So we can calculate the transmission delay. Note we have two types of frames. Data and AC. Data frame, 1,000 bytes of data, 20 bytes of header. Data rate, 1 megabit per second. The transmission delay of the data, we have 1,020 bytes, divided by 1 megabit per second. Squeeze that in. Why 1,020 bytes? 1,000 bytes of data, 20 bytes of header. We must transmit all of that. So that will give us how long it takes. Convert your bytes to bits. You get 8,160 bits. 8,160 bits divided by 1 million gives you 8,160 microseconds. 8,160 microseconds. You can calculate also the propagation delay. You know the link distance. You know the speed. We'll need that. So let's calculate it. Far. We've got 2 kilometer link. 2 by 10 to the power of 8 meters per second. Which is how many microseconds? Someone calculate for me. And it's nice to keep the same prefix, micro. It makes our calculations easier when we sum. 10 microseconds. Use your calculator fine. The other thing we'll need in a moment is we know that we send data from A to B. What does B send back to A? What does B send to A? Anyone? What does B send to A? What's the name of the frame? An act frame.  Act frame is 20 bytes, so we can calculate the transmission delay of the act frame. We need that. So we'll calculate that here. 20 bytes. It's just header. There's no data. We've got about 1 megabit per second. What do you get? 160 microseconds. And the other delay we have, which is in the question, is the processing delay. B, whenever it receives a data frame, takes 1 microsecond to process that. And then it is ready for more. I will not write that. We'll draw it in a moment. So now let's start drawing our diagram of the stop and wait flow control and note the times that each step takes. This is the data frame and represents the transmission of the data frame. I want to note data 1, because we've actually got three data frames to send. Let's say that's the start of the process. So let's allocate the time and say that started at time 0 at this point. And we'll keep track of the time as we go. So time 0 is when everything starts. I will not write the units of microseconds just to save space. So 0 microseconds. Let's count in microseconds. I start transmitting the data frame at time 0. At what time have I finished transmitting? Start at 0, finish at time 8, 1, 6, 0. Easy. So think of this point here as 8, 1, 6, 0. We've finished transmitting at time 8, 1, 6, 0. What time does B fully receive data frame 1? 8, 1, 7, 0. The way to think of it is that at time 0 I start sending. The signal representing that first bit of the data frame comes out of my computer and starts propagating across the link. So that signal representing the first bit arrives at the destination B. What is it? 10 microseconds later. If it's transmitted at time 0 the first signal will be received at time 10. But then I send the second bit out of my computer and that propagates across. And from the perspective of when is the entire frame received I send the last bit at time 8, 1, 6, 0. That last bit or the signal representing that last bit comes out of my computer at 8, 1, 6, 0. And it propagates across the link and arrives 10 microseconds later so it arrives at 8, 1, 7, 0. And that's what we care about when does the last bit arrive. Because we cannot do anything with the frame until we've got the entire frame. Sometimes we may try and draw if I go back like in this case I tried to illustrate the first bit arrives at this time the last bit arrives here. But just to keep the diagram clear I will not draw the first bit arriving or most times I won't I may for this one but usually we care about the last bit because that's when the frame is fully arrived. So that's the one of interest. My diagram is not to scale. Yours does not have to be either. So that would be the arrival of the first bit more importantly the arrival of the last bit. First bit would arrive at time 10 because there's a propagation time from here to here of 10 microseconds the last bit would arrive at 8, 1, 7, 0. Then what happens? What does B do now? B just received the entire frame they start checking it and they process that frame checking the destination is correct checking the parity bit or other information using the data and it takes some time and in the question we said it takes one microsecond per frame. In other cases it would be different. So it takes one microsecond to process so 8, 1, 7, 1 after we've processed we can then send back the act saying I'm ready for more. So at 8, 1, 7, 1 I start transmitting my act and the act will take 160 microseconds to transmit. So we draw the transmission of the act act 1, it's the first act the number is not so important. When have we finished transmitting start at 8, 1, 7, 1 plus 160 brings us to 8, 3, 3, 1 that's this time and when does it arrive at A, another 10 microseconds later so the act fully arrives at A at time 8, 3, 4, 1 and then we've finished that single data frame transfer we can move on to the next one A is allowed to send the next piece of data it had 3 in this example transmits the next one and you'll see that it follows the same process assuming the timing is the same 8, 1, 6, 0 to transmit another 10 to propagate 1 to process 160 to transmit the act back plus another 10 to propagate then we'd receive the second act then we can move on to the next data frame but just focusing on the first one any questions about this exchange I will not draw the next two frames but it would be the same shape but instead of starting at time 0 we effectively start at time 8, 3, 4, 1 plus 8, 1, 6, 0 plus 10 plus 1, plus 160 plus another 10 and we'd get back to the reception of the second act when is the act for the third frame received without drawing it can you calculate when maybe easier when is the act for the second frame received when is the act for the second frame received think about it from the perspective how long did it take to transfer one frame and get an act back started at 0 took us 8, 3, 4, 1 microseconds and in the second frame it would be the same, nothing changes it's the same data size same propagation, same processing same act, transmission so in this example the second frame would take another 8, 3, 4, 1 microseconds bring it to 16,682 plus the third frame another 8, 3, 4, 1 in this simple example it's the same for each frame transfer one frame transfer takes 8, 3, 4, 1 microseconds and each subsequent takes the same amount of time and I will not draw or even try to scale the second one would be 2 times this and definitely not to scale the reception of the third act will be 3 times 8, 3, 4, 1 which is I have a number somewhere 25023 so without drawing the exchange or even keeping it to scale the third act would be received at this time now the question asks what was the throughput different ways to think about the throughput but the best way is to think what if there weren't just 3 frames but we kept sending frames what if we had 3, 4, 5 a million frames or an infinite number of frames being sent then we just repeat this pattern just keep repeating it think from A's perspective what is the rate at which A is sending original data again the data rate of our link is 1 megabit per second that is the rate at which A sends bits across the link but what we're interested in is what is the rate at which A sends original data over a long period of time look at A here's the data frame remember the data frame is made up of header plus data the data frame the part of it is real data there's a small part which is header the purple part I tried to illustrate that's the original data the other part is the header the 20 bytes of header so from A's perspective at what rate is it sending original data if we keep doing this forever so think about how much original data per period of time well for one frame transfer it takes 8341 microseconds how much original data it was 1000 bytes remember our frame was 1000 bytes plus 20 bytes of header so every frame transfer we deliver a we send 1000 bytes of original data and it takes 8341 microseconds the next frame transfer we deliver where we send the same amount of original data and it takes the same time so we keep going at this 1000 bytes every 8341 microseconds so that's the rate at which we send original data 1000 bytes divided by 8341 microseconds assume we keep going forever so A is sending 1000 bytes of real data every 8341 microseconds then then how much is B receiving well everything that A sends B eventually receives there's nothing lost there are no errors so if A is sending 1000 bytes every 8341 microseconds that means that B must be receiving 1000 bytes every 8341 microseconds because everything that is sent is received and you can actually check that and if you kept drawing this diagram you look at from when the first piece of data is received until the second one it would be 8341 microseconds and if you kept going every 8341 microseconds B would receive data in this case there's no data lost so everything that is sent must be received by definition of throughput throughput is at what rate do we receive original data 1000 bytes every 8341 microseconds and someone will calculate for me because I think I have the answer someone will calculate the exact value for me 1000 times 8 to convert the bits and divide by your time of 8341 959118 about 959000 bits per second what's the efficiency when we use this stop and wait protocol our link rate is 1 million bits per second we're delivering data at a rate of 959000 bits per second so the efficiency is 95.9% that is divide by our link data rate just a reminder the data rate so we have a link that we can send a million bits per second but we're on average only sending 959000 of real data 0.959 or as a percentage 95.9% so with this protocol we've got our link but there are some overheads involved we don't get 100% efficiency because we spend some time doing other things than sending original data so we can think the overhead in this case is 4.1% that is 4.1% of the time we're not sending original data across the link 95.9% of the time we are sending original data across the link what is the overhead well we may see it from the picture that is what contributes to the overhead look at this period of 8341 microseconds the frame transfer look at the purple period that's the transmission of the original data sometimes we're sending header that contributes to the overhead that's not the real data being sent and from A's perspective sometimes we're waiting that's overhead the longer we spend waiting the less efficient we'll be and we can do it the same from B's perspective it's receiving original data except when it's receiving the header that header reception is overhead and sometimes B is transmitting an act sometimes it's processing and I think if you draw the next data frame sometimes it's waiting for the next data frame so in terms of using the link we're only using it 95.9% of the time to send the real data and that's our measure of efficiency any questions on these calculations I think you should probably draw the diagram in full for the three frames just to be sure you see what's happening with that it repeats each time and the other thing to be make sure you're clear on is that if we're sending at this rate by the fact that we're not losing any data it must be me receiving at the same rate because everything that is sent is received nothing is lost and we don't receive more than what is sent that's not possible and hence we can get the throughput at the receiver the efficiency of the use of this protocol any questions we'll be back to our quizzes this week our assignment which be released either this week or next week will be on this beyond doing some experiments in groups to measure the efficiency and throughput under different situations so I'll give you some software to learn more about flow control and even error control I want higher efficiency how do I get it how do I get this to go up the efficiency you reduce the data rate okay you reduce the data rate but what does that change reducing the data rate will increase our transmission delay so not necessarily in some cases yes but I think from you see in the equation reducing the data rate would increase the efficiency except be careful reducing the data rate of both the ACK and the header but yes I think if you run through the numbers in most cases that would help if you look at this picture what else can we do think from the sender's perspective when does it waste time waiting for the ACK the sender think of it's transmitting the header that's wasting because if we had less header to transmit we would have smaller total time but the same amount of data would have higher efficiency so keep the header as small as possible but sometimes we can't control that the other time that the sender spends waiting is waiting for an ACK well again that is due to the propagation delay which we normally cannot control it's depending upon the link and ACK transmission time if we make the ACK transmission time smaller we'd wait less time and we get the response earlier giving us higher efficiency so we need to consider these different factors of propagation delay transmission time of data and ACK and the header size to determine how to maximize our efficiency and there are some trade-offs that we'll see at the time generally the larger the propagation delay with respect to our data transmission the less efficient we are did we get to the end I'll show you an example of that you don't have to calculate a draw but just the concept I will show you this again tomorrow but just to illustrate the trade-offs the first case on the left is a case and I haven't put numbers to it here's the transmission of the data and I've tried to highlight that as the green bar transmitting of the original data relative to the total time the red bar we want the green one to be large relative to the red bar that's more efficiency green is representing the time to transmit original data the red is the total time in our case the green bar length would have been 8000 microseconds and the red one 8341 we want the green one to be large compared to the red one here's a case where we increase the data size instead of a thousand bytes maybe 10,000 bytes small header one large data frame it makes the transmission time larger means we spend a lot of time transmitting original data and relative to that only a small amount of time waiting this center one center one is more efficient than the left one by increasing the data size and keeping everything else the same we can increase the efficiency increasing the payload which really means the original data or decreasing the data rate like you said decreasing the data rate increases our efficiency in this case with everything else is fixed the other way compare the center and the right one large data frame if we had a high propagation delay would be less efficient increased propagation delay in this case reduces the efficiency brings us down again the middle one is the best case in terms of efficiency so in general it's about we want a large transmission time relative to the propagation time we'll do some more analysis of that and give some more examples tomorrow and we'll show that one again what you'll do before tomorrow's lecture just confirm these calculations in your own mind make sure you're clear on how to come up with this there's always an exam question or a quiz question here's stop and wait here are the numbers tell me the time it takes to transfer the data or tell me the throughput let's stop there and continue tomorrow


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Yeah, we on boss talk Moving a little a little forward man. So that's been a you know, like I said There's a lot of different things that's going on in the music man when you look at What do you like what the music is that right now with what the stuff just dropping the NBA young boys and all the stuff Just coming out. Yeah, I'm a fan. I love all of them, but I'm a fan of the music that's dropping right now Music change.  So you know I'm saying I'm young so I keep up with it Who the heart is right now? Big future fan Huh, I hadn't even heard I had not had been tapping in he brought out he had the club. You know, I can't I can't Here Since I was seven eight years old tell us why tell them why he That's what they need to hear. I'm 22. No, he been doing this is I was eight seven So so you rock with it.  Ten years. I haven't heard a dirt and said this year. No You can't tell me this ain't what you want.  So it's like it grow on you. But he's not number one So he's not around he just dropped it. He didn't just drink just drop. Why though, huh? Drake got there because he's a fan drink. Drake got different coaches Yeah, that's why he's the number one But but the NBA young boys locked up and they say his stuff going harder than everybody It's because he's a kid like Okay, how many kids under 18 got a phone right now I don't give a damn about that. Thank you That's what it is. Who ain't who jamming on all this? How you see it? How you hear it? Young boy, young boy, young boy Everybody go look at him up.  He's a young kid. I'm listening to him. But I ain't just jamming young boy. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm jamming I ain't facing him in that. I'm jamming young boy They gon jam on you right in my car You right in my car. He right though. Do I jam young boy? Do I jam young boy though? They gon jam on young boy song of the future I'm talking about me So you gon jam on young boy then Yeah, she's young boy fanatic More than Drake. I don't listen to Drake. Yeah, Drake. Drake don't get Drake. I'm listening to Drake Other coaches Drake Drake Like Drake Drake Drake up there. Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one


Good evening, everyone. Welcome to generally irritable special election season edition. I'm really excited to be back in Burlington and getting to do some live streams with candidates for city council, maybe even school board if anybody wants to reach out anybody watching. If you're a school board candidate or a city council candidate and you are close to center moderate and to the right.  I would love to have you on the show and let some people hear about your candidacy. I'm not I can't lie. I am not a what is that I am I am I am a biased news organization. We hear a generally irritable are really looking to to help promote conservative values and and candidates that we think are valuable, who use reason and data to make decisions, not just their emotions and so that's I'm actually really excited to have Steve on tonight. He is running for city council in Ward 7 of Burlington. The current city counselor is Ali dang and nice enough man. I like Ali. We have each other's phone number we've talked. But I haven't been happy with all of the decisions that he's made on the council. And while I think that it's important to take feelings into consideration and to be empathetic and compassionate. We also have to make sure that the things being suggested are being tracked and followed through and, and, and discover if they really work. And a lot of the things that we're seeing from our current city council, and the mayor just don't work. And so, when I first met Alec last, I think it was last year or maybe it was even in 2020. When there was some stuff going on with the bond for the fire station. I was like this guy, clearly is thinking about things. And I was really excited to see that he was running. He is an engineer. And anybody who knows engineers. I'm an accountant. I like engineers. I like to process be rational reasonable logical, right. There's compassion and empathy in there. But let's first start with what are the facts, and what is true. And so I think that that's something that Alec brings to the table and so I'm really, really excited to have him on today. And so before I bring him into the live stream, I just want to take a moment to say thank you to my patreon supporters. I actually, I never promote this stuff you guys I bring my content to you, and I don't normally ask for, you know, like share and subscribe, but I'm realizing how much stuff, how much that stuff matters. The conservative content especially does get throttled in on social media, it really does so your, your likes your shares your follows all really do make a difference and what else makes a difference are my patreon supporters. Kurt Wheeler and Keisha Gathright are both monthly supporters on patreon so after we get done I'll try to remember to put not I'll try I will put a link, a pinned comment in the in the comments section for people if you can, and you're able to be a monthly subscriber and at $2 a month. That really goes a long way to helping me transition from being a full time accountant and having an accounting practice to being able to produce content and the news around the state of Vermont to you, my viewers. So, blah blah that was awkward eventually I'll be less awkward when asking for things and asking for money I better get good at that. Speaking of getting good at asking for money. So, what is Eric is doing with his fundraising, Alec, stiff welcome, welcome welcome to generally irritable. Thank you, Erica for that wonderful introduction I appreciate it. You are welcome.  I didn't say that. Okay, I didn't say that you are running as a Democrat, is that correct. However, I did receive the endorsement of both the Democratic Committee and the GOP. Okay. And that's because, you know, we have the of the Republican Party the Wellington GOP.  I appreciate that. Yeah, I'm an independent minded person. And, you know, math is right up my alley analytics and, you know, being a data driven person and understanding that you have to be pragmatic is, it's kind of in my nature and that is really what getting an engineering degree is all about it shows that you can think analytically. Oh, I like it. Okay, that's still down. No, no, no. Okay, okay. So, Alec, I'm why don't you take a couple minutes and and do your like introductory pitch. Right. I'm Alec. This is what I'm about. I got a family. They're cool. You got great picture. You got a good looking family for it. I appreciate that. I love your pictures. It's all it comes all for my wife, you know, but yeah, no, my name is Alec, and I am an engineer and my wife and I moved to Burlington over a decade ago and we've lived in the new north end now for a number of years and prior to purchasing our house we lived in the old north end for a decade and we saved in a very small apartment. And we did that so that way we could afford the down payment on our house here where we want to be and start a family and since moving here we've had two children who are both awesome I have a daughter and a son and my daughter being the younger of the two and the newest addition and my wife is now a stay at home mom for the time being to raise our family and that was a decision that we made together. She's taking a leave of absence from her job and she was a school counselor prior to doing that. And so we planned this and it took a long time of sitting saving and thinking and budgeting and really understanding. Where can we live within our means where we want to live in Burlington, and we've known we want to live in Burlington we know we want to stay in Burlington and being able to plan that out and save. And then move here has been really just an amazing opportunity that we're incredibly thankful for. And so now, you know, I realized I wanted to get involved after talking to a couple of my neighbors they approached me independently about the state of the city in the state of the Council, and things that are being brought to the council that don't necessarily fall under a local view, or under the purview of the city council, and maybe divisive things and other things that didn't make a lot of logical sense and what I really would hope to do is bring visibility and local focus back to the city council and I'm passionate about a few things you know the environment public safety, you know, being affordable, and I think that that really resonates with a lot of people, because we want to stay here, you know we want to be able to live here and grow our family and have our children grow up here, and that's important to me. Because I love to hear that I have been very blessed to be living in the home that my mom grew up in. You know this is this is this home has been in my family, since it was built in 1963 and so I just I love that family and that, and that idea to me that's like thinking about the future and thinking about legacy, and how do we take care of not only what we have to do now, but also make sure we set it up for the next generation. Exactly, exactly, you have to look and have that foresight into decisions that you're making now how will they impact the future, and that can be anything from, you know, we put solar on our house. And that was one of the first things we did as well as weatherizing our attic and adding insulation. And I'm a mechanical engineer so I like to do a lot of that work by myself but through the support of nature of Burlington Electric and Vermont gas you know they have programs that you can take, take advantage of. And it wasn't just thinking the now it was looking at what's the return on investment for the, you know, solar, for example, and after seven years it's going to be paid back and you look at the rising cost of electricity and things and not just the cost but how is it good for the environment. And so, you know you don't want to waste energy so we insulated our attic we air sealed it we did ventilation we put the solar panels on switched everything to led light bulbs because it's, it's the right thing to do, but it also is making the house more comfortable. And those types of programs I think are incredibly valuable and things that we should look at those are low hanging fruit things. Now, I have to ask though, a lot of those programs are paid for by tax dollars. So, actually that comes that makes Burlington less affordable. So, while those programs are good in that they help people. If it makes Burlington less affordable, do you think that we should continue to support those kind of measures. Well, that's a complex question because while you can say it would make it less affordable you yourself if you take advantage of it or kind of getting your own money back and then it would pay itself back with the offsets that you would gain. So, if you have an incredibly leaky house and you're wasting a lot of energy, then insulating an air sealing can save you a lot of money, you know and solar off that that again, you know the investment is large that's a federal, you know, kind of program but the net metering. You know, that helps pay you back and then you have a return on investment so while some of those programs may increase the cost, you have to look at the overall net good and then overall, what does it do for you personally. So, I know for me when I did the analysis on my house, it was beneficial for me to take advantage of that program. And overall, it saved the environment as well which is something you know you don't waste energy. Okay, well I'm good. We can we're going to argue about this, but hold on I'm getting a weird. Any of our viewers that are watching are you getting an interruption in the feed I'm getting this weird feedback over here that says interruption and signal. Can somebody comment. So hold on and but before I forget, anybody watching this is not a one way conversation if you have questions for Alec, put them in the comment section. And if, and if they're good questions as long as you're not being rude or crazy. I'll read your question and have Alec read it. I've, I never have weird viewers Alec just for the record. But, you know, every once in a while people get all height. Like when we're talking about this stuff because I'm going I'm like, I want to argue with you about the Vermont gas thing, because we did we did that we had the energy audit. And I was going to save the whole house about $200 a year. So that's me. That's not a lot. No. And guess how much it was going to cost me. Oh, probably 6,000 $14,000. Yeah, so that payback is rough that that would make a lot of sense. Your house from a weatherization standpoint is already where it needs to be, you know, and if you look at the city, the city has a goal that they're trying to reach. So if you look at the larger picture of that and see the forest for the trees, you know, the overall benefit out of some of the major egregious, you know, houses that are leaking air and you know could use this the overall net goal is positive. So that's where that's where it kind of is is an individual, you know, I know I see it. It's kind of in the sink. I know it's good. It's good to have disagreements in, you know, going back to when you said questions from from viewers. Yeah, is I will take any feedback from anybody, whether it's positive, negative or indifferent, as long as it's constructive feedback doesn't kill you and should be welcomed with a thank you. I'll say that that first and foremost. Yeah, well, and, you know, I'm always going to say stuff like that is bad, just for the record and just because I am a small government conservative. And so I think anytime that you're taking, and I'm very libertarian so I'm the girl that puts hashtag taxes are theft on half my videos and like abolish the Fed and stuff like that so let's just start there. Okay, we have one question from Michael this is not a serious question but I'm going to and he can't vote for you. So just for the record but it doesn't doesn't matter it's good to answer question. I, but I'm going to because Michael picked for and anybody like this isn't this is not a paid advertisement Michael Valdez top cat is awesome driver I have him pick me up from the airport whenever I'm flying in or out because it's just nice. He's got a nice car, and it doesn't smell weird and he doesn't play bad music.  So anyway, so I'm humoring him. He said, what's your favorite kind of taco beef or chicken. I don't know I mean if only those two choices that's all I that's all I get. I'm going to go with the beef taco in that case. Yeah, I think that wins I don't know if what Michael's going to say but that would be my choice. Um, no seriously okay um let's see. Brian says five by five currently only one interruption I don't know what five by five means Brian, but you said only one interruption okay so that's good. So whatever it's doing on this on my screen is not continuously happening to be fair I don't see anything on my screen. Okay, that's good. Michael says chicken you're wrong Michael, you're dead wrong. You know I appreciate his input. Yeah you can't please everybody, but I appreciate his opinion. Yeah, we're vetoing that one. Seriously, one of the things I really like about your platform I'm going to go to your I'm going to share your website with people. Here we go. Here we go. Um, so public safety, housing and affordability, local focus environment okay so local focus we you mentioned a couple times I think. Um, what is tell us a little bit more about what you mean by local focus. Yeah so what I mean is not bringing forth resolutions that are on a state or on a national or international level, you know, keeping politics for Burlington in Burlington, and keeping it serious you know, not bringing forth non binding resolutions or the like, or even discussing subjects that there is no influence from the city for. So, like, so, like, if, since Burlington City Council is about governing Burlington, you should be focused on Burlington. Correct. And, and I actually really appreciate what you said about being serious and the non binding resolution stuff. To me that's political theater. And really kind of a waste of time for the city council to be doing. But people feel, you know, talking to them that the council is fractured and, you know, it gets distracted and sometimes divisive things get brought up that really don't serve the people well. And it should be about the people and for the people. And, and that's what the city needs to focus on, keep it small and keep it about the city and bring that civility back in that focus back to the local politics that are what should be discussed and the only things that should be discussed. That's what I, that's what I mean so make it less of. I guess the people who don't feel that it's taken seriously, you know, or that it's not about them or for them. Yeah, you know, I think we need to get back to that. Well, and I almost am of the mind that local politics shouldn't even be partisan. I know some states, some places it's not. And personally, that would be my preference. I'm not really sure what a D or an R or an I or an L or a P or whatever it behind your name matters when it comes to needing to make sure that the water stays on. Exactly. Our infrastructure doesn't fall apart. It doesn't matter what the letter next to your name is what matters is making the right decision for the community. And that's why the GOP as well as the Democratic committee both support me, because it doesn't, it doesn't matter it shouldn't be partisan. It should be whatever is the best logical decision to help the city move forward. I like it. Okay, so tell me about this first one this first quadrant that tells me that's important. I might be reading into a Alec public safety is very important. And it's on the forefront of a lot of people's minds, myself included, you know, and the way that the public safety initiative for cutting the police through attrition went down. I do not believe that that is the right way. I think a lot of people see that it was not the right way to go. And if you think about it, the plan should have been in place for refunding, if you're going to defund long before the defunding cord was pulled on that so you know if shifting funding over to mental health and substance abuse is the right plan. And that's what say the CNA report or other communities or and other communities that are similar sized went through. That's wonderful but we need to have the plan in place we need to have people trained and ready to do the job. So when officers do leave through attrition, and we get down to the number that is recommended or what we think or other people think and the data shows that we should be at those positions are full and ready to go. The dispatchers know who to call who needs to be at a given situation is ready and trained there's a long lead time for training on any job. You know, I'm a manufacturing guy so there's a long lead time on raw materials and getting people trained, and you have to think about those things it's not an instantaneous backfill. I wonder if you've ever had to do this where, like when I've had to implement a new accounting system as an example for a client. We run both systems concurrently. So we don't just stop using their old accounting software, and then just start using the new accounting software. There first has to be like a download of the information, then we have to double check that it's not corrupted and that it's good. And in the meantime, we're still doing all of our regular accounting in the old system. And then we're slowly making sure this new system is working correctly. Exactly. All the bugs are worked out and then once we know, and it's and it's running alongside, then we switch. Exactly. And my company did that when we transitioned to a newer ERP system from an older system, you know, you run them concurrently you bring the stakeholders who are involved to the table. And you actively engage them to gain their feedback and listen actively listen to what they're saying, and how we can mitigate the risk when we do transition into a new system so we do that. You know, in work we do this and we should do this in life and this should do this in the way the government is run plan to check act you know PDCA those, those types of methodology same thing would say double loop management where you get your feedback back and you make adjustments and you move. Those are the fundamental principles of making solid data driven decisions. What do you think it and I'm totally asking you to speculate here and so you can decline to answer. But do you have an idea of why this was so hastily done. I can't speculate because I can't get inside other people's heads. Yeah. So I really can't comment and I wouldn't try to do that because they have different views, different opinions and, you know, those same opinions should be listened to and understood. But I can't speculate as to why they were made without getting, you know, without that you can't be somebody said. Right, exactly. And I think that that's what, you know, for me, I don't want to speak to motive, but I will say it seems like our city council makes a lot of emotional decisions. People get very emotional about a topic one way or another. And it's like, it just has to be done right now. Instead of, like, no, let's work this out first and make sure what we're saying is is reasonable. I have a plan in place to actually act on, you know, you plan it, you do it, you check it, you act at PDCA, you know, I'll go back to that because that really is a way to make a data driven decision. And, you know, then keeping with a consistent pattern for voting on the city council or making decisions, you know, with regards to public safety and, you know, you can't jump back and forth and try to go to two different sides. You have to own the decision you make and then use data to drive yourself forward listening to the stakeholders and improve. Yeah. And that's the, the whole crux of it is to try to do what is right to improve the community. Well, and I think what was what was additionally alarming about that whole situation is once we saw what was happening and the and the mass exodus of of Burlington police which I can't blame them for the record like I wouldn't want to stay in a police force where I'm hated and degraded by the people that I'm meant to protect and then the people who are meant to stand up for me also demean and degrade me in public. It should be a partnership. It should be a partnership between, you know, every department in the city and the people, not just the police but every department. And not to say and get like just to be really clear if there are people acting badly, they should be dealt with. So we'll I just want to say that. Like, once we saw things were going badly, and like, oh crap, crime is going up and like, oh, and we don't have cops to deal with it. Like, they still didn't want to do anything about it. Yeah. And I mean you see that on posts on front porch forum or the new North end, you know, bicycle thefts car being cars being broken into people's houses, even being broken into, you know, smaller level crimes or lower level crimes. But that makes people feel invaded, it makes people don't, you know, not feel safe in their own house and they have to double check their cars are locked they have to, you know, install cameras or motion sensors or security systems and this is Burlington.  People were for walking up around my backyard and it makes you a little uneasy.  Where am I, and a lot of it is crimes of opportunity as well people going around car doors opening any any unlocked vehicle. You see that you want to foster, you know, and you also want to partnership again with your police force and with other departments in the city you should be looking at it as a partnership, not an adversarial relationship. Oh, that's what I'm saying okay. Michael says for being a good sport to the question you get a free ride from top cat express to the airport. Smart advertising by Michael. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. I'm not flying anywhere recently. Well, maybe he'll give you another ride somewhere else.  No. I've got a few more years before that. Okay, so here we go. We got housing and affordability. So we touched on that.  And then, you know, to dovetail on to that, you know, we can, we grew our family, right?  We wanted a four, you know, four person family. This house is that we purchased is a little small. Let's say it was a two bedroom home, which is modest fine and great. And we said, Hey, you know, we have an opportunity to expand this to being a three bedroom home and subsequently did that. So now we have a three bedroom, you know, bedroom addition on there. And part of housing and affordability is increasing the housing stock but it's also changing some zoning regulations that would allow people to, you know, construct additional dwellings, you know, accessory dwellings or expand their homes if it's lot coverage percentage or setbacks, you know, looking at things like that, how can you incentivize people to improve their houses and how can they grow if they need to to stay in this city because that was one of the issues that we had. Well, if we can't expand it, we're going to end up buying a house and selling it and moving into another one where we could have, you know, a little bit more room for each one of our children, but we didn't want to do it. We want to stay here. And fortunately, I had a friend who was a contractor, I hired him, paid him and, you know, he didn't give me a discount, but I paid him. And then I did a lot of the finishing work and other work by myself. And at night and on the side, I did that while I was going to to graduate school. So it was a lot of fun, a lot of dust. And it was, it was good, but I have hands on experience from from jobs prior so I love it. I, and I love to hear you say dealing with some of the zoning, because it is ridiculous and it is outrageous. And you know, Merrill, Merrill Weinberger, you know, for, you know, like him you may not in that that's okay but he did put forth the plan to increase the development of housing stock by relaxing some of the zoning regulations. But yeah, except Merrill Weinberger has also directed their city attorney to force us to remove one of our three units. So this is what we're literally being punished. There is a rule a 60 day ordinance that says, if your is if your unit is vacant for more than 60 days you lose whatever special use permit you have. So we've had a triplex here since 1963. And so because several years ago my family did a full renovation on one of the units, new floors, new kitchen, new cabinets, new bathtub, new sink, new bat, everything. We are now being forced to remove it because it took more than 60 days. Yeah, well I can't speak to your specific. Hold on, hold on. So Sarah Carpenter, Ollie Dang and Mark Barlow all refuse to talk to me about it.  Well, again, while I can't speak to your specific instance, I would say that anybody should be listened to and heard and at least listened to. So that's really all I could say. But changing zoning to allow things maybe like yours again, I don't know the exact specifics on yours, your case, but allow people to utilize their property and either add a unit because that could be a unit that could help somebody. Oh yeah, I have to evict my tenants. I spoke to another another gentleman who I'm going to let me be clear how they don't want people to evict and they want people to be good landlords and not be slumlords and not evict people. They are forcing me to evict my tenants. I just want to make sure that's clear. Again, I don't know your the specifics of your so I can't really make any comments as to why ever you can I want you on the ordinance committee. That's what I'm like making it. Alec. I'm making a personal request that you request. You know, that's one thing about being nonpartisan is also no, no special treatment for anybody.   Yeah, you know that that rule if it's vacant for more than 60 days it revokes a special use that that may not make much sense. So why why do you need a special you know we could get into this why you need a special use instead of it just being I don't know. Because we're in a low density residential area. Yeah, so changing some zoning are allowed changing some zoning and allowing things like that would be something that should be looked into, you know, allowing people to build on their homes to expand so they can stay here. You know I spoke to a gentleman who was interested in having a detached garage you want to change that into an accessory dwelling and he said well you know I don't think with the zoning I'd be allowed to do that it's like well that could add a unit or a short term rental that could provide him income as well as tourism dollars so not something that necessarily should be done but should be looked into and at least discussed you know that's part of being innovative is not coming up with something new but using what you have in new ways. Well, and I think it's really also what we talked about earlier which is, what did you say, plan plan to check act, check, check. Are these rules that you implemented having the desired effect that they were implemented for I sincerely cannot imagine for 1000 years why a rule like that would have been implemented. I really don't I maybe. I really can't I can't I literally cannot think of one reason why that would be a rule. You know I, but my head I can't but I'm sure there was a reason and understanding what that is would be beneficial to find out that reason is still valid. And that's what I'm saying like whatever reason that you implemented this, maybe there should have been carve outs maybe there should have been like oh this is only for whatever, or blah blah blah, and I'm not just talking about my rule. I'm actually working on a documentary to really highlight all the ways that Burlington city zoning and stuff is actually demonstrably harming. Normal middle class, lower class folks. A good friend of mine is actually now selling her property because she is like I'm over it. They had one of their apartments in one of the old houses in the old north end so like downtown area. One corner of one room was a quarter inch too low. So not the whole apartment, not, not even a whole room, one corner of one room was only six foot 11 and three quarter inches, and they forced her to remove that housing unit from the house. I can't again without knowing exact specifics on rules and that for that specific situation I can't really, I can't comment but what I can say is you know expanding housing stock expands the tax base building new units, allowing people to stay in their buildings, build additional rooms, build accessory dwellings where applicable and where it makes sense allows the tax base to expand, tax base expands overall, you know money taken in by the city is spread out. Tax liability goes up, businesses go up, this is what I'm saying oh my god see this is what, see, see, I just agree with you about some stuff right but you can do math Alec this is what I'm talking about. It's like growing businesses right incentivizing people to start businesses in Burlington you know.   Um, what that does in what it has the effect of doing is causing people to leave. You know how many families just keep leaving because they can't afford it anymore, or it doesn't make sense, or they can't expand their home, or they're on fixed income and the tax increases are too much, you know fill in the blank. Yeah, people are sticking from the reappraisal right now. There's a couple more bonds on the ballot in March. Got one more bond, it believes going on the vote on Monday as well as a tax increase, which is wild to me, and the school board budget is going up 13%, which I know that has nothing to do with you. But I just I say to myself, what are these people thinking. Yeah, so it gives you even more, you know, of an idea about how we should be drawing businesses into the city and expanding our tax base in general. Yeah, and that that's that's one way to keep it affordable. I was looking at places where you can be more innovative with, you know, your resources that you have in the city or departments in the city. Yeah, what are you looking at your, your overall operation where can you be more efficient.  I can't imagine what was going through them and and many of us had our businesses shut down. We lost money we lost jobs people got sick, etc and so forth. And how irresponsible it is for our school commissioners and our city counselors and our mayor and the department heads to think that increasing asking for even more money from us would be appropriate. You know, so I can I can see both sides of the coin though on that one because certain things if you know the bond that's coming up that they're going to vote on tomorrow is are necessary things or things for public safety. Now is it the right time to ask more money or did you did they ask for money for things in the past. You know you can't change what they asked for in the past and what past on the, you know, I keep saying past but it's what has passed through the voters at the voters approve it. That's what the voters approve. You know so some of those things if you read them in the bond are are viable right you know upgrading the. Why I read it, but why is it the response. Why would the city think it's okay to ask for more money from us, instead of cutting their budget and living within their means, just like we as homeowners and business owners have to do. I think it should be, you know, twofold I think first you should be looking at where can you gain efficiencies and how are you using your resources. And then once you hit that level of efficiency that you feel like you can't really go further on that's when you should approach and look you know we do that from a manufacturing standpoint we're not going to install a new, you know, twin screw extruder when we have capacity that we could gain through efficiency on our existing machines. That reminds me somebody was supposed to send me the detailed budgets. I'm going to write this down so I don't forget. I'm going to audit the city budget. I'm going to do a detailed audit of the city budget and the school board budget to actually highlight that stuff because I think people really don't understand what we're spending our money on. And frankly, personally, when the city is spending money on things like flower pots and bike lanes, and we're still having sewer back up into our basements. And, and we have crumbling infrastructure. Like, why are we spending money on art stuff. I'm an artist. I benefit from those things. We've gotten artistic grants my husband's an artist. But when the city, when the people who live in the city can't afford to live here anymore, and the taxes are so outrageous. Why do you think it's, why do you think we spend money on things like art, like city art or public art displays like flower pots. Like, so that's what I just don't understand how somebody can say we want Burlington to be affordable, and then also be for, for taking money, more money from people to pay for pet projects, like bike lanes and stuff. Yeah, I think you need to look at what you spend money on and you need to spend it on the right thing at the right time. I mean, while those projects may be good projects, they might not be timed right to spend money. But overall, you may want to do those types of projects, but you have to make sure that you're spending the money wisely when you do spend it. You know, it can't be, oh my gosh, but it has to be things like, you know, hey, if the bike lane makes sense, or city beautification to draw people in.    We never should have redone the city hall park. If we have if our infrastructure is so bad that it's backing up sewage into people's basements. And then those are the things that should be focused on first. I'm so sorry I've gone down a total rabbit trail with you. It's really hitting me right now how silly it is. It's really about fiscal responsibility and transparency and choosing the right projects at the right time. And those projects are things that you know people want to do and I respect that. I get it. When you want to do them and when's the right time to do them is a is a different different story.  Cool, fine, whatever, but get private money to do it or do it not when we have sewage backing up into our basements. I'm one of the people who had sewage back up into their basement. So, but it's not just me. I know a bunch of our neighbors have had it happen. Well, you know, like the police and fire department need new communication equipment.  But like the firehouse has single pane windows. So, you know, we need to walk the talk and not just talk the talk as as a city and it's looking at where are we going to gain. The biggest, biggest gain for a dollar. Yeah, what's the right thing to spend on at the right time. That's that's that pragmatic approach. Okay, so you have an actual question from one of your actual possible voters. I like all questions it's it's good to ask questions. Okay. Oh wait, hold on. Okay, wait, I'll start with this question. Okay. In an effort to complete my home efficiency faster would Alec support changing some requirements and programs for efficiency, which require you to use contractor of their choosing and just Wait, okay, hold on. They said my home was pretty tight and I didn't need. So I think what he's asking is, hold on Ray, I want to make sure I'm getting your question exactly right. I'm just saying that for the efficiency they have to ask. Oh, I think what he's saying is with the city chooses yet. No, I think what he's saying is incorrect me Ray, if I'm wrong you're asking if I would support people doing a DIY approach rather than having to choose a contractor list to complete the projects. Right. I absolutely would as long as you can meet the, you know, the requirements and you have the skill set able to do that and that's absolutely something you should be able to do. You know, I did the installation and air sealing in my attic I opened up the soffits on my house and put in proper vents and open the ridge vent up on the up in my attic. I did that by myself. I constructed the, you know, a sealed hatch for my my drop down and out of catch and the city came, you know, not the city but you know Vermont gas came out did a blower door test on it and then came back and and showed that efficiency gate now if I didn't get to where I needed to be then I would not have qualified for for the program. But yeah, I think being able to do that work yourself as long as you have the level of confidence and complete the work. I don't see why you would not be allowed to do that or should not be allowed. You know, you're forced to hire a contractor if you can, if you can do the work that's like right now in the city, you know, you need to you have to pull a permit to change a light switch. Which you don't have to hire a contractor to do that you can do that yourself. If you work in a panel needs a contractor, and it's dangerous, you know, if you if you don't know what you're doing, you do run the risk of hurting yourself or others and and I see why certain things are there like you have to hire a licensed electrician to work inside of your panel, but you don't to change ceiling vent, but you need to pull a permit for it so certain things like that is that necessary to pull a permit to change a light fixture, you know, according to the standards of how it is. But, you know, you're not adding you're not adding a whole new circuit, but to his question. Yes, you know, air sealing insulating doing those efficiency projects. You know, you don't need a permit to blow insulation. Well, and especially Ray is a contractor. That's what's funny.  They should foster that because that's that spirit of Hey, I want to do better and you want to improve your house not only for yourself but people want to do it because it's the right thing to do for the environment. Well, and Ray, just for the record, Ray is awesome. Ray, I love the threshold from the family room to the kitchen. I haven't gotten to tell him this personally, but since he's watching, I'm going to give him a shout out. It looks so pretty. I came home and it's so pretty. Anybody who needs somebody to do work on their house. Ray is awesome. I shouldn't tell the whole neighborhood that because then he's going to be too busy to come. Is this like the, you know, the driver, he's going to say, hey, now you get one free contract? No, no, no, no, no. No, Ray is, Ray is, Ray is awesome. For people who don't know Ray Ingram, he's been a very good friend to me since I moved back in 2018. And he's just really, really kind and really good at what he does and he really cares, but I swear this isn't an advertisement. This is totally not planned. But, you know, allowing people to do that to raise point, you know, would help the city get more towards that goal, which everybody is trying to, you know, the city, I say everybody, but the city is pushing and a lot of people are trying to push. So incentivizing people to do work on their own and not hire a contractor, that might be a barrier to entry to some of these weatherization projects is having to hire a contractor. And a lot of people may want to, and that's great. But if you want to take the project on on your own, you know, I was up in my attic in August, you know, it was very hot, but we got it done. I, I, it's so funny. Christopher Aaron said Miro doesn't budget well. And I'm not, I'm not going to ask you to comment on that Alec. I will just say it is, it is interesting, because I think this is what I really, I think I've sort of noticed or realized about Burlington, particularly is that I heard this expression called pathological compassion. It's like, we want to be so compassionate that we go overboard sometimes, like, I've asked even Miro publicly like, you know, out at events and stuff I'm saying, why don't you cut the budget. You know, why is it that city, city employees actually make more than the average remonter. Why is it they have better benefits packages and salaries than an average Burlingtonian or Vermonter and he says well Erica what do you want me to do fire people or reduce their salaries. And I say, yes. Like, I don't understand why someone who whose salary is paid with tax dollars should make more than the people who pay the taxes. You know, maybe if you're some, if you're the city engineer and you're the one building the roads, maybe that guy gets paid more. But I just think that we are so we are generous to a fault. We just want to help everyone, and we just want to try to make everyone's existence comfortable. And I just don't think that that's a reasonable goal. I don't know. I don't know. If people are doing a really good job, you know, the people and say the DPW, you know, then we should be incentivizing them to stay and do a great job and paying them, you know, if they've been here, and they're working hard. Then that should be something we do pay them for, you know, you want to, it's just like in private industry, you know, people get raises every year for cost of living. They get incentivized to stay and to be a good worker. You don't want people leaving their jobs, whether it's in the city or private industry, to jump to another place, because they feel that you didn't treat them fairly when they do a good job. You know, and my philosophy is that the goal should never be to fire people, it should be to develop them and try to raise them up. You know, so if you have people who are working really hard, that's awesome and they should be rewarded as such. As long as it doesn't increase my tax dollars.  I mean, you know, in the training, it takes a long time. Very important jobs, I agree, but like police officers only make like 50 grand. Why is it, why is it, why is somebody who works at a desk in City Hall making more than a police officer? I can't comment on that because I don't have specifics on it. But what I'm saying is if they have, say that person there has been there 30 years and they have been doing a fantastic job, you know, if you're at a job for 30 years, your wages are going to increase. Then I would encourage you to go to the private sector where you can make more money.  That wouldn't be fair. That wouldn't be equitable to people. I just don't think those salary caps should even be that high. And that's a separate question on that. But, you know, there are a lot of jobs that are done. Oh, sorry, go ahead. There's a lot of jobs that are done that are difficult jobs. You know, police officer is a difficult job. And I would encourage people, you know, counselors, if they're going to be voting on things relating to police, they should do ride-alongs. You know, same thing with the TPW, maybe go down and do a ride-along with those guys filling potholes or taking out recycling and understand what those jobs are like.  Ensure that they have the tools necessary to do the job and listen to their feedback. You know, when you make a decision, bring them in with you because those guys are the stakeholders, those men and women. And that's important to listen to that feedback. But if they're doing a great job, then they should be rewarded as such. You know, lead time for a police officer, even some, you know, lead time for any job, people in DPW, firefighters, that lead time for training and proficiency is long. It's long. So you don't want people to jump to another municipality or another, or into the private sector when they feel, if they feel slighted, you know, you want, if they're doing a good job, you want to reward them for that. I mean, maybe you want them to jump. We can disagree on those things from a pragmatic standpoint. We're going to continue to disagree on that because otherwise then the budget just keeps going up and up and up and up and up. And that's exactly how it is in the private sector as well. And not only that, but these people are all members of public sector unions. So they use their money to get politicians elected who then decide what their salaries are. And so I think that there's a really perverse relationship with public sector unions. I personally don't think that they should exist. I'm going to get hated for this saying it out loud. I don't think public sector, if let me let me rephrase that. I think if, if public sector unions want to exist, they should not be allowed to use money. They should not be allowed to donate to politicians. And we can, I don't want to go off the rails or off this type of a discussion, but yeah, what I will say is that, you know, if the people are doing their job well, then they should be rewarded and the long lead time for people. You need to incentivize people to stay and to do a good job. If they're doing a good job, they should absolutely be sincerely thanked and, you know, provided that growth and opportunity. And again, it's a partnership right with everybody on all departments. You know, and I look at this from, from my point of view, working in the private sector in the plant that I work in is that you want to partner with people you don't want to have that adversarial relationship and ideally you're giving everybody the right tool to do the job and finding out from them. That's that double loop management, you know, you listen back to them and find out, do you have the right tools for the job and gain their insights and gain their thoughts as stakeholders. Ray said they won't provide financial assistance because a homeowner was doing the work. Wow. Yeah, so you know, those are things that should be looked at because if you want to incentivize people to move towards that goal. You know, it's telling them, you know, Ray may maybe doesn't want to hire a contractor because he himself is contractor or because he doesn't have the funds to be able to do that and therefore he may just end up living without that weatherization that hurts him that hurts his comfort level and it hurts the movement towards the city school. Well, and I'm curious because my understanding is a lot of those weatherization items are are are going to be made mandatory. So it's one of those things where, again, where the city council and the mayor say things that sound good, and they sound positive right we all, I don't, I don't know anybody who doesn't want to have a nice clean environment and air and all these other things. But there is an ability to pay or not pay. So as an example, if I if if this were made mandatory and I had to pay 14, we don't make money on this house, like just to be clear.  And we could raise our rents to full market rate, but we don't because we have a first responder and a social worker in one unit and a single mom in the other. And so we want to provide affordable housing and so we pretty much break even every year. And if I suddenly have to come up with $14,000 because these thermal energy updates are made mandatory. I mean, you're going to push it forward. I mean, you're not going to take a loss on it. I would logically think that you would not take a loss.  Well, I can't cover the four. I personally can't cover the $14,000. So I would be forced to raise rents to market. And then, and then try to figure it out. I guess maybe I did. I did. I did a comedic short called the homeless landlord anybody can go watch it on my page. It is silly. And I joke that I go live out on the bike path because I can't afford to live in my own house. I'm literally getting there. The capital bond is going to increase taxes for sure. And they're they're they're telling us that this new capital bond is going to increase taxes. You looked at the schedule it's you know out at the end of the bond that lowers your taxes overall like at the end. I've never seen a decrease in my property tax bill. So I don't know where that money goes to, but it it'll be another bond that they issue or some other thing so not once in the 63 years that my family has owned this property have my our property tax bill gone has our property tax bill gone down. So, but to it. Again, it's just, we say that we want to have Burlington be affordable. And yet, we don't act in any way close to what would keep Burlington affordable and I just think that that's, that's, that's disappointing. Yeah, I know we want to stay in our house for a long time. You know we didn't we didn't buy this house just to be a starter home and flip it after, you know, X amount of years we want to stay here we want to raise our family here. And it needs to be affordable for us to do that. Amen. Amen. Okay, well I've been given I've been beating you up. Alan, talking about stuff. No, it's always a good discussion you know you're listening to different people's opinions different people's questions are how you make progress and again I don't take feedback personally. I don't take actions, you know people you can say whatever they whatever they want that's their freedom, you know, and feedback to me as long as it's constructive I don't mind if it's positive negative or or different feedback is feedback is great. The only thing you should say is thank you. And we get so it's easy to get stuck just talking to people who agree with us. And then we don't really understand why the other side thinks what they do. Why do they think that why do they think that's a good idea. Okay, yes. That sounds good but what about this and, and it really requires to me, I think, more than anything what I would like to see is some diversity on the city council and I don't, and I mean, ideological diversity. Where an actual debate can be had where people disagree, and then we can come to a consensus rather than just running all the way off the cliff without anybody saying boo about it. I agree I think it should be nonpartisan and I think you should be willing to bring you know different ideas to the table and hash them out discuss them. And then whoever concerns that decision bring those stakeholders to the table and give them a voice and listen to them actively listen to people. Yep, and bring that civility back but keep it local, you know don't look at it on that that state or national level if it can cannot be influenced if it's outside of your circle of influence, then don't, don't worry about it.  So I'm not going to. Um, but I'll ask you in private later next time I see you. Um, okay, so we've come around the hour, and I want to give you an opportunity to take a couple more minutes to just, you know, give your pitch to word seven. Um, you really you, we do have some of your voters on here with us tonight so this is really cool. That's awesome. You know, I'm glad people so thank you for coming out and listening to me I don't. I don't seek the spotlight. It's not something that I ever, I ever wanted. But when it's necessary, I felt compelled to step up and you know, having neighbors independently ask you if you would be willing to put yourself out there. I'm kind of nerve wracking, but you know ultimately if it if it can improve the lives of the people around me, that that's the goal so if you want pragmatic leadership who will listen and actively listen to people and use that analytical data driven plan do you want to take back methodology when making decisions, you know, understanding the human side of the equation as well. Then I think I can bring that back to the council that civility back to the council, and keep that focus on what really matters to the people out here, because I'm one of the people out here, and my family wants to be here. I'm really happy to be here. We plan on being here for a long time. And again, if I can help other people with that same vision, and that same want and desire, then that's that's what I will do and that's why I decided to to throw my name in there. And, you know, it's been a really interesting time and I really look forward to meeting more people understanding people's concerns with the ward, and with the city and how we can focus on issues together in a nonpartisan partnership type view with everybody to make progress in the city while keeping it affordable and moving towards the cities and the citizens goals inside the city. So thank you for listening to me, and I appreciate that. I like it. All right, boss. We will let you go for this evening. I wish you good luck in your endeavors and your race. Your website. Let me see, let me get back there. Make sure everybody knows I'll make sure that this is all in the description. Whoops, you don't want that. Alexstith.com. A-L-C-S-T-I-H. Yep. I like it. Easy, straightforward. So you got your platform. Say hi to his good looking family. Look how good looking they are.  My parents picked that for a reason I aspire to be that way.  It's, it's something that I think if you can leave the place better than when you had it, then that's the way to go. So, you know, that's something that I think is important to me, whether it's, you know, the environment or economically or socially, I think that that's, that's just something it's just try to do your best every day. That's all you can do. Excellent. Excellent. All right, Alec, I'm going to let you go.  I have a two and a half year old who is probably sitting on the edge of his bed waiting for me to come in. Here's my story. Exactly. Exactly. It's the saddest thing, but it's also really, you know, it means a lot. He just, he'll wait for me. So I love it. I love it. I love it. Thank you so much for having me on your show. I do appreciate it. And again, alecstith.com, if anybody wants to check that out as always, feel free to reach out, send me an email, send me a message on Facebook. If you have any questions, I am available and I'd love to hear from people and it doesn't matter if you live in the ward or not. You know, I'd love to hear from you and just ask questions. I'm always willing to listen. You got Thursday before we go. You got Thursday nights, right? You're doing a live stream. Thursday and Saturday. Every Thursday until town meeting day, I am doing a virtual happy hour. So I am a home brewer. So come on, have a virtual beer. I'll have a virtual beer with you. I have an IPA that I have right now. So. Okay. Is that on your website? It is on my website. I'll have a new link updated now. The last one I just did was Saturday. So come on by. We can talk politics. We can talk beer. I want to listen to your concerns about what you think anybody's invited. Ask me questions. And just, we can get to know each other. I appreciate that. Thank you. Have a great one. Bye. All right, everybody. Thank you for being here with us this evening for listening for checking out Alec listening us to get to a debate about some of the tax stuff. Anybody who watches my channel watches my feed knows that I am a small government conservative. And so to me that means a lot of the things and services provided by the city government, state government, federal government really should be provided by you and me. We should be taking care of our neighbors not expecting some bureaucrat to do it for us so that is always going to be my stance. But I do really like Alec I like the way his mind thinks I like that he reasons through things. And, and you should vote for him. You should vote for him on town meeting day. And so as we leave this evening, I'm going to leave you with our another, another viewing of our commercial for our book Benjamin and I have our book publish reasons to trust the government. 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Hey welcome back everybody. As most of you probably know by now, over the weekend, two LA County Sheriff deputies were ambushed in their car shot by somebody who presumably supports Black Lives Matter. Although no doubt, and you can mark my words on this, that the media will work overtime separating this shooter from the BLM movement. I know this based on experience because this isn't the first BLM related police shooting and the media always does the same thing. And they'll do that by covering up all news that's inconvenient to that narrative. For example, the BLM protesters that stormed the hospital where these two sheriff deputies were fighting for their lives, blocking an ER entrance and chanting quote, That's the police and we hope they die. And this is nothing new for BLM or the groups associated with them. They're known for chance calling for violence against police officers and white people. Other examples of this are Black Lives Matter leaders across the country openly calling for violence. Hank Newsom, chairman of BLM's Greater New York chapter, openly called for war against the police. Outright claim to be quote, developing a highly trained military arm to challenge police brutality head on in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis. One would think that an organization that has racked up the body count that BLM has would receive a little bit more scrutiny from the media. But no, ABC News did report on the shooting, but neglected to mention that inconvenient detail about the BLM scumbags arriving at the hospital to try and instigate more violence. And we're going to get into all that video. But first, give me a quick 30 second capitalism break to thank this episode sponsor, Biotrust Ageless Multicollegin. After 20 years old, your body will naturally decrease its collagen production by 12% each passing decade. This is a leading reason as to why skin appears thinner and more wrinkled as we age. Ageless Multicollegin provides you with the five types of collagen your body needs and one complete protein. You'll enjoy powerful support for your body with results you can see and feel in a few short weeks. Get Ageless Multicollegin for 51% off plus free shipping by going to www.healthwithdronetech.com or by clicking the link in the video description box below. Good morning, Eva. This morning, the suspect who ambushed two Los Angeles deputies in Compton last night is still on the run. They were alert enough right after the shooting to radio in their own help. Their department tweeting they are both still fighting for their lives and in critical condition. Those deputies were identified as a 31 year old mother of a six year old and a 24 year old man. Isn't it strange that they wouldn't mention the BLM protesters showing up to instigate more violence? And I did a pretty extensive search looking for any mention of this incident by the Democrat Party media and unsurprisingly came up almost completely empty. I did manage to find that NBC News of all people actually did report on this incident. This attack is the latest after a summer of confrontations between police and protesters. President Trump weighing in on Twitter saying the shooter is an animal that must be hit hard. And last night, there was a small protest at the hospital where the sheriff's department says they arrested several protesters who were blocking the entrance of the hospital and shouting death to police. Willie, back to you. My gosh, Gotti Schwartz, an ugly scene there at Los Angeles County. Thanks so much. Since then, even more video has surfaced of these people who are presumably supporters of BLM and will be voting for Joe Biden. Instead of helping or going to get help, they just laugh and mock at these wounded deputies who are fighting for their lives. All of this was very predictable. I predicted it. Many others predicted it. It's not that we're psychic. It's just that it's obvious that this will be the outcome with the media cherry picking stories and omitting data that's inconvenient to their narrative.  If you're gonna do this, why not just list everyone shot by cops? Why just list the black people? Like, where's all the white people shot by cops? What are the details of these shootings? Were they legitimate? They don't seem to care. They only seek to generate hate and rage for the purposes, I guess, of beating Trump in the election. Not to mention Democrat politicians openly supporting the violence against police like this Democrat city manager who posted this on his Instagram. Now, I did a search and you can find lots of stories about this on the internet, even from a couple news organizations. But what's missing? Two things. I'm not seeing any outrage or hand-ringing from the mass network or cable media outside of Fox News. And two, I'm not seeing any scrutiny or criticism of BLM or the associated groups. I'm not seeing any panels on CNN or MSNBC flailing in horror about the BLM movement like we would if this were a right-wing group. Compare the media silence now to the behavior when the Tea Parties were going strong against Barack Obama. The media was jumping at any chance to connect the Tea Party to any shooting that happened. Why? Because they wanted the Tea Party to be silenced and demonized out of existence. So, with the far-left Communist and Marxist movements like BLM and Antifa. And I have no doubt that any DNC media talking head who does comment on any of these incidents will say something along the lines of, oh, these are just fringe elements and not representative of the larger group. Yet, when one cop shoots somebody, whether it was lawful or not, suddenly the 600,000 plus other cops need to be defunded and hunted down. CBS posted that tweet saying that 184 black people have been shot by police in 2020 without mentioning if any of those shootings were lawful or not. They don't want people distinguishing between a lawful shooting and a murder. It's all the same. While they completely ignore police shootings of any other kind, giving a very false picture of what's actually going on out there. I encountered the results of this propaganda while interviewing people at an anti-gun rally in Ohio. I posed the question to people, are we supposed to be against all police shootings?  I think all these are all issues that have to be addressed, right? But they're way more complicated than what's being, how it's being presented. Like, it's very black and white here where it's actually a lot more complicated than that. Like, every time a cop shoots a black, any time a cop has to shoot anybody it's bad. But is it always, I mean, is it ever justified? I mean, I would think sometimes, maybe even the majority of time it is justified. But it's treated as though, if it happens it's wrong, you know. And I think that sort of black and white isn't helping. I mean, because that's gonna, it might play to the base. But if you're trying to get people in the middle, or even on the right, there's no way, you know. Oh, okay. The media is all about deception, coercion, and control. They think that they can control this mob. But as we've already seen, like at the CNN headquarters, the mob will eventually turn on them. That's all for this episode. Please hit that like button, share, and subscribe. If you'd like to support this channel, you can do so by using one of the platforms listed in the description or pinned comment. Thanks for watching. Keep coming back.


I want to share a couple more mindset things that I hope will inspire you and encourage you in your authentic outreach. Because ultimately, in my opinion, it is a mindset issue. Like if you had a mind and heart that feels inspired and encouraged to do this kind of outreach, you'll do it in your own way. And you'll do it probably without me having to say anything about how to do it because you'll be authentic to you. So the first additional mindset thing I want to share with you is just this very deep movement that we're really doing when we're doing authentic outreach is moving from fear to love. In my opinion, that's really the core of authentic business is, and maybe the core of personal growth, right, is we're moving from fear to love and authentic outreach is a very clear example of that. Most of us, myself included sometimes have some anxiety or worse about reaching out. We have doubt. We have a fear of rejection. And not just not not even rejection, just fear of not hearing back from these people who are reaching out to and it feels badly when we don't hear back, of course. Right. So these are fears. These are negative emotions. And it's an opportunity for us. I always think of authentic business is really a stage for personal and spiritual growth. To me that's really what it's about. It just happens to be we get some clients we serve them with our services but to me at the end of the day the most important thing in life right is to move from fear to love, like truly embodied way and authentic outreach is that so we're moving from this fear, we're placing whenever you sense that fear or anxiety or doubt about reaching out. I want you now going forward to recognize that Oh, this is the opportunity that George was talking about that that's really kind of deeper reason why we're doing this I break it. I recognize the opportunity. Thank you fear. Thank you anxiety. Thank you doubt. Thank you. You know, whatever it is. Thank you for this opportunity. Now I will replace that feeling. Again, I'm not an embodiment expert. So work with your embodiment methods and with work with your coach on this. How can I replace that embodiment with the love of connection and service. And blessing no matter if they ever write back to us, or they write back something that's not as nice as we hoped replace it with love with service with blessing. Right. And so and and the. Yeah, and the, and the interesting thing about is if you keep doing this regularly and consistently, if you're going to get new clients. It's like almost certainly because one, you're doing it, you're doing outreach consistently and most of your other peers are not doing the one that's there is that there's that practical element of it number two, you're doing it from this energy of connection and service and blessing. Of course you're going to get new clients from this of course, right. I was talking about this on another call and someone mentioned that they found themselves having the pattern of protecting themselves from from being hurt. I want to say I'm really proud of that awareness, because most people don't reach out and they're not aware that that that pattern or that thought process, right. And I also want to thank Mira for saying something. It's actually I didn't hear it from Mira directly I heard it from someone said, Oh, I heard Mira say this and I know wonderful. I heard Mira around the person who did a guest segment earlier in this course, Mira apparently said this and you are you here, you're mirror is still here right now. So mirror you apparently said this to someone. Let yourself love people and allow people to love you back. That's the perfect summary of authentic outreach that yourself love people love the people that's on your top 100 list at least. Love people love you back. And Tamsin young says yes I wrote a post about that. Thank you Tamsin. Thank you for that. So, move from fear to love, then your authentic outreach can itself be spiritual practice. So I look forward to seeing your comments below.


A solenoid is a coil of wire. Despite being something so simple, solenoids have many useful applications. They are used in electromagnets, electromagnetic locks and many other areas. Solenoids generate a magnetic field when a current is run through it. The magnetic field they generate is what makes them so useful. We analyze the magnetic field around a loop by looking at the magnetic field due to each part of the loop and then adding them together to get the overall magnetic field. We can do the same to get the magnetic field of a solenoid. We know the magnetic field of a loop now, so we don't need to split the solenoid into many small sections. Instead, we could split the solenoid into multiple loops and consider the overall magnetic field. Let's say we had a current going in to the right and out to the left. Then each individual loop has a current going down in front and up behind. Each loop would have a magnetic field going to the right inside the loop and going to the left outside the loop. Since all these magnetic fields point in the same direction, they all reinforce each other. Meaning the overall magnetic field of the solenoid would be pointing to the right in the middle of the solenoid and to the left outside of the solenoid. The magnetic field around a solenoid is the same as the magnetic field around a bar magnet. The difference isn't how they are generated. A bar magnet has a permanent magnetic field.  This has many practical applications. Electromagnets is one such application. An electromagnet is exactly as its name describes. A magnet that is created by electricity. It's basically a solenoid. When you run a current through it, it acts like a magnet. When you turn off the current, it loses its magnetic field and stops acting like a magnet. These are used in electromagnetic locks. There is generally an armature plate that the electromagnet is attracted to once a current is run through it.