Hi, my name is Veljika and I'm an actress based out of California and I make acting related videos all of the time But today I mean it's still related to acting because we worked so much on acting things and my channel Which is about acting but today I'm gonna talk about how I worked with a life coach And how much he has helped me with productivity with acting and my channel and work in general any work that I do So I wanted to share him with you in case you guys also are looking for a life coach Or just to hear some of the tips that he did give me as well but I don't talk a lot about mental health on this channel because it's a sensitive subject to me and I have struggled for a few years with some you know mental health related issues and I Was taking steps to be happier and be better and be more productive and Justin appeared in my life in such a great Moment and helped me out so much So today we're gonna talk to Justin talk about my experience with him how he helped me what his other services are in case you would like to hire him and In general, we're also gonna give you a few tips So if you aren't financially able to hire him, you'll still be able to get a little tip here and there So let's talk to Justin. My name is Justin Chowl. I'm an actor and I'm a certified oolah live coach I love working with actors and people of all shapes and sizes and I've been doing it for about three years now But an actor now for about Ten years and I love it. I love what I do. So we know each other from Acting of course in the Bay Area I was really needing some kind of help now that I was going to be working at home alone And that's something that I struggled with so much was being home alone for some reason and not having human interaction So on Facebook put anybody want to be my accountability buddy anything and then Justin commented I jumped at the opportunity because I know how difficult it is Running your own business being an actor in this pandemic and when it's what it's done to us I like to use the phrase solitude versus isolation It plays tricks on your mind and so your coaching request was really very simple. It was accountability I want somebody to hold me accountable. I need accountability We all do and it's something I'm actually really good at I think You are very good at keeping me accountable when we were working together We would meet for 15 minutes. Sometimes it would go over a little bit. It was really helpful to just know Okay, every Wednesday, I'm gonna meet with Justin. I'm gonna tell him, you know, what's been going good What's been going not so great and then you would give me some really cool things that I still use to this day So great. What do you use? What do you still use? So I still uh sing put on a song Where I film a video to get my energy up because I used to struggle a lot with not feeling like doing something And it's just because I've been sitting on a computer for five hours or have been sitting, you know Just moping and once I get to singing and I listen to that song and I'm setting up I have so much energy and I'm strangely so much more inspired just by doing that physical action and then The three things so when we were doing it together You told me to do it on a postcard a postcard, um, which I don't have anymore because now I do it on my planner Yeah, and on one side I would write the goal and on the other side I would write the three things that I could get done today to um go towards that goal funny enough I ended up ordering a 2021 planner and At the top they have my game changer goal and it's three lines So it's funny that it's like exactly what you were telling me But now because this is what I I tried to journal a little bit give my ideas now I do it on here and those are some small what seems like small exercises But it helps me set up my day to be really productive every day It's like, okay I just got these three things and those three things always turn out to be something that make me feel good because I'm proactively working towards a specific goal and it keeps you specific and you can look at them and grow And this is a great way to actually see what action steps work and what don't work A lot of times we just do what to-do list and it gives us anxiety because we don't know what that to-do list is tied to It's not tied to a goal or a specific outcome So a lot of people feel lost when they write that to-do list doing your action steps tied to your goal Can actually focus you now That's the key word that I use with you is how do we focus on getting what you want? And this this little no card is backed by science It's why it works so well with people is because human beings often over complicate everything and this boils it down to Let me look at it visually and let me every day remind myself what that goal is when close friends of mine Tell me they're struggling with something. I always say, okay, what little thing can you do today? To make that matter, you know So I'm I'm even sharing the love of what you taught me with my close friends whenever they're struggling with something Because I don't know where it happened But now I love being home alone and being productive and filming videos and work on acting and on my youtube channel So it's like me, you know, just a few months ago and even years ago because I've always struggled with being home alone Now I I just feel so much better when I'm alone and I'm what was the shift What was the mental shift? Because there was a mental shift What was the mental shift? I could tell you can I tell you Yes, please tell me The mental shift I believe was you started being grateful for actually being at home when at the very beginning It felt like a curse. It felt like we're being restrained and isolated But when you start to feel the value of hate, this is my time. I get to peel.  That's so true And gratitude yeah and gratitude towards myself. I've always had family roommates boyfriend around and You know learning to live alone or learning to simply be in a space alone has allowed me to come back to who I am Like the happy person that I actually am and liking me and not needing to be around other people And needing to please other people like a lot of the things I do of course connect with people You know actually to my channel actually casting me for whatever I am now doing these things because First I like them And then they just happen to also, you know, incorporate other people. Yeah, thank you I'm so happy for you. One of the big questions I get on the weekly is so what is a life coach? How is it different from therapy? What's a consultant? What's a counselor? And I'll just tell you the basics between a therapist and a Life coach therapy is often based on the medical model. I diagnose you it's often based on the past The phrase we use is therapy takes you from suffering to baseline. I just want to feel myself again I have these relationships. I have hidden trauma and therapy is really effective for people I was in therapy for quite a while a life coaching is taking you from baseline to thriving Why are there certain things in my life that just aren't happening in college? I had all this energy, but now that I'm working in the professional world I feel like I don't have any balance in my life Certain things are going well, but certain things are not so a life coach is somebody that holds you accountable You don't need a degree. Although I am certified. I could have done it without a certification It's really about holding somebody accountable. There's also the critic now some of us grew up with critics in our lives Legalistic parents who said these are the rules you follow or else and critics often break us.  We don't know what to do with it We become people pleasers trying to get their love a critic often hides a coach needs to be vulnerable I share my pain points. I share my mistakes and I actively watch somebody not to make perfection But to make progress and there's the fourth category, which is a consultant now a lot of businesses hire consultants You can hire a consultant to help you make money A consultant uses for acting even for acting even which which uses a very analytical way of Measuring success consultants aren't bad.  There's no real relationship there. It's all statistics now Some people do need a consultant, but I would say most people Need a coach coaching can help you get from a to b quicker And they can often hold you accountable and see the things that you're missing. We don't diagnose people I often refer people to therapy. Hey, you're going through something and I'd love for you to talk to so and so I also don't criticize my clients. It just doesn't work Judgment never works if I have somebody that is a drug addict and is struggling. I don't say your drugs are bad I say, okay, let's work on why you're doing this and how we can get you out of it So those are the basic differences as an actress working with an actor It was really helpful because not only do you know how to like coach me as a life coach But you are also in the shoes of an actor if I was struggling with let's say my self-tape auditions Then you could relate and you could also, you know, give me tips on like, hey, like, you know I've actually been using this app to fill mine. You you you can try it if you want, you know Little things like that are also helpful and I had never worked with a life coach and you felt like I mean, you are a friend, but you felt like a really good friend that happened to be, you know, supporting me and just, you know, being like, hey, you're doing great And when we went through all of the things that I had done the goals that I didn't meet the goals that I did meet And all of that that was really helpful because I would not have done that on my own I could think about oh, what did I even do, you know In 2020 the way the questions that you gave me and the way that you allowed me to think about it Was really helpful to process and to have gratitude towards the things that I did do Thanks for saying that I really appreciate and working with you is great One of the reasons I love working with actors is actors inherently need to be generous and they need to be good listeners Now when I work with non-actors sometimes I'll do a session for 30 minutes And they didn't pick up on anything because they're not really listening. So I love Yeah I love actors because Actors just in general are running their own business I say that they're running gun CEOs of their own business and they need help. I need help I know the pitfalls of actors. I know FOMO Imposter syndrome, I don't feel like I'm enough and those things can wreck your energy a few years ago I hired a life coach. He kept me accountable. I was telling myself I'm a great storyteller, but I wasn't necessarily doing all the work The commonality between those four groups is they all measure something But the metric system for each is different. The metric system for coaching is very simple What are your action steps? If that's so, yeah, so I use caring kindness and Serving people that's essential. That's something that actors and coaches have in common My job isn't to take from you. My job is to give you as much value and to serve you as much as possible Do you want to talk about the discovery call and how other people can get in contact with you? And if somebody else wants to work with you how they can do that? Absolutely. So a discovery call is not a sales call I'm not pitching myself to you if you want more information You can go to my website just ask justin.com and there's a little email there. Just send me a message What a discovery call is intended to do is number one figure out your pain points number two Are we going to work well together and number three time? How much time do you want to spend on this? I don't accept every client within maybe five or ten minutes of talking to someone I can almost always tell if we'll work well together. Some people just want a counselor They just want somebody to listen and that's fine, but that's not what I do I'm a coach and this is why you are great to work with I'm adamant about the person being ready Now when a person doesn't know what they want, that's a problem. So a discovery call is just that I'm trying to discover What is it that you want and how far are you willing to go? It usually takes about 20-30 minutes I ask a series of questions and we go from there during our first meeting you asked me about my goals And I was like justin I got them. I got specifics. I have dates. I got them, you know And and also I completely agree with seeing if you can work well together because when I was looking for a therapist In I think 2019 I felt bad meeting a therapist and then being like sorry We don't really work together. That's something important that I I didn't know about is like don't feel bad for telling people You know, you're not a great fit for me because there's other people They're going to be able to work with just like auditions when somebody doesn't cast you It's not personal. Maybe you are not you don't have a right hair type or the hair color Right and that's high level maturity. It's not personal You just have to find the right person the right energy for you Because you can waste a lot of time talking and trying to get somewhere Six months go by and you realize I don't really know what I did here I've definitely felt that the therapist I currently have is my fourth therapist And I love it. I love being with this person. This person keeps me accountable She asks me great questions and she doesn't push me in a way that I don't want to be pushed Right now I'm specifically looking for more actors. I love working with actors I think actors don't need any more agents or managers. There's a lot of training out there What actors need I believe is learning how to be comfortable in their own skin They need to learn how to run a business Um in my certification program, we talk about the seven Fs fitness finance family fields faith Friends and fun and a lot of us don't know how to put that all together So when I coach people I look for all these things and if you go to my website There's actually a free test that you can take. We call it the oolo wheel 100 free This is how we measure where we are in life on a scale of one to ten Where would you say your fitness is on a scale of one to ten? How are your relationships family on a scale of one to ten friends a lot of us sacrifice friends I can't go to that wedding. I can't go to that event. You're doing that on the weekend I got to do this self tape. I got to go to rehearsal. Sorry I used to be something we used to say before the pandemic, right? Sorry I'm in rehearsal We sacrifice a lot, but there's an expense to that sacrifice time energy So I think loving actors being an actor myself. I'm looking for actors to coach discovery calls are always free and my packages are pretty I don't want to say cheap, but but um Barely Barely priced. I love that. Yes How can I help your page? How's your page doing? Um, how can I serve and get the message Out there. I think you're running an incredible page. You're seeing Actors actors who aren't we don't really that's actually great advice. I saw your subscription number I think you're almost at 9 000 way to go Yeah, but you have a bigger goal. What's your big goal? My goal for the year was going to be 15 000 But Justin was like, come on. Let's let's do it a little more So my goal for 2021 is to get to 20 000 subscribers And my channel is to help other actors and show them how I'm doing it So I you know, whenever I get an audition opportunity Something like that. I share it with you guys whenever I know information I share it with you guys I want to be a place where I can honestly give you all of my experiences and my opinions in this industry And hopes that you can have that information more easily and less filtered. I really enjoy sharing You know all of my experiences and information I like this being part of my acting career because I talk about acting so I connect the two worlds and I'm really enjoying it. Can I ask one more question? Yes How hard is it putting a video together? Because I don't think people who don't do this know It's it's hard. It's not easy. You're not just filming and talking You're putting it together editing it lighting it creating a storyline Time-wise I would say each video might take me six to ten hours on average But every once in a while I'm I struggle with you know making sure that all of the information's in the video So every once in a while I'll film it a bunch of times and then I'll edit it a bunch One of the videos that I published earlier this year. It took me 20 hours to edit I know Because I kept you know needing to maybe make it a little shorter It still turned out to be a 30 minute video But that video took me so long coming up with ideas is I really love it But then after the ideas you want to do research and you want to learn or I want to learn as I'm making these videos I I know this much what more can I learn to share with everybody and to learn myself Editing is a lot of work filming sometimes even on bad days when I I don't feel so great Videos can either make me feel worse because I'm like I can't even film a video today And a lot of the times they make me feel better because I know I'm going to be Sharing information with people that is going to be helpful and in the action of creating is something that I love So it's a lot of work, but it's a lot of love and a lot of fun Thank you so much Justin for coming on my channel You guys should definitely go check out his website and see if you can work with him because I really enjoyed working with him As an actress, um, he he just helped me out so much in everything But thank you so much for watching at the end of every video I feature another channel This is today's feature if you would like to be featured on my next video make sure you're subscribed Leave me a comment and like this video


So, Shutterstock just released a new contributors profile page that has some surprising new features. One of them could get you more stock buyers as followers on your social media. In this video, I'm going to walk you through how you can use these new features to get more photo sales from your portfolio. First off, if you're not familiar with what the Shutterstock profile page is, it's a public page on the Shutterstock site that you can customize. Now, they just released a new version and you can take a look. This is what the old version looked like. And here's the new version. So, as you can see, the new one has kind of a more modern look and feel, but there's also some kind of key changes in what's on the actual page. Now, the first big change is that now you've actually got a tab for your videos, so if you do sell videos and photos on Shutterstock, this can be really useful. I don't have a lot of videos up on Shutterstock, but I can totally see how if a buyer was interested in some of my photos, they may want to also go take a look at my videos and fights versa. So I think this could really help some people who have a lot of photos and videos get more sales on Shutterstock. There's some other small changes that kind of make the profile page look a bit more like social media. You get a longer bio, so you can write a bit more about yourself.  But I'm not sure if these are actually going to translate into more sales. However, the biggest change, the one that I really want to talk about is that now they're allowing you to link to your social media sites as well as another link to your portfolio, which could be your own website. Now, this is a pretty big change for Shutterstock. They've never really allowed you to do this before. So the reason this is surprising is that Shutterstock and most stock photography sites see themselves as like a middleman between stock photo buyers and photographers, right? So they don't really want to give up their competitive advantage by allowing the buyers to easily figure out who they're buying the photos off of because they don't want the buyers to go directly to the photographers. And then also they make it really difficult or impossible really for the photographers to figure out who's buying their photos. So this is really a change in thinking. And to be honest, most of the people that use Shutterstock really use it as a search engine, right? They use it as a search engine to search for photos on many different photographers' portfolios. So there actually isn't a huge risk to Shutterstock for the buyers to go to directly to the photographers in most cases because most of these buyers want to be able to search across multiple portfolios. So, but that's not the way they've thought in the past. This is actually kind of forward thinking to them to realize that this is the case and because of that, being able to link to your social media from your profile page. Now that being said, it's been my experience that there's certain types of stock photography buyers that are going to want to follow you on social media, right? Now, like if you think about someone, let's say someone goes and searches for landscape photos Canada, right? And they're doing that for a specific article they're writing and they need and they go and they purchase a photo. Well, that person isn't likely going to think, okay, well, I'm going to need more photos from this photographer and go and look at my profile and maybe follow me on Instagram. However, let's say there's a real estate agent and they're looking for some photos for their social media and they go into Shutterstock and they find me. Now, they're in my area and they may find some photos in my era. So for those particular people, what I found is often what they will do is they'll go and they'll try to find me on social media like on Twitter or on Instagram and then they'll follow me, right? Because as I publish more photos, they want to be able to see them so that they can go in and purchase those photos because they need an ongoing supply of photos of their area. So I do find that you do get those types of followers on social media and when you get them, as they see photos they like, it does turn into more sales because it'll drive people back to your portfolio and buy them because they're seeing them more often. So before this profile update, it was actually pretty hard for the buyers to come and follow me. What I did was I actually put a little note in my bio that said if you want to find me outside of Shutterstock, search for souvenirpixels because I have souvenirpixels.com and that's an easy way for them to find me because I know I'm going to be number one in the search results, right? But now, if somebody is searching on Shutterstock and they see something they like and they want to follow me, they can just click on my name, which will take them to my profile and on my profile, it links to my Facebook page and it also links to my Twitter and my Instagram and my LinkedIn. Although I don't post a lot of photos on LinkedIn. So it makes it much easier for them to find me. They can also go in and look at my profile page and they can actually link directly to souvenirpixels.com where they can actually purchase photos. And they could purchase photos that might not be up on Shutterstock. So it might be worthwhile for them to go in and check this out. So again, this is just going to make it easier for them. I'm really looking forward to seeing how many people actually go through and click these links. But I can see getting some stock photography buyers that are Shutterstock customers becoming followers on my social media.  I know a lot of photographers kind of go back and forth on whether social media is worth it. There's definitely people that you post on Twitter and you can have like 100,000 followers on Twitter and it translates into zero sales because they may just follow you because they like your photos or they like your style, but they never purchase a photo because they're not actually stock photo buyers. So those followers, although they're good for getting you more followers like that and getting you more likes, they don't actually translate into much revenue, whereas stock photography buyers that go on there and there's people that do this, there's people that have to buy photos and they need fresh photos all the time. They'll go and they'll, in their Instagram, they will follow photographers who photos they may want to purchase in the future. And I would much rather have 100 stock photography buyers following me on Instagram than 100,000 people that just like my photos, right? It's great and I love to share my photos and I like when I get the likes, but I like it more when my photos actually get used for a commercial purpose and I get a bit of revenue from it.  If they click on the link to your Instagram account from your Shutterstock profile and they get to Instagram and they see that you haven't uploaded any photos there or you haven't uploaded a photo in a year, they're probably not going to follow you because people want to follow people on social media who are active on those social media platforms. So if you do want to use these links, you do need to make sure that you're uploading your photos to Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all the link sites that you have there so that people want to follow you. Now, if you've been following this channel, you know that every photo that I upload to Shutterstock, I also upload to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. And the way that I do that is with the website that we've created, PhotoLoo. So what you can do in PhotoLoo is when I upload a photo to Shutterstock, I can also upload it to all the other social media sites all at once. I don't have to go in and upload the photo everywhere. So this really saves me a lot of time. Now, if you're interested in what that workflow looks like, you can look at some of the other videos on the channel or you can just go in and sign up for a free PhotoLoo account. I'll put a link up here somewhere where you can go and do that. Now again, if this is your first time to the channel, make sure you subscribe. If you found this video useful, make sure you like it. Best of luck selling your photos online.


Hi everyone, thanks for joining us. I'm Taylor Smith, part of the Bridge Crew team, and I'll walk you through a demo of the Bridge Crew platform and its integrations across the development life cycle. Before we dive into the demo, I wanted to give a quick background on Bridge Crew. DevOps is moving at breakneck speeds. In our digital-first economy, agility is key. Development teams are measured on churning out features and traditional security can't keep up. This has moved down the stack to infrastructure, where developers can define their infrastructure as code. Developers iterate fast on IEC templates, but these templates are often insecure. This is evident in open-source templates. Nearly 50% of AWS modules in the Terraform registry contain misconfigurations exposing organizations to attackers. In just one of those templates is insecure, it often includes hundreds of resources. That leads to an overwhelming amount of alerts for security teams and an intrusive level of tickets for developers. We're here to solve that. Bridge Crew empowers engineers to secure infrastructure amazingly fast. We call it codified security. Bridge Crew identifies misconfigurations leveraging our library of hundreds of policies, source from compliance frameworks like CIS, and from community of open-source contributors. The infrastructure as code scanning is performed by our community-supported open-source tool, Chekhov, with additional features and runtime capabilities in our Bridge Crew platform. We automatically identify misconfigurations and infrastructure as code templates and at runtime. We present fixes in the form of suggestions, pull requests, and commits backed into your development pipeline in an automated playbook for issues identified in runtime. And we create guardrails to prevent misconfigurations from making it into your deployments. This creates a proactive rather than reactive approach to addressing misconfigurations. This automated full-life cycle approach enforces policies early and often via integrations across developer and DevOps stacks. Bridge Crew integrates with IDEs, continuous integration tools, repositories, ticketing, chat, and cloud environments. This creates a powerful feedback loop that increases the likelihood of misconfigurations being repaired. We do this for Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Helm, Azure Resource Manager templates, Dockerfiles, and serverless framework, as well as in runtime for AWS, Azure, and GCP. The result is better infrastructure as code templates, more secure cloud workloads, and less noise for security and development teams. Now for the demo. I'm going to walk you through the flow of an infrastructure as code development and deployment and show how Bridge Crew secures cloud infrastructure at every step. From bridgecrew.io, I can access the signup page, or I can go directly to bridgecrew.cloud. Here you can sign up for a free community account that comes with a 14-day trial of the full platform, no credit card required. Sign up through any of these SSO options, or use your work email. I already have an account, so it'll log me right in. I'm going to start with a demonstration of our CLI based infrastructure as code scanner. Checkoff is our open source tool that underpins all of our infrastructure as code scanning. If I run checkoff-l, you can see hundreds of policies that are included out of the box across template types and providers. Running a scan of a directory or file, in this case a Terraform template, will check for all policy violations that are relevant to that template type. The scan runs completely locally. Here you can see I passed 10 checks and failed 21. For example, here's where checkoff identified that instance metadata service version 1 is enabled and that a template includes a hard-coded C-grid. All of this is free and open source. If I run the same scan with an API key and it available for free with a bridgecrew platform, it will reach out to the bridgecrew SAS platform. You'll see it a link at the bottom. This will take me to the code review in the bridgecrew platform, which I'll be going over in a bit. Next I'll show our VS code integration. You'll need to include the API key from the bridgecrew platform. Then checkoff will scan any open template to identify and flag all misconfigurations in the code you're writing. This is an example Terraform repo. Notice that in the three files I've scanned, it's picked up on 45 policy violations. I'm going to add a new template that will create an S3 bucket. First I'll start a new branch. Then I'll add a new file and fill in some HCL. Immediately checkoff will start scanning for misconfigurations. Here it's identified 7 misconfigurations in my new file. Selecting quickfix will provide options to add skip commands, comments, or automatic fixes. Using this quickfix will add the HCL to encrypt the data at rest. Notice the new code added. I'm going to revert that code and commit this new misconfigured bucket to my GitLab repository. Git add, Git commit, Git push to origin. Here you can see the merge requests I just created from that commit. And in here you might notice some of the comments. So I have 7 infrastructure configuration errors identified by Bridge Crew. And this bot automatically comments on each resource to say what are some of the issues identified. So we have a low severity issue about a storage issue. And it's that ensure the S3 bucket has logging enabled. If I scroll down here you can see some more that are low or high. So I should probably prioritize this high misconfiguration. And what I can do if I pop over to the Bridge Crew run for that merge request, you can see those same misconfigurations. Now what I can do from here is I can actually do a fix back to the merge request. So this will create a commit back to the merge request. And let me just do one here. So I'm going to add this encryption by default to the S3 bucket. And I'm just going to ignore the other six misconfigurations. So it's completed. Let's take a look down here and hit refresh. And now you can see that this commit was made on my behalf. So if I open this up and see the changes, here you go. Here's that encryption added automatically. Back to the commit. No problems whatsoever. Now back in the Bridge Crew platform we have our projects page. And the projects page is an aggregation of all the scans across all of my different integrations. And if I open up the integration that I just did with GitLab, you can see all the misconfigurations in the Terrigot repository. Now let's look for the one you can see here that I can filter by owner. And this is using Git Blame. So it'll be the last modified person who last modified that resource. So John was the last person to modify this S3 bucket. And I can filter by category. So I can filter by storage or secrets, severity level, and tagging. And then for each of these resources we include some additional detail that's very easy, that's very helpful, like the bucket name, the ACL, if there are any additional features turned on, tags, and related resources using our graph backend. So this is one dependent C, as well as a resource history. From here I can also create an automatic merge request back to the repository. So if I create a fix automatically, then it will open up a merge request on my behalf with the change automatically. So here's an example right here. It will remove these lines. So if I do fix and submit, it will remove those lines in a pull request, in a merge request, back to GitLab. And once I've done that, I can open up that merge request and accept it automatically. And so it fits into developer workflows, that simple. From here I like to move into the CSPM capabilities that we have. And that's because it's important to have both build time and runtime security. I wanted to show off the integration page to reiterate the different integration options we have, as well as how simple it is to add an integration. For example, to onboard a cloud account, simply select the cloud provider and choose add account and launch stack. This will automatically add a read only stack in your cloud provider to gain visibility. For AWS, you can also add a stack that performs corrective actions on your behalf using the remediation stack. Onboarding your cloud account takes just a few minutes. Once onboarded, the resource inventory view will provide a full inventory of your cloud resources. On the far right column you'll see all the errors identified and updated periodically. You can filter based on resource types, accounts, tags, network access and encryption. Or you can use one of our predefined queries. The predefined queries are for low hanging fruit. For example, unencrypted databases and storage buckets. Next to the resource I can select the number of errors and the violation that will take me to the incidents page. The incidents page lists all of the identified misconfigurations in a central location. Each incident includes all resources that violated the policy in build time and run time. I can directly create a JIRA ticket that includes the details about that misconfiguration for my developers to fix. The resource will include an HCL representation of the misconfiguration in an audit history for that resource. If I have a remediation stack deployed, I can perform auto remediation to fix that misconfiguration in my cloud environment from this incident page. The final screen I wanted to share is the dashboard. This provides a summary view of all of the cloud resources as well as your posture measured against major benchmarks. Many of these charts are interactive so you can quickly filter to find more information. You can monitor your cloud security posture over time. You can sign up for Bridge Crew free, no credit card required, and it comes with a 14-day trial of our full platform. Thanks for joining this demo of the Bridge Crew platform.


Good afternoon. My name is Representative Jill Kroinski, and I am the speaker of the Vermont House. And I'm Senator Becca Ballant, and I am the President Pro Tem of the Vermont Senate. Thank you all so much for joining us here today as we reflect and acknowledge a shameful time in our state's history. The policies and practices of eugenics on certain targeted populations. The eugenics practices inflicted incredible amounts of pain and suffering to many families, friends, and communities. And while eugenics practices and policies are no longer in existence, the impact in the legacy deeply remains today. For those that were directly impacted for their descendants and for all the communities involved, we cannot undo the trauma that this moment has caused. But we can start. We can start by formally acknowledging this dark period in our state's history. Today, we publicly apologize for the legislature's role in ever allowing this to occur. We are sorry, and I am sorry. As the speaker said, we know that we cannot undo the harm that the eugenics movement caused to so many. But as the current leadership of the Vermont General Assembly, we take responsibility for the actions of the legislative branch. And we commit ourselves to making sure that this never happens again. This is a moment for grief, but it's also a moment for growth. When people think of the eugenics movement, many think of sterilization. While the devastating practice of sterilization was part of the eugenics movement in Vermont, there were other practices and policies that also caused great suffering. The faulty science and the social thinking of the time sought to create a, quote, better society. And while this thinking was not held by all Vermonters, elected officials were able to push forward with these horrible practices. They wrongly and tragically believed these policies would have a positive effect on Vermont. Policies that included restrictions on who one could marry. Policies that removed children from their families and segregated them into places like the Brandon Training School. Policies that forced the removal of adults from their families and institutionalized them. These Vermonters who supported the eugenics movement thought we should only welcome people to our state that they deemed to be superior. Those who met certain racial and class qualifications. It is difficult to reckon with this awful, painful history. So many of the people that were impacted by the eugenics movement were harmed in the name of science. Our indigenous communities, French Canadians, persons with disabilities, and low income families were removed and placed into institutions in what many scholars claimed was needed in the name of science. The language that was used during this movement to describe these Vermonters was so reprehensible that we have chosen not to use it here today. And while some may feel like this was a moment in our distant past that is far from reality. And we know that individuals impacted live in our Vermont communities today and that the groups that were sought out during this time live with the stories that have been passed down from their families and friends. When we had conversations over the summer with impacted communities, one of the things that stood out to me was the relief that a formal apology was finally going to occur. For a long time it was never certain if the organizations including the legislature would actually take action and apologize for the harm that so many experienced. Hearing their relief only reinforced for me the importance of us committing in this effort during the legislative session. But it was also, it was a deeply sad moment knowing that people were never sure that the pain that had been caused would ever be recognized. The joint resolution that we passed in the legislature this spring would not have been possible without those who have been impacted coming forward to tell their stories. Testifying in the legislature can be a nerve-wracking experience. And having to relive past trauma in front of strangers is incredibly difficult. We know that it took a lot of courage. Some testimony we heard mentioned the fear that was felt in communities about being erased from history. We know that many of those who came forward including some of those I see here today have worked on this public acknowledgement and apology for a long time. We could not have done this without your efforts, your courage and your commitment. The eugenics movement is a shameful part of our state's history. And although the process to pass the joint resolution may have been imperfect as a lot of our legislation is, it is still critically important that we recognize the wrongs of the past. We as Vermonters must sincerely apologize for the trauma and the harm that the state has caused. This event reminds all of us that we must continue to strive for a more equitable Vermont. We still have work to do. We know that we do. And we have to make sure we're careful and thoughtful in any legislation that we take up. And we can only meet the needs of all Vermonters if we include as many voices as we can in the legislative process. The chair of our General Housing and Military Affairs Committee, Tom Stevens, who is here with us today was a critical member in supporting this work through the Vermont House of Representatives. When we discussed this resolution in our virtual chamber, he presented a powerful floor speech. And there was one part that sticks with me when referring to the apology. He said, What is it? What does it do? And why are we doing it now? An apology is both an end and a beginning. And it's an acknowledgement of what we as a General Assembly supported, long held and practiced policies and that those policies were harmful and that the harm it inflicted was likely serious, widespread and enduring. It stands out because I do see this as an end and the beginning. We can truly begin the work to build more trust, support communities that have historically not had a voice in the legislative process or in our communities, and we can continue to collaborate on positive actions to uplift voices from all our Vermont communities. In our conversations throughout this summer, there were many wonderful ideas that were brought forward on ways we could move positively into the future, such as promoting indigenous art and culture in more public spaces, making the legislative process and language we use more accessible. Continued the work to reach out to communities that have historically not had a voice in the legislative process, preserving the apology in the State House for visitors to see and so much more. I believe we can work together and use this moment as a way to move a more hopeful future with greater opportunities for all Vermonters. I am also hopeful that today's public apology will bring this time in our history to the attention of more Vermonters and lead them to read more about our past so that we all can learn from it and know we need to do all we can to be thoughtful with the laws we create in the future. Thank you so much for joining us here today. We have copies of the resolution available on the table in front if you would like one. Thanks again. Please be well and stay safe.


The e-commerce world has been changed and there are 5 critical things that you should know during the coronavirus outbreak, how to sell at the right way on eBay, stuff that any dropshipper and e-commerce seller should know right now. I will show in this video which products should you sell during this period of time, the right policies that will help you during this period and how to work at their best way to keep your customers happy, give them the best experience and increase your rating on eBay search algorithm. Hello everybody, so most of you already know that Amazon and a lot of suppliers increased a lot their shipping time. Amazon even released an update about the coronavirus where they say that they're right now searching for another hundred thousand employees who will help them to fulfill all of their orders and to maintenance their fulfillment centers. What's happening now is that Amazon is struggling to get new products into their fulfillment centers and also to ship products, but the main problem is to get new products into their warehouses. So how does it affect us and what should we do right now to handle this situation at the best way to give our customers the best experience and keep our rating on eBay increasing and getting better and better. So let's see. The first tip that I want to tell you is about the handling time that you should put on eBay. While Amazon is increasing a lot the shipping time, for example you can see here for example this product is normal, while if I go to another product, for example this one, so the date now is a 23rd of March, March 23rd, while this product shows that it will arrive on 21st of April, while this product is fulfilled by Amazon which usually takes just two days. So actually what does it mean? So it means that actually we should increase our handling time a lot to keep with this policy of Amazon, but that's not the right thing to do. It will release an update sometime ago about this that they will help sellers to, that they will support actually sellers during this period of time. I already released another video about this that you can find under this video and they say there that they will not change, it will not affect your evaluation if you have slower shipping than your policy because they understand you and they want to support you. So how can we use it to help ourselves? What I recommended to do is to increase your handling time a little bit, but not too much. And why say this? Because we don't want to give our customers too bad customer experience, but still we cannot increase it to 30 days because then we will not be promoted on eBay and also it's, it always changes and not only by products but also by zip codes. You can check on Amazon and you will see that for some zip codes the shipping time is much faster and for others it's very slow because it depends on the warehouse, on the city and on the location of the warehouse because part of the warehouses for example in New York a warehouse was closed and then shipping to New York for products that were in this warehouse will be much slower. So what we recommended to do is to increase the handling time a little bit just to give yourself much more time to find the best products and to communicate with your buyers but not to handle the whole period of time because remember that it will not affect your writing anyway. The second tip that I want to tell you, by the way, about this one I will show you soon what should do to let your customers know about this problem so they will not be frustrated and will not leave you any negative feedback and you will even get positive feedbacks. So the second thing that I recommended to do is to go to AutoDS and increase if you go to Amazon settings increase immediately the maximum shipping time here to 30. Even if you have the prime checked here you still need to increase it to 30 days because of products like this one for example on Amazon where the shipping time is super long. By the way it can come with some many different variations for example here we'll see in stock in April here you will see usually ships within six days while all of them are shipped by Amazon. So as I said you just need to do what you need to do is to keep AutoDS not sending your products to out of stock change the maximum shipping time here to 30 days so products may not go to out of stock and still as I said you will not have any problems on eBay. Tip number three what I recommended to do is to go to orders processor messages to buyers and add here on the first message an explanation about the situation. Tell to the buyer that hey I know that you bought and it's so the shipping time will be X just to let you know there may be some delays because of the situation I hope that you understand we appreciate it and this is our name. Very short message very clear and very easy. Everyone will understand you remember this buyers know what's going on in the world everyone knows this I don't know anyone who didn't hear about what's going on. Everyone will understand you and this is the situation in the market everyone does the same so it's not a problem to tell your customers and your buyers that the shipping will be delayed and that it will take some more time it will be even better for you because it will give your customers better experience better understanding on what's going on and it will decrease your customer support. Tip number four as all of you already know you cannot sell these type of products on eBay during this period of time so what you can sell on eBay and what I recommend you to sell. So for sure you should not sell things for traveling nobody and no one goes to travel now right but things for home things for kids things for family all this stuff people will continue to buy and even buy even more right now you can see on our Facebook group that I posted there about the graph of auto DSS right now and it has a peak actually it's a record of sales that we ever had why because everyone stays home and everyone keeps buying but you just need to give them the right products so adapt yourself to the situation right now and give them the right products to sell to buy sorry products that will help them during this period of time to stay with kids to make fun with the family all this stuff works really really really well right now and the last tip that I want to tell you right now is to people who work with Amazon accounts usually you put here on for Amazon pending orders limit one there is one huge problem with it right now remember that Amazon has much higher shipping time and handling time which means that all your buyer accounts will stack with one pending order on status order for a long time because of the delays on Amazon so what you can do is one of the two options the first one is just to create more accounts and the second one is just to increase this number I hope that this video helps you stay optimistic stay safe still healthy keep growing and sell more and more because now it's the best time for e-commerce I know that it's hal time but for you as sellers the facts and the results show that now people get and the most says that they get until now record sales so I really recommend you to keep growing and keep going also now you stay home so you have time again stay safe I wish all of you a lot of sales and good luck see you in the next videos bye bye


Good evening, everyone. My name is Akol Agwek and I'm the moderator for today's forum for Barrington City Council, Ward 5. We have three candidates this evening who are contesting for the seat of Ward 5 for the City Council. The candidates are Ben Traves, Farid, Munasia, and Lenora E. Traves. These are the three candidates who are contesting for that ward. And I will go ahead and read the ground rule. First, the candidates will have one minute opening a statement and then all candidate will have two minutes to respond to questions. There may be questions from the public, in which case we will take those, all candidate will be given the opportunity to respond to question from the public. Each candidate will be given the opportunity to ask a question of the other candidates. All candidates are allowed 30 second rebuttals. Candidates have 30 seconds closing comments. Questions. I ask the moderator will select from the following questions as well as take questions from the members of the public who will call in. Again, the priority is given to the members of the public. When they call in, I will take their questions and you will have the opportunity to answer those questions. So without further ado, I will go ahead and start the forum right now. First of all, it will be 45 minutes. We will stop at 6.15 exactly. And so let me begin by asking the candidates, each one of you will have two minutes to explain, to tell us why you are running and what will be different for Burlington if you are elected. So let me begin with the way the candidates are listed. Ben Travis, you have two minutes to go ahead. Well, thank you, Nicole, and thank you to TownMeetingTV for hosting this forum. I've always appreciated TownMeetingTV and the great service that it plays for our community. Hello and thank you to Lenora and Fareed as well. Looking forward to the discussion tonight. And thanks for everyone who's tuning in either live tonight or I know this will be recorded. So if you're recording this, thank you for watching. My name is Ben Travis. My family and I have lived in Burlington for most of this past decade. I work as a lawyer downtown. But the focus of my life is on our three kids. I am my wife. Our oldest Lola is a six-year-old and first grader at Champlain Elementary right here in Ward 5 on Plain Street. Our four-year-old Jack and our seven-month-old Zoe attend preschool here in Burlington. I'm running because I believe our city council needs to recommit itself to vital local issues. The lights we turn on in our house, the water that comes from our faucets, the roads, sidewalks, bike lanes we take to and from work, the parks we play in with our kids all depend on effective local government. I believe our city council again needs to recommit itself to these issues. I'm running for city council and listed on the ballot as a Democrat, but I'm not entering this race with political bias or agenda. My goal is to approach the city council as a fair-minded consensus builder, working with others to cut through political divisiveness to make progress on issues that matter to our community, like affordable housing, affordability, public safety, sustainable infrastructure. I'm looking forward to discussing these issues tonight, to introducing myself as a candidate and talking a bit more about my experience in the community, like on our neighborhood planning assembly, our parks commission, and our housing board, and look forward to a good discussion with Fareed and Lenora. Thank you, Akal. Thank you. Exactly two minutes. Fareed, you have your two minutes. Thank you, Akal. My name is Fareed. I've lived in Ward 5 for most of my life, 25 years now, and I am running as a volunteer for an electoral project aimed to revive direct democracy, to strengthen it, and to expand the mechanism and the culture of direct democracy in Burlington. I think Burlington works best when people are able to participate in making the decisions that impact our lives, and I believe that there's a critical need for us to reform how these processes are. We are famous and have a reputation as a progressive city. Everybody thinks it's like Bernie's, like hometown, but I feel like what makes Burlington great has been weakened, and that is the participation of its people. If I win, like the city council, I don't think, honestly, there's not much going to be any difference unless some of these fundamental changes are applied, because the city council, even when all 12 of them agree or I think it's already challenging, and so I think there needs to be more participation by regular people, not just people who can afford to pay attention, and so we hope to enshrine some of this rights for us to participate in decision making in our city charter that needs to be updated, and so that's what I'm hoping to do. Thank you so much, Farid. Exactly two minutes. Lenora, your two minutes. Yes, good evening, everybody. I am Lenora Travis, and I am running for city council for award five. I've lived in Burlington, Vermont for five years since I came to this state and followed my younger son here. I have two sons, one served in Afghanistan. He is still stationed in New Jersey, and my youngest one chose here, so I'm glad he did, because I found that I love it here. I'm running on humanity and for infrastructure and affordable housing, and to find other places and other outlets for our displaced people that are here in Vermont to go to and to feel safe. I feel that infrastructure is also a very good, important thing. We see a lot of that going on now, which we are very glad to see taking place, even though it can be a nuisance for a lot of people going out and about and having detours and things, but I want to stay focused on mostly the people because so much has happened here since this pandemic, and I was walking around yesterday with a friend of mine, and you see so many places that are no longer there. I pointed out Mirabelle's and a couple places on Church Street and the candy store, and so many people lost their businesses, as well as some lost their place to live, their job. So many people have been affected, and the pandemic brings us closer to a reality that we need to build on what we have and do better and try and pick ourselves up after this devastating battle that we have gone through with COVID and financial situations. Thank you. Thank you so much, Denora. Now, let me go ahead and ask questions. The first question is related to what is related to your opening statement, which is to say, what is your experience? What experience do you think bring you to bear that make you qualified to be a Burlington City Council member? So let me begin with you, Denora. I'm going the other way. You have two minutes. Yes. I think that because the personal experiences that I had a challenge with when I first got here, I'm someone that moved here from North Carolina with a plan. I had been in touch with Seven Days and found a place to rent and packed up everything I had and came across from North Carolina, upstate New York, and right over into Vermont. However, the place I was supposed to have rent fell through. The gentleman had a problem with the closing on his new home, so he couldn't move out and I couldn't move in. So I think my experience that led me down to where I was spending so much money on hotels and still trying to find a place to move into just went down a dark place and my son and I both wound up looking for places to stay. So I know what it's like to be on the streets in Burlington and the outsideing areas, looking for services from people, churches, other facilities that are open, like winter, cold weather exceptions, when we would be able to get a room because it was so cold that they didn't want anybody outside. I've experienced all that and having to look places to go to Red Door Church for soup and sandwich on Sunday to take a shower and then get back out into the elements to fight ongoing procedures of trying to find a place to live and be settled in this beautiful state. Thank you. Thank you, Lenora. Ben, your two minute, what qualification do you bring to this job? Thanks, Nicole, and thanks for that, and so Lenora. I think lived experience is really important and Lenora, you and I had a chance to speak before tonight and I really value the lived experience that you're bringing to this discussion. For me myself, let me first talk about my experience as a dad of young kids. We don't have a whole lot of folks in the City Council right now who have young kids in the Burlington school system. As I mentioned before, I got two young kids in child care here. We are living the struggles with finding affordable quality child care in Burlington. My first grader should be perhaps one of the first classes to move into a new high school. Our city needs a new high school and like a lot of parents in Burlington, I am personally invested in making sure that we get a high school that is deserving of our community and that is deserving of our children. I'd like to also talk about my professional experience. I'm an attorney, I'm a lawyer. Chip Mason is currently our Ward 5 City Council and he's the only lawyer on the City Council. He served well on the Ordnance Committee. The Ordnance Committee doesn't do a whole lot of glorious work, but it does really important works on the nuts and bolts of how our city works and operates and I think a lawyer's perspective, a legal perspective is really important to that and I would be more than open to following in Chip's footsteps on the Ordnance Committee. And finally, community is something that really matters to me. I've always worked to find a part of my life to get back to the community. It's why when I was a renter living in the Five Sisters neighborhood, I joined the Burlington Housing Board of Review to help tenants and landlords resolve security deposit disputes. It's why after I became a dad, I joined the Parks Commission of which I'm now the chair to be a better steward of our outdoor spaces and it's why I've spent five years on our neighborhood planning assembly building more open inclusive spaces for community dialogue. I spent years working with and hearing from neighbors and developing a deep understanding as to how our city operates and I think that experience will really serve me well as a City Councilor. Thank you. Thank you. Farid, you're two minutes. I'm over 18 and I live in Burlington so I'm technically qualified to run for City Council. I think, you know, these kind of questions always bother me a little bit because I think it's great that Ben is running and it's great that Lenora is running. I think like the question like we should be asking is how can we, you know, include everybody? How can we allow participation from people who actually care? I mean, obviously like at least now we have three people who care. You know, I really value like Ben's like expertise and knowledge and all his work in the community and I do think like Lenora, I'm so glad like she's also in this race because we need to hear what she has to say and I think, you know, I believe my experience like lately especially is that it's been frustrating to see such a, you know, innovative community, such a creative community, such a caring community that gets, I would say like that but like the government is not really taking full advantage of what we have to offer because right now the limitation is, you know, we go to election and all we get to choose is like just one person to make all these other important decisions on behalf of the rest of us. It just can't be that one person could be, you know, have more qualification to represent 5,000 people or so. I feel also I've experienced like disappointment in like the turnout for elections are so low. So I think there are, and we have some proposals that the campaign that I'm a volunteer for, we have some proposals, concrete proposals to improve the system so that it becomes more participatory for everybody. Thank you Farid. So I will continue asking questions so that the members of public can hear your position on those. Question about taxes. How do you respond to the valid item requesting a raise to the city tax rate by 4% this year? I will begin with you Farid. I would hesitate to support like any new taxes. I feel like the budget is like something that's like so disconnected from for me and like I don't feel like I know enough about it. I feel like, you know, like I don't think, you know, there's any way for me to influence the budget of the city. But it's a very important document. It's a very important process that I feel most of us feel excluded. I would say I would not support any increase in taxes until there is some really critical like reform in the way that we set our budget because I do think budget is a moral document. It basically outlines our values. What do we prioritize as a community? And right now it's not transparent and it's not accessible to most people. I think the city could do a much better job in educating us. They could also do a much better job in soliciting input from us and inviting just regular people to participate in the creation of the budget. I think there are many municipalities who have implemented a participatory budgeting process. We don't have to turn over the entire however many millions the city budget is currently at but we could start with like a portion of it that we could allocate to the different neighborhood planning assembly. For example, for a process that's more participatory so that when we understand what the money is being used for and there's more discussion of that because it is our money. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Farid. Lenora, you have the floor for two minutes on taxes. Thank you. I do agree with Farid. I'm sorry if Mrs. said your name. I do agree that taxes is something that we shouldn't even be thinking about right now raising taxes. There are so many people that had so many personal damages with their income and their business. Like I said since the pandemic which has controlled a lot of things that have happened in our lives. Everything is more expensive. Food is more expensive. You know everything on your daily basis is putting more money into gas is more expensive. Everything has changed and it's like to ask somebody to be susceptible to raising taxes by four percent I believe it is. I think would just be a struggle for people that are already struggling. I don't see any sense in that right now so I'm totally against raising the taxes on people that are trying to get by one step at a time every day. Thank you Lenora. Ben, you have the floor. Two minutes. Yeah. Thank you very much. So I think in answering this question and it's important for us to first be mindful that a lot of folks especially in the south end and Ward 5 already had a property tax increase this year as a result of a property reassessment in my opinion did not follow best practices. Folks in the south end really throughout the city but I would say especially in Ward 5 in the south end a more undue burden has been placed on them and they've already had property tax increases this year so we need to keep that in mind when we talk about any matter that's going to increase taxes especially since with increased assessments on the Ward 5 any future property tax increases are going to have all that more undue burden on those folks whose assessments were increased more. The city has a lot of federal funds available to it right now this is not something that's always there so I would encourage the city to do everything they can to use those ARPA funds on projects to avoid are having to increase taxes. The reality though is that inflation alone requires an increased budget to keep our city moving forward so I don't I understand the question is posed to us that do we approve of a 4% tax increase but I think what's important is for us to focus on where that 4% increase is coming from which is the capital bond that's been put on the ballot for 20 some million dollars and I'm concerned because there's some really vital topics in that bond like for example we have some fire trucks that are off the road right now because it deferred maintenance our fire department's communications equipment is a couple decades old and they don't even make replacement parts for it any longer. These are really vital items that are supported by that capital bond I don't think we can put it off any longer so while I'm reluctant and don't like the increased property taxes I will be voting yes on that capital bond. Just before I move on if I am very clear let me just put this forward Farid said no to the increase in taxes Lenora said no to the increase in taxes if that's that's what how I heard you can correct me Ben can you go on record and say you are yes or no? Well if you look at the ballot call there's a couple different questions that have to do with taxes one of them has to do with the school budget but if you look at the language it actually involves potentially a decrease in taxes but it looks like up to six and a half percent the ballot measure on the capital bond does not talk about an increase in taxes so I don't know what the net gain necessarily will be I think the appropriate question here is whether or not we support the 20 million dollar capital bond and the answer to that question is yes I do because of the really vital issues to our community that are in there. So for the record for the members of the public that I will take it is it fair to say that you are saying yes? Yes I support the capital bond and I would encourage neighbors to support the capital bond as well. Okay thank you I thought I want that distinction to be clear. The next question is about the COVID-19 or the COVID right now and it is basically what are the biggest challenges facing the city right now as a result of COVID and how can the city council address them? It is you Ben two minutes. Yeah so this is the issue that we're dealing with I feel like the pandemic has stolen two years of our life here coming up on the two-year anniversary and I know more people who have COVID right now than at any point during the pandemic again as a dad of young kids including two kids who unfortunately cannot be vaccinated yet because they're under five I'm really aware of the challenges that the parents in particular have been facing with the pandemic not only because of their own kids getting COVID but also because of having to quarantine with close contacts and school closures over the last couple months or so. We also obviously have a lot of frontline workers, educators, health care workers who have been going above and beyond here and I want to continue to give a nod to them and thanks to them as a community but because so many folks are coming down with COVID now or having to quarantine or having to stay home to care for their children you know my biggest concern right now is that that has folks having to forego work opportunities either to take time off from work or to forego an opportunity to work all together and the reality of this is as I know the other candidates here know all too well is that it's put too many of our neighbors in further food insecurity it's made housing all the more unaffordable for them and so I think the city and other partners need to do more to address those issues and just finally if I could say one thing I call I really appreciate Lenora's comments with respect to how COVID has impacted businesses I think that we need to do a whole lot more to support our businesses in getting through this pandemic. Thank you thank you we are running very short on time Lenora you're two minutes. Yes I do like I think I made this statement earlier I do believe that COVID has basically taken all of our lives hostage they're so limited at what we can do and where we can go and it has just basically turned everyone into trying to survive whether it be a business you know kids in school or college students or people in their homes my grandbaby her great grandmother got COVID at 81 and it was devastating to know that you know the one daughter had to take off work so she could go and stay with her mother because at that time this is when it first started that at that time they weren't having people come into someone's home because of the epidemic being so bad so it's situations like that you know that people are looking after their elders you know they're looking after other people around them in their neighborhood and stuff trying to get people to you know to step up and take care of each other because sometimes the hospital can't do everything they're not all you know they're all in the neighborhoods watching over everyone so I do think that you know we need to step up and really stay focused on what good we can finally get when this is behind us like building back up our businesses seeing that so many empty places on church street are no longer empty they'll of course they'll be replaced by things that we liked being there but to boost people's morale that you know we can afford to do things like I said affordable housing and to get people off the streets and to get people into a place where they feel safer we feel safer because right now there's a whole lot of hostility out there and it's leading to bad things happening because people are frustrated short-tempered and just outwitting themselves they just don't know what to do so they make the wrong choice and it affects all of us so it's not just COVID it's everything that's happening because of COVID and our lifestyles thank you thank you Lenora Farid you have the floor for your two minutes I think a lot of the challenges that we're seeing they've been going on for a while even before the pandemic and obviously things like the housing crisis also inequality the fact that people are having to choose between paying rent or and buying food I think that has been going on for a while and the pandemic just brought it all to a peak and and I do feel that we know the pandemic has taught us that we you know we are on as a community we are only as strong as the most vulnerable among us the pandemic don't really care about your class background or your partial affiliation or any of that if somebody is vulnerable that means the rest of us are also at risk so I feel like there's a lot of challenges but I also see a lot of opportunities that the pandemic has brought us while we've seen the limitations of our municipal government the community has risen up in response to fill in this gap you know we have the mutual aid groups that are meeting the needs of people directly and people are just helping each other I do feel like the isolation that the pandemic has imposed on us that could be really stressful which is why it's so much more important for us to have a connection to the community and I think we are adapting to that I do think we need to really let everybody participate in making all this decision because the city government they're limited and as we see like our community is more than capable of stepping up and taking care of one another so a challenge but also hope and opportunity thank you thank you I will keep going because as we want to express in as many questions as we can before we're running out of time this the next question is about racial justice where do you see opportunities for addressing racial justice in the city and how will you use the city council seat to meet this challenge Lenora you have the floor two minutes I don't think it'll take that long I want racial justice you know the progressives and stuff to be voted out I think that I am a meteor I'm just meteor and I'm just you know I get frustrated sometimes when I you know things are going in in that direction so it's kind of like I just I don't have a whole lot to say on that I'm sorry thank you thank you thank you for saving time that racial justice yeah thank you so first of all if I'm elected city council I think it's first important to acknowledge that as a white man I've had certain privileges in my life that others don't and that I need to acknowledge that the lived experiences of many of my neighbors have been very different than my own so my commitment is first of all to approach every issue through the lens of equity and inclusivity and to do the best to the extent I can to put myself in the shoes of all my neighbors and looking at these issues if the question is where do I see opportunities for addressing racial justice from my perspective the answer is everywhere and we talk about it a lot in the context of public safety and rightfully so given historical bias and policing but we also need to talk about racial justice on other issues COVID for example and the disparate impact it's had on communities of color you know I serve on the parks commission and we talk about it all the time with respect to where and how we build our parks inclusivity and city programming and city staffing issues related to affordable housing affordability tenant rights and the disparate impacts of cost of living transportation issues all touch on issues of racial justice and I will look at all these issues through that lens thank you thank you Ben Farid you have the floor two minutes I see opportunities even closer to home in Ward 5 when I attend the NPA meetings for the neighborhood planning association assembly which is the way like we can plug in as an individual and have like our our voice heard and be participate in decision making about our city so when I look at the NPA for our word honestly like there's maybe two or three times where I have seen another person who's not white and that's that's concerning because I know like our our ward is actually changing in terms of demographics so we have definitely a segment of the population that aren't being heard that aren't being included and I do think there is a lot that we could do there to make sure that people feel like they matter and and it's not like necessarily just based on race because you know like the barriers if you if we address like some of these barriers to to participate it will it will have to address like what when like there are like various limitations for in general for working families it's you know like there's all kinds of challenges that make it so the people who are we are listening to who are making decisions were being empowered are not are not really like the majority of of the residents in this ward which are you know like we're mostly renters we're mostly working class people and most of us can't actually afford to attend any of this meeting so there's a lot that we could do there thank you thank you thank you the next question is it might be it is about the policing and community safety what is your opinion on the recent appointment of Chief John Murat what is your vision for community safety and how will you support that as the city counselor then you have the floor yeah I mean obviously this has been the issue that our community has been talking about here at the last couple days and rightfully so over the last couple years and when I talk to the community and public safety I hear a couple main issues one is how can we continue to address historical bias in policing and the other is how can we best keep our community safe and unfortunately I don't think we can answer either of those questions until we bring much needed stability to our police department I'm really frustrated that our community has gone nearly two years without a permanent police chief even though the city council broadly supported increasing our police officer capped 87 officers the department has continued to struggle in recruiting and retaining folks this has resulted in the elimination of really important positions like that dedicated to domestic violence victims or our community affairs and staffing shortages have placed unsustainable strains on city employees other emergency responders and community partners you know what I'll say about John Murad is if the mayor intends on appointing him clearly there's more work that needs to be done if he's going to secure majority support of the council so whether through a search committee police commission or other public forums I would suggest to the mayor let's have more community dialogue so we can hear from and learn more about Chief Murad and I would also suggest to the mayor to continue to work with city counselors to see if there's room for compromise to see if we can make progress on some other policing issues like independent oversight of the police department or alternative public safety resources to see if there's collaboration in a deal that can be made for us to get a permanent chief and bring some stability to the department sooner rather than later thank you Ben Lenora you have the floor yes I do agree with what Ben has just stated that you know we need a chief police it's been too long I can't remember I was going through my head a few days ago when's the last time I even saw a police officer walking up church street and normally they were always visible you could always speak to them and you know know that they were in your presence but apparently that I've not seen that in some time now and I believe that a police chief handles a lot of situations and we don't just need more police officers we need someone to step up and be in control of the police officers and the community and everything that goes on that's why it's so vital that we do have a police chief it's just you know so many things are happening and it's something that I just couldn't even imagine I mean I grew up in small towns and in the south where we had our sheriffs and our chiefs and stuff and everything I was like I can't believe it's it's two years now so it's yeah somebody's really gotta you know people have to really step up and figure out that we need this is something we need this is not you know this is a necessity thank you thank you thank you Lenora Farid you have the floor your opinion on the appointment of John Mira. So I don't think we know enough information about what happened there in terms of like that particular appointment because I thought they had worked out the compromise and somehow at the last minute it was off the table but I do think public safety is important and I think we need to start addressing some of the issues and policing is only a small part of that and I think it's a problematic part of that and the BPD now has it didn't just start two years ago it has lost the trust of the community in terms of like it's from its leadership and also I do think there is an unhealthy relationship between the mayor the chief and the police officer association we now have had more people killed by the police in the last decade compared to any time in Barlinton's history there is something going on there that that we need to address I do think that accountability is very important any government official we should always expect accountability especially the ones who are empowered to take lives ones who are empowered to use violence and I think we need to start while the police commission do its job and they will negotiate with the BPD and put in some needed reforms we need to also think about other ways that we can ensure public safety and it just can't be at the expense of justice I don't think stability while sacrificing justice is not really safety at all so I guess my other time thank you thank you so much we are just six minute left so I will quickly squeeze in this question for one minute and then you each of you will have closing a statement and that is about housing what needs to be done to address housing concern in the city what are the biggest issues with housing affordability safety and access Lenora you have the floor one minute yes housing is a big thing a very big issue I think that even when I got here five years ago that it wasn't as much of an issue as it is right now because I have seen more homeless people displaced people come and are in Burlington since I was and I believe that you know we need affordable housing of course we also need to find some buildings I've been talking with the pastor of the red door church who believes also we should be looking for some buildings to that are vacant to put people into so that there isn't so many people just struggling from here and there and and looking for a place to sit for a little while or I mean I know myself when I when I was homeless it was like I found a McDonald's sometimes to sit in or a Dunkin Donuts two places that were opened all night so I mean you see people just hovering and going places and this is what leads to a lot of tension this is where you know we find crime and hate and instability because people are on easy people have no place to go so affordable housing and places to put people that are displaced right now would make things a lot easier on the community and all of us in dealing with the future thank you thank you Lenora van you're the floor one minute okay it's a very broad question Cole so I'll see what I can get to in one minute you know housing means very different things to different people I think Lenora touched on it right we need to first think about our neighbors who don't have a house at all and we need to do more in our community for our houseless neighbors like more short-term emergency housing like some of the pieces that Lenora was talking about there dedicating a whole lot more resources to long-term stable housing for our houseless neighbors more low barrier and no barrier shelters and shelters that have the right resources such that folks don't have to leave with their belongings during the day housing means something else to tenants as well as folks in Burlington who are trying to afford to buy their first home I think we need more housing in Burlington I think the south end could play a special role in developing more housing in certain areas I look forward to engaging with the community and seeing whether or not we can amend our zoning ordinances to see where the right place is for more housing you know I was lucky enough to buy my first home in 2014 I don't know that I'd be able to afford a first home in Burlington right now and we need to do better thank you thank you Ben Farid you're one minute um so I I believe housing is human right and I do think like it's become a buzzword like now all our leaders say housing is human right but they also want affordable housing which you know it doesn't really how do you reconcile like if it's a right then it shouldn't be available to people who could afford it and I do think it's the job of the government to protect this right and obviously the model that we've been using for the last 10 15 years of like waiting for like the private kind of model to solve our housing crisis hasn't been working I do think you know Burlington actually used to be a pioneer we you know we we initiated like the the community land trust model for example so we we need to go back to like that kind of mindset and you know be more creative it maybe we need to convert like more buildings into single residency single residence occupancy and I do think for renters like code enforcement against like the landlords who are not like doing that there and uh it needs to be stepped up so that the housing that they do have is livable thank you thank you thank you so much for respecting the time 32nd for your closing your statement Lenora first 32nd for your closing statement yes I'm running for city council hall uh city council for um fight board uh because I feel that there's a lot that I can give to this community even though I've only lived here for five years I've learned a lot I've seen a lot I've had to jump through many hurdles to get to a place that I'm in right now so I think that being just a human being that cares and that has the insight of knowing that people need help out there that I would fit in very well I believe thank you thank you that 32nd thank you call thank you Lenora thank you for this discussion I really appreciate running in this race with Freed and Lenora I think they bring a lot to the table and I think importantly you know we come from different communities and I whoever gets elected here you know I look forward to continuing to work with Freed and Lenora and all our constituents bringing them to the table and uh you know working through political divisiveness and our differences building consensus and making progress as a community I feel like we haven't been moving forward for a couple years here and it's time for us to cut through some of that political divisiveness and start moving forward again um if folks want to learn out and learn more go to bendtravers.com and feel free to reach out thank you thank you for it your last 32nd this is unsatisfying huh like I want to keep talking about this stuff it's important so I have issued a challenge to both Lenora and Ben uh that we would do a cook-off where we will bring food cook food and we're gonna serve it at the neighborhoods in our community so the first event is on Friday the 11th uh at South Meadows uh at between four and six so come there like let's talk let's talk to us we want to listen to you uh we'll serve you food and like let's keep this conversation going um proposition zero dot org and people for police accountability dot com as the website if you want more info about the campaign that I'm a part of thank you so my candidate it is exactly 615 you respected the time and I'm so honored to have moderated this debate and um I look forward to meeting you in person good luck on the campaign trail and hope to see you soon come to our cook-off thank you bye thank you thank you good night everybody yeah it has finished the forums and you can meet them you can reach out to them they are there in the city thank you so much good night


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