Good evening, everyone, and welcome to our second to be heard session, time is 6.03 PM. Thank you all very much for coming out. I see a lot of the neighborhoods represented. Welcome to the neighborhood today. I hear a great big applause for you. Now, we have lots of neighborhoods tried. That's wonderful. And so we have said, if several citizens sign up to speak this evening, individuals will have three minutes and groups will have an allocation of the nine minutes. And so I'll start by recognizing the first person signed up to speak. I will recognize also the next person line. So we'll start with Grace Rosales, followed by a group speaking on behalf of neighborhoods as Belma, Pena, Cynthia Spielman, and Colleen Brighamson. As a nation, scheduled for your consideration tomorrow. Because of tomorrow. It is agenda item Z7. Microphone. No. So it concerns a zoning change request for an HLV, scheduled for tomorrow to vote. It is agenda item Z number. The Celtic home is 1622 West Research. It's district one. I live at 1623 West Research. It's there 25 years. Myself and neighbors, I've got a lot of forms there, especially requests of that request. Prior to the zoning commission board meeting, which is approved to cast it on, I had been in contact with the case manager, Michael Pettiglian, since then. I've been in contact with district one's zoning and planning director, Seidel Brooks. I researched OHP's statement of significance and discovered numerous instances of agronious and inaccurate and misleading information that leads to wonder what actually is behind all this request for HLV. And submitted my findings to Mr. Brooks, who later informed me that corrections would be made and these corrections would be in the materials that would be forwarded to the city. But though that is not what was passed by the zoning commission, of more importance and long range of concern is the privileged use of number three and the criteria for the evaluation. The subject house, the home of former senate on your mayor are in white. I looked up that footnote, footnote 10, the only footnote they used to testify to this being mayor, San Antonio Light of October 21, 1954, page 2, is what they used. It's an interview with the mayor, his wife, his interest in his cars, his liking in senior drives, on and on. Makes you wonder, though, why didn't they use page 1 of the headline, All Caps? And I'll read it. White senior, third mayor of 1954, replaces son on council. San Antonio's third mayor, 1954, are in white senior. Third, they took the oath of office of minutes after being named a city councilman to replace his son. His son, R. M. White, Jr., resigned rather than to face a recall election. And so then senior is appointed councilman to replace that bank to see the son's big six then. And minutes later, as the first paragraph states, minutes later, he is appointed mayor for six months. Do you have an intro? Does that mean I'm done? Thank you very much, Ms. Rosales. We have a group now that's here, one neighborhood coalition in Belmont, Kenya, sent his fieldmen following my expense. And the group will be followed by, and has a re-proven for this case. Good evening. We have council members and mayor. Before my remarks, I would first like to just take a moment and give our condolences to the family and the San Antonio firemen of what the CHS is here. My name is Belmont, Kenya, from District 5. Today, neighborhoods throughout the city welcome you to the new council year. What we share is that we believe that people who live in San Antonio neighborhoods should have a voice in the decisions made about our neighborhoods and communities. We have a right to make and warn choices as we face the challenges of the future. We are here to remind you that we are your constituents, we are your voters. Tier 1 neighborhood coalition and neighborhoods coalitions and allies across the city stand together. We advocate for common sense and compatible development of our neighborhoods that includes respect and includes the respect of the local community, of the local existing community. Appreciate those of you who chose to stay and listen to your constituents. I know that we have a number of seats including a couple from the north side. So thank you. Thanks to each of you for caring about your community to engage in public service. Certainly, it isn't the same. My name is Colleen Wrayspack. I'm first president of Northside Neighborhood for Organized Development. You may ask yourselves, what is the representative from Northside who is standing here next to residents from the Air Force in San Antonio? This isn't about whether the neighborhood is on the west side or the north side or the center or the suburbs. Our neighborhoods each have unique challenges and opportunities. However, we hear a common commitment to protecting the integrity of our neighborhoods. In January of this year, the city council took steps to increase governmental transparency and accountability. The city has made progress towards this goal with expansion of SHB Cup initiative and taking city council sessions on road. However, the important that city leaders are listening, not just checking boxes, but X number of public meetings were held. Too often, residents still feel that decisions are made before all public input has been obtained. So as you said, listening to center input at council each week or during the public meeting, we ask that you listen with an open mind. We know your job is difficult and that you often have to make decisions which benefit one group to the expense of the other. And you can never think off. However, as you listen to citizen input, you might just hear that one hit in frame which will lead to a greater understanding of or solution to an issue. Our neighborhoods, regardless of their age or location, embody the history, culture, and character of San Antonio. San Antonio is not Houston, Boston, Chicago, or Seattle. While we need to examine best practices from other communities, it is important that we find solutions that work for our community. Every decision that council makes affects our lives, our communities, and our quality of life. As we plan for the growth of our city, we will all have to adapt to accommodate that growth. However, it is important that we maintain the rich diversity and heritage that makes San Antonio San Antonio. Today, we are here to remind our city leaders that as our city prepares for this coming growth, the voices of those who call San Antonio home today is still mad. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And as the rate room includes this, Tim Barr. 85, 26. 20 represents the difference in life expectancy by Zip Code here in San Antonio. 85 is $85,000. That's the difference, and that's the income inequality between our wealthiest neighborhood in Shabana Park and our neighborhood with the PUS resources, financial resources on the east side. 26 is percentage point difference in adults, white adults and Latinx adults in terms of having a high school diploma here in San Antonio. These disparities are not new. You're familiar with them. But the reason I point them out is because they require planning. They require policy and they require good leadership. They won't fix themselves. They require the kind of leadership that you showed recently in passing the paid sick time ordinance. Thank you. They require the kind of leadership that you've shown in tackling affordable housing and they require the kind of leadership that I hope you will demonstrate tomorrow as you pass the climate action adaptation plan. The thing I want to point out about that though is that tomorrow is not championship day. There will be no trophies passed out, not even any participation medals because the real work is still ahead of us. Tomorrow kicks off the beginning of the implementation process, hopefully, if it is passed. When more of your leadership will be required because these are long-term challenges that require long-term thinking and vision and they require your vision and they require your courage, most of all. Courage because we know that CPS Energy needs more democracy. To continue to think that we can burn coal for another 40 years is not acceptable. Courage because we know that equity has been included in the plan but needs to really truly be at the heart of the plan. It requires a shift in power and decision-making. It requires us to think not only about the benefits but who is burdened and to make sure there is equity there. This kind of courage does not necessarily build your donor base but I don't think that's why you've gotten into politics to begin with. So tomorrow and in the days and months and years to come, I encourage you, ask you, beg you to be courageous in your leadership to ensure that all residents of our city can reach their full potential regardless of their race, regardless of their neighborhood, regardless of their income or education level by passing the cap. See you guys, thank you, Lisa, peace. Mr. Mayor, Councilor, thank you so much for the opportunity to speak with you. My name is Pete Beller and what Tim said I will follow up with on the other half. He spoke well in terms of his requests to Council on the need for the passing of the Climate Action Adaptation Plan. I'm on the side of the Climate Action Adaptation Plan that says we appreciate it, we want to support it, we know that it needs to be passed and we'll be pushing to make sure that it's as stringent and as forward-thinking as it needs to be. So I would also say that we consider tomorrow to be the shot, the starting shot that begins with race to see that Climate Action Plan needs to be achieved the way it needs to be achieved. So you can look to us as your faithful allies in the process of making the Climate Action Plan the reality that must be presented to you soon. Thank you very much. Beller, Annalisa, peace. All the best, great, come on. This is all the two of you, speaking for Annalisa, peace. I'm sorry, what's your name, man? You have to be present. You don't have to be signed up to order to speak. Is it possible? You have to be signed up in order to speak. Is Annalisa here? No, she's not here. Are you signed up? No, I do not. Okay, of course, you won't be able to speak. Greg Harman, Mr. Harman, you'll be followed by Julianne Klein. I just want to say, working to cultivate the belief that all of us in here are here in common concern working for our cities of all, our communities, our families. But I also find that that conviction of strain, deeply strained when I see the use of bad data, unjustified economic forecast, falsehoods, whisper campaigns, and the cruelty of willful ignorance, find and sign and settle for over 100 years by the San Antonio Chamber, Valero Energy, Manufacturers Association, and sadly, Councilman Perry, who's not here to be here, and we've all read his editorial this morning, making use of all of that, as well as some of our county leaders. These place profits over people, profits that are already jeopardized to be swept away in our own failure to prepare if we don't pass the climate plan. The correct start of this conversation is not in the dollars category. It's within a confession that we are in a period of global climate crisis, that even if our emissions stop today, San Antonio is in store for 200 or more years of rising temperatures, stronger storms, and deeper floods. And that these are things that if we refuse to act on, if we continue to delay or deny, is to agree that these extreme hazards are worth the security of an imagined economic future, future of growth. And the saddest thing that I've seen through this whole process these last two years is to see council members from some of our poorest districts to come to accept the logics, these false logics of the oil and gas lobby who have never placed the well-being, concern for poor folks in our city over their bottom lines, and we can ask the families in Manchester about that in the shadow of the Valero refinery. The lesson of San Antonio's history, we know that these from the flood of 21 forward is that the most vulnerable in our city always pay the greatest price and will again now if we fail to act. The reality is, if you look at it more deeply for those who are, have some uncertainty, this is an equity document that holds that those who are most at risk will receive the greatest investment. The net failing to recognize that simple facts to tell your constituents that they need to be holding more fake sales, that when their grandparents are hospitalized and heat stroke or their homes are washed away, they'll need to turn to Kickstarter rather than the city of San Antonio for a hope of recovery. To deny the needs of our most vulnerable for the toxic rhetoric of the most powerful is the ultimate betrayal of your office. And again, I wish Perry were here to hear this today. I hope others who may be on the fence will take this to heart. But we will remember that these turns against the most vulnerable and beyond the shadow of climate doubt, we will center this conversation and develop the storms for those who may be at risk. Do we have a plan? All of that is going to go through. In and here on behalf of the zoning case in 2018 107-0019 which has to do with the ultimate revitalization of that life road. Right now on the working side, we have a disproportionate amount of multi-family housing. And I find it really sad that in Camelotland right now, unfortunately our president of our neighborhood association said and told, it's sad that most Camelotland neighborhood association, sorry, just president, choose to avoid the issues of our area. And the problem with this is it doesn't identify. So I have started petitioning this in the past few days and so far everyone I have spoken to has not heard about this. So I feel something that needs to be corrected in our neighborhood. And the reason that I'm opposing this is that again, we have a disproportionate amount of multi-family housing but our neighbor's plan actually states due to the number of businesses and they get lots substantial amount of multi-family housing. Community wishes to focus on more diverse development and balance the uses in the area. So I respectfully request that this zoning be denied in the hopes that we will continue with revitalization of the Northeast side and Walls and Road. And I'd like to thank the council woman for spending the hearing for tomorrow. One more approval. It's a approval to be followed by Antonio Diaz. For this country entered World War II, it entered a battle for the survival. It's too old up for this battle in a matter of months. Haughty after made anti-aircraft guns, Cadillac turned out light tanks. All over America we mobilized for war. We need to do that again in the face of climate change. I applaud our city leaders for being on the brink of passing a climate action and adaptation plan but I caution that the cap is only an outline. It's only as good as our mobilization effort will be. One of the key players in our plan, city public service, CPS, which used to be a visionary utility has turned timid. If it were Cadillac in World War II, it would still be building cars, not tanks. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that the world has 10 years to cut its CO2 emissions by 45% on the way to carbon neutrality by 25%. San Antonio is committed to that goal but CPS in its flex path plan contemplates burning coal and gas possibly into the year 2060. That's no path to carbon neutrality. Many cities and states have far more ambitious plans. California has committed to generating 60% of its energy from renewables by 2030 and 100% by 2045. Austin plans to have 65% renewables by 2027. And renewables are cost-competitive and respected power evaluation companies said in a recent report, replacing the coal plants with a portfolio of non-emitting resources would likely save money for CPS renewables. Our coal and gas plants produce 48% of San Antonio's emissions. Shut them down and we need our goal of reducing emissions by 45% by 2030. And there's a boat to close in the coal plants, our helms, particulates from burning coal contribute substantially to cases of asthma, heart problems and pulmonary problems. Especially Emily Young and the old and the poor. Let's put simply coal pills. If we shut down our coal plants, we improve our economy. Unlike Cadillac or Pontiac companies that switched overnight to making tanks and anti-aircraft guns, CPS already knows how to make pollution free. CPS now needs to mobilize for a more visionary plan to stop burning coal in the gas. Just like World War II, it's a matter of our support. Thank you so much, Antonio Diaz. Mr. Diaz, are you here? Okay, I think Gianna Ariegas, I'm also here. Okay, we're gonna move to a group, the Southwest Workers Union. That's Alice, the Mysterio Garcia. And I'm called Garcia and Isabella's a bit. They'll be followed by Roseville. And I just wanted to start off by letting you all know that we let a campaign to collect petitions. I just wanted to give a little bit of a report back. Comments of hours off, walking, and going back to the district, all of the 10 districts. We've collected 2,041 signatures. And we'll be done, we'll be done by the district. We've got 24 for district one. 512, which is just to 63, 513, 34. 465, about 228, district 6, 8124, district 9, 11 and district 10, 10. And I just want to remind you to handle that all of the people have registered to vote. And I will pass the roll to you with Alice. I'm following up a little bit on that district, 2.6 regarding the cold killings. This is for the residents. We know that our mother, the plan that we're going to find no matter what, pass the climate action and adaptation plan. Passing cap is a step forward in the process to lessen respiratory illness, as the climate action and adaptation plan. The plan will also reduce the number of people who die prematurely every year here in South America, 52 a year, because of our poor air quality. So let's pass the climate action and adaptation. This message is intended to inspire those who might need to register to vote yet. You may have heard this very authentic allusion on those that risk from the cold and the air, which leads to asthma and even lung cavities. So let's pass the climate action and adaptation plan. It will improve the quality of life and create and stop human extinction. So let's pass the climate action and adaptation plan. My name is Elizabeth Aguilera, and currently I'm five months pregnant. As I grow this baby inside of me, I question whether San Antonio is a healthy and safe space for my baby to grow in. I recognize this comes with privilege to be able to even think of moving away from position. It's not something everyone can, and it's not something anyone should be forced to do. But let's not only think about babies and children, what about our elders, adults, youth, the water, plants, and animals in San Antonio? I also ask you to think about those folks that have been here for thousands of years, that were Native American, the Native American community of San Antonio. How will your votes tomorrow honor their health? How will your votes tomorrow honor the health of all of the families in San Antonio? How will your votes honor your own family's health here in San Antonio? How will your votes honor the earth? What kind of legacy will you leave? One that prioritizes money, businesses, and extractive companies, or one that honors life, earth, and community? Rose Hill, Ms. Hill, you can follow by Antonio Diaz. I'm going to, there's three minutes that I can speak and then the other person will be able to have the case. Okay, Ms. Hill, you're signed up individually, your reference group, who is that? Yes. Sure, yeah. What's your name? Ms. Devno, okay. And is there someone else sometimes? Laura? All right, Ms. Ho, Ms. Devno, your senior time to, Ms. Hill, okay. Ms. Hill, you'll have nine minutes, that's at the time. Yeah, I'm going to have three minutes. Okay, so all of you will have nine minutes, and then the group will be followed by a group. Today, I'm standing for you, the Beach of Breasts around the table, a group that consists of 20, 90 groups in District 2. The group came together when we got, when, in January 2019, we felt that many of our communities had so much in common, regardless of our issues. It started over a cup of coffee, and then grew and grew. The presence came up with a plan on how to resolve some of the issues that we face in the day-to-day basis in our community. We created a form that was able to help each of them by each member of the association and put it in a book to make it simplified for our District 2 staff and our councillors. The golden book would give to the new elected councilman, Jada Sullivan, our staff. At this point, our neighborhood's RCE accountability and action. She committed to meet with the presidents every month, and she and her staff kept their word. That tells us a lot as presidents, that we never have had that in District 2. These meetings are hosted by the presidents. They are called meetings, and I don't know the public for the quality reasons. We have only had limited time to address issues and concerns, and right now we're taking a basic step. The councilwoman on September 4th, 2019, at our presence meeting, she and her staff did their homework and gave us a detailed update on that book we gave her. I feel to mention that I know we're taken. So here are the councillors from this group. We put a plan in place, and it worked. Second, we are organizing registered neighborhoods to come that have gone dormant. Hart Village is the first one to maintain a line. And today I would like to announce real quickly, Hart Village, where is the time? East Village, Camelot 1, Sunrise, Willshaw, Woodwood, Meckley Park, Jefferson, Mike's, Krueger, Salado Creek, Deverman Hill, and Eastwood Village. Thank you for all coming together to meet our district leaders. And Eastwood Village. District 2, we have actually talked about zoning. We've talked about the neighborhood stacking. When I use the term stacking, I'm talking about the overpopulation of some areas in the neighborhood. We've also talked about the population and what we would actually like to do in zoning is to ensure that when we talk about zoning, that we actually have something that's beneficial to the community, not just to an individual that wants to buy into zoning, and then they talk about the number of jobs that you get, but then they reduce those jobs in zoning. I also like to talk about sunrise. Sunrise neighborhood has changed over the last two years. With the help of city officials, with the help of police, with the help of Ms. Jena and a number of officials, sunrise is not on any longer considered sunrise. That is one name that is stuck with sunrise based upon the number of people that came from different areas in 93 to 95. When they closed down, a number of those other areas, Victoria Courts, almost, disenfranchised areas, when they closed them down and brought them into sunrise, they were supposed to actually be dispersed over the city. And they saw opportunity to bring them into one area. So for the last two, three years of sunrise, we have actually gotten rid of a number of people. A lot of things have made the term gun ride go away and become sunrise. With the help of city officials that said earlier, the neighborhoods have changed. Our neighborhoods have changed. They've become a better and prosperous neighborhood. We have the intention to still try to make it better based upon what we have. So I stand, we, the situations that come into sunrise, just speaking for based upon D2, I'm proud of being a member of D2 and actually forming D2 and helping forming D2 with Ms. Rosen to make D2 District 2 a better place to live. So for my time, thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Okay, Antonio Diaz, followed by Deanna Frears. Y'all gonna be together, okay? Yes, okay, go on, six minutes. Good to see all these people. I'm here on this people's day, going to another group of demonstrations for the old renovation. It's not a good deal as far as our constitutional rights, freedom of speech, freedom of petition or government, those things are being impacted by these renovations. We've seen, by the GOO, a certain vision in front of the, it used to be the Plaza of Public Area, very limited to the one hand to petition our local government now because of the GOO. Now it's actually under follow-up of the GOO today. So I couldn't really give the answers to my questions as far as the loss of First Amendment rights. I will continue to pursue that issue. It seems to be the only option for us because as I explained to the one gentleman I spoke to the most time is that Texas pursuing the policies of extermination of Native Americans when it was in the public, continued with those policies when it became state under the United States. And so there's no change. None of us will recognize Native Americans. The Mexicans are finding sort of people but not the indigenous. We cannot protect very much. We cannot speak out at places where there were our ancestral gathering places for thousands of years. Now we're restricted by government that does not recognize us or Native. So there's these, these topics, this dialogue has to expand within this government state. Our state means it still pursues that eliminate the way I see it. We have to equate us to a national or a state entity that's been given to us and won't accept us as we were prior to colonization and occupation. That's one subject matter that I will be pursuing. And the other is I'm very grateful that we finally have this surprise me pleasantly with the way that she's directed. It's a long time in coming, I think, once along the road. And I think right now it's to see, to see this as needed. This we do right now still is facing these challenges because in shortcomings as far as development and economically, we want to take to center and this conversation. And I don't think it needs that. It needs employment, but not that. I pushed when I was running for district two for more employment at Fort Sack for more employment opportunities to that road and to other opportunities when we start thinking of my mind right away goes to a concentration camp. Pretty sure those people in Germany had employment to those avenues who didn't want to have employment. And I'm hoping that that is also the case with the residents that the employment in district two is that they would rather be employed doing something else. Gainfully employed doing something else. Yes, as I drove down here, I see a lot of development. Some of the guidance is employers over here will start employing the residents located within district two. There's much talent, as I always said when I ran in district two and there's no need to seek outside employees, prioritize hiring within the district before you go elsewhere. Thank you very much. Ross, welcome. So I'll have you be followed by Otis and Hans. Welcome to the State's Neighborhood Association. I'm really just here to congratulate you on some of the issues. I'd like to congratulate you all on the election or election in the case of maybe. And I would like to review that about a year ago I came to Fort New Citizens to be heard with some of my neighbors from the state to ask for help passing the Neighborhood Planning Protection Ordinance. That really hasn't gone very far. I was happy to let everybody win the reelection but I deeply appreciate the consideration of that now. Through the Council of Consideration request. The band is not here so long. It's just I'm in the Council meeting for a video. I'm sure I'll end up tormenting you for as I apologize that I think it's a good cause. Welcome to the State's Better Neighborhood in the building since we ran in Excellency in the 74th because we've been outside the Lucius 46th. One thing that I really haven't noticed is with the planning department in my estimation pushing for density fairly low in sleep, the burden is falling on the older neighborhoods. This is partly because they probably want density closer to the central room than the fort, but it's also because most neighborhoods developed since 1970 are primarily gated and they all have very powerful restrictive components so that they really can't be invaded with density or as the others have to see. So we would appreciate consideration of that ordinance and I'd like to thank Mr. Sanchez, who has been instrumental in, I'll say, keeping the neighborhood of things alive pending the activity planning department but we really would like that to be addressed. Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Lawyer. Otis Thompson, followed by a group of the Historic West Side Resident Association that's Terry and Steele, and Elio Guerrero and LaPizia Sanchez. Good evening everyone. I'm Elio Otis Thompson, we are county precinct chairman 43rd and 6th representing the Dell press community on the east side. I must also say that I am a straight, carousel alpha male. My goal is to develop Martin Luther King Park as an international, world-pilgrimage, cultural and heritage tourist destination like reversing the MLK malls from Kitton Southern Park. We ended at the MLK Park at the Wheatley High Sports and Entertainment Stadium. The construction of Lake MLK is just as important. The 2005 Wheatley High MLK Park National Plan illustrates the construction of Lake MLK in the area located south of the right road at Salado Creek. The 22-acre lake will be supplied water by Salado Creek itself. Lake MLK is expected to be a focal point of the community for outdoor recreation. Funding is now available through the voter approved $80 million 2015 hotel venue sale. And with that, I ask your support to build Lake MLK. Thank you very much. At the request by the Resident Association, Tara Castillo, Natalie Guerrero, and Lisa Sanchez, they will be followed by Richard Garcia. Elected by her constituents, not multi-million dollar developers, nor was she elected to carry out her own personal business and political career to represent the best interests of our community, which entails personally meeting and engaging with constituents to learn about our needs and respect their needs. We ask for a clear, transparent, and accountable process as well as the seat at the table with the discussion of development in our neighborhood and not just to have a check off the box, but to integrate our concerns in the broader discussion and policymaking process. Additionally, in the face of the prioritization of multi-decade volumes, tax abatement for developers, we urge you to prioritize property tax relief for the vulnerable homeowners so all tenants can have an affordable place to live. Because the neighboring developers without policy protections or plans for the working class in court is pouring gasoline on San Antonio's already growing homeless problem as well as our growing... pouring gasoline on San Antonio's growing homeless problem as well as our increase in poverty rates. We demand that the city of San Antonio host SAHA accountable for their unjust treatment of their tenants. The intentional lack of maintenance and focused lease funds on tenants are leading to a surge of evictions. We are also here to remind you that the proposed demolition of the Alessandro for the tree saw is an economic attack on San Antonio's already struggling residents and is an act of past warfare. Do you really just walk out? Wow! Go ahead. We urge you to join us in strategizing on how to keep Westside residents who want to stay in the Westside to do so affordably. We are also here to remind you that the city council, although you are elected to represent your own district, you also represent San Antonio as a whole. We strongly encourage that you not give rage to vote against other council members, especially when there is overwhelming constituent concern and opposition. Those surely continue to decline our invitation which meets every second too big of the month at 6 p.m. at the Guadalupe Parish Hall. Thank you, council, and we look forward to working together. Good to have you. Richard Garcia. Mr. Garcia. Okay. You'll have three minutes. You'll be followed by Mr. Garcia, who are you receiving your time for? Ms. Vega. I don't see you a little bit. I'm Mr. Sanchez. You can think about that as Mr. Garcia. Please. Good evening, council members, mayor, my name is Richard Garcia, president of the Memorial High-State Good Association. First of all, I want to just condolences to the all the first founder, Mr. Garza, talking first with him. Also, we just recently celebrated our national night out in October the 3rd. Recently, and I want to thank city manager, I know he was in and out of here, also chief back manager for taking time on your busy schedule to attend our meeting. Thank you very much. Also, I wanted to mention that the recent word that existed in the Memorial High-State is for three reasons. In three reasons, Tony, we advocate, advocate, advocate for a legal association. And so far, the councilman is in support of us. However, I think I want to mention to the councilman that this past month, we're having two diet trainers and they're both in the south side. I think we want this Quintana and we want to say Roosevelt, so it would be helpful if we had some in the west side coming up part, Roosevelt part. Please, if we can have some diets first in our area. The second one is that we contract in 5G for the next week. Again, Memorial Press, we would like to for you to attend our meeting, if you can possibly can. And also, just wanted to make sure you all know that we're proud members of the West Side Legal Association Foundation and also of tier one. And again, we will keep advocating and advocating for our daily lives in the best interest. Thank you very much and have a nice evening. Thank you. Judith is not here. Well, Judith is not signed up so she wouldn't be able to take time. If you want to take your time. We'll move on right now to James Devnell. Can you see if you're talking to Mr. Devnell? Okay. We have a group. My city is my home. That's Jennifer Acosta, Richard Acosta, and Glenda Honis. They'll be followed by Evelyn Farah. Richard Acosta, president of Mr. Dades Mikasa. My city is my home. In case you don't know who we are, my city is my home is a non-profit organization. Our mission is to educate, support homeowners and renters to increase their housing choices. We receive no city funding, space funding, or federal funding. One of our services is helping homeowners be able to afford to keep their homes by helping them protest their property taxes for free. This year we saved over $3 million in lower-value tax and help homeowners in every single one of their districts. Joining me here are some of our superhero realtors using their special abilities to help out their community. We are here trying to keep our neighborhoods together and not be taxed out of their homes. I wanted to share with you some data I collected for a separate project, so remember these numbers because you're going to be hearing them again soon. This information was gathered for public records, so it's city's record, city's data, not our data. Since 2012, San Antonio has invested over $90 million into luxury apartments, most if not all through tax abatements. Houston Street on board at the Riverwalk received $4 million as a pet spa, and I don't know why they needed our money for the $60 million project. I love visiting the Perl, but I'm not sure they really did our $8 million with our taxpayer funds. Please think about this when someone says that there's not enough money to give whole-set exemptions. Think about this when it's too expensive to help out the city homeowners. Though I point out these projects, I want to move on and say that we're not against developments, but I don't think that that has to mean that we are wanting our taxpayer funds to be used for luxury apartments, that some of them charge over $2,000 for one bedroom. Once more, not against developments, but against the city not thinking of homeowners when improving these large developments. After speaking to city planners, city staff and going to various presentations for large projects like the San Pedro Park Creek, the UTSA expansion, the opportunity for UZOMS, no work has been done to ensure the homeowners in the area has their homestead exemptions. As for homestead exemptions, there's a multi-four effort including sacred, Texas houses, interface San Antonio alliance, and much more. We have found that there's over 80,000 homeowners throughout San Antonio that do not apply for their homestead exemptions. These exemptions, they qualify for. This includes veterans and senior citizens that do not have these exemptions. We are now visiting the board of these exemption forums personally. This is an issue on every side of San Antonio. Through our mapping, it's throughout homestead exemptions that homeowners haven't applied for. It's perfect in the north side, the west side, south side, and so on. I've uh, I I'm sorry about that. This is an issue on every side of San Antonio. We, why not use just a small part of those millions of dollars to ensure that the homeowners in the areas of the new development have their exemptions. I recently asked this of the Saha Alizan Lofts Project. Have they reached out in some way to ensure the homeowners are protected from indirect increase of their property tax evaluations and ensuring that they have their homestead exemption? The Saha staff around the presentation said that that's up to the council member to do. Though that's probably not the best answer to give, it does make sense. Why doesn't each district of San Antonio, not anyone does, all districts in San Antonio, have a housing person and since this is their top priority, they can work towards the housing issues in that district and ensuring that they're reaching out to the homeowners of these large development project new areas and ensuring those homeowners have their homestead exemptions. We want to make sure that these people have safe neighborhood and it's affordable. Affordable to who you might ask. Affordable to the people that have lived in those areas before these multi-million dollar projects dropped in their area. As for these improvements projects go, I know it must be difficult for some to understand what are we all complaining about. Don't we all want new developments in our areas in these areas that haven't had any infrastructure investments in the decades or much longer than that, then the city approves a large project, a new road, a new park and then we come out and complain. The issues is not these developments. It's less about the developments but the lack of support to ensure the residents being asked for these basic improvements to be able to afford to enjoy these improvements and not be taxed out of their areas. Also, I want to mention the forgotten population. Mind you, when I speak of supporting neighborhoods I'm also including the 50% Antonio that are our neighbors, our teachers, our police officers, our veterans. They are part of your neighborhoods. They are also a part of neighborhoods. Remember that and ask how are you helping them. Currently if you're a renter living in a home in an area of town for five years or a decade they and their landlord gets no help with property taxes so a law-abiding ethical landlord with no choice but to raise their rents because their property taxes are lazy. Some people say renters don't pay property taxes I say they're correct and this is only true if they are renting a luxury apartment that the city gave a 15 year taxable to. In the future I hope that people think about this as support renters and neighborhoods. So please treat neighborhoods as you would treat luxury apartment developers. Thank you. Thank you, Brandon. This is Brandon. You can follow by Estaral Spears. To show concern that we have a new owner and we thought by the circle that they're here that you all could probably put together a kind of task force to look at other neighborhoods before we let the origin tear them down and participate in a labor-affiliated war. You all got a budget to deal of your inner structure and your neighborhood. But I don't think anybody coming to their neighborhoods to walk around and actually say, oh, maybe we can save this house. Maybe we can save this house.  That would really work. Plus, it would be personal opportunities to either remain in that house or the city could turn around and say, oh, how does this work? We'll accommodate some of the businesses that we have and we can talk about it in the street. And just thinking about the government that's both housing, you are a very important building. Too many expensive apartment houses. People then come and get 10 dollars an hour. You know, they can't come out for a $1,500 or $2,000 a month if you're renting it. And I just think any really good job is going to depend on other than tourism. You can't make that one thing. Maybe you ought to do something about that. Think about a walking neighborhood for a while sometimes. And think about some of the housing that are there for shade that could be repaired. So, Mr. Peter, soon you'll be followed by Johnny Harris. Good evening, Mayor and your in-group and city council. I'd like to encourage you to pass the CAAP, which I think is very important to our future. I agree with people who've spoken before that CAAP does not look as strong as I would like it to be basing out of the card in our CPS. And I think that's something that we should address. I think looking back when we look back at this in the future, no matter what we do, it will not seem like we've done it now. So we should do as much as we possibly can. Well, let's go in brown. Let's go in brown and be followed by Patrick Longdell. Thank you for staying and listening. I live in Beacon Hill, which is a district one. And I write a column for our local neighborhood newsletter. And I recently turned my attention to services for the elderly and have run into a lot of frustrating things when I do that. We have only four adult senior centers, full service senior centers, which would be fine if there were transportation, but there is no transportation provided to these senior centers, which then shows up a lot of our senior population. And I do have a vested interest in this, obviously. But we used to have a model where families took care of their elders. And that model is breaking down. And I don't think we're looking enough at what we can do because of that. Then I turned to looking at the pre meals for seniors. And there is a list of the places where they're provided. But again, when I tried to call and get information, I couldn't get somebody on the phone. You just got voicemail all the time. I also tried to find out about transportation, and that was even harder to find about transportation that's provided for seniors, other than what VIA does for the disabled. And I found contradictory statements on the city's webpage. So that the city is contradicting itself on some of these issues. I think the thing, services are there. The problem is the information is not provided in a way that seniors will understand and have access to. If I try to do a web search, it's an eternal loop. One website points you to another website, which points you to another website, which points you back to the first website. And you don't even get any actual information. So I'm asking that you look at your senior policy and find out where you're not communicating with your districts. And finally, get that information to seniors when we have a difficult time with our modern forms. And I think that, thank you. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Appreciate the opportunity to our citizens be heard. It's nice to be able to come over here to the East Education Center for SA and see what a beautiful building it is and the taxpayer dollars at work. And it's great to have a happy fall. And hopefully we're gonna experience some cooler temperatures and as we have enjoyed a great summer and some opportunity to enjoy the summertime heat and even in the fall. I'm here to talk to you about the San Antonio Climate Action Outfitation Plan. My name is Patrick Bondo, on behalf of the San Antonio Family Association and hundreds of members and thousands of supporters that help educate the child life on the Climate Action Outfitation Plan. It will require San Antonio to go carbon neutral by the year 2050, as assuming wind and solar will become cost effective without backup power. The San Antonio cap requires all city vehicles, including via buses to become electric vehicles. They run great and efficiently on natural gas now. It might be a mistake to change them. The cap will also add tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of buying a new home. CPS Energy has already spent $100 million on solar panel rebates. What we're seeing here now is less about the environment and more about policy and not just policy, but policy overall for the reaching policy that will reach into wealth redistribution and control of citizens. In a natural climate assessment, I'm sorry you don't have an overhead projector to see it tonight, but there's a lot of misinformation out there that a heat wave has come upon us. And that statistics have shown since 1960, that's true, but if you go back to the 1900s, you'll see that we're in a lower heat index since actually the 1930s. Hidden data also shows that the amount of acreage burned in forest fires has decreased since before 1982. Statistics that people tend to show as climate activists tend to show as after 1982. Satellite indexes, by the way, we landed on the moon in 1969 when you were born and we've been measuring, United States has been measuring atmospheric and water activity since that time, since before that time, and missing satellite data that's not shown before 1980, shows that sea levels have actually decreased since before the time frame in which the climate activists tend to show in 1979. We're going to read to you some real quick. Satellite observations have been used to map sea ice that extends routinely since the 1970s. The American Native Joint Ice Center has produced weekly charts, which have been disguised, which have been digitized by the national oceanic and atmospheric association. Here's the key. Since 1976, the aerial extent of sea ice in the northern hemisphere is varied about a constant climate law school level. In 1972-1975, the sea ice extent was significantly less. I'm here to tell you that this climate action plan needs to be delayed and postponed to more scientific and sustainable. It needs to be done in time. Ratsman? Ratsman? Yeah, Brett, as far as that. Followed by Simon Pissarca. I'm in District 9, John Courage's district. And I took time to come out here tonight. So if you guys could just get off your phones on council. Hello. We elected you, most not all. But if we did take the time out to come out here, please show some respect. And pay attention to what we're saying. We elected the citizens of San Antonio. You have a responsibility to listen and to take to heart professionally, personally, what we are saying. I am born and raised in San Antonio and serve on the board of the Supreme Oaks Rumors Association, and I work full-time. My name is concerned that I'm not in favor of climate change. I'll make that perfectly clear. I wish that we had taken this to vote for the citizens of San Antonio. I would like to see some ordinances passed, which would be growing concern that we have on Panhandley all over the city. We have a growing number of issues with trash on our frontage roads, our highways, and in our neighborhoods. We've got a growing issue of homeless people. There isn't a place you can go to in San Antonio at any intersection and have four or five people come at you in your car.  So I believe that it's time that we step up and I want to challenge you to start working together to come up with something that's going to benefit our city. We have a lot of people moving to the state, a lot of people moving to the city.  Tech stop is nowhere to be found. And we've got mattresses and trash, we want to talk about climate change, but yet we let all this stuff get our drainage system and we let it sit on our properties, our highways, 35 or 10, everywhere. There's mattresses, bottles, plastic, you name it. You can see it anywhere. And what's more concerning than the largy is that we've got this growing issue of hand handling and the homeless people. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Sparza. Simone Sparza followed by Maylene and Tuba. And Ms. Sparza, Maylene and Tuba. I think that then concludes our citizens to be heard. Thank you everybody for coming.


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So, hello and welcome. I'm Daniel. Before I start with my talk about how Tarlangs went to Cloud Foundry, I want to ask you, who's here and has not just implemented Cloud Foundry? Who's here just at the very beginning of this journey? Is there anyone? Awesome. Exactly one year ago, I was here as an attendee together with a few colleagues from Tarlangs.  That must be amazing. Or can we even handle that? And now I'm here. So the good news is, yes, it works like all the promises, like all the ambitious promises. You can bring it to your enterprise. It will change everything. And you will just deploy, deploy, deploy. Yeah, that's true. So about Tarlangs Group. Tarlangs Group is an international insurance company. We have a strong Germans route. Our headquarters is located in Hanover, Germany. There are a lot of interesting facts and figures about Tarlangs. I don't want to show you in detail because we are actually here for Cloud Foundry. Myself, I'm employed at Tarlangs at the Digital Lab. That's a small branch of Tarlangs within a subsidiary. We do all the new agile stuff, bringing new methodologies to the enterprise, using new technology, stuff like this. OK, about me. I'm in IT industry now for quite a few years. My first computer was a C64. This was like deploying with floppy disks and stuff like this and took several hours to copy one. I work at Tarlangs not that long ago. Actually, I started also in 2017 at Tarlangs just to begin this great journey with Cloud Foundry. You can find me on LinkedIn, GitHub, and Xing and all this social media stuff you already know. One interesting fact is this is actually our headquarter in Hanover. And the amazing thing about Tarlangs is right behind the headquarter, there's an actual pony farm. Yes, you can look out the window and there are ponies. So what an amazing place. OK, so that's basically how an insurance company sees software development, a large, majestic waterfall. They are very good at waterfall software development because they can make choices, make decisions based on well-known facts. They can plan ahead for years like software application, lifecycle management, and all these fancy things, and enterprise architecture management. Oh, god, we got so many enterprise architecture management. And it worked for some decades quite well for Tarlangs and also for an insurance industry. Or actually for the most industries was waterfall development and planning years ahead. It was quite good. But now things change, markets change, economies change. We are about what if we actually don't know what new products we can bring on the market and what will our customers accept for products? Can we just develop three years and then see, oh, the market does not accept a product and we dump it? That would a waste of money. So we have to transition. Transition to something more like this one. And yeah, it looks a bit fancy, but actually these loops, these close feedback loops, that's something quite new to the software industry. But for some big companies, it's still uncommon to go this way to say, OK, let's do not plan the whole process, the whole software applications. They could just say, bring out an MVP. Bring some small pieces out of the market. Let's see how the market reacts on this product. Maybe you don't have all the fancy buttons and functionalities, but you at least get a glimpse of the general, the very basic idea of your product is a success. And then you can advance over from this. You can start, OK, take the learnings of it. What was good, what was bad? To be a bit more formal on this and go to my beloved Talang's PowerPoint master slides. Yes, basically it's all about build, measure, and learn.  Measure how your customers interact with it. Take some learnings and build again. And don't do this in like, OK, this year we will build software, and next year we will learn from it. And maybe in 2025, we will build the version two of the software. But just to go for weeks, for months, that's quite an achievement for some big companies. And as a digital lab of Talang's, there were some prerequisites we needed. Like, what do we need to get into these small feedback loops? And OK, it's a bit overambitious, or three counterstones of success. But basically, two important pieces mattered. Some agile methodology, some software stack we can use for rapid development, and also some flexible infrastructure that can handle our changing requirements for the software. So because we did not plan, OK, we will use this and this and that framework, and we will need a caching layer or something. Because at the beginning of our product, we didn't even know that we need caching, because at the beginning, no one was buying it. So we had to change our product.  Sky high. And I want to give you some insights on these three parts that we established at Talang's. And a spoiler head, the flexible infrastructure one that will be the one where CloudFirmary comes into account. So we decided actually to go for Scrum, classic Scrum. Can you say classic Scrum today already? Can you say that Scrum is already a classic one? But besides that, yeah, we get to buy weekly iterations. We did plannings. We did reviews. We did retrospectives. We did dailies. All the stuff, basically, from the Scrum books. We had a dedicated product owner that was very helpful for us to get all the business aspects, canalize them into user stories. We did the planning poker on the store. So we did not go for, OK, this will take five days. No, we really did this planning poker stuff and made some estimations. And that quite worked, because our learnings from that Scrum was no free lunch, especially in big water for the company. Because everyone we had to interact with, we need to convince that that is a good idea, because most people just said, oh, Scrum, that's cool. That means just chaos. And he said, no. That means to be very precise about meeting times. Even meeting starts at five past something. It starts at five past, not six past, not eight past, or not showing up at all. That was quite hard for us.  We said, no, no, just go for what can we deliver within a few weeks a customer will buy? And then go from there. But besides that, the business side actually really adopted well to the agile and methodology. And they had a lot of fun with the reviews, with the plannings. And that was quite surprising for me, as I was completely new to insurance companies.  But even they can change very fast. The last point, self-organization. No one told us to use Scrum. They just told us, develop a software within two months. It has to be done, no matter what. And we decided on ourself to go, Scrum. We decided on ourself to watch the technologies to use, and how to deploy the software. And actually, that worked pretty well. The next one, our technology stack. So we are a company that has mostly based on J2EE and WebSphere. And as we were quite new to enterprise software development and also to insurance, and we thought, OK, we have to be very rapid in development. That was no option for us. So we took a new stack. We went for Angular for the front-end. So it just gives you everything you need to build a nice application that's responsive, that works on almost any browsers, and just have to basically just to color it. Take your corporate brand colors, paint it, and then you are good to go. We went for Spring Boot. Spring Boot, that's the most important thing that helped us to go into rapid development. Just use Spring Initializer, create a new project, put a few models in there, a few controller methods, and you're good to go and you have your back end, at least at the beginning. Also, we used Lomborg because we did not want it to write all the getter, setter tests, and all this. We just got for Lomborg and had some like a value object. Swagger, are there any developers in here? Or just wasting your time. Yes, developers, awesome. I'm a developer too. So we used Swagger, not because we wanted to print some nice documentation of our APIs, but we had Angular developers and more back-end developers. And to minimize the work, they have to put into, OK, what will this API look like? We just used Swagger and generated the source code, the Angular bindings for the API. And we used integration tests to check that the back end, with every commit, the back end and the front end was working together. That was quite an achievement for us because then we had not to worry about anything like this.  We used Spock. Spock is a testing framework. We did not go for JUnit. So we went for Spock, and you write the tests in a more declarative way. You can write data tables. You can write in and given when that syntax. So when you write like Spock tests, you can actually use this test, give them to the business side, and say, OK, let's talk about quote calculation. You gave me your lovely Excel sheet. I wrote this test. Are they correct? They just can go to the Excel, and everyone is successful. You are actually making the right quotes. Because if you go for industry insurances, actually 10% more or less that really matters, that are very big numbers you are working with. A GitLab. We did not went for our company S4N or something. We just went into a cloud with GitLab. We used GitLab as a source code repository. We used merge requests. We used some policies that every merge request has to be reviewed by another developer, but also the complete pipelining. So every commit, trigger the pipeline, and all tests were executed. So every developer got immediate feedback. Oh, I broke something at the API. Or I broke something at the calculations. So there was no hassles when we were integrating a feature. Like, OK, we did that feature, but it changed the behavior of our application. We were pretty assured that this was not an option. Also, all the deployments went automated through GitLab. All the branching was done by GitLab that gave us quite confident about that our software works at every stage, and we don't have to invest any time in deploying for the business side. Like, oh, OK, I have to deploy it today. Maybe that takes in half a day. No, that was just done by the pipelines. Also, a nice thing about GitLab, but also about the new Jenkins CI, you put all the pipeline declarations in your code. It's not something a different department has to do for you. It was very important for us that we can change our pipeline while our software was also changing and evolving. And last but not least, when we started that, when the moment came that state mattered, really state. Like, I have a customer, and a customer already paid something. We did not go just for the classical CRUD approach and say, yeah, OK, just make some data modeling and create some CRUD repositories because as we worked with MVPs, we did not know how the data structure will look like tomorrow. We were not sure if we modeled today a quote or an insurance policy because our product was not final. It could look different the next day. That's why we began for event sourcing. We said, OK, but we know right now what data is needed for today's quote. Maybe that's some different talk tomorrow, but we just put that into events and got a classic event sourcing with Axon Framework. And with Axon Framework, it helped us to just tomorrow, even if we have all the events, we can just create new read sites out of it, can transform the data, and are good to go. It helped us being very agile up almost to the end of the project. And it also took Flyway for database migrations that was basically drop all the read data tables with the next release and create a new from the events. So all learnings, you need some components or say architecture that should fit like LEGO bricks. You need a big toy box with a lot of LEGO bricks, and you can just put them in for exactly the problem you have right now. Don't go for this is a global framework or something. We had just created this policy for every new project. It just was the right architectural decision for exactly that product we were just working on. CQS and event sourcing was a quite good decision for us as we kept all the data modeling to a very late point in the development phase. Every commit should generate tests and builds. Your source code needs to be tested, and every commit should run into a pipeline build as you can see, OK, it works or not. And automatic deployment on absolutely all stages, including production, keeps you focused on actually developing software and not about running it. Our last thing, the flexible infrastructure. I mentioned earlier that we have a big web sphere on-premise cluster, but that was not an option for us to go to use. So we went to AWS. We already had a department at the company that was quite proficient with AWS. So we just basically gone to ECS. That's the Docker service of Amazon and deployed all software there. We just took RDS for our persistence backend, and you only need a credit card and basically a few clicks, and it's running. We used EC2 for our CI runners because we had to run all the pipeline builds in our own virtual private cloud, connected all this to the internet by all the neat Amazon things you can use, elastic load balancing, VPCs, and what they are called. But there are a few learnings. First, it gave us a head start. We could deliver the first version within a month from scratch. From the business came to us that we need a product. To give a little insight, the product was based on there was a change in Belgium. There was a new law taking an effect that just gave us the opportunity to bring a new insurance to the Belgian market. And we knew that this law will have has just a finite start date. And at that point, you needed this insurance. We actually did not know who will buy this insurance, how much should it cost, what will be the distribution channels. We only knew you have to ensure something new by mid of the last year. So Amazon gave us a head start that was quite awesome. The performance was awesome. Just go with your credit card and say, I need much performance. They charge you more. And it feels like there are unlimited resources at AWS. Maybe there are unlimited resources. I've never been there. It was very effective. Just write a few CloudFormation templates and you're good to go. But also, you have to know what you're doing, because that is completely self-service. It was not just there came five Amazon guys and said, yeah, we are your Amazon buddies. We will help you with all this. It was like just enter your credit card details in that online form. And then you're good to go to click everything together, all the pieces. And with this, it was very effective if I know what I was doing. And I'm just a software developer. I'm not a good ops guy. I'm not a network guy. Actually, I barely know what all this class B, A, C net means. I'm not good at this. And security is a big issue for insurance company. And I have to say, AWS by default is very secure. You don't have to care for the AWS by itself. But every service you consume is only as secure as you configure it. And you have to know how does not gateways work, how does security groups work, how does elastic load balancing work, are my containers isolated, are all these instances, how do I peer my back end? Is it possible that someone break into AWS because I misconfigured it and just hop into my insurance company's back end? That could be a disastrous thing. And with that, with all this, we were not really sure what we are doing, it became very complicated. And we will see that in the next few slides. The development came into install. At some point in the journey, AWS feel a bit like Blackmagic. If you are a great sorcerer, you can do amazing things.  So to round up, Scrum was amazing, worked like a charm. Right now, we are about transitioning to extreme programming because we want to even further minimize the overhead in our development process. We have seen that working very well at Pivotal Labs. And we are now trying to give this a run. We want to go to short iterations, not bi-weekly, but weekly iterations. Actually, on Friday, I have an iteration review. And also, we are madly driven by curiosity. Our technology stack was good for the project. Our current project, for example, as it does not rely on state, we are not using Exxon right now. But I think it's every time an individual decision to choose your technologies for the needs you have. To talk about cloud, as I already said, I think we have to go a bit into detail with that. So about the release cycles, that are bi-weekly cycles. Now we are just going to cut them in half to weekly iterations. That does not mean that you get more done. It's just that you can react even quicker. An interesting fact for us was, when we looked into iterations, what we have done in product development and what we have done in operations, it started very operation heavy, like getting all this AWS stuff to work. And then it sunk. Like, OK, now we are developing, we are good to go. And it was also amazing. But every few iterations, all this stuff popped up. Like, I don't know, do you remember Meltdown Inspector? I actually do, because there was this announcement, we had absolutely no idea what to do. We had all this Docker images, libraries, EC2 instances. And the basic idea was, we have to patch everything. That was an iteration where we did not spend a lot of time on actually developing business value. What we identified are this, I think you have heard that already in a lot of talks, this day two operations, like creating Docker images for ECS. Who is the source of the Docker image? Is that all the security stuff? Is this fixed? We have had to patch all the EC2 instances. Are the instances that are hosting the Docker runtime? Are they secure? Integrating new services means to change all our cloud formation stacks. Like, we had one time the problem. We wanted to change our stack to bring a new service in. And it was our persistence stack. And it said, here, maybe, does this delete our RDS instance? Hit all our data loss if it does delete the stack? We did not know. And we started to feel very uncomfortable about this. Because actually, we are just software developers, not infrastructure guys. What you basically want is something like this. I think it's called the value line. Spend the most of your time developing actual business value. And just have a basic flat line about overhead operations, like changing your deployment strategy or something. That was very important for us to come to this flat line. And that's where, actually, CloudFormer kicked in. So how to improve. Deployments should have been even more easier, not with all the stack update cloud formation stuff. And creating like we had our pipeline had to create Docker images with our source code, had to upload them to the AWS Docker registry. We had to run all the cloud formation stack updates. That need to be done. All the network engineering. As I already said, I'm not a network guy. And that network stuff had to be cut out of our equation. Also, Docker images had to be gone. And a way to integrate new apps, new microservice. If you go microservice, you want, at some point, break them even smaller. If you start to get cautious about your cloud formation stacks, then you just say, yeah, maybe we will do this another iteration. Just keep with our micro monolith. And that's actually what CloudFormer gave us. CloudFormer started. We just make now CFPush. You can CFPush almost everything. You can, all the network stuff is just covered behind the CFRP, like the divine service, the service broker API, that makes you all the network stuff. As a developer, you absolutely don't have to care anymore how this works internally. You have this amazing platform that takes care of this. You just build a single jam in your pipeline, make the CFPush command, and it's running. And it really works that way. Also, all the routing, the integration of the application, CloudFormer gave us a very comfortable and easy and lightweight API to just add something to the context path, or to the sub-domain, and integrate our new services. So basically, shift from IIS to PAS was a major achievement of force. So just a few success factors. I'm getting a bit short of time. But if you start to implement it, handle it as a product. It's not something, it's not technical. It's not a project. You have to establish CloudFormer as a product at your place. On the right side, you even see our product logo.  Your developers are customers, so go for them. Care for them. Bring features your developers want, not what your architecture board or your management says. And we started with small apps, like small microservices, small applications. But what you need, if you want to be successful, plan for all the legacy stuff, the brownfield migrations, that will be very complicated at the beginning, and it will need much attention. So basically, I'm done. Thank you. If you have questions, I'm short of time, but I will be out of the room, so you can ask me whatever you want. Also, our product manager for the platform is right there sitting. You can ask him how it felt to be responsible for bringing all this magic to talents. Thank you.


In the word of mountaineering and climbing a 14er is what you would call a mountain that's at least 14,000 feet high. Here in the United States there are 96 14ers with Colorado being the one state with the most 14ers, 53 of them and then Alaska being number two on the list with 29 14ers. If climbing a 14er is on your bucket list this video is going to provide you with a lot of helpful tips to make it to the summit and back successfully and safely. This video today is brought to you by Journal My Hike, the best hiking journals to document your adventures on the trail. More on that later on in the video. Not all 14ers are the same, each mountain has its own difficulties or challenges and you want to make sure that you are choosing a 14er that aligns with your level of comfort, your level of experience and if you are doing this for the first time it's probably a good idea to go with something that's a bit more manageable. Now there is a system that classifies all of these different 14ers and mountains following the Yosemite decimal system and it goes from class one up until class five and then beyond class five there is a different type of classification. Class one being the type of hiking where you are pretty much walking on a maintained trail you're not going to be doing any scrambling with your hand you're not going to be on your knees. When you choose in a 14er for the first time you're probably better off with class one, class two and then when it comes to class five this is the type of climbing when the climb is going to be pretty exposed in some sections there will be a lot of scrambling with your hand you will need rock climbing skills and you are likely to be using ropes so unless you have the skills to go for class five it's definitely not something that you want attempt by yourself and then class three, class four are kind of in the middle. Now for example in Colorado Mount Albert being the highest peak in Colorado and it's known for being the most difficult of the easy 14ers and I've done Mount Albert in the past and I can tell you that that one was classified class two and the trail was really well I mean the hike itself was still strenuous and demanding physically and mentally but the trail was pretty straightforward you can find your way easily and there was no scrambling at all from what I remember. Pike's Peak also in Colorado America's Mountain that's what it's known for is also class two a strenuous hike again but the trail was straightforward very well maintained. Now alongside with choosing the right 14er is doing enough research online reading about that specific climb maybe engaging with the community in public forums or even reading reviews on the mobile application all trails if you're not familiar with all trails it's a great mobile app for beginners. I have a full review about it right here you can check that out but I personally would go to all trails at least and then read the trail description and then read reviews from hikers who had done the same climb before and just try to read through what they have to say is there anything that you should be paying attention to on the trail is there any specific wildlife to expect on the trail and then doing some reading online to make sure that you are well informed because this is going to help you to plan and prepare you want to make sure that you have a map with you and you want to make sure that you have general information about the trail or the profile of the trail what it looks like at what elevation you're gonna be starting how much elevation you're gonna be gaining or losing throughout that climb how long is the trail in and out how many miles you're gonna be covering and what is the duration of time on an average that you're gonna be spending on that mountain before we go any further let's talk about today's sponsor journal my hike brought to you by yours truly trekking pals journal my hike is a brand providing a variety of hiking journals for hikers and outdoorsy adventurers introducing another hike in the books the best hiking journal to document your adventures on the trail and capture memories that last forever link in the first comment to grab your copy today and don't forget to follow journal my hike on instagram with that out of the way let's get back to our list the next tip is to train for the climb there are definitely times where i went from being physically inactive for a long period of time and then just attempting a big mountain but there were also times where i trained three months leading to a climb and i can tell you that it makes a huge difference when you are training because you are not exhausting yourself you had already trained and prepared for this physical effort when you are training for a big climb like this for a 14er you want to make sure that you are focusing on strength endurance and cardio and better yet if you can go on on hikes they don't have to be 14ers but longer hikes where you get to walk for an extended amount of time you get to carry your backpack with you and just get your body in the habit of walking for an extended amount of time there are so many reasons why it's important to start early in the morning and number one is being able to find parking because some of these 14ers are very popular and everyone wants to to hike these 14ers in a specific time frame during the year and a lot of times you would get to the trail head and there is no spot for you to park your car and then you gotta spend hours or i don't know how much time to find parking for your car that's reason number one reason number two when you start early in the morning and here i'm saying three a.m four a.m five a.m when you start very early in the morning you are giving yourself enough time on the mountain if you are a slow hiker and you know that you need to take it one step at a time and you need to take your time to make it to the summit it gives you enough time to make it to the summit and back and not have to to stay late on the mountain the third reason is the risk of lightening and thunderstorms at this very high elevation it's very common for thunderstorms to roll in and people would usually say noon is the time when you want to start heading down and leaving the peak between 12 between 12 and 2 p.m you want to leave the peak or at least be on your way down and make it below the tree line because this is the time usually when the thunderstorms start rolling in and because you are exposed you are not protected it's a little bit risky so when you start early on in the morning you have enough time to make it to the peak by noon or even before noon and the other important thing of course is to check the weather forecast that's very important because based on that information you know what to expect on the mountain you know how you are supposed to dress and what to pack with you and when you are checking the weather forecast it's not enough to just check in the city or the town that's near the mountain you want to check the weather forecast in the mountain because it's different when you are at that elevation when we get to a thousand feet this is when the human body can start experiencing symptoms of high altitude sickness when you are hiking at elevation there isn't enough oxygen in the air and so it becomes a bit difficult for your body to adjust to these changes in elevation now especially if you are coming from sea level or you're coming from a city with an elevation of 1,000 feet and then the trailhead or your start point is let's say at 7,000 feet and you're gonna be climbing up to 14,000 feet for example you would usually not climb that much within a day let's say you are gaining 5,000 feet throughout that hike that is a big change in elevation in your one day that your body has to go through that's why it's important to take your time to acclimatize if you can make it to the town that's close to to the hike where the 14er you are going for a day before or even two days before and maybe try to camp nearby or stay in a hotel whatever accommodation works better for you that's going to give your body enough time to adjust to these changes in elevation so at this elevation or at high altitude you can start experiencing some symptoms of high altitude sickness that can be dizziness that can be nausea sometimes sleepiness and it's just because there isn't enough oxygen for your body to use usually with the headaches it's a good idea to take some painkillers before you start your hike that's something that I personally like doing if you notice or you learn when you attempt your first 14er that your body is really struggling there is medication that can be used here in the US it's known as a diamox you have to talk to your doctor to make sure that it's something that would work for you usually this medication it just helps your body handle the changes in elevation better but the first time I used diamox was on Mount Kilimanjaro because it was pretty high it was really steering with over many days and I didn't want to not make it to the summit because of high altitude sickness pack the 10 essentials of hiking that goes without saying not just for a 14er but for any hike that you go for you want to make sure that you are prepared and you have all of the necessary gear to keep yourself safe I'm not going to list all of the 10 essentials of hiking but I'm going to leave a link in the description box that you can read through and I also have an older video in which I share some basic tips for beginner hikers you can check it out up here but basically tips around making sure that you let someone know where you are going you are well prepared you have a way to start a fire to build a shelter and things like that dress in layers when you are climbing a 14er chances are you are going to be spending many hours on the mountain during that period of time the weather can go from beautiful and pleasant and sunny to rainy maybe thunderstorms maybe it's hailing and you want to make sure that you are dressed properly you want to make sure that you have enough layers to keep you warm you want to make sure that you have a rain jacket and you also want to make sure that you have a rain cover for your backpack to make sure that your gear is also dry the day before your climb don't skip your dinner and then the morning of your climb you want to make sure that you have a solid breakfast to provide you with all of the energy that you need when you are hiking you want to make sure that you have enough snacks with you on the mountain you are also going to be using a lot of salt through sweat and you want to make sure that you are replenishing. So maybe you can pack some electrolytes.  We find them to be really helpful. Or you can pack some salty snacks. I personally like olives in little packets. It's one of my favorite snacks.  You and I got into hiking. I didn't appreciate the importance of trekking poles, but right now I take them with me pretty much everywhere, especially on trails where I know that there is no scrambling necessary. Trekking poles are helpful when you are making your way up the mountain, but also when you are descending. And they say that most of injuries happen when you are walking down the mountain.  That's your main point of contact. And then with the trekking poles, that's two additional points of contact that will help you to stay safe on the trail. Practice the seven principles of leave no trace. If you're not familiar with leave no trace, this is a set of principles to make sure that you are enjoying the outdoors responsibly. And it's about planning ahead and preparing, traveling and camping on durable surfaces, disposing of waste properly, leaving what you find minimizing campfire impacts, respecting wildlife and being considerate of others. And finally, enjoy your time on the mountain. Knocking off that first 14er can be the beginning of more adventures to come if you happen to enjoy that first experience. And if you make it successfully to the summit of your first 14er, take some photos and tag us over on Instagram at trekkingpells. We would love to see you checking it off of your bucket list. I hope that you guys enjoyed today's video. And if you did, please give it a thumbs up. It helps me tremendously to grow this YouTube channel and subscribe to the channel for more videos about adventure, traveling and hiking here in the United States and beyond. My name's Habiba. This is trekkingpells and I will see you very soon on a new adventure.


Push notifications makes use of two APIs. The notification API to display notifications and the push API to handle messages that have pushed your client from your server via the push service used by the browser. This diagram gives an overview. On the client side, your web page interacts with service workers, which in turn receive push events via the user agent, also known as the browser. And on the back end, you send messages from your application server to the push service, which then delivers them to the correct client. Let's look at the notification API first. This allows developers to display notifications to the user. Before we can create a notification, we need to get permission from the user. This code will prompt the user permissions to show notifications. You can try this out from the browser console. As you'll see later, permission is requested automatically when subscribing to a push service. So there's no need to call this function when using just push notifications. Let's take a look at some examples for configuring and displaying a notification from a service worker. We first check that permission has been granted. Then we call show notification on the service worker registration object and pass in the notification title. You can also try this out from the browser console. Try it on the new tab page. Now, for push notifications, you call show notification in the service worker in response to a push event when a message arrives. We can specify an optional options object to configure the notification. This is passed in as the second argument in the show notification function. The body property is the body text displayed below the title. Icon is the image displayed at the top of the notification. Vibrate is the vibration pattern for phones. In this case, 100 milliseconds on, 50 milliseconds off, 100 milliseconds on, it's on. Data is the arbitrary data we can retrieve in the service worker when the user interacts with the notification. In this example, primary key allows us to identify which notification was clicked when handling the interaction in the service worker. Let's try that out. We can add action buttons to the notification that we can then handle each in a different way. Here's what that looks like. Notification interaction events are handled in the service worker, tapping, clicking, or closing the notification. There are two notification interactions you can listen for in the service worker. Notification close. The notification close event only triggers when the notification is dismissed via a direct action on the notification. If the user dismisses all notifications, the event will not trigger. And this is done to save resources. Notification click. If the user clicks the notification or an action button in the notification, the notification click event is triggered. If the user clicked on an action, the action is attached to the event object of the notification click handler. We can check which action was triggered and handle it separately. Now let's see how the two handlers work in a service worker. First, notification close. We access the notification object from the event object and we can get the data from the notification object. We might use the primary key property from the data to identify which notification was clicked. In a notification click handler, we can determine what action button the user pressed by inspecting the action property on the event object. Note that each browser displays notification actions differently and some don't display them at all. To compensate, we put a default experience in this example in an else block after checking which action was clicked so that something will happen on a simple click of the notification. Now let's see how you send push messages from your server and handle incoming messages on your client web app. Each browser manages push notifications through its own system called a push service. When a user grants permission for push on your site, you subscribe them to the browser's push service. This creates a subscription object that includes a public key to enable messages to be encrypted and an endpoint URL for the browser's push service, which is unique for each user. From your server, send your push messages to this URL encrypted with the public key. The push service sends the message to the right client. Now the service worker will be woken up to handle incoming push messages when a push event is fired and this allows your app to react to push messages, for example, by displaying a notification using service worker registration show notification. Your app doesn't need to listen to or poll for messages and the browser doesn't even need to be open. All the work is done under the hood as efficiently as possible by the browser and the operating system. And this is great for saving battery and CPU usage. Let's go through that step by step. In the app's main JavaScript, call pushmanager.subscribe on the service worker registration object. Get the subscription object and convert it to JSON. Get the endpoint URL and public key and save this to your server, for example, by using a fetch request. Send the message payload from your server to the endpoint URL encrypted with the public key. The push message raises a push event in the service worker, which we can handle in a push event handler. In push event handler, we get the data from the message and display a notification. The push API allows users to subscribe to messages sent from your app server that are sent via the push service used by the browser. And subscribing, of course, is done in the JavaScript for the page. Responding to push events, for example, by displaying a notification is done in the service worker. Just to repeat, subscribing to the push service and getting the subscription object happen in the JavaScript for the page. First, we check if the user is already subscribed and update the page UI accordingly. If they are not subscribed, prompt them to subscribe. If they are already subscribed, update the server with the latest subscription, since that may have changed by the push service since it was last used. When the user grants permission for push on your site, you subscribe them to the browser's push service. As I said before, this creates a special subscription object that contains the endpoint URL for the push service, which is different for each browser, along with a public key. We send the subscription object for this user to the server and save it. Now, before you subscribe a user, check if you already have a subscription object. If you don't have the object, again, update the UI to prompt the user to enable push notifications. And if you do have the subscription object, update your server database with the latest subscription object. The ready property of the service worker defines whether a service worker is ready to control a page or not. It returns a promise which resolves to a service worker registration object when the service worker becomes active. The get subscription function returns the subscription object or undefined if it doesn't exist. We need to perform this check every time the user accesses our app because it is possible for subscription objects to change during their lifetime. This is the process of subscribing to the push service. Register the service worker from the main page, main JS. This request goes to the user agent. The user agent returns the service worker registration object. Use the service worker registration object to access the push manager API. And from that request is subscribed to the push service. This request is passed on to the push service. The push service returns the subscription object which includes the endpoint URL and the public key. Save the subscription object data to your server and send push messages from your server to the endpoint URL encrypted with the public key, like I said. Now, before sending notifications, we must subscribe to a push service. We call push manager subscribe on the service worker registration object to subscribe. And the resulting push subscription object includes all the information that the application needs to send a push message, an endpoint, and the encryption key needed for sending data. Each subscription is unique to a service worker. The endpoint for the subscription is a unique capability URL. Knowledge of the endpoint is all that is necessary to send a message to your application. The endpoint URL therefore needs to be kept secret or other applications might be able to send push messages to your application. Here's an example of the subscription object. This is the object returned from the push service when we call reg.pushmanager.subscribe. The subscription object has two parts. The first part is an endpoint URL, the address on the push service to send messages to. This includes an ID that enables the push service to send a message to the correct client and service worker. The second part of the subscription object is the keys property. The P256DH key is an elliptic curve Diffie-Hillman ECDH public key for message encryption. The ORTH key is an authentication secret that your application server uses in authentication of its messages. These keys are used by your application server to encrypt and authenticate messages for the push subscription. And let's see how the process of sending a message is done. The server generates a message, encrypts it with the public key, and then sends it to the endpoint URL in the subscription object. The URL contains the address of the push service along with a subscription ID, which allows the push service to identify the client to receive the message. The message is received in the push service, which routes it to the right client. And the process of sending a push message from the server works like this. A back-end service on your server sends a push message to the push service using the endpoint URL from the subscription object. The message must be encrypted with the public key from the subscription object. The push service uses subscription IDs encoded in the endpoint URL to send the message to the right user agent. The push event is picked up by the service worker. The service worker gets the data from the message and displays a notification. In this example, we're using Google's web push library for Node.js to send a push message from a Node.js server. The TTL value in the options specifies the time in seconds that the push service should keep trying to deliver the message. Now, this is important to set correctly. Some messages have a short life. Some may be valid for several hours or more. We then pass in the subscription object, payload, and options object to send notification. You need a way to ensure secure communication between the user and your server and between your server and the push service and between the push service and the user. In other words, the user needs to be sure that messages are from the domain they claim to be from and have not been tampered with by the push service. You need to make sure the user is who they claim to be. Vapod was created to solve this problem. This vapod identification information can be used by the push service to attribute requests that are made by the same application server to a single entity. This can be used to reduce the secrecy for push subscription URLs by being able to restrict subscriptions to a specific application server. An application server is further able to include additional information so that the operator of a push service can use to contact the operator of the application server. In order to use vapod, we need to generate a public-private key pair and subscribe to the push service using the public key. The public key must be first converted from URL base 64 to a Uint8 array. This is then passed into the application server key parameter in the subscribe method. The web push library provides a method to generate vapod keys which generates the keys. This should be used once in the command line, web push generate vapod keys, dash dash jason, and the keys stored somewhere safe. We can use the web push library to send a message with the required vapod details. We add a vapod details object in the options parameter that includes the parameters required for the request signing. Now, let's look at messages from the receiving end in the web app on the client. Handling push events happens in the service worker. The service worker will be woken up to handle incoming push messages and a push event is fired. This allows your app to react to push messages, for example, by displaying a notification using service worker registration show notification. To display a push notification, you listen for the push event in the service worker. You get the push message data from the push event object. In this example, we simply convert the message data to text. We wrap show notification in a wait until to extend the lifetime of the push event until the show notification promise resolves. The push event will not be reported as successfully completed until the notification has displayed. You can practice working with the notification and the push API by following the lab that accompanies this video. One small gotcha, don't use private or incognito mode for this lab. For security reasons, push notifications are not supported in private or incognito mode.


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