Hey guys it's Liana and I'm here today with my March TBR. I somehow ended up with a very green TBR, not entirely, I don't remember what it was, which is fitting because of, you know, slain patties today. There's a book not in my stack because I don't have a physical copy of it, so let's do that first before I forget because I will forget and I didn't do my trick of sticking in a placeholder book with a sticky note on it so that I would remember. Widow of Rose House is the Blades and Bodice Rippers Book Club pick for March and I guess this is an official announcement, so sorry if this is not how we were going to announce it, but Mara and Bethany are officially joining the Blades and Bodice Rippers Book Club so this live show will be actually on Mara's channel and the rotation between channels will now be four-way instead so yeah we'll be talking about the Widow of Rose House on Mara's channel on the last Saturday of the month so yeah join us. Okay so and on to the books in this stack now. First I have the Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis Tevis Tevis Tevis whatever. I kind of on a fluke picked this up because I didn't actually realize that Queen's Gambit the TV show was based on a book and I was it was like on my watch list and I was like oh I need to watch that and then before I finally sat down to actually watch it I found out that it's based on a book and I was like oh I want to read the look first then duh because I always love comparing them. Yeah so I kind of unrealistically thought that maybe possibly like if I get through everything on my TBR in February I can pick this up too but I am as of the filming of this video it is not the end of February yet and I have not anywhere near to finish the books that were on my February TBR and actually I mean not that this isn't quite a happy TBR but I put slightly less books on this TBR because I anything that I don't finish before the end of February I don't know which and how many that will be at this point because I I'd hope to finish at least two more books. One of them is my Blades and Bodyshopers book club book for February so I have to read that. I hope to oh I'm very very close to finish with another one and then I'm like some some of the way through some of the others so like I'm gonna finish a few more but I don't know which and how many so whatever I don't finish from February is like unofficially also on my March TBR like carried on over so if you're wondering why this stack is like tiny bit smaller than last month's stack that's why. So yeah back to the Queen's Gambit I mean you know what this is presumably because the show has kind of been like a big a big deal and the the book sounds promising and usually they only turn like fairly popular or received books into shows it's I mean I may not always agree that I like a book but like it's usually because a book has done well or has a following that it gets optioned for you know movies and TV. So I have relatively high hopes and I'm at the very least excited even if I end up hating this book seeing why maybe like the adaptation like fixed it or improved on it if I if that ends up being the case so I'm excited about this. Next up I have Assassin's Quest which is the third and final book in the Farsier trilogy which I'm buddy reading with Mara from books like well because we are doing our hob journey together more or less. We read Royal Assassin in January then we gave ourselves a breather to emotionally recuperate and now we're gonna read Assassin's Quest in March this is that they keep getting longer. Like Assassin's Apprentice was like you know Royal Assassin was like ehh and now Assassin's Quest like it's my whole month I'll just be reading this I'm just gonna be like crying and reading whole month long but I am quite excited about this hob is just like I'm absolutely gobbling up hob so I am very much looking forward to the emotional turmoil that I will no doubt be in throughout. Next up is another buddy read with Mara and that is Thunderhead by Niel Schwesterman I've been meaning to finish the arc of the scythe since I started the arc of the scythe which is like two years ago at this point so again I may when I pick this up discover that I need to reread scythe I think I can do it based on what I like like right now like if I think about what happened inside like I think I remember enough um and and if not then I can like look up some spoilery reviews or something like I think I'm okay but yeah so Mara and I are going to buddy read this as well because she also wants to finish the arc of the scythe so why not do it together then before too much time passes I want to finish the truly devious trilogy which concludes with the hand on the wall by Maureen Johnson um yeah I read the first two truly devious books in 2020 I thought I'd finish the trilogy but I didn't end up getting around to the third one so again like it's I'm having a lot of fun reading this like YA mystery series it takes place both in the present day at a school and then like is the overarching mystery is the mystery of like this like uh murder that happened like in the 40s I think it was like something like that so we're like uh there's like you know dual timeline mysteries and like it's corny and cheesy and a bit cliche and tropey but I'm having a good time I like the characters I like the ambiance of being in this remote school where we're investigating stuff um so yeah I'm looking forward to this um I have heard that because I believe that it concluded with this and I think it more or less does but I've also heard that there's now going to be a fourth book so like I guess maybe I'm not finishing this with this book I thought I was but in any event I do want to read it before I forget what happened in the previous two books the next book I have is all the green and that is blue lily lily blue by Maggie Steve Otter I keep like not finding the right time of year to be reading this but I've just been like feeling this immense siren's call to get back into this series that I I'm like I need to like seize on it because like whenever it's not on my tbr I desperately want to read it and whenever it is on my tbr I'm like uh so right now we've hit this convergence where I have I'm able to put it on my tbr and I'm feeling like I want to read this so this is the time it's happening finally reading this next up is the fellowship of the ring by J.R.R. Tolkien this is a lesser known fantasy work by an obscure author I read the fellowship of the ring at the beginning of 2020 um and like I can't really see it like I need to read the next one before it would happen in the first one but I do want to like keep going with Lord of the Rings uh like I don't want too much time to pass like I want to like carry on with my Lord of the Rings journey so I'm like yeah let's let's do this now why not next up is my reread of the last argument of kings by Joe Abercrombie as you may or may not know I am rereading all the first law books one in anticipation of the release of the third and final book in the age of madness trilogy which is also the final book in the world of the first law like so far like I do understand that Joe Abercrombie is interested in writing more books in the first law but as far as like what is currently planned and slated to occur and be written and be published the wisdom of crowds is like the last one that is definitely going to be in the world of the first law so yeah I'm rereading everything uh not that I need to but because I want to in anticipation of that plus I never did standalone reviews for all of the first law books so as I reread them I'm doing standalone reviews for them so very much looking forward to this round three and the last one on my TBR is a new book that um I like didn't really it wasn't like an anticipated release I didn't really know about it um until basically until it came out like uh because like you know of course like it made the circuit on Instagram and whatnot and from the cover I actually thought it would be like a Celtic type of story but it's actually a viking book so naturally a girl ordered it so that's kind of all I know about it is that it's a viking book wait did I even say the name I mean you can see it but it's called the witch's heart and it's by Genevieve Gornichick okay well yeah so yeah the witch's heart let me know in the comments down below what you're reading in March if you're reading any of the same books as me please join us for reading the Blades of Bonnets Rippers book club book because it's always more fun if you guys have also read it so you can join us in the live chat during the live show but I also am always excited to talk about any books that I'm reading with other people so go ahead and pick these up if you are so inclined or don't whatever you do you post videos on Saturdays other random times as well definitely Saturdays so like and subscribe and I'll see you when I see you bye


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for CCNC Europe, which is part of a global enterprise architecture training and consulting team. We were one of the earliest TOGAF trainers. We've been part of the open group for almost 20 years, and we believe in TOGAF. We like it. But there's more to architecture than what we used to do. We need to take those principles and that way of thinking into the modern age. So we asked Kate Platernava of HSBC, whose chief architect for technical domains, to come and speak with us at the open group meeting in Amsterdam. Kate is a champion for diversity. She is one of the leaders of architecture in the HSBC Global Bank, based in the UK. What we're helping HSBC with about three or four years ago, they started talking to them about our solution architecture course, which was traditional. And designed for more of a traditional type of role. What HSBC are doing is what they call the technology economy. They're working with leading training content providers such as ourselves, and delivering training through a unified portal across the globe, partly in classrooms, partly online. And a key part of this is the Athena program, a particular component of the economy which is designed to empower women who want to move into architecture and careers from other parts of the bank. We've been trying to help with that as well. In order to make the changes that they need, we're supporting HSBC, and this was in a longer presentation, which you might want to watch Kate talk about, and moving to what they call decision-driven design, agile design for an agile world. So the old way was to have a design committee. The new way is peer-reviewed. The old way, toll gates. The new way, guardrails. Review and improve long cycles of waiting for someone to look at your work and tell you what they think is replaced with trust and verifying. And the whole approach is designed to deliver agile architecture throughout the value chain of IT. The Zhang Zhenge, which I probably pronounced wrong, the Cantonese Mandarin people can correct me, as you like. But these are the three components of the economy in HSBC. Technical excellence, which is of course essential, because we're talking about integrated cross-functional teams doing devops, agile, who need to understand how everything works, plus depth in their own area. Communication mastery, which has always been essential for architects. And leadership power, which is an interesting component, but also very important for architects. Most of what we do in architecture work is not telling people what to do. If we try to do that, they usually stop inviting us to meetings. It has always been helping people to be successful by showing leadership, and that's emphasized in the academy. So we've updated our architecture solution architecture course to be the architecture fundamentals for the digital age. It's a six-day course now. And we take the students on a journey. We've done about six 25-person classes in HSBC, which is a beginning. It is a global effort. And the journey starts with understanding context. So in the old way of working, the old waterfall way, it was enough for the enterprise architect to understand the strategy and customer expectations. And they would create designs, and this would all well downhill. Except that wasn't really enough. And it didn't work very well when it was important for people to do development or people doing deployment and infrastructure to understand why we had this stuff. It is now important, and everyone sees this today, it's part of what DevOps is about. It's important for everyone to understand this stuff. So that we have transparency and principality from the original demand signal, from the top-down strategy from the customer expectation right through to what is delivery from the customer's hands. We take the students through a journey in which they put layer upon layer on an architecture about an imaginary company that looks a lot like real companies and that it has merger and acquisition issues and is trying to expand certain lines of business in certain countries. It has demands from customers for changes to products that require changes in IT because my shopping is in my pocket. There it is. My bank is in my pocket. And so architects dig solution. Architects need to understand that. We take them through a series of design choices. We talk to them about design patterns, technology trends, how to deal with non-functional requirements. This is all enterprise architecture stuff that is now needs to be part of the understanding of the solution architect and beyond as we flow through the value chain. We talk about the impact of the choices they make on things like time to market and time to value. And we give them a structure. It's a common structure across the group of people who have been through this training. Common semantics, common notations, common kinds of models, common approaches so that they can communicate in a single way, although it's not with a single voice, so that their work is understandable all around them. And also that it's based on tracing the work that they've done back to the purpose of the business, the purpose of the customers. And it includes things that people need to know about governance and finally business study. So we're just starting this journey with HSBC. We've been on this with them for about a year and a half and we feel really good about this new course that we're able to offer, which is helping them a lot and has helped us a lot with our own training portfolio to be completely up to date with Agile. The technology choices that HSBC has made to go deeper are these. And each one of them is very important for understanding how to do architecture in an agent which you're not just inside some firewall or some data center inside some concrete fortress. You actually have to think about how to refactor things from the digital age. You have to think about mobile. You have to understand when and how to use cloud. You have to understand what to do with your application that contributes to the strategic approach to big data analytics that you're all about. You have to understand what security needs in this kind of environment. Other people using this training might choose different key technologies but these seem pretty basic and wouldn't be able to come through this journey after six days in the class. They go away with their own little set of architecture artifacts. It's their own enterprise architecture for that imaginary company. But more importantly, they've learned how architects think they're becoming fully functional architects themselves and it creates a single way of thinking across the group which is very important and big change and will make everything else more successful, we think. So you can watch the full presentation if you like. It's about 45 minutes and we hope that you do. Thank you.


So join me Kevin fury on Saturdays from three and Sundays from to right here on Highland video Kevin fury Sport on Highland is brought to you by Michael Murphy sports and leisure beat your personal best with new trainers from Asics Brooks and new balance or gear up for the gym with active wear from Under Armour and Adidas Welcome back to the sports desk. Well, I'm delighted to say I'm joined now in the studio by now lions and Peter Hampton of the Donegal Dairy Vipers boys. Welcome to Highland radio. Thanks for having us And I suppose we'll start with you then you're involved in many ways in the club Including managing the youth team and playing for the senior kidded team. Tell us a bit about that I am along with the Vipers now since their inception and a couple of years ago We made the decision that we were going to have to bring in some fresh blood We're all getting the wee bit out on the tooth. So we started up our youth team Three years is going now and the first year we kind of get scubbered by covid and we've had two fall seasons the past Well, and we're just going from strength to strength And as regards the senior team, we're going about eight years now and I've been playing every year Certainly, maybe get a wee bit tired it might move on to the coaching as we go on But we're we're at recruiting looking for new blood now If you're interested they give us a shout in the socials and get involved Yeah, and you're of course you're looking to get some younger players involved in that youth team What would you tell the young play the young people listening about the sport and the club itself? Oh, it's a it's a great club to get involved in the you make lifelong friends when you get involved for the youth team We recruit from 15 to 18 and as long as you're 18 on one day of So let's say you were to play this season Let's say you turned, you know as long as you're 18 on the first any day in 2023 you can play even though if you turn 19, so We're um, we normally start training for that around about June time and then we play our matches around August and September We've got a couple boys from Donegal playing on the team Josh and Malins from Bunkrana and Noa Deere as well And they just started there last year and they've been playing fantastically well This year we might start a wee bit earlier because I heard it through the grapevine that the league are starting up there under 19s Ireland team the international team is starting back up again So we're sending 13-hour players down to the down to the tryouts and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody out there that We want to get involved. It's a as you know, it's about a niche sport. So you don't get too often a chance to be able to compete All Ireland, you know for one and then at least get a chance They won't play for your international team as well a clear path there Yeah, you touched on it there the Irish national youth team, of course And that's an opportunity to to play for their field not just even within your country. There's there's international opportunity That's that's me a really interesting for anyone There's I know those youth competitions and stuff held in Europe and things like that Our first game they try and get our feet in the ground. I think we're talking about playing an American high school team when the College games are on down in Dublin American teams come over and play and they're hoping to get our under 19s up in London So that and get a and get a game So it's it's it's not too far in front of you know, and we get you up to speed no baller If it's on your ancestor and please get in contact with us, we would love to have you Yeah, and of course There's a chance of if you're involved in any youth setup the chance to move up into the senior ranks Have you many come up? We have well our youth teams are we but Where we would have been on a wee bit on the younger side when we started out so only one of them graduated into the senior team Now he's turned 18 But next year will have a couple more and the fact that you get your experience at youth And you know when you go up to senior then you're miles ahead of the boys that are starting beside you And it's a fantastic base to start from and it's full contact It's a smaller game We only play 8v8 in youth once you got the senior turns into 11 v 11 But when we go and player under national matches, it'll be 11 v 11 So you'll get experience in both disciplines of the ball. So it's a it's a great opportunity Yeah, and the senior kid a team is supposed they're getting their camp on campaign underway shortly as well Tell us a bit about the senior kid a team and what involves It's we're starting now our senior our senior season starts now at the start of March And that'll take us through to June and if you play well enough and you do well enough in your league Then your playoffs start down around around about July and August a chance to go on to the ball Now our senior team at the monitor split They're not planning on the top division they're planning on the on the second division There's a division blows again. So we're vying for promotion this year but we're we're We've got a good set of veterans that's played for a few years and we've got a good few rookies this year We're just looking to add their ranks to take us to the next level. Do you know what I mean? You need a good a good few men out with this sport. You need 11 v 11 So there's always a position. There's always a place where everybody paid You don't have to be Unbelievably fat or on the best ship in your life It's the way that the sport has played that there's a spot for everybody And if you're worried about coming down your leadership, don't worry. We'll soon get you ready and find a spot for you And I suppose then Peter last season the vipers flag team They finished second in the Northern Ireland and Fourth of we're all in the all Ireland last year in the Premier Division and what was your second season You must be delighted with how that went. I'm definitely delighted we started in 2020 and had a bit of a hit with COVID obviously and We were thinking it would take a few years of development because a lot of the guys who only played kidded There is obviously a different set of rules different dynamic for flag football But in our first year playing 2021 we were promoted to the Premier Division, which is our top league in Ireland and Then this last season there we say came second Which was brilliant and that got us into the playoffs to play for the finals. Unfortunately came fourth It's a good experience, of course though. And you mentioned there. It's different to kidded What what is entailed in the flag game and how does it differ to do that? So flag football is a 5v5 sport on the field and to give you an example, it'd be like tag rugby you're to play in school so you've got two flags and your hips and Same thing ball thrown forward and you're on trying to score touchdown But if you get the flag pulled at you stopped so it's a smaller field But a faster game and it works on the skills of the wide receivers the quarterbacks and the defensive players And it's something that for play people who maybe want to come into Merton football without taking the hits and the tackles to start off with Give them into that game or if they just want to look good on a Monday morning back to work You won't have the bruises and all that there so I suppose that's handy for some people Of course the flag game also have an international team which some Viper members are involved in As well as they're creating a ladies team as well. That's correct. So they're starting building up to currently international team for Limerick at the end of the year they're hosting the European flag championships and They're also building now a women's team and we've got one female player down Who's been in tryouts so Yeah, very good, and of course it's a becoming a fastly popular game What benefits does playing flag football have then of course we touched on the no contact, but Is there more benefits on that? It's a great social one as I say like not gonna obviously take the hits So you're able to go out have a bit of fun and you don't need to buy your helmets your kit your pads It's a much more lightweight sort of scheme, but you're able to still play American football and assassins And then if you want to then progress on it is a good stepping stone if you want to move into the kidded environment and I suppose would you be involved in the kid it set up to know I've so I started playing flag back in University open Colrain Seven years ago, and then a couple years ago moved into here Just with everything else I've been doing flags been the better set up for me. So yeah, I've enjoyed it Go to work happy now fun Monday. Yeah, of course the Super Bowl takes place tomorrow I'm sure there'll be a lot of Irish eyes on that and of course the vipers are hosting the party for the Super Bowl tomorrow Tell us a bit about that Hi, we're we're on the Silver Street in there. I've been there a few years. I've been very good to us And if anyone I want to call it on Sunday, we're meeting for around 930 or 10 o'clock and we'll get the game on and it's always a great great night's crack. We have a few games and you know Few prizes raffles. We better be better fun. We all sit down. We all like-minded people and what's the big game as they called Of course that game kicks off at half 11 tomorrow. Is it half 11 our time yet? Yeah, and then yeah As mentioned, of course, this was both final. It's Kansas City chiefs against the Philadelphia Eagles How do you see that one fine fair night? Well, as long as the chiefs don't want. I'm happy I support the raiders and they're my divisions was long as they don't want. I'm happy. No, right. Yeah Yeah, and what team do you follow? No, I'm Kansas. Oh, you are Kansas City. So you're happy enough then You've even you've even happier and maybe come tomorrow night at some point And finally one question for you both then what are the goals and plans for yourselves and the club going forward for now this next year? For the club as always the game promotion. We'd like to get up on to the SPC the shamrock ball conference We try our hardest every year. I think we've got a good chance this year We've got a good a good crop of players We can keep them all yellow and keep everybody healthy and if anybody else wants to come out Don't worry. It's the season as I says runs on the June. There's plenty of time to get stuck on For myself, I'd just like to get another season and maybe it's stay healthy I'm gonna get another one at the other side and for the youth. We're hoping they We we went out we went out last year and we had some personal goals We won the one or first match and get scores here and scores there And we managed to if I fall them also our next target is they as they won the thing if we can and hopefully get some Of our players on to the Ireland youth team and I just want to say about the youth and the flag that it's both It's both male and female So if there's any ladies out there that want to get involved and are in the contact or the flag city Getting contact with us. Definitely. There's there's girls playing on the flag team And there's a girl interested in coming they play with The youth team this year as well. So there'll be plenty plenty for you to get stuck on there Yeah, and yourself Peter for the flag is for say we're in the premier at the moment. So obviously retaining that status and hopefully going back to the playoffs and Just bumping ourselves up the rank of it. Yeah, and building a bigger recruitment base So and then a personal goals for yourself personal goals So in the quarterback and maybe might move out a bit of wide receiving a bit more spread me field to be But just enjoy the sport really Yeah, fun. I suppose best looked for the Kansas City Chiefs Thanks. Thanks boys for joining us on on the Highland radio Saturday sport


Devonte Freeman of the Falcons had 41 yards on Sunday, just two receptions and that equated only 5.1 fantasy points on FanDuel. His stock has got to be down. Yeah, it's just the easy exact opposite of Joe mixing. We talked about Joe mixing coming back and getting back into his full workload for the Bengals. But I think the problem with Devonte Freeman is that he kind of got Wally pipped. He got hurt and he missed a couple of games and eats have Smith looked really good when Freeman was out and what the Falcons coaching staff said on Sunday morning is that they want to use all three running backs and they did exactly that Devonte Freeman snap rate went down to 39% Tevin Coleman played 38% and Eto Smith played 17%. And again, that is not because Freeman is coming back from injury. It sounds like they're doing that because Eto Smith looked really good while Freeman was out. So eight carries two targets for Freeman. Tevin Coleman had seven carries and two targets. Eto Smith, three carries and one target. If they're going to split things up that much, it's going to take away from this, both the floor and the ceiling of all three guys. And I love Devonte Freeman. I think he's a very good player underrated as an overall like real world football player. But if they're going to keep a snap rate of 40%, not make him the featured back in this offense. I see really no reason to use him. He's got a great matchup this week against the Buccaneers. And I would love to use a running back in this Falcons offense in that game. But I don't see how I can't. None of these guys is going to have a workhorse type usage unless they change their tune heading into the week. But I don't see that happening. So honestly, for right now, I think it's just kind of a stay away backfield for me. I'm disappointed because Devonte Freeman again has been a fun aspect in the past. But at least for right now, I can't really go towards him just because they're going to use three guys. It's going to really spread things too thin seems to be a case of running back by committee in Atlanta. Therefore, Devonte Freeman, his stock is down.


The wife of the Lagos State Governor, Dr. Bijake Sawolu and the U.S. Consul General Claire Pier Angelo have joined the Women at Risk International Foundation's work on a no-tolerant walk against gender-based violence. The march was to commemorate the globally-recognized annual U.N. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. Details.  Nearly three in ten Nigerian women have experienced physical violence by the age of 15. The narrative worsened in the wake of the COVID-19 and the lockdown in 2020. As marches drew enabling laws, victims as to subject to stigmatization and suppression. The wife of the Lagos State Governor, Dr. Bijake Sawolu, was at this march to show solidarity. The Women at Risk International Foundation Waref and the United State Consulate were emphatic that no meant no, and victims should not be the ones to be shamed. At the Waref Centre, we had a 64% increase in call rates in the first lockdown back in March of 2020, and since then we've had a 20% increase in the number of girls and women that visit the centre. We rely on our social and cultural practices and norms, and sadly communities survive a shame. A girl cannot speak out against the abuse because she's afraid. She's afraid of her family name. She's afraid that she'll be ostracized by her community. So what communities have to do, what families have to do, is stand by the survivor. If you see violence, it doesn't mean physical, it also means verbal, it also means psychological. If you see violence going on against women or girls, you need to step in. Not only the women, but the men need to step in and stop it. Remember, these are your sisters, these are your mothers, these are your daughters. For Comedienne Dame Lola de Coya, popularly known as Princess, she joined the walk in solidarity for her world who was sexually abused. She said the laws are not enough if they cannot be implemented. Others were unanimous in their charge for gender equity and justice for victims.  We can't keep quiet. We can't say, oh, it's not my business. We can't say don't talk so that they won't say you are the one that said it. We can't continue that way. It is very obvious that most of us Nigerians have lost our humanity. If not, there is nothing, there is no attraction between a 48-year-old or a 50-year-old man or a 35-year-old man and a three-month-old baby. Women are suffering. A lot of them cannot even speak out. And those are managed to speak out and victimize. We need to be protected. We need to know that we are not the cause of the things that happen. We always say having the male voice to amplify the female voice is very important as well.  We also need male in our community to mobilize and support us as well. The 16 days of activism against gender-based violence kicked off on the 25th of November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and will run until the 10th of December, the human rights day.


Like to call the 20th regular meeting of the 2017 2018 Common Council to order with a clerk Please read the quote for the day. Thank you, mayor May today be filled with happy memories of the past and bright hopes for the future Thank you very much with a clerk Please call the roll Alderperson Lewandowski. Are you there? There are 14 present And all their person the whole shoe and born our excuse this evening Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance Next we'll move on to approval of the minutes from our last meeting all their person wolf Thank you, mayor. I make a motion to approve second. Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion passes Item 1.4 is the presentation human trafficking awareness by detective tamer remington from the Sheboygan police department Governor Walker recently issued a proclamation designating January is human trafficking awareness month and Please step up to the podium and that copy of that proclamation is on your desks My name is tamera remington. I'm with Sheboygan police department And I'm also a member of the federal human trafficking task force for southeastern, Wisconsin I've been a member of the federal task force since 2013 and I've been handling numerous sex trafficking cases Here in Sheboygan, Wisconsin since then I just wanted to let everybody know that We'll often hear that Sheboygan ranks number two in Wisconsin for human trafficking cases And while that may be the case, it's not necessarily a negative thing Just so you know Human trafficking is officially documented in all 72 counties of Wisconsin and that's something that It's officially documented and I'm very proud of Sheboygan in our awareness piece we are very I think we're very much ahead of the curve with the awareness and I really commend the people of Sheboygan for having presentations. It's not the prettiest of topics, but it's it's a fact It's it's nationwide. It's absolutely in Wisconsin and it's here in Sheboygan. So It's more due to the awareness that we're number two the actual definition of human trafficking Human trafficking is the overall umbrella. There are two types of human trafficking There's labor trafficking which accounts for 20% of the human trafficking and then the majority of human trafficking and sex trafficking That's 80% and that's nationwide Worldwide and also in Wisconsin and I would venture to say also in Sheboygan. However, we don't have any active labor trafficking cases being prosecuted right now The definition to so labor and sex trafficking domestic and international And it involves men women boys and girls in various capacities Just so you know in southeastern, Wisconsin the youngest victim We have documented is two years old sold for sex and up to elderly and everything in between So I really urge all of us as community members to open our eyes not just kind of Get stuck in stereotypes of what we think the victims are all races all sizes all shapes So again from age two and under up to elderly and everything in between Human trafficking sex trafficking is the obtaining the recruiting the harboring the transporting or the selling of a human being for commercial sex Acts using force fraud or coercion or providing or withholding drugs But if the victim is under 18 So a juvenile then you don't even need the force fraud or coercion. I do have to say in all of my cases. I've I have dozens of cases and All but one have involved the drugging of subjects So I'm really glad that we have the Wisconsin statute, which is ahead of the The federal statute. It doesn't even have the providing and withholding drugs. So again, we're lucky to have that One thing I wanted to let you know about is the awareness that we're doing here in Sheboygan Besides being a member of the federal task force. I'm also I was invited to join a Workgroup to work for all of Wisconsin to come up with a Indicator tool that I I have some extras to for the audience, but this is an indicator tool In which we can predict high-risk Victims of sex trafficking a new law went into effect May 29th of 2017 Another way that Sheboygan is ahead of the curve is our chief. Let us Use the Dallas Police Department model in predicting high-risk victims and then by doing that since 2015 for the last two years we were able to predict the high-risk victims the runaways and such and Provide wraparound services to prevent further victimization. So I really do appreciate that we Have have a chief that's ahead of the you know, the thinking process and I know Madison was pleased with that, too Another way that we're lucky in Sheboygan is our prosecution rate. I work with detectives all over Wisconsin and told by detectives all over that Their district attorneys are hesitant to take these cases. They're very difficult time-consuming cases and we're lucky to have Joel Armansky who takes all of my human trafficking cases Prosecutes them. We have one big case going next week as a matter of fact Just really quickly some more goals that we have There's a wonderful program called ending the game The game is what we refer to as you know life in in the being sex trafficked And once somebody enters that life, it's it's a very traumatic life And the only way to get out of that life is to break the cycle through something such as ending the game programming we In mentioning this to the community members they raised money to fund eight women to go through the program this past summer and I a future goal is to get it into our jail where I currently have at least a dozen young women who are actually asking to Go through ending the game so that they don't keep Going through this terrible cycle of trauma Another thing that our goal our goal is to eventually have a transitional living facility. Hopefully so far we have to Send our survivors elsewhere a new home just opened up in Green Bay called Rose home. So we're very excited It's already full And they do have ending the game Programming there I did pass out Some of the signs to look for and I have extra copies for the audience But signs to look for and this is something that the community can get involved in as a whole I think as a community we owe it To to the community and our loved ones because as I said before Anybody can become a victim The main thing that everybody has in common is that they're vulnerable and all human beings are vulnerable at some point in their lives Signs to look for If somebody is you know has somebody always in control of them or they're not able to speak for themselves Noticing brandings tattoos scars that kind of thing It's not a hundred percent an indicator but that in combination with numerous motel keys Injuries fear of law enforcement or speaking out Or people hanging out with a much older crowd. These are signs to look for and So I have the additional signs to look for for the The audience One one quick thing to where we're lucky to have the partnerships Shrubboi and police department works in conjunction with runaway youth services Horizons for girls stars Love ink we're very lucky to have all of these groups and we're all on the same page And as I said before a new law went into effect May 29th of 2017 in which CPS now has to take all Child sex trafficking cases even if it's a non caregiver issue So we meet regularly with CPS to make sure that we are providing proper services to high-risk children and youth of Shoeigan So thank you all for being a part of the solution and Thank you for your time tonight Timer, thank you very much for your presentation Do we have anyone signed up for the public forum this evening? There is no one to me. Thank you. Next we'll move on to mayor's announcements I'd like to call up Dan Brady Dan Brady retired from the Shoeboygan regional wastewater treatment plant on January 2nd of 2018 After nearly 37 years of service as the lead wastewater operator Dan was Instrumental and ensuring that the wastewater treatment plant met all compliance obligations and was responsible for setting up many of the Processes and control strategies that have helped the plant to succeed Dan was also responsible for training and mentoring the operators including Brian Willison who was awarded the Wisconsin Wastewater Operators Association newcomer of the year award in 2013 and Tyler Hoffman who received the same award in 2016 Dan was also recognized as a leader in the wastewater field winning the George Burnour award in 2015 which recognizes operators for successful plant performance and outstanding contributions to the field of wastewater technology in the state of Wisconsin Throughout his career Dan has been very committed to the facility and to his profession as was demonstrated during the recent transition between Superintendents when Dan took on additional responsibilities to ensure a smooth transition Dan was a very is was a very respected member of the wastewater team and had a positive influence on everyone at the wastewater treatment plant Dan, I'm very pleased to Congratulate you on your retirement and I want to give you the certificate of appreciation from the city of Shoeboygan to Dan Brady for his 37 years of dedicated service and employee of the wastewater treatment plant from February 16th of 1981 to January 2nd of 2018 Dan congratulations I'll make this quick. I just wanted to say that it's probably hard for a lot of People to visualize how anybody that amassed almost 38 years at a wastewater treatment plant can truly be honored and Privileged to have worked there, but I can honestly say that I have been honored and privileged to work for the city for 38 years I've had been fortunate enough to work under five superintendents Two of them are here tonight and some great staffs and some of those are here tonight also I just wanted to thank the current and previous common councils and the current and previous public works committees For their support of the wastewater treatment plant That that being said I challenged the public any time that they can have it have the opportunity to take a tour out there It's not what you think it is I think you're going to find it's not only educational but you're going to be impressed with the the overall operations So again, thank you very much Today we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day And I'd like to share a quote from an appearance that I made at UW Madison in November 23rd of 1965 a Piece of freedom is not enough for us as human beings a piece of liberty no longer suffices Freedom is like life freedom is one thing and it's indivisible You have to have it all or you're not free Just a little remembrance of Dr. King and his work Next I'd like to mention the shabuigan fire department was very busy last Friday evening in shabuigan First there was a structure fire reported on North Avenue They responded to that and then a call came in for a car fire at another location And then next the fire department received a call About a fire on the roof of the NEMAC production facility on Gateway Drive The fire department had to call in nine off-duty firefighters and issue a Mambus Call for assistance from eight other fire departments and surrounding communities at the staff meeting today Mike Rome has complimented all the firefighters and paramedics the mutual aid help from the other fire departments the assistance from the Shabuigan Police Department and also the great job that was done by Shabuigan County combined dispatch And we have a couple of victims and there's some fundraising efforts going on An 18 year old Ian Nespazi was injured in the fire with burns and smoking inhalation And he's in an induced coma right now in a hospital He's receiving further treatment and a GoFundMe account has been set up to help Ian and his mother Pam to date There's twelve thousand three hundred ninety one dollars that's been raised Shot this is far shorter the goal for eighty thousand dollars to help this family out if you'd like to participate and help in the Spotsy family go to go to fund me dot com and search for the Shabuigan family fire and Then there's also a house to the east that was also Caught on fire and Matt Stewart lived next door and there's also a GoFundMe Account for him and that's help house fire victim. That's what you search on one you go to go fund me dot com and So far today the Department of Public Works streets division has put out three updates on their plowing operations I just want to share this one for overnight the forecast are calling for an additional two to three inches Through Tuesday morning the DPW of plow trucks will start focusing on the neighborhood streets this evening The trucks will be plowing the even side of the streets to accommodate winter parking rules There is a scheduled driver shift at 1130 when the third shift drivers come in they'll focus on the odd side of the streets And loader tractors will also be working to clean up the dead ends and call the sacks this evening The Department of Public Works also requests that residents utilize all off-street parking options if they can over a night The department will provide additional updates as the storm progresses the DPW Thanks all citizens for their patience as they clear the as the city clears over 200 miles of city streets now these public Information updates are posted on the city's website They're on their Twitter account and also on next door So if anybody would like to receive these on a regular basis during the storm you just need to subscribe to one of those options Okay, next we'll go on to the consent agenda That'll include items 2.2 through 2.9 all the person wolf Thank You mayor I make a motion to accept and file all our O's accept and adopt all our C's and pass all resolutions and ordinances Second thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on any of those items all the person Bellinger? Thank you. Could I I would like to request 2.9 be pulled for a separate vote? Okay, we'll take that one first Please proceed with your discussion. I Received a phone call today from a constituent and they were going to be here and attend this meeting and Ask a question regarding this issue Due to the weather they were unable to be here So I would just like to put their question out to the fire chief and that question was Based on The average number of structural fires There's average about one a month They were wondering why we need to order This piece of equipment and spend this kind of money if that's the case Chief from us. Would you like to come forward and answer that question? Thank you for your question alderman Or your constituents question That statistic is true They're talking about working structure fires We have many other fires in the city an area ladder is used for more than just fires It's used to protect exposures if we would have had an aerial up yesterday at that fire on north We could have stopped that second building from catching fire So sometimes it's used to put water on a building so that it doesn't catch fire We also use it and can be used to transport equipment and personnel We've had two fires at NEMAC in the last eight months. We had a fire about eight months ago during the summer and Because we didn't have the adequate area ladder that I would like to purchase now Our firefighters had to carry up 38 fire extinguishers to the roof of NEMAC and a cat ladder Which is a straight vertical ladder if we would have had this truck there We could have put these extinguishers and personnel in the bucket and sent it right to the roof And it would have been a lot faster a lot safer and a lot better. So this this truck that we want to purchase That we're able to get is is a lot better than a straight aerial ladder and because of the benefits that Pierce are offering to us right now We can get a really nice truck for less money and more features Okay, so just to be clear this apparatus isn't a direct replacement This is a much different piece of equipment than what you correct It's a it's a definitely an upgrade from what we have now in fact One of our aerials is out of service the one that was closest to the fire the Rams are not operating And they're going to be replaced soon, but they haven't been replaced yet So the it's a quince so it operates as an engine and a truck and that's another thing All of our heavies engines and trucks have tanks of water on them. So they're not just an aerial ladder They're also an engine. So we have dual capabilities. So they serve many purposes in addition to Carrying extra equipment to the scene they're bigger and have more storage space Thank you. You're welcome Is there any other discussion on the motion? Okay, we're voting separately on item 2.9 with the clerk. Please call the roll Scott 14 eyes Motion passes next. We'll move on to reports of officers I don't know. I'm sorry. We've got to vote on the the main motion on the remaining items That's 2.2 through 2.8. The court, please call the roll on those Scott 14 eyes motion passes Under reports of officers items 3.1 through 3.4 will be referred to various committees Under resolutions items 4.1 through 4.5 will be referred to various committees Under reports of committees items 5.1 is our C number 212 of 1718 by the Public Works Committee whom was referred Resolution number 121 of 1718 by Alderperson Wolff authorizing the appropriate city officials to advertise for requests for proposal from Unified vendors for the establishment and operation of an authentic German beer garden concession at Kwanis Park area number 8 The city of Sheboygan recommends the resolution be passed Alderperson Wolff Think mayor I make a motion to accept and adopt and pass resolution Second thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk call the roll 13 eyes 1 no motion passes Under other matters items 6.1 and 6.2 will be referred to the Finance and Personnel Committee And next we have a contemplated closed session. We've got another matter other ones 7.1 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting the various license applications for the period ending December 31 2018 and June 30 2019 That'll be referred to the law and licensing committee Now Alderperson Wolff Thank you, Mary. I make a motion to convene in closed session under the exemption provided in section 19.85 Sub 1 sub e Wisconsin stats were competitive and bargaining Reasons require the closed session possible acquisition of property known as the parcel<PHONE_NUMBER>1 formally known as polar whale polar where LLC Second thank you for that motion in support the court, please call the roll for closed session 14 eyes Motion passes will take a short three-minute recess For our viewers at home the council will be adjourning in closed sessions So this will end our TV transmission and Alderperson Lee Wendalski will have to sign off because you're not allowed in closed sessions remotely With that we'll take a short recess


Okay, so I'm very pleased to hold an informal conversation with three current and former traders. And I know it's coming up to International Women's Day on the 8th of March. And so I just wanted to, I know amplifies the business of talking on the students side to some of those guys have gone on and secured internships and graduate positions. And I wanted to, because I'm involved on the trading side and I'm if I live talk to some of the female traders. And I have with me Shreya Fran and Katie, all of which are either current or former traders of ours. And they've, they haven't actually I don't think met each other before so in order for them and everyone who watches this to get get to know who you guys are what your backgrounds are. So I wanted to just kick us off so Katie what are you. So, yeah, sure. So, I'm Katie I have a background of about seven years in marketing so this is completely new to me and I sadly lost my job. So this is my impact of redundancy back in November and during the amplify program late January and completed the course the course one and two and actually managed to become a back trader so this is completely pushing me to my limits and I'm still very much in the early stages of learning but yeah that's where I am. And then, Fran, you're the experienced statesman in the room, you've been trading for a while now and you're doing you're still trading full time right. Yeah, so I joined amplify in February 2019 and completed the training there. And then, yeah, eventually it took me a good like five six months to find that consistency to go full time but then managed to do that. And since I've just been playing around with different strategies and different time frames different markets and I finally settled down in the past few months with one that I'm fully confident with and I am trading full time.  So I mean what what's the first of all, a little bit about what is your sport and then the level of, you know you're still doing it now how's it been with COVID have you been able to do anything on that side and then was there any transferable skill from being an elite athlete to trading. Did it help at all in any way. Definitely so I, I started fencing at primary school so I've done it for so long as I can remember now and it's a really great sport and I think one thing about it that's been directly useful for my professional work was the discipline but also forming under pressure. It's helped me really built my work ethic. And I think so when I started trading, that was the psychology aspect was so interesting to me actually, I didn't understand how big a role that played in kind of navigating when things got a bit tougher strategies didn't fall out the way he wanted them to. And I think being able to fall back on that amount of resilience and patience, the type of trader I was as well. I think for me to be consistent it meant that I had to fall back on that patience. And so I think that that sporting aspect was a real asset for me in that sense so it was good but yeah sadly I haven't been able to fence it all throughout lockdown everything's been happening stop so hopefully it will pick up again soon. I could see Fran and Katie nodding their heads then you were talking about psychology you didn't quite realize it was as important as it is so is there any comment that you guys could make on that in terms of, I guess. The stresses that you've had and obviously Katie you've just gone into training live funds for us. Whereas Fran you've been doing it with your own capital for a period of time now and you've kind of gone probably through the, the peaks and the troughs along the way to like you said consistency is there. Is there any kind of like tips or advice or, you know reflection that you have over the psychological side. I think that, especially now I'm sort of, I've just passed this challenge for an FTMO prop fund basically to trade so it's now trading like quite a significant amount someone else's money. It's not that stage and it's not just your own capital you're trading with. There's definitely, you definitely need to have that confidence in your strategy and be able to, you know, still execute it perfectly without kind of floundering or. I mean, yeah, you've got to be able to take a few losses, sometimes in a row, and like work out ways that you're going to be able to deal with that like, be it maybe trade less markets, take fewer trades. I think it's going to raise my trade setups as valid high probability and very high probability. So maybe if I've taken a couple of losses in a row and I'm feeling it's slightly uncomfortable, I'll either have the day off or reduce my risk to half, or just take the high probability setups for a while and then just, just to make sure the accounts not, you know. So was there a period of time to get to that point of self awareness to have these kind of checks in place? Yeah, definitely and definitely I think another thing is removing as much discretion as you can from your trading, especially if you are kind of sizing up to trading bigger capital is. The discretionary aspect was huge for me, like once I started trading, trying out strategies and sort of forming and refining a strategy where I had these very strict management rules, very strict entry rules, very strict like lot sizes. And then not veering from those at all, then, yeah, then that's when it sort of, it became, you know, like automated just a while and you're not no longer fazed by the losses, like they'll happen, but look at the bigger picture and backtesting as well. Yeah. Really helped like three years for each strategy. Yeah, I remember the last time we spoke, you said that you were like deep into backtesting. You had like baggy eyes and you were like. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that helps a lot as well just just in terms of confidence in the strategy. And then as long as you are taking the following the same rules taking the same sort of trades that you would in your backtesting, then you don't really have anything to worry about as long as you've proven through the back testing that it does work over time. And I'd usually do about probably about 200 trades per strategy over three years and then sort of look at that data, analyze it, kind of look for similarities, differences between the winners, the losers and then filter those, filter the losers out, backtest again, and that would normally I mean sometimes it would like double or triple the results. So you end up trading a strategy that's not even one that you sort of set out to start testing because you will end up have changed it so much by that point that. And yeah, it really really helps with the confidence. And you're unique to the other two because you did all of this training online. So where are you at the minute? I'm in Abu Dhabi at the minute. So I am four hours ahead of obviously the trading in London hub. So one, it was amazing because I put this course to the back of my mind thinking right I'll face it when it comes and I could log on to the sort of amplify community early and just sort of get a taste of what I was going into so I wasn't feeling blind. So that really helped me. So yeah, I'd recommend for anyone if they're ever thinking they want to do it to definitely sort of speak to more people and sort of look at that material because that really helped me understand right this is the format of how I'm going to be taught and what's what's going to work. And then yeah, it gave me the flexibility to go actually no I didn't quite understand that I want to go back and at my own pace and I think that was actually a real benefit of learning I'm usually someone who loves to be in the room with other people but there was a in the sense that I had everything at my fingertips I could go back I could pause things write it down rewind and and yeah so the videos were amazing help for me in terms of learning that technique and learning what works for me. So for the others, the other to who you were with me at the time on the trading floor in the city. One thing that was obviously quite obvious and was still obvious but you Katie as well being online was that you were in the minority I mean I think Fran particularly I remember. I don't know if you would maybe as one other female with you in the group perhaps or think in that intake. It was just me. Right just out of maybe how many 10 people. Yeah, people maybe. Yeah whereas show was coming from the internship which I'd say it's much more diverse and split but when you start carving out the niche of trading, particularly prop trading. It does tend to become very male oriented so how was that experience for you guys like when you were doing it in 2019 was it make any difference is it even in your mind or not. I think it was. I think it's something that was that I expected just because I mean probably probably less so now even a couple of years later but it's sort of trading has always been seen as a males. Kind of kind of industry so and the same with I mean a lot of the a lot of the jobs in the city and so yeah did expect that but it didn't I don't think it I don't think it negatively affected. Sort of like the experience as much I mean it would have you know it would have been nicer to have a few women there as well but. I agree. I think I didn't really think about it too much for a one in I think like he said I was more worried about oh my gosh there's so much I don't know. I have no idea what buying sellers or belay short of that was so I'm more focused on that and then in my group as well as just one other female I think we naturally gravitated towards each other. But I think very quickly when we all you know started to speak more I think having that community and actually learning from the other males that a lot of different types of personalities and I think especially seeing that and being able to take a lot from that was really useful. And it helps me kind of react to my trades a bit more patient or kind of objective and not as emotional as some other members of being so I think actually that having that split. It was definitely noticeable but it was actually kind of like an asset at that point. I just going back to the beginning you said that you've now secured a job which is fantastic so the experience that you've gone through and trading. Was that beneficial in any way for the process that you went through to secure that job. Definitely I think it gave a very unique perspective with understanding markets what drives markets understanding asset classes and their interaction. So it definitely helped me with you know the interview process in general because I was able to apply that understanding to that specific industry and understanding more my role and what that will entail. So definitely the kind of the knowledge that you learn through that trading course was extremely beneficial and that thought process you build as well that discipline was really great. So definitely did help. I'm going to go to two more questions because I know you're very busy but one I wanted I want to know for each of you right what's the main challenge that you've faced with trading in general could be could be anything. What's the main thing that you found quite difficult. And that's taken a lot of persistency to get over if you like what a master. So being that when I went into it I especially like doing it on a trading floor with you know with eight other trainees ten other trainees. A lot of whom had been trading for maybe a year or a few years beforehand and so everybody everyone has different trade ideas everyone has different risk appetite strategies. So just sitting there sort of like trying like getting really confused because maybe I thought I thought one thing someone else is saying something else someone else had a different idea and I was just trying to let consolidate everybody's trade ideas like into sort of one trade. And that caused a lot of confusion. So I think, yeah I think that the kind of going into amplify and sort of forgetting every anything you might have heard about like the industry or anything you might have like watched or read beforehand and just starting from scratch and yeah just just get like getting a good base. Also, I think the most difficult part was deciding which aspects you want to focus on in your trading like what kind of what parts of the strategy you wanting to focus on you wanted to be more of a technical trader, a fundamental trader, maybe even look at quant trading. Because I think if you mixed mix all of those things too much, or sort of like your 80% fundamental trader one day and 80% technical trader one day, then that's going to cause a lot of difficulties in how your strategy plays out and. So yeah I would, yeah it was it was choosing kind of what kind of trader do I want to be like what style suits me best. And then it's just a case of testing those things out and and just seeing what works for you. So, as everyone's everyone's different. I think mine's kind of similar to that it was, you learn a lot from your peers and you know the experts in this but it's not only the lessons you learn but learning when to apply them. And a lot of that stems from understanding your personality and character and how you behave to risk and and stress and so that process of understanding my psychology and taking what I'm learning and and most importantly having the confidence to execute that one I need to was was a really big thing to me. Yeah, I remember, I mean obviously Sam, Sam North was the main mentor that was dealing with you, you guys a lot and I remember he used to talk about you a lot I mean if you, if you go back to the summer internship you're pretty much with us for a year almost and he always used to say about your ability to just hold trades and that's obviously one of the biggest things that people find a difficulty with which is like relying on the confidence of their strategy is solid, they've done the work and the analysis and then just playing without tempering with it to tempering with it too much and you always excellent at that and whether or not that's as you described part of your sporting background or not perhaps it might be because we have had other people from that similar type of background before which have shown similar characteristics that's always quite quite interesting but great stuff and then Katie, any, anything you'd want to add on that. Very similar to what we've said of obviously learning your sort of style and your edge, but I would say the biggest thing probably FOMO and because you can see everyone trading or they're posting you know their ideas and that's what this whole period has taught me is actually you need to stick with your principles and and yeah it's that self control of I'm not just going to rush into a trade and I even had it before I was on the course in terms of oh I'm a bit jealous that that person's put that trade on and I want to know more but I actually don't know how to do it so I think yeah that's a real factor that you overcome I guess in general and lockdown is probably taught us all to not feel FOMO because there's nothing going on anyway but in terms of trading that is the biggest thing is that self control and sticking with your principles. Well, I mean one of the things that I'll encourage you guys to do is definitely exchange zoom zoom details I guess it's 2021 so, but it's definitely something we try to encourage is that community. Obviously we house that now with amplifier live but I think that's a really important thing to have is other people around you to you know trading I've always in conversations with people it's found quite a tricky thing because you'll talk to other people who are not in this profession. It can often be a difficult thing to talk to people about because you're talking about money and you're talking about you know you're sat there. You know there's people, you know like the NHS, for example doing a phenomenal job and here we are talking about the yield curve and inflation and just clicking buttons but. You know I think a community is definitely important and it's been fantastic with you guys I know I've kind of had individual chats as well along the way about careers stuff and you know that's a that's a part which I'm quite proud of is that we want to get involved beyond trading because I think being good trader is more than just technical ability. You know it's all about psychology and the having a framework a supportive network around you. So, yeah it's just really pleasing to see what you guys have done. I think that's what's helped with you guys as well as you're able to see our skill sets you know I'm coming from marketing right where do I fit in in the finance industry and what's the best next step so I think that's really helped me in terms of that guidance especially in this period where we're applying for jobs and keeping on track and keeping that routine and keeping motivated so yeah I would say that's been really really helpful so thanks for your help. Yeah, cool. All right well let's wrap it up there. I mean, thank you very much for giving up your time. I know it's, I just, you know, I'm so proud of what we do at Amplify to meet have the access and privilege to meet so many different types of people. And definitely for my career being very focused on the prop trading world. It has always been very male dominated, but it's just great to see you guys getting stuck in and performing, you know and being based and judged on your performance as it should be. I think that's one thing I'm really grateful, sorry, for you know through this process is you meet so many different people and I think having done the internship on the program and just generally the community online as well you really connect with people that are that have diverse perspectives and thoughts and approaches to their work and so Amplify really provides those routes to grow and you know improve your career development so I think that's something I've been really very grateful for so thank you.


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You have a pretty fast move through here with that push-off and Then on top of that we have one through with this leg But then the spacing gets Sully a lot slower right through there where I feel like it would still have that momentum and I would just probably just go backwards and then have her more if you want to fix that Go backwards from that and imagine that if she would have wider spacing and go a bit further By going backwards with it She would land maybe through here just globally bring everything back so that she will probably start You know here is instead of here There's just a little bit. It's not huge. I think it works. It would be like a slight polish You think to try out how it feels But at the same time there's also the feeling of you know, there's weight So it accelerates a bit and then the here it's a bit more controlled. It's just to me It's very subtle. It has a slight hint of sure But they're not really like she goes down to really push off and just visually it's there without a straight line But then feeling wise it's just bit of a That's the only thing there and their head that's a technical term for he doesn't go as high and far Through that, but I don't see any major Like hiccups anything crazy Even through there. She's done with this. You might argue that on a turn like this Turning here and a slight through there She wouldn't have that much power to push herself up like that So that could be a frame or two added where she stabilizes that like a bit more and then shoots up It's all pretty fast. Wow So it's not crazy This is to me something that I would tweak and polish and kind of do an AB test to see how it feels and then The only thing out of everything I said that I would still Tweak so out of everything. This is the note that would actually address the rest is really just polish the optional Is that if you look at her? Roots, I'm gonna go through Ish like Sorry that doesn't quite look very appropriate what I'm doing here if I'm tracking like that, but oh, I'm in a bit too high But anyway, let's put this on Both of them there you go so you can see how she shoots up and then it's flat So that I would still tweak to have more of an arc into this it feels like she's doing She feels that and because of this because you're suddenly flattening The couple things at play here You have all that momentum But then this kind of just floats and feels light while those massive legs are shooting up and then that's it They also just suddenly stop spacing wise You know you have this and then it just kind of stays there instead of Overshooting a bit and then coming back that that has to be like a bomb But still a bit looser I think this feels too clean for me where you have this and the next frame is pretty much the same in terms of height You have a bit of a Sticky frame in the head and see how that head spacing goes to the left and then then we suddenly stick into the space So to me having that up and down versus this it's gonna help the head spacing I would kind of loosen up and stiffen that up a bit more as in loosening up where You would have this and maybe the leg will be a bit lower the thigh Then on this it will be here and then one more a bit higher and then you can come back into the stiffness Was at the very end There's a slight feel of this and this in the thighs are the huge difference, but The you know the lower part the shin area just moves a lot more compared to this this feels a bit more With more weight because you got all of this moving even though the leg the upper legs Stops at this point the rest continues and because of that it still pulls the upper leg the thigh area just a bit higher Just a bit more And then careful we're just this to me even there's a good drag and slight rotation still happening It just starts to have a slight feel of a 2d card. There's kind of drops. So to me it would be something where We do this with a slight overshoot just a bit and then through that drop either you Start doing a slight End of this enough time I would again experiment with bringing that leg down a little bit and then maybe up again It's giving some life to it. So it doesn't feel like a cut out. It just feels suddenly Very light and 2d cardboard for that moment. This might just be me But you got an impact you got a compression through there. That's all cool Now if this is where she hits and then boom compresses I would have That already go down the momentum of the legs will continue that frame This is a weird compression in here But this doesn't fall through with with the downwards motion and momentum on that one frame your one frame late And then after that I think it's okay. It's a bit again. We're very twins Hits at the different time which is good But then it goes down at the same time I would again in terms of polish really experiment with what if I really offset those legs and maybe have You know, maybe push that ending a bit more or maybe one leg only one leg goes down And she really tries to be all cool and she tries to keep one leg just kind of Just kind of pushing that style just a bit more because this is cool. Love all this and then suddenly it gets a bit simple through there and then And then it's a bit Then it's almost a bit too simple legs up and down and that's it versus this is her character, right? Oh, yeah, I'm all cool. Look at the guitar is can you put this personality in here with that ending? Not saying that this shot dies at the end completely. You're gonna throw it away I'm just throwing it out there. Is there something fun you can do since this is so cool That would make it into this ending where Not that she brings up the guitar again, but she could do something with her arms or she keeps her Again one leg up, you know one leg only. I don't know something to do to think about there And I think that's kind of that because you have all the extra life in this prop see foring Yeah, that's all cool. It's mainly that So to me it's kind of a policy things to kind of watch out for the main thing I would do is the arc on the route And then kind of switching up something in those legs through there, and then you could technically keep it Even if you want to do like a cliche at the very end the last button is her arm And she gives a thumbs up or the middle finger. Whatever you want to do that could be a personality thing But yeah food for thought and I'll leave it at that. 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Hello, it's another edition of Plus Report, a compilation of the stories and events that made the news recently. Welcome, I'm Descente Obuho. The family of slain Jumoke Uyuleke, who was allegedly killed by a stray bullet, Jereyn, the European nation rally in Ojota, is demanding justice and succor. Jereyn, her lifetime Jumoke, worked in an ice cream shop to assist her mother in bringing up her young ones. She wears displaying drinks at her boss's shop in a compound close to the rally ground when security men chased some agitators onto the premises and made shootings. Plus, TV Africa has corresponded, and Descente Momo has more. The once boystress Ojota home of the Uyuleke's was a shatter of itself when Plus TV Africa visited. There was an eerie silence in the compound located at Bayo Ushinawa Street, Ojota, as residents spoke in whispers. Still in the mood of paid and regret, the mother of the deceased shares her pain with Plus TV Africa and the personality of her late daughter. The family members of the deceased also bear their minds. I want them to tell us the real truth that the girl was shot and I want justice to be served. On the controversy over who shot at the deceased, they say. This is number 59A Bayo Ushinawa Street, Ojota, where the mother of the deceased puts up. It's a very sad situation for them because the deceased in question has been a very helpful child to her mother because she does partnership with her mother in bringing up her younger ones by working hard. The mother Ifeo Luwa Ojoleke, who was saddened by the sudden turn of event, had disclosed that her daughter was a 25-year-old and not a 14-year-old as widely reported. Descente Momo for Plus TV Africa. While we do sympathize with the family of the deceased and hope they get the justice, they are asking for. The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 1,320 suspects and recovered 110 arms between May 1 and July 13. The Commissioner of Police Hakim Udmusu said this while briefing newsmen. Descente Momo once again has more. The Commissioner of Police says recently, the command established some tactical units to conform with and tackle the new dimensions of social vices in the state, which has paid off. Udmusu says any cases that were recorded have been unraveled, while many suspects arrested have been prosecuted. He says isolated cases of robbery in traffic have also been tackled. The Commissioner of Police displays had drugs and weapons recovered from the suspects. Some of the suspects confessed to some of these crimes they were paraded for. The police boss reiterates that the command under his watch will relate with other stakeholders. To improve an already established formidable security network in Lagos, while assuring that the suspects will soon be charged to court. The Commissioner for Police revealed that the command arrested 66 suspected armed robbers, 72 suspected courtes and 47 modest suspects from May to date. Now the Governor of Adamawa State, Umaru Finturi, doesn't think the attack on Dabna community has anything to do with insurgency. He believes it was the result of a reprisal over land disputes. The Governor made us known when he paid a countless visit to the victims of the attack to see things for himself and assess the extent of damage. Dabna in the Gubwa Dick Street of Hongloku government area of Adamawa state is still a shadow of itself. Most of the people have abandoned their homes to scamper for safety. Few women, men and the elderly are living in the ruins of the community as a mourn their dead. Governor Umaru Finturi of Adamawa state, in company of the Speaker of the State House of Assembly and other government officials is in Dabna. He is received by the district head of Dugubwa and some community leaders. Governor Finturi goes round for an undersports assessment of the attack. Houses and food stalls looted and burnt. He also commiserates with members of the local vigilante whose leader was killed during the attack. He uploads them for their efforts in providing security for the community. Four, five days ago to be precise, 21 or 25 people were killed here gruesomely. Investigation is showing and indicating to us really the activities of Boko Haram across the north east sub region but this one that had happened there is no indication that is Boko Haram. Investigation from the security agency is showing that is either a repressor or a traditional ruler has sold a farm to certain group of people who are demanding vacations out of the farmland by the locals. Well investigation is going on but I want to assure you that whoever that is found wanting in this investigation will not go on punish. The district head of Dugubwa Simon Matthew appeals for more security formations in the area while asking the people to always report any suspicious movement by any strange person within the community. Our appeal is to help secure the area. This place is very close to the San Mesa forest and we appeal to the government to assist in ensuring that the area is blocked from further penetration by these gunmen. Although 25 persons have so far been confirmed killed following early morning attack on Wednesday, no more say has been restored in the area and now the people are beginning to return to their abodes. The next story has to do with the controversy surrounding the ban on open grazing in southern Nigeria. The action of the region's governors has been criticized by the Ghan Allah Filani group. The group says no southern now will get a vote from any of its member for the 2023 presidency. Osarugi Obomai takes a look at this reaction and the response by some leaders of the south. On the 11th of May the forum of southern governors announced a ban on open grazing in all 17 southern Nigerian states and at their latest meeting earlier this month they decided that the ban would take effect from September the 1st. The forum set a timeline of Wednesday the 4th of September 2021 for the promulgation of the anti-grazing law in all its member states. Anti-open, sorry, anti-open In response, the Ghan Allah Filani group and Mieti Allah Kautahori Association cautioned the southern governors against the move describing it as an intimidating tactic to bring power to the south in 2023. The secretary general of Dan Allah Filani Ibrahim Abdulahi reinforced these views on PLOS TV's The Breakfast. We have received the news of the resolution of the southern governors as a shock and surprise and we feel that it is unfortunate you know that you can create the livelihoods of about 17 million Nigerians living within your place and at the same time you are asking them to vote for you from 2023. In response, representatives of Pan-Niger Delta Forum and the Honez and Digbu have stated that the ban is irreversible and that some of these groups should be ignored. And so our position remains that open grazing is the ban on open grazing has come to stay and that in 2023 power must shift to the south. All sides have stated the need for dialogue and the need to merge ideas on how to systematically end open grazing in Nigeria. September 1st is less than two months away. What happens on that day could have a big impact on the 2023 general elections. You're watching PLOS reports. There is more after this break.


Next question is from Junin87. I have days where I just straight up don't get hungry, even if I worked out. Should I force feed myself to get my proper caloric or macro intake, or just listen to my body and stomach and not eat as much? Just reminds me, we just had a question about, remember we talked about the whole clock thing and I was bringing up how time is like this made-up thing that we all made up. This is an example of how this... We got philosophical. Did we really? Time is a construct. Well, it isn't, right? It's something that we have made up. It's something that we have made up. We've created these 24-hour days, seven days a week, but the truth is your body doesn't know different. If you're not hungry, it's not a big deal if you don't eat. I bet you the next day you're going to be a lot more hungry than you were before. Now that being said, if you find that this is a problem and your health is suffering as a result, nutrient intake is low, look at your health.  Poor appetite is a very strong signal that something is not right. It could be a hormone imbalance. It could be gut health issues. It could be mental or psychological. Oftentimes people are, there's a tremendous amount of stress or anxiety that they might not even be aware of or maybe you are, and that'll strongly affect your appetite. So you could also be overtraining. One of the signs of overtraining is actually loss of appetite. You work out too much, you'll find that your appetite, in fact, when I would train clients there were three signs I would look for that would tell me that we were on the right track. One was easy, are you getting stronger? If you're getting stronger, that's phenomenal. The other one, if your appetite's going up, so when my clients would tell me, oh man, I'm like hungrier. I feel like I'm hungrier. That's a good sign. And then the third one was libido. The libido would go up. And I knew that if those three things hit, we were doing great. So poor appetite can be a sign that there's some underlying issue, in which case I would recommend you go see a functional... Can, but I would say that wouldn't you agree that this is probably a smaller percentage? I think a majority of people... Yeah, this person might be one of those people that's like, I gotta pack on muscle.  In which case you're just not listening to everybody. And honestly, that was... I like talking, speaking to this because I struggled with this for so many years.  I, and I knew what... I figured out what my macro targets were. And if I did not get there or I was at the end of the day and I was missing my macro targets, I was stuffing my face. Peanut butter, jelly sandwiches. It was a chore just to try and get the calories in. Right, because I thought if I didn't do it, then all that hard work I did the previous weeks to build muscle, it would start falling off my body right away. Yeah. And your metabolism doesn't work that way. It does not want to burn up and use muscle tissue. So you do not have to worry about if you have a day or two where you miss macro targets that you're going to lose your gains or lose muscle. And more than likely, that appetite will come back within 24 to 48 hours. Yeah. If you don't have a roaring appetite, I would look into your training protocol and like really like assess whether or not, you know, that's, you know, promoting something that's going to get you in a healthy place where your metabolism should want to, you know, rev up a bit. Yeah, boys, this really depends on who you're talking to, doesn't it? I know. It's speculating. What Adam's talking about is totally different and 100% agree. If you're that guy or girl and then I'd say, just listen to your body. I think you're overdoing it. You're overthinking it. If you're, if you have underlying health issues and you really do have a poor appetite, then it's a totally different conversation. So it really does depend on who you are.