This study investigated the effects of a daily living activities, DLA, model on arm dysfunction, lymphedema, and quality of life in patients who had undergone breast cancer surgery. The DLA model included physical therapy, occupational therapy, and psychological support. Patients were randomly assigned into two groups, one receiving the DLA model and the other serving as a control group. Data were collected from 60 patients at a tertiary hospital over three months. The results showed that the DLA model was effective in reducing arm dysfunction, lymphedema, and improving quality of life. Specifically, the spofia, dash, and cat scales all improved significantly in the intervention group compared to the control group. Additionally, the upper arm circumference decreased significantly in the intervention group compared to the control group. Overall, these findings suggest that the DLA model can be beneficial in reducing arm dysfunction, lymphedema, and improving quality of life in patients who have undergone breast cancer surgery. This article was authored by Hava Bosnir and Dilek Agin. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


So one of the things that I get to do and have gotten to do over the last ten years is to visit some pretty incredible places where amazing work is done. And about seven or eight years ago I got to go to Boulder to be a mentor at the Unreasonable Institute with this particular class of entrepreneurs who were there, and I got to meet an amazing man, Luis Duarte. Luis at the time was working in recycling garbage in Mexico and being someone who can pivot and move on, he is now head of the Geary Community Investments, focusing on early childhood education. And I had a great moment backstage when I got to say to him, welcome my green card friend and had everyone look at me like what kind of political incorrectness did she just step into. But I just want to tell you, I want to welcome Luis Duarte, my green card friend to the stage and he'll tell you why. Thank you, Rosalie. And I think first of all, it's really a pleasure. I'm not the head of Geary Community Investment. We have a ton of beautiful colleagues that are representing our organization, but I do love coming to SOCAP. This is home. The first SOCAP that I came in thanks to Tony Carr was in 2012. And I have been since introduced to Geary Community Investments thanks to Tyler Hartman and Jed Emerson. And Geary Community Investments, which includes the Python Foundation, invests in for-profit and philanthropic opportunities to help advance the lives of low-income children and their families in the state of Colorado. So last year, a group of us that were here as we were heading back home in Denver, we wondered about this question and the question is how might we leverage this community? How might we leverage SOCAP and show each of the participants, each of you, the correlation between early childhood, social determinants of health, economic development, neighborhood economics, and also sustainable livelihoods. And also share with you the incredible financial and social return on investment when you're looking at this field to make a commitment. Thanks to Rosalie, Kevin Jones, Lindsey Smelling, and Kerry Hanson, Geary Community Investments has been working this whole year to curate the first early childhood spotlight series. We're very excited to bring you not only our hashtag, SOCAP4Kids, but also to announce a one million early childhood innovation price to really unearth solutions that will help improve the lives of children zero to three. And what better way to start this spotlight series than with our next speaker? I'm truly honored to introduce and welcome to this home, to this community Dr. Satya Nita. Dr. Nita is a worldwide leader and program director of the Cognitive Sciences and Education Technology and Research Department at IBM Watson. His global team invests and develops technologies at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive computing and employs multiple techniques in fields that are ranging from machine learning to natural process, natural language processing, virtual and augmented reality to cognitive neuroscience. He has been the chief technologist behind several critical innovations in the silicon technology area. Dr. Nita has been honored with multiple awards, including the IEEE Spectrum Innovator of the Year. And in 2016, he was chosen as one of the top 50 worldwide innovators, movers and shakers of education by the World Innovation Summit. Aside of his incredible credentials, I was so touched, inspired and humbled to hear his personal journey. Please join me in welcoming Satya. Good morning. It's a pleasure and honor to be here and I'll blame Louise for spending the first two or three minutes of my talk, giving you a little bit of a background behind my journey into early childhood. So there's something called the the Star Trek phenomena. It's actually very well known amongst technologists, which is that at a very early age, a lot of children get exposed to TV shows like Star Trek or to science fiction and they're so inspired by it, they grow up dreaming of building this world that they see. So I was very much one of those people. I spent a good part of my teenage years reading nothing but science fiction and sinking in as much astronomy and astrophysics as I could and and that translated to spending most of my professional life working in nano-electronics and nanomaterials and working on silicon technologies. So how did I end up in early childhood? So the story is, you know, IBM takes people like me and gives us all kinds of exposures and one year they asked me to spend a year shadowing the one of the senior leaders of the company because they wanted me to learn how to run big organizations and manage large budgets. So I spent a year doing that and at the end of it they said what do you want to do next and so I'd spent the last several years with with a real fascination for a branch of computing called neuromorphic computing and which is this notion that digital computers look very different from the human brain and there is a reason for the difference and how do we bridge this gap. So I got very interested in that field and realized I wanted to spend some time pursuing the software side of things and got into AI. So when I landed in AI, I had to find an application area to work in and Watson had just one jeopardy and about a year later they were looking for somebody to start a team trying to figure out what to do with Watson in education. So I was inspired by the fact that there was a big idea behind this whole thing just like there was a big idea behind the the technologies that I spent doing my earlier work in and I decided to take up the the challenge and the opportunity. So the big idea here is that you know computing is evolving rapidly a lot of young children are exposed to experiences that we've never seen and and I was fascinated by what things like touch computing or interaction with a virtual agent will do to how my children and this generation will learn and how their brains will be wired and how they'll be different from us and think very differently from us.  So back here is actually an image of Saturn. This was taken by the Cassini spacecraft three days before it actually plunged into Saturn and so this ideas like this I mean images like this still inspired me. I showed this to my children. They were captivated by it. So it made sense to me that you know bridging big ideas and technology and trying to transform early childhood education was where I should spend the rest of my time. But what really changed things for me was a talk that I saw by Patricia Kool. It was an inspirational talk. She's a very famous researcher in this area and she had a lot of things to say about brain development and growth. But one of the things that she said that stayed with me is the rapidity of brain growth in the first five years of life and the investment in public education that happens. So right at the point where the brain is going through the most important and dramatic period of growth, we have very very little investment in public spend and education and this is a real pity because everything we see with respect to people dropping out of schools, colleges, having poor life experiences can be traced down to this exact period where there is neglect, there's poor nutrition, very few learning experiences. And so this caught me really really interested in the problem. And then as I was reading the literature, I came across this paper from John Gabriel Lee's group at MIT where he talks about the actual physical impact of neglect in the early childhood timeframe on children's brains and he talks about the difference in the thickness of the cortical sheet in the neocortex depending on, you know, which, what kind of background you come from. And this absolutely stunned me. So there is an actual physical change in the brain and a physical lack of brain growth that you can measure through FMRI in early childhood. So this caught us thinking a little bit about what can we do with technology? Can technology help level the playing field? Can we do something to actually address this gap? And we sought out a partnership with Sesame Workshop, who's of course well known for a tremendous amount of work in early childhood and delighting generations of children and teaching them words and concepts and so on. So Sesame was delighted to work with us and so when we formed the partnership, we had a couple of principles. The first was we realized that despite IBM and Sesame being very big names, we realized that we're just a drop in the bucket and to make a difference in such a big field across the globe, we need an entire community of people to come together. So we said, you know, one of the things we ought to do just by partnering together is to draw attention to this field and channel spotlight on this field. And the second thing we ought to do is to figure out how to use AI to transform this particular field. And it's a very interesting time in AI, as all of you know. The notion that I can dialogue with a computer, that a computer can understand natural language, that a computer can understand speech and vision, and take some decisions and reason. All of these things are at the frontiers of AI today and which is what we were doing in our day-to-day life. So we thought partnering together and using these capabilities and doing something that will first of all shine a light on the problem and second enable a lot of people in the field to build their own technologies would be the right thing to do. So what we decided to do was to build a platform to impact early childhood learning and this platform would be basically used to create a generation of smart apps and toys and games and so on. And so this is a software platform. It's still in development, but we decided that the platform was basically the way to enable an entire ecosystem of people who don't otherwise have the means and the mechanisms to use AI to create their own technologies and impact the space. So I want to talk briefly about what the platform does. So first of all we started with the core Watson technology itself and Watson technologies today involved things like speech and image recognition, conversation between a computer and a human, the notion of many dynamic types of character voices. So these are all the base foundational elements of the platform and when we looked at it we realized that none of the technologies actually work for early childhood. First of all understanding children's speech is very difficult for a computer. It's a unique problem. Having meaningful conversations with children is very different from chatbot answering questions for a call center. So we spent a fair bit of time in the first year of our partnership tweaking the underlying Watson technologies and creating a more robust platform for early childhood. And then we said we can do something a little bit more ambitious and we started building a series of custom AI services as we call them for early childhood and which is the layer that's on top. So what we started building was a network of all the concepts in early childhood. We started feeding Watson all kinds of literature that children normally read. So we have an idea of the concepts, the vocabulary, the words that they have and and this is semi autonomously generating this entire knowledge graph of early childhood concepts and using that we could do some very interesting things. We could we could have a computer generate assessments. We could have a computer generate personalization models and and so this platform then was basically the foundation by which we could start building technologies ourselves just to test it out. So the first technology that we built was a learning application. This is a vocabulary learning application to address the the well-known 30 million word gap that all the people in this community really understand. And so we started piloting this. We piloted this at a very large school district in Georgia at Gwinnett County Public Schools and and this slide you see the the relationship is a little bit better. So based on that we started getting some real really interesting data. For instance the the graph at the bottom left is basically the the vocabulary development for one particular child over a 15-day 10-15-day period of being exposed to the the learning experiences that are built within this app. And the larger circles represent more confidence in the word, smaller circles represent less confidence in the word, and you can actually see a kindergarten-age child actually grasping words as they go through and use this particular application. Among other things the application can also generate assessments based on the the knowledge graph that you see below. It will ask a question like which of the following mammals is capable of flying and it will also generate automatically all kinds of distractors and it will have this very conversational interface with children. We mean this application to be an exemplar application of the platform. We don't intend for this to be the only application that children will use. And so among other things we also thought it would be interesting to use the platform to power a generation of smart toys which can have very interesting conversations with children and among other things they can also situate the conversations within their surroundings. For instance the toys might be able to look at a child's surroundings and they might be able to have a conversation based on the characters that they see or the objects or the toys that they see. And all of these are enabled by computer vision and speech recognition and the network of concepts that we're building. So these are meant to be some example applications of what one could build with the platform but what we really intended was over the next year or so to open this up to the world and let people build their own learning applications and tackle major problems like dyslexia which is a possible future application and unleash kind of the innovative power of an entire community. Dyslexia is a great example of what one could do with a platform like this that's very well known today that dyslexia is actually really a problem in the phonological processing areas of the brain and the ability to distinguish sounds is also very critical to the ability to read. So you could use speech recognition which is built on understanding phonemes in very clever ways to address problems like dyslexia. So I want to end with a little bit of a call to action. I'm very humbled to be here very honored to be here amongst a network of you know influences, finances, etc. I would like all of you to consider investing in this area and consider you know investing in technologies and people who can scale the problem, scale their reach and allow many more children on the globe the opportunity to grow up and dream of stars and reach for the stars. Thank you so much.


The Navy promoted its first female four-star admiral July 1st during a ceremony at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Washington, D.C. Siknav said Admiral Michelle Howard's promotion is the result of a brilliant naval career. We should not make decisions based on anything, but how well you perform in the Navy on anything, except your leadership ability, your skill, how well people will follow you. Siknav emphasized Howard's commitment, fortitude and integrity in her 32 years of service. Howard relieved Admiral Mark Ferguson as the 38th Vice Chief of Naval Operations. Ferguson is appointed to become Commander of Naval Forces Europe Africa and Allied Joint Forces Command in Naples, Italy. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Jen Blake.


Welcome to Toffy TV, I'm delighted to say I'm joined by ex-Everton striker, Michael Branch, who has just done a very, very lengthy interview with Baz over on our More Than a Game channel, so make sure you check that out. So say I'm playing and I've had a good game, I've scored, say I look up and it's 70 minutes, and I've scored, I'm having a good game, I'll be like, come on, take me off now, in case I make a bad touch up, I've missed a chance. That's my head, I want to go off now because I'm having a good game and I don't want to spoil it. So I was remandered for four months, so in that four months I want to show what my sentence is going to be, so I was still thinking I might get a year, I might even get a month out, I never got seven, I was like, what? So that knocked me for six, I thought I'm not doing seven years, I might as well just go and top myself or something. But I've got to be careful not to project too far in the future, I want this one then, just be happy with what you've got. Living the moment, living the day, and today's been a good day. I just want to have a chat with Michael about his new running club, Social Striders. Is it a running club? Would you call me back? A group. Yeah, a group. Yeah, not a club. So just tell me the background of why you wanted to start this. So obviously I run a lot now, I know the benefits for me mentally, and I just thought it would be a good idea to start a little, not a club, a running group, no pressure, all abilities, Sunday mornings, let's get up early, go for a little walk, a little run and a talk, so no great paces, there won't be no 5k records getting broken, there'll just be a jog with some meaningful conversation. What led you to think this was something that you wanted to get into and something that was needed? I know how beneficial it is to me to go running and talk. There's other running groups out there, but they're more focused on the running aspect of it. This is going to be more the social side of it, so let's meet up. There's a lot of walking talks, but let's go for a run. Just to keep up with your physical daily... I'll be out running anyway, you'll get people to do it with me. I'm fed up running on my own.  Obviously, we've seen the media about the situation with Deli. How important do you find running for your own mental health? What does that give you, just going out for those runs? My runs are non-negotiable now, so I need to do my exercise before 8, 9 o'clock in the morning. First thing in the morning, get some kind of exercise in. I've been injured lately, so it's had to be the gym, which isn't great. I'd rather be out running. It just works wonders for me. I've had medication before from my head and all that, but not a bit running. That's not medical advice, but it's what works for me. I just love running, being out there.  If I don't, feel as though I'm a little bit off. Do you think that when you don't run, then that creates its own little things? Cos it's something I've started running again recently. I've been on and off for years and years. I've run on my left over 10 years ago and that's one of the hardest things I've ever done. A large part of this year was just having an internal struggle with myself in my head about running. Not about why I need to run. It's so weird and now I'm out and now I am running. Those voices have gone away. Do you have similar things when you're in the gym rather than running? I feel as though I need to run. You can exercise and still get a buzz in the endorphins, but it's just it's different when you go running. You never regret a run unless you get injured. But I've never come back feeling worse. I still go to the gym every morning while I've been injured, but that cross trainer or the rower just isn't the same. I did it the outside. I tried going to the gym last year and I just hate gyms. It's not in me. You've been a professional sportsman. You obviously have to go through that. Gyms are stressful as well. I don't know what to do in gyms. I had a personal trainer and they teach me things. Literally in five minutes I would forget them. I've got that kind of mind, but even going to gyms is quite stressful. That's why I do like running. All I have to worry about is plotting where I'm running. That's another thing I stress about is if I don't plot a 5K, it affects me massively. I'm like, how far am I going to go? That's the only thing I need to do, but gyms are very stressful. Running is such an easy thing to do, isn't it? It does give you that. Especially when you finish body just gets flooded. You just feel grife just for those little moments afterwards. It's free.  If you start with the chaos, I'll just start. Soon it builds up. I'll just sign off for another marathon for my birthday. I'm treating myself to the Amsterdam Marathon. I used to hate running when I played football by the way pre-season, but now I'm paying to go and run a marathon. I'd say get your pre-seasons where proper running as well. None of this will play with the ball the way it likes. Any sand dunes? Sand dunes, crocky park, running round till you're literally be sick. Old school, just run till you drop. Sewn bych. You'll be back with that this week only. But he was always at the front. He was so fair for his age. That's standard, isn't it? That's what I'd say to standards. Obviously, like you mentioned, the deli situation, is this from what you've seen, are those situations common in football where footballers are being pulled in loads of different directions and can lead to situations where players basically don't want to play. I know you spoke about this with Baz over on the other channel, but is it something you think is common in football? It's more common than people would think. Brave of deli to come out and do it. Someone ought to do it. It's not nice to hear. It's quite sad to hear, but it needs to be said. It needs to be brought to the public's attention. More... Now that it's out there, let's keep it relevant and keep talking about it. There's better...  Within the club, there's more help for them. But still, they're still overhuman. They still have the bad days. Is that a big difference now? Obviously, when you were playing, there was a lot less care, probably a lot, probably zero after care if you were released by the club. You would have made two, gone and stuff. Is that one of the big improvements in football now is that you have people at various stages that can help people and help them get treatment because there's so much stuff now, isn't it? Listen, we talk every day about football and I often do it. I slip into forgetting they are human beings. There's the social media side of things. There's just the general pressure of being a football and what comes with that. So it is massively important. And then there's a lot of things, like you're saying, the hidden things as well. I imagine there's actually a lot more coming out about the LGBT community within football and things like that. So it is massively important, isn't it, that they're getting help at every stage? Yeah, I feel it's not like any other profession. It'd be different, you know what I mean, but footballers are just seen as they turn up, they should play. And that's all they are in football. They're not human beings in football. And I've been guilty of it, even though I've been on the other side of it as well. I'm still guilty of it and I have to check myself. But the more we talk about it, and we're learning, the clubs are learning, the Premier League's learning, the football league's learning, and it'll keep getting better the more we know and the more we talk about it. Yeah, I think it's a generational thing as well, isn't it? There's still a lot of like, there's still a lot of like, you know, man up kind of thing and all this kind of thing gets thrown around all the time. Like, you know, they're on all this money, they should be doing better, but we forget, we do forget. I bought my own book. I forget all the time. Viewers of this channel will know that. I forget all the time that people have problems. They have problems away from whether it be, you know, as Deli said, things from his past catching up with them or whether it be things in the present. And just the pressures of playing football, cos you know, as you described in the interview, they're incredible. You carry the hopes and dreams of thousands and thousands of people. Yeah, exactly.  Like every normal person and we just don't see that, we just think they're immune to what we go through there at football and money can solve that.  It's like, but we're all guilty of it all. We get caught up in the moment. We're obviously working with the community at the moment, so you obviously see a lot of the real life struggles as well. How difficult is it seeing some of those things as well? It's difficult. I feel as though, as I said to Baz before, I was walking around the city with blinkers on sometimes. Some of the stuff that I see now working within the community, it's heartbreaking. You wouldn't think it would go on in our city, but it does. Even the community, I'm not just saying this cos I work there, but what they do is unbelievable. Probably the biggest football charity in the world, and I put that out there. I've got over 50 other programmes running. You can be coming into our programmes from dads who've just had new babies or new dads up until the end of life care, so those are the programmes. So at any stage in your life you can be involved with everything in the community. No, they're a fantastic organisation. I know we've done a few things to sleep out. We jumped off a mountain for them once as well, the zip wire in Wales. Yes, so far. Jumped off the top balcony as well for them as well, but they are amazing. I wouldn't mind doing that one. We've done that one after we've done the zip wire in Wales, and it just didn't feel like anything once you've done that zip wire. So that was brilliant, so if you never want to raise some money maybe do that one. So where can we find out more about the running obviously to get people down? Social Striders Liverpool on Instagram. I've just launched it now. Bit more information is going to be going out probably tomorrow about their first meet-up time place. Get down there. It's all got together, have a chat. It's going to be a safe place for people to talk. Even whatever ability, whether you've run 10 marathons or you've run 10 metres, get down there and you'll be welcome. Let's talk. Brilliant stuff, brilliant stuff. There you go. For more about Michael and his journey make sure you check out the interview with Baz. That will be linked at the end of this show. Do you want to come out for a run? I've been doing it recently. This and I've started with 2.5K because again mentally it's that thing of like if I try and go and do 5K I'm going to give up.  There'll be some people just growing out 500 metres, 10 man come back, 500 metres. I just did 2.5K and I'm just building myself up slowly because I made a mess of it last time. So Dave, you've got more information over on the Instagram. We'll link that as well. Big thanks to Michael for coming in and thanks for watching Selfie TV. See you later.


Kenny K to his wife. I thank God and my ancestors for giving me you. Businessman and socialite Kenny Kunin has given fans a glimpse of why his wife, Nankol Yulco, rules his heart and has managed to make an honest man of him. Kenny described Nankol Yulco as a blessing in his life. The Lovebirds celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary on Sunday and Kenny gushed over his lady. When I met you in 2012 I never ever thought we will get to where we are. However God's plans for us are always the best. Every day I spend with you gives me so much happiness and peace knowing how much I am loved and appreciated. The sacrifices you made can never be forgotten. Kenny said Nankol Yulco carried out her role as a wife and mother to his children with such distinction. The socialite said he hopes they stay together until they are old and gray. I love you so so much my rib, my angel, my beautiful wife, my loyal friend. I thank God and my ancestors for giving me you and I thank your ancestors for giving you me.


SĐutĂĆu jeni ĀvudĀiĀ, ĀdiĆ. And today I just want to talk to you about my small successes related to the instruction of Esperanto to my wife. Because in fact, during the last five years, I've tried a lot to teach Esperanto to my wife. And I've used diverse methods to do that. I've used the learning point net, I've used the right method. I've even recently shown to her two languages, but she doesn't want to learn it at all. And I can understand that, because in fact, she's Chinese, and she's been studying English for almost 20 years in the schools, and when she came to Australia, she just wanted to perfect her English speaking. So I can understand that. She doesn't want to learn a third language at all. But for me, as an Esperanto person, I want to teach it to her, because I'm an Esperanto person. So I've tried a few times, and I've always failed. Or maybe I have to speak honestly. A few times, I've managed to teach maybe one or two lessons of Esperanto to her, but later she said, I don't want to learn it any more, I don't want to learn it any more. But to make things easier, I've used words that are very similar to English words. So, for example, I've used a cat for a cat, because it's very similar. And I've used a table, and a flower, and so on. Because I just want to make things easier. But later she started to think that Esperanto is simply English with O sounds at the end of all the radio. And later she said to me, give me the newspaper roll. She simply said, oh, at the end. And I said, no, no, all the words in Esperanto aren't similar to Esperanto, or to English. And I know that you know that, you just want to make fun of me, and she kept doing that. And I remember one day that I spoke to her about something, I couldn't remember the theme of the conversation. But I spoke to her, and I often said to her, the English word was NAMTI. Now, for those of you who don't understand the Australian English word NAMTI, it simply means STUTULO. And it's a little bit of a joke. And I said to her, you are NAMTI. And I said to her in English, you are NAMTI. You are STUTULO. And later she turned to me and said in perfect Esperanto, no, you are NAMPUTO. And I said, NAMPUTO isn't a real Esperanto word. You can't use it, but later she thought, you can't say to me what I want to use. And then, no, not Esperanto, but in English.  And of course, that happened to me, but I didn't often talk about it, because I didn't want her to continue doing it. Because you can understand it, if I fight against it, she, of course, wants to use it more. So, I totally ignored it, but she asked me, even now, to say, you are NAMPUTO. And now, I found myself in a situation where I was last time with an Esperanto friend. And I said to her in the conversation, you are NAMPUTO. And she said, what is NAMPUTO? I didn't hear about that word.  And then, my friend, when I told her about the history of the new word NAMPUTO, she really liked it, and we started to use it with each other. And now, I think, maybe even you like to use this word. So, it is substantive, and it is NAMPUTO. And it means, STUTULO, INFANETZA STUTULO. So, maybe you want to use this new word with me. And maybe if all Esperantists in the world started to use it, then my wife wanted to learn Esperanto, because she actually changed the language a little bit. So, say to me in your thoughts, is it a good idea, or am I simply STUTULO, or am I simply NAMPUTO? So, I like your opinions. If you like this film, of course, like it, share it, subscribe to my channel, if you haven't subscribed yet, and I'll see you in the next film. And if you're not there, I'll find you, NAMPUTO, and I'll beat you.


In November 2021, it was reported that Lady Gaga sold one of her properties, her Hollywood Hills house that formerly belonged to quirky musician Frank Zappa. She sold the estate for almost $6.5 million to Elizabeth or Lizzie Jagger. At the time, Gaga mainly lives in her massive $22 million compound in Malibu, California, which she dubbed the Gypsy Palace, and it boasts 10,000 square feet of space, along with luxury features and access to the coveted Zuma Beach. Hey guys, it's Kara back with another exclusive house tour here on Femus Entertainment, and in this one, we're looking at the homes of superstar Lady Gaga. Don't forget to like, hit that subscribe button if you haven't, and follow me on Instagram to chat. Let's get into this video. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. In November 2021, Gaga offloaded one of her properties for $6.5 million to Lizzie Jagger. The house tour was located in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles and used to be long owned by musician Frank Zappa. He bought the unique compound back in the 1970s, spending just over $75,000. Over the next 20 or so odd years, up until his passing in 1993, he lived here with his family. The half acre property boasted a Tudor style main residence with an attached apartment, ideal for staff, as well as two separate guest houses, both designed differently than the main home. The guest houses are modern while the main house is inspired by old world charm and features. Inside the property spans 6,759 square feet of space with 7 beds and 6 baths, not including the bonus guest houses. The amusing features in the home include an entryway and door that looks like something out of the shire. Fellow Lord of the Rings fans, you'll know what I mean. There is also an interesting wood paneled lounge covered in quirky decoration. The home has many rooms covered in colorful yet charming wallpaper designs while other spaces like a hallway with black and white checkerboard-towed floors and a modern bathroom with stand-alone tub, sepanese and arch are more elegant. Elsewhere on the estate, there were not one but two recording studios, a feature that Gaga definitely liked, one of which was called the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen by Zappa himself. In fact, Gaga recorded some of her album Chromatica here. The property also offers a two-level art gallery, windows straight off of a vintage submarine, a rooftop tennis court, a greenhouse, stunning gardens, and a swimming pool. Gaga purchased the home for about $5.3 million in 2015 and said at the time, the estate was very special and magical and claimed she would restore it while also leaving it the way it was. Since Gaga sold it in an off-market deal, we unfortunately can't see photos of the upgrades the star may have made to the place. So that house was very historic and cool, but Lady Gaga's main residence is something else altogether. After years of renting homes, she decided to put down some roots, purchasing a sprawling Malibu compound in 2014 for a whopping $22.5 million. The mega mansion overlooks the stunning Zuma Beach and of course, her home has some of the best ocean views. Covering six acres of land, Gaga's sprawling property features like a guest cottage, a saltwater infinity pool and hot tub, as well as rose garden. Gaga is also known to be a fan of horses and a lot of the grounds are dedicated to her. There's a barn with eight stalls along with a tack and feed room, a large riding arena, four grass pens, two large grazing pastures, and riding trails. Her massive Malibu home is one of a kind, covering over 10,000 square feet of space inside. She's even given the home a name and Gaga said, this is my sanctuary, my oasis of peace. I call it my gypsy palace. The build of Gaga's home blends in with the landscape, like the rolling hills and the open air. The main mansion is two floors with one-story wings to the right. Inside, there are common spaces with soaring ceilings and a room to entertain, boasting rustic furniture, hardwood floors and exposed beams. Gaga's spacious kitchen is full of modern updates like the appliances, but it mixes high-end accents, such as the counters, with more rustic touches, and there are also French doors to outside. The formal dining room is connected to a classy living room thanks to the open-plan layout, and in this living room, there are beamed ceilings, classic chandeliers, and a fireplace. If that's not enough, a separate den or family room is in its own retreat, separated from the common spaces that we just looked at. Yet, it still offers views of the coast. To really take advantage of the location, Gaga can step outside to her wood-themed sunroom, or even better, to her private master suite terrace overlooking the ocean. Here, there's patio seating for four and a plush daybed. The star's master retreat also offers two fireplaces, a full gym, his and her's bathrooms with heated stone flooring, a custom safe room, and double-walking closets. The mansion is just three bedrooms, which is strange for a house so huge. Gaga even reportedly converted bedrooms into space for her wardrobe. In her room full of clothes, she has plenty of custom designs like a cape from Alexander McQueen and pieces from Versace. In a separate chamber, she said she has racks upon racks of leather and feathers and sequins and a lot of black. Her dressing room even has its own fridge inside. The star also loves pink and thinks it to be a relaxing color for her.  The previous owner of the mansion was Dan Romanelli, who was part of the Warner Brothers team and worked on all of the Batman merch. Also, when he built the home in 2005, he added a Batcave lair. This special lair is accessed through a secret door and passageway in the living room and includes an 800 bottle wine cellar, home movie theater and bar, even a two-lane bowling alley. That has got to be the coolest part of the house. Considering Gaga has her beautiful Malibu palace, she doesn't need much help. In 2016, though, she did want to spend some time in her hometown of New York City, renting out an exclusive penthouse for 67K per month. And she was rumored to be the only person to have stayed in the building at the time. Built the same year in 2016, the glamorous crib boasted 5 beds in 12 baths, first listed for sale at a massive 36.8 million dollars before being lowered a few million. While Gaga never bought the place, she was living a luxury lifestyle the time she did rent it. The gigantic penthouse spent 11,000 square feet, bigger than her Malibu home. Along with a bonus 2,000 square feet of outdoor space. The kitchen here boasted double marble islands and double sinks, double wine fridges and a lavish chandelier. Other features included two wet bars, an 8-seat movie theater and a showroom-style garage on the first floor. The apartment also had an indoor pool, steam room, sauna and gym. It's thought that Gaga stopped renting this luxury residence in 2018 after telling Vogue she left New York to remain in Malibu full time. Although NYC might be a little too hectic for the mega-famous star now, Lady Gaga probably always feels drawn to the city because it was her home and where she grew up. Can you describe New York City in 3 adjectives? Gritty, fun and bright. Alright, now we've taken a look at Lady Gaga's homes including her main Malibu mansion she calls her Gypsy Palace as well as the Hollywood home she sold and her former New York rental. Out of those 3 properties, where would you most like to live? Her Malibu estate looks like paradise, not to mention its location on the water. So, I'll just have to pick that spot. Be sure to let me know your thoughts on Gaga's homes down in the comments. Thanks for watching, don't forget to give me a follow on Instagram and tell me which celebrity homes we should take a look at next. I'll see you all next time. Bye!


So people are listening, let's do a roll call. Do you want to start, Marcia? Council Member Martin? Mayor Peck? Council Member Duncan-Griss? Council Member Shamakoye? I am. Council Member Rodriguez will be absent tonight and Council Member Hedon Goldfairing will be here shortly. So we're just going to give updates on boards and commissions and talk about whatever you want to talk about and then after that I want to bring up the Juneteenth because I have some good stories. So I'm just going to open it up to the AISA to report some. Do you want to go, Marcia? Yes. First things only, by the way. Oh, yes. How nice. Okay, genial. So I guess the two things that are going on is that the airport is having an air show. It's not for a while yet, it's in September or October. Enough time for the exact days, even though it's already nailed down, I can tell you that later. But after having to miss quite a few for several different reasons, they really seem to have gotten their act together. They are reaching out to the airspace firms in the area. And here comes Susie. Hi, Susie. Hello. Hello. And a variety of different planes, they're hoping to have an electric training plane although I think that's not confirmed yet, but it could be a lot to see. And the board is working well to contribute with the volunteers without violating any laws. And so I'm really excited that that's going to happen. The first year I was on council, the first full year I was on council, they had an air show. And it was great. You could climb on the airplanes and, you know, mess up your paint job with your gravel in your shoe and stuff like that. But this one should be amazing. And that was 2018, I believe, the last one they had. Yeah, because they really only have them every two or three years anyway for budgetary reasons and volunteer recruitment reasons and all that stuff. So, you know, it'll be a good thing. And I hope we have great news about the airport to energize that event. Nothing, I don't think anything special is going on other than that. You know, everybody's just doing their stuff. Okay. Well, let's see if we can send it. Yes, please. All right, let's see. We're on that asset forfeiture committee with the mayor. We have had nothing so far, but I just want to say there's been some things in the private sector that will come on. Maybe we'll get called up for that in some time. Longmont Economic Development Partnership. It's been an interesting meeting. We talked about the House Bill, 10-13? 10-13. Okay, one about transportation. And they're interested in participating and taking a position on legislative issues. So some discussion about that and I believe the vote was to support it. Then the North I-25 Coalition, that came up also and the vote was to not support it until amendments came through. Some interesting different perspectives. Diane, what were their objections to if they wanted to mend it out? You know, I was afraid somebody was going to ask me that question because there was quite a list. And so I was saying, I'm not going to remember all of this. But the concerns are the time of commute is one of them. So I guess that would go to the speed of the train. I don't know that that can be amended, but maybe a more defined path where stops would be helpful. It's the North I-25 Coalition, so they're also working on the bus staying at the same time, so that comparing, you know, it's the train moving more and it changes to that. So that's basically what they're looking for. There was a short list. I think some of it was kind of detailed. Just curious. And not something that I necessarily was ready to know about that. So they'll be supportive with certain amendments. The visit long while we reviewed our CEO. She got high marks. They're still planning the climbing competition in February. When you think about it in August, that's only six months away. I'm hoping that the microtransit will be very available then and to have maps so that people that attend that can participate in all the businesses within Longmont. See, we meet tomorrow, so we're actually going to meet and then we're having an orientation for new board members because we also took on some staff as consultants with Visit Longmont.  It's been interesting about that. We met back in February, but the city contracts with a third party that gives us market information. And one of the things that I keep coming back to is out of all that the Federal Reserve has done to control inflation, in their grasp that they gave us, the only two things that have been affected have been automobiles and fuel. Energy is that one, mostly gasoline in terms of bringing down the price. And so I just keep coming back to it and in discussing with Longmont Economic Development about business situations with supply chain and with some of my clients also. Back in the 70s, when it was persistent inflation, they called it stagflation. It was kind of a funny name, having nothing to do with male deer, but stagflation. Or single man. Stag parties. But what's interesting about that, I guess, is at this time in the year, after April 15th, everybody's kind of reviewing their budget and considering their purchases for the next year and how are they going to manage expenses. And at the same time, and maybe you all have received some constituent concerns about oh, the newest one was a fee that next slide imposed on someone that put their service on hold. And all these little things add up to maybe $100 more per month for a household. So one of the things that the city can do looking back at when there was a period of stagflation, one of the things the city can do is hold the line and not react to the market. Because something that the city and the government can provide where the market is being very very heavy. And there was even some heard recently is that someone did not get their delivery of diet. Pepsi. Is that an odd thing to be sure on supply? And the thing is Did they bring that to you as a council person? It was a business. Oh. Yeah.  Have you seen some delivery? Get on a diet. Get on a diet. There is some, and we've had this conversation about supply chain. There is some withholding until the price, you know, achieves whatever they feel like they need to make in their budget. Well, there's a way to say they're adjusting their budget or they're, you know, there's been a dear problem in Europe. Yeah, there's costs that the city can cover. And so I'm just saying as the city, we need to always look at let's just stay level, not react to the market. That's one of the things that we're going to do. That's all I'm involved in. So. Well, I, the golf board was cancelled last month and they haven't had the meeting this month. Crab, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board had their meeting and they're acquiring some land up near Bud Rock. Some logical locations kind of keep that area more controlled by Longmont which is, I think, probably a good thing and it's a good purchase of of land and keeping it for the open space purposes and that's a location that you know, is pretty logical. Then the Longmont Public Media they met last night in short we are working on more of some bylaws and rules we're trying to this board it's got a couple of folks that haven't shown so we're trying to get some more fresh new faces on the board expanded to about seven and then my capacity would be probably more of a non-voting member like the other that many of us serve on it's probably a good thing because they already have a financial board and so we don't need to and particularly when they have a contract with the city I think it's probably wise for us to have a person there but not necessarily somebody who potentially could affect their financial status since then they maybe say well that was the city's heavy influence from the city council members something like that so it's probably wise to not have some voting members so they're trying to get seven members total in the council and then they'll have a Sergio or a Sergio there for to run the meeting or to be the kind of staff that is sort of missing anything on that Marsha? Not run the meeting but be there to kind of be a staff support and then the last one why I left it last is the consortium of cities they had some interesting folks to talk about their how they're dealing with some of the sharps and other things that they're finding and putting on all their county buildings and everything and a couple things that they were doing in regards to they were providing people because you're much more likely apparently to have a very serious overdose from injection then you are from if you smoke things like a crack and other things like that so they're providing actual pipes and ends in case people are sharing that sort of thing everybody's eyes in all these cities are like what their eyes got super big but they said our data and the research that we've done and everything says this is probably safer to give them providing with that than they provided with the needles and everything so that was kind of interesting a box of display things they talked about how did it get some of these supplies for the smaller communities and others and the big issue was around the minimum wage issue and I'll tell you the smaller communities like Erie, Superior Louisville and Lafayette they keep saying they're talking about it but like Superior said we've got potholes to fill and we've had this little problem in our community you know a marshal fire so they were really kind of putting it off and so they're putting it off maybe until the summer I talked to Sandy and she emailed me that we might see some sort of update in July and I think many felt it was the issue with that was that we had got enough data back we knew what we had done here with interviewing some businesses and of course many of the businesses I repeated that many of the businesses you know we want just precious we'll take our business and go elsewhere but as I told them there this is the market the market is long gone they're going to wherever out east I don't think their employees are going to follow I didn't think that their customers would necessarily follow them out that way and if we implemented a minimum wage progressive minimum wage like proposed they're not going to have employees because those employees are going to come this way from places that are not supported minimum wage so their argument for it's going to crush us it's probably not likely to be there what they need to probably stop doing is many of them are taking they're part of what they make and then they're taking some of their employees part too which is in the form of reduced wages so that's where they need to get kind of filled in there when they stop trying to take the employees that should be going to some of the employees that probably interfere in an equitable situation they probably could not have a $20 hamper situation or something like that so I don't think that's necessarily absolutely across the border in all cases but what's the can we have everybody reported and we'll open it up yeah I just had a question on that topic but if Shakita and Suzy so is that the only one that knows the big okay oh cool Suzy did you want to go? I don't want to step over you if you want to you sure? yeah okay I can't last so last night we had transportation and very interesting because we had our team there last night and I can't remember who was the guy who was on the board Eric Davidson? yeah he was talking about they were going to support Sanneville 184 which was funding intercity passenger rail RTD RTD is leading the study for that and also they were opposing House Bill 1447 which is the transit reform bill and they said the structure of the bill was concerning to them he was talking about the long term financial outlook of their programming as far as like the youth is free for RTD right now 75% is dependent on the sales tax right now the expiration right now the exemption for that refinancing these are like short notes that I took so if you don't understand or love it I'm sorry they were saying what's at risk right now is the 40 million they may have to refine through the taper um one or the other if they have a new police chief that's been there that I didn't know RTD had a police chief um so I was meeting the rent of that oh where we at maybe new yeah they have a new one he's only been there maybe for about a year um they have a problem with retention of drivers due to high level of assaults to employees and increase the drug use and criminal activity um and also they need to train officers so they put in a lot of money for the you know for the officers um and also mental health clinicians and the escalating training um for their officers and um so and then also fit now use has increased as well and so um they're not sure about keeping the youth program keeping that free for the youth and I think board member Wicklin asked how much are they paying the employees because like I said the retention rate um they can't keep the employees and they said they're almost $26 an hour um but once they get them through the training they get their CEO license and they're like bye bye yeah so that's the issue right now um and so I asked because they can't even tell us how many youth are actually using the buses they won't keep the data yeah they don't have the data for that um so I asked why don't you for the summertime like get youth involved let them paint the buses have some type of travel program for the youth on the buses um what are they doing as far as um the unhoused that are traveling on the buses because youth are I mean I'm sure that's a deterrent for youth to get on the buses if the you know if it's low uh passenger rate for youth that are not utilizing it so how are you you can't tell us how many youth are using the buses then it doesn't matter this program so um and then they had what's her name started with again she was speaking about um Natalie yes she was speaking about the priority the next priority is having a route going towards the hospital like Costco area and all of that by the Walmart um so but that's priority but they don't have a day so anyway I say what I have to say to them because she just kept referring to everything about boulder boulder boulder and I said oh interesting um in our comp plan we're talking about reducing the carbon footprint and we're talking about electrification and all of that I said if I was a new resident coming into the city of Longmont and I'm looking for a place and and I believe in the comp plan of uh our goal for you know our environmental goal and I want to be somewhere where I can just hop on the bus and if it happens to be out there I can I have to have a car if I'm working at the hospital you know and I live out west of Longmont I have to have a vehicle to get to work and then you're talking about having a car uh an electric car but where the the charging station so you all what have you all been doing and and I said there are no bus routes going up for the high schools either I said you want to talk about boulder I said they all have buses at their high schools we don't have buses at our high schools and then I feel that's what we're doing Michael Tracy I said exactly I said why do we we have to think outside the box to do this and I said you know anyway I said I understand I said we thank you for all you do but I'm still complaining just like we did in the emails too so good um um and um let's see oh sister cities um everything is going on with sister cities everything is on plan on point I guess right now we got our dates for Japan finally um July um 14 through the 26 and so we're supposed to right now we're trying to we don't know how much the tickets are they're probably around 3,000 per person right now and it will be nine of us going to chaperones and seven students um in Arapahoe everybody's practicing doing their thing each supposed to have a dance an American dance that they're going back to uh each location to do their American dance and trying to practice last year in Japan they did footloose and it wasn't that pretty so um if you all know of some um choreographers I told them I'm going to find the one because they're representing the city alone yeah so anyway um that was good I also wanted to say I did not make it to downtown my own mind um district association I mean our authority I mean LDDA because I was at the funeral and um but you know we the whole TL they should be closing on that by the end of the month um everything was working on that um what else am I on I didn't go to the NADA I wasn't able to and that's next Thursday the next meeting and I just wanted to say the live skills was amazing um I did put you and you on there the possible yes um collaborating for next year so they do want to do it again I have a meeting on Friday with the superintendent to see if he's willing to he was very supportive of the life skills fair and so just making sure he still will come you know yes that's why we have been meeting on Friday thank you yes exactly okay okay so um the library was last night so I'll go with that one so most and I noticed that museum and library it was really talking about recruiting people for the board people are getting anxious that we're not going to get enough people to fill these spots so our current chair of the library board is term-limited you know she'll be done maybe next month or last and then June is the new people so they'll be electing a new chair um in June it goes through June through June um and then yep so the yeah June is the final meeting with current board members so um in the director's report and updates we just got a chance to see you know the work that the library's doing I think some of the challenges that they're facing is um and people have been you know they've been getting some people upset items are on hold for a longer period of time because what they've had to do is really cut back on the number of um items that they're able to in their collections they're able to purchase so for digital materials the prices have gone up so they're not able to purchase more digital materials or copies of a certain book or um item and so then when people place it on hold they're having to wait longer for it to come in so that's that's been a a hiccup in what they're trying to you know trying to keep it functional um you know there have been something that the board really wants me to understand and share out with you all is that the trajectory that it's on it's not really sustainable in the fact that they have a lot of part-time employees um or they have people who are doing a lot for a community our size so we're really you know we're staffed as the way we were maybe 20 years ago but the demand and the increase in population is um it's not sustainable so uh last Wednesday I went to that so it was on the 10th the pie, the Padresinguelo Grados and their annual celebration and Lillian from the library was there our outreach coordinator and she was out there and she's working with families and just getting the stuff done but it was one person so really to be able to have a team and so really you know just emphasizing the importance of a sustainable and well-funded library and as a teacher I'm speaking from the heart on that one um so that's you know we discussed that you know a point that they wanted to bring to me was you know we're in desperate need of funding and so that's you know that kind of what they wanted us to to be to have an understanding on um the annual report um we'll be presented to council on April 30th so they'll be coming at that time too to share um more about um going on at the library and um outreach and all that uh on May 17th the library will be closed all day for in all staff training and focusing on uh trauma informed care allyship um dealing with uh and coping with microaggressions that are occurring you know being in front of the library and certain things that you have to deal with in the public you know how how to navigate those situations professionally and also taking care of themselves so that will be happening on the 17th I think is that a Saturday the 17th Friday or Saturday um so there yeah there's a day where people Friday okay that'll be the day that the library is closed all day um and let's see they did revise their form for people to submit if they want to have a book or an item evaluated they did revise the form and actually as I looked at it from this time to last time it seems like it's more user friendly it's it's rather than just people just filling out this whole blanket page of grievances it's more um you know it's just more itemized and so people you know that it will force people to become really clear on what they're trying to get across it's not a matter of opinion it's you know based on these factual pieces that this is what I want this book reviewed so we had a chance to look at that and that was based on what other public libraries are doing and utilizing throughout the state um for the museum the expansion is um going as um as anticipated closing my street they're closing your street so they're working on the inner courtyard it's being graded for drainage and heartscape and their slab has been poured for the new performance pavilion so you know they're doing they're still getting donations in and so that's it's everything seem like it's coming along pretty well um we discussed revenue and attendance so it looks like discovery days attendance from February of 2023 they had 896 participants this time 1132 um auditorium sales have um nearly doubled from last year to this year and gift shop sales have increased by thousand dollars from last year February to this year February so you know they seem to be seem to be doing well you know again they were talking just concerns about getting board members and having those seats filled so and then there was some question on and maybe Don can answer this around current board members is it crossing any kind of line for them to go out and promote people applying so I said no I know but I don't want to I will double check I will confirm but it seems like you know anybody can we say that every time we said that recruitment secretary please for your board members and um I didn't hear it so much at the museum advisory board but at the library there was a lot of concern around the ethics you know just concerns about how that language is going to impact you know their ability to say anything about so I think that's where that question came up like are we allowed to promote applying because I didn't know if it would impact so they saw the language the library yes and so I said no I don't cross any ethical ethical violations just keep recruiting and then I think the RCAP was canceled last month because of spring break like there was a lot of conflict a lot of people couldn't attend so we are meeting at the end of this month and the arts and public places the last time they met we had our Lawmont Housing Authority meeting so I wasn't able to attend but it is this Thursday so I'll fill you all in on that next and youth council they had a debrief of the life skills fair and I think they were working on helping applications and just working with youth on those things you know that group would I attend those meetings it's more like a working group so I'm just kind of sitting on the side and you know I might answer giving them a council update but that's pretty much it use council yeah they do their thing after that something really sexy that you know and this I don't remember who the consulting people are and we're giving an app it's a pilot program for an app to let someone know when the train is coming so they did a demo last night a demonstration so it would let you know where the train is where the train was stopped all you have to do is just look and see where it is in the city and what time it should be over when it's moving so it's pretty cool and so I can't believe I forgot that part but that's like the best part especially after last week so yeah it's a pilot program and I don't know when it will be completed but Becky Doyle is the one who's leading that because you know her partner was the one who created the that whole app in a way that we got awarded for in Alameda with National Liberties but it's great I know so okay I'll go fast we'll open it up for questions so I'm going to hit everybody I was surprised that Natalie said that they were working on buses from east to west I guess they've been asking for LX-1 to be restored for years and she says the same thing to me we're working on it that's what she said last night too about LX-1 she said we're getting it back and it's all about resources well it's supposed to be last September and then it was supposed to be December and then January you know I've worked with Natalie for nine years now well we're supposed to have coffee so all three of us can have coffee yeah somebody else is working on it I love it so we had a meeting this morning with the Executive Committee for FRPR and we are working on what we know is that we need to move really really fast and I think that our manager Andy Karsian with these bills has kind of had a project poked at him in saying you're too slow what are you doing so we talk, we're getting a survey out a poll as to what people want we're working on the ballot language which is going to be a lot of a lot of input because the district has so many different populations in it that it's very important that that ballot language addresses everybody needs but everybody's ability to interpret the language and that's what screws up a lot of ballots is that people just don't understand them so we worked on that, we're also talking about the tax what will the tax for these districts be so the SB 184 which is the big bill which basically tells RTD that you need to finish the Northwest corridor and it also says that once you finish it from Denver to Longmont then FRPR takes it over because of the different pups and money that can be used RTD cannot use federal dollars because they are under transit not federal so FRPR has the dollars but what the bill is going to do that you're saying that they what was that bill in the American 184? No 1447 1447 so I understand why RTD doesn't like that bill it is a bill to re-manage RTD to cut that board down from 15 to 7 people and part of SB 184 says that RTD, CDOT and FRPR have to work together and either come up with an IGA that is three way IGA or come up with a transit authority type of deal the CTIO got through with an amendment I'm sorry the 184 got through with an amendment that said the original way it was written was that there would be a $3 fee on all rental cars and they did like that because those dollars are going to go into CTIO which is a group where it used to be HUTF dollars this is very confusing but they wanted only they wanted all Colorado residents to be out of the rental car fee $3 a day and I don't think that passed because everybody uses our roads but the way the bill was set up was that those dollars were to be used for rail first so there was a lot of pushback on that and they said the projects that are in place should use those dollars first and then it should go to rail so that that's all got to be worked out but as soon as as soon as the governor signs SB 184 and 1447 then Harold and I talked about having a community conversation to explain all of this because it's very confusing and everything I read as a different slant on it so that nobody really understands how the whole thing is going to work but I think it's really exciting and it is going to come whether people like it or not and I just said Harold and Phil a document telling instructions or ideas on how RTD and M-Track and BNSF want the train I call it a depot station has to be done with certain standards according to BNSF so just for fun and this is what we talked about is that that little red train station that is by the transit station we talked about moving that and using it as the train station because it's historical and it's old and it's cute and adding on to it of course but having that be our train station I think about the depot liquor store the one that is on every no it's not on every it's on second first it's on first by the railroad track so here's the cheese importers across the street and it is in that little red train so you'd have to take a little ride yes it's like sandstone no it's just pavement oh like that I don't know so that is to be honest that's what I'm really working on most of the time because the timeline for this has been pushed up to 3 to 5 years instead of 20 so it's like whoa we better get busy instead of building this but again until the governor signs these bills there's nothing in stone it's decided probably in May reminding what the bill is SB 184 that just happens both houses with amendments and 1447 is the one that hasn't really gone to committee yet it is being hashed out and I know that our TV doesn't like it one thing I don't like about that bill is that the governor said that he's going to have two or three at-large directors but the RTD district is huge and our at-large director there's no way they can cover that I think that they should be appointed to a district or to a certain area to represent not everybody yeah it's going to be really hard and the other thing I didn't like is that he wants to cut this board down to size pretty soon we have a lot of historical knowledge there and Eric Davidson is so smart and he's turned that around we're the only RTD transit agency that is not in the red it's taken him four years to give it in black it's like when we bought our house I wanted to do all kinds of fun things but we had to replace the water heater we had to fix some stuff so we put a lot of money into the house but we couldn't see any improvement it was still the old house so that's the way I feel about RTD at this point they've made a lot of changes and they're working hard but just based upon what Nevilley said is why I think it needs to be redeemed totally in support of 1447 so that's about it I'm on the historical preservation committee we had a meeting and I am at this point learning a lot so I sit quietly and thank them for their support because nobody's come to us with a project okay Marcia I have questions it seems like it would be good to discuss minimum wage because the small towns don't have to buy in we can still have a regional district if it's just Lawnmont and Boulder and Boulder County that's good enough the problem is that Boulder County didn't bother to ask certain employees in the last two of our largest employers in the county the Boulder Valley School District or the St. Mary Valley School District what they thought of that and that seems to mean they could learn a mistake on their part not to have done that but I think there's other things that need to be fixed on this it's kind of got some issues if we're going to do it regionally there are certain aspects of it that I think should be part of it but that's just my opinion well Marcia, thank you I I think that first of all the commissioners are going to be the commissioners I have stopped having expectations about the commissioners but Lawnmont can pass a minimum wage and say we're with you Boulder County and we don't need any help to do that although it would be great if the city of Boulder would do the same thing but I looking at it from another way not the logistics of getting it passed but rather the impact on our businesses because pretty much everybody in the chamber hates the idea but when we were in the pandemic we were afraid of failing it turns out that most of the businesses in the chamber have very little clue about business so we helped them during the pandemic we and the chamber and the EDB and all of that the DDA mostly I think I helped them to figure out how to do a PPP loan and stuff like that I talked to successful businesses that are not yet huge and they kind of agreed with me that there are things fairly minor changes in your business like if you are a retail business just making a 10% change in your line of offerings for example if you do it carefully and start selling something profitable with a high margin it can without changing the character of your business increase your margins enough that you only have three employees that are at minimum wage it gives you enough to keep your business the same shape as before but pay that higher wage and it seems to me that if we could find some city funding and collaborate with the chamber and probably some some mover and shaker type businesses the ones that are run by MBAs or people with strong investment heritage or whatever in the city and we could have seminars classes on how to improve your margins either by finding ways to save or by by changing your product line if you're retail I'm not that kind of a business person so I couldn't necessarily come up with 15 examples but that the courses could be developed and offered and then the businesses are at least they will lose their fear and understand they have a support system it's not that different than what sustainability does with small businesses to give them to adopt sustainable practices in their business and they usually end up saving to tell them it's possible so I think that's a good idea but I don't think the city should run it this would be a good thing to bring to LADP and to the chamber because the EDP is for it they don't have a problem mostly the EDP businesses understand that our economy will improve if we raise the minimum wage it's the chamber people have a problem with it well so I talked to Claire Levy we had a coffee she stated that she was way too early and went way too far with the minimum wage and I told Marta I said my problem with it off the bat is our nonprofits and I said I felt really really bad and he said no they're not going to support it and then Lafayette Lewisville they all weren't going to support it so I felt better that okay maybe there's something else there the nonprofits are the ones that I'm concerned about mostly and some of the small businesses because of the family insurance that the governor has or the state does now may have to buy into it to provide something of their own like we do they said their costs have gone up because of that and a lot of the nonprofits are not getting grants or donations for two reasons number one a lot of the wide-offs on federal income tax came from donations and philanthropic type things raised to $15,000 as a standard deduction none of those donations count you have to be a big giver for that to count so they don't bother giving their little donations that would add up to maybe $2,000 and with property taxes going up with this stuff so I believe in the minimum wage I just don't think now's the time right now well I've done a lot of thinking about this too and I think that the issue is that the big corporations will be able to live in they'll be able to live in that and so that's a given the issue is that if that's the only type of business that we want here that's probably not the case so small businesses need to have some sort of support to what Marcia's saying I'm concerned about not having any tools for localized inflation in the process here as an educator I'm a strong believer in some sort of like a certification type of thing where it's tied to it but that's not in the legislation and I think that's something that I would like to see because I think if you have to be a first aid certified and lifeguard trained and everything like that to be a lifeguard you should be paid a little bit more because you're taking on a bigger more deep responsibility if you're a certified bookkeeper or same thing you're taking on a bigger responsibility well she was just well training but those people have to be certified to even get the job it's not like you're going to hire a lifeguard who hasn't gone through and so some of the more low other ones are like for food service folks they have to have a safe serve training and certification and if you are selling with her at a gas station or a grocery store you probably have to be tips trained to know what the new license and stuff like that I think that might be illegal let's run that past Eugene into businesses in Tel Aviv I think that's part of there to sell I think it's part of the license process but then why but then they couldn't hire any my point is I think they do the training I think they do the training just like legislators just not our law it's not our law we would have nothing to do with you I just think that certified uh employees should be paid more and we also have to look for in fact if somebody is a bookkeeper and they're getting paid $25 now the difference is around $9 that they need to be paid better at those locations where people would be like why am I doing this you know I need to be paid at least higher than someone doing minimum wage and that's a deeper role and so that's the only issue I think though if we are going to pursue it it has to be public vote people have to have an idea around it not just us going and saying we're going to go ahead and move forward with this and I think there's some mistakes that kind of commissioners realize that they're going back we're going to try to correct but I think there's and for comments when the first person didn't pass it in Boulder there's really only one member of Boulder council that's really pushing it and so I just don't know if this is where we're at I'm for a minute wait I just don't know I agree I have two I think we're handicapping ourselves by not preparing for it you know whether it's three years or two years or something I still think that and I want to correct something that you said assumed about what I was suggesting I don't think the city should organize a class I think the city should put money in it and mandate it but the mandate having such class make sure that it exists make sure that it's made available like through the chamber but I'm saying that the city the city needs to be the instigator and the pusher but not the administrator and not the brains of the outfit because we don't have that kind of expertise within the city okay just to clarify who are we mandating for the business owners? we're mandating that it exists the business owners don't have to take it but they should realize that if they think they can't ever pay a higher wage the problem is in their business not in us but we're done so I do have one really fast question when LPM and Sergio gave their update this real fast one sentence he said that they want all of the what is it called they want to increase the yeah they want all of that funding really fast what do you really come up with I'm just curious yeah whoops yeah I feel like there's more I think the funding that we give from the franchise fees I think capital is already giving us that direction I think what they're wanting is additional funding which will have to come from the general fund allocation I think there's more to it is that correct Dylan he didn't he did say sounds right to me okay I feel like that word is a deeper discussion okay Joan I do have something to say about that though really quick that I told Sergio something different when he asked my advice about I said you're doing that wrong like what would it take they're not going to have an answer for you setting out some goals some concrete measurable goals and then challenge the council to say if we achieve this goal would we could we get extra funding from the council both to support that goal and to support the next goal so in other words he should be asking for something concrete and measurable instead of just saying please sir may I have some more I think we should have anything about it but I look at it differently this is a business if he is saying we're going to offer more under your contract and then that's going to cost more and then we would have that discussion but just to have more money to increase the other side of their business that's what I'm thinking of so come back with the contract and tell us do we need any more that's a conversation they need to have with operations because you don't know what that contract would involve you can weigh in on this but then on a birdwalk yeah birdwalk that's fine when he asked what would it take to actually respond to that because what I noticed is that the paid people are coming up but they are maybe one percent more than the total so it needs to be a higher percentage of the whole so there's a measurable point and that would provide more funding because they are making more money if they have a large increase in paid membership they don't there's a little concern that and Marcia can speak to this too that they're competing with the Tinker Mill I did have a conversation about LPM with some of my clients and some that aren't even my clients but just businesses and the truth is that small business owners work 60 to 80 hours a week so doing it themselves is very hard for them they really want to be able to pay a student maybe at LPM to do it for them but they like the idea and the pricing is good at LPM for a small business to utilize so my other suggestion for Sergio would be impacts businesses in town that would be very helpful to the city oh that's a good idea I think if what you mean is LPM should have product offerings that it staffs and then business or volunteers because you don't have to be a student to volunteer I don't know I mean too you're all you I don't know but anyway but yeah choose one from column A and one from column B instead of having to do all the creatives yourself and then I'm going to throw up for the small businesses not every business is meant to have a large margin of product for example this is Walmart I know you hate it when I talk about Walmart but their whole business model is built on volume with small margins but Walmart's not a small business either because they're very successful for it with it and another organization that also works on small margins are stockbrokers I know so you're thinking well there's actually a lot of money in small margins because they have both of those examples and that's not that small margins are the be all and end all of the answer increasing part of your margins is one way making a business more viable enough to pay a higher minimum wage the example is MECO coffee versus Z's because MECO has a few really high margin things going on in that store and therefore they're a more resilient business than some of the others so this is five years it takes five years to achieve profitability often it doesn't average there's a good reason for that some businesses are more is this what you wanted a bird want to alright we're done we're done it is this transition I don't have to oh yeah that was the best thing to talk about thank you so Juneteenth I love Juneteenth but here's my concern if you want to make it before this council turns over think about you don't need to answer it now but think about how can we put this in perpetuity kind of like Cinco de Mayo that we continually either funded either out of council contingency or do we try to put it into the budget because it is a very successful event and but they're going to have to come back every year to a different council and if they have a different mindset they may not want to except for that you just clarified the pieces of the sponsorship that you all approved that puts Juneteenth on the list for for the rest of time for those pieces and I can't recall them off top of my head the sponsorship those pieces would follow no matter the cost so the stage you have to do that every year you're on the list the use of Roosevelt Park or any city facility and also the trash so that part so council pays the first year in the sponsorship policy and then we budget for the next year the next year that becomes supported in perpetuity in part unless the council comes back and says we don't want this so they have to make a concerted effort okay I didn't understand that I thought that so you only come to council contingency for things above and beyond the cost because the first year there was nothing I started it from nothing my paycheck you know and so then you all supported last year and then this year yeah thanks thanks for that clarification that was a quick discussion we're out of time we are but I don't see any attorneys alright Harold am I supposed to you're going to join a different team Molly's going to log in right yeah they need to be yeah there are people in the hall we will grab them yeah I'm going to get off of this one


WF House presents an unabridged recording of The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee. Narrated by Dion Graham. To my wife, Nikki. Introduction. Hi, this is Natiki Hope Presley. This book is about neither race nor politics, inequality nor revolt. Although race and politics are the backdrop, this book is about freedom. Over 50 years ago, when my father Sam Greenlee Jr. wrote The Spook Who Sat by the Door, some critics chose to see his book as simply an outline plan to educate and train youth gang members in Chicago to violently overthrow the city. They overlooked the meticulous intentionality of Spook's main character, Dan Freeman, a man on a mission to quench his thirst for freedom and justice. Freeman lawfully infiltrated the CIA through an affirmative action recruitment program designed by a failing politician who sought to win back the black vote. In an all too familiar political ploy, Dan successfully completed the program and gained feel experience but was assigned to serve as the copy boy. He's kept in a non-threatening position, void of authority and dignity. Dan's true motivation for joining the CIA was to use what he learned to empower his community and serve a purpose greater than upward mobility. The noted quote Spook performed menial duties, overcame ridicule and endured blatant racism to work towards his ultimate goal, revolution.  It is easy to see him as the antagonist in an American fairy tale, but I propose seeing Dan as a victim of two of America's greatest tragedies, inequality and injustice. With many, Dan earned a merit-based promotion. He successfully completed the CIA training program with all its rigor. He went from being a young man living in inner city Chicago to a CIA agent, but because he's a black man, he would never earn the respect the position garners or experience the full benefits of his achievement. Dan determined it more expedient to use his access to the quote system as a weapon against it, although his tactics in this... Sample complete. Ready to continue?