So we're five or 6 p.m. First I have on the agenda, I would welcome the motion. All right. Hope to jump the agenda as amended. Resulting the agenda item 4.06 absolutely a direct and important on board communication, long-term tasking, particularly with the president regarding current stuff ahead of time for our last session of the agenda item 4.15, communication, the council chair and all chair regarding that allocation and those posting reports of public safety. Second. Thank you both. So further discussion of the agenda. Motion signal will go to vote. All those who are in motion, please say hi. Are there any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Have an agenda. Those amendments which are all reflected here. Okay. Next item is the public forum. Is there any member of the public that would like to address? Okay. Can you click over to the attendees? Yes. Is there any member of the public that is interested in speaking to the board finance please raise your hand. Okay. That looks like former council chair and we would like to be recognized. So go in. I think here should be others. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm speaking on an item that actually you remove from the board of finance but I'm not certain why you removed it and I just wanted to weigh in. It had to do with the unassigned fund balance and I read that. It was 5.4. Oh on the. The city council agenda. And I had difficulty understanding it. You know, it set the range from 10 to 15%. And then it said the audit found. 9.2 or whatever. 9.2 million was at 13% or so. And then. There was a laundry list of items of how you were going to spend. Some of those dollars. Which added up to 7.4. Which would have only left 2 million remaining. And I thought I missed something. I actually reached out to past. Counselor Jane Nodell and asked her to eyeball it because. I wasn't following it. So as you. Whatever you're going to do with that item. As you maybe revamp it. For members of the public. It was really difficult to follow. And you know, I know that you. Take seriously our finances and. And it's, I don't believe that you would spend down to leave only 2 million in the unassigned fund balance. So those are my comments and thank you very much. Great. Thank you very much, Sharon. There's no objections. I'll just quickly address. Address that here. Yeah, I do it. But. There was an error with that resolution basically. And so it has been removed. And it's going to be. Rewritten and come back next time. All that was being attempted here was. The auditors have. Requested. I think it could be a good practice. I think now, you know, not going basis for there to be. A. Annual. Formal action by the council to reaffirm. And the board of finance to reaffirm. Not. What is in the assigned balance, which is different. We have this fund balance, which as that language, I'll show it. The audit has confirmed the unassigned fund balance is. Approximately $9 million. We also have this $7 million. We also have this $7 million. We also have this $7 million. We also have this $7 million. We also have this $7 million. Assigned fund balance, which essentially means the city council over some numbered, you know, really a couple of years. With the administration has made decisions that commit certain funds that haven't been spent yet, but they are. They are encumbered and committed. And they stay on. As a, on our balance sheet as a. As a whole, I think it's more than this, but either they're sprint as planned. Or they are, we get to the end of that project. And they haven't fully been expended. And then they can be reabsorbed back into the other side. Sometimes you see a new year. Like that could be a big consider why an unassigned for miles might go up over the course of the year. So that's what this was supposed to be about is defining what's in the assigned fund balance. So there's no confusion of that. So that's what we're going to be talking about. So that's what we're going to be talking about. The rest of the resolution for my read of it. When I focused on it today. And you know, I apologize. This was one that I did not. I was traveling some last week and we just had some eternal. This one kind of slipped into cracks. The rest of the resolution didn't tie to that. What I was supposed to do is pass it out on a sign. Fund balance really is about the assigned fund balance. Now get cleaned up and fixed for the others. Next time. I'm going to close this. But I think it's enough to look at some of the things we did. With the document that. Ex glad to see you. Okay. So, it's not even a really discussion item, but. One. Seems like others said there's as well, so now let's, let's move on. If there's no other people that were looking to be recognized. We'll go to the. We'll close the public forum. And we'll go to the consent agenda. Thank you, Councilor Hightower, is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Seeing that we'll go to vote. All those fairly emotional please say aye. All right. Other opposed? Motion carries unanimously. And that brings us to 4.01. 14 items are trying to make it through. Are we trying to start? 6. Excuse me. 4.01. Project management services contract amendment. Wait, Burke. Brian is here. You want to get a personal quick friend. Sure. The purpose of this request tonight is just to clarify that the. Services being provided by waiting for. Or to include. Work around the downtown. And to authorize additional funds to be able to be able to. Make sure that both that was clear. Thank you. Sorry. I'm sorry. And just a family skinned the contract. Is the same in terms of the costs? Or I guess on our side. That is coming from. Yeah, these are tip expenses and the. The rate remains the same. Sorry. Sorry. So what is the one hundred one hundred split? It's to divide the level of effort between the two. Yep. So I just have a quick question and that is that. If you take the two hundred thousand. By the number of months, you're talking about $12,000. It seems as though that you're talking about. 40, 50, 60 hours for the work every month. Is that right? I don't know what the hourly rate is, but what I'm saying is that you're at least talking about 40 to 50 hours a month. That's a lot. And so I'm just wondering, is that really what it is? Your question. I think the goal being to go only we only get billed for time spent. Of course, important point is you don't get billed like a fixed amount for one. Only for hours spent. So the actual hours devoted by the consultant. We don't want to have a point where we have to keep coming back. So the amount may not be necessary. So that's. That's what we explained. But that's also, we've already talked about that. We've already talked about that. We don't want to have a point where we have to keep coming back. So the amount may not be necessary. So that's, that's what we explained. But that's also, we've already spent. What was all very previously. So this is adding. Previously authorized. I guess all I would say is that I just hope that I didn't say it's a substantial consulting contract. And I'm, this is not a commentary on whether it's worth it. This is just a commentary on, it's a lot of money. And I just hope that we're, you know, it's substantial. And then I just wanted to ask, as far as the reimbursement was that budgeted for when we did the TIF. So that would put it into the budget for TIF. Okay. All right. Great. Thank you. For. Question. Thank you. Second. Tracy further discussion. I'll just put it in motion. Please say hi. Yeah. And then we have just to. 4.02. Another C. O. item. Classification. One more within C. O. Quick summer in the spring. Tony's with us and like, I think he's hoping to talk. Ready to go. All right. Tony. You can see on the screen here. So this is a role that we are reclassifying. And I think we can move some attrition within the immediate department and some shifting around of responsibilities. To kind of include some more oversight. In that role, you know, we have a very competent and capable incumbent in this role. And I think it's a good combination of, of what they are good at what we need. And yeah, that's kind of some of the background there. Brian, feel free to add anything I may have missed. The face for city government on the third floor. This is a person you encounter. Come in. Multiple sometimes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Second my first and Tracy discussion. All those parents motion to say hi. All right. And you post. Okay. Authorization for reimbursement for public improvement bonds. For cities capital projects. Catherine. Thank you. I can say this item and the one beneath it, which is for the tick bond. Should both look somewhat familiar to you as these are relatively standard authorizations when a bond is approved. Our bond council has asked that we have you approve these so that we can actually go out and do the bond. Take the bond money from the bank and that's all this is. Authorizing us to do. So that we can spend the money and then rich can. Wait around and shop for the best deal. Anything to average. No, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The floor is open for 4.3. Council. I'll make a motion to recommend that the council for the attention resolution. Second. Great. Any further discussion of 4.3. Seeing them go vote. All those are very much. Say, I. Post. Motion carries. Motion carries unanimously as well. Excellent. Thank you, Rich. Now we are at 4.05, which is the acceptance approval of FY 21 audit. I'll make a motion to recommend that the council for attention resolution. Second. Second. Second. Present Tracy. Discussion. All those in favor of motion, please say aye. Opposed. Motion carries unanimously as well. Excellent. Rich. Now we have a discussion on the audit. This group has already seen. The management letter. We had a chance to ask questions. We did not at that meeting. Have a formal resolution. we've had a chance to ask questions we did not at that meeting have a formal resolution because at that point we were still waiting for the school district to finalize their audit. I think if you reviewed the materials there's nothing substantial that's changed. If you have questions Rich, Alina and I are happy to answer them or if you're ready to make a motion we can move this forward to City Council and Alina is prepared to speak there for people who haven't heard or should be a lot right. Thanks I'll recommend that the council approve the attached resolution. I just have one more question. Thanks just wanted to note that the management letter had three items on it two of them were recurring one of them I think it's very significant anomaly given the fact and I just wanted to also acknowledge that I hope everyone will certainly support either four point away because that is the creation of a position that will hopefully further address one of the recurring issues of the audit so who goes to all of you for getting a getting such a brief management letter not that we should count it by the number of pages but we do and wonderful work. Thanks. Thank you Councillor Paul for for saying that it still reflects a lot of work from the Treasury's team over many years and it is fitting to cover it. It is nice to be taken for the not a perfect fill of how often there are improvements that need to be made but it's created in real time a lot of errors don't feel good. I don't find some. Presentry. I was just wondering if you have any updates on any of the work that you've been doing in addition to addressing some of the recommendations in the funding since we've asked you spoke with the Board of Finance about the site. That's a great question President Tracy. I think you'll see in reflected in the management letter a lot a lot of work has gone into project like capital accounting and a shout out to our friends in DPW and part of the grant some of them are here because that's really affected their lives as well and it's taken a tremendous amount of work from those departments and the CT office over this past year to get all of our current and former projects into the system and really make sure that we have a system that starting July 1st was really ready to accept new projects and start working as it should and I think you see that in some of those comments from the auditors. In addition to this capital account position in three weeks we'll also come back for a grants account position and that won't affect the general fund either. We found a way that that can be paid for but I think part of our conversation with the auditors has really been this tension between of course wanting to keep costs as low as possible and not have too many people in the CT office and yet realizing that maybe we cut that a little too close in the past and wanting to make sure that we have enough resources to be able to provide that full breadth of service that people are looking for so be able to get those positions in and then fully onboarded and then to make sure they're providing the service that not only we at our level need but that in each of the departments they're really getting the big picture as well as in the services that they need. So that's where I'm aware of that. Any further discussion of motion for 4.05? Seeing none we'll take a load on the motion now. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Ready to post? Motion carries unanimously. 4.06 has been removed so we'll now move to 4.07. Approving, taining, standby letters of credit for the city's workers compensation program. This is also a pretty standard item. This is a $25,000 commitment fee for a standby letter of credit that we are required to have by travelers for our workers comp insurance. We've never had to use it but we have to have it so please approve it. Of course I don't know if you have questions. It is paid for from the insurance fund so not a hit to the general fund. I'll make a motion to recommend the council for the effect resolution. Discussion? Seeing none we'll move a vote. All those in favor of the motion please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 4.08 is next up creation of the London Clerk Treasurer position just referenced a moment ago. Maybe that's enough of an introduction for now and most people want to get the details on it. Floor is open for the board to present. Make the motion to recommend the action for now. Second by council Paul. Discussion? No. Okay we'll go to vote them. All those in favor of the motion please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 4.08 and thank you Catherine. The project accounting has been a lock standing goal and I don't know about this step forward. The next item is 4.09 New England Central Railroad sidetrack agreement D item looks like Darren is here to assist as needed. Darren you want to keep this off? Yes and I was wondering if we can promote Betsy Lesnikowski whose list is an attendee to a panelist. Betsy it looks like now she's here is our chief forester at McNeil and has good context to share in terms of the history of this agreement and why we're bringing this forward so I would turn it to Betsy just for a brief introduction. Hi I'm happy to give you the introduction. I will try with my video my internet is really wonky so if you can't hear me I'll turn off the video. We are required by our operating permit to bring 75 percent of our wooden by rail. We have a rail yard in Swanton and we have a rail siding and a trestle unloading enclosure in Burlington at the McNeil station. Burlington Electric owns the middle of this enclosure and the trestle but the railroad owns both ends and this agreement covers the use of the track and the switches. We've had an agreement with the railroad with two leases since 1983 when we first started operating. This is a new lease that combines the two together into a more modern language lease. We've budgeted for this money in our operating budget expense budget all along so it's not a new budget item. It's just a new modern lease that takes the place of two old leases from the 80s. I'm happy to answer any other specific questions if people have anything specific about the lease. Questions presentation. Yes I'm wondering what was outdated about the previous lease. Is there anything generally about it that was outdated or did you say modern? There were two. One covered the land, one covered the tracks. They didn't have a real clear way to decide how they were going to increase the prices. This combines them into one and it does have a clause that gives us a known value to keep the increasing the prices so we have a better idea for budgeting and it updates some of the railroad language into more modern terms. There are not a whole lot of changes to the leases themselves. It just makes it one lease that's easier to operate. Thank you so much. Very good. Are we any more questions? Are we ready for our motion? I'm happy to make the motion to take the action starting board talks. Excellent. Is there a second? Second by Councilor Hightower. Discussion? Seeing none we'll go to a vote. All those in favor of the motion say aye. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you by Jane Darren. Thank you. We will now move to 4.1 of approval of parking fees, parks, cities here. Remind us how this works. Sure. So as you can see from the numbers here, parking is a big part of our budget. We often think we would find another place to park cars and get money from the summer tours that come to Brooklyn. So right now we have three main lots. We've got Oakwich on both beach, or four main lots really. Oakwich, North Beach, Perkins Pier but also the Penn Slot on the waterfront. We offer a seasonal pass for our residents as you see in many communities off like that. So reduce fee if you want to get a pass. That does not, one lot that does not cover is P's, our prime waterfront lot you do need to pay for that one. We are the first commission a supportive of adding the letty lot which is something that we used to charge at. Adding not that game is a way to increase additional revenues for the department. And that would one that would also be covered by that seasonal pass. We offer different rates as you could see for the seasonal passes. But then we also offer daily parking at North Beach, North Beach at Perkins which changed last year with the change of the rail coming in. We had to remove the building there so we no longer have staff at that spot. We used to keep our mobile and then this year we'll be adding kiosks. I want to say the parking services department DBW has just been really supportive and helping us as while we count on these lots, Perkins is not what we do every day and it is something they do every day. So they've been sharing their expertise and staff working very collaboratively together on it. Thank you. The floor is, did you say, can you just remind us when was the last time there was a decrease? I'm clearly never going to hurt you against parking costs. But I am curious because you have the lead participants under the CSEL parking. And I know that some of the leads are basically the most affordable opportunities that we have. So I guess one, my question is I don't know how much we charge the leads in terms of using some of the park spaces, but I would almost rather see some shitting at that. So it would be more for parking than hopefully we're not also increasing there. And then I was just confused on the leady. I guess what is the season? Season depends on the lot. So we open up the campground over top May 1st. So then we'll start charging for parking. May 15th is when we start charging when the oblige start that comes out there. And so the lead fee, those are, I mean, those are less than the regular fee because what that is is actually doesn't get that all a lot.  So but we offer them the ability to get a pass just for oblige. And that's why it's less. And we did that as a way to get them to pay. Because we were having, finding some instances where they were coming and they're like, well, am I going to get a ticket or am I not going to get a ticket? So we're really trying to incentivize them to pay for the parking because they have such an impact on that park. If you go to use oblige that day, they kick a lot of parking. So that's why we put it so it's lower than the other one because it doesn't include all the parks. It's not a full seasonal pass. They can get a seasonal pass if they want to go to the North Beach in all that. Or they can pay them just they don't have to get a season pass. They can just pay an hour. So the season pass for late participants is just for oblige or is it just for oblige? So they would pay.  You never go to the North Beach. You never go to Perkins. And you're in a kickball league. You could get $40 you could pay for it. Or you could just pay hourly every time you come like some people. Or even better, you could bike or walk in and pay nothing. But that's where that's why it's because it's just for one person. Right. And what's the plan for Letty? So Letty we're looking so the plan is that we can get all the equipment in which we're working with Perkins Services. We're shifting some around from their garages. And so they've got some available one that we'll use at Perkins and we're looking at a big tool we're putting them out at Letty. And then we would do Perkin passes there. And with the park mobile system, you can they call them promo passes. So it's like say you're going to go skating. You're like in a skating class.  Say you're taking skate lessons, you could get the promo pass, which then you wouldn't have to pay for the parking there. So those lead the arena users, it's intended more for like the beach users. And if you're going out biking, that's what's intended to capture. Yeah. And I see this doesn't I apologize. I should have done all this over email, but I just didn't get to that. Yeah, I think that to the extent obviously supportive of parking fees. And I think I see now why it's so like it's so low, because you're talking about the compliance issue. But obviously to the extent that we can make the parking not free to lead users and instead subsidize it by having lower fees, I think that would be great helpful. But it sounds like you say I've let it start to create if you're in the arena, if you're in the arena. And then I would just, I think I just kind of turned what you're saying, think the ones that are run out of O pledge, those leads are actually why they're not proper, but it's a separate organization that's kick balls, not us. So those are my yeah. So they yeah, they can get that, but it's because it sounded like you're saying you'd rather leave fee be less like as far as like the but that's an outside leave that's using our park to run their program. So I'm not I can't control the sorry I meant that what we're charging the way I see we're trying differently. Yeah. And they rent they have to rent shelters to and the impact on we can't rent a shelter out because it's they're using up so much parking. So we recorded them. So they actually have to pay to rent a shelter to your welcome. Thanks for asking questions. So one of the things that that might help answer all of this is what people decided to write. But it's going to make sure that when we get there, there's a there's an additional parking, especially if a few times in the season. So just wondering if there are additional efforts and parks that have answered additional parking. That's a great question. The ability to get there, but we will mention to finish our place, they're the design for that. And that does include more. So the design improvements that we'll be doing near the entrance where the complex across there, the main entrance in and the bike path that will have increased. But it's a good question. So I mean, we always church there, we've always church there, but it is good to look just to take a double look at making sure we have enough places to do your bikes. We've been focused more on filling in where we didn't have any or where they were falling apart. But once we've got that down, that next look is making sure that we never have. So I would say if you notice, you know, let us know. Because sometimes we don't, but we don't know that there's that it's, you know, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the first time in years for parts that have been launched and walked all the way to Oh, nice. Didn't find anything parking. I feel pretty stressed by that. Since we film last year, I want you to check it out.  There's a bike parking going there, fitness station. One of them stuff had that you guys approved last week at the paddle boards. And then there's one that's right near the we drive in.   So that's what that was. Nice. Yeah. If you haven't been on it yet, by the west side of the train tracks.  Oh wait a second. It's over. All right. Are we ready for motion? Thank you, President Tracey. Is there a second? Second. Seconded. Councilor Powell. Discussion? All those in favor of the motion, please say aye. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you, Cindy, for advancing that. 4-20-11. I'm going to have our engineering team kick this one off. Senior engineer, Lara Wheelock, you're on mute. Let's see, does that work better? Yes. Yeah. You just might have a chance to hear my kids better. But so we're here just to get authorization to be able to execute the cooperative agreement, the council heard this item back in September as we were initially awarded the grant. V-Transas contract admin is actually slower than we are. So it took them a little while to get us the cooperative agreement. It is a substantial grant. The total with our local match is just over $1.4 million. The local match funds are coming from the city's capital, a little from the annual CIP and a little from the recent meeting day bond vote. Once executed, we looked to be able to kick that off this year. One of the requests is also to be able to use the V-Trans at the ready process to be able to procure a consultant. The hopes of being able to use this process is to make our consultant agreements be a little bit quicker to hopefully make up some of the time that we've lost while being in contracting phases. Happy to answer questions if there's any. Thank you, Laura. I would like to proceed. I'll take the recommendation of the floor. Great. Sorry, second. So good. My councilor Hightower discussion. All those clear of the motion, please say aye. Aye. Post. Motion carries unanimously. And we have two more. So, 4.12, Mansfield Avenue, side path and traffic calming project. Three is public works engineer. Another project assisted with grant funding to... That's really interesting. We're definitely combining this with the traffic calming program to get an economy of scale between both traffic calming and shared use of that project. So, yeah, the general of this project has two components to it. We're replacing the side path slash sidewalk on the east side of Mansfield Avenue about 1,600 feet. We're replacing with a 10 foot wide asphalt side path, which will really bring together the kind of network we have now between North Avenue and the newly constructed Colchester Avenue side path. And then the traffic calming components, which are basically being implemented in the form of three raised crosswalks, one in front of the inner Christie School, and then two raised crosswalks on either side of Loomis Street to help slow traffic down along Mansfield Avenue. So, yeah, pre-street where we had state construction began early May. Bits came in, fair and reasonable. The analysis was performed and everything was done to the... I have a question for you as a comment, which this is also removing the temporary planters. Yes, sorry. So, yes, the point, the quick build at Loomis Street is being removed, but it's actually being established as a permanent bump out curved space. So, yeah. Yeah, the comment on that is, I don't know if these are the... I don't know how many other places in the city have them, obviously. I don't think it's a good word one, but I feel like people's... Like, I thought it was a pilot project and I know people didn't like it. I don't think that's that they don't like the permanent concept. I think it's because they specifically don't like the permanence of the pilot. So, just wondering if we're planning on doing anything like this around the city, if we're going to skip the pilot plans going further. Something more with the question. Right. We do have Senior Planner Nicole Losch, who I know did a survey with the community along the Old North End Greenway and there was, in general, support for the Greenway itself and frustration just maintenance. And so that's why we are moving towards making the installation permanent with curve and removing the planters and the bollocks. I think generally what we've heard too from the community is that they do like the bump out concept at that location specifically. I think there was just a problem with maybe like the vertical component of it, like having a hard time seeing around and whatnot. So, might not be a thing that necessarily works in every sort of situation. There's something happening at times when the pilot stage has an adjustment after basically just an exploratory bag. Exactly. First of all, just be able to move quickly and actually make a change. There's also stuff that's learned. So, I think it's a strategy we still believe in that comes out of Tara's point, but I do think people get frustrated when they're along the way and out of the stage and build out that maybe sometime in the near solid future. That's your sponsor, Tara. Yes, thank you. Okay. President Tracey. Yeah, definitely. You listen to the same feedback from folks around the bollocks and the planters themselves and why not necessarily that they're post-traffical because it recognizes especially after the switch is around from the live street. I think it's sitting in that transitional place over this capital one, so I'm just going to screw up to use the transition. But I do think the reason intersection of that is an issue that was not necessarily addressed or addresses an issue that was not addressed in the initial phone balance in the sense that compliance with the stop sign is for horrendous in that intersection. So, I think it absolutely makes sense to be aware of the intersection there, in order to further contract. Some cases people just flow right through it. So, yeah, so it's just a race, not a total race intersection, but race crosswalks on either side. So it's all the same effect essentially probably even more effective than the race cross intersection itself. I think it'll be more effective. That's like folks down the stop sign actually is the temporary was temporarily very implementation in 2015. That's actually being removed with this effort. The Public Works Commission approved it as a temporary measure. It says, I'll write in the minutes that they approved it on the condition that we would explore traffic calming, permit traffic calming measures. Because it doesn't need anymore. So that will be part of this effort. And the race crosswalks do provide that vertical component to help like improve that visual. Well, I know this is a project that's been long anticipated and awaited. And then they were going to be where we're getting that. It's actually doubling the size. So it's like the fact that people have to decide about that. I'm sure. Yeah. That's going to be, well, is that entirely newcomer? Is there something, is there some customers here other than that? We had a couple of comments that people, most people love the idea. There are a couple of people who didn't love the idea of pedestrians and cyclists. So it's just existing. So it's all with a narrative way. Yeah. Yeah. And this does connect to the Colchester, our shared use path that I was initially thinking that was grant funded connected to this project. It will create quite a network of shared use path. That's it. Great. Okay. Okay. We're looking for a motion. Great. Seconded by Councilor Powell. Any discussion? All those in favor of motion, please say aye. All right. We post. Lydia, when will we break around those? May 20. The contractors are anticipating the first week of May. That will be done this, this is our presentation. Yeah. They're hoping for a six-week construction season. So hopefully it's done before July. But I do have a contract that they need to be done before UVM is left to school in August. Nice. All right. Excellent. Good luck with it. Thank you. It's a setting project. Can I just ask, yes, they were, we're going to be having an opportunity. But I would imagine it's going to be probably one big conversation this evening on 4.1. Very well. Yeah. Thanks to that. Just to discuss this quite, I understand the point. Is there, I'm sorry, I didn't catch it on the first floor. Yeah. That's okay. Same one. Okay. That's right. Yes. I think the only piece to just clarify is there are two money items suggested in that resolution related to the city council initiatives for one and traffic for another. If the board of finances is comfortable discussing that at the full council, we just wanted to give you the notice that that was in the resolution. Okay. Great. Great. Thank you for all your work on this. I'm excited that this is going forward for your actions tonight. Okay. So I'm going to move to 4.14 communication regarding the staffing at temporary library grants in the north end. We are, this is actually this, so exactly the city action here. So we're just going to put this on. We're just going to put it on. I have just, okay. Okay. Just ask. Yeah. I have reached out to Mary and go today, virtually over the weekend when I received this before it was posted. Do you have anything that you could inform us on as far as some, you know, basic, just of the letter and how you respond to this letter? Is that something that's fun for Mary? I don't see, don't see, or just wondering if you might have any comments on that, or would you like us to take some kind of motion just to see this? Yeah, okay. I can just do a signal. Okay. So I welcome motion to set this communication with someone. Thank you, Councilor McDonough. Second by President Tracy. Discussion? All those in favor of the motion, please say aye. Aye. Aye. I'll hand you a post. Motion carries unanimously. Councilor Fah, would you like to take off the phone? Sure. Thanks so much for accommodating this on the agenda. It's pretty self-explanatory, certainly, for Councilor Hightower, who has been faithfully attending these meetings. She's very familiar with the work of the Public Safety, the working group that has been working. Recommendation by recommendation through the CNA report. There was a request made to make sure that these, the recording of these meetings was very accessible, and not just through a posting about board docs, but those people who aren't as adept with board docs as most of us are. There is a cost for having 10 meeting to be posted on YouTube. It's $150 a meeting. We've had, or will have, we still have two more to go. One tomorrow night at 1 p.m. next Tuesday. We'll have had 10 meetings, and this is just simply a request to get an allocation of $1,500 out of the Council initiative's fund to have these reports posted on. I'm happy to make that motion, yes. It's your second, Councilor Hightower discussion. Sorry, just a process question. Does this go to the Council beforehand, or is it just the Board of Finance that's on it? Yeah, it should be, I think you're right. It should be, it should have been 4.15, it should have been 5.01. Think so, right? It's already budgeted funds, and it's on the sports, so I think if you clarify it in your motion, I guess it's for final action, I think that's your wish. Yes, I will make that, I will amend that motion, but I said it's more of a recommendation, this is for Board of Finance approval. Okay, I would recommend that this be for the finance. Great, and go no further, and you second your control of that. Okay, so good. Any discussion? All those in favor of the motion, please say aye. Aye. Any votes? Motion carries unanimously. That concludes our agenda. For the objection, we are adjourned as of board finance at 6 p.m. If you'd like to say something about the Zoom link, we have some. Thanks for that. So this is the same Zoom link for the full Council meeting for folks who are participating remotely, so you're certainly welcome to stay on for that. Just so folks know, we do have what's likely to be an executive session that we'll be going into, so we'll be in the Council meeting, adopt our agenda, and then go right to the motions on executive session, after which time. Should the Council choose to go into executive session, we will. Hopefully we'll be able to take care of any business in that executive session on collective bargaining prior to 7.30, which is when the public forum is scheduled to begin. 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James, there's a lot of guys in this lineup that can do a lot of damage. What's the first word that comes to mind when you think of this offense? Dangerous, dangerous. Professional, dangerous. These guys come to camp knowing what they're trying to do. So it's been exciting early on in this camp to see them have a purpose and a plan for what they're trying to do and be able to go out there and execute it early. John Carlos Stanton talked about making some slight adjustments in the batter's box. Is there anything discernibly different to you when you see him in that box? So it's interesting for me because obviously I didn't get to follow him all year last year so a lot of this for me is watching what I saw on video and then watching him come in the spring training and watching what he's doing now. I see a guy whose work is incredible. As far as his focus and what he's trying to do is really good up there at the plate. So right now I'm kind of focused on that. The changes are things that he's thinking about mentally and trying to keep a certain approach up there. So we'll keep watching and see how it goes, but I like where he's at early on. You've had a relationship with Aaron Judge for a long time. What's the biggest difference? I mean, the power has always been there. But what's the biggest difference to Aaron Judge as a hitter now as opposed to Aaron Judge when you saw him in the minors? Man, experience. There's no teacher in this game like experience. You know, the more times he's gotten to get up to the plate, the more times he's worked on it. He has an idea of how guys are trying to get him out. He knows what he wants to do in return. So the experience has made him a smarter hitter. He's always been the work ethic and the guy who's going to give you everything he has. But now he has experience versus these pitchers. Makes him a lot more dangerous. This team just got out of the cage and Juan Soto hit an absolute blast hitting the O out there. What did you think of that one? Like it. I want to see more of it. See as much as we can of it. No, he's got a professional approach.  A guy who can keep a ball on the line that long, work the whole field, stay in the middle, backspin the ball properly. I mean, this guy has a chance. I shouldn't say a chance to be. He is one of the most elite hitters in the game now. So we'll just see how far it goes, but he's a pleasure to watch. You want to see more of it? Yankees fans want to see more of it? I know you have a ton of work to do. Thanks for the time. Thanks for having me.


Hi there, thanks for joining me today for our presentation on Fedora 6.0 and all the work that we've been doing over the last year on migration support and integration tooling that came about based on community use cases. So my name's Erin Griffith and I'm the program manager here at Fedora. Today I'm gonna walk you through some of the new features and highlights that you can expect to find in the latest version of Fedora, Fedora 6.0. We are currently awaiting a 6.2 release actually, which should be available for downloading and testing by the time you're watching this video. So at the end I'm gonna provide some resources and links if you're interested in seeing it live in action. I'm also gonna go through some of the integrations that we created based on community needs and talk about how we decided on feature updates based on feedback directly from our community members. And lastly, I wanna share the most important part of the presentation or the most exciting, which is the much needed migration tooling and documentation that was created as a result of an IMLS grant that was focused on Fedora 3.0 to six migrations. So let's get started. So for those of you who aren't familiar, Fedora is an open source repository system for the management and dissemination of digital content. It's especially suited for things like digital libraries and archives and allows both access and preservation. So it also is used to provide specialized access to large and complex digital collections of historic and cultural materials, as well as things like scientific data. So we do have a worldwide installed user base that includes a variety of academic and cultural heritage organizations. It includes universities, research institutions, university and national libraries, and government agencies, all of whom support open source projects just like ours. So what does Fedora 6.0 have to offer? Well, first off, Fedora itself is a digital repository infrastructure that provides robust preservation capabilities to your stack, whether that's a custom system or something like Samvera or an Islandora installation. So in 6.0, we actually eliminated our old mode shape backend and instead we've adopted the Oxford Common File layout as a digital preservation standard. So the OCFL standard brings robustness and transparency to your preservation layer. Also Fedora is standards-based. So in addition to OCFL or the Oxford Common File layout, Fedora supports multiple web standards, including REST for standard web API access, linked data, solid or web AC for access control. We use Memento for versioning, Activity Streams 2.0 for messaging, as well as compliance with the published Fedora specification. So just going into the OCFL a little bit more here, specifically this specification describes an application independent approach to the storage of digital information. So it's specifically designed to promote long-term object management best practices within digital repositories. So if we look at the five most important things of OCFL, the first is parsability. So OCFL is transparently parsable by both humans and machines to ensure that your data can be understood in the absence of the original software that created it. So it means it's human and machine readable and also it will survive long beyond the digital, or sorry, the piece of hardware that it was originally created on, hence the hand-reaching out of the rubble there. So OCFL also provides robustness against errors, corruption and migration between storage technologies by creating checksums of both content and the OCFL metadata. Another thing that is important is that OCFL provides versioning so that repositories can make changes to objects allowing their history to persist. So all your version history will remain in a standardized format. So it employs a forward delta approach to maximize compactness of the repository. And lastly, OCFL is designed to support storage diversity so that your repository can live on desk or any file system as well as cloud storage. So back to Fedora 6.0 features. So Fedora 6 supports performance monitoring and reporting capabilities with Prometheus and Grafana. So this is a new tracking and monitoring system that we have with 6.0. So these two offer a useful analysis of your runtime performance. So you get a nice clean dashboard to show what's happening in your repository at any given moment. So having these tools helped us immensely in the development of Fedora. We believe it'll be just as useful to anybody trying to understand what's going on within their repositories. So this version also offers a built-in simple search feature. So the search endpoint uses an internal index and it supports a small set of basic queries that should be useful for both developers and administrators. Just a note though, that this is not meant to replace a fully featured external search service like Solar. And we also have a wide range of migration support documentation now available for Fedora 6.0. It's meant to get you from all older versions to the most recent as well as validation tooling to ensure that all of your content is actually moved over successfully. So much of this was created thanks to an IMLS grant that was focused on creating the migration paths to Fedora 6.0, which I'm gonna talk about in a few minutes. So this brings me to a recent piece of development that the team has released since 6.0 was put into production, which is the Camel Toolbox. So the Camel Toolbox is actually a suite of microservices that provides a handful of integrations with Fedora. So Camel Toolbox is essentially an Apache Camel-based message application that allows you to integrate things like Solar, Sparkle-based triple stores, and any HTTP service. So we talk about community led development and this is a great example of this. So with the 6.0 release of the Camel Toolbox included with it is an HTTP forwarding microservice which allows you to integrate any HTTP-based service. So this was actually developed in partnership with our partners at Villanova University. So they were specifically interested in creating a custom search indexing solution but didn't really wanna worry about connecting their indexing endpoint to Fedora. So what was created was the HTTP forwarder and with this they're able to create an HTTP endpoint for receiving Fedora messages and then simply tell Camel where to post the messages. So in essence, the HTTP service allows you to wire your custom web service to receive activity streams 2.0, messages directly from Fedora. So some of the benefits of the updated Camel Toolbox are that it is a significantly simplified deployment which makes it easier for you to spin up an access. We always love that. It's packaged as an executable jar file that depends on a single config file. So it no longer depends on setting up an OSGI server such as carafe and we also have Docker images and a sample Docker compose script that's ready to go as well. So you can just bring up the infrastructure with a single command, super simple. So how did we get to this point? How did we decide and how will we decide where we go next? We talk about community led development and for the last several years the entire focus of our program was on hitting the 6.0 milestone. So in June, 2021 we were able to successfully announce that the full production release of the long-awaited software was ready to go. So the community rallied around its release. We celebrated, we had a release party to thank all of the community contributors that really helped make this dream a reality. But what was next for the future of Fedora? The team had been so focused for so long on 6.0 that we really needed to turn our attention back to the community and find out what it was they needed next and what they might be looking for. So how we did this is the first thing we did was we started by hosting a series of community information gathering sessions where we invited members of the community at large to come and sit down with the program team and members of the tech community to discuss their repository needs more generally and see if we could determine whether Fedora could help in any way. So we specifically targeted voices at institutions that are typically underrepresented in things like our governance conversations. We wanted to touch base with our users outside of North America and really hear what they were doing with their repositories and see if there was some gap that Fedora could fill or some way that we could help with the transition to 6.0 or lower that barrier for migration. So during these conversations we were looking for things like recurring themes. So whether that was something like a specific thing that an institution needed whether it was migration documentation or tooling, something like they couldn't migrate because they wanted a specific set of features. These were the types of things we were listening for and looking for. But it actually proved pretty eye-opening to us in that the community didn't actually have a long list of features or functionalities that they wanted to see in Fedora. As far as they were concerned, the software was working. 6.0 was stable and performant which is really kind of the best outcome for a new software release. But it kind of led us to the question what do we do now then? How do we continue to support the community? So to answer this, we turned to a community technology survey. So we crafted this through collaboration with the core committer team and we decided on a small subset of features that we kind of heard come up in both the info gathering sessions and throughout community conversations. And we put these all in a survey asking people to rate their interest and we sent out the survey to all of our mailing lists. So we tried to get it as far into the community as possible and in a different variety of ways. So the purpose was to see what priority items we could work on to help increase adoption rates for 6.0. So thankfully, we've been able to deliver on a handful of these features thanks to community input and development work. And in 6.2, you'll actually see it'll be one of the first releases that incorporate one of the pieces from the technology survey that was requested, which is pretty exciting. So in the background as well, we have also formed a strategic planning subcommittee to kind of help determine the future path of the program. So the subcommittee is formed by members of Fedora governance. And within the subcommittee, there are two smaller working groups and each working group is focused on creating actionable items for helping grow both the program and the community. So we're looking at two areas right now that we identified as opportunities, one of them being resources, so both people and financial and community engagement. So we've been very fortunate. We're using the It Takes a Village toolkit that was created by a team at LearSys to help identify our opportunity areas and help us create meaningful paths forward. So that work is ongoing and will be for a period of time. And of course, our last piece of community led development always brings us back to our weekly tech meeting. So we have an open tech call once a week where users and non-users can come and get engaged in the development conversation, bring your use cases, kind of pick the brains of the tech team and see how we can help in your situation. So next up for us is, as I mentioned earlier, one of the best things about Fedora 6.0 is the migration tooling and the documentation that we now have available that's intended to help get users to the most updated and supported version of the software. So as I said before, much of this work was done thanks to an IMLS grant that was focused on creating and documenting all of these paths to 6.0. So just a brief rundown of the grant. In 2020, the Fedora program was awarded the grant to develop pilot and document migration tools and pathways to bring Fedora 3.x users to the newest, most supported version of the software 6.0. So we do know that hundreds of institutions across the U.S. and abroad are still relying on Fedora 3.x and this continued reliance on that version puts the stability, security and accessibility and also the functionality of these repositories at risk. So it is old, it is no longer supported. So along with two pilot partner institutions, so the University of Virginia at Whitman College, we set out to create the migration tools and all necessary documentation that would then be compiled into a toolkit which would be distributed to users and the content shared through training programs and training videos to support broad community adoption. So that really was our end goal. The grant was broken up into three phases. So phase one took place in September 2020 to May 2021. During this phase, both partner institutions began documenting their migration and upgrade processes. All the documentation that was created was compiled into what will become the community toolkit. We also had the generation of first round of a lot of our migration toolings, excuse me, tools. And in phase two, which began in June, 2021, that process involved validating and iterating on the toolkit based on the upgrades and changes to the actual tools themselves which were created in phase one. So in phase one, we created a lot of the tools to help with the migration and phase two was really focused on validating that the tools worked, upgrading what needed to be upgraded and making sure that everything was functioning as it should. So in phase three, which is the last phase, we are currently in the planning stages now and this will see the creation of migration training content. So originally the intention was to host an in-person migration training workshop to deliver this content. However, as we've seen, COVID has forced us to reevaluate the feasibility of bringing together our global users for an in-person training. But the important thing here is to just highlight that the tooling and documentation that are now available to get all Fedora3 users to Fedora6 is available. So as you can see in the list here, we have paths and tooling available to get any Fedora repository that's 3.x or newer to Fedora6 via one of the pathways. There's documentation that coincides with each tool which was severely lacking prior to the grant work. And we also have a migration validator now, a tool that can confirm and validate that all of your content was moved over correctly and intact during the migration process which is proven to be extremely useful. So without all of this work, the community would still be stuck in older unsupported versions of Fedora, but now all pathways to six are open and our focus is on bringing everyone on board and forward. So on that note, I just wanted to take a moment quickly and thank all of our member institutions. Fedora is an open source software entirely funded by the generous contributions made by our members. Without them, we would not be able to celebrate the success of Fedora6 and any of the work that I've shown you here today. The grant work and all of our future planning that we have ahead of us is really the result of the financial support that we get from our members. So as I mentioned earlier, I'm gonna close out here with some helpful resources and links that point you to all of the things that I've shown you here today. We are encouraging everyone interested to download and give Fedora6 a try and let us know what you think. Test out the tools, go through the documentation and please feel free to join us in the community in whatever capacity you'd like. We are always welcoming of new faces and folks with open arms, even if you're not a current Fedora user, everyone is absolutely more than welcome. And of course, if you aren't already one, please consider becoming a member of the Fedora community. Your contribution will help ensure the long-term survival of this crucial digital preservation software and all of the valuable items contained within those repositories around the world that we're looking to protect. So thanks for your time. Again, my name is Erin and I hope to see you around the community very soon.


All right y'all, I just got out of jail, look at this, this is my outfit for today, today's my last day in Atlanta. I don't leave until 10 o'clock though, so we're gonna run Erin's. She's about to get out here, but it's a bowl in her, it's so cute. Yeah, we're just about to run some Erin's, nothing major. Erin, yeah. What are you holding? I don't, I thought it was under this thing. Oh. I don't think it's under this thing. Did she pick her hand at all? Give me. Here. Dogs get excited to see me. Thank you, what is it smells good in here?  You are not. Getting her a stroller?  She needs one. Get her in there, let me see. Come on mama. You like that? Yeah, she said right to put down. You want a stroller? Look at this cat. This cat just scared me. Y'all look at the cat. She's saying it's healthy. I'm into this dog thing. She's a pure Yorkie. Yes, she's a pure hot man. How about that? She's five months. No, she's gonna get big.  How does yours look? She's here? It's like being black. Yeah, I don't care because that's why she's gonna say small. That's crazy. It's a boy? No, that's a girl. Oh, they're both girls. Yeah, but she's on her period so she's... Oh, she got an attitude. No, she's only messing with boys because all she wants is a man. Oh, she wanted some big. Oh my god. That's why she wasn't even paying her no mind. Okay, so that's how I don't want my dog to look. Oh yeah. I don't want the little skinny Yorkie look. Oh yeah, the reason why she looks only because she gets dirty. Yes, and I feel like... Come here. Mola. They kind of look weird colored. You don't think so? Well, she's not naturally black. Oh, no.  Let's go. She got that big. Yeah, but she was that big as a puppy. Oh, she was so small. Yeah, she's not going to take you long, man.  What are you doing? Oh, yeah, you're like lonely. Don't you want some bows on her? She's gonna turn gray when she get old. I told you that. No, she's turning gray now. I just seen that. She's gonna be that color. I mean, you can do what I do. I don't like gray. I don't like gray. Yeah, I don't like gray. I don't like gray. So I got her black. She died in the same scene. I'm not trying to... So fluffy.  You wanted to stay black. Looky. You need that. You need that. Is there something with peanut butter in it? I have the peanut powder plus it's on the savings plan. You need a chocolate flavored strawberry flavor. I also have the Daily Warrior. It's on the top of the well this way. They call it peanut butter. And then the vegan and super great one peanut butter. Because the most popular one is peanut butter. I just don't want it to be too peanut buttery. I got you. I'll take care of you. All right, bed, bed, bed. All right. One of 60. Thank you. I don't even have to reach for my card. They just know what it is. Oh. Looky came before, but what's your name? I'm Marcus. Marcus is hooking us up. Where is it? We all pee. This is Marcus.  Period. When I moved here... Wait, do you live in this building too? Yeah. Are you moved? I'm okay. I'm okay like earlier this month. You didn't even tell me. Do you get a discount? I do. You do? I should work here. So I didn't get a discount. No, I'm trying to move here for real. I'm from Wisconsin. Are you from Wisconsin? Yeah. I remember you from the last time. I came to visit her. You remember? Yeah. Remember I came to get a Sprite. Wait, what is... Yeah.  Did you more ghetto than me? I was embarrassed. No, yeah, because Kesha was sick and I was trying to... I was roaming around. Yeah. She was. Yeah, she was sick and I was trying to find her. Me too. The back there right there. Where? Right there. Is she good? She bite? He's gonna get my witty. She's cute. You are cute. I mean it's a boy. Kesha. Kesha. I like the way it's perfect. This is a real poodle. Gold retriever and a poodle. I want a brown one of these. I don't even know the name of this thing. I don't even know the name of this thing. I don't even know the name of this thing. Oh really? You don't say that. I don't even know the name of this thing. I don't even know the name of this thing. I miss my old poodle. Hey, she's so cute. I'm sorry. A two bedroom apartment. Because you know I want to work here. So we'll see. This option is, you know, nothing. Nothing bright as these. Oh, you can look at it on your phone. I know about this. This is an ad. This one is bomb. The island. Because it's smell like piss. Don't it? No. It do. It do. This one is nice. I don't even want to walk on the carpet. This closet is big. This would be probably the master bedroom in the bathroom.   It's like yours. What'd you say? And this is the second bathroom. Oh, the shower. This shower is cute. I just don't like the lighting. Lighting is very important to me, especially in the bathroom. This is so cute. Oh, wait, no, thank you. You made it. Yeah, if I move right here. I'm going to be like Jasmine.  They see on it, so. Let's see what. So, y'all, we're at the grocery store right now. So, Jasmine's going to make chili for dinner tonight. I'm so excited. I love chili, y'all. So, we're at the store right now. So, I'm just going to monetize this because, I don't know, oh, I'm going to get some Starbucks and yeah. Here you go, Beach.   One's poison. Yep. Dickarella.  No, you're the more experienced one.    But you want to get wrist crackers, but not no cookies. Yeah, you do. Nice to meet you, too. Yep, I'm a vlogger. I do YouTube.  Okay. Bend it over, such as those. Do you find what you're looking for? Heaven. We need, we need. It's okay, it's okay. I just, what's the ink on it? It's okay though. It's all right. I think it's about to suck. What are you going to do? I'm going to arrest you and take you to the hospital. I'm tired. I don't want to get on this flight because I'm entire. Bitch. You don't have to do anything, buddy. Please walk. This vlog's gonna be forever to edit. Look at her, bro. Come on. You didn't have enough hair for two months. No. Nothing. She bought it. The bow? How do you want it? Like the one, this, don't you? Oh, like a pin one. Yeah. And what you do? It's your first time. My plate. No, she wanted me to say actually I'm not playing with camera. Make them with your boo.  So, yeah. So, so we're gonna end the vlog here. Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe. I love y'all so much. Nice. And I will see y'all in the next video. Girl. Say bye, Jess. Say bye. Bye.


Former President Lucia Gilmour-Basongio has disclosed that amid growing insecurity in the country, the creation of state police would be a better option than community policing. Obasongio made this disclosure when the leadership of the National Association of Ex-Local Government Charming in Nigeria paid him a Ketzel visit in a belkota yesterday. Obasongio, who commanded the initiative behind the formation of the body, said that the development clearly showed that some local charming in the country were better than even the top elected leaders.


Now I know why you're here. That's because you like that Mongolian beef, right? Check it out. I'm finna expose the game and show you guys just how easy it is to make Mongolian beef, AB style. Let's get it. Now I'm going to show you something. We're going to go ahead and start by just cutting down our, you know, our sirloin steak, right? I'm going to go ahead and just cut it in like this, just in half. I'm going to give you guys a pro tip. If you take your steak or any protein and you put it in the freezer and you want it to get a little bit on the hard side, that way you can just go ahead and cut them down. Now I'm going to go ahead and just cut these into little strips. You see that right there? That's what we want. Now, before I even go any further, I want to show you this. Look, this right here is called a zip quicker. This is your sous chef. This is your help in the kitchen, right? One of these, I don't know, you guys might say, hey, you can make one of these, but this right here has been my buddy. And with the holidays coming, I'm going to tell you what, you're going to need to put some stuff in the, instead of putting that tupperware in your refrigerator. What it's going to do is it's going to give you a lot of, it's going to make your footprint big in there. And you're going to have like, you know, some leftovers, right? But when you use a ziplock, you can get everything nice, flat and stack them. Now back over here to this right here. Look, I'm cutting these down in about a quarter of an inch strips, right? Real simple. I'm not going to bore you guys. I'm going to just take these and just drop them in there. And I'm going to go ahead and finish it. If I didn't really finish what I was saying about putting it in the refrigerator, when you put it in the refrigerator, look, when you get a little hard, it makes it really, really nice and easy to cut. But as you can see, this is one of my knives right here. This is my Chevrolet. Look, got the signature on it. Make great gifts for anybody that want to pick one of these up for the holiday. Hey, better yet, pick one of these up for yourself. One of the things that draw me to this here, just the fact that they got this blue handle, right? The weight is good, but most importantly, it holds a sharp edge. Okay. So if you look right inside of here, you can see how they are, right?  Now I'm going to by step, bypass a step. Really, sometimes you can take these. It's really up to you. You're going to lay them all flat, put some saran wrap, get yourself meat tenderizer and boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Right? But I'm not going to do that. I don't want to use this edge either. I'm going to use a flat spoon edge. I'm going to show you why, because what I'm going to do is, now I'm going to take this out. I'm going to go ahead and get some of this air out of here, right? We close this ziplock bag, right? And I'm just going to try to get them as flat as I can get them. I'm really not really worried about it, right? Now that I have that done, take this here and now I'm just going to flatten. Okay. So you see that? Look, I can feel the bag. You can feel it's nice and, you know, like somewhat flat, right? Just by step, bypass the other step, right? Trust me. You're going to, you know, thank me for it. Now, if I pull one of these out of here, you can look, see how it does that? Look, this is what helps tenderize it. And then if it's open, just open them all up. If you beat them up like this, right?  My corn starts real simple, folks. Take this and just add that. Just put it all in the inside, right? Go ahead. I'll leave a little bit of air in here. And what we're going to do is we're just going to coat all of our steak, right? Remember, we flatten, we good there. One of the things I like about using this plastic bag is, look, you can see what's done and what's not. All right.  Because listen, after we put this back in here that, you know, the cornstarch that we put on here is going to help thicken up the sauce. Now, what I'm doing is I'm building up a little heat, right? I've already turned it on. Now I'm getting ready to add more because we want to get this nice and hot. Okay, I'm checking my oil. I can see that that's right, right? You want to get yourself a bowl, get yourself a paper towel.  So now I'm just getting ready to start adding these. You don't want to put too much in here, right? This will be good right here. All right. So look, we just want to brown them. If you got a medium-high heat, look at this right here. And once you flatten them, that's what keeps them tender and they flat, so they cook kind of fast, right? So I'll just put them over here like this. Now I'm just going to take a little salt. You know what I mean? Just put a little salt on them, just a little bit, and then we'll continue to cook these like in bunches.  Look, you can see I got a little bit of that oil, right? You see all that down there? That's the fine. We want to pick all of that up because we're getting ready to make that sauce, right? Now, this is what I'm going to suggest to you guys. Instead of trying to do it in here, I'm going to do it very beginner friendly, right? So we're going to need about a tablespoon of ginger, fresh ginger, right? So I'm going to go ahead and just start grating this way. Now what I'm doing is I'm grating everything inside this bowl, and then I'll bring my temp back up, right? You feel me? Look, trying to do it as much as beginner friendly as possible. This way we don't burn nothing, right?  All right, got the ginger done. Now we come with our cloves. You all know this is my favorite time of cooking right here. We get to go ahead and put that squeeze on it, that twist, right? So if you guys pay attention right there, look at that. Now I've already started bringing my oil back up to temp, but I just didn't want it to be too hot, right? All right, oil is up to temp. Now we just go ahead and just drop this in here like that. Key is you're going to want to keep everything moving, right? Once you got it going like that, I'm going to add some chili flakes to it, just a little bit. I like mine to be a little bit more on the spicier side like that. Now I'm going to come with my soy. Now we're working, folks. The aromatic that comes off of this is going to be fire. This is going to remind you of your favorite Asian restaurant. Now I'm getting ready to add my water, just about a third of a cup, folks. You don't want to let that heat back up, you know what I mean? Because you're going to want to see a boil from that. Remember, it's about having the right tool for the job. Look how I'm using this spatula. Everything is working. And not to mention that I'm using these hex clad pots and pans, right? Nothing sticks. Look, do you see that? All right. Now I'm going to go ahead and add my, you know, my sugar, right? If you guys need lumps, now would be a good time to just go ahead and try to like just break them up, right? As soon as you get them all broken up, you get it all in here. Then what you want to do is you just want to continue to stir. You want to see it boil. I know I'm nice and hot already. You're going to look at it right there. See that? That's what you're looking for. You see it?  Now heat is going to play a big factor in this because you put too much heat on this too long, it'll become thick like candy, like molasses, caramel. That's not what you want. So stay with it. And I'm going to show you guys just, you know, what you should be looking for. All right. So you can see we had a nice boil, right? I don't want to reduce this down and make it thicken all the way up. This is what you want to have. Now remember, we use cornstarch on our beef, right? So when you start adding this back, you guys got it. If you watch my Peach Cobbler, you know about them slurries, right? Cornstarch, something hot, stir it up. And what happens it thickens up, right? So now we'll just start adding this in, just like you see. And this right here is going to help it. Now this is only going to need to coat this a little while before it, you know, thickens all the way up. And I made a lot. You know what I mean? So I'm only going to put so much in here unless I want to make another batch. All right. But remember the cornstarch in this will start to thicken up your, you know, your sauce. Okay. Now you guys can see when I talk about the thickness, right?  I'm just going to let it cool.  Probably going to have this with some broccoli, almost make it look like beef and broccoli. You know what I mean? So this is my golden beef. You know what I mean? You have a quality here. But look, you can see everything is coated nice and thick. Look at that right there. Now after I have everything cut off, right? So this is what I want to do. I want to go ahead and cut them down. I cut them at an angle to give them that little Asian feel. You know what I mean? Then we take this and we're going to just add them in here like that. Right? Let's just add them all. And we'd like to heat. Look at that right there. Y'all tell me y'all don't want none of these.  Then if you really want to like step up your game, you can either toast them. You can toast some sesame seeds or you can just sprinkle some over the top. It's up to you how you want to present toast and gives it a little bit of a different flavor. But that right there folks. Oh my goodness. Yeah, you know what? I love cooks like this man. When I tell you is no stress. Let me get a little bit of this rice. You know what I mean? But I didn't have a few already. All I can tell you is this right here is fire folks. Okay, folks, I'm going to go ahead and just recap that. When I tell you, it's like a no stress cook. Real simple, easy to make, high on the flavor. And you know what? I don't want you like over talking to try to sell it. I want you guys to just try it. And listen, if you guys like to have a lot of sauce to put on your rice, you know what? I would just say, Hey, double everything that I give you in the recipe. Now with that being said, listen, no more of them long blah, blah, blahs and all of that. Check it out folks. It's fire. And guess what? I'm out. Peace.


Hello everyone, I'm Lisa Martin coming to you from the SiliconANGLE News Desk powered by theCUBE. This week we're focused on a new report that reveals alarming trends in API security. Let's dive right in. A new report released by application programming interface security startup Sequence Security Incorporated sheds light on the growing threats and targeting of what are known as shadow APIs. These findings paint a concerning picture of the evolving API threat landscape. According to the report, which analyzed approximately one trillion transactions across various industries, the second half of 2022 witnessed a staggering increase in threats aimed at consumer facing, business to business and machine to machine APIs. The study examined the tactics, techniques and procedures employed by threat actors in their targeting efforts. One of the headline findings reveals that shadow APIs experienced a remarkable surge of 900%. This surge highlights a critical lack of API visibility as shadow APIs often exist outside the traditional IT management and security processes. Moreover, these undocumented APIs create significant security and governance risks. The report also uncovers a concerning statistic. In the second half of 2022, Sequence Security observed approximately 45 billion search attempts for shadow APIs compared to a mere five billion attempts in the first half of the year. Shockingly, the analysis found that 68% of the organization surveyed had exposed shadow APIs. The holiday season brought an even more substantial cause for concern. Sequence Security recorded a 550% increase in unique threats during this period, rising from around 2000 in June to a staggering 11,000 by mid-November 2022. Attackers are evolving their strategies, combining API and web application security tactics. The research indicates that while traditional application security tactics were favored initially, a surge of 220% in API security tactics, such as anomalous traffic, occurred as the holiday season approached. Notably, the telecom industry found itself as a standout target. Sequence Security researchers discovered that retooling attempts in this sector introduced entirely new tactics, techniques, and procedures. This finding underscores the diversity, the sophistication, and persistence of threats faced by organizations. This report demonstrates that the API threat landscape is in a constant state of flux. Organizations must remain vigilant in protecting their APIs and web applications from automated threats and vulnerability exploits. Attackers are becoming more sophisticated and API-specific in their tactics, rendering traditional protection techniques ineffective. Before the report's release, Sequence Chief Executive Amaya Talwalkar stressed the importance of staying ahead of the curve in the battle against API attacks. He highlighted that understanding the latest attack methods and tools empowers organizations to achieve complete API visibility and build the awareness and confidence needed to protect against even the most sophisticated attacks. That concludes our coverage on the alarming increase in threats and targeting of shadow APIs as revealed by the Sequence Security Report. From the SiliconANGLE News Desk powered by theCUBE, I'm Lisa Martin. That's all for now. Thanks for joining us.


Hi guys, thank you for coming back to my channel. In this video, I shall look at the new travel policy for vaccinated people in all countries that is including the green list, the yellow list and the red list countries. Please stay tuned to this video. Doha has issued a new travel policy where vaccinated people from all countries will be exempt from quarantine. Countries are classified into three categories, green, yellow and red. Vaccinated people coming from the red list will have to do a repeat of the RRTPC RRTs when arrival. The new travel policy will come into effect from July 12, 2021. Passengers coming to the state of Qatar from all ports will also have to pre-register on the Etheras website and attack all the required documents before arriving in the state of Qatar for a period of no less than 12 hours. No quarantine required for Qatari citizens and residents including the GCC citizens who are currently QID older if fully vaccinated with unapproved vaccine or die-organized and recovered from COVID-19 within the last month in the state of Qatar. Other member states of the GCC provided that the latter received at least one dose of any of the Minister of Public Health, the Qatari Co-organized vaccine. Travellers fully vaccinated with the above specified condition vaccine will be subject to antibody tests on arrival if the result is positive with antibodies exempted from quarantine. Otherwise, the traveller must undergo applicable quarantine based on the country of departure. Persons who have been partially vaccinated, one dose of the two doses vaccinated with a full cause but did not complete a period of 14 days since the first dose for the JJ or the second dose over the other Minister of Public Health recognized vaccine who received vaccines not approved by the Minister of Health Qatar and die-organized or recovered from the COVID-19 within the last nine months aboard the nine GCC states will be classified into three green yellow and red categories according to the country they are traveling from. Remember if coming from green list countries then adults including pregnant women lactating mother and 75 years old above will need home quarantine for five days. Furthermore if coming from yellow list countries then hotel quarantine is for seven days. If coming from the red list countries the hotel quarantine is for 10 days. Children 0 to 11 years old will follow the same entry gene of their parents if the latter are vaccinated. Remember the children will be considered as vaccinated. Unvaccinated children 12 to 17 years old will be required to deal with quarantine as the procedure assigned to the country of departure. In case of hotel quarantine they will be accompanied by one parent even if the latter is vaccinated. If fully vaccinated then family businesses and leisure visitors including GCC citizens who are non-card QID holder or non-residents do not require quarantine. Non-vaccinated visitors are not allowed to enter to the state of Qatar. Children between the age of zero to 11 years old will follow the same entry gene of their parents if the latter are vaccinated and children will be considered as vaccinated. Unvaccinated. Remember the testing and quarantine policy of Qatar still have to apply. You can also watch my video in the description section below where I talked about the red list country, the green list country and the yellow list country and the new travel policy or the travel requirements that are required for one to travel is coming to either of the categories that are mentioned above. Thank you for watching my videos always put this comment in the subsection below I'll always be the happiest to get back to you. Thanks for watching please let me know your views share and comment in the subsection below I'll always be more than happy to get back to you. BTW don't forget to watch my next videos and do not forget to subscribe to this channel thank you see you again


Hey, this is Brett with Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used SUV headquarters today. We're checking out this 2012 Chevy Traverse that we just took in trade Came in over the age and miles on it. It's a 2012. I didn't see any dent. I didn't see any dings It's nicely equipped on the inside and we'll check though in just a second. It is an all-wheel drive LT Alloy rims firestone destination tires on there pretty nice condition I'd like to do just these walk-arounds real quick so you can see the vehicle check it all out. I Think it's an LT2 Might be an LT1 LT2. I Say it's an LT2 because it's got the bow sound and Just a lot of extra goodies on it like the backup camera heated seats dual climate control AM FM and Serious XM radio capabilities the headliners nice and clean and we'll start it off So you can see the miles and everything on it See it starts up nice We just took this in trade today 121,000 miles you would never guess it For how nice this is on the outside and inside And we'll take a quick look at the second row here. Like I said, it has the boat sound Second-row quad seating and The third row seats all in really nice condition. Like I said, this just came in trade Rear air controls and stuff. So really a nice vehicle check it out on our website www.SummitAuto.com we should have full photos up there tonight and Thanks for checking out the video remember to like subscribe and share to see all the incoming vehicles as well as our Completed vehicles and keep up to date on everything that's going on here at Summit Auto. Thanks again