Let's get some questions from the audience. What I love, I'm sure we have microphones around. I see some hands, but I can't really see faces. So there's a gentleman with his hand up in the second row. Is there a microphone? Keep going, the second row, le deuxième, là. And then there's someone who looks like a yellow sweater. OK, OK, please. Thank you very much, Mr. Laichoubi. I've already come in. I wanted to ask you a question that seems essential to me. That was what I knew, but shouldn't we be concerned about the fact that Trump is also the product of the failure of previous approaches? And so he plays this role of rupture. From there, should the analysis on these failures and these approaches not be more in-depth? First question, I would like my panelists to come back. And beyond Trump, what would be the revolutions? Because it is a failure in relation to the previous approaches. The previous approaches have been announced and are ineffective. I would like an eye, I would like an analysis on this question. And how do you imagine the new revolutions to the light of this contradiction? Thank you. OK, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Laichoubi. Yes, Mr. Mariton. First of all, I hear that Algeria, to prove the question of our Algerian friend, which on the first point seems very important, the failures that we have carried out. But I would put two quick points. First, how is it that Trump still has a very large popular support?  Or is it that Trump bashing, as we've heard from part of the panel this morning, as exactly the reverse effect? Second point, Trump has probably the useful policy and that was part of the final analysis from our moderator to exert and try and exert some influence towards and in a way against Chinese expansionism today from its near vicinity, Hong Kong, Taiwan and extended to Africa, indeed here in Morocco and many countries on the planet. So if Trump does not do that, who else? And in a way, a question, maybe two, Mr. Vidrin and others on the panel, would it be immanageable that other parties on the planet, if not Trump, somebody else, some other country, takes that sort of responsibility, or is the world totally to the idea that there's one type of expansionism that has no answer, no reaction and maybe a final conclusion, we may express many criticisms towards Trump. It's not my cup of tea, but on freedom of speech, human rights, I'd still rather live in the states than in China. Okay, very good. Could you pass the microphone behind you to your right? And then, are there any questions over on this side? I can't see. Okay, anyway, please. And if I could just ask you, I should have done before, just please identify yourself. Would you mind, terribly, everything? Ria Tabet-Ulibo. Ma question, est-ce que l'unilatéralisme américain et la guerre commerciale menée n'affaiblit pas le dollar comme monnaie d'échange dans le commerce international? Merci. Okay, merci monsieur. Let's take a couple more, there's right down in front, Madame Voila, and then there's a gentleman on the aisle there. Can I go ahead please? Okay, I'm Jean-Pierre Cavesson from Hong Kong Baptist University. All right, yes, general remark, it looks like Europeans believe more in Trump's worlds and less in his actions than the Asians. It looks like the Asians are more cautious and more concentrated in the actions of the Trump administration beyond the words it has uttered. So that's a general remark. Now, I have a specific question to Wong-Ti Su, anyone who is based in the Asia Pacific region is regarding the US-China confrontation. Now, in China in the last few years, there was a lot of debate about the US decline. It looks like today this debate has been forgotten because maybe the US has come back to Asia. And the Trump administration in many ways has developed some kind of super-rebalancing policy towards China. And I'm happy that you have mentioned the South China Sea because I would like to have Wong-Ti Su with another Asian representative on the panel on the risks of crisis in the South China Sea or in the Taiwan Strait. I think Taiwan was just mentioned very briefly, but that's another hotspot we should look at. Now, the question is whether there is a chance for such a crisis. And the other issue is whether the core war, the trade war between China and the US, as you sort of alluded to, is going to put enough pressure on the Chinese leadership to reform. And I would like to have your own view on that. It seems to me that it's unlikely, but maybe you have another view. Thank you very, very much, and I'll just be here. Do you think Trump has an African policy? Or does it interest him? Absolutely not. That's my first question. The second is about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Trump is going beyond all the previous presidents by recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. By ignoring all the help given by the US and the Palestinians, and even ignoring the Palestinian representation in Washington. We're talking about a Trump plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And my question to Mr. Bedrin, is this plan really going to exist? And what would be its contours? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. OK, let's come back here. Let's try to first answer the questions about Asia, Pacific, and worries about the South China Sea. Mr. Wang, would you like to start? Yes. First, I'm very much in agreement with Michael's point that the United States is changing, but not changing totally. I think some people say Trump is some kind of abrogation in world politics and US politics. I don't totally agree, but I think he represents, as I said earlier, the divisiveness in world politics. And the divisiveness is caused by increased economic inequality among many countries, and also the identity politics that is exacerbated by the economic inequality. So if we come to US-China relations, I think the relationship is influenced by their domestic politics. In the United States, the criticisms of China are rising up, not only in the Trump administration, but in the political community as a whole. So I don't think this is a short-term phenomenon because Trump is surrounded by people who have hostile or strong reservations about China. With regard to the South China Sea and the Taiwan question, the two sides do not want to fight a war over these islands or over Taiwan, but the tensions are rising up because people in China hold nationalistic feelings, sentiments about the United States, and people in the United States are saying China is trying to replace the United States domination in East Asia. But I think in the practical terms, the two sides are very cautious not to be engaged in an actual military conflict. The two militaries are talking to each other, and I think there will be somewhat reserved in making some skirmishes. So I'm moderately optimistic about the South China Sea and Taiwan, regardless of the rhetoric. Can I ask you, there may be a slightly difficult question. I mean, China has joined much of the world order and has asked everyone to obey the rules, and yet the decision of the court about these islands has been totally ignored by China. And I wonder how that fits with the Chinese view that everyone should obey the rules except themselves. I think China says that it buys by international law and it is a contributor to current world order. Of course, their behavior has generated some concerns over the South China Sea and elsewhere. But I think the preoccupation of China today is still a domestic economy. So I don't think China will be engaging in adventurous things abroad. Going back to the question about China's reform, I think it is expected that the Communist Party will hold another plenum after the party congress. And I hope these people have some expectations of economic reform. But I think economic reform may be restored. But I think the political situation may remain unchanged. There's still a great deal of effort to consolidate the power base of the Communist Party. Yes, that's precisely it. Mr. Fujisaki and then Mike. Very shortly, our relations with China are improving. So I have to be rather cautious. But my personal view, I have two concerns. One about the South China Sea and other issues. Feta Complee, or you do things first and then extending smiling hands afterwards. I think that's a little consent to us. Second is an idea like AIIB or OBOR on Belt and Road, which we will discuss later. Great ideas maybe. But it doesn't come this way that, hey, I have a good idea. Let's discuss to make it. It comes like, I have a good idea. Those who want to join, come on the board. I think these are the two small concerns I have on China's diplomacy. OK, Mike, this is not aimed at you, but let's try to keep our responses short so we have time to go to the audience one more time, please. I'm going to respond to the gentleman in the yellow sweater who made the argument that Mr. Trump is confronting an expansionist China. I don't really see it that way. I don't recognize that in Mr. Trump's policies. The truth is he's been very inconsistent on China. During the campaign, he was very tough. During the first 18 months in office, he coddled China. He didn't confront China. You remember the Mar-a-Lago summit, all the early love affair with Xi Jinping. Now US policy on China has toughened up, for sure. The Pence speech, very tough, reminiscent of a sort of Cold War rollback approach to China. Why has that changed? I think trade is Mr. Trump's red line, and I think he's angry about that. Secondly, he's pushing on an open door. The truth is that everybody in Washington has toughened on China. Democrats and Republicans are getting sick of Chinese foreign policy, and it's very easy for Mr. Trump to make this argument. And also, I think there's a distraction element. While he's being attacked on Russia, he can give a big speech on China and say, look over there. There's nothing happening here. Look over at China. I think Mr. Trump will be tough, will continue to be tough on China's economic approach. But it's not clear to me to come to the South China Sea issue that he's going to take risks on really hard security issues, because he hasn't done that to date, and he doesn't care really about alliance guarantees. The idea that Donald Trump is going to take big risks on the grounds of half-submerged water features in a waterway on the other side of the world seems very unlikely to me. The second point, just very quickly, Stephen. You also made the point, sir, about Trump bashing. And I think that's a fair point. I think Mr. Trump has had successes in his foreign policy. The two points I would make is, first of all, the scale of the successes are not what he says they are, and he doesn't care too much about the scale of the successes. So we have to be very careful in interrogating what those successes are. The second question I'd put to you, at what price do these successes come? Yes, the stronger party in a negotiation can always wring concessions out of the weaker party, but in the long term, that will tend to undercut your reliability, your reputation, and your prestige. And the genius of the US-led order after the Second World War was what the great American historian John Lewis Gattis described as hegemony by consent. America achieved hegemony over much of the world by consent. The world consented in America's hegemony.  Thank you very, very much. Not you. That's great. Mr. Roy, did you want to speak? I just want to say that. And then we'll go to Mr. When Kim Jong-un was shooting those missiles, China, instead of trying to calm down the North Koreans, they punished South Korea when we put that anti-missile system. So how can you, and it's for our own protection, it's a defense mechanism. So for China to punish penalized South Korea, we're putting this system to defend ourselves. And Korea, we've been bullied by the Chinese for 5,000 years, so it's in the DNA of the Chinese to bully you, threaten you. So I rather have some kind of a US presence for trying to prevent some kind of inveturism from China. It's my personal opinion. Thank you. Mr. Fadrin, there are a number of questions addressed to you, so please, please. Yes, Steve, I'll answer very quickly the two questions of our Moroccan friend. I have a global remark to finish. On Africa, Trump has no African-German policy, but in fact, no one has African-German policy. He can have policies in Africa, on such a particular point that can interest him. It wasn't the case for the moment, and it wasn't major in the exchange that we had. Secondly, the plan on Israel-Palestine, it's a plan all the time, that's all. He says that the coup won, and basically that the Arab countries of the region have other suicides, that no one else supports the policy of two states, except the Europeans, and especially France, with a certain verbal courage. So they're going to abuse this situation to say whether to take it or leave it, in my opinion. On the whole, what I wanted to say is that the Westerners will not find the global control of the global system. There is no global system, there is what Guterres calls the chaos. The Westerners will not come, the United States will not come, even with Trump's brutality. The Westerners, in addition, don't agree with them on these questions. I think that China will not come either. I don't think it's the Chinese project, and even if it was a new project, it wouldn't come, because there will be systems of a big deal about China, confused, but still. Emergencies, in general, don't have unity between them. Look at Han, China, for example. So we're in a chaotic system, chaotic, it doesn't mean war, but a sustainable, unstable chaos. What makes me think, there is a meeting in front of us between the powers that have been established for three centuries, which are still relatively defensive, and the power that is rising, that is rising in the disorder. There is a meeting, either it will take place through dozens of dangerous and painful battles on all the political, monetary, military, etc. Either, at some point, will organize a sort of general discussion that didn't take place after the end of the Soviet Union, that took place after the end of the First World War, not very well, after the end of the Second World War, rather well, and that didn't take place. So my only simple idea is that this meeting is not behind us. It's not just about making sure that the worst that are lemon, contestant, synthesizer, the system that has already been organized and that is magnificent, I think the meeting is in front of us. And it raises very, very, very complicated questions to the powers that were, the dominant powers of advance, it's more complicated than for the others. So, for Europeans. Thank you. Igor, I don't want to put you on the spot, but one of the things Mr. Vadrin just said, which is always intriguing me, is we have traditional powers, we have rising powers, there's clearly a change, there's a... Where does Russia see itself in this? I mean, does it see itself part of the future or hanging on to the past? By the course of events, our politics were reactive because we do not represent the power and potential economic and military one of the Soviet Union, but we still thought of ourselves as the adversary of the United States and in this bipolar competition. The Ukrainian crisis, the Syrian crisis were the reaction to this. At the moment it's obvious that we cannot take this burden upon ourselves alone, but through dual containment of the United States, of China and of Russia, we are organizing counter-dual containment of the United States, so we can be allies of China at the moment. Hypothetically, if something goes very well beyond Putin, then we can go back to the Western world, but at the moment, until 2024 at least, I don't think it will happen. I mean, in a way, some people, maybe it's a joke, but they suggest that Putin is doing the United States what Nixon did to the Soviet Union by moving toward China. Something like that, and he's a very good player in this, and tactically, I think that we made a lot of successes, we are back in the Middle East and we can bargain our Palestinian-Arab-Turkish-Iranian connections, and we can be a player and we can't pretend to go back on the top table, but the weakness is economy, demography, and other things, and in the long run, we cannot play this role anymore. Okay, thanks. We have eight minutes, so I'd like to take a couple more questions. I don't know if Jim Loewenstein's out there.  Where? Okay. Okay, could you give him a microphone, please? Thank you, Jeff. Jim, thank you. Thank you, I'm a retired American diplomat, so of course, what I worry about is the image of the United States. To what degree do you think Europeans and Asians separate their reaction to President Trump from their opinion on the United States? Thank you. A couple more, I mean, is it Carrie I can't see? There's a woman in the front row, please. As someone who has a foot on either side of the Atlantic, I wonder if we might not also look at Trump as someone who puts his finger on the divisions as Rosalind was referring to, of the losers in the transition to a knowledge economy. The people in the north of England who voted for Brexit, the people perhaps in the French countryside, that he's putting, that he's not simply an American phenomenon, perhaps in an internal or a domestic policy way. Okay, thanks. And could you just hand the microphone, yes?  I have also two fits on each side of the Atlantic. I have two comments remark question. One, I think beyond the trade war or so-called trade difficulties between China and the United States, it seems to me that the real issue is more market access. I would say reciprocal market access. What we've seen lately is attempts in the U.S. to block some investments by Chinese companies, particularly in certain sensitive sectors. And we have a process called Cyprus that some of you I'm sure are familiar with. We've seen it's harder for Chinese company to invest abroad at the same time. Probably the Chinese authority don't want to spend that much money outside of the country because as one of the panelists said, the issues are more on the domestic side. So this is one aspect. The other thing that I would like, there's been, I have a marathon was pointing at, some, I would say, Trump bashing. And a lot of people don't like Trump for a vital reason, which I perfectly understand. I'd like to make two remarks. One, it's been elected, it's been elected. I mean, some people say they didn't get more, but it's been elected is the president. And the second thing is elected by the Americans. Everybody has a view on who should be the president of the United States. But be aware of something, only the American votes. Thank you very much. So let's have one more question, but let's try to have a question about Trump. We've wandered around, I think, in a very interesting way. But let's get one last question about Mr. Trump. I see a gentleman with his hand up there. Please. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. That's almost from Japan. I have a question to former minister, Mr. Moshu Verlin. If you put in your shoes of historian, for example, in 1980, more than 50% of the world GDP was produced by two countries, China and India. And if history may repeat itself, and if many people predict by 2050, China will be the by far the largest country in the world in terms of military, economic, political power. Do you think this course of history could be interpreted by something happening between China and the United States now? Thank you. Great. Thanks very much. We don't have tons of time, so let's first try to have quick responses to the question about America's image abroad and Mr. Trump. Michael, go ahead. But let's just be brief if we can. Polling data gives us the answer to that. Most Western countries at the moment are distinguishing between their view of the United States and their view of Mr. Trump. And in the Australian case, for example, still seven or eight out of 10 Australians believe that the alliance is important to our security, but only 30% of Australians respect Mr. Trump. I worry, though, in the long term, if you think of the murder of Mr. Khashoggi, the disappearance of the Chinese Interpol chief, for example, these are the kinds of questions that in the past we would have relied on, expected the United States, the president of the United States to take a lead on. Now that doesn't happen. What does it mean that someone like Erdogan of Turkey is a greater advocate of press freedom and of getting to the truth of Mr. Khashoggi's murder than the president of the United States? And the final thing I'd say is, what if Mr. Trump is re-elected? It's one thing for us to suspend disbelief when America elects him once. But what if he's re-elected? Brons, do you have a thought on this? Or am I putting you in a spot? On the image abroad. I'm not sure I'm in a great position to describe that. I can talk a little bit about his image in the US. Which we'll hear a lot about mid-November, I think. Yeah, yeah, okay. Would anyone else like to... Igor, what does Trump look like? We have inferiority complex. Hello? We have inferiority complex vis-a-vis Americans, but we have a superiority complex either. So this is a dissonance cognitive, total. So the rich people in Russia would run to the United States buy properties and enjoy life. But coming back, they would bash Trump, Americans and all of that stuff. So it's very situational. And then, for example, on the 11th of November in Paris, by some miracle, Putin strikes a deal with Trump. Then six days later, the public opinion of Russia being brainwashed by television would say that 60% of the Russian population is strongly for Trump. Yeah, yeah. I'm afraid both our populations are a little bit the same way. Mr. Wang. I think Trump is difficult to separate Trump from the United States. In the sense, in China, for instance, Trump is trying, his administration is trying to drive some Chinese presence, presence from the United States. Chinese students, Chinese businesses. So that hurts the United States in Beijing, China. Basically, the United States still enjoys a lot of popularity, especially among the Chinese younger intellectuals and students. But if they are denied access to U.S. universities, they will have to go somewhere else, Australia, Great Britain and other countries. So it depends on whether that kind of policy will continue. Yes, thank you. I think you're probably gonna have the last word. So go ahead. Because Japan's relations with the United States has been so close and so strong, up till now, we were able to distinguish the two, Trump and United States. I hope this will last long. Thank you very much. Okay, well listen, we are out of time. I apologize to those who wanted to ask questions and I failed to let you do that. So my apologies, but my thanks to this panel for a really interesting discussion. All the best. Thanks. Thank you.


Welcome to Longmont Public Media's conversation with the candidates. I'm Richard Lyons, and I'm here today with Sean McCoy, one of the six candidates for the two at-large positions on City Council. Welcome, Sean. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure being here. Good. So Sean, tell us a little bit about yourself so Longmont can get to know you better. Okay. Well, I'm a native of Longmont. I was born and raised here as my wife, and my children have been too. I'm 56 years old. I went to Central Elementary, Longspeak Junior High and Longmont High School, Go Big Blue. I have a degree in political science and a master's in education from the University of Northern Colorado and just a pesky dissertation away from having my PhD. So I've served on multiple boards and commissions prior to my previous term on City Council in 2007. I served on the Housing and Human Services Commission, the Police Standards Board, the Boulder County Open Space, and the, let me see here, Planning and Zoning Commission. So I've had that experience. And then when I was on council, I served on different boards and commissions, like Housing and Human Services, Art and Public Places, Youth Council and such. And I've also received a Bronze Level Leadership Certificate from the National League of Cities. That means that I've gone to all kinds of professional developments to get a better understanding of what we can do to make Longmont a better place. After my service on City Council in 2011, I actually served on the Historic Preservation Commission. I've served on the District Accountability for Boulder Valley from my school as a teacher. And I am currently a board director for the Future Business Leaders of America for Colorado for District 2, which encompasses Boulder Valley, Savory Valley and a few of the metro schools down in Denver. Good. Yeah. Good. So what one thing do you want the Longmont voters to know about you? Just one thing. One thing? My commitment. My commitment to Longmont. If you ask any of my friends from way back when and to now, they all know that I'm always one of the biggest cheerleaders and people that are always talking about Longmont and how wonderful it is. And I just want people to understand that I get it. I get that Longmont is a great place and I want to keep it that way. Very good. Very good. So this is kind of a tricky question. What do you especially like but also what you especially don't like about Longmont? Well, I think that what I particularly like are parks and our recreation and the places and the activities that we do as a community. But I think sometimes Longmont short sells itself and I think that we need to make sure that Longmont is always perceived in a very positive light. It's a great community and we have so many wonderful things happening here that I think we just have to constantly keep our chins up and recognize how wonderful a community we actually live in. Very good. So I'm going to give you a hypothetical. If the city received $1 million grant to use for the city in any way that the council could choose. What would you do with it and why? Well, I don't think a million dollars would go very far to moving our dreams of RTD fast track there. Do you think that it would go pretty far to addressing our needs to do something about our homeless community? And I think that it's really important that we look out for the lease of our brothers and sisters that are struggling in this world and make sure that they are taken care of. So Sean, did you have a person that was your mentor where there was very influential in your life? And if so, how did that person help or influence you? Well, as many people know, my father Tom McCoy was a high school teacher at Niewat High. He taught USGov. I teach USGov at Monarch High School. And he served 22 and a half years on Longmont City Council and I learned at his feet.  Also, my government teacher at Longmont High, Jim Gillan, had a big influence on me. And I feel that he always joked that he doubted that. But the truth was is that he had a big influence on me. And so between my dad and Jim Gillan, it was really those two. Okay, good. So are you paying it forward? Are you mentoring or helping someone? I am paying it forward. My daughter Molly is interested in political life and has been for many years. And she is my campaign manager currently. And she is one heck of a campaign manager. She's thoughtful and considerate and somebody that I admire from this generation. And I have a lot of faith. I have a lot of faith in this generation. I think they have so much going for them. And I want to support them and make sure that they have what they need to be successful in Longmont. Good. So as you know, Colorado and Longmont both have lots of recreational opportunities. Which do you enjoy and how do you spend your recreational time? Well, we hike in the mountains up near Allen's Park. And I also ski cross-country and downhill. And so I enjoy those recreational activities. I haven't test, was it windsurfed for many years, but I thought maybe in my retirement I might get into doing some paddle boarding because I'm just around the corner from Macintosh. Very good. So, Sean, it looks like Longmont from the latest map. And I think it came out some minor revisions last week. Longmont will switch from being in the fourth congressional district to the second based upon that map, the latest map. What impact, if any, do you think that will have on Longmont? Well, I went to one of those redistricting meetings and listened to the arguments and heard what people were saying. And I think it will be positive. I think the one disappointment that not all of Boulder County will be part of that District 2 from my observation. It looked like Netherland and some of those along the upper part of Boulder County might not be. And I think that's not a great idea. I think they need to stay in Boulder County. And I think that Longmont will have real representation there because we have issues in Boulder County. And only a year ago was there a fire that was encroaching and very, very close to Longmont. And our neighbors saw pieces of people's books and libraries coming down in full pages in their backyards. So the thing is that climate change is real and it's time that we probably need to have a representative that understands that. Very good. So how do you learn and stay informed about local, state and national and international issues? Well, I listen to National Public Radio on my drive in. I pay attention to our local news outlets, ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS. I read up on what's going on in Longmont Ledger and Times Call. And I talk to people. That's a good way to do it. Yeah. So national politics are very divisive in our federal and state governments, as you know. Although the city is technically nonpartisan, some say it's becoming more political. What would you do to keep that divisiveness from occurring in Longmont City Council? Yeah, that can be a real problem. I think people misunderstand what our responsibility as Longmont City Council members really is. There's a learning curve to getting on Longmont City Council. And if you've never served on a Board of Commission or on City Council before, there's probably about a two-year learning curve before you actually see and understand that it's not about the national politics. It's really about Longmont. It's really about where Longmont community members are. It's about our parks and our libraries and our sewer and water and our trash collection and our recycling. Those are the issues. And I don't see those as being very political. I see them as just being important issues that face Longmont. Great. So how do you plan on including the voters more in the decision-making of the City Council? Well, when I served on Council before, we brought on activities like Coffee with Council. That wasn't established prior to that point. And that gives us a more local look at where people are and the issues that they are really interested in and allows people to voice those without feeling like they have to get up in front of Council. A little nerve-wracking. You've got three minutes. I have to say your address and your name.  And none of that happens at a Coffee with Council. People actually can talk to you. And I think that's really what is important because I think we need to show compassion and understanding that not everybody is a great orator. That's for sure. If you could change one thing in the current City Charter, excuse me, ordinances, City Code, what would you change in the Municipal Code? Just one thing. I think right now we're probably in a situation where I think we probably should look a little bit deeper into how much we are actually required for affordable housing. We might need to increase that. We served on Council before in 2009. That component was removed and the inventory that we had went back into the general population of houses. And so we had about over 100 houses that were affordable. We need to make some of that up. That was a very poor decision. I didn't support it at that time. And I think that now we have to make sure that if we're going to try to make sure that our police and fire and other folks that need to live and work in Longmont can afford housing, then our essential workers, then then it's important that we have affordable housing for them. Well, that leads into our next question between affordable housing and attainable housing. Which would you prioritize as being more important in this area? I think attainable housing is just a new buzzword a little bit brought on to try to promote a narrative. It's really around affordable housing and the inclusionary housing issues. And the truth is that there's a couple of different things that we can approach. We can look at trying to bring in more inventory from rental houses, rental units that may not be necessarily up to code, and come up with a way of working with those folks so that those that might want to bring an apartment on, let's say, in prospect. I was on plan zoning when prospect came on. That's the gold standard of really good development. And all those units there that were mother-in-law's roosts and things like that. What wasn't probably told to those folks is that you have to get another meter on that unit before you can really get out there and rent it. And so we need to come up with a process that allows people to bring those on legally. There's probably plenty of folks during this pandemic that had to make a hard choice about keeping their homes. And they might have come up with, oh, well, we can make our basement into this or we can do our mother-in-law's roost into that. And now they're having a few sleepless nights because they're trying to see how they can make it legal. We need to come up with real solutions to making those types of affordable housing legal so that people don't have sleepless nights and that we can do something to really help our community. Very good. Well, Sean, that ends our conversation for today. Thank you for stopping by. I know you've got a busy schedule. Sure. Well, thank you very much for having me. Good luck in your campaign. To be in your city councilman. Please vote for me. Sean McCoy. Thanks. All right. Thank you.


Well good afternoon and welcome to the Vlickety vlog. I just got out of the shower, so I'm extra sanitized because I am going to hang out with some friends. Yeah, I have friends, guys. I have friends. We work together, so I guess we're kind of forced to be friends, but we actually like each other to hang out when we're not getting paid, so that says something. Anyway, it's about 3.40, and I need to leave here about 4 o'clock to make sure that I'm gonna get to the destination in the right amount of time.  It's so good. I will leave a link below. I'm not sure if they actually have a website or they just have a Facebook page, but either way, I'll leave something below so you can check it out. It's all like super good home cooking, and they also have amazing desserts. So here's the plan of what we're gonna do. They currently have outdoor seating by reservation. However, one of the people that is coming is pregnant. It is the person that I threw the baby shower for. I'll leave a link if you're interested. And the idea of getting served while pregnant is just not comfortable for her, which I totally understand. So we decided to just get orders to go, and so we all placed orders for pick up at 5, and then what we're gonna do is we're gonna go all the way to the back parking lot. They have a huge parking lot, by the way. So we're not gonna be impeding on anyone's area. We will be kind of loitering, if you will, but we paid for services. I think it'll be okay. We're all bringing a lawn chair and bringing whatever else with us. I have a little table that I'm bringing with and my own lawn chair and all that good stuff. So yeah, we're gonna go and do that, and we're gonna eat and conversate and six... six? No, we're gonna sit six feet apart. That's what we're gonna do. Oh goodness, I can't even talk today. Anyway, so that is what we're planning on doing, and it'll be good to see them in person. Just good to see people, you know? But anyway, I will see you when more things start to happen because now my battery's flashing, so I'm gonna switch that out before I go, and I'll probably show you what I got to eat. So I'll see you in a little bit. Bye. Okay, so I am at Carol's.  Oh my gosh, what is wrong with me? Whatever. My face is just like always red, you guys. Anyway, so yeah, my... my... no, not my. I just got here. I got here a little bit early, but I'm at the very back of the parking lot. There's not a lot of people here, but there's like this little grassy area that's covered by trees. So when the sun comes back out, you know, we'll be in the shade, which it's popping back out right now. So we're just gonna sit on the grass.  So yeah, that's it. That's the update, but I will show you... Hopefully I can show you my food and my little setup, and they don't mind me sharing that at least. So I don't want to take pictures of people that don't want to be on the internet because I like... I totally get it, guys. I totally get it. So anyway, I will see you guys in just a little bit. Well, hey! That went like way longer than I thought, but it was really good. It's like 9.30 right now, and I'm still out in the world. Sorry, the lighting is really bad. Oh, it's even worse! Yay! Anyways, but I am gonna go home. I got myself a cake. It's in here, German chocolate. I will have some of this tomorrow, and yeah, it was really, really nice to see Karen and Kim. Those are my two pals from work that I hung out with tonight. Really fun to see them. We'll have to do this again for sure. And yeah, I'm gonna head home and see the Doyle dog and wrap up things from there. I am very thankful that I brought my table and chair. Definitely that came in handy on our little grassy knoll patch right over there. So yeah, I don't know. It was really good. I'm really, really glad that we did this. We got to catch up on things. It's just so hard not seeing each other every day in the office. So it's like, we're just catching up on just like normal stuff that we're just missing out on. So yeah, it's just like, oh, I haven't told you. Like, you know, we talk if we need to talk for an order or something like that, or even just to check in. But, you know, we don't check in with each other every day. Like, we normally would in the office if we're passing by and saying hi and, you know, asking about the weekend and like, oh, do you have a good weekend? And you know, just normal pleasantries.  It's just, it's a lot more difficult. So anyway, I am about to drive home and then I will see you guys when I get home and I will show you whatever the heck Doyle's been up to. I'm sure he's just been having a big old house party while I've been gone. So anyway, yeah, that's it. I'll see you in a little bit. Bye. All right, I am home. Doyle is excited. I just got home like a minute ago and he's clomping around. Aren't you, buddy? You clomping around?  I don't know. I call it clomping. Yeah, he's clomping right now. Anyways, clearly I know technical terms of dog walking. I don't know what's going on. Anyways, but I'm going to call it quits here. I know this vlog was probably super short just because I, you know, didn't start vlogging until right before I went and did something and then I didn't really show you what I did because I don't want to put my friends on camera if they're not down with that and I didn't even ask because it's like, it's not their life. You know what I mean? I don't know. So anyway, they're not really social media people anyways, which is totally fine by me, but allows me to just be in the moment, hang out with them, have some fun times. But I do have a friend. I do have a friend that you will see this weekend. So maybe that'll make up for it, you know? You can see some of my friends, but you can't see all my friends, okay? So anyways, it's after 10 o'clock. So it's definitely time for me to go to bed.  And yeah, I put my cake in the fridge, so I'm going to have cake for breakfast tomorrow. I'm so excited. I have not done that in like, I don't know, forever. So yeah, kind of excited. So yeah, put Doyle's over there doing his Doyle things. Anyway, but I'm going to jet. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with me today. Doyle's going to clump his way over here some more. I don't know what he's doing. Anyhow, but yeah, I'll see you guys tomorrow for another vlog and happy Friday. If you're watching this on Friday. Bye guys. Well folks, it's time to kick it old school.


Welcome everyone. This is Dhiraj from Centrum Academy. I am here to just give you a brief introduction of our class management tool. So you might have received the login and password for the same. So in case you have not received an SMS with login password of class management tool, please get in touch above number or the email ID. So this is the website and here you have to put your login password which you have received. So I'm just taking a dummy login password to show you how to navigate it through. So I log in. This is a student portal. You can put a recovery email here so that when you forget your password, some recovery process is there. So I'll skip it for now. This is a schedule here and you'll get a schedule of classes that has happened in the past that is going to happen probably. So right now this student, I think this was old student. So I'll just go to see. These are the classes that has happened. Now, if you click the messages, you'll get the latest messages which were sent to you from Centrum Academy. So right now there is no communication. So that is why the no messages. And then if you click the performance, you can get the marks of all the tests that has happened in the past. If you click PCM, you'll see here, you'll get a relative performance compared to the toppers and you can see your own performance. Okay, so remember this is a overview of your marks. If you want to have a detailed analysis of your performance, you better log into our learning management system. Okay, this is class management tool. If you click to the attendance, you'll get to know the attendance of the student. This student has 100% attendance. If you go to the admissions, if you click the course, for example, this student was last year class 11 student and now he is again enrolled in 12th. So if I click the previous years, I can get the receipt of the payment from here itself. So if I click this print, okay, I'll get the invoice of the payment which I've done. This is the thing to get the invoice. And then this is the most important part assignments. So here immediately after the class, you will get to see what is the assignment which is given to you. Okay, what you as a student have to do is to click the assignment. Okay, right now this is an old assignment. So the upload button is inactive. If the due date is not over, right now it is showing 18 February as due date. So due date is of the future date, there will be an upload option wherein you can just click in and upload your assignments over here. And like that, all the records will be created. The parents can also see whether students have submitted the assignments, what was the trend in the past, all these things are in one place. The best thing is that it is getting recorded. So just before the exam student want to revise everything is in the single place. Fine. So this is just a class management tool wherein we try to keep all the facts and figures related to the student. Okay, thank you.


17% of cancers have oncogenic drivers called abstract fusion oncoproteins, FOS, that form liquid-liquid phase separation, LLPS, biomolecular condensates, but the generality of this phenomenon is unknown. We tested 166 FOS in Hila cells and found that 58% formed condensates, displaying distinct physicochemical features and segregating into feature-based groups based on subcellular localization and biological function. Using machine learning, we developed a predictor of FO condensation behavior and discovered that 67% of 3000 additional first likely form condensates, with 35% predicted to function by altering gene expression. We also found a functional dichotomy between condensate positive and a negative FOS, with 47% of the predicted condensate negative FOS associated with cell signalling functions. Our datasets and reagents are rich resources for future research on FO condensation. This article was authored by Swarnendutrapathi, Hazheem Keshaneke, Scott D. Gorman and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Well, back on Tuesday, Sabika and Pillager softball met for a chance to get to this game today. Pillager won that meeting 12-9, and Sabika had to win another game to set this up. This one for a trip to State. Miranda painted on the hill for the Huskies, and she'll get the strike out and help down at second base. Little strike them out, throw them out. That'll end the third inning. Sabika, though, trying to mount a comeback. Miranda's gonna mishandle the bunt off the mound here. Run will score, and the Trojans are now down by just two. But Pillager would settle down and take, tack on some insurance here. Savannah Sproul crosses the plate to give the Huskies an eight-five lead. And that's your final. Get your dancing shoes on, and Pillager, because they are headed to the state tournament for the first time in school history. I'm really proud of these girls. They've, it was well deserved. They've worked hard, and they kept going. 11-0 in the last 11 games. It's been great. They're playing well. They're hitting well, fielding well. I'm proud of these girls. They're a really great team. So as coach of that, an eight-five, the final, they went undefeated in the sections to advance the state tournament next week. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


What's good, Joshua Boros back again with another video. So we'll be checking out ten greatest WWE summer slams ever man Summer slam is usually like the WrestleMania in the middle of the year That's what it usually supposed to be supposed to be the biggest matches supposed to be the biggest spotlight For WWE during the summer outside a WrestleMania and there's been some great Legendary summer slams and I had to check this out because summer slams is later on this week So best believe you know we're gonna be doing a live stream reaction on the main page So be on the lookout for that. 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Let's get right back into the video All right I'm gonna set myself a little challenge because damn it's hard to write SummerSlam content sometimes apart from this one sentence I am challenging myself to write a SummerSlam list and not include the phrase the biggest party of the summer That is going to be said too much over the course of the next month And I am nothing if not a trend-setting trailblazer, so it's time once again for the biggest no God No God, please no no No, I'm Adam Hailing from the biggest body of the summer 10 greatest SummerSlam's of all time if you'd like to check out other a SummerSlam content We've already made a part of our two lists. We published last year the top 20 best and top 20 worst SummerSlam matches of all time number 10 1992. I know I know as a Royce new e-brick Apples and pears Mary Poppins, it's Tuesday in it and well, yes True honestly 92 isn't Really that good overall in fact it's a bit of a mess It just happens to be a bit of a mess that has one of the greatest main events ever in front of an insanely hot crowd Like here's what was on offer a very shit taker versus Kamala match that went four minutes crush versus repo man That went six nails versus Virgil in an infamously terrible match and Rick Martell versus Shawn Michaels being pretty good before a Double Countout in eight minutes like there's a pair of decent tag matches on the card But without the two marquee matches sweet Reese's pieces This is the bag of where hair warrior versus savage was a whole bunch of fun running nearly half an hour with flair and perfect shenanigans of plenty Constantly teasing a heel turn from one of the company's two top guys Even if it did end in a bit of a cop-out and then there's Bulldog versus heart one of the most highly acclaimed Matches of all time one the biggest pops of all time like this one match alone is enough to make 92 a Milestone event even if not a consistently entertaining one number nine Speaking of shows saved by the main event actually that's not fair They're like for good to great matches on this card, which would have ranked it higher We're not for the presence of Kane versus the great Carly. No, thank you Why do Kane and Carly wrestle three? F***ing paper few matches in their career and then the absolutely cruel rug pull of Christian versus William Regal being hyped as a world title Matching going a measly eight seconds for reference Kane versus Carly went ten minutes I think the book has got their pages Otherwise nothing f***ing makes sense about that. There's a lot to love on this card though Mysterio versus Ziggler and one of the great pay-per-view openers and all-time best Intercontinental title matches the old man version of 2006 old man version of DX facing Legacy was surprisingly great with the fans having the time of their lives is de geriatric X rode in on a f***ing tank Well, Rusev was still a twinkle in Mother Rush's eye John Cena versus Randy Orton was in overbook load of old WWE style bollocks But I actually kind of think it's camp fun if you're forgiving to its three. Yes three restarts The main event is so awesome and wonderful to see punk and Hardy who had the feud of the year go on last A big four pay-per-view in a barnstorm dad was a fun man. Oh my god And also look is the undertaker.  Yeah, you did with Seth Rollins Yeah tinker number 8003 and that was Undertaker's superpowers shenanigans turn the last two entries on their head a show that was good Despite its main event actually that's not fair if Goldberg just won this match instead of triple H activating hammer time and using a bad dick To f*** with Bill's momentum the chamber match and likely the whole show might been seen as one of the great There's a ton of fun matches on the card shame at man versus Eric Bisch off his total nonsense But the crowd love seeing Austin have some fun the fatal four way for the US title saw Guerrero versus Benoit versus Tijiri versus Rhino, that's not too shabby Kane and RVD had a fun match and best of all Kurt Angle wrestling Brock Lesnar For over 20 minutes. I do not mind if I do also it directly led to the iron man match between Lesnar and Angle Which I like I'm famous for liking it. So yeah, all things being considered Let's talk about the main event a stacked chamber line up H that that elimination chamber was tough In this state They definitely should have pulled the trigger have Goldberg winning. They should have pulled the trigger, but they didn't They definitely didn't once again y'all. I don't hate Goldberg Definitely liked his initial run in WWE. It's just I didn't like how they booked them because he should have been the guy He should have been the guy to beat Triple H BK Y2J Orton Triple H Goldberg and also Kevin Nash No, look at you. You go girl before Goldberg murders every one of them in Sensational fashion pins three before suddenly having Triple H pull his controller out the machine in a half and hitting with a hammer And retaining his title despite doing very little to sad end What was otherwise a super fun night number seven two thousand and eight talk about an underrated summer slam looking back at the card It's not a show that screams classic But there's a whole lot of fun here punk gets pretty much his only good night during his first world heavyweight title run triple H Somehow scratches and claws are half decent He did have a match with the great Carly Batista and Cena are probably their best match together although that depends on your tolerance for both lads There is a bunch of filler here MVP versus Jeff Hardy was good Glamorella versus Kofi and Mickey was all right comedy and Matt Hardy versus Mark Keny was yet another nail in the coffin of ECW title matches on WWE pay-per-view selling this one go a minute Fucking out Okay, but there's no way that summer slam 2008 would make the list without two major positives that Wonderful Shawn Michaels fake retirement segment ends with Jericho clocking Mrs. BK for real real like a bad boy And that main event match of edge versus take a going dick first balls last in a Hell in a Cell match that ends in edge Being sent to actual That's it was crazy.  We're on the highway to hell WWE show at Madison Square Garden WWE don't go home nearly enough But when they do it's almost always a good show mania's 10 and 20 Survivor Series 0 to the Rumble away such a joy to see WWE's hometown crowds show up and lend their voice to elevate a pay-per-view in some Sam 98 is no exception It would still be a few months before WWE Officially rebranded to form the attitude here But everything that people love about it is present and correct here solid mid-card action with the hair versus hair match Featuring two of the best mid-card workers of all the new generation in Jara next pack a surprisingly good lion's den match between Owen Hart and Ken Shamrock where no one can tell that the match is really silly The star of the future in the rock triple H having a stormer of a ladder match a ladder match that felt differently violent to the rubber acrobatics of the HPK matches as well a Great storyline tag match pitting the outlaws versus a partnerless mankind and as blockbuster and main event is WWE had on its books I'm pretty silly ministry taker versus established face of the company and pretty much face of pro wrestling at that point Steve Austin one or two Definitely, man. It's so crazy looking back on it bro and how They had the pieces to literally just take the world by storm, bro They had the talent. They had the the the fans behind them like Wrestling back then in the 90s. It just was different, bro. I wish some of you guys some of our younger Subscribers could have witnessed that live like people actually Like we're excited It wouldn't just like how it is now people are excited about wrestling, but it's more It's more of the minority you make hits some casuals who are you know, they get really excited It was it was to talk of the town either you was talking about sports or you was talking about wrestling. That's really what it was Talk about politics and shit here and there, but it was Sports and wrestling Deadass that's really what it was Who bad spots here the oddities tag matches exactly that But otherwise, this is a show that really delivers on all the elements that made WWE so hot in the late 90s number five 2014 I will keep banging the drum Might just have been WWE's best single calendar year since 2000 in terms of stories and talent and I do not care if you agree or not WWE had a pitch perfect midcard feud on its hands in the violent break-up of the shield and by the end of The show a big boss at the top of the card I just did a reaction on this video of John Cena Getting fucking eviscerated by Brock Lesnar. What that was a good that was a that was a good pay-per-view man Enjoyable Summer Slam WWE have only read the most part to recreate once in heel Roman Reigns Honestly, one most will remember this as a two-match show the amazing lumberjack match and the shocking main event There's nothing really bad on the card at all Ziggler Miz was good Rusev got in a strong win during his unstoppable run Wyatt Jericho saw break at a much needed W Stephanie versus Brie Bella was better than anyone thought it should be even Reigns Alton was good But yeah, that main event though Trucking the man who would not and could not be trucked defeating Superman in convincing fashion A giant shot of adrenaline in WWE's hierarchy and even made ending the streak at Mania 30 seemed like a good idea It's a great show number four great show 2013 I love this summer slam because it's probably the perfect hybrid of WWE style high drama and WWE finally doing things with the air quotes indie darlings It had on its roster the show is not perfect Bray Wyatt and Kaine's Inferno match was a bit of a letdown Natalia and Brie Bella wasn't anything to write home about and Ziggler and Caitlyn beating Biggie and AJ Lee isn't exactly a Consolation prize from having the world title kick straight out of his hands by Alberto Wanker for everything else capital letters rules del Rio and Christian are top-notch workers and have a fab title match Cody Rhodes versus Damien standout was a fun fallout match Cody with the mustache in the bank and honestly punk versus Lesnar might be Brock's best Actual that she was fine dad. That was a fun match boy.  I marked out.  He actually won and Then probably one of the coolest swerves up there with the Seth Rollins heel turn on the shield Triple H pedigrees him Randy comes out and Gets to pin cuz Randy Orton was the money in the big one here pins in one two three when I say I went from a high an all-time high To a low, but I was just defeated.  I was so hurt, but it was so good.  That was one of two WWE can still break your heart in the good way That was good run a little long, but it started beautifully. It's this was the moment The yes movement got even more stronger. This was the moment To his his future WrestleMania main event Even though backstage, I don't think they planned on having him be the main event But this was the moment it really started because now people was like, all right You're pissing us off and that was good. That was good and even though once again CM Punk leaving kind of changed everything for them, but This was the catalyst where it was like we want to see this guy win Y'all gonna make we want him as the champion, bro. We had a little glimpse of it We need this as a champion number three 2000 it was tough to decide between my top three So I've just put them in chronological order cuz that's as good as order as any when their shows are as balling as these 2000 was the year where WWE settled into its best creative group Russo was gone and took all his bat tangent stuff Schizophrenic nonsense to poison Instead as his sort of replacement Chris Kreske was specializing in good soap opera silliness but told with simple Comprehensive steps the main event scene was rock-solid pun very much intended and the mid card had been stuffed with the pick of WCW's Defecting super workers. So the wrestling was top bollocks as well Noir versus Jericho two out of three falls. Yes, please. I'll take third throw in Shane McMahon's first iconic jump Yeah TLC Good with a capital extra good and the main event first TLC match. Oh my god I can go back and watch that match and still just be like. Oh, this is great.  Hey, look, don't think about that Think about the last two matches instead cause their mint the returning rock beating Booker T to win the WCW Yep to much rejoicing and especially if I Specially Steve Austin for the WWF title one of my favorite wrestlers best very good Emerging as a cherished baby face proudly carrying the flag for the Fed and taking Austin to his limit over 20 marvelous minutes It might be one of the only world title matches That's actually helped by being a DQ finish rather than hurt by Austin losing his damn mind of being unable to put my Olympic hero way choosing to murder every Until someone realized that actually it might be best if not every Finally stopped the thing it was a glorious match and a really good show throughout with WWE Somehow white-hot attitude era fan base and number one 2002 I mean yeah summer slam 2002 is the best summer slam by a country mile All the matches you remember as being good are better than you remember and the matches you can't remember of course You know dub would not dub. This is the moment dub Did not care for Brock when Brock beat Dub I mean when I said Brock me Dub when Brock beat Roman Reigns. I'm tripping when Hope I'm not predicting the future when Brock beat the rock and summer slam. This is the moment Dub was like nah I'm good on him Dub not realizing like, you know the rock Doing how he was going to Hollywood that was that was gonna be his thing Brock was the next big thing.  Oh, yeah This match here, too. Oh my god. This is so good a wonderfully inventive and brutal slob Oh, that's so fun out heartfelt joy that not only could HBK still go But somehow he seemed to be even better Before he left summer slam 2002 truly was the biggest party of the soul and that's our list Hey, man, this this this was a dope list. This brings me back It's definitely gonna make me want to watch some of you summer slam matches later on This week as well, actually, I think we're gonna check out the HBK and Triple H match they had a summer slam, you know, since the summer slam week And I think we're gonna check that out on patreon the whole match So make sure you subscribe to an intercoach patreon that way you can see our reaction to that I don't think dub has ever seen that match. So I think that's gonna be pretty cool. But yeah, man I just miss when the shows like these summer slam events these paper views They were they're always supposed to feel like WrestleMania in the summer and I really do You know appreciate when they're you know, they're built up that way last year some of them was actually not that bad It was it was actually for them. There were some some stuff I wasn't the biggest fan of of course the Bianca Bella stuff. I didn't really like but for the most part It was okay. I think a lot of people were really hyped for the John Cena and Roman Reigns match a lot of We're super hyped for that and that felt like a summer slam match this time Brock versus Roman Now it's the last man standing match Vince McMahon is not head of creative. Who knows what they do. I don't know we will see man But yeah, this this is uh This is one of those type of things where it's like, I don't know summer slam this year It doesn't have a bad card from what's been built, but I don't know if the hype is I think the hype is more There because of the behind-the-scenes things on what's been going on with WWE with Vince McMahon and everything else I think that's where more the hype is come from than the actual pay-per-view itself But who knows it could be a good show could be a good showing this year So comment down below. Let me know. What's your favorite summer slam? Pay-per-view or like, you know favorite summer slam pay-per-view or favorite summer slam match Let me know down below, but I appreciate all of love and support Row two 90k appreciate you. I'll kick you in the next one. Peace