Pentagon-funded think tank simulates war with China on NBC. NBC's Meet the Press just aired an absolutely freakish segment in which the influential narrative management firm Center for a New American Security, CNAS, ran war games simulating a direct U.S. hot war with China. CNAS is funded by the Pentagon and by military industrial complex corporations Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, as well as the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, which anti-war's Dave DeKamp has described as the de facto U.S. Embassy in Taiwan. The war game simulates a conflict over Taiwan, which we are informed is set in the year 2027, in which China launches strikes on the U.S. military in order to open the way to an invasion of the island. We are not told why there needs to be a specific year inserted into mainstream American consciousness about when we can expect such a conflict, but then we are also not told why NBC is platforming a war machine think tank simulation of a military conflict with China at all. It happens that the Center for a New American Security was the home of the man assigned by the Biden administration to lead the Pentagon task force responsible for reevaluating the administration's posture toward China. That man, Eli Ratner, is on record saying that the Trump administration was insufficiently hawkish toward China. Ratner is now the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs in the Biden administration. It also happens that the Center for a New American Security has openly boasted about the great many of its other experts and alumni who have assumed senior leadership positions within the Biden administration. It also happens that CNAS co-founder Michelle Flournoy, who appeared in the Meet the Press War Game segment, and was at one time a heavy favorite to become Biden's Pentagon chief, wrote a foreign affairs op-ed in 2020, arguing that the U.S. needed to develop, quote, the capability to credibly threaten to sink all of China's military vessels, submarines, and merchant ships in the South China Sea within 72 hours, end quote. It also happens that CNAS CEO Richard Fontaine has been featured all over the mass media pushing empire narratives about Russia and China, telling Bloomberg just the other day that the war in Ukraine could serve the empire's long term interests against China. The war in Ukraine could end up being bad for the pivot in the short term but good in the long term, Fontaine said. If Russia emerges from this conflict as a weakened version of itself and Germany makes good on its defense spending pledges, both trends could allow the U.S. to focus more on the Indo-Pacific in the long run. It also happens that CNAS is routinely cited by the mass media as an authoritative source on all things China and Russia, with no mention ever made of the conflict of interest arising from their war machine funding. Just in the last few days, here's a recent NPR interview about NATO expansion with CNAS senior fellow Andrea Kendall Taylor, a Washington Post quote from CNAS fellow Jacob Stokes about the Chinese threat to Taiwan. A Financial Times quote from CNAS Indo-Pacific expert Lisa Curtis, who I've previously noted was cited by the mass media for her expert opposition to the U.S. Afghanistan withdrawal. And a foreign policy citation of the aforementioned Richard Fontaine saying, quote, the aim of U.S. policy toward China should be to ensure that Beijing is either unwilling or unable to overturn the regional and global order, end quote. As we've discussed previously, citing war machine funded think tanks as expert analysis without even disclosing their financial conflict of interest is plainly journalistic malpractice. But it happens all the time in the mass media anyway, because the mass media exists to circulate propaganda, not journalism. This is getting so, so crazy that the mass media are now openly teaming up with war machine think tanks to begin seeding the normalization of a hot war with China into the minds of the public. Indicates that the propaganda campaign to manufacture consent for the U.S. centralized empire's final Hail Mary grab at Unipolar domination is escalating even further. The mass scale psychological manipulation is getting more and more overt and more and more shameless. This is headed somewhere very, very bad. Hopefully humanity wakes up in time to stop these lunatics from driving us off a precipice from which there is no return.


And thank you for having me today. I talk about today scalable deployments. Today I talk about how we cook but deploy. And I will not talk about topics here. I will only talk just only deployments. OK. Let me introduce myself. I'm Sula from Japan, and I'm still the youngest of Ruby Coaching, I'm still 17. So I have worked hard to give my parents approval for this clip, and giving them a piece of mind, because this part of the clip is too far. And I work full-time for CookBot for the biggest famous recipe-sharing website in Japan. OK, so deployments.  As I said, we are learning famous and biggest application in Japan. So we perform deployments of this huge application showing here, every eight. Like over 1,000 high 500 models, and live calls is overflowed. And our infrastructure is we have over 140 servers and ship over 10 times per day in peak. Because we are allowing all developers to perform deployments by their own and their tools. Code should be green on CI, only time working hours. Developers should watch hours for an hour after they deploy. And developers should roll back if they are led in places or having any troubles. Next, our deployment flow was like this. Once a topic bunch gets merged, CI runs a build. If it succeeded, CI creates new Git tag, then start deploy automatically to staging server. Developers are staging them, and finally initiates a deployment to get production. Previously, we had used CapiPhone 2 with our sync over SSH. We put deploy server for kick off CapiPhone in our infrastructure because Cap takes too much bandwidth and why so it can't run from developer's local machine. And we have chat ops, too, like this. He would deploy cookware. OK, do you see this flow good? But we have a problem for this flow. It's a time spent for deployments. We run text cases in the fastest weekend, about 10 minutes. In order to get that fast, we have to do parallel testing and more hacks to run this fast. So we can get more shorter because the CI run is the fastest weekend. So this can be shorter. Then, developer takes five minutes to check staging. And finally, CapiPhone takes over 10 minutes. It's clocked. So developer must take about 15 to 20 minutes after they have wanted to deploy changes on production. And we also have some issues, kind of bad smells on deployment flow. First, we were using all the CapiPhone version with complicated and super historical Cap file. So it was time to leave it from scratch. For instance, we have a lot of files showing here. And over 2,000 and 500 of lines for deployment. This is Cap file. It had to leave. And I couldn't know where is the important part of deployment code, deployment script. Next, sequential SSH is slow. As I said, we have many servers. It consumes high CPU usage and sometimes fails due to timeout. Sometimes fails. Critical. You know? This is the same diagram shown before. If there's no other deployment finish in about 20 minutes, that usually the error we encounter is a timeout. So when error occurs, we have to wait for a few minutes. For instance, 3 minutes late. And then we try it. In the worst case, we have to try again. So deployment step will be not 10 minutes. Take more than 10 minutes. Long time span from branch have get merged. And the developer want to get change on production. OK. Next, let me introduce my team. My team, development infrastructure, aims to keep and improve developer productivity, like keeping development fast and maintain and improve our test environment and something like that. Of course, we have saw this state is a problem, so I started working on improve it. So here's the plans. One is replacing with Capitron 3 with Scratch. I have here SSH problems have improved from Capitron 3. But I couldn't think SSH scales for future server growth because we are still glowing. So I expect more servers in future. So after discussion in the scene, I decided to create new tool. So here's introducing Mamiya. It's already on my GitHub. So Mamiya use a tool named surf to orchestrate servers. And Amazon S3 for file distribution, also having compatibility with Capitron 2 and 3 for easier migration from Capitron to Mamiya. Surf is an orchestration tool from HashCop. How many do you know? Raise your hand if you know. Nope. Surf is an orchestration tool from HashCop. It's decentralized, fault-oriented, and highly available. It uses gossip protocol for communication each other. And the gossip protocol is, according to Wikipedia, a protocol inspired by a form of gossip. So quick introduction. We have eight nodes here. Someone initiates an event and then found out to random two nodes first. Repeat again. Repeating. The nodes, blobs, events already proceeded, a process. After a while, all nodes should have same event. Blobs 2 now all have same event. That's gossip protocol. It takes some UDP band-wise, but it's better than SSH. I also have created another gem called burn to control surf cluster. Check this out too if you are interested and how Mamiya works. We have these five concepts, master node, engine node, package, and storage steps. Master node controls and watches our whole cluster and all agents. It controls the whole cluster, sends requests to agents, and watches agent status, and has HTTP API to accept requests from human. Agent accepts requests from master node and learns deploy tasks from commands and blah, blah, blah. Deploy script contains how to prepare and restart up, contains how to build package, and within Ruby DSL. Package is a table of files to deploy. Yes, your application. It also contains deploy scripts that use to build itself. Scripts will be used from agent too. Flage source packages. Amazon S3 is available out of the box, but you can write to your custom Flage adapter if you want. Then step is a part of deployment process. It can be run separately and call remotely from master node. Steps is like this, fetch, prepare, and switch. If switch has called first, Mamiya kicks fetch and prepare tasks first automatically because they are required to learn switch tasks. OK. And here's deployment flow with Mamiya. CI builds package when passed, and CI pursues the package to Flage. Then deployment starts. Master sends prepare request to agents. Agent fetches package. Then prepare it. Next, master confirms all agents have prepared, and master sends switch request to agents. Then finally, agent switches him links, and then reload that process. In a diagram like this, so by using Mamiya results, no dependency to SSH that is slow, but we can do more, more faster. So let's back to previous slide. Steps is a slice step of deployment, deployment like fetching package, preparing package, and releasing it. These steps can be run separately. So we can do application preparation earlier before developers say deploy, like bundle install and assets compile. So now flow becomes like this. CI calls prepare step just after completed push package. So preparation will be completed while developers is checking staging server. And this is the result. Using Mamiya with doing preparation earlier, deploy takes only 30 seconds for 140 servers. 16 times faster than Capicilano. And see this graph too. This graph records time spent for deployment in Cookpad. After using Mamiya, value is lower than under one minute. OK, let's get them. This is recorded. So Mamiya has example configuration in our report story. So I have started using Forman. And this is included in Mamiya report story and allows to testing local. So for testing, we have two directories in local and that used by two agents. And this is deploy scripts used for Mamiya. And both used from building package and prepare, then releasing. So this goes too quickly. So I have inserted a flip to get know. Then this is building package using deploy script built. And one table and one system for metadata syncing into push on to storage. You can inspect the cluster using Mamiya client command. It communicates to the master node, listing packages and list agents available on cluster. And you can inspect agent status detail of the agent. Prepare the agent with push package, getting the package name. That's what it means, application name. So as you can see, another panel running Mamiya is have something work. And you can see a status of package that has been prepared. The directories for agents have been changed with new package and releases. Clearly, this means it's for package that's prepared but not released yet. So finally, we can deploy using deploy command to release the package. As same as a capitalano, we have client synlink and release directly. And build the package again and push it. You can skip the prepare because you can deploy with skipping prepare because they initiate prepare if the specified package has not prepared yet. Let's check the directories again. Client synlink have been replaced with new package. And we have new package directly in agent directly. So that's all. And another demo that do rollback. This goes really quick than capitalano. Just run. You can see application status. And there, that have a common previous release and current package having a majority. And we are rolling back to the previous package. We have deployed. This is just called client rollback and this application. It detects previous release automatically and rollback to it. Rollback has just done using the same deploy process. So if some agent has not the previous package, it will start automatically fetch and prepare same switches. So I have a huge difference here. Mamiya is still not perfect. It doesn't have rich UI, better documentation, and rich alert walking. Cliently, alert walking has required to log into server and see the log in remote server. So I have to collect into one master node. So I have a plan to implement later. And we have some alternatives. Essentially, such code that was on Amazon Web Services. I have applied that and seems nice for me. I think Mamiya may be overkill for most environment because you have to start maintaining the cluster about like a clashing or some alarms. So use two double tools for your environment. Capacitorals still can be a choice for you. Because just for us, we want to deploy faster. So I have created and installed this tool. But using this is up to you. OK, that's all. Thank you.


No, it's not a fat and Morgana and no one got lost. We're at the Lax Open 2023 and this is the first year in which three skiers join the biggest contest in Europe. I'm stoked. The borders finally caved in and let us skiers get on the course. So it's always been a dream to come here. Yeah, I've been loving it so far. In the men's semi-finals, Matty's fans are qualified in first place. Followed by Swiss Andrew Rogetly and the Yellow Jersey holder, Burke Rudd. The big surprise though was Jesper Schade. He got kicked out missing the final by just 0.2. I expect to be super cold on comp day and that's basically it. I'm gonna try my best and I'm enjoying it out here. Only one person can be the first ever winner of this accolade. So this is gonna be a hard fought title. Burke Rudd, no stranger to pressure. That's for sure. But what? What? What? Let me think a sec. Let me think a sec. Going huge. There's a left side double course, 16. Yeah, of course, a standard procedure. We thought that it was gonna be struggling difficult conditions though, but it just isn't for Burke. The Olympic champion from Beijing in slow style. Alex always gone so big, but he knows it. Switch. 270 onto the super ship, whatever you call it. Andrew Rogetly looking supremely confident. I mean, the judge is not looking forward to seeing whatever it is with tape drops out here. Dragging himself through that to get as much speed as possible. 16-20 of some description to start things off. It's an inverted zero spin. That's all I can call it. It's unbelievable. Onto the pad and there it is. The drifting Tokyo, whatever the other way, pulled back barrel roll. But it is not enough to upset the podium. It's crazy. I'm speechless. First time free skiing in the Largs Open, and now I won here at my home home workup. I'm just super happy. Burke Rudd, a-hole, but on top of the first ever winner of the Largs Open free ski slope style, Andrew Rogetly. The women got the small matter of their final coming up. But with that increased snowfall, unfortunately, we've had to cancel the women's event. The semifinal results would stand as the final result. I think where it was tricky this morning was like a super windy. I've never been so loose in my whole life, I think, but it was pretty funny. Like, I did the funniest crash. Obviously funny since something happened. Yeah, I'm happy, but it's a little bit frustrating because, yeah, today was so hard and we can ski, so fun to, like, do the finals in good conditions with the girls. Everyone has to show their good, like, the best skiing. But today was kind of hard with the speed and the vision, so we can't really show our best skiing today, so I would say it's a good call. And here are the full standings of the Largs Open 2020 Touring.


You want to know one of the biggest misconceptions about prayer? Prayer is not merely a vessel to get God's gifts. Prayer is an avenue through which we understand God as the gift. Let me say that again.


Good evening and welcome and happy new year. I'm just going to let us take one breath together to enter the space and the moment. Given there is a quorum of the council present, I'm calling the January 2nd, 2024 Special Town Council meeting to order at 641 p.m. I'll call the roll. Please use your microphone to say present when I call your name. Pat D'Angeles. Present. Anna Devlin-Gothier. Present. Fricka Ate. Present. Lynn Grissomar. Present. Mandy Jo Hanneke. Present. Bob Hegner. Present. Paula Lord. Present. Pam Rooney. Present. George Ryan. Present. Kathy Shane. Here. Andy Steinberg. Present. Jennifer Taub. Present. Alicia Walker. Present. Thank you. There will be no public comment period at this special meeting. However, there will be a public comment period at the regular council meeting on January 8 and at every regular meeting. Comments may be submitted at any time in writing online at www.amherstma.gov slash council comment. Quick announcements following this special meeting, we will hold a ceremonial swearing in for all newly seated town officials. Everyone is welcome to stay. Upcoming town council meetings are January 8 and January 22. Committee meeting dates will be set by committees once members are appointed. You can check amherstma.gov slash calendar for board and committee meeting notices. The council's first order business is the election of the president and vice president. Once a president is sworn in, I'll pass the gavel to them and they will preside over the remainder of the meeting. First, I'm gonna ask the town clerk to come up and swear in any counselors who haven't already come in to be sworn. This is just gonna be a quick one and then we'll have some ceremonial swearing in afterwards. Suadette, our town clerk. Good evening, everyone. Welcome, happy new year. Hi, hi. So nice to see everybody. So for those of you who have not been sworn in, I believe Hala, Anna, Pat and Preke, if you wanna stand and raise your right hands please. I'm gonna do a general swearing here. Okay, do you all solemnly swear or affirm to faithfully and impartially perform the duties incumbent upon you by your election to the town council? All right, congratulations and thank you. First, we're going to elect a president. I'll open the floor for nominations. Nominations do not require a second. Counselors may self-nominate. And I ask that your nominations be a name only, no statement or discussion. I'll ask each nominee if they accept the nomination, which is just a yes or a no, no statement or discussion. Once there are no more nominations, I'll ask each nominee if they'd like to make a statement up to two minutes. And then I'll open the floor for counselor statements. Each counselor will have an opportunity to make one statement for up to two minutes. We'll do the vote by written ballot. Each of you has an envelope with little ballots to write your preferred counselor or abstain. After I collect the ballots, I'll announce the results. Seven votes are required to elect a president. If there is no winning nominee, we'll repeat the process until there is. The floor is open for nominations. George. Nominate Lynn Grisimer. Do you accept the nomination? I do. Thank you. Anna. I nominate Mandy Jo Hanneke. Mandy, do you accept the nomination? I do. Are there any further nominations? Seeing none, I'm gonna ask each nominee if they'd like to make a statement up to two minutes long. Lynn, please go ahead. Thank you. First of all, thank you for the honor of being nominated, George. I appreciate that. With five years of this form of government under our belts, if you will, I look forward to taking a hard look at our charter, our roles of procedure, and along with that, the role of the president and vice president. I am sure that each of you as counselors have thoughts about changes you would like to see. My list includes, but doesn't end here, ways to have the role of the president be more manageable, whether that includes agreed upon responsibilities for the vice president, committee chairs and co-chairs, and all other counselors. How to effectively evaluate and prioritize issues as they are introduced to the town council. And subsequently, how to increase greater understanding of the issues by the public, the actions that the council may or may not take, and the consequences of those actions, and how to shorten our council meetings. Some requests I have of all of the counselors are the following. That you join us for agenda setting, but not just for one or two meetings, but for an entire month, so that you get to see the flow of issues and how they get discussed in agenda setting. That you look at how you can contribute to shortening meetings, and that you seriously look at which committees you would like to serve on based on your interests and expertise and your desire to learn. And finally, that you let me know how you are doing and how I can best assist you in achieving your goals as a town counselor. Thank you. Mandy. Thank you. I am running for president because I believe the council needs a real choice in its leadership, and it has not had one since 2021. Having spoken to many of you, I have heard both the desire for change and that two terms is long enough for a leader. You want change in how the president leads, operates and ensures succession. If elected, I offer it all. I will not only bring positive change to the role of the president, but I will also ensure that the vice president is ready to assume the role. My term as president would be marked by our values of promoting a healthy balance, teamwork and transparency because I will ensure that more counselors are included. I promised this in 2021 and I promise it again. I will ensure the presidency is doable by any counselor, not just those that don't have full-time jobs. I will distribute the representative duties among all counselors. This includes the numerous meetings with other groups that presidents attend and the ceremonial celebratory events. Let's share these opportunities together and help achieve a healthy balance for the role of the president, encourage more teamwork among counselors and provide opportunities for more counselors to flourish in leadership and advocacy. You heard these same promises from Lynn tonight and three years ago because she made them in 2021 when she was last challenged for president to quote her speech from three years ago, quote, I will delegate opportunities to represent and lead the council at other events and meetings. Yet in the three terms since that promise, the role of the president has not changed. Other counselors have not been provided opportunities to represent and lead and the president has not ensured that the vice president is ready to succeed as a leader. In her time as president, Lynn has not lived up to her promises regarding the role of the presidency. I will. Choice is good and change is healthy. If you want a person who lives up to the promises she makes regarding the presidency, a president who will ensure that the vice president is ready to assume the role in one year. And as Lynn said in 2021, a presidential role that is quote, more doable, more transparent for those who follow, I ask you to vote for me. The floor is open for other counselors who wish to make a statement, one statement up to two minutes. Kathy, please go ahead. In the enviable role of sitting where the president usually sits, I thought I should at least raise my hand. You know, I think we're facing a difficult choice, but I don't think change alone is a value. In fact, when I worked with the federal government, I was often happy that leadership had depth and they kept on a roll. And there were several leaders that except when parties massive changed, I was glad to have them continue. I think Lynn has grown with the role, thinking back on the first year, I always worried that if she didn't look to the left and the right, she would not see my hand. And since I didn't know her, I wouldn't be called on. So she's gotten much fairer and more able to scan the room, which is helped by Zoom. And she really does an amazing job in juggling what is often an exhausting agenda. And I totally agree with what Mandy said. And we've all been saying, the agendas just need to be less packed to make the job easier to do.  That said, I think we need a change in as we look to this coming year to be more inclusive, sharing talks, sharing representation that don't need to be just the president, agenda setting, much more extensive involvement in agenda setting, multiple agendas rather than just one. I would like the president not to be on more than one council committee and can be ex officio on the others and to thinking of maybe sharing the chair role so that others can learn how to chair what is often a very difficult meeting to chair. Some of these run against our charter. If you read the charter, it says the president shall appoint the president. I'll ask you to wrap up now, Catherine. Can be on any committee and shall chair. But I think we can set a precedent in our own rules and our own behavior on how sharing will be more constant. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other counselors who would like to make a comment? George, please go ahead. I think probably like many of you when I meet people who are not from Amherst and I tell them that I serve on or I have served on a town council. They are curious about the form of government and I describe it to them for a few minutes and almost invariably asked me, you don't have a mayor and I almost always respond, well, we have 13 mayors. I think the challenge that Linus faced and anyone faces in her role is how to get 13 people to work together and to some common goal. And while I can understand desire for change and I share it to some degree, I think that Linus is the right person at this time to continue to try to get 13 mayors to find some kind of common direction. I think a lot of it falls on us as individual counselors. It's not something that's written in the rules. That is the task of the president of the council. I also want to push back a little bit on Mandy. I don't think the role of the vice president is something that the president is supposed to be preparing for leadership. The only thing it says in the rules is the vice president runs the meeting if the president is not present. So I hope that my colleagues will support Lin. I think she'll do a good job. And so that's why I put her name in nomination. Are there any other comments?  George and Kathy, your hands are still up. Seeing no other comments, I'm gonna ask you to fill in your paper ballots now. Councilor Atte voted for Lynn Griesmer. Councilor Rooney voted for Griesmer. Councilor Taub voted for Griesmer. Councilor Walker voted for Hennikey. Councilor Hennikey abstained. Councilor Lord voted for Griesmer. Councilor Devlin-Gothier abstained. Councilor Ryan voted for Griesmer. Councilor DeAngeles voted for Griesmer. Councilor Griesmer voted for Griesmer. Counselor Steinberg voted for Grismar. Counselor Shane voted for Grismar. Counselor Hegner voted for Grismar. I have 10 votes for Lynn Grismar and one vote for Mandy Johanke with two abstentions. Thank you. Cathy, if you don't mind, I'm going to stay here. I've had a cold and I just assume not share it with the council. This way, I can see you all.  I need to remember to push the button. Forget somebody remind me, please. We are going to move on to the election of the vice president, and I need to just find my script for that. The election of the vice president is open for nominations. It does not require a second. Counselors may self-nominate, name only and no statements or discussions at the time of nomination. I will then ask each nominee if they accept the nomination, yes or no, and no statements will be made at that time. In alphabetical order, each nominee if they would like to make a statement, they may do so for up to two minutes. The floor will then be open for counselor statements, and each counselor is allowed one two-minute statement. You have a written ballot, your name is on that ballot, and just as we just did for the president, you will use that ballot. Each vote counselor X votes for counselor Y. Announce the results, seven votes required, and if no winning nominee, we repeat the process, and then the person is swearing it, sworn in. The floor is open for nominations. Pam Maroney? I'd like to nominate Anna Devlin-Goffer if she's willing. Anna, are you willing? I am. Thank you. Okay. Halla Lord? I would like to nominate Alicia Walker for vice president. Alicia, are you willing to run? Yes, I am. Thank you. Okay. Are there any other nominations at this time? Then going in an alphabetical order, we will start with Anna Devlin-Goffer for a two-minute statement. Over the past two years, I have learned a great amount about what it means to be part of the leadership of this council. As vice president for the past two years, I have built a foundation of trust with our state legislators. I have learned how to support counselors in bringing forward their ideas and visions and bringing them to fruition, getting them on agendas. I have worked with the president to push our individual understandings and ensure diversity of thought in the leadership of this council. My ideas for the coming term include increased work as a liaison to our state and federal legislative bodies. As vice president, I will track the bills that Amherst has submitted and those which the council may have an interest in supporting. I will support the president by writing and providing testimony and working with those officials to meet the needs of our community. We know there are lots of emerging needs in our community. I have shown my ability to work in this way in the past two years. Some examples at the West East Rail hearings and writing a home role which is currently at the state. I believe that the council should have someone specifically designated to do that work and that given the responsibilities already on the plates of committee chairs, it would be an appropriate duty for vice president. Perhaps the strongest attribute I bring to the role of vice president is my ability to both support the council and productively challenge the process in order to advance it. I am constantly asking maybe to the chagrin of the clerk of the council and the president why things happen the way they do. Pushing us to consider how we might change processes in order to be more inclusive and disrupt the systems of power that are inherent in government. We have seen changes in the inclusion, for example, the inclusion of the vice president in meetings with our state legislators as a demonstration of that commitment. I know that I am returning to this role and it is not without significant consideration. As many of you know, I was considering running for president. I recognize that at this time, the role of president is not conducive for someone who also holds a full-time job. I plan to work with the president in the coming term if she is amenable to it, to shift the way that things are done empowering counselors and committee chairs, always asking why and continuing to build new ways of conducting business. In the coming term, I can promise you there will be no complacency. I am coming in with ideas informed by experience and ability honed in the same way. I hope I have demonstrated my competence and my commitment and my willingness in the past two years. I humbly ask for your support in continuing this role. Thank you. Alicia, please go ahead. Thank you, Lynn. So I do just want to take a minute to say that my acceptance of my nomination has nothing to do with how I feel about Anna's service as vice president. I think she has been an amazing vice president for the council for the last two years. And so I just wanted to make that very clear. And I am honored to be nominated alongside her for this role. So contrary to what some of my other counselors have expressed tonight, I believe a great deal in sharing leadership and power sharing. And I think that our council and our town would greatly benefit from having different voices, different leadership and changes a lot more often than we have seen. And so again, this has nothing to do with Anna. I think she has done an amazing job. I just think we need change and I think we need choice. And I really was interested in accepting this nomination because I didn't think that we should just have one person walk into being the vice president or the president. I think that it's healthy for us to have choice, to have options. And I would like to step up at this time because I believe that for me personally, this is an opportunity for growth and an opportunity for learning. My first two years on the council have been a huge learning curve for me. I have learned a lot about government and how things work. I also have spent a lot of time asking questions to Athena, asking questions to Lynn and other counselors. And I will continue to do so if elected as vice president. So I don't step into this role to make promises of how I think I will be able to lead. But that I promise to be a leader that listens and learns. And I think we should look into trying new things. So I will be somebody who is willing to think outside of the box to think about how things can be changed, to be more accommodating to those who may not have had positions of leadership in the past. I want this council to be a place where we can lead by an example, where we can support and uphold each other. And I think that that includes allowing other people to step into positions of leadership and to sort of step back to the side at other opportunities to be able to support them. And so for this reason, I do accept my nomination. And I again, I'm really honored to be nominated alongside Anna. Thank you. Are there comments that people from the council would like to make? Hala. Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to speak. I want to uplift Alicia Walker's nomination for presidency with an open heart. I do adore you, Anna, and I thank you for your service. But I'm also thinking about our community. I'm thinking about the fact that just at first glance, the people of color on this council are about 23 or 25%. I don't know everybody's lived experience, but I'm also thinking that about 1.5 of us are living in apartments. So I'm thinking about our community at large and how and or what lived experience can bring to the experience, not to ever undermine or demean what each of you have to bring in your heart and your commitment to all of us. But I also hope that we uplift in a different way, lived experience, so that we can represent all of Amherst in a a new, wholly authentic and loving way. I do hold each of my esteemed colleagues here in my heart, for sure, but I just want to secondly verbalize, although I don't like speaking in public, Alicia Walker's nomination for vice president. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other comments from councillors? I'm not seeing any at this time. Therefore, I'm going to ask you to write your choice on your ballot and the clerk of the town council will collect them. Councillor Grissimer abstained and said she would be glad to work with either candidate. Councillor Ette voted for Devon, Gauthier. Councillor Rooney voted for Devlin, Gauthier. Councillor Taub voted for Walker. Councillor Ryan voted for Devlin, Gauthier. Councillor Hegner voted for Devlin, Gauthier. Councillor Shane voted for Devlin, Gauthier. Councillor Steinberg voted for Devlin, Gauthier. Councillor Devlin, Gauthier voted for Devlin, Gauthier. Councillor D'Angeles voted for Devlin, Gauthier. Councillor Lord voted for Devlin, Gauthier. Counselor. Oh, I'm so sorry. Counselor Lord voted for Walker. I'm so sorry. Counselor Walker voted for Walker. And Counselor Haneke voted for Devlin Gauthier. That's nine votes for Devlin Gauthier, two, three for Counselor Walker, and one abstention. Congratulations, Anna. Anna, you need to stand up and go be sworn in. Do you solemnly swear or affirm to faithfully and impartially perform all duties and come in upon you as vice president of the town council for the town of Amherst. Congratulations. What did she say? That was you again. I'm fine. Either way, we have no hearings tonight. We have no general public comment, no consent agenda or resolutions and proclamations. I don't want to spend a lot of time on the next agenda item, but I do want to point out that in your packet are various items that describe the committees of the council and the other committees to which counselors or the other responsibilities to which counselors are elected. The first of the committees going from CRC, Community Resources Committee, Finance Committee, GOL and Town Services and Outreach Committee are appointments of the president. Tomorrow at the latest, you will receive a request from me to give me your first, second and third choice. I'm going to need that request back as soon as possible and in fact, in less than 24 hours. And the reason is, is because the charter requires that we make those appointments by the second meeting of the council, which is Monday the 8th, so six days from now. The next are the non-voting liaison to town multiple member bodies. That is actually a referral. First to GOL, GOL then works to determine which ones they're going to recommend that we actually have liaisons to. And that means checking back with the committees and there may be some other committees that would like a liaison. So we won't actually get to the liaison positions probably until later in January. The other items are Jones Library Committee. We have one counselor appointment there. The previous counselor is no longer on the council. The budget coordinating group, there are three counselors and no more than two can be from the finance committee. The joint capital planning committee, three counselors and representatives to speak on behalf of the town council at four town councils, four towns meetings. That's two counselors. So let me just deal with the issue of six, seven, eight and nine. In those instances, I'm going to ask in the same email that you express your interest in any one of those positions. That will then constitute the basis for us starting the discussion on the 8th, at which point, even if you have not expressed interest, you can still add your name for any one of those four positions. And then the council votes for those positions. That is not a president appointment. It's a council appointment, okay? And let me just mention on the Jones Library Building Committee, it is a, I believe it's an appointment for the remainder of the building committee as long as you are on the council. We already have two counselors who are continuing on the building committee for the elementary school building. And that's Kathy Shane who has been sharing that and Alicia Walker. And what I do have is essentially a record also of where people have expressed interest in the past. If you would like to discuss any one of these committees with me, please feel absolutely free to do that at any point in time in the next 24 hours. But I will also probably be contacting you because it's always a juggling act to try to figure out how to get certain committees properly filled. Unless there's any other questions on that item, I'd like to go on to the next item. Last item under this area is the process to fill vacancies on the housing authority. As we were informed by the town manager through the town clerk, during the election process in November, the housing authority failed to end up with two of its seats filled. Therefore, based on the charter and based on the memo that quotes the charter that is in your packet, we now have to join with the remaining members of the housing authority to select two additional members to serve for the full two-year term. It's they will serve until 2026. There we have used this process most recently in determining the three school committee members that have ably served us over the last three week, three months, and we wanna thank them. I know one of them is at least is sitting in the room. And in the process, we will be going through that same process. However, I also urge you to, particularly as district counselors and townwide counselors in your communications to make sure that people know these positions are available and that you can use the memo as a way of informing people. If there's no question on that, although I please, I have drafted a, excuse me, I have drafted a publishing, a published statement or press release that will go out tomorrow to advertise those positions so that we can do this within the 45 days as required by the charter. The timeline that- Your microphone. Thank you. The timeline that is attachment B, I think B, yes, basically has us completing this in early February so that the difference, however, between this situation and the school committee is because the board already has three members out of five, it can continue to meet as a body. And so it's not hampered by being unable to meet because it does not have a quorum. Are there any questions about the vacancy on the housing? Sorry, yes, Mandy Jo. Well, we're gonna discuss later on in the future for the moment, Mandy Jo, yes. You seem to be referring to a document that is not in the packet about an attachment and other things. The document in the packet was a memo from our town clerks who I'll debt. And so I'm curious what the press release you referred to actually reads as. Athena, it was in my packet. I'm checking. I believe I added it this afternoon. Oh, okay. It was in a SharePoint packet, but I'm not sure. Not when I downloaded SharePoint today. So if there are any questions, I guess my question is, is the press release much different from the one that was done for the school committee? No, it's a signable. Since I haven't seen it, okay. Unless I missed a word where I didn't substitute housing authority for school committee. That's good. That's the only thing I really was concerned about. Everything else we can deal with on Monday. Thank you. Okay. Are there any other questions about the housing authority vacancies? Kathy. Lynn, I will look at whatever is in the packet, but if there is a really short paragraph, we could put it out in a newsletter so people would know. So just to describe how often it meets, what kind of commitment you would have if you were on the housing authority? Yeah, some of those issues are not issues. I know the answers to at this point, but I can make sure that you have the announcement and the announcement can then be sent out, okay. Are there any other questions about the housing authority vacancies? Okay. Given we have no appointments, we have no committee or liaison reports, we have no minutes. Paul, is there anything you would like to share with us? Okay. And I have no other comments at this time under town councilor. How about future agenda items? Councilor comments. Sorry, can you give us a preview of Monday's agenda? I'd love to, but I don't have one. But if I send it out or Athena, maybe you have some thoughts or some ideas of what's on that agenda. The council postponed action on the rental registration. Thank you. No, it didn't. It's the town that council referred it to CRC and it remains in CRC. So it's not ready to come out till CRC meets again. DOL made some recommended rule changes. So that could be on the agenda for Monday. And then I think there are some of those things. I'm sorry, I can't pull them off the top of my head. As soon as we, we will meet tomorrow for that and we can make sure that it's out and known to people. Okay. Are there any other questions at this time? Kathy. Just a quick one. If the agenda, which is always wonderful to find it's not going to be packed. But one of the discussions many of us have been having is what's in our rules of procedure on committees and the thought of that we could make the size different of the committees and potentially include people who aren't counselors on them. And if we could have either a beginning discussion of that or we could schedule that for discussion on a retreat sooner rather than later, just to at first just have the ideas thrown around. And so if we have breathing room in an agenda that might be a useful general discussion. If take up rules of procedure, I think we could begin that discussion. I should that we should also, we will also begin polling for a retreat date in February. And the options to be looking at are either a Monday night that we weren't going to meet as a council for like a four hour retreat or a Saturday like we have done in the past.  Thank you. A similar conversation about liaisons and the role of liaisons would be very helpful. It seems rather to do it with us than send that particular topic to DOL specifically. I think it's a good broad ranging conversation that I would love to have. Okay, great.  Yeah, we passed town manager goals about two weeks ago and it might be good because many of those goals probably should be prioritized amongst themselves to help the manager in terms of what the council prioritizes within each sort of big sub goal. If there's time on an agenda early in this term, it might be good to have those conversations to so the manager gets a better idea of within each big goal what the council's priority is. Do you think it would be helpful to place on the agenda for the eighth just a discussion of the goals so that the new counselors and the counselors who have returned have an opportunity to kind of mutually understand the goals? I'm looking more for a prioritization of council priorities, okay? Are there any other comments, questions, requests for future agenda items? Seeing none, I'm sorry, George. I actually would appreciate a discussion of the town manager goals since four of us are new. I would actually like to see that on the agenda next time. Okay, thank you. Are there other requests? I'm actually looking for hands because this is the first time we have had all of us in the room in two years, over two years. So it's like, wow. And you know, one of the things I love about sitting here to be honest, I can see all of you except for two people right here. So any other questions or comments?  We do not have any topics not reasonably anticipated, at least none that I'm aware of, and we have no executive session. And so I am going to officially adjourn the town council meeting for tonight. We are going to move on to a ceremonial swearing in of all members of various elected bodies. There are five of us, five bodies. And we are glad to have so many people in our audience tonight. And I do want to thank both Athena, Angela Mills, and Sean for putting together the assembly for tonight, the food for tonight, and preparing for a ceremony of joint action. Yeah. Just a question about Zoom connectivity. Should we log off of Zoom of our personal ones? You can log off of Zoom. We'll leave the town room Zoom going so that folks at home can watch those. Thanks for asking that. Thanks. Okay, we're going to log off. Kathy, you're still on. I'm going to suggest, Athena, shall we start with school committee? First of all, I'd like to welcome Representative Mindy Dom and also from Senator, I mean from Representative McGovern's office, Kobe as well. And Mindy, I would like you to say a few words if you would when we get going. Okay? First of all, let's look for any members from the school committee who are here who would like to be formally sworn in in the ceremonial swearing. Yeah. Excuse me, Mr. Wallace. And Gabriella. Would you please? Both of them. And Gabriella, please. Gabriella, come up here.  Come on up. Please, Gabriella. Yes. All right. We really want to thank you for the work that you did there. We want to thank all three of you for stepping in and managing that job for the last three months. That was really great of you to do so. All right, we're going to new members on the school committee. None here? I don't see any. Oh, that would be why they're not here. Okay, library. Trustee, we have one of you. No, not you. All right, Bob, come on up. Do you solemnly swear or affirm to faithfully and impartially perform the duties incumbent upon you by your election to the Jones Library Board of Trustees? Congratulations. I did not see Judith Swain here. So that one, is there anybody here from the housing authority? Come on up. And we just did this this afternoon as well. You can raise your right hand please.  Congratulations. And the town council. How do you want to do that? Would you like to do it as a group and then one at a time? As a group. And then if people want one at a time, they can take a picture with you and do that. Okay, so we're going to all stand. Does anybody object? Get cozy. Okay, if you can all raise your right hands, please. Whoops, wait a second. There we go. Okay, we good? All right.  Congratulations. And please enjoy the refreshments out. Oh, Judith, wait a minute. We have one more swearing in. Judith Swain, get up here, right over here. No, if you can raise your right hand, please. Judith, do you solemnly swear or affirm to faithfully and impartially perform the duties incumbent upon you by your election to the Elector Oliver Smith will? Congratulations. We hit them all. Would Mindy? Yes, Mindy. I got it out of me tonight. Thank you, Christina. Hi, everybody. Congratulations, members of the town council, those returning, those new, and other committees that are here. I'm going to take the liberty of just saying congratulations on behalf of Senator Cumberford and myself. She really wanted to be here tonight, but she had another commitment and couldn't be here. We are just in such admiration for local elected officials. We know you have the hardest job. And we're here to support you in every way that we can. I'm looking forward to working with the new town council as well as with the members of the other committees to make sure that the state recognizes what we need and that we get what we need. So thank you so much. Congratulations. Mindy, we really want to thank you for being here. Thank you so much. Would you like to say anything on behalf of the representative? Oh, hold on. No, we'll give it, Kobe, come on up. Hi, everyone. I'm Kobe Governor Levine. I'm the regional manager for Jim McGovern and for many of you. It's great to see you again. For those of you who maybe I haven't worked with before, I'm really looking forward to doing so. Myself and the congressmen are just down the road in Northampton. We look forward to continuing the partnership that we've built with the Emmerstown council. And we really look forward to the next couple of years with all of you. So thank you and congratulations. We now have more library trustees and more school committee members. Let's get the library trustees up here.  I'm gonna have you both stand side by side.  I'll make this painless. Are you wanna? Okay, come on, why not? Why not, why not? All right, if you could all three, raise your right hands, please.  Are you two again, thank you. Congratulations, almost in recognition. If you can raise your right hand, please.  Congratulations. Have we missed anybody? That ends the ceremonial part of our evening. Please enjoy refreshments and socializing. Thank you.


Colonel Sanders getting after them ladies this morning. Good day y'all and welcome on back to the channel hmm We're doing some bass fishing today By the way before I forget New hoodies are available goonsquad.com use my promo code LFG save 10% of check out. I Gotta tell you what? I'm about to take this hoodie off. I came out this morning thinking. Oh, yeah My coffee's gonna be steaming. I'm gonna have that hoodie on. It's gonna be hoodie weather It's hot. I think it's like 75 out here right now and the reason I wanted to go bass fishing today Things are starting to change up in the lakes. I like that It's not super cold. Otherwise. I probably be hunting this morning. It's just too hot to hunt I don't want to be sitting up in a saddle mosquitoes attacking me I actually have not focused on bass in a little while. I've been feeling the freezer I've been focusing on on honey. So I love me a good bass challenge We're gonna head out to a local lake and see how the conditions have changed a little bit And see how can we can adapt and catch some fish with some fall tactics Take you look at this dukey right here y'all Wow Like a dagum turkey bruised it up there took a big old armster on my truck last night You know this this really is one of the best times to get out on the water a Lot of people are not fishing they're hunting So there's that aspect of it. There's less pressure and it's the transition time So they've been out in deep water in the summer For the most part you get you always got fish that are shallow that will kind of stay individually those lone wolves But in the fall those they'll start to transition back to the creeks And that's what we got to figure out. What are they doing water temperatures? It's coming up, you know, it's 68 coming up to 69 right now. Probably end up being low 70s I'm gonna start off looking at points throwing top waters and crankbaits Shad are pretty scattered out throughout the water column.  So we're gonna tie on two-step It's a top water walking bait This has some draw power. This is definitely something I would leave tied on all day The focus is shad. Shad are very oily Helps them build up some fat For the winter and they just start to hone in on those things. I mean look look at the shad ball That's just sitting there in like 12 foot. There's one spotted bass very Very big fall schoolers right there with the old spotted bass Just a little steady walking over a point Looks like that water temperature is gonna land right around 70 degrees Oh, that's a better one there Right on the point I mean he did not explode on it, but it's a better fish Oh, yeah, that's a good fish Take it easy with this braid right here Got him on that reaction glass So this thing's a good shock absorber with the braid We'll get down here Get down here in the seat barely hooked Not sure if I can land this guy if I sling him We're just gonna back land him There we go guys. That's a toad That's a toad largey Kind of had him hooked under the chin right there That is beautiful fish Beautiful fish. Oh, look at that. He's blind in one eye He's got one little spot right there. So cool See my dude enjoyed it That is what we came here for guys That is that seriously just made the day. That's exactly what I wanted to hope Have happened right there Little spotted bass and then boom Four pound largemouth Click-clack, click-clack, click-clack This is a really easy topwater to walk. All right, what am I gonna do now? I got my a couple topwater bites got the fill What I'm gonna do. I'm definitely keep this tied on.  It looks like the fish are kind of they're pushing them up there Out here. They're kind of all scattered The bass needs something to position on and points in the fall are just paramount Paramount Paramount can't say that enough points points points Whether it's main lake going in the creeks Points are always valuable in the fall And if you're seeing the topwater kind of fade off you're still seeing little splashes. I don't think that was a bass, but If they won't fully commit coming up for topwater Jerk bait always a great alternative I just watched two little Shadbusters Up there shallow. There's one There we go. Oh, it came off. It's not feel big, but he was a fish So I'm gonna pick that topwater up again because Saw a top swirl Saw shad get busted way up there If you're seeing that even if it's noon Pick up that topwater. Don't be scared. Oh golly That one just he just missed it Oh, I actually wasn't even looking at my bait Just usually a good thing Okay, you know what I'm going to throw on a new color Crankbait right here. This is one of our new ones for the summer and fall in the in the banger It's a simple little square bill like that. We're touching bottom there. There's one right there. Oh my gosh It came off that one felt good too Felt very good It was a good thump. He thumped it like a jig I lost him Hit a rock and then it just And we are home I think that was some line or something Crankbaits typically don't run that well with 10 feet of line attached to them A little amateur tip of the day So if you're feeling that crankbait really digging the bottom You feel a good thud just stop for a second Just let it float back It'll give a fish an opportunity. They're hearing that constant banging on the rocks They're interested. They may be following it. They may hear it coming If you just pause it, it'll help you from getting hung but it'll also help you get bites So we've got a 10 pound line and we got our Our glass hybrid rod and that black series fantastic Cranker so I can get some distance on this thing Sometimes I like to go with that jam knot Double san diego jam or you'd be Eugene bend on Lighter line like eight to ten pound But those jam knots they really hold up the brake strength right at the At the connection And it'll just give you a little more leeway. You can fish a little bit longer for having to retie So I'm gonna Throw this recon. I'm gonna crank that a little bit Let's start a little milk run journey. Shall we? Take some moon baits and we're gonna hit Banks we're banking it. I'm gonna look for points with shad similar types scenarios Hell I might even go fish the dam. It's usually a good fall cranking spot It's like as soon as I came around the point. I stopped seeing shad Now if I go out into deeper water, I'm gonna see him, but I want to see him up shallow That means they're getting pinned and fed on Oh, there's a fish Oh, yeah, there's a fish right there. That feels weird Oh, it was a small mouth. That's why dad gum weirdos Weirdos. I think I was actually hung for a second and then it uh As soon as I came off the fish grabbed it a little small mouth that would have uh Actually completed the species right. I think I got I think I got something else That's a stick tree pounder trickery That would have completed the the trio. I don't know if I've ever done that out here.  Not vibing. We're gonna move Man, we've lost some fish today Keep pulling off a slack line. That's sucker. Gee whiz How many fish like that today four head shakes and then just pulled off launching it What is this? Oh my gosh.  Oh my yeah, it's wanting to stay on the bottom I didn't feel a thump.  I feel like we're about to see it. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. There it goes This is either a 12 pound bass or it is something with whiskers Giant drum This is the fabbiest thing about fishing you just never know Every time I gain on it. It just goes back down Oh my gosh big flathead Good size flathead This thing is this thing is going In the box for me Wow Big flathead and he's hooked right on the outside of the face Wow, that's a good one That is a good one there guys I'm gonna try to clasp it into the mouth Oh wow Look at that beast right there. Oh the crankbait just fell out. Oh my goodness That is a PB crankbait for that was a PB Flathead out here for me They get a lot bigger than that. Let's just let's get a weight on this guy Eight 8.8. Oh my goodness That is a delicious eater right there.  So they will hit crankbaits. They will hit bass lures And I'll catch them every once in a while on bass lures I actually catch more of these on bass lures than I do when I'm jug lining So just incredible we are going to slap the sides off of that baby. Stay tuned for that Man cannot wait cannot wait to put that thing With some spices a little better rice. Whoo, son That's gonna feed the family for a couple meals The silver bullet and I We threw in the towel guys after that catfish No bites nothing was happening But I actually got the amount of bites that I wanted to Today the two I actually landed were on top water And then I got bites on jerk baits and crankbaits And they were just pulling off pulling off perfect data crank I felt good about it and I had the bites that I wanted to but We did not put together a big sack. By the way, if you guys want to get any of the baits Any of the new gear lfg Use the code at google squad.com Lfg save 10% on on anything. So if you want to get loaded up on fall baits You can use my promo code anytime and save on the site what i'm really excited about right now is I just got home My kids are just out of age where Whenever I come home and I have fish they get so excited So i'm gonna go grab them and I want them to see this catfish I want Stephanie to see it too because we're gonna be eating this thing But it's just so it's so big they're gonna freak out. So i'm gonna go get them. Oh, Amy's getting in the cooler already What do you think about this thing guys? Isn't that wild Ice. Yeah, there's ice in the don't don't eat it What do you think about that buddy you want touching?  Oh cannot wait for that leaves falling 3d targets out here. We did we doing we're doing flinging just about every day staying tuned Speaking of harvesting It is a lot quieter in here. You may notice Where the roosters Where are they? chicken check Colonel sanders the only survival survivor of the harvest That took place. I just I had way too many roosters in here here y'all and I had a nice cool day Last week and I just said wabam. We're doing this And I harvested all the roosters vacuum sealed them already had one Not the best pretty tough did it in a in the pressure cooker Then put it in a stew. It was all right. It was all right, but it was not it was not the best so now We just got colonel sanders with the seven hens and I'm waiting on these two new girls to start laying production has turned down They're going in to kind of their fall mode, but Should be any week now. We should start getting some out of our new hens. So girls May you pass a good egg for me, please Fish and freaks. Thanks for hanging with me today on this on the water experience. It is go time now I you know, I told myself last couple years. Like I wasn't gonna fish september for bass until you know, basically like mid mid october mid to late october Bass fishing ticking up bite getting better. We got white tails on the move. I'm ready to do both So subscribe to the channel to see it all Right here and thanks for being with me smash that like button and I will see you guys on another outdoor adventure here


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332. Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free. The ego makes illusions. Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away. Truth never makes attack. It merely is. And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awakening to the real. Forgiveness bids this presence enter in and take its rightful place within the mind. Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance. We would not bind the world again today. Fear holds it prisoner, and yet your love has given us the means to set it free. Father, we would release it now, for as we offer freedom, it has given us, and we would not remain as prisoners while you are holding freedom out to us. Amen.


D-butt, you were drafted to the Patriots. You have played on the same team as Tom Brady. Do you believe he has done, and what are your whole thoughts on all this? Yeah, I think he's done. Obviously, you saw the emotions. Obviously, this is the second time around as well. But I'm glad that he did it, obviously, on his own terms. Nobody breaking it before he got a chance to break it. I think that was kind of part of his strategy and just doing it kind of from the heart. It looked like he was taking a little early morning, get that sunrise, the water's coming in. That's when you get some clarity and thought. I feel like it's good for him. Obviously, the booth is next. Just great for Tom to wrap it up. Unbelievable teammate. Obviously, being that quarterback, being who he already was by the time I got into the league, but still carrying himself like one of the guys. Obviously, not hanging out with him a bunch off the field, but being one of those guys in the locker room, in the meeting rooms on the field. So, just awesome career, and I'm glad he got a chance to break it himself this time around.


Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to a Madden. Oh my god a Madden mobile video I'm gonna go do a search on my channel real quick for the last mad mobile video on this channel It's been a long time. Last time I made a video is when they first came out with draft champions. Oh my god Dude, these are my roots. This is what I started with and now I'm abandoning it like my father abandoned me Just kidding as you guys know while you're watching this I am in Greece right now So I thought it'd be a good idea to get at least two or three mad mobile videos out to you guys While I'm there, so you'll see this video and you'll hopefully see two more within the next couple of weeks So if you're a fan of mad mobile still then hell yeah, dude. Congrats to you March 16 you're probably seeing this sometime in May or June and right now as I record this it's May 10 It's been two months Honestly though, I'm really proud of myself because at the start of my channel if I hadn't done mad mobile I don't think I don't think I could have stopped you a mad mobile for two months. So I'm proud of myself I'll say that let's hop into this video. So the three videos are for that. I want to do for you guys I want to do one draft champions. I want to do one huge I've been saving up so many packs for a huge pack opening and then I also want to recreate an old video You guys remember the ten times flashback packs video. Hey the new flashback packs I'm thinking about recreating that so most likely you'll see that that would be really cool If you guys can see that so first thing I want to do is draft champions because I haven't a draft Champions in a minute. Well in two months as we just talked about Um, I want to go draft the team and the most fun draft to do This was like the most fun to do on draft champions on console for like all the three years We had it is the fastest draft. So I'm gonna draft the fastest player in every single round I don't even know if it's gonna let me play any of the games. I'm gonna do the clock cheese How do what would you even call it? I'm gonna change my time in Dayton settings And I'm gonna draft this team right now and we're gonna see what we can do many months later Will this work? Hell yes, okay, it still works you can still just cheese draft champions and draft your team well everyone so this draft tournament Now to start I do want to give a huge shout out to War Robots for sponsoring this video You can find War Robots on the App Store It's pretty much the only mobile game I play other than Mad Mobile It's a 66 tactical strategy game where as you can tell from the gameplay you get to blow stuff up pretty much the entire Time with your own custom robot you can purchase upgrades for your robot Customize it how you want and then hop into multiplayer fights in addition to this though Just for downloading the app using the link at the top of the description You're gonna get a huge head start in the game now This might not make a ton of sense right now, but you're gonna get one Griffin robot two pin weapons two Talumbus weapons a hundred gold and 400,000 silver trust me that is a huge head start in this game But that's pretty much it for now Just make sure you download War Robots top of the description and enjoy the rest of the video guys It's the fast-pass draft tournament after you have your team you'll match up with another user head to head Complete your own drive started at 20 each drive is passed. Honestly.  I'm so squinty right now Shout out all my shout out all my Asians out there need my eyes The other thing I'm gonna do is on a guess who I think is the fastest player now I actually genuinely don't know because I haven't played this game like I haven't played this game in two months I have no idea who's gonna be the fastest my guess here though is Marcus Peters I feel like Marcus be the fastest on this board. Oh God I was deathly wrong. There's no way That's it. How does Marcus Peters have 84 speed Kobe? All right. Well, that's an L that let's just chalk that one up to an L Bobby McCain is our first pick Wow Papa Kevin Johnson, okay if I get this one wrong, there's gonna be a problem. There's gotta be Kevin Johnson 91 speed. Oh my god Nick East in the center almost This game is blowing my mind round three. We got Travis Swanson Ellie market. It's I'm gonna say Eric Lee 84 speed Eric Lee that one wasn't very Hard either to be honest with you round of four. We've got the first elite round Hopefully this is Jamal Williams because that'd be kind of sick to pick up right now. Oh, Adam feeling 103 speed Honestly, that's fine, too. I got three wide receiver slots. I'll totally take it round five Sean Smith Mark Baron aloting nada. Is it Mark Baron? It couldn't be Mark It is Mark Baron dude. I do remember the Halloween promo. I did play the Halloween promo The Halloween promo was pretty cool. It was like the monsters of the live events for that promo.  I really hope I can get that. Let's see it 103 98 99 oh, yes Jerry wrote bro. That's a filthy card. That's one of the coolest cards. I've seen in this game That's a Jimmy Graham Kwan. It's got to be Kwan, right? What Alexander our first middle linebacker this team overall is not gonna be bad This is actually like working on pretty well. Oh, no, I think I'm gonna get two halfbacks now Am I gonna get two halfbacks now cuz yeah, I gotta get CJ Anderson. Oh wait. I didn't get a halfback yet Just kidding. I lied. This is perfect This is exactly what I wanted one of these rounds is the Lions round and it's this one right here Nevin Lawson golden tape all our way. No, it's not. I just happened to get to there's a Lions round And hopefully I get like Calvin Johnson the goat Calvin Johnson. Oh my god. That would be so sick Looks like we're picking up geez another court the corners are so fast this game So now we have a flex cornerback. Yeah three cornerbacks Not too keen on that this better beat of auntie. I don't run throwing something. Oh, never mind I didn't realize I was having an even angrily has incredible speed in this game This is actually sick because now I have a tight end and that's one of the better tight ends you can get clutch right there Brits gonna be Brandon cooks.  Oh, no, I had to get a fourth corner Abraham and Eric Berry was so close that John Abraham's at 110 overall I will say Brandon cooks though. That's the out-of-position cornerback Brandon cooks. Nothing wrong with that We just catch the corner Oh, that's that's some beautiful ones right there All of this is good other than Genors Jenkins, and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to take Genors Jenkins 99104 LaMonte Help me out here. I just got caught. Oh my god five. Yeah, I'm gonna have the Bobby McCain. You're out of there, dude I'm sorry mbp rounds My god, I don't even think I've seen any of these cards.  I have never seen that Michael Irvin in my life plus two Awareness Eli Manning 101 speed. Hello. Can I help you sir? Michael Irvin hundred and 21 speed Crystal legend Michael Irvin.  How do you have a hundred? I thought you couldn't go over 120.  Yo, this is like really news to me That's actually really cool. I had no idea you could go over 120.  Am I really gonna do this? How many extra rounds do I get?    I miss clicked. I meant to click cancel acts and click purchase You get three bonus on dude. These better be stacked. Okay.  Am I cuz the quarterbacks are always gonna be too slow Latavius Murray, I would take him over to that CJ Anderson though. So that's kind of sick round two Hi's Eric E Brown for me 105 speed Eric E Brown. So now we have two We now have two tight ends.  I think you run might have been one speed faster anyway And our third final round is a safety a linebacker and a halfback and Earl Campbell with 108 speed At least we have 112 overall halfback now We don't have a quarterback and this whole draft or this whole like tournament is past place only this This might have been a mistake boys Mission failed we'll get them next time.  So my 93 I got a 93 offense and a 91. Whoa, we did better than the community average in both just by drafting only the fastest players This could have been such a better team to if I'd like actually been able to pick and choose.  Yo respect to this Michael Irvin though. Yo, so can I play? Oh, it's gonna kick me out Watch I'm trying to play games can kick me out Yeah, that's what I thought that Michael Irvin though, dude, that is a nasty card. Wow I've never seen that before. All right. All right, guys So that's gonna be it for this first when we drafted the fastest team only and we got a pretty sick team I'm really happy about the Michael Irvin, and I'm really happy about the Jerry Rice. Oh, it's not gonna let me Let me look at him. I can't click on him and look at him again sick card though I know that's not a ton cuz like I literally can't get the gameplay because I'll be in Greece when like you Can actually play this but I hope you guys enjoyed this We're just getting back into swinging things got a huge pack opening coming up on Mad Mobile and then I'm gonna do the 10 Flashback packs video over again. I'll be sick. That's it for now guys. I hope you enjoyed this video Why am I so squinty? Thanks for watching as always. I hope you got a little bit of nostalgia out of that video peace out


So I'll tell you about the decentralized cooperative web and the back feed recipe for decentralized organization And let me just dive straightly to here. Let's start with a quick overview So you all know you're familiar with the blockchain 1.0 such as Bitcoin The value system is hard-coded and objective, which means for example in Bitcoin the value system is defined by proof of work So providing hashing power is valuable and it's hard-coded into the client. It's an objective value system The gist of it is a tree. It's really a tracking system and the thing that is decentralized the ledger itself You can make it trust less cash diamonds art shipments and overall I would say that this class is in the early product stage Then blockchain 2.0 Ethereum you can now softly code your value system. It's still objective So still valuable contribution should be a machine readable machine measurable The gist of it you can deploy smart contracts and now the decentralization is about the execution and you can basically write self-executing accounting systems Banking gains IOT contracts and so on so forth and this stage of this class I would say is roughly the prototype stage and third class Which is also the class that I will focus on today is Dealing with the emergent and subjective value system such value system that human the people define The gist of it it allows you to basically engage with collective intelligence and really hear you decentralize the governance itself So examples would be the centralist collaboration curation of content or even curation of physical objects such as restaurants decentralized insurance and network peer-to-peer insurance Decentralized investment funds and so on so as long as you want objective Accounting system blockchain is just fine. If you want to decentralize insurance system with it with the subjective assessment of claims For example, you need also this kind of collective intelligence protocol or the centralist governance and this this class is totally in a reinstaling the research stage So let me let me dive into the backfield really really quick a high level overview of the backfield protocol It is composed of three element elementary layers the subjective layer the objective in the inter objective The subjective layer is really about the peer-to-peer view and flow of content Basically, I won't get into it much But basically it's kind of a decentralized social and network Algorithm and then the the main the main layer is the objective layer Which is about the network consensus is how to allocate in a decentralized fashion to allocate reputation score and tokens to agents in the decentralized network and then of course the curation of objects through the Value system of that network and then the inter objective layer is about basically the relationship between various networks So in the following I will consider the case of the centralist cooperation But basically much of what I will say will hold for the other use case as well So okay, so let's just imagine a network the the balls are agents with private keys The circles are agents without private keys basically smart contracts or if you want decentralized networks And all of them are agents of the centralized network number one So this is the world view as seen by a network number one. We'll get back to that later So the objective layer basically or the intra network dynamics looks something like that. So anyone Let's see. Yeah, anyone can post a contribution for example You can post to the network a code library And then you also post your own evaluation of that contribution and then Every every agent in the network any agent in the network can post his evaluation of that contribution What is the value of that contribution the subjective value? You see different agent may have different reputation in that network and they also cannot can have different assessments at some point when you when you get a majority threshold the network will now Issue new tokens and reputation score and allocate them to the successful contributor, but also successful evaluators Okay, so the objective there is really about a repeat reputational weighted voting system for the allocation of tokens and reputation Per contribution to the contributor Basically the outcome of the voting is the median. That's that's pretty important and One consequence of that is that you only get issuance of token once you reach a majority Racial we'll talk about that later and then most importantly There is also reputational flow from non-voters late voters and misaligned voters into early aligned voters That basically create the the the back feed loop Which means that the the majority the majority is that is a systematic line is its reputation is increasing and increasing and that creates That's basically create growing alignment in the network, but also growing incentive to fork the network That anyone can do in a click of a button So that that brings us up to the in inter objective layer, which is the existence of multiple value systems So this is the view the world view of network one So now maybe this is the world view of network two you can as you can see different agents Sorry the agents in different networks may have different reputations according to the network and And the inter objective layer in the protocol is basically about defining the the network as being an agent in other networks So the outcome is multiple value systems that they can have various relationships They can be complementary competing or mother-daughter relationships or any combination of those And then the match of that protocol is about defining the network as an agent in other networks Which means how to take the aggregation of internal contribution within the networks? And trigger with them triggering the external contribution evaluation of the network in other networks So that's that part of the protocol and the outcome is a federal governance Network or federal federal governor structure as well as economic relationship between networks in terms of token redemption So if that was the dynamic the intra network dynamic The internet work dynamic looks like something like that So once once there is a threshold and distribution of internal tokens the network also post The evaluation to a larger network, but now remember that the agents in internally can also may also be Having reputation in the external network and then this process can go on and on like that So the outcome network topology in the simplest case may look like that something like that and in more general case It can also be more complex So that brings me to the problem of and solution of governance scalability So if we go back to here a quick look at this can can show you that Well, the governance scalability problem is that it's in order to remain To keep resilience you need to have majority threshold for each decision to make which is which is not very functional So for example here the 45 agents below Let's assume they have equal reputation if they were in a single network Then you'll have 20 you need 23 of them to agree about any decision But with this network topology you can reach decision with only 12 Agents attending every decision. So that's crucial But since not not every not any 12 configuration 12 people configuration work For that reason you can show that resilience is actually kept the same Okay, so solving the governance scalability problem is made by Semicompositional network topology as well as added with delegated vote system and also non-voter's leaking reputation Okay, I'll just keep the subject of there again It's just peer-to-pea flow of information it basically you're based on trust scores Reputations and endorsements And let me quickly just if I have some time left Yeah, let me quickly just discuss the blockchain implementation Which is based on on the novel architecture So the idea that the question was how to implement all this protocol on the blockchain in a scalable way So the point is that the blockchain only have a I would call blockchain minimalism The smart corner of the blockchain is also a very very simple smart contract Which is basically a reputation weighted multi-seq contract to change the state the state on the blockchain is just a reputation token balances And the established the established votes And then there's also the state change protocol or the hash of the protocol and then the rest all the messages between people The the signing of mess of contributions and evaluations as well as the calculation of the protocol itself is all Export Beyond the chain so off chain So how it looks like something like that someone is signing contribution is posting it into the network Someone else is a posting evaluation like that. They reach the majority At that point he has a package roughly look like that And then only then is posting the state change claim proposition to the blockchain And then all the reputable agents are being called to calculate locally under the machine the state change According to the protocol and if they agree with that to sign that state change So let me just end With a few few sharing some some timeline So firstly let me tell you that back feed goes non-profits or we're opening a nonprofit foundation to continue the research and development Of the the protocol stack for the central organizations in the 19 to 23 of October There is a protocol workshop if anyone is interested in that domain, please just email me And you can participate and then we are expecting until the end of the year to complete the protocol specification And then three months later to release an alpha stage life central organization. Thank you Thank you very much. Thank you


And welcome to Geneva and WISIS Forum 2022. And with me is Abdullah Mazuki, who is the Open Data Department Director for the Abu Dhabi Digital Authority. Welcome. And you're here a year late really, aren't you, to pick up an award that you weren't able to receive last year because of COVID. Tell me what it was, what it's for. Yes, thank you so much first of all. Well, it was on the category 7 eScience. That's right. And we were one of the participants who were presenting actually the newly released Open Data Platform for Abu Dhabi government, which considered the only trusted, centralised channel for publishing and benefiting from Abu Dhabi Open Data. For all type of users, when we are talking about users, we're talking about researchers, students, academy and start up in Abu Dhabi. And that's for the point of express the value of the Open Data within Abu Dhabi government. And that concept of open data is so important, isn't it, for the strategic development goals around equal access to information technology? Yes, that's right. And it's actually part of the data management programme, which has been started years before, around 2017. And one of the programme goals to have an open data platform that contains all the open data from the government entities within Abu Dhabi government. So it has been an effort not only from Abu Dhabi Digital Authority, but all the government entities, we are around 70 plus entities in Abu Dhabi Emirates. So we had put all hands in to support the development of this platform. And today, we can see the value of that open data platform, where we can see the rabbit increments on the visits on the downloads. I think we have achieved one of the goals that we are looking for in Abu Dhabi Data Management programme. So it's an example of collaboration leading to helping to sort of close that digital divide between the people who have the information and the people who need it and can make use of it for good. Yes, actually, we had the challenges if we go to the history, how to reach the valuable data, how to express the value of the data. And that was the suffer earlier when you are talking about the students' needs, the private sector needs. And look at that today. It's all within one platform, Data Data Abu Dhabi, where you can access all type of fields, education, economy and so on. So I believe that it's a success for us, but for all government entities and whomever is living in UAE. Congratulations on your achievement, Abdullah Mazuki. Thank you so much. Thank you.