna go well this here is clearly a talent show and I can say that the stuff that I've seen and heard about this if this scene is Anything like what the stuff I've heard. This is gonna be one of the most entertaining scenes in this TV show And I believe this will occur in the pilot episode if this scene happens where Chucky is basically taking over and Kind of just trashing this talent show That's gonna be he's unfiltered all the way through that is this that's gonna be a hilarious scene very very hilarious scene Something that's definitely gonna have a lot of us just engage to see where this show goes after that after a scene like that And I'm pretty sure that's gonna be one of the things that lead to Jake wanting to throw Chucky away because he's gonna realize Man, this doll is crazy But let me know what you guys think about this down the comment section below Did you watch the teaser? What did you think about it? If you haven't already make sure you subscribe turn on post notification and miss a video in the description I have links on my social media accounts on my Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there, of course I'm as any movies news or reviews you like me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


does of course support her i served with the city on the cultural heritage board and art in public places for around 10 years and when i became aware that jack tidbits was resigning my daughter melanie has the natural qualities to be an excellent council person from what i saw when i served with the city just a little bit about the background uh my husband and i met in new york city he had left lebanon as a due to the civil war he's a survivor of bomb and uh when we uh met in new york he had an accent and never wore a coat and this is odd in the winter but it turns out he didn't have money to buy a coat so he's become a success story he's passed on to the family that the value of appreciating the the privilege and hard work and and and collaboration the civil war is uh has been a valuable lesson for the whole family melanie embodies these qualities um i hope that this came across in her presentation she's a determined person she is a very smart person beyond the fact that it's not easy to get into stanford she has qualities of being able to work with people uh and uh be able to mediate uh and use her knowledge to learn very quickly what issues are and get up to speed she has technical skills she's an engineer i've always thought of her as more of a people person uh but she chose to go into engineering she's uh these are skills that she could bring to the council on issues of you know like bike pedestrian bridges over one to one or housing and she has technical knowledge so i'm running out of time here but my my daughter would be an excellent addition to the council thank you for this interview process she doesn't have a particular agenda other than wanting to serve the community which she can do well and this is an opportunity to serve for a year before she goes back into the engineering workforce so i i hope you give her this opportunity and i think you would all very much enjoy working with her thank you very much thank you for your comments uh always glad to have a proud mom here is there anyone else in the chamber who'd like to provide comment seeing none i'll go ahead and move to our zoom we have jana followed by matteo good evening everyone my name is janna blunt and i work for the county of sonoma i'm a colleague of michael stanford and i want to speak um in support of michael stanford as a candidate up until up until hearing michael stanford speak what i heard this afternoon was nothing short of alarming candidates who are so dissociated from the real world just disillusioned from their own privilege and possessing negligible solidarity with the backbone of our community our working class one candidate actually claimed with a straight face that we're experiencing a labor shortage that's some dangerous small business tyrant mentality anyone out here on the ground knows all two while there's no labor shortage there is however a living wage shortage and proponents of capitalism so easily forgo their beloved supply and demand rhetoric when it has to do with paying a living wage we also had a doctor speak today who actually comfortably announced that he feels that our pandemic mandates aren't rooted in sufficient science and further would recuse himself from discussions of mandates because of his quote personal beliefs yet another candidate claimed that she would be the right pick because she's 31 like jack tidbits will not run for reelection and has openly claimed to have no agenda lastly a candidate who couldn't correctly define the word equity in the year 2022 thankfully you have before you a candidate who has spent more time connecting with and advocating for our community his entire adult life he's the most civically engaged individual before you today he even has the endorsement of the north the north bay labor council a gigantic group of trade medical and public organizations who come together to support our community's working class michael stanford was single-handedly responsible for securing the county's extra help employees received the same amount of hazard pay as permanent employees he regularly advocates for causes that don't immediately benefit him he's the candidate before you today with the knowledge concrete policy goals and the principles that our community deserves he was the only candidate whose answers included facts figures substance plans and concrete goals bottom line he's better informed on the issues you face than the rest of the candidates combined you've got a choice tonight between a group of wealthy disillusioned and half hearted or a young man with a passion experience commitment and integrity to take this appointment seriously you will feel the effects of his effort i know from experience you'll see the fruits of his labor he's an exemplary human being and a gift to this city thank you thank you jana we'll go to clark followed by mary hello um i would like to uh show my support for michael stanford in all my years of knowing him uh he has always been a compassionate and thoughtful individual and um what he has done for this county already uh would definitely qualify him i believe for for this position um and i hope that you will give him the chance to prove that to you again as he already has and uh that's it thank you thank you clark mary followed by julia hi thank you this is mary sandberg and i'm a resident of santa rosa i want to thank the council for this engagement for the for the opportunity to meet these candidates i want to thank the candidates too who took the time it's not an easy thing to come before a board and answer these questions i do think that what we saw tonight though is a clear differentiation between those who have applied and shown interest um i do think that it's one thing to see an opportunity come up and throw your hat in and say what the heck i'll give it a give it a whirl and it's another thing to bring in the depth of knowledge and engagement that someone like michael stanford showed tonight this is not a passing interest this is not uh an awareness of city council that has come up because an opportunity presented itself this is how engaged michael has been with city issues for years for years and years and he showed that tonight and i think what you would find in michael is exactly what you saw here tonight someone who knows and is aware of the depth of the issues and challenges facing the city someone who can come in and work with you as colleagues and collaborators to face these serious issues and to do so quickly it will not take michael long to get more uh knowledgeable and aware of the issues facing the city he will go out there and and beat the pavement and knock on doors and put together listening sessions and he will know more than he already did does about the awareness of what is most interest to his constituents but also what's of interest to the entire city michael working with the parks and his natural resources background working with the unsheltered working at the county with his work on negotiations and fighting for wages living wages paid sick time safety issues throughout the covid pandemic i think that you have seen really a caliber of applicants here that far outshines and no offense to the other applicants i again i i give them great props for coming forward but i just do think that the depth of knowledge and awareness and ability uh is there was a difference and i think that michael has shown that he wants to come in understand the issues collaborate with you as a group and continue the good work of the city council so i am encouraging you to support michael stanford for this appointment thank you thank you mary we'll go to julia followed by amos hi my name is julia rapkin um i am also i'm a uh live just outside uh center as a city limits in the unincorporated area of bennett valley but um i work um for the county um and so i'm a colleague of michael's um and a union uh colleague uh fellow steward and um we uh michael's the chair of our committee on political education actually for the union i'm not sure he said that in his statement um and so we've worked closely on that committee for um a few years now and um his just he constantly astounds me like he did tonight um on his breadth of knowledge of local issues state issues national issues um he's um tremendously dedicated um to um fighting you know whether it be um on equity issues or um social justice um or environmental issues housing um he's um sorry um he's he's so um he's passionate and knowledgeable in the sense that um like he does his research he remember you know his anyway sorry um really the other piece i wanted to mention is that um in his work at the county and in the union he it's it's not about you know his sorry i'm not very articulate tonight um his his work is so much about uplifting others i really think that's kind of the bottom line um and so even you know in in the um campaign around um fighting for hazard pay um for county um employees and for people that are low paid um extra help staff um he got his colleagues to speak up he worked to organize them over a long period of time and dealt helped develop their confidence to speak up alongside him and that's a true leader to me um he's not someone that's interested in um um you know kudos or um you know personal um congratulations you know he is truly um fighting for his friends and neighbors and community um and what more could we want in a council member so i strongly endorse michael thank you thank you julia i'll go to amos followed by uh phone number ending in nine one four zero yeah hi i'm amos eaton and i'm a resident of san rosa city of san rosa um i've known michael for many years i know that he takes the time to research the issues before he takes a position um i think that came through very clearly tonight and i also know that he's willing to listen and learn from the people around him his peers the community whatever the group is that he's working with he wants to hear them um i know that he lives and works the values he espoused tonight he's got a deep belief in democracy a willingness to listen to learn and i really do think those are the things that make him the best candidate to join an already seated city council you know you guys are already working together you already have a team and now you're bringing in a new individual and i think michael's commitment is there i'd ask you to support his candidacy thank you we've got resident nine one four zero followed by meteo okay um this it says i'm on unmuted so hopefully you can hear me this is uh jack buck warren i'm the executive director of the north big labor council i am also a resident and voter in the third district and i'm calling in in full support of michael stanford for this appointment i i think it's been very clearly shown tonight that michael has a command of many of the policies that are facing the third district and the entire city of san rosa most importantly he understands uh how important it is to talk to the residents to get feedback uh to be transparent to be a good listener to have empathy uh to care about the climate all these things came through very clearly to me i especially appreciate the fact that he's willing to walk our neighborhoods and actually talk to us about what's important i've also been evacuated two times because of wildfires and i know how much improvement that still needs to be made uh when we have to evacuate on emergencies like we have there is room for work uh once with regard to evacuation routes and timing and how we do that in a better way so i fully endorse michael both personally and uh as the executive director of the north big labor council and i'd appreciate your support for him this evening thank you thank you jack we'll go to mattel hi um thank you council um for your time tonight i would like to start out by saying that i did not formally prepare a statement in advance uh so i apologize for my lack of articulation um i am i am currently in high school so i am not an adult member of society quite yet and i had not planned to make uh public comment but after listening to many of the speeches i decided that there were too many pressing issues to simply say nothing i heard a total of two candidates that did not have a complete disassociation with reality tonight um i heard the word equity used most likely over 100 times without a single real definition a concrete definition being given uh in other words just an empty word that simply means nothing i still have not figured out for myself what changes what changes from equity to equality i'm not sure why we transitioned away from the term equality you may consider me a little bit behind on times but i just think words should have actual definitions as for the candidates themselves i heard as i said two candidates without a complete disassociation with reality i heard first of all who's been called out a few times michael stanford came forward with actual statements of facts and actual plans as opposed to simply empty words and the candidate who i'd like to comment a little bit more on um who has not been commented on yet was um dr james zivore whose comments on coven 19 and mandates actually meant something to me as a member of as someone who's currently in high school as a youth of society i believe that it is time to go back to normal and this is not just my belief this is uh the belief that shared by a large portion of the scientific community who has been frankly silence you follow the science when you silence half of the science it simply doesn't work thank you that's all thank you mateo that's the last comment that i see on zoom so i'll go ahead and close public comment bring it back madam city clerk can you walk through what the process is for council from here on out yes mayor um the council has um three ballots in front of them one for the first round of voting and then on the second sheet is for round two and round three in the first round of voting you will vote for three candidates i will take your ballots and read them into the record and those candidates that have one or less votes will be eliminated in the second round council will vote for two members from the candidates who have not been eliminated and as such we will go down to a final round if needed okay madam city attorney do would it be appropriate to open it up for discussion amongst the council or does the charter say we go to a vote no you may have you may have discussion if you would like okay i'll see if there's any comments or discussion from council okay i just want to express again my gratitude to all of the candidates who did apply who do want to make a difference in their community public service is a tough job and there's no more important time to do it than when people need help and that certainly has been the case here in san aroza i'll say for for me tonight i'm looking for somebody who can step in and contribute and also understand that there is an election coming in a year and i would encourage anybody who is interested candidate tonight or not who thinks that they have a vision for san aroza to sell to the public and to get buy-in from the district to please run in november even if you're not selected tonight i think we've heard a lot of well-intentioned smart and very very passionate people tonight and so i i think district three will be well represented for the next year and through the election with that we'll go ahead move towards our voting so if council wants to fill out your your first ballot and i think the city clerk will come and take them yes and please um put your name at the top of the ballot for me too please okay i will start from this end of the dice where i collected the ballots starting with council member soyer there's one vote for um mr. devour one vote for mince mcdonald and one vote for mizna koozie council member schwedhelm one vote for mr. devour one vote for miz mcdonald and one vote for mr. miller vice mayor alvarez one vote for mr. stanford one vote for miz mcdonald and one vote for mr. devour mayor rogers we have one vote for miz mcdonald one vote for mr. devour and one vote for mr. stanford from council member phleming we have one vote for miz mcdonald one vote for mr. devour and one vote for mr. stanford and with for council member rogers we have one vote for mr stanford one vote for miz mcdonald and one vote for mr. devour so by that tally the candidates that are eliminated are mr. miller mizna koozie and mr. shantz so your next round of voting will be for you will vote for two candidates and those will be from mr. devour miz mcdonald and mr. stanford and as a point of clarification uh madam clerk we have rounds two and round three on the same sheet should council just split that in two and hand you one at a time madam city attorney can they do that i the reason it's on two sheets is to save on paper you have two copies of the same sheet one for round two and one for round three no it has round two and round three on the same sheet no yes i i only have one of them we'll figure it out all right thank you okay for round two we have one vote for mr. devour from councilmember soyer and one vote for miz mcdonald from council member schwedhelm we have one vote for mr. devour and one vote for miz mcdonald from vice mayor alvarez we have one vote for mr stanford and one vote for miz mcdonald for mayor rogers we have one vote for miz mcdonald and one vote for mr stanford councilmember flaming we have one vote for miz mcdonald and one vote for mr stanford and for councilmember rogers we have one vote for mr stanford and one vote for miz mcdonald so with that total Mr. DeVore received two votes, Ms. McDonald received six votes and Mr. Stanford received four votes. So we can do the last round of voting and you vote for one candidate. Okay, in the final round of voting Councilmember Sawyer voted for Mr. DeVore Councilmember Schwedhelm voted for Ms. McDonald Vice Mayor Alvaro voted for Mr. Stanford, Mayor Rogers voted for Ms. McDonald Councilmember Fleming voted for Ms. McDonald and Councilmember Rogers voted for Mr. Stanford So by that tally, Mr. DeVore received one vote, Ms. McDonald received three votes and Mr. Stanford received two votes So the majority votes is Ms. Madam clerk as a point of clarification, I think Mr. DeVore was eliminated in round two So I think councilmember Sawyer needs to select between the two remaining candidates Thank you actually The I realized that as well. I mean I it wasn't indicated, but I Realized that I I aired on that one due to the to the Voting and I would be switching my vote to miss mcdonald and and just to clarify the the rules are that anyone receiving one vote or fewer And Mr. DeVore and this in round two did receive two but we would have just simply done the final vote again So assuming that everyone else would be keeping with their Their original vote in round three I think my preference madam city attorney if the rule is one or fewer being eliminated With that clarification that there's still three candidates remaining. Let's take another vote. Okay from the council The final round three Yeah members, but I'm clarification again. I thought mr. DeVore was eliminated last round So how many candidates are Availably voted for in this round. I'm sorry. There are Three that are still Eligible because each one received more than one votes But each can't each council member has one vote in this round as opposed to two yes Anderson, thank you and just for clarification. It's Mr. DeVore received two votes in the last round as mcdonald received six and mr. Stemford received four so those are the three The three that were left so you will vote for one now So to make sure everybody's on the same page We are going to revote round three. Thank you. Everyone has one vote to be able to give the three remaining candidates our dr. DeVore Diana McDonald and Michael Stanford. So everybody has one vote Amongst those three Yeah, you can just use your post-it notes to write the name and I will collect the post-it notes Okay, Ms. McDonald received councilmember Sawyer's vote Mr. DeVore received councilmember Schwedholm's vote vice mayor Alvarez we voted for mr. Stanford may a Rogers Voted for Ms. McDonald Councilmember Fleming voted for Ms. McDonald and councilmember Rogers voted for mr. Stanford Ms. McDonald received Three votes mr. Stanford received two and mr. DeVore received one having not No applicant had received four or more votes in the final round it now will bump to The provision in our policy That if the majority of the council cannot agree on the appointment one of one the applicants The council may adopt such other procedures to fill the vacancy as it deems appropriate So you may move forward options would include Doing round three again Deciding that it will be Or you can take some other step We will need to have four council members support an applicant in order for there to be a decision Thank You Madam City Attorney and I think I speak on behalf of the entire council when I say perhaps this is an issue that the charter committee should discuss Because we've run into this a couple of times now even in just by my term Yes, and and it is a matter also of our council policy some both the charter and the policy. Thank you. Thank you so For the public where we sit right now Given the council's process that's built into the city charter is that now it's up to the council to see if we can reach Consensus, I'll see if there's any discussion or if there are any motions that folks would like to make On how we proceed or on who we appoint as our next council member I'll come to the vice mayor and then I'll come back to council member Fleming I'll just a suggestion on if if one person has received one vote even in the final round is a possible for for that name to be eliminated to Recast our votes Yes, at this point the council can decide the method of moving forward That's member Fleming One thing that caught me by surprise in the process as I had assumed that we would continue to go down with the rule that if A candidate or applicant gets one or fewer votes, then they would then drop off It seems to me that the most natural approach here is then to have one more round of voting where Mr. DeVore is eliminated No, there was much respect and the council gets to choose one between the two remaining candidates I'd like to put a motion on the table that that's how we proceed All right, so the motion from council member Fleming with a second from the vice mayor We will have to take a vote on the process and so the Suggestion was as the two highest scoring applicants in the final round the council will choose between McDonald and Stanford With one vote from each council member Madam clerk. Can you call the roll? Councilmember Schwedhelm. Hi councilmember Sawyer. Hi Councilmember Rogers. Hi Councilmember Fleming. Yes vice mayor Alvarez. Hi mayor Rogers That motion passes with six eyes Okay, so council will vote one more time. You each have one vote And the two applicants remaining are McDonald and Stanford Councilman councilmember Sawyer voted for Ms. McDonald Councilmember Schwedhelm voted for Ms. McDonald Councilmember Alvarez voted for Ms. McDonald I'm sorry. That was vice mayor Alvarez voted for Ms. McDonald mayor Rogers Voted for Ms. McDonald Councilmember Fleming voted for mr. Stanford And councilmember Rogers voted for mr. Stanford Ms. McDonald's have received four votes And mr. Stanford has received two So that means that mr. McDonald will be joining the council as the new representative for district three Madam city attorney. Is there anything else on this item? No that that sets the appointment and the next step will be the swearing in which can take place at any time Excellent And I am prepared to do that tonight if council So cheeses or I we can do that at the the meeting at the next meeting Let's leave it up to the new councilmember. Would you like to do the swearing in tonight or at the next meeting? And again, I wanted to express a gratitude and thank all of the applicants I really appreciate the interest and and the folks wanting to help out santa rosa With that we'll bring up our newest councilmember I diana mcdonald do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california Against all enemies foreign and domestic That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states And the constitution of the state of california That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation Or purpose of evasion and I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter Welcome to the city council Okay, just need you to find it All right. Thank you everyone and with that we will adjourn our special meeting


Say there's a coin that's currently worth thousands of US dollars yet it's not made of any precious material, it's not gold, platinum or any other substance. In fact it only exists digitally which means it's electronic and you can't even put it in your piggy bank. Today we're talking about Bitcoin. I'm talking about Bitcoin. Bitcoin isn't like other currency, it's not tied to a state or government so doesn't have a central regulatory body. Cryptocurrencies wouldn't work if it wasn't for a whole network of people to come in together and a thing called cryptography. Cryptocurrencies are fully virtual currencies which means you can exchange them between computers using a worldwide peer-to-peer network. The whole point of most peer-to-peer networks is sharing legal stuff like movies and MP3s. So if you're on a peer-to-peer network that distributes cryptocurrency what's to stop you making a whole load of copies and becoming amazingly rich and wealthy in this crypto world?  For reasons we'll get to the blockchain records every Bitcoin transaction ever made and as of 2016 it's estimated to be about 106 gigabytes of data and that's just text.  But wait there's no central authority keeping track of all this right? Even though the blockchain is a central record, there's no official group of people who update the ledger and keep track of everybody's money like a bank. In fact it's decentralized and anybody can volunteer to maintain this massive global ledger and tons and tons of people do that's why Bitcoin works. It all works because there's so many people keeping track of the same things trying to make sure everything is accurate and all transactions are verified. So the best analogy I've ever heard of blockchain is this. It's like you're having a game of poker but none of you have chips and you left your cash at home. There's no money on the table so a few of you get out your notebooks, these are your ledgers, and start writing down who bets how much, who wins and who loses. At the end of a hand you all compare, that way if someone makes a mistake or cheats the discrepancy is caught. After a couple of hands you might fill a page with notes on the money's movements. Think of each page as a block of transactions. Eventually your notebook will have pages and pages of information. Now if thousands of people are keeping the blockchain ledgers how are these kept in sync?  Some are just exchanging money but lots of volunteers are keeping ledgers so when you want to send or receive money you have to announce it to everybody at the table so the people keeping track can update their ledgers. So for each transaction you're announcing a couple of things, your account number, the account of the person you're sending it to and how many Bitcoin you are sending. Then all of the users keeping track of the blockchain will add your transaction to the block. Having a bunch of people keep track of the transaction seems like a good security measure but if all it takes to send Bitcoin is a couple of account numbers that seems like it might be a problem. So it's a huge problem with regular money just think of other ways criminals try to steal your account information and with Bitcoin there's no central authority keeping track of all this and trying to keep us secure. So what if all of a sudden all my savings get spent on delicious delicious hummus? So what stops Chris Adele sending herself all of my Bitcoin? Well cryptocurrencies are kept pretty safe by something called cryptography and that is in fact where the name cryptocurrency comes from. So Bitcoin is kept safe by something called keys these keys are little chunks of information that are used to make mathematical guarantees to the people keeping the ledgers that a message received is from me. When you create an account on a Bitcoin network which is also referred to as a wallet you are assigned a public and a private key. Your private key is used to scramble or encrypt anything you send out and only you have access to it it also can't be replicated. Then you send the signed message I'm sending one Bitcoin to Chris Adele out to the network and everyone can use your public key to discramble or encrypt it proving that it really was from you. That way everyone who keeps the ledger knows to add my transaction to the blockchain. Unlike a signature or an account number this proof of identity isn't something that can be faked by a scam artist. So the who is obviously super important but so is the when say I only have one Bitcoin and I try and buy a car and a dog at the same time what happens well with a bank they would honor the first purchase and decline the second if they didn't do that you'd be able to spend the same money multiple times. So if I do this as a check built into the Bitcoin system both the wallet and the network will check my previous transactions to ensure I have enough currency to make the purchase. But there's another problem that can happen timing because lots of people around the world are keeping ledgers over this peer-to-peer network sometimes there can be delays which mean that they get transactions in the wrong order so now you have a bunch of people with very slightly different blocks but none of them are necessarily wrong so how do we solve this problem well we solve this mathematically and that my friends will bring us on to the next episode which will feature mining. What's up guys I hope you enjoyed this first episode about crypto currencies if you liked it don't forget to leave a little thumbs up down below and also subscribe to the channel if you want to see more of this that will help it'll make daddy George give me permission


All those state workers under the Joint Negotiating Council, JNC, have donated 30 motorcycles to Western Nigeria Security Network Agency, codenamed Amatoko Corps in the state, while presenting the motorcycles to Amatoko Commander, Chairman JNC, Comrade Oluwani Fabumi, said the bikes were presented to the Corps to aid their performance. The motorcycles were received by the Special Advisor to the Governor on Labor Matters, Dari Arabeye, on behalf of the state government. The state commander of Amatoko, Ade Tungi Adeleye, said the donation would assist them to do more in protecting the people and the state. It means the grateful for the support from the public, most especially the workers of the understate government for this show of love that I want to call it. And we want to ask for more support. We can only achieve with your continuous support. And with this, I'm very sure that in places where it takes us time, because one of our major objectives is to compress response to distress time. We are very sure and it's unprecedented. And like I said in my remarks, which I rendered on behalf of Mr. Govne, it was not as if workers did this out of surprise. Like any other labor group anywhere, there will be outstanding demands, including salary That's why we spoke to our member, we discussed, OK, little, little has to contribute and do have only two assistants. And this is a pointer to all the multinationals, the NGOs, the big people in the state to come and join this lofty idea. If you recollect, in the last 20 years, that's what we call Legal State Security Trust Fund, banks, multinationals. They contributed. Because I want to take them, it's our own agency, and what we need to do is to collaborate and support them. And I want to tell you, this bike was bought with money from the salaries of those states. We need to task one another.


Call to order welcome everybody. This is a notice of the first meeting of the 2011-2012 Common Council and our city clerk Sue Richards will read us the quote of the evening Thank You mayor. I Hope our achievements in life shall be these that we will have fought for what was right and fair That we will have risked for that which mattered that we will have given help to those who were in need That we will have left the earth a better place for what we've done and who we've been Thank You sue roll call, please belt here Foreign here Carlson here Decker here Hammond here Hanna here Heidemann here Cotter Kittleson here Maddocheck here Rinflaich here Racler here Samson here Vanderweal here Wait a minute van Akron University here We have a quorum if we can all please rise for the presentation of the colors Allegiance of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands One nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all like to thank our police department color guard for presenting colors this evening Now we have the invocation. I have chosen Reverend Jerry link the leader of the the River of Life Ministry Who has been very instrumental in the Gateway neighborhood? Getting the Gateway neighborhood association off the ground Jerry is also the leader of the New Community Center in the Gateway neighborhood So this is why we have Jerry here. He's a an integral part of our community Reverend link everybody by your head, please Lord we come before you tonight According to your word your word says enter my gates with Thanksgiving in my courts with praise And the word says humbly we bow down, but yet boldly we enter in So Lord we come before you tonight Lord. We humble ourselves before you Lord for the task that you have set before us That this is nothing of our doing for your word says Lord that you raise up kingdoms and you tear down kingdoms So Lord, this is a kingdom that you have raised up for such a time as this So humbly we bow down before you Lord and we say thank you Lord We say thank you for this city. We say thank you for the residents We say thank you for the leadership Lord that you have allowed to be in place today Lord we thank you and praise you Lord God for all that you've done all you're doing and all you're yet to do in this awesome city that we call Sheboygan, Wisconsin and Lord even as the Spirit on the lake as the city name goes that Lord we just call in your Holy Spirit We call on the Holy Spirit on the lake to come forth To come forth to be a part of the business of the city And the little things and in the big things little decisions big decisions Lord, let us not forsake you in the business that we do and when we go forth here tonight Into this new year with this new council Lord I ask that you bless every council member Lord I ask that you bless the mayor and The city attorney and the clerk of courts that sit here before us right now I ask that you that you pour out your wisdom your word says the wisdom is crying out in the streets So we say wisdom come to us come to us. We need wisdom the godly wisdom to run this city So we say thank you Lord in faith that you will pour out your wisdom and you won't hold it back from us Lord I ask that you guide each and every member that Whatever it is the business that you want them to do whatever decision you want them to do Lord Let them come together your word says come let us reason together. So father as we do your business We come tonight before you for this year to reason together Lord don't forsake Sheboygan I call forth the prophetic call that you have placed on the city of Sheboygan To usher in the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit on the lake to come across to change lives To change lives to help those in need and to build up your name in this place Father, we thank you. We praise you. We give you all the glory and all the praise in Jesus name Amen, Pastor Jerry now. We will move into the swearing in of the City clerk elect So I guess she's not the city clerk here for a second in between Constitution of the United States And we'll faithfully and impartially Discharge the duties of the office of city clerk To the best of my ability And pain she ran Okay, now we have our swearing in of another elected official City attorney who also won by a landslide Where that I will support the Constitution of the United States where the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of Wisconsin and the Constitution of the state of Wisconsin And will faithfully and impartially and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties Discharge the duties of the office of city attorney Okay, moving on we have the swearing in of the alder persons elect which should be After me I Where that I will support the Constitution of the United States And the Constitution of the state of Wisconsin And will faithfully Discharge the duties of the office of all the person I Wish it could be this much fun every night Moving on we have the adoption of the rules of the Common Council. Thank you mayor. I would Accept and adopt the rules of the Common Council second Have a motion and a second to accept the rules of the Common Council or adopt the rules of the Common Council Anybody like to discuss what those rules are? If there is no discussion all in favor of adopting state I opposed motion carries unanimous vote right off the bat. I like this Okay Moving on we have the election of the president and vice president of the Common Council President Kittleson, thank you mayor. Thank you. I move that We will begin with the election of president of the council And so with that I would move that nominations be received from the floor Voting to be done by closed ballot and if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of Votes will be dropped from the list and balloting to continue until one candidate receives a majority of the votes second We have a motion and a second. Okay. We will open the floor to nominations We have nominations Alderman Raceler. Thank you, mr. Ma'am For the office of president I'd like to nominate third district all the person Jean Kittleson We have a nomination for Alderperson Kittleson for president of the council. Is there a second second? We have a motion any second Are there any other nominations from the floor? Alderman Hammond Thank You mr. Mayor. I would like to nominate Eric Renfleshe's president of the council second We have a nomin we have a motion and a second for Eric Renfleshe to be nominated Alderman Renfleshe to president of the council Are there any other nominations? Thank you, mayor. I move then that the nominations be closed second Okay, we have a motion in the second to close nominations All in favor opposed okay nominations are closed we will now go to balloting Alderman when you get your ballot it says print last name because I can't read half of your writing So that would be really helpful Sorry, but I can't then you sign it and then you put my vote is for and you put the name on that line Fold it up and pass it back over this way This will be a closed ballot. So we'll be going in back to count those Finish your ballot if you can fold it in half and pass it back to your left Thank you We've got some free time anybody know any good jokes Don usually has a cop. Yeah, maybe not appropriate appropriate Jay Leno was going to his local home depot He had a project at home to pick up some flies and he saw two thoughts to Southwest airline pilots in their bike roofing supplies Oh And then he also said that Southwest Southwest Airlines has changed our marketing strategy now they're advertising all window seats Thank you folks Jim will be here for two more You some clean By naming rights for our Want to give that speech you gave last night Okay, we do have a majority ballot for our new 2010 2011 Common Council president Congratulations president run flesh and you have to understand that's the last standing ovation you'll ever Okay moving on to Election of the vice president election vice president mayor. Thank you I move that nominations be received from the floor Voting to be done by closed ballot and if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate again with the lowest number of votes will be dropped from the list and Validating to continue until one candidate receives a majority of the votes second Okay, we have a motion and a second to open nominations all in favor say aye Nominations are open are there any nominations from the floor? We'll be vice president of the council Alderman Boran Thank You mayor Ryan. I would like to nominate Alderman Scott Bursi of the first district for the office of vice president of the council We have a motion and a second for Alderman Bursi to be vice president of the council Are there any other nominations on the floor Alderman Hammond? Thank You mr. Mayor. I'd like to nominate Alderman Decker for vice president second We have a motion and a couple seconds for Alderman Decker for vice president of the council Are there any other nominations from the floor? There are no other nominations Thank You mayor. I move them that the nominations be closed second Motion in a second to close nominations all in favor say aye post nominations are closed Same validating procedure Great accounting from you get there Last term musty Going back to that do we cheat him and how yes Anymore It's jokes Okay, we have a majority vote for the vice president of the 2010-2011 Chevrolet in common council Congratulations vice president Decker by the way, it's a 2011-2012 Thanks Steve short-term that's why you're the attorney Okay moving on we have the Election of a representative on the city plan commission the election of the Representative on the board of contractor Examiners and two representatives on the capital improvements commission. We will begin with the city plan commission Thank You mayor as you said we'll have election first of the city plan commission I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by open ballot And if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and Balloting to continue until one candidate receives a majority second Thank you. We have a motion in a second to open the floor for nominations Favor say aye. Hi opposed Floor is open for nominations. Do we have any nominations from the floor? Alderman Hammond Thank You mr. Mayor. I nominate Alderman Samson for city planning commission second We have a motion in a second for Alderman Samson to be the Alderman on city the city plan commission Are there any other nominations from the floor? There any other nominations from the floor? And for the third time are there any other nominations from the floor? Gene thank you mayor. I move that Nominations be closed and that the city clerk be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot for Alderman Samson for city plan commission Second We have a motion in a second to unanimously elect Alderman Samson all in favor say aye opposed Motion carries. Let me know your secret Kevin. You had no opponent for Alderman no opponent for city planning Congratulations Alderman Samson. Thank you. Next. We will move on to the board of contractors examiners gene Thank You mayor again Nominations be reset move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by open ballot And if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and balloting to continue Until one candidate receives a majority second you have a motion in a second to open the floor for nominations for the Representative on the board of contractors and examiners all in favor say aye opposed motion carries the Floor is now open for nominations Do we have any nominations? You know you can you know you don't have to have this set up You can just nominate somebody that you know if you don't like somebody That's one way to keep people busy as you put them on a whole bunch of stuff Alderman Raceler I'll nominate Eric Rainflesh second motion and a second for for President Rindflesh to be on the on the board of contractors examiners Do we have any other nominations from the floor? Second time any nominations from the floor? And third time any additional nominations from the floor gene. Thank You mayor I move that nominations be closed and that the city clerk be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot for President Eric Rindflesh for a representative on the board of contract examiners second I Don't know if you can second yourself Plenty of seconds Okay, all in favor of President Rindflesh being on the contractors board of the board of contractors examiners Say aye opposed Congratulations All right Two standing ovations in one night Okay, moving on we have the two Representatives for the capital improvements commission Thank You mayor again. I move that nominations be received from the floor Voting to be done by open ballot and if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes Be dropped from the list and balloting to continue until one candidate receives a majority vote second We have a motion and a second to open the floor for nominations all in favor. Say aye opposed the floor is open Alderman Boran Thank You mayor Ryan. I'll try again. I'm gonna nominate Alderman Scott versi of the first district to the capital improvements Commission We have a motion and a second for Alderman versi We do have Yes, we do have two positions here. Do we have any other nominations from the floor Alderman Hammond? Thank You mr. Mayor and my love best with Alderman at Samson. I'll nominate him for capital improvements second Okay, let's try to get Kevin an opponent here Anybody We'll try this again. Are there any other nominations from the floor? And for a third time. Are there any other nominations from the floor? Thank You mayor. I move that nominations be closed and that the city clerk be instructed to cast a well a unanimous ballot for Alderman versi and Alderman Samson for for both of our rep as both our Representatives on the capital improvements commission Motion and a second. Thank You all the person Kittleson all in favor of Alderman versi and Alderman Samson being on the capital capital improvements Commission say aye opposed Congratulations Alderman Okay, now we will move into the election of the chairman of the committee of the whole I get a break right here because this committee of the whole is none of my business So Let me know when you're finished All right We'd ask for nominations to be received from the floor Voting voting to be done by closed ballot and if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of Votes be dropped from the list and balloting to continue until one candidate receives a majority of the votes We'd ask for a nomination from the floor for Chairman of the committee of the whole I'd like to nominate Alderman Jim boran chairman Second We have a nomination for Alderman boran and a second Any any other nominations from the floor? Thank You chairman All right president. I'd like to nominate Alderman Hannah for Chairman of the whole there's a nomination for Alderman Hannah and a second for Alderman Hannah Okay, are there any other nominations from the floor any other nominations? Any other nominations from the floor? All right, I'd ask that nominations be closed and that we by secret ballot closed ballot that we choose our Elect our committee of the whole chairman All in favor say aye I Sorry about that. I figured you guys would have already announced this The whole chairman is Alderman Hannah for the anti-climactic announcement there And I'm glad to report that all three of us are in tax. Okay time for the Messages from our newly elected officials first the president of the 2011-2012 Common Council President Renflesh Good evening Good evening Madam City Clerk Richards City Attorney McLean Mayor Ryan My wife and child who you've been hearing all evening As Don said the apple did not fall too far from the tree with her Welcome all newly elected and Second year all the persons and good evening to all citizens of Sheboygan Welcome to the 2011-2012 council year may it be a good one First of all, I want to thank my fellow council members for their faith They have shown in me by electing me the president for this term. I Pledge to you to work with all of you in reaching our individual goals We do all have individual constituencies some of us have made campaign promises Some of us are driven in particular areas and I pledge to work with you in being becoming successful. I Also pledged to find common ground so that's not only as individuals but as a council and as a community We can move forward. We move forward together For the more I pledge to be a conduit information Not only amongst each other within this council But also to the public and most importantly between the council and the mayor's office We will not all agree on all issues, but together we will succeed this year This is my goal is to move City of Sheboygan forward We heard last night from yes from the mayor about last year's council success And I'm sure we will hear shortly about the goals for this year, so I don't want to intrude on on that And of course each one of us do here. I have individual goals as well So message not tonight is not necessarily to discuss where we've been or even to state where we're going to go And that's up to us as a body But rather to show how we're going to get there I am pleased in my giving service to my community to be associated with the common council a body that I feel most Direct represents what our constitutional framers designed when they form a constitution no parties Individuals elected to represent their constituents just as our framers designed a true representative democracy However Sometimes we expect By mean we I mean not only the public but ourselves as this body That upon swearing in that we have gained the knowledge to do what exactly is right And we have gained public virtue to know what what has been the best interest for the whole public However, as we stood up here earlier this evening those nine of us that took at the oath of office I looked up I did not see two rays of light coming down from the heavens above granting us the knowledge of what is right and of public virtue However, our constitutional framers Were geniuses in my mind they gave us an amazing gift the US Constitution And the best part about this gift is that we don't have to be perfect. We don't have to know everything We don't necessarily even have to have the public virtue in the best of mind They designed a former government that uses our personal interests our group interests To form ahead and move ahead in this government They designed a system of checks and balances. They designed separation of powers Which allows us to use our self-interest to create public virtue. It sounds boring. I do apologize I did say this for a whole year and it's something I'm shortening up a lecture into just a few minutes here But unfortunately the system checks and balances separation of powers also leads to slow complicated messy Governments, I'm sure we've all heard those two terms we've used those terms And if it forces compromise It forces incremental changes change is sometimes a whole lot slower in the wrong direction that we'd like individuals to go But our framers fear two things not only do they fear the maternity of the majority They also feared the tyranny of the minority minority to hold up. What's in the best interest? so There are things about our our system of government that are frustrating, but they are also necessary So as we sit here to and as we move forward together Keep in mind that what makes it frustrating is also designed into the system The framers did not use phrases like public opinion elected mandates majority rules Again and again, they use compromise to form what I feel is the best form of governance as enacted by the US Constitution and again and again they use compromise in the building of this nation After the Constitution was formed Now no one here wants to go backwards. I know that we all have different views of what forward means So unfortunately it is through compromise. It is the negotiations. It is through communication That we will ultimately define what forward is. I Don't know who the person was who first decided that our state motto should be that word forward But I think it's also a genius phrase as well Where if we stand still we're going backwards. We must continually strive to move forward but at times moving forward will be messy and complicated and frustrating But I pledge to you that I will work with you So that we can reach compromise and consensus and that we can communicate with each and everyone Not only within this body both in the community and that we will move forward together in this year So again, I thank you for your support I thank you for taking the chance and I look forward to working with all of you this year. Thank you now committee of the Whole chairman Alderman Hannah will speak a collective sigh of relief. I have no notes Beginning my sixth year on the council. I want to thank you all for your support Had an opportunity to serve twice as council president and I think Eric is going to do a marvelous job Always wanted to be the community the whole chairperson. I think this year is going to be a challenging one We've got the strategic fiscal planning committee going to be coming forward with the help of University of Wisconsin whitewater So I think we're going to have some very meaningful meetings and some very important discussions As many of you know This is going to be my last year on the council So I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to serve an important role As I end my council career. Thank you very much Thank you, Mark Moving on it says the mayor's message No longer known as the time of pontification Welcome everybody to the 2011-2012 Common Council. We have Four new Alderman on the Common Council and Which is one fourth of the council with the new Alderman on the council Just doing some math here. It took me a while to figure this out With the age difference of the Four Alderman that exited the council and the four coming on We have lost 125 years of wisdom Do the math 120 Fred you kind of throw off the curve a little bit But we've literally we've lost 125 years of wisdom we've lost some 25 years of Time on the council of knowledge of how the council works that has exited the council, but I think what we've gained With these four new Alderman is going to be a fresh new perspective I think it's going to be a new approach I think our chances of finding consensus on this council are much greater this year than we've Possibly had in the past a couple messages. I'd like to get across and I did last evening Kind of give the u-raw speech of everything that we accomplished last year, which is quite a bit I saw Alderman Carlson smiling at the u-raw comment never dies Well, I think we all have to remember that every individual Alderman here is Elected by their constituents Now every Aldermanic district consists of somewhere around 6,000 6100 residents So you have in every Aldermanic district every one of you have 6100 constituents That you are responsible for representing I think we all need to remember that because I think we have a tendency and when I was on the council I was guilty of this also of listening to a very vocal minority and Getting too bogged down in the minutia of what a couple or a few people want and and and missing the big picture So I think we need to you know when when you get a call and if you get a call from Three people opposed to something You still have over 6,000 out there that haven't voiced their opinion or if you have three people that really want something You still have 6,000 people in your district that haven't voiced their opinion. I think we need to remember that now We're here to represent the majority of the population It's majority vote majority rules We're here to to represent the majority of the population and not just the vocal minority in our population That's one thing I would really like to get across this year We have to remember this year and it's going to be a tough one The budget is not going to be a picnic this year as we all know It's going to be more challenging this year than last year As we know we have seven all of our labor contracts Are up to be renewed this year We also must remember that we have been given we have been empowered By the state by Governor Walker and his administration To probably have more negotiating power But what we must really remember in this city is that we're in the service business That's what we do We're here to service these citizens of our city We have to remember when we sit down And we negotiate with our friends and labor and when we come up with contracts That we're dealing with the employees of the city And that when these negotiations are finished We want A workforce That still wants to come to work We don't need to spout rhetoric And demoralize the employees of the city We have a lot of hard-working people We have to remember that they are there to serve the citizens of Sheboygan Now we also must remember that We are losing another 1.4 million dollars in our Shared revenue and other rates Not to mention the 1.2 million dollar structural deficit we're coming into this year So we have to balance the two and we have to come to some agreements But we need to do it in a conscientious manner And remember that We have employees and when we're done With the process we still want to be an employer of choice for people We want people our employees that want to come to work So we have to remember that through this whole process this year It will be a balancing act But when we're Speaking to the media when you're speaking to your friends Remember that when we're done we're going to have to balance the budget But we also want people that Enjoy what they do and that want to come to work One thing that we did Happened And it you know, it wasn't conscious. I don't think it just kind of evolved that way In the last half of this past council season Because we got a lot of work done And we got that work done quietly It was it was you know, we we accomplished a lot And we we didn't do it in a manner that that was uh Oh, what am I looking for here? People weren't in conflict the whole time. It wasn't chaos Everybody wasn't looking over their shoulder wondering what's going on the whole time We got a lot done I've also noticed that in the last X amount of months Our partners in the media and they are partners Because the media drives a lot of what happens in this city Our partners in the media have been much more favorable to the decisions of the common council and the image That has been portrayed of Sheboygan In the media has been much more positive And I think we need to appreciate that and and hopefully keep that trend going You know, we want to be a city where people want to come to We'd like to be the city that people want to live in We don't want people that are saying uh, I want to sell my house and move out to the towns down to the township We want people living in our city. That's the only way we're going to survive We need people with means To live in the city to build homes To build apartments live in condos Build businesses create jobs our number one focus last year. I think that we Our heading toward is creating jobs in the city without jobs. We don't survive And I think we did a good job of laying the groundwork last year With jobs come people with people come construction with construction comes tax base Unfortunately, that's the way we're funded is through tax base So we need to keep that trend going We want to be a city of choice. We want to be a city that people Not only like to visit But people want to come to and stay And I think that is again should be our number one responsibility this year Is to keep moving forward I appreciate everybody on this council. I think uh, I think we're going to have a good working group here Of course, as president rindflash stated No, everybody's not going to going to get along on every issue But I think if we make our decisions on this council based upon The 50 000 residents of the city And the long-term Well-being of those residents I think we'll come to a lot more Uh, consensus on this council if we keep that one thing in mind This is a great city It's a wonderful city. That's why we live here And this is america we can live wherever we want Um, I've chosen to live here and so has everybody else in this room So I think we need to keep working Be honest with each other It's one thing I've always said people might not agree with me, but there's nobody in this room That will ever say I lied to him if I don't support something I'll tell you If I tell you I support it I support it if I tell you I don't I won't I think if we're all honest with each other in that manner You know, some people call it politics when you tell people one thing and you do another thing I've never considered it that I think if we all come together Look at each other and just say I'm going to be honest with the guy next to me And we try to get something done for the good of the city I think that when we're sitting right here again next year We're going to be that much farther ahead. Thank you Okay, moving on to the mayor's appointments First of all, uh, the alderman everybody has the packets on on the appointments we will, uh Not approve these until next week They will lie over until next week if anybody sees in your appointments. I put these out early for everybody to review If there's something in your appointments that you don't like Please let me know if there's something that doesn't work into your work schedule home schedule. Please let me know If there's something that you want to get together with another alderman And say I'd rather be on this if you'd be on that, of course I need to agree with it, but please let me know now. These appointments are my wishes You do not have to approve them if you do not want to But it's a uh, it's one of those issues where it's all or nothing. So Okay appointments Steve For the honorable members of the common council here by submit the following appointments for your confirmation finance committee alderman ham and chairman Eric rinfliesh vice chairman Warren matticek and van akron law and licensing committee Alderman hamman chairman, excuse me alderman hannah chairman All the person vandal wheel vice chairman rinfliesh kath and versi public protection and safety committee all the person kittleson chairman alderman decker vice chairman Samson carlson and van akron public works committee all the person borne chairman all the person heidemann vice chairman vandal wheel kath and belt salaries and grievances committee all the person raceler chairman all the person versi vice chairman kittleson decker and samson signed by the mayor and then Lies over until next monday's council meeting If I submit the following appointments for your consideration Marilyn montemire to be considered for appointment to the library board to fill the unexpired term of edward rickowski whose term expires 4 30 2012 And brian vendoski to be considered for appointments for organ transit commission to fill the unexpired term of richard hires whose term expires 4 30 2013 signed by the mayor Lies over also and then I believe all the alderman have on their desks A listing of the appointments to the various fords Commissions committees Authorities of the council numbering seven pages And these are all submitted By the mayor And those will also lie over until the next common council meeting Okay, we do have a couple of resolutions this evening This is what I need my glasses resolutions introduced three One dash one by alderperson kittleson requesting the mayor to reactivate various special committees for the 2011 2012 council year Alderperson kittleson Thank you mayor. I would ask that that the Resolution requesting the mayor to reactivate various special committees be put upon its passage second We have a motion and a second under discussion If there is no discussion all in favor state. Aye. Aye opposed motion carries One dash two will be referred to the committee of the whole And that's all for this evening. Thank you very much. Do we have a motion to adjourn move to adjourn We have a motion and a second all in favor. Say aye. Aye opposed motion carries. Thank you everybody


is gonna get started. All right, what's up everyone? So back from a trip, today's Monday, YouTube Live Day. So I kinda wanna talk about what I did trading wise today and then I wanna talk about like the current market action. So we have been this current market cycle has been long dominated, which means if you close your eyes and hit the buy button, you're bound to make money. So these type of markets are very dangerous for short sellers. If you are a short seller in this type of market, you could only nail and bail and you must stop shorting after 10.30.  This is your way to capitalize. This is where all the money is for you. So realizing that and recognizing that, I actually went long pre-market today. So there was a stock, MDIA. This stock was a two million share flow. It was easy to borrow and it was the hot chick pre-market. So I've warned the members in the room that this is not a short. And oftentimes when we warn the members, it's actually a great long. So I said, you know what? Instead of just warning the members today on this low flow, easy to borrow, day one stock, let me go long. So I went long pre-market around 620 and to my surprise, the stock ramped up to 680, sold some at 680, sold some at 7, that was it for me. And after that trade, the stock started to tank. And you know, in my head, even though I had a great long trade and even though the stock tanked, because of low flow and because day one, I am expecting the unexpected. I have no idea what this stock is gonna do so I don't wanna be shorting it early, right? So it tanked pre-market, it did stay again. On the stock like that, I'm basically waiting for a pop to view app to short it. Didn't really get a pop to view app. I wasn't able to size in, that was it. So my first trade of the day was a long on this stock. I made money going long. So I kinda wanna incorporate this into my process going forward. So while the market is hot, I want to start to go long day one runners, okay? I wanna keep doing it until it stops working. MDIA was a runner that pretty much fit my criteria. It was a low flow, it was day one, easy to borrow. If it had SSR, that would have been additional. So that was number one. ENOB, ENOB was the second stock of the day. This was the other hot stock. So as MDIA started to tank, this ENOB started to ramp. And we talk about something called the flow of money. So usually when a stock is hot and it does its thing and it stops kind of trending the right way, that money goes on to the next stock. So traders have a very short attention span. They just want the hottest stock of the day. They don't care what else it is. They just wanna move their money from the hot stock of the day to hot stock of the day. And ENOB was running. And in my head guys, again, I try to remind myself that we are in a market that has long buys. We are in a market that is dominated by the long. So I do not want to short any of these stocks pre-market. ENOB, it ramped up. And I think some chatroom pumpers were buying it and it wasn't really moving with the chatroom pumpers, but it still had a lot of volume. At that point it had around 30 or 40 million shares of volume. And for me, when a stock is trading day one and has that much volume, I feel like it could trap people. So in training guys, I'm trying to remind myself that I don't need to trade everything. I don't need to be the master of everything. I just need to wait for my setups to come. And if they're not here, I don't trade for the day. So ENOB, it was kinda pushing, tanking, pushing, tanking. I didn't really trust it. And then it had a major, major stuff move at, give me a second, let me find the exact time. It had a major stuff move at 9.56 AM. And after 9.56 AM, when I saw that death candle, that's when I mentioned that the guys in the room that, all right, this stock is now confirmed, you can now short this stock on a bounce. Didn't really get the bounce that I was looking for so I avoided that too. So let's recap. First trade of the day was MDIA, I went long. Second trade of the day was me avoiding ENOB, right? Waited for the confirmation, didn't really get the bounce, avoided it. Now we had another stock, NOVN. This stock kinda hurt me today. This was a low hanging fruit. So it ramped up on Friday, it tanked on Friday and then today it started to bounce. It was a little bit red pre-market so I thought, all right, this is probably a give me short. It's not easy to borrow. So I said, all right, it's probably not gonna be crowded. And long story short, I started shorting the stock around like 16, 1650 and then as it broke, Friday's day the high, I had to exit for a loss. I gave back some of my profits on the day but we have a rule in MIC that says, if a stock breaks the previous day's high of the day, that is your stop. So that was that and then AMC. So AMC currently is trading at $57 and it closed at 49.40. The stock is up like 20% today and truth be told is these stocks are crazy, man. It's crazy. So I mentioned to everyone in the room that I'm pretty much done with these meme stocks because they are way too choppy and way too difficult to trade. There is an army of people on Wall Street bets just pumping and buying and buying and buying and it's gonna keep working until it stops working. And until then, I don't wanna step in front of it. Until then, I don't wanna mess around with it. But if you notice, AMC is the strongest of the meme stocks and all the other ones, all the sympathy ones, BB, GME and cost KOSS are all extremely, extremely weak. And that is because the way that this works guys, it's traders flock to the hot stock and those sympathy stocks, those sympathy runners are pretty much left in the dust, right? And there's actually a reason why GameStop is significantly, significantly weaker than AMC.  And that is because GameStop had an offering. GameStop is diluting their shares. GameStop is throwing more supply into the market in terms of shares, which is causing the price to go down. So just because AMC is running, now it does not mean that GameStop is gonna continue to run with it because now there is dilution happening guys. So be careful on these sympathy runners. Be careful on these sympathy stocks. They are never going to be as strong as the head of the snake. And for people asking what is AMC gonna do, I mean, I really have no idea. I thought it was dead. I thought it was game over and clearly I was wrong. But I mean, in the next, I would say three to six months, I think it's gonna be back down to $10, back down to $20. But in the meantime, right now, there's too much hype and there's too much euphoria. So again, to recap, longs are dominating this market. I am trying to go long pre-market and I am trying to short broken day two forgotten stocks. So do you guys have any questions on that? Just look it around. And if you guys don't have any questions, we could do a brief audience Q&A. I kind of wanna keep this video short. Bao and I were in the Bahamas meeting with one of our broker partners and I am so behind on work. I'm so behind on PM. So I kind of just wanna get back to it. But we could do like a brief, like five, 10 minute Q&A. So if you guys have any questions, throw it in the chat and I will start to answer it. Are you going to avoid AMC even if it goes on another run setting up for a first red date? If AMC goes red and sets up for a first red day, I will be shorting it. Tell me what you think about HTZQ breakout. I think that's a bankrupt company. So I'm pretty sure Wall Street bets pumping it. I'm not really interested in buying bankrupt companies guys. It's not a long-term strategy. And again, just because working right now where you could buy a bankrupt company and it's gonna double, doesn't mean that's a strategy that's gonna work. That's only working because we are in a euphoric, crazy market. Do you trade green to red moves? I mean, yeah. I don't really understand the question though. How do you know if a stock is easy to borrow on different brokers? Well, most of the time my broker, Cobra Trading has the stocks easy to borrow. And if not, I just ask around to the other thousands of members in the room. If we could just kind of ask around, we could find out what's kind of happening. Do I swing positions? Not really. In this market, it is way too dangerous to swing short or swing long overnight. I'm just trying to keep it simple, day to day. And like I said guys, look at the price difference between GameStop and AMC today. Usually when AMC is running, GameStop runs with it. But because of that dilution, because of the shares, because of their offering, it is now weaker compared to AMC. If you have right now $1,000, what stock would I invest to make 20% returns? Oh my God, no, wrong. I would invest in your education to learn how to make that money. There's no secret lottery stock. There's no secret formula that you could put $1,000 and it's gonna quadruple. It doesn't exist guys, it does not exist. Are you going long pre-market? I'm just going long pre-market for now. Thao has been going long during market hours, which she's been doing very, very well. But for me, I like to go long pre-market because I'm already awake early and I'm awake when these stocks start moving. I like doing these Q&As guys because it shows me that the questions that you guys are asking about. CLNE Wall Street Bets, I'm not really sure, but CRSR was a Wall Street bet stock. It went from 43 to 36. So the fact that these new Wall Street bet pumps aren't really working as well makes me think that we are slowly getting to the end of the cycle of Wall Street bets manipulating these stocks. What do you mean when you say stuff? Stuff is a pattern. We have videos on this. Just go to our free YouTube channel, type myinvestingclubstuff, okay? And you'll see a bunch of videos there. Does your heart rate increase when you enter a position? If your heart rate is increasing when you're entering a position, number one, it means you are in too big and number two, it means you have no plan. I did not trade RAPT. RAPT was an avoid. We mentioned to the guys in the room that it is an avoid. Yes, I started with $2,000 and if I could do it, you guys can too.  What is your mindset for the best way to wait for a place, set a fantasy order, wait for it to hit you? What is your criteria to tell if the market is bullish?  I mean, if you can't really tell that the market is crazy right now, then you don't really know what you're doing. Market is absolutely crazy right now because we're getting so many runners and the runners are not coming down. That means that the market is hot. ENOB, I mean, look at that ENOB right now. It looks like there's just a short on bounces because under VWAP, best pattern to grow a small count, I think it is the first red day set up. Yep, I set fantasy orders all the time. The overall market like the Spy and the QQQ does not matter for small cap stocks. It only matters for large cap stocks. It is smart to reserve shares ahead of time. If you do not reserve shares ahead of time, someone else will take them and you will have nothing. What are fantasy orders? Please watch one of our videos. My Investing Club on YouTube fantasy order. Let's see what else. Just waiting for some questions. Watch most of your videos on YouTube. How long does it usually take for a member to figure out what type of setup suits him? You paper trade and you try everything. And after you try everything, you find the setup that works for you. We have about five or six different strategies, longs and shorts. So you try all of it with a paper trading account and whichever one you find that fits your personality is the one that you stick to. How do you time the top of a pop to go short? You use lines, you draw support and resistance. There's no guessing here, there's no random numbers. We wait for it to get to a specific area, guys. We have videos and all this stuff, guys. So just go to the My Investing Club YouTube channel, go to the most viewed videos and you could just start going from there. All right, guys, I'm going to wrap it up because I gotta get back to work. So if you guys have any questions, you can leave a comment in there. 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