My baby, Piera has been really close to me since I started doing whatever I'm doing right now. Piera is one of the people I respect very much. So, Piera wherever you are, she's not here right now so I cannot speak it out. We are going to address the nation very soon when she is here. You see, like I cannot speak it out when I'm alone. Na pigezi ma salizangu chenga but given a chance to date her would you? How sure you we are not dating. What's up guys, welcome to SPM Bars. My name is Liz Jackson and this is yet another exciting episode with the one and only creative Phil. Na jom namjwa but whatcha aji introduce, hi Phil. Hi, how are you? Niko poku aji. Niko salama, kabisa, yes. So, leto mi amotitafti Phil but before we get into the elephant in the room, before we address the elephant in the room, filtunatu kakujwa you've been lost for like an year. Umeku awabi. Okay, I've been planning myself. I've been having strategies on how I'm going to get back to work. E kupanga maisha kidoga. That's why nimi kwa lost kidoga. Toki angelepeji ango sayi. I've started posting like one week ago.  Uh, nothing actually. It's just something came into my mind and then I just said, let me just take a break. Yes. Umeku gaya suali angu chenga, lakini wacha niri, fresh na. Phil, wacha tubongi. This is a nice conversation, ya. Sometime not sure whether the other year, ikenda kwisha you were in a relationship and unfortunately things did not go well. Do you feel that is the reason why Phil disappeared? Not really. But it added up to me to disappear kidoga. Kwa zime kwa kwa relationship. Tuna chana nimi kwa kwa ingine. Tuna chana. So ni kawana, kwa nizi relationship, life ina kwa ngaivi. Ikona lemi hold kidoga, take some time, think about myself, think about what am I supposed to do. Ya, that's why I deleted everything kwa peji ango and started posting this year actually. Last week.  My make-up is different. Like if I do make-up on a client, you'll know how many make-up I feel, because I always focus on the eyes. Like if you check my make-up, I focus on the eyes like colors. I love colors. If I do, I did your make-up, right? Ya, it was different, like the colors were popping and then I always make sure my eyebrows turned out. So there's a difference and that's why. Do you think the people who never get a chance to have make-up done on them by you because you're expensive? Okay, yes. Because I get so many people bargaining about the price but sometimes, yes, there's a room for negotiations but there's a room for negotiations. If you want to make-up for a thousand, at least try because I always aim international. Internationally, make-up artists get paid a lot. And who is that one celebrity when you show your make-up and you felt so fulfilled? Okay, let's say every celebrity is getting a lot of make-up. Ya, ya. Ah, feel. That's my favourite. I thought I was the one. But anyway, moving on to 2023 as you can see, what plans do you have for us this year? Plans I have for you guys. Like right now, there's something that's coming as you can see my page. I'm not going to say it right now but very soon. Like let's say in one week I'm going to share with you guys. But I'm planning to go big. I'm planning to launch my own make-up line. I'm planning to do different in make-up industry. You see, there are many make-up parties. They don't have a place to do make-up. It's hard for you to start a station.  So if you are a make-up artist, you can come to that place, do make-up and then maybe tip some commission. But yeah, at least try and help the small make-up artists we have. We have coming ones. Yes. And do you offer make-up classes? Yes, I do offer make-up classes. Yes, personal and professional and advanced professional. Yes. Well, now I'm going to feel some cheso. So now on to the trending topic. Filiat, mi onapale kumtandao. You spark rumas after being spotted with DJ Perama Kenna. I think you did her make-up. But it was not just about make-up to mi onapale kumtandao.  Please respond to that. Pira is my babe. Pira has been really close to me since I started doing whatever I'm doing right now. Pira is one of the people I respect very much. So, Pira wherever you are, she is not here right now so I cannot speak it out. But we are going to address the nation very soon when she is here. You see, like I cannot speak it out when I'm alone. Na pigezi ma salizangu chenga but given a chance to date her, would you? How sure you we are not dating. Yes. Pira, much love. Pira, tata pira sasa at this rate. So, Nikulize, do you believe in the saying of kwa gana kuru di soko? Yes. Niku gana kuru di soko. Siko soko. Yes. Siko soko. Simiona, siko soko. Yes. Phil. Alright guys, that was Phil. So, Siju kama me jubu suali atakama me tupele kahivi a uja tujubu so I'm going to look for Pira hopefully she responds to my DM so that we get the two sides of the story. Let me say this. If you look for Pira, okay, whatever she'll say she'll say she won't. Okay. Lazi moutu taftesote tukiwa pamoja. Una jiyo ni imposible Phil. Picha tu me piga tukiwa pamoja video tu me tikuwa tukiwa pamoja. Yes. So, like we cannot put whatever we have outside me to moutu taftesote tukiwa pakaike. Lazi moutu taftesote tukiwa pakaike. Yes.  Thank you so much for crushing on me. Yes. Sina miangi. Unfortunately. Sina maoni. But thank you for all the people who love me. I love you back. Yes. All right, guys. That was Phil creative. We can't wait to see what he has in store for us in 2023. Make sure you follow his socials at creative Phil, right? Yes. True. All right. So hopefully I'll get him and Pira Makena on the same interview. Let's see how that is going to turn out. As they tell us what they are planning for Raskuna Ha Rusi, Ha Tujui. So see you on the next one, guys. My name is Liz Jackson. Esken pa pa pa.


What's going on? Is this thing working? It looks like it's on. I think someone posted a comment, but it disappeared. There's someone I think made it on here. Let's check it out. So the stream is there. Working now? Okay, cool. But for some reason I'm not seeing the chats coming on. I'm seeing the Twitch page. Oops, let's see. Maybe we'll see the chats come up. So chats there now? I saw my message. Okay, so that should be working fine. Welcome back, gang, to session number two, I guess. I'll do a little bit of just open discussion, making myself available for anyone. Any luck? Yeah, I think we're up. I think we're up. I index. This should be working now. For some reason it was buffering and not loading, not connecting. Perfect. Okay, sweet, that's good. Session two. A day of math, I guess we're calling this. But it's really open discussion. If there are math questions coming up, I just thought. One thing I did was I promised when I created my Patreon page that I would make myself available for live streams, for sure. And it's something that it just worked out with Patreon and live streaming sort of coming together for me. And that's sort of me getting back for people for supporting me on Patreon, on Twitch, on YouTube, wherever, right? Just to make myself available. And the issue when I started with that, when I did the Patreon, I did a post on Patreon asking the people supporting me there how they wanted to go about doing the live stream, as I mentioned that we could make it private live streams for the different tiers that are supporting me. And a couple of people mentioned that I should just be true to my philosophy of doing this work, which is make it open to everyone. Not restrict. And I agreed with that as well. And the folks at Patreon were kind enough to be okay with it as well. So that was fantastic. And that's a little bit more info of what's going on here, which is basically, as far as I'm concerned, I'm contracting out to people supporting me and creating my content and doing a lot of front-end work for reaping the rewards in the back end of putting math content together, booklets, modules and stuff like this. So this is part of the process of getting that done, right? Getting that done. And we'll see how things progress so far. So good. I do enjoy this. And I think we're having fun doing this and sharing a lot of information, which is fantastic, which is what the internet is about as far as I'm concerned. And again, open discussion. We can talk about almost anything you guys want. Math-centric, if people have questions, have exams coming up. And since we're math-centric, because on the last stream we did earlier, like an hour and a half ago or something, we ended it, we talked about the multi-problem, right? And I mentioned in that stream that we can also not necessarily just talk about schoolwork if there's any type of data that anyone wants to look into that we can, you know, maybe political, maybe economic, maybe whatever it is, right? Something related to math in the real world, right? That's what the name of the game is, right? Learning the syntax of language and mathematics and using it in the real world, right? So keep that in mind. If there's any type of data you want to look at, maybe regarding to prohibition, laws, incarceration, maybe to health-related stuff, maybe to athletics, right? If you're training, if you want to look at graphs and stuff, try to make sense of it all, right? All of that is open. This is not necessarily just high school math. This is math, right? And to the best of my abilities, I'll help put as much as I can, right? But since there aren't any questions yet, what I did since we did the last stream this morning, I put some, took some data that I'm going to look at, okay? And I'm going to, I thought maybe I'll present this data on table format for you guys to take a look at. And let me tell you what this data is. And this is something we'll dig in a little bit further. But this is the data of my gaming group, okay? Our gaming group. We have basically six core people in our gaming group. One of them is away right now. One of them shows up randomly, not very often. They got other commitments and stuff. So there's about five of us that are core gaming group. And there's about three or four different floaters that come and go, right? Depending on what game we're playing. But the data I have right now is for the monopoly games that we've been playing. And if you recall, we put out a video on alternate rules of how to play monopoly, right? Quick, short versions where we deal out the cars and make deals and stuff like that. I should have actually made the video available here. Let me do a link on it. Let's see if that shows up. There it is. So I'm going to post the link here. Let me stop this so the sound doesn't come through. Grab this guy. So here's the video I'm talking about. Okay. That's the video we put together on alternate rules for monopoly and how we play in our gaming group. And since putting out that video, I think within a week or something, we started collecting data, keeping track of who was winning what. Okay, how many games we played and stuff. So let me put down this data. And this is something I plan on doing a little bit of crunching while just doing ratios, percentages and stuff like this. So, you know, I got one, two, three, four, five, six columns here, right? But I'll crunch these numbers more, do percentages. But I'll thought I present this data to you just in case you're curious of what we're collecting right now. And then what we'll do in a future video, take a look at this data and see what they tell us very quickly. And then what I want to do is share with you another version of monopoly we've been playing. So we've been basically playing this version a lot because it's very fast and it's not taxing. And then we've been playing basically the ratios about two to four games of this version versus this version versus the other version that I haven't shared with you how we're playing. And we sort of introduced that after playing this version a bit one of our, one of the regulars in our gaming group came up and said, hey, you know, this version we've been playing, we modified it a little bit and we've been experimenting with it a little bit and it's fantastic and it's taxing. It's like after you finished this new version that we were playing, you're exhausted. So it's fun coming back to this version because these are more rapid games and it doesn't have that element where you're like on the edge of your seat trying to bluff somebody out. But I'll share the instructions for that version later on during the summer, probably next month or so. But here's the data. Here's the wins and losses for the different number of people who've been coming to our game to our Monopoly nights. So let me write this down for you just in case you're curious.  And if there's any questions coming up if anybody wants to do a little bit of mathematics post a question and we'll talk about it. And let me change the angle. So let me put this stuff up here. Let me take off my glasses. This is the data so far. This is how the results have come out so far. Now, N.A. is one of the people in our gaming group. Chichou is me. Chichou, don't forget the O. V.G. is another person. V.E. is another person. L.I. is another person. And Z.Z. is another person. So we've got six people in our sort of gaming group for Monopoly. And the top five are the ones that show up a lot. And this is the results we have so far. The number of wins. Let's put the number of wins first. Let's go losses. Oops, I better start with an alpha and losses. Hopefully we can fit it all in. I don't want to fit it all in. Losses. The total would just be this plus this. Total. And then we have single games. Single, double. And we'll put the points here. Let me put this a little tighter so we fit everything in. Let's move these guys over too. And let's make Chichou a little bit smaller. Tighter. So we have win, loss. Total number of games played. We got single games. We got double games. And we got total number of points. And let's draw a line. Let's do this. Let's see. No colors, no math, wanting to be done. Let's do this. Let me show you this data. Wins, losses, total. Single games. Double games and the total number of points. So NA has won 14 total games. And lost 57. And number of wins plus the number of losses equals the total number of games. So that's going to be 71 games. 4 plus 7 is 11. You get 1, you put 1 there. So 71 games total. From the 14 wins, 13 of them were single wins. One of them was a double win. So 13 single wins, 1 double game. And a double game counts as 2 points. So let me write down the double and then point. Let's put double and then put in bracket of points. Now if we give singles 1 point, double games, we're going to make them 2 points. So number of double games is 1. That means they have 2 points. So the total number of points that they have is 13 plus 2 is 15.  If you turn out, you have won the most games. I'm going to fake this data straight. I've won the most games. I've won 21 games. I've played 50 games. Sorry, I've won 21 games. I've lost 50 games. And if you add those up, 71 games. So me and N.A. have played the same number of games. Out of the 21 games that I've won, 10 of them have been single games and 11 have been double games. 11 have been double games and that's 22 points. So I have a total of 10 plus 22 is 32 points. We still haven't figured out why I'm winning so many double games. N.A. is pointing that out a lot. VG has won 6 games. Has lost 32 games. So played 38 games. And from the 6 wins, they have 4 single wins and 2 double games. Which is a total of 4. So they got 8 points total. VE has won 19 games. 49 losses. So they've played 68 games. Just 3 less than me and N.A. 14 of these games. 14 out of 19 have been single games and 5 have been double games. 5 have been double games. So that's 10 points. So that becomes 14 plus 10 is 24 points. LI has won 10 games. Played 32. So that's 42 total games. And from the 10 wins, 8 have been singles and 2 are doubles. Which is 4 points. So 8 plus 4 is 12 points. And ZZ, they haven't shown up to 20 games. They're busy. Family and what not. And out of town a lot. So they've won 1 game. Played 7. Sorry, lost 7. So total of 8 games. So they have 1 single point. Zero double. So they're sitting at 1 point. And from this data, I plan on doing a little bit of crunching. Just percentages. Basically, I want to show, take the number of points divided by, can we figure out how many double games there have been? I guess so. This would be the total of double games we've played. So if you total up these columns, you can do a total across the board really. Go across and do total. For some of these, the total won't make sense. Like the total number of games, this won't make sense really. Because the total number of games we've played, the maximum is 71. But you could definitely tally up the total sort of doubles. That's how many double games we've played. So total number of double games we've played is 5. So that's 9, 20, 21 double games we've played. And how many single games? A few single games. And this plus this should equal 71. So let's check it out. I can group these things together. Here's, we can group from 9. 9 plus 10 is 19, 29, 29 and 8, 37. Oh, did I add up that one? Okay, let's do this again. That's 30, 30, 37, 41, 30, 37, 41, 41 and 50. So this is 50. So that's going to be 50. 50 plus 21 is 51 games. That's the total number of games we've played. And then we can tally up the totals and stuff like this. So we can do divisions. We can take the total number of points and then figure out what the total points is. So this would be 42. And do the division, add those guys up and figure out how much of the points, percent or points have gone. What percentage of the games I've won and stuff like this or NA or VA or whatever it is. How many games people have missed. Do a ratio relative to how many games they played is probably a better ratio. You can do 21 divided by 71. That's the win ratio, win percentages because VE hasn't played as many games. LI hasn't played as many games. So we could see if LI's percentage of wins is equivalent to my percentage of wins or this percentage of wins. So that's just the data. And that's the type of data we can collect. It was fun looking at the stuff. And we're going to do another serious round of games next week I believe as well. I think there are people available and for the summer they might be taking off. So we're going to try to get as many games as we can in in the next couple of weeks. Fun stuff, very fun game to play. Very fun game to play. It's definitely not rigged though. It's definitely not rigged. For a time I actually had my ratio of wins to games played was better than what it is right now. Because there's deal making being made in the game people trying to make sure that I didn't win the game and then things started balancing out. So whenever somebody was getting a lot of games the other people were sort of trying to maneuver themselves. They were more lenient in the deal making within themselves than they were with the person racking up the points. So it sort of balances out. But it was fun. This is the type of data you can collect when it comes to playing games or any type of statistic. So we'll try to do some stats on that thing at some point anyway, at some point anyway. Fun. That's the math. I wanted to show you guys the type of data that we can take a look at. And actually, at this point, let me show you this. For V.E. Okay, there was two nights that we ended up playing and V.E. basically won every game we played except for like two of them. So we played a total of like, I don't know, two nights. And in a good night, we ended up playing like, you know, in an eight hour session, we would play at least, at least like eight or nine games, right? So in a two night period, V.E. ended up winning almost everything except like two or three games. And all of a sudden, the rest of us were sort of maneuvering trying to prevent V.E. from taking all the games. Okay, so V.E. was way behind until last month, I guess. And then, all of a sudden, within two days, they went up to number two. They caught up to me, right? So it was pretty cool. It was pretty cool seeing it happen. It was fun. I'm guessing by next year when we do these math open discussions, we're going to have more people popping in taking advantage of having math help, right? Hopefully anyway, hopefully anyway. But I definitely want to make myself available for this. And the timing is wacko. I know I'm sort of doing it all day. And the reason I'm doing it all day is because people live in different times and all this stuff. And by the way, I mentioned the last stream that I loaded on. I was going to let loose the how to read a textbook, sorry, how to take notes video that we did the behind the scenes of. And I let that loose on YouTube and Bichute just before the stream started. So if you want to take a look at how I end up taking notes and whatnot, you can take a look at that. Let me here. I'll provide a link to it. It's the main video on my channel right now. The last one that I loaded. It took a while to get that done. It was crazy. Here's the link to that video. And I called it basically how to take notes, ASMR math, how to study tip number seven. Aside from that, I really don't want to do any math lessons. I'd rather just keep it open if anyone pops by. And since no one's come up with any math questions and I've done the math that I wanted to take a look at, the data I wanted to take a look at, how familiar are you with options pricing? I'd like to hear your take through the black schools. I don't know the black schools model. I might have read this a long time ago. The last time I did options trading was 18 years ago. Okay. I did a fair bit of maybe you could look it up at some point. Sure, I'll be into looking it up. I've been so tempted to dive back into... I'm just going to the wiki page. Dive back into the options trading game because I believe, in my opinion, we're in a complete bubble in many different fields, many different disciplines. So options is a good way to cash out on some of that stuff. The black schools or black schools, Merton model is a mathematical model for the dynamics of the financial market containing derivatives, investments, instruments from the partial differential equations in the model known as the black schools equations. One can deduce the black schools formula which gives a theoretical estimate of the price of the European style options and sure, I don't know. I just traded mainly Canada and the United States options. I didn't do any European and I realized there was a difference between them and shows that the options have a unique price regardless of the risk of the security and its expected return. Really, they must take the vixen to consideration. The formula led to the boom in options trading and provided mathematical legitimacy to the activities of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange and other options markets around the world. It is widely used, although often with adjustments and correlations by options market participants. Really, so it's basically fine-tuned. It's a good base where you can start off from and then start playing around with it. Cool, I'll bookmark this. Model options trading. Cool, thanks for that index. When I get a chance, I'll look into it. I'll put it in my queue anyway. I'll pin this as well. That way I'll take another look at it as well. Yeah, it's been the standard pricing model since the 60s. That's what index is saying. I don't know how it works, but we rely on it. Yeah, the options trading is... There's a lot of... I don't want to say scams, but there's a lot of manipulation in options trading. Lots of manipulation in options trading. So if you're not careful, you can get seriously burned with them. But the best thing... The way I used to do options trading and the way I would do options trading again if I was to get back into it, or trading stocks in general, maybe cryptos or not, right? I would basically take five companies, follow them, and look at the way the options were being priced. May they be puts or calls. I would look both directions. And take a look at how they're being priced. And if I was going to go long or short by calls or puts, what I would do, I would stagger them. I'm pretty sure this might be a normal method of doing things, I would do within a few weeks out, up to a month, and then three months and then six months. And then if I thought I might have been too early in the game for a rise or a dip, I would buy a year out options. I would pay the price for the term, the length of the option being longer. So I forget all the terminology, my apologies by the way. But I would pay that price. The premium for buying the puts or calls on a long term basis. And then I wouldn't hold out the options. I held some options to the end I have. It's part of the game. Sometimes you're stubborn. You know what's supposed to go up or down by a certain time. And it just doesn't. Sometimes you double up, triple up, just a day or two before an option expires just to average down. So if you get a hit, you get a certain return. You're not just getting back your money or less than your money. You're doubling up, tripling up, quadrupling up 10 times enough depending on a day before. So usually you don't want to hold on to the option until expiry date, but that's the way I usually played it. I didn't follow any model. I followed my... Well, no, I did follow some models. I did. I shouldn't say that. I did follow some models, but I basically would stick to five and I would have like 20 stocks that I followed in my basket in a serious way. And then I would... If I thought the price was juicy enough to go in with puts or calls, I would jump in. I primarily write options. I take the other side of your trade. Okay, cool. The writing options for those I want to know is basically hopefully you're not writing make it. You have the stocks as well. So one type of sort of money generating that a lot of funds and people do is they buy certain stock. Preferably a stock that doesn't move as much. It's... Delta is fairly stable, right? And Delta is how I believe so anyway. Keep on forgetting these. How fast the price of a stock is moving, right? So if a stock price is doing this, let's say it's moving up or staying stable, what people end up doing is you can write calls. That means sell calls that you don't have. Sell this asset class, which is sort of an option to buy stocks on a ratio of 1 to 10 or 1 to 100 or whatever it is, right? You buy these things based on the price of the original stock, right?  Now if the stock stays here, then there's a time limit associated with this thing. What happens is when the time limit hits, you've cashed in, you've made money. If the stock goes up and stays at that price, you've still made money. If the stock goes above the price, right? Then what's happening is you've got to pay the difference and you can play the game both on the up and on the down. And that's what Index is saying. They're basically writing... I believe so anyway. I permanently write options, write options, which is writing puts or writing calls, right? You can write puts as well. If the stock's going up, just keep on selling the puts, assuming that the stock doesn't go down. And it's a dangerous game if you're not holding the equivalent of the options that you're selling. If a stock gets away from you on the upside or gets away from you on the downside, then you have to cover that distance. Writing a contract to give someone the obligation to buy yourself, correct? Yeah, that's what it is. It's interesting, but I'm pretty sure Index will confirm this. You have to be on the ball when you do options trading, when you're shorting, when you're writing calls and puts. It can't be something you look at on a weekly basis. You have to keep track of this stuff daily if you're writing puts or calls close to the expiration date, right? And if they're very close, you have to be watching it multiple times during the day. Very careful. It has a 10 to 1 leverage, not like stocks to the one yet. So 10 to 1 means one option, one put or call controls 10 shares of something, right? So you're basically sort of like based on fractional reserve accounting, right? But fractional reserve is 1 to 100, right? So if you have $1, you can lend out $100, right? Based on the rules of our centralized government. Oh, 100 shares. One option controls 100 shares. It should be, that's right. So it is basically like fractional reserve banking, right? $1 controls $100, one put controls 100 shares or one put call controls 100 shares, right? I should look this up again. It was fun doing it and you could make some good money. You could, if you're into that, if you want to gamble or whatnot, but basically to a certain degree, cryptocurrencies have taken a fair bit of the trading gain as well. Not as much as Wall Street and stuff like this, but if they persist, it will be part of the regular routine. And it's just like any asset class, really. You can buy and sell comic books, right? Which is interesting. It's a great way to learn how our present economic system works, really. It's a very interesting way to learn how a present economic system works. That's it. Interesting. I'll look into it in the next one. I can't promise when, but at some point we'll definitely play around with it. Okay. Doesn't look like anybody wants to do any mathematics. Should I show you some of the comics I've been reading recently? Sure, no worries. Cool. Should I show you some of the comics I've been reading recently? The comic book people are going to be pissed about showing this right now. But I figured that since some people came on and said they already wrote some of their exams, that means the number of people coming on here to ask math questions is going to decrease. Okay, let's do it. Look at this. Now this is related to the comic books. This isn't all the comic books I've been reading, but this is the comic books I've been reading that are just sort of floaters that, what do you call it, that I have just kicking around, that are picking up very cheap. They're either free comic book day comic books or I'm buying them for a dollar or whatever it might be. So they're basically stuff that I get on the cheap, so I'm not bagging, boring them. I know this is like a no-no, but I do like doing this every now and then. This is basically the video, where is the video? Let me show you the video. I don't know if it'll be one of the top ones, but basically it was me showing you guys the comic books I've been reading for the last little while, continuation from that. Where was it, where was it? A live stream, as far as this is going down first. And now it's like comic books I'm pulling here ago. Cool, that's this one. Let me show you this. And in this one I basically showed you guys a whole bunch of stacks of comics I've been reading and reading, like they're just flotties like this. And I'll give you a review of some of them. This one was free comic book day from Aspen Comics, check this out. And this was great read. I was really surprised, I've read some Aspen comics and I've seen some of their stuff, but I really haven't read too many of their stories, but this was very good. It was sort of a combination intro of three different stories and it was very good. They have fantasy associated with that and a little bit of post-apocalyptic stuff, which I enjoyed. I read this one, True Believers, first appearance of Carol Danvers Marvel Girl, and it was fun. It was a fun read. I keep on forgetting how much reading content the comic books of old used to have. They're much longer reads, so it's nice having them. This was free comic book day, 2018. This was fantastic. I love British comics. Are you going to board them or are you not worried about them? These ones I'm not worried, I'm not going to be boarding these ones. I have some stuff that I treated like this and their prices have gone up and then I board and buy them afterwards. And usually if I have something like this, it means I already have another copy or it means they're free comic book day stuff or it means they're True Believers or Image $1 ones or DC one or Valiant $1 ones. I wish every publisher did this, released $1 comics. There's a lot of free comic book day stuff. There's a lot of $1 stuff. But I'm not going to bag and board these because sometimes I have friends come over and they say, give me some comics to read. And I just grab a stack of these and put them in front of them and say, take your pick, read. And that way I don't have to say, listen, give them a comic and a bag and board and say, listen, be careful with this. Don't wrinkle it up, don't do this to it, don't do that to it. This way there's floaters around that people can read. And this is the way I treat these and I keep all of these. Okay, I don't throw the stuff away. This stays with me. So this was really good. I love British comic books, British writers and stuff. Yeah, that's not the best way to get people into comic. No, it's not. I've tried before.  But it was, it was important to me at the time, right? Or they wanted to read First Appearance of Deadpool, right? Handing them a comic book that's worth like, and you know, Newton's 98, that's worth like three, two, three, four hundred dollars and say, be careful with this. Dude, keep it. I don't want to read it, right? What's your most expensive comic? I don't know. I don't know. As far as I'm concerned, I have some comics that I wouldn't sell for what they're selling for right now. Read this one Wolverine, 90s Wolverine, right? It was a fun read. It's so intense, so dramatic, right? And with 90s artwork, fun read, okay? As for the most expensive, I showed you the mystic number six that I picked out, the CGC graded. That was at 5.5 or something like this. As far as I'm concerned, that's one of the most expensive ones, and I only paid 71 dollars for it. Is it your Jackie Gleason? Jackie Gleason for sure, man. That Jackie Gleason I paid, I don't know what I paid for it. I paid, I can't remember. It was less than 100 that I paid for it, but I saw CGC one. CGC 7.0 sell for 130 dollars, and at the time I was tapped out, I couldn't buy it, right? I didn't bid on it. That's one of the regrets I have. I wish I had bought that Jackie Gleason CGC graded at 7. That was like the third highest graded. There was only like 7 of them graded, right? So the Jackie Gleason for sure, but that's very specialized. There aren't too many people that would bid on that. This was fantastic. I love the 90s Silver Surfer.  Fantastic read. And that's the cover for it too. That was Silver Surfer 34. That's the main cover. Another one that would be on the expensive side would definitely be Daredevil number one that I have that we did the reading for, for sure. This was okay read. This is from SBI Press. It was generic, free comic book day. Okay. Some of the other more expensive stuff I have is the EC comics that I have. They're not in great shape, but they're special to me. The tick free comic book day. This was fun read. I like the tick. I pick it up every now and then I read. It's not as great as the original, but it was good. Secret Empire Underground number one. They go to the Lost World, I guess, in the Arctic. It was generic for me. I could take it or leave it. It was just a random read. A far by image comics. This one, sort of image first. The story had promised the artwork was lacking for my taste. It was okay. It didn't interest me, intrigue me enough to continue reading it. Okay. Musicology student. One of my musicology friends is studying comic book sound and their history. Oh, really? Oh, that's cool. Are they doing like a thesis on it as well? Where do you have all your comic? They're just in boxes, bags and boards, boxes, multiple boxes, a lot of boxes. There's a period where I showed the number of boxes I had when I was doing the movie. I did a video with all the boxes in the background. And I showed you guys how I store my comic books. Yeah, it's fascinating. If they make the dissertation available online, your friend, after they do it, I'm assuming this is grad studies. If they make it available online, if you remember, send me a link. I'd like to take a look at it. Do you have some big list where everything is? Nope. Mine is random. There are certain parts. I used to go to trade shows and I had a table where I was selling comics where some of that stuff was organized. But then throughout the years, I've moved things, rearranged boxes and stuff like this. So it's all randomized. Like, if someone came up to me right now and says, where's Neil Newton's 98, I would go, I don't know. Maybe have a general idea of where it might be. I don't know though, because I move things around. Okay, cool. Awesome. Yeah, for sure, send me a link. This was okay. The Star Wars then. Not my cup of tea. Not really. I know some people are enjoying the Star Wars books. I've read, I had four of them. It doesn't really intrigue me that much anymore because it's got the Disney filter on it. You should write on the boxes. I used to. When I was doing trade shows, I would write. But during moves, I try to condense stuff so I would put things in boxes, put them together. One thing I've promised myself for my next move into maybe a permanent place if it happens, I will organize the comics. And if we end up doing that, we'll do that live stream and I'll show you as much as I can anyway. Kit Savage. Free comic book day. This was sort of reminding me of Savage from Valiant Comics. It was okay. It was G rated. Okay. And this is from, who's the company? Oh, this is Image. This is from Image Comics. Not my cup of tea. Injustice. This was sort of a, I guess, free comic book day thing that we're giving out. I read the original Injustice. I don't think I've read all of it and I liked it. This was along the same lines but not as good. Shadow Roads. This guy, this intrigue me. This is from Arnie Press. Okay. Again, free comic book day. And it did intrigue me. I don't think, I haven't added it to my poll list and I don't think I will. But if I see it, if I feel like a random buyer, I might do it. Okay. Wolverine. Bloodhunger. Fun read. It's a Marvel reprint. Okay. And it was a good read. It wasn't bad. I liked it. And this was from Marvel Comics Presents. It was from these pages. It was Sam Keith. I believe it's Sam Keith. It should be Sam Keith. Yeah, Sam Keith. Peter David doing the writing and Sam Keith doing the artwork. And I like Sam Keith. Right? That was a fun read. It was very good. It was good. Okay. This one again, True Believers. And this was Wolverine 10, I believe, reprint of it. This is the original cover of Wolverine 10 from the first continuing series. And this was the True Believers cover on it. And I read this back in the day when it came out. And it was fun. It wasn't bad. The artwork was so-so. The artwork was... It wasn't bad. It was classic, you know, 80s, 90s style artwork. Food killer number one. Not a bad read. Not a bad read at all. Okay. At a different time, I would pick it up and read a little bit more. But right now, I've got my plate full. So not a bad read. Wolverine versus Venom, True Believers. It was okay. It was... Now... I don't know, it didn't really... This is the original cover for it. Okay. It was very scattered. I wouldn't pick it up. I wouldn't read it again. Because the artwork was okay, but the story just jumped all over the place. Really. It was like, you didn't know what was going on and why it was happening. So... I guess this would be the first true believers, Wolverine brothers. And this is... I don't know what this was, but I hadn't read this before. But it was a good story and it's gonna continue. It was more mature and I liked it. It was a good read. Okay. This I would recommend. Free comic book day, Shadow Man. Right? And this kicks off, I believe, into Shadow Man number one. The new series that came out. And it was good. I didn't mind it. It also has Exo in it. You know, sort of Exo going back to Earth. And it was good. I like my valiance. So free comic book day stuff I definitely pick up. And this is Harbinger Wars 2. And this beginning part is this type of stuff they do with the people with abilities to read people's minds. They like doing this. They've done this a couple other times too. Where they have the person in the crowd walking the streets and they're posting all the different thoughts that people are having conversations. Chico, can you think of any stream of consciousness style comic that might be worth reading? Consciousness style comics. Consciousness style comics. Are you talking about like, what's your favorite one shot comic? I loved Death of Harbinger. Book of Death. Death of Bloodshot and Death of Harbinger. Those were fantastic standalone reads. Really. For recent anyway that I've read. In the last, I guess, eight years or so. So Book of Death, Fall of Bloodshot and Book of Death, Fall of Harbinger. And they put two other ones. Book of Death, Fall of Ninja, Book of Death, Fall of Exo. But Book of Death, Fall of Harbinger and Fall of Bloodshot, they were very good. You know the characters. There were fantastic standalone reads. Okay. Aside from that Sky Doll, it came out as a two-issue series. It was just two issues. And it's a continuation from other stuff that they've done. It's an Italian, I believe they're Italian creators. And it's a translation into English. And Sky Doll was very, very good. With beautiful artwork. Absolutely phenomenal artwork. I love the trade paperback. The Andre the Giant bibliography. And I love the Andy Kaufman bibliography that I read. But they're not single issues. They're trade paperbacks. But that's the only way to reprint it. Aside from that, single issues, single issues. If others come to mind, I'll let you know. Some of the best single issues I've read are from Savage Sword of Conan, the magazine. Phenomenal comics. Phenomenal series. Very underrated. And at some point I plan on buying the whole collection. I plan on having the whole thing. Because I haven't read everything in that. Okay. Oh, the consciousness-style comic. Consciousness-style comic. Can you narrow it down for me? Like, are we talking about altered states of being? Are we talking about looking into meditation? Like, Sandman definitely goes into alternate states of being. Not alternate states of being, but alternate realities. There's a lot of that in comic books specifically. Going to different universities, different timelines. All the different possibilities. Anything that was enlightening that gave me wow moments. Some of them might be corny. Like, one of the ones that did it for me, I think one of the best crossovers in comic books, is Valience in the 1990s when they did Unity. And one of the things they kept on saying was like Frank Herbert's mantra in Dune, where, I don't know how many times in Frank Herbert's Dune they said, Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the mind killer. And you read that so many times that it embedded itself into your subconscious. And it made itself into, for me anyway, into my living conscious, where I realized, yes, fear is the mind killer. Do not fear. One of the things that Valience Unity did in the 90s for me, one of the mantras they had in that crossover, which was 18 issues, from what I recall anyway, it was that time is not absolute. Time is not absolute. Time is not absolute. Time is not absolute. Time is not absolute. All of a sudden I made it into my conscious, saying that time is not absolute. No one says that time has to, and knowing physics and mathematics looking at this further, no one really has to say that time, absolute, basically changes at the same time throughout history or prehistory. And that's one of the, where I connected that. That was one of the things that assumptions associated with, every type of science has certain types of assumptions where they use mathematics to present ideas. One of the laws in geology, in earth sciences, is the law of uniform Italianism, brutalizing the pronunciation. That basically says that time was, or the rate of change of things was absolute. Basically the rate of change of things that we see now in the geological realm was the same rate that other things, that's the same rate that things occurred in the past. But time is governed by gravity and acceleration. And if gravity and acceleration change, then time changes at a different rate. So that brought those into consideration. It just seeds planetary question ideas and stuff. Stream of consciousness is a literally device. Oh, is it? Okay. A way of writing that is very off the top, off the head, like James Joyce, I give the reader access to the subjective experience. The inner monologue. Stream of consciousness is literally a device, a way of writing that is very off the top, off the top of the head. Look this up a little bit more. In literary criticism, stream of consciousness in narrative mode or method that attempts to depict the multiple thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind. The term was coined by William. Oh, you know what? Then I would say Claremont, Chris Claremont's X-Men in the early days. And I just, I had a conversation with a comic book, a comic shop owner last week. And I mentioned that I like Chris Claremont's Excalibur. And he was like, oh, are you feeling good?  He goes, he didn't like Chris Claremont at all because it was John Burns. He told me a little bit of history on this and that sort of shattered my thing of Chris Claremont. I still love Chris Claremont's work. But basically he mentioned that John Burns was doing a lot of the writing for the early X-Men where Chris Claremont discredited because Chris Claremont and John Burns were writing together and they both have egos and they wrote a number of dozens of issues of X-Men from the early 100s all the way to the mid 100s. And some of that stuff is brilliant because there's a lot of internal dialogue going on for the characters. Okay, so Chris Claremont's stuff, X-Men, there is a fair bit of that. I'll keep an eye out. I'll try to keep this in mind. So internal dialogue saying sort of expressing the character's belief of what's happening and stuff like that. Valiant is good for that as well. Especially stuff done with Harbinger and especially, actually, I believe if I recall correctly, fall of bloodshot maybe in that tone. I can't remember exactly the inner monologue. Yeah, please do. I'll keep that in mind in the back. Seriously, I know I've read a fair bit like that. A lot of comics like that, they're just not popping up to me because I haven't categorized them in that form in my mind. So definitely I'll think about this. That's a good question. Now seriously, curious, maybe I'll do a little search at some point. Then you'll notice it more often. For sure I'll notice it more often. One of the things, that was an internal dialogue. When I showed you guys the comic books where we read classic X-Men, the dialogue that was being presented on the first page with Jean Grey, and what she was going through looking at a bonfire and how she could look into the atomic structure of the fire and how that was crackling and fizzling and how subatomic particles were interacting together. I thought that was brilliant, but I don't think that was an internal monologue. That was more of a description of third person possibly, I believe. But I'll keep it in mind for sure. I'll keep it in mind for sure. So that's about an hour that we just did. And we have this many comic books to go through still. So how about we look at these ones. I'll give you a review of these ones and the next stream starting at 2.30. Is that okay? I hope so. Unless there's any math questions that people have. I don't think I'll put together a math lesson for anything today. We've got two more streams going on for math at 2.30 and 4.30, I believe. Or sorry, at 2 o'clock and 4.30. Yeah, not 2.30. At 2 o'clock, I believe. And then at 4.30, the event page lists some. So maybe what we'll do in the 2 o'clock session is if there's no math questions and I haven't looked up anything that I want to share regarding mathematics, we'll start off with this and wait for people to come up with questions regarding math. Otherwise, we'll talk comic books if you like or anything else if you like. I hope that's okay. I hope you guys are okay with doing that. Day of streams. I do like this. I want to make myself available to you guys for any Q&A and stuff like that. That's one thing I promise to do and I will definitely try to stick to my promises. Okay, sounds good. Sounds good, man. I'll see you guys, I guess in an hour and a half, okay? And I'll wait a few minutes before going through these this other set of comics the rest of them, okay? Hope you guys have a good little lunch break in my time anyway and evening break your time if you're having it or morning if you're having it, okay? We'll talk in a bit. Bye for now.


Yeah. Hello everybody. Welcome to this 2024 Google Summer of Code office hour. Hello everybody. Vendit, I thought that you were either rebooting your laptop or not being able to join or whatever and you're there. So nice to see you. Yeah. I didn't have to reboot it. I just first the link was not working for me somehow and it somehow did. And so you put your magic influx in it and it worked. Yeah. Exactly. This is how computing works. I still believe it works that way. So hello everybody. I will first start with a question to everybody and the people that are not there. It's be their fault. They will not be able to vote. So seeing the progress of the various projects, so the two projects that are completing and or in the final hours, I propose that this will be the last Google Summer of Code office hour unless somebody has a need or wants to have a place where they can chat, see other people or so. Globally is a program. I don't see the use anymore. We can now focus more on project level. So let you think about that. We go around the projects and when we've done the presentation status, we can then go to the vote and decide if this is the last office hour. So Jakruti, I don't know how you manage to be always on the top level of my screen. And so you're always the first one to start. So Jakruti, tell us what's happening. Where are you going? Well, tell us. Hello everyone. So when I extended the project, I did not know that maybe I'll come really close to completing it on time. But I mean, the reason is that two probes, I have not done two probes because everyone told me that Adrian is doing some major refactoring and it would require you to work again. So that is the reason why the project, I guess, would be completed by now. So next task that I'm going to work on is the third party repository detection row, which we had put on hold in the first half of she's not actually. So it is going to be an interesting task because this might be deployed as completely new project or something like that. And one was telling me because it requires some different kind of work actually to run command using Java to make an effective form file, which might also be integrated with other groups. That depends on the future. This is my plan for now. And I also have completed my project work that I have to show it to the Google team. So that is also ready. And for now, my major focus would be to work or to write the blocks or to get the documentation come blocks for all of the work that I have completed. So I was working on. Good. Okay. I know I'm telling always the same when you're writing a blog, just tip.  And if you have advice or experience to share with them, don't hesitate to add that story to that. Antoine, do you want to add something or just highlight what you was talking about about the last time that we probably can be kind of a prototype? Because I'm pretty sure with the current architecture and infrastructure of the project, it cannot be integrated as is because it will be running Maven commands in the probes earlier discussions with Adrienne that you like thinking that it could be another small service running somewhere doing just just that. But anyway, I thought it would be interesting to start digging in that direction and even if it goes in a separate project after it's equal to our code being there on prison. So do not like it's normal if by the end of what Jack would be doing, it's not like merged. That's because there might be other infrastructure implication and stuff like that doesn't mean that the work is not correct. Good. Great. Thank you for that update. I think that Adrienne is coming peacefully back from holiday beginning or mid next week. That understanding, Antoine? Or you don't remember? I don't remember exactly. I have September 6th. So we'll talk together about that. I think Jack told me the same date. So at least we're making the same mistake together. Anyway, good. Thank you for the update. Great. I think a long path has been walked and good that we're reaching the end there. Thank you for the update. Next one is Vendit. Vendit, I think you have interesting things to share. Yeah. I heard rumors of things. Tell us. Okay. Are those good or bad rumors? Well, I don't know. Yeah. Normal life of a project. Yeah. So yesterday and like past two days, I have been working on fixing things in Endora here and there. I fixed all the links. The only links that are not fixed are the ones whose page is not created yet. Like the roadmap, the download page. These are to be created with Gatsby that was decided. But while I was refactoring things, I saw that we could be able to use the Ruby and HTML code and convert that code into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code for the roadmap page. So I think we'll be able to do that. Also, we were using Gatsby and Strapi, but the plugin that is used to source Strapi system is broken right now. I already wasted a week on that since it is broken. They have an issue there, but they haven't mentioned it on the forums in there. But they have an issue. I saw that, but I was still working out. Maybe I was still working. Maybe I'm wrong somewhere. So now we are using Next.js with Strapi. On Strapi, they already have a starter for it, which uses SQLite database, but Chris said that we'll be replacing it with Postgres and Postgres and we'll use Xios for post and get request. We can refactor the starter code according to our needs. So that could be used. Currently, Chris and me will divide components in Endora to check if there are some where the images are not loading and all that. So I can fix that. So at the very least, we will have everything good in Endora. And we are working on Gatsby. We are working on Strapi plus Next.js. So the blog part comes after that. Okay. So you're still in the middle of the stream. You're not out there and you're still finding or changing your balance from one side to the other. Yes. Since we changed, first we were working. I have researched things about Gatsby plus Strapi when that was discussed on the community forum. After that, since it is broken now, we are moving on into a different thing. So currently in the middle. Good. Chris, do you want to add something to Vendit's description? Yeah, I have some maybe not so good news to share. We may need to abandon using Strapi as a backend because I think from some comments I have received all the feedback. So the consensus we better use the existing approach, which is just to use a simple, maybe a fun and phone work and then store every post statically in style, like in the database or via Strapi. Yeah, that's the only thing I want to share. Probably you will discuss that with Vendit. Okay, a turbulent end of project for you Vendit. Okay, good. Thank you for the update. And Bruno, tell us. Well, that's pretty calm end of GSOC for us. There is one issue, a work item we still have to fix and that should be done by tomorrow, I guess. It's just tests that don't work, but they will work, I guess, by tomorrow night. The end goal of the project was to have it integrated into jenkins.io and the Jenkins infrastructure, but unfortunately due to the bandwidth people of the infra have, that's not possible. So we will have to wait. Hopefully this will be done by the beginning of October fest because we would love to have this project continue on October fest. So we still have a few PRs for documentation to open on jenkins.io repo, but they won't be merged until we have our Docker images within the Jenkins CI organization or Jenkins Induction. So we are approaching the end of the project. We are not stuck, but globally we're happy with what we have. And as soon as the infra team has some more bandwidth, we'll progress on this project, but it's okay. It's doing good. We're happy. Just for the record, bandwidth is here in the meaning of manpower. Yeah, sorry, I made the error twice. No, no, no, no problem. So but if somebody is listening to the recording, yeah, it's not a network bandwidth, but more a people bandwidth. Even if those people are quite busy with bandwidth reduction, but that's another subject.  You don't forget that you have to complete the evaluation. Still waiting for the feedback and then yeah. Okay, good. So but you are aware of that. Okay, thank you for the updates. So unless somebody has something to add, ask or so. Do you have a vote? Yes, this is what I wanted to introduce. Good. So we need to have a vote on my proposal to consider that this is the last office hour for Google Summer Code, I think now. There's no, besides getting together and listening to the good news, there's no additional value for that. So we'll make it very simple. Who is against it? Nobody's moving. So I assume that everybody is that we consider that this has been at least the office hour has been a nice adventure. I appreciated leading this meeting and hearing the progress and especially as I said already, seeing the people grow and learn and there's a big difference in the way it was. It was my pleasure. So we'll make then the announcement on the various channel that this was the last office hour. Thank you very much. Still work to be done. Bandit has still a last stretch to do. Jakruti, well okay, she she wants some time but still time to complete the things, finish tidy up everything and some communication around that. Thank you again. Hope to see you around during Oktoberfest and next week or at least when we'll do the presentations for GSOC 2024, you could eventually join to explain and see to explain to the people what it really is. And there's a lot of work that goes in it. Yeah. I wanted to ask about the presentations. Like we have to continue in the same link that was shared last time or Elisa will share a new link. So the what link are you? I think it was the power point or something that you know like the Google slide that we were. Yes, Google slides. Yeah. No, normally, normally Elisa was going to create a new one. She told me yesterday she was going to create it during her day. So she didn't publicize it yet. She also needs to for that wait. If you don't have news for Wednesday of next week, let us know. I'll make sure that but knowing Elisa, he has a couple of still battling. Okay. And we also have to like speak about the work that we did in the first half of the GSOC or about the second half. It's your choice. You don't you don't have to make it. Well, share your story, share your enthusiasm, share what what what happened and so and you're allowed to brag. So try to try to explain. Be proud of what you did. So I encourage you to do that. Okay. Yes. We're not we're not at school here. There is no in in not a professional environment. It's the not requirements but the the objectives or some sometimes high or or so but we're not there. You need to do that exactly and well remember school, you need to have the date underlined with a red pen and so no, no. Share your story, share your enthusiasm. Okay. I think you can do that. Yes. And then deed too. I when I see the smiles, make it fun. Okay. Another question or or doubt to clear. No. Then I wish good luck to everybody. Good fighting with Gatsby and other tooling and it's a tough battle that you're in. So wish you success. We will win. Yeah, we will win. Yeah, sure. Sure. If you have a question, problem or so reach on the Gitter channel. I'm not monitoring closely. Chris makes a tremendous work on monitoring it and eventually thanks again Chris for that. And if needed, ping me directly by mail you should reach. Okay. Have a nice rest of the day. Good continuation and hope to talk to you to talk to you very soon, at least September 14th for the presentation. Okay. Bye bye everybody.


All righty. All right. Good morning. Good morning. I call this meeting to order pursuant to chapter 20, the acts of 2021. This meeting will be conducted by remote means. Members of the public who wish the access. The meeting may do so via the Amherst. The Amherst town website that's at www.amherstma.gov. Or via the Amherst or you may also watch. Later on on the Amherst town YouTube channel. No in person attendance of members of the public will be permitted. But effort, every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately process access to proceedings in real time via technological means. And as I mentioned, soon after this meeting, the meeting will be accessible on the Amherst. Amherst town YouTube channel. I call this meeting to order. Okay. And I want to say that the meeting is being recorded. So if anyone else is recording this meeting at this time, please tell me now. Okay. I can see that there are the four of us. And I don't see any other participants. Okay. All right. So with that being said, then we will move on and I will share my screen. Let's see. Okay. So here's our agenda for today, but I think you guys have copies of that. So I'm going to scoot over to our meeting minutes. We do have the meeting minutes from June 16th, which is where Richard was not present, but Ken was. Do we want to approve these or would you feel more comfortable tabling them until Ken is able to join us? I think we probably should table that. My own view is that we should table them until Ken is with us. That's fine. All right. So we'll skip over those. We'll table those till our next meeting, hopefully. And then we have the minutes from July 28th, which was our last meeting, which the four of us were present. Have you had a chance to look those over? Yeah. I moved to approve the minutes of July 28th, 2022. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Okay. All right. Then we will move on to our excise abatements. So as you see here, we have one for calendar year 2021 in the amount of $99 and 95 cents. Excuse me. And then we have 13 for the calendar year 2022. In the amount of $683 and 19 cents. So both years totaling $783 and 14 cents. I moved to approve those abatements. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Okay. Moving along. We have here the warrant to the, the collector's office for commitment number four from the register of motor vehicles for excise tax in the amount of 76,888 dollars and 88 cents. So the second page here, you will see is the commitment to the accounting office again with that amount of 76,888 dollars and 88 cents. And the last page here you will see is the commitment actually entered into munis. So you'll see there was a total of 438 taxable excise bills that were sent to us and three that were exempt. So again, you'll see that total of 76,888 dollars and 88 cents. Okay, I moved to approve that commitment. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All right. That was all the hard work we had for today. So I'm going to stop sharing my screen. And so what I have next for you is the assessor's update. So what we have been working on is working with Bishop associates on the sales analysis for the end of the year. We've pretty much completed that. We have a couple of things left to do, but that's pretty much done. We have completed the inspections for our building permits. So this is any building permits that were pulled throughout the year. So we have a list of them on the record cards.  If maybe they just decided not to do them. We just close out the permit on our end. This is different from the building department. So we have completed all those inspections with the exception of one. Teresa and I are going out today to do a measurement of a deck. And then I'm just. I'm just going to take a look at the data. I'm just going to take a look at the entry into the, into vision of those permits. So really what we're working on now is preparing to input. The, the. Our data into gateway for our finalizing of our tax bills. I'm sure we'll be touching base with Lauren at some point very soon from the DOR to see where we're at with all of our data.  Phone calls, all that stuff. But that's really the most important things that we're working on right now. Okay. And do you, are you feeling adequately staffed or. Can you keep your head above water or. We can keep our heads above water. We are struggling a little bit because we are slightly short staffed because we, you know, we can make do with what we've got. The collector's office is struggling a little more than we are because of vacations and things like that. But. But we can keep our head above water. So. Okay. Yeah. So we're doing all right for now. And that's, I think that's really. The gist of what we have for today. I know this is extremely short. But I think that's a good point. Do you have, do you guys have any questions for us about anything that we're doing or anything that we've talked about in the past or. I take it that, um, that the, um, The presentation that you had prepared is fallen off the back burner. So to speak for the council. At the moment. Yes. I think if they, if they decide that they want to. Have that presentation for the residential exemption. We would have to at this point, um, We would have to wait until we get our approval from the state for our fiscal 23 values so that we can give them more accurate information, but the presentation is put together as you guys all saw. So at least it's just a matter of updating the numbers. What is the date? I'm sorry, Leigh. I just want to ask. Are you taking the initiative to remind them. About the presentation or are you just waiting for them to. Just waiting for them at this point. We have, um, we've asked a couple of times and just, you know, they were really busy. And so at this point, we're just waiting for the council to, um, come back to us to see, I mean, it may be something that they're not interested anymore. And that's why it's sort of dropped off. Um, the president is aware, the president of the council is aware that you have prepared something. Correct. Yes. I believe she may have seen it. Um, it was sent off to a while back. It was sent off to Paul to review and it may have been, um, sent to, uh, the president of the council as well. Do we have a date for your annual presentation? Um, we don't have a specific date yet. I think it'll be very early in, um, or I should say, I shouldn't say very early, but it should be early October. I believe. Yes. Yeah. Um, maybe the end of October. Depending on what council is, is doing what other people have, um, to input into gateway, but, uh, for us, we'll, we'll definitely be done early October. Okay. And then, so there's a mandated vote, isn't it? Right. That's correct. On both the split rate. And the residential exemption, right? Correct. Every year. Every year. And then, um, they, you know, the council does have to vote on the tax rate and all that, but, uh, basically they're just saying, yep, we agree with the DOR because they can't really, there's not much they can change with, with what the DOR has provided. Um, and then our data, our sales analysis, our LA for all that sort of thing. Um, you know, they, they, they look at it. They see it. They, but there's, I mean, they're, they're not the only ones. So there's not much that they can do to change that. The state has approved that. They're just saying, okay, yes, we agree with the state. We agree with the assessor. Right. Okay. So. In terms of timing, when, when will you be submitting the state? Um, so I will be in touch with Roy. Um, I saw that he was actually trying to call while we were meeting. So I will be in touch with him this afternoon. Once I finish the, um, data entry for all the permits and, uh, the inspections that we've done. Um, then he and I will finish up the sales analysis. Um, And move on to. Other parts of, of the, um, the process. So, um, I'm not a hundred percent sure at all. But I will definitely have a better answer for you at our next meeting. Okay. All right. I'm set. So I think all we have to do before we go into executive session is to schedule a meeting. That's right. And also I just, before we go into executive session, we just want to let the public know what we're doing. Um, okay. So. Um, I'm not a hundred percent sure as of yet, but, uh, Um, okay. So. Looking at September. At the moment. The assessor's office has the eighth through the 29th available. So those are all Thursdays. So the eight, the 15th, the 22nd, and the 29th. Okay. The 15th. I'm on the Cape. Okay. And I'm going on the 29th. Okay. Do we want to look at the eighth or the 22nd for now and see what Ken's schedule looks like? Um, I think we should, um, go with the 22nd. Okay. And, and then, cause we know we have to, we know we have two for that. Okay. All right. And hope can, can make it. Yes. Oops. September 22nd. And the nine 30 works for everybody. Absolutely. Okay. Better than the 11th that we were doing. Yeah, I think it's nice because, um, I think it's nice to be able to, to do that. So as long as everybody agrees, then our next scheduled meeting will be September 22nd at nine 30 a.m. Um, and for us, uh, we will keep you posted on the hybrid status. I expect that we'll be able to do that. Okay. If anybody from the public wants to join its first thing in the morning. So if they do have to take time out of work, it's, it's right away and then it's done. But also it gives us the ability to. If we need a little bit of extra time, we're not rushing because it's lunchtime and everybody has to take time out of work. So if anybody wants to join its first thing in the morning, we'll be able to do that. So as long as we're posted on the hybrid status, I expect to be able to have a few of us in person. Um, and somebody remote with the public. If anybody joins. Okay. So going into executive session. We'll be discussing a few personal exemptions. Um, And then we intend to close the meeting. At the close of the, uh, The public section. Okay. So we have disclosed to the public. What is the nature of the business that we're addressing in executive session? Yes. I move that we. I move that we now go into the executive session with the intention not to return to a public meeting. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Okay. Okay. I will stop recording. Thank you very much.


are we ready play good pass nice try good morning how are we good excited yeah I bet I would be as well right okay so this morning our first line at the top we're going to be working on our ball manipulation moves okay so we've got the Klein line so that's number one if you're number one you're doing inside outsides with one foot and a hook turn okay line two that's the Pella line and if you're there you're going to do top taps and outside hook this line next to us here is the Taditch line you're going to be doing inside outsides with both feet and a stop turn and if you're on the man a side which is that side be fun be creative do whatever you want okay okay we're good but you need to spread yourselves out three three three and three off you go okay good can have one person from each side archie come this line here good have one person from each line to demonstrate what we're going to need to do so going across to the side and back to this side and back and forth back and forth okay you for if you go fantastic well done good start okay ready to happy after you go off you go when you're happy great turn love that little turn good hook turn well done or no bumper cars in the middle no bumper cars in the middle are you that player that can see everything when we're doing top taps or what you try and do is get a rhythm going okay except a moment it's a bit slow so can we get that rhythm going how many touches can you get in from side to side okay good and relax there relax there good you're going to move clockwise around so if you was on the Klein line you're going to go to the not many the Pella sign views Pella you're going to Taditch Taditch to man a man a decline have a look at the board if you need have a look at the board to see what you need to do before we get to do the turn what do we need to make sure that we're doing checking your shoulder fantastic so if you can you just have a little check every time love them top taps Harvey well done make sure you're checking good great start to the session everybody really really please well done great tempo so you get better on Sundays when you go back to your grass roots side you can get better any other reason why we do the ball manipulation skills every session to get you moving any other reasons Leo trying to make you become master technicians aren't we be really comfortable on the ball fantastic


National Bureau of Statistics says Niger's total merchandise trade stood at 9.757 trillion Naira represented 6.99% increase in the first quarter. The Bureau said this in its foreign trade in good statistics Q1 obtained from its website. It said that 6.99% was on increase over the year. The value recorded in Q4 2020 and by 14.13% compared to the value recorded in Q1 2020. The report said the export components of the trade stood at 2.907 trillion Naira, representing 29.79% of the total trade, while import was valued at 6.85 trillion Naira, representing 70.21%. According to it, the higher level of import of a red sport resulted in the trade deficit in goods of minus 3.943.45 trillion Naira.


Excellent. You are, of course, already creative, we'll take that for granted, but maybe you want to find new topics to write about, maybe you want to find new ways of writing about the same stuff, maybe you want to enhance your style, maybe you want to investigate the whole process of writing in a little more depth, how to get going, how to keep how to smash the tyranny of the blank page or the blank screen. One thing's for certain, creativity is not about being a genius. It's about applying a set of specific competencies. Creativity is applied imagination. So we're talking about the skills of exploration in order to find new ideas and we're talking about the skills of design thinking in order to put those ideas together to create copy that is intriguing and engaging copy that sings, if you will. But also I think the skills of objective judgment we're creating copy that has a job to do and we need to know whether it's fit for purpose. And I think sometimes we also need the skills of the warrior in order to be able to take manageable risks and in order to justify our choices to the naysayers and the skeptics. I'm Alan Barker and I've put this program together based on my experience working with hundreds of copywriters over the last few years at CIM and also drawing on the expertise and experience of friends and colleagues who have worked with screenwriters and playwrights and poets and who have run creative thinking courses at the open university. So this is a program that is a combination of skills workshop and writer's retreat. I think it's unique I don't think there are many events like this around at all. It's an opportunity for you to nurture your talent. I've designed the program to be inspiring but practical and above all enjoyable. If we're not having a bit of fun then I don't think there's any chance of being creative at all. I look forward to meeting you.


The Public Relations Officer of the Department of State Services, the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, has said that some criminal elements are planning to return the country to pre-2015 era with the use of improvised explosive device to attack warship and relaxation centers in the country. Afunanya, who said he had received reports of such cases in some areas, said that he has uncovered plots by some suspected criminal gangs who were trying to form an alliance. The former DSS, former director of the DSS, Deniz Amakre, also spoke on this. So as soon as this ship understands warfare, protection starts with you. Personal protection is number one. So it is not a matter of sitting down and waiting for the security agencies to come and do something. You call 911 or you call 2 911 and then they come. No. The protection of yourself starts with you. And the protection will, even where the agencies will come into play will be where you have seen something or you hear something, you know, you say something to the security agencies and then they will help. So security agencies are like magicians. Normally, that's why these alliance are being given out. If you have places of relaxation, if you have a church, if you have a mosque, you should be able to start from now. It is not on the Saturday. Right now, where you will start to protect those structures, those facilities. You know, if you have a hotel, you start from now. And you should build 24 hours a night. That's what the DSS is telling you right now.


news from TAT Global Alternatives. That's right. We got some big breaking news from TAT Global Alternatives. And let's get right into it. I know it's a Friday in a lot of places in the world. Some places might even be a Saturday. Hope you're having a great weekend. Hope everyone's had a great week. Great way to finish off the week with lots of green everywhere. TAT launches in major new U.S. market. This is the big breaking news. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Let everybody know. TAT. Big news launching in major new U.S. market. We got TAT lighters. We got TAT everything here. And we absolutely love TAT Global Alternatives. Let's break the news. Hope everyone's having a great day. If you like these videos, make sure you smash the like button. Comment down below. Share the video everywhere. And subscribe if you're alive. TAT in a major new U.S. market. Did you expect TAT to go a whole week without putting out some big news? Ain't gonna happen. Here's the news with a smoking incidence rate of 15.5% among adults. And a total population of 12.67 million. Illinois. That's it. Illinois. The new major U.S. market where TAT will launch huge, huge, huge breaking news. Smash the like button. Comment down below. Share the video everywhere. And subscribe if you're alive. Your boy Rich bringing you TAT since day one. And they never disappoint us. They've always got big news around the corner. So Illinois represents a significant opportunity for the company to expand its presence in the Midwest region of the United States. To date, TAT has been placed in 19 tobacco retailers in Illinois, bringing its nationwide store count to over 300 stores at an MSRP of USD $4.59 per pack. In Illinois, TAT can realize a significant advantage over incumbent tobacco cigarette brands with the average price of a tobacco cigarette pack being USD $9.72 game changer. That's less than half price folks or nearly 112% higher. That's right. Moreover, Cook County, the largest county in Illinois, imposes a USD $3 tax per pack of cigarettes in addition to taxes at the state and locality level, making tobacco cigarettes sold in Cook County the most taxed anywhere in the United States. It's big breaking news, hot off the presses, and we're breaking it to you first. So what we do here at Rich TV Live, we bring you the news and we bring it to you first. What do you think of the new set? We are live TAT Global Alternatives Inc. TAT in Canada, T-A-A-T-T-O-B-A-F in America on the OTC-Q-X exchange. Soon to be on the NASDAQ in Frankfurt under the symbol 2TP is pleased to announce that TAT original, these are the smooth, smooth, and menthol are now carried by 19 tobacco retailers across the state of Illinois, population 12.67 million, approximately 77.8% adult, complimenting new launch initiatives on the east coast for Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama as announced in June 25th, 2021 press release, as well as ongoing launch efforts in the state of Ohio, which began in Q4 2020. As of this writing, the company's products are sold in a total of more than 300 stores across the United States, in addition to being sold online through e-commerce with orders having been shipped to smokers aged 21 plus in over 35 states since mid-February 2021. This is exciting news. What do you guys think of this news? Let me hear if there's any comments. Guys, put them in the chat. Love to hear anybody's comments on this big breaking news for TAT Global Alternatives. What do you guys think of this news? I think this is going to be a catalyst for the stock. This is another state. This is big news in my opinion. Illinois was selected as the next market in which to launch TAT for several strategic regions. In addition to a smoking incidence rate among adults of 15.5%, which is above the national average of 14%, Illinois borders on Indiana, population 6.7 million, adult smoking incident rate of 21.1%, which also borders on Ohio, thus potentially allowing TAT to build an initial presence in the state from its availability at retail in Ohio and Illinois. Moreover, as of May 21, May 2021, there were approximately 150% more sample pack requests on TAT from smokers aged 21 plus in Illinois than in Nevada, where the company's operations are based. The company has onboarded a local sales manager to cover Illinois, who has several years of experience in tobacco sales, with industry-leading firms to include Altria and Ebi Brown, epic, epic news. Most uniquely, the company has identified a significant opportunity to capitalize on the high taxation rate of tobacco cigarettes in Cook County, Illinois. The county-level tax of USD $3 per pack is combined with Illinois state-level tax of USD $2.98 per pack. In addition to locality-level taxes in Chicago, Evenston, and Sierra, USD $1.18, USD $0.50, USD $0.16 respectively. As a result, the average tax inclusive retail price of a pack of tobacco cigarettes in Illinois is USD $9.72, which is nearly 112% higher than the MSRP of TAT in Illinois of USD $4.59 per pack. In a study of over 1200 smokers aged 21 plus in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Pennsylvania, conducted by the company earlier this year, announced in a press release dated April 14, 2021, over 65% of respondents who indicated a desire to discontinue are cut down on smoking cited the financial burden of purchasing tobacco cigarettes as a reason they disliked smoking cigarettes. Huge news, guys. With a population of 5.2 million residents, Cook County is the second largest populous county in the United States, second to only Los Angeles County in California. Combined with state-level and certainty locality-level taxes, Cook County levies its own tax on tobacco cigarettes of USD $3 per pack, making tobacco cigarettes sold in Cook County the most taxed in the nation. Wow. This is very strategic. I can see that. Once again, another home run by this company, with the average tobacco cigarette price per pack in Illinois being nearly 112% higher than the standard TAT MSRP of USD $4.59 per pack, the company could realize a significant competitive advantage in this market. Huge, huge news. What is set the Coscarella the CEO of TAT? I have to say the opportunity for TAT in Illinois is significant as there are well over 1 million smokers aged 21 plus in the state, many of whom reside in Cook County and are subject to the highest tax burden in the nation when it comes to buying tobacco cigarettes. Right from the beginning, we have placed TAT in 19 tobacco retailers across the state, which we intend to leverage along with existing online demand in Illinois to further penetrate this market. We conducted consumer research earlier this year with smokers aged 21 plus in markets to include Illinois and nearly two-thirds of respondents who stated their desire to leave nicotine behind specified that the cost of smoking tobacco cigarettes was a contributing factor to this desire. We are pleased to be making a better alternative to tobacco cigarettes available at a price point that is less than half what the average pack of tobacco cigarettes cost in Ohio. Game changer. As we brought in our initiatives to capture market share in the U.S., the 814 billion tobacco industry. Big news, breaking news, hot off the presses. What do you guys think? TAT continues to do it. Shock in the world. Breaking news on a Friday when nobody expects it. See what your message is saying here from Tintin? Then what about something going to happen when it's fifth next month? And then after I read that, it would be something again in 15th. What is all this about, brother? It's just another market that they're opening up in. The more markets they open up in, the more sales they're going to get, the more revenue they will have, and the more potential price appreciation for the stock. Best of luck for TAT. Thank you. And Jonas says, have you decided when you're going to do the video with Joe? You know what? I haven't even talked to Joe, but I'll do my best and see what we can do. I mean, Joe's a busy guy, but we'll do our best to get him on the show for sure. Dan, the IT guy, how are you saying Dan? Says, I am moving back to Illinois. Where will TAT be available? Great question. I'll do my best to answer that for you, and I'll get that information directly from TAT. Okay. I know I love it too, Dan. It's huge news. Hi. Why not tell me when I ask about something? I'm not understanding your question. I really don't understand your question, but what I can tell you is that TAT is once again making big breaking news, and they are now in Illinois where millions of smokers are paying more than double for their cigarettes. So for TAT giving people the ability to cut their cost of cigarettes in half, in my opinion, that's game changing news. And I believe that's why this is going to be a catalyst for the stock. And the reality is TAT plans to go everywhere. TAT plans to go everywhere, all over the world. And this is just the beginning for TAT, which is now opening up all over America and doing it one state at a time. So what they're doing is they're growing properly. They're growing strategically. And that's why I love what this company's doing. They're doing all the right things. Love to know what you guys think about this news. If you like the news, smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere, and subscribe. If you're live, huge news for TAT. Now in Illinois, Yonis says, I'm curious how long it will take for them to arrive in Georgia stores as well. You know what? These are great questions. I'm sure we can get them on our show soon, and we can ask these questions or just email the company, go to their press release. You'll see there's an email there. Email them, ask them, do your best to get the information. And I know they will do their best to get back to you guys as soon as possible.  Call me sometime. Hey, Dan, just email this brother, richpixdaily at gmail.com. That would be huge, Dan. I really appreciate that. Just send us an email to richpixdaily at gmail.com, and we'll get in contact with you and get you all the information you need so we can make it happen. And we also compensate for business. So if you bring us business, you'll be compensated. So just send an email to richpixdaily at gmail.com, and I'll get Emon to send you whatever information you need, and whatever you need from us, we'll get it to you. And whatever the client might need from us, we can get that to you as well or get it directly to the client, and we appreciate your business. Thank you. Anthony Rice says, can't wait for TAT to come to California. Could you imagine TAT in California and New York? TAT in California, New York, and Florida? Those will be huge, huge markets for TAT. And believe me, it's coming. It's coming. It's not even a matter of if. It's a matter of when these bad boys are going to be everywhere, especially with this price point. You can't beat it. You can't beat the price point of TAT. That's why they are absolutely, in my opinion, a disruptive game-changing company. A disruptive game-changing company that is changing the world for the better, giving cigarette smokers age 21 plus the opportunity to smoke a cigarette with no tobacco and no nicotine at half the price. Game changer. And opening up in state after state after state. Oh man, could you imagine, Dan, if they opened up in Cali, that would just be absolutely ridiculous. And you know what? It's coming. It's coming. Like I said, it's not even a matter of if. It's a matter of when. TAT will be everywhere. And in my opinion, in the next five to 10 years, we could see TAT all over the world. And that would be absolutely enormous for shareholders all over the world. If you're a shareholder, you need to know that this is a great company doing all the right things. And if you're thinking about getting into the stock, remember that Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in this or anything that we talk about here in Rich TV Live. In saying that, this is a company that's been a huge winner for a community. I love TAT. I love everything they're doing. They're doing all the right things. And this is a company, in my opinion, that's just getting started, despite the fact that they are getting oh so close to the list on the NASDAQ. And I believe a NASDAQ listing for TAT is going to be rocket fuel for the stock. And I think it could happen literally any day, you know, like any day. But yes, do your due diligence. Like Dan, the IT guy says, do your research. And once you do that, go speak to a financial advisor, chances are they're going to come back and say, wow, where'd you hear about this big? And you can say from my boy, Rich from Rich TV Live, and they're going to say, well, this is a really special thing because the reality is they are special. This is a company that is changing the world for the better and giving people an alternative to tobacco and to nicotine. And I think that this is going to be a game changer. It is now just starting to generate revenue. And with every additional state and every additional country and every additional new distributor, their revenue should continue to grow, which should also allow investors to see some price appreciation in their investments. So love to know what you guys think about this video, comment on the video. I'm going to go now. Have a great weekend. I'm going to have a great weekend after this news. Let me know what you guys think. You're boy, Rich from Rich TV Live. Remember, TAT is T-A-A-T in Canada on the Canadian Securities Exchange, T-O-B-A-F in America, and two T-P in Frankfurt, Germany. Thank you for watching, guys. You're boy, Rich. Rich TV Live. If you're not winning, you're not watching. We bring you the winners and we bring them to you first.  Stay tuned. I'm out. Peace.


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