Before we start the meeting this evening just want to announce a couple things first of all did everyone get a chance to look at the JC parade roster Okay, everyone got to see it. Okay, so we don't miss anyone Second thing is the governor will be in town tomorrow at 1 o'clock. He'll be at fire station 3 He'll be Discussing some of the issues which are going on in the state. Hopefully he'll touch Touch a little bit on the budget where he's at with that So if anyone or all the alderman or any one of you can make it out to fire station 3 at 1 o'clock Hopefully you can come out there and support him. So look forward seeing you Okay with that. Oh Yes, yes, we have deputy chief Sherwin with us this evening and deputy chief could you just fill us in on a tornado and the sirens yesterday? And there was a question why the city didn't turn on their sirens yesterday. Could you explain that the reasoning and Could you hold a microphone, please Sure, is that on try it once testing. Yep. It sounds like it's got enough power there. So good on Sunday, July 6th 2003 at approximately 515 p.m Information was received through the national weather service of a tornado in the area of may well mayville Located in the western Dodge County In Clement weather was moving in an easterly direction and in a funnel cloud had also been noted in the area of Kiewaskam near the far western part of Sheboygan County In Clement weather was moving in an easterly direction with the cities of random lake and later Cedar Grove in its path The Sheriff's Department Activated the county sirens because a portion of the county was likely to be in the path of the funnel clouds The city of Sheboygan was not in the in their path The Sheboygan Police Department was advised the situation by the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department Sheboygan Police Supervisors assigned officers to monitor the west side of the city I-43 and highway 23 and I-43 and highway 28 Sheboygan police officers monitored the weather along with a dispatch monitoring communication and radio equipment Additional monitoring was conducted by a computer in the weather channel Due to the fact that all the information Obtained indicated that the possible tornado Activity was proceeding approximately 15 miles south of the city The emergency warning sirens were not activated as a storm was proceeding east police supervision Was receiving information that it was dissipating it was felt that premature activation of the warning Signs sirens could cause undue stress and create hazardous situations for hospitals nursing homes businesses and individuals hurriedly seeking shelter The Sheboygan Police Department is concerned for the security of our citizens and are committed to providing the best possible police service to ensure their safety We care about our citizens and at times we need to make a judgment call a Supervisors making that determination Did so with every effort being made to make the best and wisest decision If in their opinion the situation would have changed to actively threatening Citizens the sirens would have been activated Thank you. Thank you deputy chief Hopefully that'll explain that Betty if you get any calls You'll be able to refer that. Okay Okay with that Pat we will start the regulars this regular seventh meeting common council Pat when you call the roll, please Bowman Berg Bonnet Doyle Groth Manny Montemayor Moody Perez Rene Flesh Stefan Ben Akron Vanderweal Wongamon Warner Winninger 16 present forms present Alderman Groth Thank you, and I would ask that we I would move to approve the minutes of the previous common council meeting in the same Stand approved as entered on the record Move to the second that we approved the minutes of the previous council meeting under discussion Hearing none all in favor Opposed motion carried Alderman Graf for the pledge Alderman Graf for the recent pledge, please. I Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all We have one notice this evening and that's ordinance has been introduced for the vacation and discontinuance of That part of South 12th Street from the north line of Indiana Avenue North to the south line of the railroad right of way between blocks 245 and 246 of the original plot Jim Randall Jim you'll have five minutes come to the microphone pick up the microphone and use it, please This is in regard to the parking rules. I was at the rules committee last week or week before They said if they're not Not broken don't fix them. Well, I feel they are broken I feel that the winter parking rules are terrible parking one side flip-flopping daily is really bad Bad for retired people people with two cars people with no driveway people with no garage I do not sell the water street. There are eight residences for our double flats 15 different families and renters 18 cars and only three driveways two blocks away the rest of Water Street, they've got nine residences six are double flats Approximately 18 different families and renters 17 cars and five driveways. I Think they're 30 years. I don't care to move But if I'd have to I would I mean I'm just getting sick of it During a snow emergency we can't even park on either side because we are on a snow emergency route Just so the flowers can turn around I Park over at the huddled Old huddled parking lot by the meter because you can park there overnight. That's two blocks away Normally people don't move their cars every day. I know they're supposed to but they don't especially as a person has more than one car Or if they are double flats in the vicinity or there's two drivers in the house. You got two cars People renting from the family. I Would like to know how you people on a council if you have the park on the street like we do It's blows air off before you go to bed You have to move the car the other side of the street You say why did you have it on that other side street right away? Well, there's people that parked there during the day You've got friends coming over You just you just don't you get groceries you unload them you forget about the car I don't know how many times my kid told me before I'm ready to go to bed I got to move the car across street because I got mine moved you got to move yours now Or we got a blizzard outside or the start of a snowstorm We have to go out special just to move the car the other side of the street If it would be on the right side right away, it'd be okay It'd be like parking like they had one year at a time one year and flip flop the next year Let's see what else they got Sometimes it's so cold a car won't start well normally when it happened to me I would just take a cab or walk to work. I wouldn't worry about it It warms up in a couple days and she bore you in any way now We have to either get the thing moved you got to get a jump you got to get Spend time outside. It is beautiful cold weather just to get it to the other side of the street You people are making the winter time a real hassle much worse than it should be The winters are easier nowadays with the snow and the cold but with all your rules It's just more of a pain in a neck Last year. We had no us knows no snow emergency, but we had the hassle Please change the rules back to one side all winter till they are changes Thank you All of my graph Thank you. It's an agenda. I would move that for documents 7 1 through 7 32 that all our O's and communications be accepted and filed and That all our C's be accepted and adopted and we pass all resolutions exception Okay, what's the exception number 30 Alderman graph? Right with the exception of number 30, which will lie over will lock well After talking to the chairman of the committee It should be sent back to public protection and safety. Okay refer back You need a motion. No, no, that's okay Okay, we have motion beef. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead I'm 728 which is the document regarding the Plan for distribution of the Florence. I'm Becker trust I just want to make a comment about that that was discussed in in finance committee and we agreed with it but One of the things that were done with that with that document was setting a limit of $5,000 for use for operations for the senior center. They place that limit on there I don't believe they really had to but they decided to so that Everybody knew that the majority of those funds would be spent for either construction or something like that that's needed But knowing that the next several years are going to be very very tough budgeting years. I hope that they have a way to relieve that that limit of $5,000 and Maybe up it in case they need it and that's the only comment. I want to make on that. Otherwise everything Thank you. We have motion before us to accept and adopt all our C's Except to file all our O's and past communications or resolutions Alderman Mooney Thank you, I would like to pull 727 for a separate roll call vote, please this is Various confirming resolutions for water lateral replacements and water main extensions. This is in the area of my 14th abroad we were I live in Colorado court and Colorado court Union Avenue and 15th Street and Broadway Avenue these people did get notice pretty short notice that they had to pay for these Laterals and and I've been consistent with voting against this and I would like to vote against it again. Thank you Okay with that hearing No other path do a roll call on 727 Oh For Bonnet Doyle graph Manny Montemayor Moody no Perez Windflash Stefan Ben Akron Vanderwheel Rungerman no Warner Weninger Bowman 11 eyes 5 nose motion carry Okay, the rest seven seven one through seven thirty two if there's no other discussion Pat would you call her old place? for me Doyle graph Manny Montemayor Moody Perez Rindflash Stefan Van Akron Vanderwheel Wongerman Warner Weninger Bowman for 16 eyes motion carried Thank you for coming this evening 733 through 737 to be referred 738 will lie over to August 4th 739 same thing 738 and 39 both lay over to August 4 740 through 753 to be referred 754 by Alderman Graf Wininger Bonnet Doyle and Stefan transferring funds to increase appropriations for the for the payment of the balance of the mortgage of South Pier project land From a general fund advance Alderman Graf No, no, I need to ask for suspension Would a second for suspension. Are there any objections? Hearing none proceed Then I just to preface The motion this is so that we can pay off The balance of the the coke mortgage, which is a lot higher which is at a lot higher rate Then we are borrowing money for right now Therefore, we're really saving money by doing this this early Transaction and with that I will move that the resolution to put upon this passage Move to second the resolution be put upon this passage under discussion Hearing none, what do you call role, please Doyle Graf Manny money mayor Moody Perez Greenflage Stefan then Akron Vanderbilt Wonderman Warner Weninger Bowman Berg Bonnet 16 eyes motion carried 755 by Alderman Graf transfer appropriations in the 2003 budget Alderman Graf I Would ask suspension Moved in second for suspension. Are there any objections to suspension hearing none proceed on the reason for this resolution is that We have the we we did this transfer before but we didn't have the appropriation account set up So this will set up the appropriation account so that the money that we are borrowing will have a place to to go So with that I will move that the resolution be put upon this passage So the second a resolution be put upon this passage under discussion hearing none. What do you call the role, please graph? Manny Monty mayor Moody Perez rim flesh Stefan then Akron Vanderbilt Longamon Warner Weninger Bowman Berg Bonnet Doyle 16 eyes motion carried 756 by Alderman Graf Weninger Bonnet Doyle and Stefan establishing limits for the 2004 budget request for the general fund Yeah, and I would move that the resolution be put upon a passage Move move this I got a resolution be put upon this passage under discussion Yeah under discussion. I need to make an amendment to this and everybody has a copy of it on their desk So unless somebody would prefer I will not read it But it's two paragraphs that and Patrick you have a copy of that You might want to read it just so our public knows okay The amendment would be be it further resolved that the departmental requests for the 2004 general fund budget Will exclude positions that are vacant and have not been approved for filling by the salaries and grievance committee as of August 8th 2003 be it further resolved that the departmental requests for 2004 Capital outlay appropriations in the general fund shall be delayed until the first quarter of 2004 I need a second under discussion right Alderman Montemare Thank you. I want to thank the committee for watching our money I'm glad to see all these suspensions Concerning our money and getting a better rate so forth and so on and this resolution. Thanks Alderman press Thank you, your honor. I joined Alderman Montemire in that praise for the for the committee What I'd like to point out though is I have a little problem with the second amendment the first amendment to the to the resolution and I have that concerned because it appears to Effectively eliminate the fundamental responsibility of the selling and grievance committee and that is in reviewing requests for for positions or fulfilling positions As it as it is now we will have after August 8th Possibly a lot of people out of work. Well, a lot of people are getting raises And we will have a lot of people out of work without due discussion to the worthiness of the other positions This in effect just eliminates any request for whatever reason without due discussion in the selling grievance committee I believe that this council has needs to trust the selling agreement's committee to make the right decisions and amendment the resolution and Such matter does not extend that courtesy to the selling grievance So I am going to vote against it for the amendment for that reason and I hope other members do too. Thank you Okay, Alderman Baldwin. Oh, thank you your honor. Actually Alderman Perez took the words right out of my mouth I possibly will also vote against this proposed Change Alderman Stephan Yes, your honor, I guess I agree with them. I just want to make sure I understand this The way it reads to me would be if the position was vacant Somebody left the position was open and it hadn't been approved to be filled It wouldn't get filled. But like if somebody You know quits or resigns or retires in September Does it mean automatically you're not filling it? No, Alderman Yeah, you know, that's what that's a question I guess some people think it's only the ones that are vacant and not filled as of August 8th Because they're not filled because somebody's decided we haven't needed them Like maybe some agreements committee hasn't put them on said no, we're not going to fill that one right now That was my understanding. I guess that's what we need a little clarification If I have this correctly Rich is here to help in case I don't there are a number of positions in various departments that are presently open Have not been filled for probably Six months to a year if not longer and those positions have never come to souring grievance to be asked to be filled So what we're saying here if they don't come to souring grievance Well, first of all, it's the mayor and then to souring grievance if they don't come to souring grievance to ask for those positions To be filled before August 8th of 2003 then those positions will not be budgeted in 2004 They will stay on the to go they will stay on the to but they will not be budgeted This way gives some direction to each department That they do not have if they are not going to ask for that position to be filled by August 8th Don't bother asking for it to be filled in 2004 because there will not be money appropriated for that position in All the one right flesh If that's the case, I definitely agree with that in terms of Being able to work with our budget a little bit, but I see the language being a little bit different from that I will certainly support if that's the intent. However, it looks to me as if we're holding at a zero average increase of zero percent excluding ones that we haven't included yet meaning that Positions that have not been filled by August 8th are excluded from the zero percent increase net. That's the language that would ask to be changed Okay, all of them in order Thank you, I guess I wasn't aware that this amendment was going to be talked about tonight But I after I look at it here I guess I can support it and I guess my question would be to Alderman bin Ackman if he thinks August 8th is enough time For any positions that may want to be brought into salary grievance so they can still review more if he would need another week Because I see it's not really an issue of filling the positions It's a budgetary issue so we can get a budget set up in time and not have something come along at a later date in 2005 they're still on the on the to and if the position needs to be filled it's still there We're not taking it away It's it's making sure that we have everything filled up in time for the budget And I think that's a reasonable request, but if Alderman bin Akron feels he needed another week I wouldn't be opposed to that either, but I think salary grievance unless Don they've changed There'd be like possibility of three meetings between now and August 8th. So I guess In my eyes, I would support it. I think it's worthwhile Resolution so but I think that salary grievance if they think they can meet the the needs I don't know that there's that many positions coming forward yet At least from the departments that I'm in charge of with public protection and safety I don't I don't think there's very many that haven't been brought brought forward already. So All in bottom Thank you, your honor. I know it's my second time up and I won't ask to stand again. I Have a question for time if I could please Mr. Holton is the positions that are open in public works right now have those been requested through That committee already No, we had five last year But the balance we have 13 and a half open right now, and we haven't done the requesting yet for those Fillings, okay, do we have the need to fill those positions some of them? Yes, and we'll be working with the mayor to determine that Thank you Hang on. Okay, all of them invent you had your light gone. Okay all of them Ben Akron I don't think that's that three meetings that we're going to be swamped by All these open meetings that we're going to have and also I'm afraid that some of these positions these are different departments may be using to cut their budget if we take them away How are they going to cut their budgets? So there's another concern They may be using holding back to cut their budgets because everybody's going to have to cut their budgets And they may use that as cutting budgets and if we take away by august They won't have that option What time frame do you need? We don't have a meeting this next week because we didn't have anything we still don't have nothing So nobody's put in for anything We only got one more In this month and one more in august. That's it. That's two meetings Yeah, our schedule meetings if we'd have to we'd have to call the special meetings All of my prayers Thank you, all of them have been there pretty much stated what I was going to follow up with. Thank you. Okay I will thank you all of it's definitely I'm sure we change it to make sure what we got is what it says I guess I read it all over and stuff and it has consistent with I believe what color and gromp indicated that doesn't wipe the positions off the table for organizations. They're still there, but Not going to be able when the partner puts together their budget for 2004 to include those salaries for those positions in the budget and I think that's what it says I wasn't I wasn't aware of what the intent was for Tonight either, but I think that's what Alderman grow off question for you if we have all them We have august 8th on that correct Rich budget. We have to get everything in place If you'd back it up to the 24th, I believe would be Don's next meeting in august possibly somewhere I think that's going to be a little bit late for the department's to submit the request after that point in time For us to process it and get it into the council So we were looking at that at the first meeting august 7th of souring grievance As a timeline to work with the department's to have time to submit the request after that Okay Alderman graff, where'd you think that do you have the number of positions that we're talking about? Some are I'm not sure in the police department whether it's one or four for different interpretations And there's No time set about 13 and he has a department and then there's a housing environmental inspector And recently we had a programmer analyst Leave our department. So that's an opening there So it would be approximately 17 if I come right 17 to 18 or so. I projected out somewhere around $800,000 maybe total Wages with with benefits One in the fire department, okay And that is one reason we asked for august days to give them time give the department It's time to come in and request what they really truly need and we can go from there and get a good feeling or the budget is So we understand it now they come to you first and then you tell them go ahead go to selling grievance or either or Alderman manning Thank you your honor Quick question. The second amendment to the resolution My question is why would this be beneficial for our 2004 budget? Which in our previous budget such as 2003 we allow the departments to request the the capital outlay But then ordered to meet the expenditure restraint limit, which For 2003 was 2.3 percent We had to remove the capital outlay appropriations. We knew we were going to fund that from The transfer from the cable funds So we just established that in the first quarter of 2003 It was not in the original budget So we're looking at reality here with the with The budget parameters that are coming up We realize that we will be following the same sequence And we will have a concern also about meeting expenditure restraints again this year So we thought it was logical just to Postpone that portion of it until the first quarter 2004 and have that funded from the cable funds again If there's no other questions No other discussion. Pat, would you call her old please? This is just um on the amendment If you want to roll call there Manny Yeah Monty mayor Moody Perez Rindflage Stefan Aye Van Akron No Vanderweel Aye Wongamon No Warner Aye Winniger Aye Baumann No Berg No Bonet Aye Doyle Aye Graf Aye Nine eyes Seven nose Move to second resolution be put upon this passage under discussion Hearing none, would you call the roll please? Don't need one Don't need one? All in favor? Aye Aye Opposed? No No Now you need a roll call Motion carried Now you need a roll call Okay That was that was pretty close Okay Monty mayor Oh aye Moody Aye Perez No Rindflage No Stefan Aye Van Akron No Vanderweel Aye Wongamon No Warner Aye Winniger Aye Baumann No Berg No Bonet Aye Doyle Aye Graf Aye Manny No Nineteenth It comes out the same Same with a okay Okay 757 through 761 to be referred No excuse me lies over 762 through 769 to be referred 770 will lie over 771 by public protection of safety recommending denying beverage operator license 5972 based on his failure to include all relevant convictions on his application multiple multiple convictions on charges related to the proposed license activity and the status of the application as repeat a law violator and beverage operator license 6013 based on the applicants in an eligibility for a license Alderman Vanderweely Thank you Your Honor I'd like to make a motion to accept and adopt a report of committee and deny the two licenses Move this second to accept and adopt a report of committee Alderman Vanderweel And I'd like to ask if number 5972 and 6013 want to speak on their behalf they're not here Your Honor Okay Okay we have a motion before us Is there any other discussion Pat would you call the roll please Moody Perez Rinfight Stefan Ben Akron Vanderweel Longerman Warner Weninger Bowman Bird Boone Doyle Groff Manny Monty Mayor 16 ayes Motion carried 772 will be referred Matters laid over Excuse me 13 R.O. by the city planning commission vacating the part of south 12th street from the north line of Indiana avenue to the south line of derail road right away Alderman Orner Thank you Your Honor I move the ordinance and report of officer be placed on file in the attached substitute ordinance be put upon as passage Move this second that the R.O. be accepted in file ordinance be put in the general ordinance be put upon as passage under discussion Under discussion Your Honor this street will never go through and in the area that it is at this time is a railroad right away behind it and the property will become part of the two abutting properties of 1136 and 1206 Indiana avenue Thank you If there's no other discussion would you call the roll please Perez Rinfight Stefan Ben Akron Vanderweel Longerman Warner Weninger Bowman Bird Boone Doyle Graf Manny Montemare Moody Sixteen eyes Motion carried 648 will lie over 650 resolution by Alderman Graf Weninger, Boney Transformer Appropriations and the 2003 budget Alderman Graf Your Honor I move that the resolution be put upon as passage Moved and seconded resolution be put upon as passage under discussion Hearing none would you call the roll please Rinfight Stefan Ben Akron Vanderweel Longerman Warner Weninger Bowman Berg Boone Doyle Graf Manny Montemare Moody Perez Sixteen eyes Motion carried 660 general 461 will lie over also 660 general ordinance by Alderman Warner Wonderman Vanderweel Manny in the municipal code so as to require animal fanciers permits Alderman Warner Well thank you Your Honor I make a motion the general ordinance be put upon as passage Moved and seconded general ordinance be put upon as passage Is there any discussion Under discussion Your Honor This is a pet fanciers permit ordinance and this ordinance is a result of a year-long effort by the pet fanciers committee a subcommittee of public protection and safety approved by the common council to address the serious problem in our community Alderman Vanderweel and Bowman along with Pete Fullerton and assistant city attorney Chuck Adams has spent many hours working on this ordinance along with Melanie Nick a citizen of our community and Nicole Lena coming up with a workable and effective ordinance The police and building inspection have not had a tool to deal with individuals that continually create problems for their neighbors by having more pets than they can properly care for This ordinance does not limit the number of pets a person may own nor does it prohibit anyone from having a pet It does give a very necessary tool to the police and building inspection to solve some very real problems in our city I congratulate the subcommittee for sticking with it and bringing forth an ordinance that is fair and will help to protect neighbors of pet owners that are not responsible in the care of their pets as well as the welfare of those animals Your public protection safety committee upon review recommends approval of this ordinance Thank you Thank you Alderman Vanderwill Thank you Your Honor I just have a question for Steve Do I need to amend this now or do I wait? I need to make an amendment Make a motion to amend section one of the pet fancier permit Let's move it a second and Alderman Vanderwill In section 1857 A.A. it needs to read In this section the term domestic animal includes all animals income passed under the definitions provided in section 95.001 A.D. and 169.017 Wisconsin Statues Okay, we'll vote on amendment first if there's another discussion on amendment Oh, I'm sorry Steve By way of clarification question came up a week or so ago as to whether or not the parakeets or pet birds were included as domestic animals under the the ordinance The original definition didn't address birds but the additional definition in 169.01 does include pet birds as domestic animals so they would be included pet birds that would be parakeets or cockatoos or any other type of bird It was just felt to make it clear up front as to what's being covered Alderman Bowen, did you want to speak on the amendment? You want to get that Alderman Rainflish, did you want to speak on the amendment? Concerning the definition as well fish Does that include the definition? I wasn't asked to look at that It's a good question and off the cuff I don't have an answer for you You'll have to look at that one I'll get back to you Okay, we have an amendment before us Would you call the roll please? You sure? Okay All in favor of the amendment? Opposed? Alderman Van Wille Do you want to pass it as amended? Make a motion Okay It's been moved Move to second to pass as amended Under discussion Alderman Bowen Thank you, your honor Even though I did ask to speak earlier This is fine I'll still speak now When you were talking about fish earlier Yeah, fish can also cause quite an order When water becomes acidic And when it becomes acidic It's going to definitely start stinking big time So that's the answer to that But otherwise I'm probably one of the most responsible people Concerning pets On this council And needless to say When I was asked to be on this committee I felt very honored to do so Although it was a subcommittee I worked very hard along with Alderman Van Wille And the other persons named by Alderman Werner In the beginning I was very apprehensive About the permit And then as we were going through it We did realize that the numbers we did put in here Again, as mentioned earlier Do not restrict the number of pets a person can own It basically does state though That if they become out of hand This is when we'll be taking over With our permits and what have you Their permits are also extremely inexpensive And if they are purchasing licenses For their dogs and cats And or the potbellied pigs The permit would be included with it Otherwise it is only a $3 cost for the permit Thank you Thank you I just wanted to add one thing that That on involvement and wanted to catch or cover A lot of citizens have talked to me About the pet stores in town Related to this permit And I just wanted to clarify That they are included The pet stores are included under this permit Thank you Thank you There's no other discussion Would you call the roll please, Pat? Stefan? Aye Van Akron? Aye Van Akron? Aye Van Akron? Aye Van Akron? Aye Van Akron? Aye Van Derweel? Aye Wonderman? No Werner? Aye Winniger? No Bauman? Aye Berg? Aye Boney? Aye Doyle? Aye Graf? Aye Manny? Aye Montemayor? Aye Moody? Aye Perez? No Rinfleisch? No 12 ayes, 4 noes Motion carried 773 we'll go to plan commission 774 we'll go to plan commission Ski of other matters 775 is an RO by the city clerk submitting a communication received by the mayor from Dolores Olson of the chamber of commerce requesting various items from the city for the upcoming event on August 9th at the Art Center and Wild Center for Kevin Costner Public works 776 is an RO by the city clerk submitting a communication from David Bronson requesting the city deed a parcel of property to him located on the west side of his lot that orders the railroad tracks Plan commission 777 is a resolution by Alderperson Bauman authorizing entering into agreement with Sigma Environmental Services for the Environmental Observation and Documentation for 2003 construction activities at Harbour Center pure in the amount not to exceed $49,350 and for phase 2 environmental site assessment at the northwest corner of south 8th and Indiana in the amount of $18,855 That will go to finance Move to the second day adjourn under discussion Hearing none all in favor All in favor


Going into the playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals and especially would it be in a playoff game and you're starting quarterback Lamar Jackson Who does so much for the team with him being out? You would normally think that an offense would rely on other guys a lot more especially when those other guys have continued to prove themselves Over the years and not even just over the years But really even just this season alone You would think that a team would want to really rely on that in such a clutch moment of the season because it's when Or go home and the Ravens said nope not doing it the Ravens proved otherwise So many of us heading to the Cincinnati Bengals game We just knew like a if Ravens gonna have a shot at this thing JK Dobbins, he gots to go off. He got to go out there and do his thing JK Dobbins even knew what he said it before the game in different interviews and whatnot He said he wanted to put the team on his back because he knew what the situation was He knew what the circumstances was and the Ravens knew what the circumstances were as well, but They didn't do it. They didn't do it. But this time JK Dobbins He wasn't silent on the issue JK Dobbins called out the Ravens offense and with what he said You can tell this is something that he's been holding back for a while He said Huntley speaking of the the whole fumble. Huntley should have never been in that situation I didn't get a single carry. I didn't get a single carry. He should have never been in that situation I believe I would have put it in the end zone again and Again with JK Dobbins just the lack of use with JK Dobbins in this game it was Weird but at the same time when you think of the Baltimore Ravens and the inconsistencies that they've continued to have with their offense It really wasn't so weird He also said I should be the guy. I'm tired of holding that back. I'm tired of that 13 kids just to play off I'm tired of holding that back. Let's go in the game. I'm tired of that so if Somebody is tired of something if they're tired of holding back something That means they've been holding back something for a while That means they've been keeping it in for a while JK Dobbins he decided hey, you know what I've been holding this and keeping this to myself for so long that No, not anymore So, so now I guess we can we could expect JK Dobbins to probably get traded, right?  Hey, look, I'm not being used I want to be used on the first round draft here. Okay. Bye Hayden. See ya Orlando Brown said I'm a left tackle ain't no right tackle. I'm a left tackle Raven said bye.  Hey, I would buy Hollywood. See ya So JK do you expect him to be out of there now? I mean that's that seems to be the trend but anyway With the Ravens offense, it's this is old news like This is old news. This is nothing new that the Ravens offense They they struggle with this and we've been talking about this for a year for forever for literally forever with how they they do that they have such a lack of Consistency, especially when it comes to establishing playmakers. They could have somebody who is going off and Especially with with running backs because they they try to do this thing where it's just it's running back by committee and They got to feed everybody but sometimes they don't be feeding nobody and then like it's so much questionable play calling especially in a red zone especially situationally The play call is just so it can be so bad sometimes and it's sad because it's like man You you will see like even JK Dobbins in the playoff game You saw this guy like fighting This dude was making plays on the ground. He's making plays through the air to him like what they actually using JK Dobbins in the passing game To what he's Ravens. We ain't used to that but They just stopped and that's something that the Ravens just they've been doing that all season. They just stop It seems like with their offense. It's like The defense's job becomes so much easier Defenses that Ravens offense goes against their jobs become so much easier because the Ravens make their jobs easier Because they don't want to establish playmakers. They don't want to establish playmakers With Devon DuVernay remember early on this season. It was like He would go off one game and then we'd be like, all right Let's go Devon DuVernay next game crickets. Nothing. You wouldn't hear from Then Devon DuVernay will go off for another game. It was like, all right Devon DuVernay is in the building baby Let's go next game crickets. You don't hear anything. So they have such a lack of consistency at Playmaking positions. We saw what Isaiah likely last week against the Bengals Yeah, Mark Andrews was inactive, but Isaiah likely showed you like hey, I can't do some stuff Just you just got to give me a shot and I can show you I can do some stuff though So then when Mark Andrews comes back, it's like, all right, you got Mark Andrews now, too You know, you've been lacking in the past catching department all year long I mean, it's playoff time put it all out there now Isaiah likely was active, but he really wasn't active.  How many how many times the people got to call out the offense? I mean, it's an annual thing at this point Because we like and like we talked about earlier It's bad enough When people leave and they called out the offense some people who not even on the team who would never been on a team like Steve Young like a Kurt Warner Like y'all heard it from all of them and that's like they they outside analysts But hey what they see is what they see and that's cool But then you got people that been on a team remember there's Brian remember him called it out But it was like there were people who like oh man, well, that's this Brian. He washed up anyway Well, he's need he called it out Then there were people like oh, man He ain't all that anyway Hollywood called it out He's never really a number one wide receiver anyway Lamar called it out remember They they they calling that all plays. They know our plays the defense is they know our plays never forget Never forget and again, we know like Lamar He is not somebody that throws people under the bus like ever Like ever man, and when he said that I was like whoa, I used to that from him We did it. He said it And he didn't say he said he said it so nonchalantly to like yeah, they they call another place defense is called another place. Oh, okay, and I will still continue to say because it's the truth While Greg Roman is an issue. He is not the issue. He is an issue, but he is not the issue The issue is above Greg Roman But what was it really gonna take for this offense to make a step forward? Though I you know what now that I think about it with J. K. Dobbins being like hey I'm tired. I'm tired of holding it back. Maybe that was him that dropped them Greg Roman paper Greg Roman should give firepapers on the ground at the facility. Maybe maybe that was him Maybe he wrote that out on what night. Hey Bowser put this up I ain't trying to catch the heat for this right now. You could take it right now You're good, especially since you're on defense But I can't take it right now cuz I want my carries to diminish because I've never had more than what 17 carries in The game that certainly didn't change in the playoffs Even though a lot of us thought it probably should have but I haven't had more than 17 carries in a game in my entire Career with the Ravens who are a run first team think about that think about that Never more than 17 carries in it for four for the rave and it's J. K. Dot second round picker What is that What is that and I know like Every game is different, but literally in every game that he played him not more than 17 And and this is the guy who Ravens like they show you like a J. K. Dobbins is our guy They try to portray it that way at least but It ain't that way so I mean shit should we expect J. K. To be here next year I know they've been some talk that the Ravens could possibly cut Gus But is should we expect J. K. To be shipped out for for him opening his mouth about this offense or Will the Ravens actually do something about this offense? Well Everything is to be determined. I love y'all to keep it clean I appreciate y'all and like J. K. Dobbins will probably be for running his mouth about the offense we out


Yesterday, the Chiefs beat the 49ers at the Super Bowl. Now for those of you not in the know, like myself, let me put it in terms that you can understand. Taylor Swift's boyfriend's team one, which is relevant specifically for purposes of today's video. Now, in the lead up to the Super Bowl, there were these unhinged right-wing conspiracy theories about how Biden was somehow orchestrating this entire victory for the Chiefs in order to pave the way for Travis Kells and Taylor Swift to endorse him. It's an incredibly goofy story. I did an entire video about it if you want to check that out, but Biden's team jokingly leaned into this conspiracy theory in a couple of ways. First, he referenced it in a TikTok video that his team released yesterday. Jason Kelsy or Travis Kelsy? Mama Kelsy. That's nice. He makes great chocolate chip cookies. Deviously plotting to rig the season so the Chiefs didn't make the Super Bowl or the Chiefs just being a good football team? You're getting a trouble fight on it. So I mean, that's fun, right? He's taking a page out of John Fetterman's book and embracing silly conspiracy theories about him. But after the game was over, his social media team tweeted this dark Brandon meme with the caption, just like we drew it up. Now in a vacuum, there's nothing wrong with his tweet, but unfortunately for him as the President of the United States, this came off as extremely tone deaf for the fact that Israel, the government that he's funding and supplying weapons to, committed a massacre as that tweet went out, as the Super Bowl was taking place. And people were quick to point this out. For example, Owen Jones tweeted, Palestinians were picking up the body parts of their loved ones slaughtered by US supplied bombs when Biden's team posted this. Also Jewish voice for peace tweeted, tonight the Israeli military carried out a devastating and deadly assault on Rafa, a safe zone where displaced Palestinians were sheltering. The attack was possible because Biden keeps sending weapons to a genocidal government. Meanwhile, he's doing this. Z-Squirrel writes, the genocidal Israeli regime that genocide Joe is funding and arming is right now at this moment mass murdering, beheading, maiming Palestinian babies and children in Rafa. Body parts are strewn across streets and buildings. And this is what the White House decided to post. And there's more, but you get the point. Now he's clearly trying to appeal to young voters by being quirky. But I mean, the cutesy Mimi stuff just isn't going to land when you're funding and aiding a genocide. And even though it's obvious that he wasn't referencing Israel's massacre in Rafa with that tweet, his team should have read the room and just not released it. Given the circumstances. Now, Biden has tried to placate people concerned by reportedly seething privately about Netanyahu. And from time to time, we'll get leaks such as the following NBC News reports. Biden has said he is trying to get Israel to agree to a ceasefire. But Netanyahu is giving him hell and is impossible to deal with. Said the people familiar with Biden's comments, who all asked not to be named. Quote, he just feels like this is enough. One of the people said of the views expressed by Biden, it has to stop. Biden has, in recent weeks, spoken privately about Netanyahu, a leader he has known for decades, with a candor that has surprised some of those on the receiving end of his comments. People familiar with him said. His description of his dealings with Netanyahu are peppered with contemptuous references to Netanyahu as this guy, these people said.  Now, in theory, that sounds good to somebody who hasn't been paying close attention to this. These leaks try to paint Biden as a concerned but powerless president doing everything that he can behind the scenes to reign in Netanyahu. But the problem, as the title points out, is his administration hasn't significantly changed US policy towards Israel and Gaza. And therein lies the problem.  He is still supplying weapons to Israel. He is still supporting them. He is still using the United States' veto power on the Security Council to shield them from any accountability whatsoever, including just mere condemnations. And as a result, all these leaks do is demonstrate how insincere he is in his concern for Palestinians. And as Truinan put it, the purpose of these frequent leaks about Biden's frustration with Netanyahu is to provide some sort of cover for the Biden administration's full support, but it just makes him look even weaker and more pathetic. And Adam Johnson adds, the White House continues to use court stenographer reporters to launder an image of Biden somehow opposing mass death in Gaza when, in fact, nothing has materially changed. These articles have been written dozens of times and are all sourced to self-serving anonymous White House officials. In other words, nobody's buying it. I'm not buying it. It's obvious what's going on here. But these leaks serve as damage control because the administration knows how unpopular this stance is with the Democratic Party's base. But it's just not helping. And if anything, it's hurting him because the people who are following this close enough to care, they find these reports insulting and downright patronizing. Another example is his announcement that he'd be sanctioning just four Israeli settlers before heading to Michigan to meet with Arab Americans. It's charitable to even call that the bare minimum. It's just embarrassing. And his attempt to control the narrative here has been a complete failure. Because, you know, you can't propagandize and gaslight when we can see what's happening with our very eyes. He knows what needs to be done. And his decision to allow this to continue is a choice. Now I've shared this article multiple times, but this paragraph is worth repeating again. As Trita Parsi of The Nation reports, in 1982, President Ronald Reagan was disgusted by Israeli bombardment of Lebanon. He stopped the transfer of cluster munitions to Israel and told Israeli Prime Minister Manisham Begin in a phone call that this is a holocaust. Reagan demanded that Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon. Begin caved. Twenty minutes after their phone call, Begin ordered a halt on attacks. So what's Biden's excuse? The answer is he has none. We have a Democratic president that is now to the right of Ronald Reagan on Israel Palestine. And I say this not just because of his policies.  So this is why the timing of that tweet was so atrocious. Because as he's watching the Super Bowl comfortably and enjoying himself, Israel is making use of the weapons that he gave them at a time when Americans weren't paying attention. As this viral tweet put it, they bombed Rafe during the Super Bowl so no one would notice. This is a genocide. And this is a move that comes after Netanyahu promised safe passage to people there. Now you can see the desperation in this woman's face as she reacts to their bombing. And in Arabic she's saying, why are they bombing us? They told us this was a safe zone. They told us to come here. So why are they bombing us? But Netanyahu predictably broke that promise. Now there was an effort to rescue hostages but it came at an extreme cost to innocent Palestinians. The Washington Post reports, the Israeli strikes that lit up the night in Gaza's southern city of Rafe on Monday sent pulses of fear through the 1.4 million Palestinians for whom that strip of land has become a shelter of last resort. Israel's army described the overnight attacks as cover for a special forces mission to rescue two elderly Israeli-Argentine hostages. The operation succeeded freeing Fernando Simon Marmon, 60, and Luis Har, 70. The human cost was massive. At least 67 people were killed throughout the city, the Gaza health ministry said. A video from a house in Rafe showed the body of a Palestinian girl, her legs shredded into ribbons of flesh. Other footage from the city showed a bleeding boy being carried away and four more children dead on hospital stretchers. 164 people have been killed and another 200 wounded across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours according to the health ministry. The overnight operation in Rafe, a place that has largely been spared, this widespread aerial attacks and other parts of the enclave shocked a bone-tired population that has spent months on the move trying to outrun the bombs. And I saw the image of the Palestinian girl that they referenced whose legs were shredded into flesh ribbons and that's going to stay with me for a very long time. So many images have been burned into my mind and it's really hard to not think about. And for those not keeping count, 12,300 children have been murdered by Israeli forces and children now make up 43% of the death toll, meaning that Israel has killed more children than Hamas militants. And yet just a handful of American politicians have had the courage to call for a ceasefire. It is so difficult to not feel hopeless when you see so much apathy from politicians in the face of unfathomable pain and suffering. The fact that they don't care enough or don't have the courage enough to just say ceasefire is just, it's really blackpilling for lack of a better word. Now we often focus on the children who lost their lives, but the ones who survive, they're going to be permanently changed as well. And this was stressed by the chair of the UN Human Rights Committee and Skelton. No child should grow up in fear, pain and hunger. Yet today, no child in Gaza is free from fear, pain and hunger. In fact, they'll be considered lucky if they can even survive this war and have the chance to grow up. All children living in the Gaza Strip have lost their childhood.  Yeah, and this is something that we often don't think about. You know, it's great that as many people as possible are able to survive, but the ones who do survive, they're never going to be the same. And this terrorism is being paid for by our tax dollars.  He's not going to win over young voters by meming his way back to the White House. People want the bloodshed to stop. And until it does, literally nothing else he does or says matters.


The United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or Just World Press Day. Observe to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the rights to freedom of expression enshrined under Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Marking the Anniversary of the Windeck Declaration. A statement of free press principles put together by African newspaper journalists in Windeck 1991. Imagine what the...I mean I can't even imagine what journalism will be like without the press or how the world will be without the press because how do you want to know what is going on? How do you want to stay in touch? Why are you smiling like that? I think the town carers are still there. Really? But you know we can actually consider them the ones in the press now. Yes. I mean just forget about it. Have I ever been in a press club? No. I didn't like all those kind of things. And here you are today. Here you are only if you knew where I was. I've always liked things I have to do with my poetry skills and things like that. I could never have guessed that I had a knack for it. For me it was just...I liked maths because it was just for follow the formula. Actualy? You see all the literature.  Just like that. It's not really my thing. Oh hey. We are here not standing. All right May, what did you find for us in yesterday? Okay. I would like for them to pull up a video of a very, very lucky sheriff, a police man who was...he stopped a car and was conducting a check and another car you know rammed. He was able to see it quickly and you know we have to play it again. Wow. Saved by a set. Like you literally watch your life flash through your eyes.  I know right? Yeah. That's what I found. I've seen an accident like that before where there was this oncoming Shreya. I don't know if you are familiar with that Idorod coming from the mainland. And sometimes I don't know why they do that. Some guys drive one way. Yeah.  It had happened already in my imagination. And I just saw the guy swerve and he hit the pick. I usually have to stop the cars when I'm like that was close. Crazy. God save us. Okay. So two things that caught my attention in the news today. The first one was this story of Enya where he found this lady at Davido's concert. And he decided to invite the lady. I think he had gone out for dinner. But yeah. They went out for dinner. But now Enya has come out to say that he shared some pictures from their dates. And he said you all remember how he started to Sundays ago when I cited an amazing girl at Davido's Timeless Concert. She was eyeing me throughout my performance. I don't forget her beautiful smile. And I tweeted about it. Luckily Florence Rita said that her picture asked my team to reach out to her. And then he said his team contacted her. They made plans for her to come to Lagos. And he said life is too short not to spread kindness. He said he meant no harm whatsoever. And he put out a disclaimer saying that when he came back he went to Silver Jetty and spent the afternoon with her on the boat cruise. He said she's amazing. And he talked about how she has dreams of becoming an influencer. And how he got her an iPhone just to encourage her on her influencing journey. He said I did not bring her here for any other agenda. But just to make sure that she was happy after all that she's been through. And I think I was very kind gesture for him. And I really hope that. That's really from the crowd. Right? When is your turn? Well what's not going to get was eyeing me. And even if she was really. That's okay. That's completely fine. Yeah and then the second one. I've seen a lot of people talk about the Zenith apps not working today. And a post that was put up by Tech Cabal said there was a fire incident actually on it this morning. And he says that it has affected the primary data center which is now causing a network down time. I've seen a lot of people tweeting. And I'm using Zenith Bank again saying that they have started with their bank problems. But guys calm down.  And that's why they're having a network down time. As it is. So we might want to just cut them some slack. To be fair Zenith is pretty okay. A few times when the Naira Scasti when they had the glitch. But aside from any major issue. I'm not really to be honest with me personally I'll be honest. I don't think I've had that much issues with. I feel like you don't work on weekends. Like the card stops working from Friday. And then starts working on Monday again. But yeah that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the hats. And what the Naira Scasti said that the hat was actually from. Oh yes it does red right. That the hat is actually from the womb. So it's not even from when you're giving me a from the womb. Right from the very beginning the hat is there. And that's why we can't wait to actually talk about the healthy hat. How to keep your hats healthy. But then before we continue the conversation let's go to break C after the break.


Appalachian Wireless and Samsung introduce the Z Flip 3. The Z Flip 3 is an actual flip phone that when opened reveals a stunning 6.7 inch touchscreen for the best of both worlds. To find out more visit AppalachianWireless.com. We are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. A 10 inch water line broke in downtown Prestonsburg this morning resulting in damage to city streets and leaving at least one section of town temporarily without water. Mountain Talk News was first on the scene to speak with Prestonsburg Mayor Les Stapleton to find out more about the situation. At 10.15 ish we had a 10 inch water line break. It actually hooved the asphalt up. Here it is 11.45 and we're already uncovering it getting ready to fix it and getting ready to do the repairs and probably within three or four hours we'll be able to travel without any problems. According to Mayor Stapleton only one small section of town lost access to water as a result of the break. I don't think the only place that's not got water right now is from the Arnold Court Street intersection up to the intersection with Front Street and on Court Street which is right in front of Billy Rays. The rest of them have water. That's the only place the water is cut off right now. They've redirected and backfed some of it. Fortunately for residents Mayor Stapleton was confident that the issue would be resolved as quickly as possible thanks to the fast response of emergency service workers. Probably three or four hours we'll at least have it back where traffic can get through. The key to it is don't come down here and don't block it up. And we have a lot of people come stand and watch. We got equipment that's swinging and moving and we need to be able to have all this space cleared. We're working as quickly as we can. City Utilities was on it within 20 minutes. We had people on site. They got the water turned off so and you know it's phenomenal to have a group like City Utilities to work with. They'll be uncovering the pipe here in just a minute when they get the back truck here. They'll be repairing it as you can see over my shoulder where you could yeah the pipe on the truck there to getting off. That means they're literally getting ready to fix the problem. So you know we're just so fortunate to have such a great group to work with. Fire departments out here helping with traffic, helping to deter people and get them moving in the right direction. Public Works was here quickly. We just you know that's what we do. We react and we take care of it. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joshua Sloan.


Hello everyone, my name is Zarin Karazin, I'm a PhD student at the University of Washington in the Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering. Today I'm going to be presenting research done with my advisors and co-authors, Benjamin Mako Hill and Kate Starbird on governance capture in self-governing communities, a qualitative comparison of the CERBO correlation Wikipedia's. Some background. For about a decade, at least 2011 to 2020, a small group of far right editors took over the governance of the Croatian Language Edition of Wikipedia. It's meant that they installed themselves and their allies in administrative positions by rigging local elections, and they systematically started introducing far right bias, including fascist revisionism about World War Two into the project's article base. They also harassed and stamped out dissenting editorial voices on the project. After years of calls from local editors to the foundation to intervene, the situation started getting some media attention. Eventually, through the work of the local editing community, the offending editors on the project were removed. The Wikimedia Foundation published a retrospective assessment of the situation and confirmed that indeed this was a case of project capture where the project's mechanisms of governance were taken over by a few users in powerful administrative roles. The interesting thing about the Croatian case is that CERBO Croatian is a plural-centric language, and there are actually four separate language editions. In addition to the CERBO Croatian, there's the Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian. But despite similarities among these language editions, Croatian alone that we know of succumbed to this sort of capture, all of these projects to some extent faced vandalism and disinformation campaigns and things that are challenges for all language editions, but none of them quite had the takeover of the project's entire mechanism of governance that Croatian Wikipedia suffered. So the question that arose was why? Why did Croatian Wikipedia to succumb to the sort of systematic disinformation campaign when other language editions in the same language family did not? To answer this question, we conducted 15 interviews with participants who were familiar with the situation on Croatian Wikipedia. They were editors and admins in the local language communities, as well as contributors that were involved in global governance issues. This included stewards, as well as foundation staff members dealing with trust and safety. And based on our grounded theory analysis of these interviews, we arrived at these three propositions. The first was perceived value. Is the project worth expending the effort to capture? On this we found that Croatian and Serbian Wikipedia, the two projects that we compared, were roughly similar because they had both the sort of editing community where nationalist narratives would resonate because they were both tied to a particular national identity. And they were of a sufficient size that they had an audience that would be attractive for any sort of motivated actors to target with these sorts of narratives. But the projects then differed on in two respects that made Croatian really vulnerable and Serbian comparatively more resilient. The first was bureaucratic openness. How easy is it for contributors outside the core founding team of users to ascend to these local governance positions on the project such as becoming an admin? And we found on Serbian Wikipedia there was a deliberate attempt at the beginning to keep the project open, make it pretty easy for people to ascend to these positions, and that created a relatively diverse initial administrative team. Croatian instead became more and more bureaucratically closed relatively early on, which kind of created this core group of users that had pretty powerful positions on the project and also created an environment that was not very transparent bureaucratically. The second dimension on which these two projects differed was institutional formalization. To what degree did the project preference personalistic informal forms of organization over formal ones. So through our interviews we found that Croatian Wikipedia a lot of the actual governance discussions and work was done off wiki in a very non transparent fashion. And the primary way that people on the project ascended to these sorts of governance positions and that decisions were made about governance was through these personalistic informal forms of organization rather than more formal ones such as rules about admin power and rules about when users can block and when they can't. Particularly admins. So we synthesize these propositions into a conceptual model of risk that represents the varying levels of vulnerability that various Wikipedia communities have to capture along these different institutional configurations. So according to this, the projects that are actually most vulnerable to the kind of capture that we saw in Croatian Wikipedia are projects that have a really insular bureaucracy, and have personalistic institutions, and are relatively high value so particularly ones that are, for example, tied to a national identity. Some quotes from our participants. Croatian Wikipedia. A few participants described the system of governance on Croatian Wikipedia is very much like feudalism one former editor on the project said we have admins who behave like medieval Lords and we are basically serves. Serbian Wikipedia editors on that project described it rather differently. They explained that Serbian Wikipedia was is a bit larger the editing community is a bit larger than Croatian Wikipedia but they also have a little bit more diversity and polarization among different factions and there's not really any had ever gained an upper hand over the other so power on Serbian Wikipedia is was much more balanced than on Croatian. So what does this all mean for the over 300 language editions on Wikipedia. Well, the goal here is not to design power out of these socio technical systems. I really like this quote by James Grimman Grimman for example that highlights that doing so is actually impossible. He wrote there is no way to redesign the technologies of social software so that technical power disappears for the reason that it is the social power that gives the technical power its bite. But this study shows that both social and technical power can be checked, not necessarily by particular technical design choices but by these certain governance arrangements. And so a lot of focus on there's a lot of focus within the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as social media companies and other online communities on developing automated tools to help deter things like vandalism or fix disinformation issues. But these tools are rather limited in that they don't address these more fundamental challenges to knowledge integrity that are rooted in the that attack the very governance of these systems or rather their mechanisms of self governance. So more deliberate attention is needed to foster government governance arrangements on these projects that support more democratic participation and decision making. So future work in this for this project is going to involve conducting a quantitative study that empirically tests hypotheses derived from our three propositions across the hundreds of language editions on Wikipedia.


human architecture, broadcasting life, once again from three different locations in the world and we're still in the claws of COVID coronavirus. In addition to that, there is unfortunately out there at the west coast of mainland USA. I hope when the smoke at some point has gone away that we can go back to what we started to discover, which are courtyards Cabanas and we're on the ongoing search for the more proletarians. Let's get the first picture of three locations is back in Honolulu, Hawaii with you DeSoto. Hi, DeSoto. How do you do? How do you do? I'm good. But more importantly, don't we know our best friend out there? Yes, we certainly do and wrong. Oh, thank you. Have with us once again as we're feeling for a friend and business partner, Ronald Lindgren. Thank you for joining us and give us an update on what we see at the picture at the bottom right, which is what you see in real out there and what you smell in real. Well, wherever you your viewers might be viewing this program, bottom right is a picture of almost being able to see Los Angeles. Frankly, the city hasn't had such severe small conditions for 26 years. Indisputably, global climate change has led to drought, other weather and across the forest are parts and dry and they're very easy to ignite and to date, the fires have raised all across our state to the tune of 3.4 million acres of that's a little bit larger than the state of New Jersey. And as compared to last year, which was a bad fire season, it's 27 times larger than what burned last year. So what a calamity, tens of thousands of structures, entire communities, dozens of lives of all the North in California, Oregon and Washington State and at the same time firefighters and 14 other Western states are having to battle their own tragic wildfires. The picture on the left happens to be the view that I have in my home across the street to a nicely landscaped hillside. And my nightmare, of course, is that those eucalyptus trees on the hillside might become firework. Oh, boy. We have a top knot. Okay, let's go to the next slide. And while we already saw on the previous slide a lot of more nature than architecture or retaining wall, that continues here and let me share with you that my father's generation and the ones before, they were mid-century, they were amazed when all these images of the case study house series were watching ashore here to Europe. And it was majorly, again, this John and Tenza initiated program that was for Europeans just amazing. And so later on they were all combined into this publication by a German publisher that you had the chance to get to know in person to sort of write. Yes, Benedict Toschan, who is the head of the same, the company of the same name, who publishes an array of amazing art books, architecture books, et cetera, here's a book published by Toschan on the case study house series. Yeah, and the hand you see in the picture below that is Ed's hand at Killingsworth hand, where in the interview YouTube with Harvey Keller, he very proudly pointed out this book that he was very happy to be in. What was so refreshingly new for us Europeans was that we had until then more or less adopted our fellow islanders, the British Victorian house, which has an impressive front, but it's not always as equally impressive when you proceed through that front and get into the house. Americans with century have almost been turning this upside down and making the street funds very almost inapparent architecturally. And maybe you kick in here, Ron, what they were presenting itself, which we see at the very bottom left. You know, at the bottom left is actually my home. It's nearly concealed from you by, as you can see, trees, bamboo groves and other dense landscaping. And it turns with often civic and he was serious that most houses deserve to be concealed completely by landscaping. And we can even say at the bottom right, even the Frank house, which is one of the famous one of Ed's contribution to the case study house series by these more Victorian houses that probably would deserve what Ed was saying to become a flash, you know, by vegetation. So you don't see the Victorian approach, but tell us more about the case study house approach of keeping the facade so opaque and almost austere. What was the reason for that, Ron? It's just something to find that sort of architectural appearance to be the most elegant and classical because he was such a classicist. And so that is certainly the primary reason to find is that you don't spend a lot of your time trying to impress the outside. You live on the inside. You've got atriums and you've got court guards. Indeed. Ron, you want to talk about what looks like a T-shirt up there? The color of both things in the top middle. The upper middle picture, you know, an architect like Ed Tronsworth has really made his mark when his name appears on, in this case, some design merchandise. This is a striking example where the Royal Magazine, the very popular home design magazine, offered this graphic T-shirt for sale. The change with name, as you'll see, is emblazoned on it in very close to company. It's a design limited. These are great to be here. They play great and we use them to wear. I thought I'd see a T-shirt that had those names on it, like they were designer clothing names or something like that. What's wrong? Yes. Yeah, what I'd like to say is that we're talking about a colletarian version of what had now become extremely expensive case study houses to buy. The typical case study houses that have survived for 16 and 60 years are going for millions of dollars. But Ed's influence was so strong that home chapters were motivated to pick up all kinds of pieces from the Kingsworth House because they were so impressed and pick them in homes for people like myself, right at the proletariat. When Ed's older son, Ed, offered me this reflex for sale in 1973, I really jumped at the opportunity because, as I said, the contractor who had designed, developed and built the entire development that the house was in was really heavily influenced by Ed Chene's voice, iconic early modern residential architecture. As the old saying goes, imitation is the highest form of flattery. So in success, be creating an approximation of a chain for a home. The developer contractor actually copied some chains for features. I'll go through them rather quickly. As you can see, in the exterior, the home is a crisp, rectangular structure with flat roofs. There are exposed work columns and beams, which are a reflection of chains for structural expressionism. The interior spaces, which in my house comprise the tidy 1,220 square feet, had left over two stories between two solid sidewalls. So I've got visual and acoustic policy from my neighbors. This is one of Ed's tropes for doing many chains for houses in densely populated areas. The two bedroom, two and a half, both at home has an open plan. Only a second bedroom in the bathroom can be closed off by doors. Indoor outdoor living is achieved by access to two-story glass window walls, the front and rear prelaced courtyards. A great interest in terms of easy breezy is that that sort of living is achieved here by the inclusion of screen, adjustable glass levers in all of those doors, two-story walls and windows, which also occur between shaped prelaces. The home's orientation is absolutely ideal as the front elevation that we're looking at faces through south, it spits under 12 feet of shallow shading, but the rear elevation, which faces north, allows a flood of unshaded natural light into a two-story portion of the living room. One last comment, all interior doorways extend from the floor to the ceiling. And I guess I could also say that looking at these two photographs, Ed always wanted arrival experiences to any building to be memorable. So, you know, to a came to a special place. So, an especially memorable arrival experience is provided here by this garden walk, which runs its way to West Landscaping, to a two-story courtyard and an impressive pair of eight-foot tall entry doors, which makes moving furniture very easy. The closer one gets to these doors, the more architecture is revealed. At Yuzisoto, we call however the most extreme of that, the Frank houses, door being what, 30 feet run? 17 feet. That that that Boeing has to help out. And we're seeing here, well, you were sharing with us that that thing with a tall door, because he was a short guy. In consequence, we can see you being that tall guy. This door here probably isn't that tall. That's probably why.  And also up on the upper right, it's wonderful again to see one of his earliest houses, the Uptall House of 1953, which I think created the finest sort of driving sanctuary between two solid walls that they would ever manage to create. Oh, this might also be time just to jump in quickly to talk a little bit about the fact that Mahon doesn't stand by itself. It's we're in a very well planned and handsome community development where several hundred people live. It's located along an old roadway cul-de-sac. It's before 1968 was a one eighth mile horse racing prank display. So when the horse racing left in 68, the road was built where the prank track was. There are 40 buildings, every one of which contains new plus living units placed around and live in that oval. And the one and two three units that have a lot of gable roofs are all designed as courtyard homes, I repeat, courtyard. Each has a garden entrance, such as the one that I'm standing in front of. And also have an interior courtyard as a private after a room. The developer and designer provided four standard plans for the deep tanks, all of which emphasize open interiors are in their upper living. And they were all facilitated by floor to ceiling fixed glass and sliding glass doors. Because all of the homes are built of common wood framing plastered, they all share similarities of an exterior appearance and that helps to foster a sense of community. In the magic of the 1960s, only the Bucke's houses are all electric homes. And in that same spirit, they don't have any backpubs, only showers. Community at each end of the other roadway, one building site has been left open for us to create parks, lawns and show trees. And pre COVID, they were actively used for picnics parties, especially for playing with children's and dogs in the grass. And you can go to the inside. Take us on and slide over your house now. Make a slide. Yeah. Yeah, kind of. Yeah. Yeah, I would say one thing about that last slide, we need to get back to it, but it turns a little bit, of course, would have added some kind of water feature reflecting cool or something to heighten that experience. That was a bit much for a little contract just to swell up. So what I didn't in lieu of that was place a whole line of statues, Buddhist and Indian videos that I picked up over the years along the garden walk to provide that interest. But the picture they were now looking at, I did have two shady courtyards at grade, which I use all the time. But originally, I asked exposure to the same. So myself, I created a south facing terrace on the roof of my one car garage, my home was two high or the interior living spaces, but the garage up front was one story. And I asked that access that we've talked to a new door from my study, which is actually a second bedroom. But because of the often searing intensity of this southern sun exposure, it seems that this picture shows a basically all artificial. The terrace is finished with artificial grass and which that last year is close. The growth of six artificial trees all eight feet tall and to the left, a cascade of artificial lines from the strip of plumber boxes. And those plumber boxes sort of remind us of the picture up in the upper right, where such plumber boxes were used by my design partner and good friends, Larry Stuker for the original Ihi-Lani hotel. It's a great effect. And almost every other Killing's Worth project, the planted troughs are really a signature feature of the Killing's Worth body of work. Indeed. Next slide. This terrace, which I've affectionately dubbed the Hymian Gardens of Lingon, is a spot for me to sunday at noon and also spend a lot of time in those cooler early morning and late afternoon hours out there reading. And as one who really is interested in furniture design, especially mid-century modern furniture design, I've got the classic Richard Schultz shades to the right. But there I am sitting on a reproduction of one of the Leap Jean's chairs, an English designer of great fame who in fact made his reputation from his work in Australia. This is a very classic garden chair. And next slide. This pine shade with outdoor space is a rear walled courtyard. And nicely enough, the contractual at the end of which shade stretcher over it. That constant movement of those striped shadows that this creates in the livens this garden room and this is yet another feature shared with Killing's Worth really homes in an office building. So you want to mention something about wall houses? Exactly. And when I look at this, it's a real architectural feature and one of the really strong elements of this is, as you said, the moving shadows, the very strong contrast of the shade and the light. But this really comes from a utilitarian structure, a lap house, which was built. And it's a traditional thing that's been in use in a lot of places for potted plants. And by having this stripy roof open, alternating, open and closed spaces, you cut the solar radiation by 50% for plants that cannot be in the full sun all the time. And so while it was meant to grow plants in the Killing's Worth vein, it really is a feature, as you said, of some of his structures that turns into something that not only cuts on down on the solar heat and radiation, but it's a real feature of the Killing's Worth appearance. Yeah, we're working for people might as well work exactly well for for plants and vice versa. Right. But talking talking creatures who we see a new acquisition of yours at the very bottom right, share us who that is. Oh, yeah. Now, the bottom right picture is those again, oh, the contractor in very adulation of Ed Killing's Worth architecture has its own structure, columns and beams. It just happens that my latest acquisition of interesting deities is a Buddhist bodhisattva playing a flute, and he's joining me up there on the Hanging Gardens of Lundra. I might say also that at the at the upper right is an example of Ed's perhaps finest use of trellis ceilings over two story gardens, and these were providing views and privacy for workers in a very slim, two-story, all glass pavilion. And adding to your collection of plastic furniture, obviously here is Tara Batoira's wire chair, but you're also very collegial to to a Californian colleague here in the back right. Yeah, my house is kind of a showcase for those you're made by just about everyone that has been paying for furniture, everything from beams to all of those core brew chairs, these tables you name it. But out here in my real shady courtyard to the very left is a kind of a twisted form, which is a side table by the Great California, at 20 years. And it looks like a miniature version of what he's famous for doing in full-size buildings. Yeah, here's just a building and just twisted. There you had it, a twisted side table by the way. And man, at least your hammock there, right? That's like the ultimate lounging in a great comfort patio. Yeah, that's that's the one radius of post-COVID times. Yep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, next slide, Ron. Yeah. The. At the right is probably the most elegant outdoor room, again, covered with covered by 50 percent by the space with jealous members. And this very elegant room was entered from a single front door surrounded by water. That was 17 feet tall and only the Boeing Aircraft Company could actually make it. But to the left was a fragment of a statue reproduction that I'm showing. And it sort of actually shows that the Hindu concept of an angel on the left as being a voluptuous dancer really contrast sharply with the Christian notion that all angels are sexless beings wrapped head to toe in flowing roads. Yeah, and outside you can see beyond the sexy angel is that same. I have all of the advantages of indoor outdoor living in a colletarian structure designed and built by a contractor that people have very luckily in a real killing for the homes. Yeah. Yeah. While in the Frank House that that trellis is too story above you, you only have it one story above you in the outdoor living room. But yes, go to the next slide. The version has something that the Frank House has, which we see here, right? What a luxury. Now, here's the view of the two story portion of the living room. In fact, the second half of a 40 foot wide living room which we didn't see on the left is just under the open master bedroom. But you can see that there are four vertical sections of glass. The two outside are fixed glass, but the two inside all the way from floor to ceiling consists of adjustable glass louvers, clear glass louvers. I can reach up to them with a special tool that I was provided with the house to open them even up near the ceiling. And when you do open the ones up near the ceiling, you get natural convection. Again, more of that breezy, breezy of living. And to the right, I have access to the second floor where the bedrooms are located, two bedrooms, by an open spiral staircase with teeth threads and it leads to a bridge which in turn leads into a way to go rather less than the bedrooms. You can see that that bridge is actually wideness and I could finish it with the James recent walking chair, which is another great place to read. But notice, too, how doors, both access doors in the center and a closet door on the far right, all run from floor to ceiling. And this greatly adds to a sense of spaciousness within my house. Absolutely. Next slide. Yeah, here I've had great luck of taking many business trips, sometimes solo, sometimes without feelings or sometimes with other partners. You know, like portions of Southeast Asia. And that's where I fully encountered Buddhist and Hindi culture. And I was so impressed by those artistic traditions that I brought home that were always very serene, sculptural images of their many deities and their mythical creatures. And so I've displayed in the garden settings, as you see here. To the left is a building. To the right is a Chinese goddess of mercy, a Buddhist deity of Kwan Yin. And they also used first inside the house all of my home's interiors in cleaning the garage, which doubles as a gallery filled with Japanese group reproductions. So the home has been a wonderful opportunity to add interesting art that means a lot to me all throughout the premises. And what I like is that they that they are both inside and outside, which really emphasizes that this is an inside outside living space. Yes. And we got a rush. So let's rush through the last type of courtyard on the next slide, which is the third kind of time. I'll say quickly is that I have outdoor access to both my front and rear gardens. I don't have to go to the house and drive, you know, hoses and driving equipment. And it's through a walled linear courtyard. Oh, and that garden sculpture, again, in terms of being cold, is actually made up of five stools that are about a wall mark that I just got from each other for about a couple hundred dollars. And getting a ceramic landscape piece of sculpture like that cost thousands of dollars. To the right is just a quick view out from my entry garden and looking out across the street. You know, I personally, I find that only the combination of graceful architecture and the less landscaping that the contract is first provided and I added to and maintain only that has provided me a true home and a refuge. And if we go to the last slide, I also want to say that gardens and my roses are a healthy bond for myself, especially in these times which are shared as if I need to remind everyone with a deadly pandemic, brutal manifestations of global warming, a vicious selection season in the United States, an extreme political partisanship. So why in the lower rising corner am I smiling out at you? Well, to end on a more positive note that all being true, because you're sharing with us something that will survive this and will help people to stay literally and figuratively cool in courtyards. I think the achievement of your houses, Ron, is huge because the killings worth avant-garde that is so exquisite and excellent was brought to the masses, made it mainstream. And you know, we were talking before the show, besides the so you remember Pule Circle, which is a rare example that we have to do a show about in Hawaii that hasn't been so much the case that really the mainstream has tried to live up to the same exquisite excellent standards than the super avant-garde. Right. So with that, we that reminded us of the topic of the next show because there's one developer who had made a business model out of that and his name was Joseph Eichler. And we want to share our thoughts about that and encourage you to join us. So that being said, until then, please, as said, please stay literally and figuratively cool if possible in your courtyard. Thank you, guys. Thanks, everyone.


Meet Jerry.  Jerry's iPad used to last all school day, so he could do things like practice spelling words, study vocabulary, and make movies. But now he barely makes it to lunch before having to recharge his device. Is this normal? If not, what can we do to fix it? Apple says the lithium polymer battery that's glued inside each iPad is designed to retain 80% of its original capacity, even after 1,000 full charge-discharge cycles. Jerry's battery is getting less than 50% of its original 10 hours, so what's gone wrong? There are several things that Jerry might have done to permanently decrease the battery's lifespan. The worst thing you can do for your battery is subject it to heat. Heat degrades a battery's performance, so don't leave your iPad in a hot car. You should know that charging your device while it's inside a thick case may cause excessive heating too. Some people take off the cases before charging to keep their iPads cool. Jerry always keeps his iPad near room temperature, so heat didn't damage his battery. What else might have caused it? Well, neglecting your iPad can decrease its battery lifespan. Believe it or not, lithium polymer batteries need exercise to stay healthy. Not going through a charge-discharge cycle monthly can make for an unhealthy iPad. Jerry uses his iPad every day and sleeps with it at night. He charges and discharges his iPad's battery many times a month. He's not neglecting his iPad. Batteries can be harmed if they are stored fully discharged. If an iPad isn't going to be used for days or weeks, it's recommended to store it at between 40 and 80% charge. Jerry could not bear storing his iPad for that long. He uses it every day, often passed when his iPad warns him that the battery is low. So what's the cause of Jerry's decrease in battery capacity? Well, it's his habit of using his device until the battery is below 5%. Completely discharging a battery can cause irreversible harm to it. To keep from diminishing his battery's lifespan further, Jerry should charge his iPad when he notices his battery has dropped below 15%. Unfortunately, the damage done to Jerry's iPad cannot be reversed unless he has an Apple, Technician, or some other technician replace the battery which costs about $100. Jerry's plan is to save his allowance and buy a new device. He'll remember these tips for keeping his battery in tip-top shape.


It was fun to be at the Vail Scientific Summit again this year. I was here last year and this year I had the chance to provide an update on our work with the telomere, which is the timekeeper of the cell. The work that we're doing now is work directed toward extending the telomere so that we can rejuvenate cells, extending the lifespan of human cells. What we're going to use that for this year, we're working toward improving cell therapies. So we'll be making our first clinical product this year, clinical grade telomerase that we can use, that RNA we can use to increase the telomere length in cells for improving cell therapies. Cells need to be able to be adaptable, to be able to adapt to a damage, to be able to adapt to an injury, to be able to adapt to a pathogen, and that ability to open up the chromosomal material and access it, access the information and make proteins that the cell hadn't been making previously is important for cellular survival, or a change in the cell phenotype that's important for healing. This has been a great meeting for me. I think I've met even more people this year. There are people with different tool sets. I have a tool set, they have a tool set, and we can, by talking to each other and sharing experience and expertise, I think that we can do something better. The scientific community now, team science is what is required to make transformative discoveries. So I'm meeting people here that I'm going to collaborate with, and maybe next year we can talk about those collaborations. John and Yord puts on a great conference. He is a great scientist himself, so he knows who is in the field is doing good work. He brings us all together. That's one reason why this is such a great conference, because you have someone who's organizing it that understands what the important questions are in the field, understands who is addressing those questions and how he might put those people together in a conference that leads to some insights that are unexpected, leads to some collaborations that are new.


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