Hi everyone, I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com here coming at you with 2020 Panini national treasures football four box full case pick your team number four very excited about this and Very appreciative of the people who Who bought all their spots straight up. Thank you Not an easy break to get into pretty pricey, but I appreciate everybody getting in Jeremy ended up with the official last spot Mojo before we pulled teams out for those number blocks So the number block random number blocks what R&B means, right? We're The randomizer in two different videos So there's the 11 teamer and then there's a high-ender right here So here is the 11 team one. So it's basically if you read the item descriptions if you ever see one of these It's just a serial number break, but only for that group of teams and only for in this case pick your team number four that right there Same drill with this except we just pulled and grouped together some higher-end teams right there and there's a results there Keep that to my left And this is the official list right here, which I'm going to keep right over here Here's a fresh case National treasures football good luck boys and girls Go big or go home with the full case Now a small sample size we have not done Too many cases look you've done enough where we can start thinking Are we due for an NFL shield? It would be nice Oh, is that a plate? That's a plate on the bottom at the very least Yeah, those are the other guys Adam. They don't count. All right. Let's see what we got here At least there's a one-of-one down there We got miles sanders seven out of 26 For the Eagles And that's eagle seven right there Which will be for josh eight out of 99 for the titans michael AJ brown Got the titans straight up We've got more titans Seven out of ten sunday treasures. That's It's a nice-looking patch right there michael r with the titans 79 out of 99 aj dillon That's part of the high-end number block group So that's packers nine go by that that digit right there packers nine That's for josh We got more packers jordan love So that's to six green bay six Craig thomas Two-color jersey nice patch auto derrick brown 24 out of 99 carolina panthers arman got the panthers straight up We got daemon r net 29 out of 35 That will be for The raiders raiders are part of that 11 team group over here So that goes to raiders nine. I'm gonna go to j goings Cam acres two-color patch auto. I like this retro design that they have here We'll flashback two-color patch auto 32 out of 99 rams Jeremy jeremy l who bought the rams Straight up and eventually it was last bod mojo Last bod mojo 60 percent of the time hits 100 percent of the time Nice justin herbert field pass autograph three out of ten part of the high-end number block group chargers three Sean maddock nice There you're welcome jeremy Congrats, sean nice The second one of those that we've pulled pulled one of those a couple days ago And the last thing here is That's henry rugs a little raider joe mojo And there you go nice henry rugs raiders part of the 11 team number block right here So that's raiders one that goes to pj pj All aboard the big hit express Nice Jay, what's up if a full team isn't bought are you doing numbers fillers for Insights here remember for that team? Yeah, sometimes we do that not all the time But in this case we did and there's sean Congrats, man nice work We've got a Blockchain card right here Clyde Edward D lair for Kansas City that's going to be for matt Lieber with the chiefs well It's kind of it's kind of hard to explain why i'm in the middle of a breakman, but Why don't you go to here i'll drop the link to the number block? And the instructions are there or actually show you next time we get a number block card So there's seven out of 13 michael thomas There you go. So that's for the 11 team number block right there Now i already started i'm going to explain So we pulled these teams out Of the pick your team right We pulled the team out of the pick your team And then you get randomized a number so matthew has seven So he gets this card seven out of ten, but he gets a block of numbers hence the number block right rnb So he gets seven 17 27 37 47 57 67 77 87 97 out of whatever not only for the saints but that entire group of teams right there as well So there's matt ryan 91 out of 99 Chia with that one with the falcons So basically it's a way to Especially for expensive products like nt. We usually do these with with products like this So it um It basically Combines a bunch of teams, but then splits them up into 10 spots Right based on serial number. Here's 58 out of 99 jets mark the set with that one So that kind of helps balance out the price So you're paying x amount of price, but across a number of teams even though you're limited with the uh With the number, you know what i mean, but you're not taking the risk of buying an expensive team Just one expensive team all by yourself So it's a different level of risk, but people seem to like it especially for the higher end breaks all right, there's luke keekley 86 out of 99 for the carolina panthers. That's goes to arm and arm and bought the team straight up There's meekle hardman jr. 10 out of 25 for the chiefs. That'll be from matt lever another team. He bought straight up Now it's all good j every once in a while. I do have to reset I do have to reset that and let people know how it all works Here's nfl gear combos. Justin herbert keenan allen I give myself Once maybe once a week once or twice a week to fully to refully explain that Maybe once every other night These are both chargers. So that's part of the high end number block right here So that goes to that digit right there nine Out of 25 that's zero nine out of 25 It's nine right? Yeah, that goes to josh got randomized the number nine 46 out of 50 kyle dugger Yeah, that's pretty unique to us. We've been doing it for a number of years the number blocks I'm sure some people have copied us over the years pj with the pets And we got field pass the andre swift Nice 16 out of 25. That'll be for the lions Detroit is part of the 11 team rnb So that goes to detroit 6 That'll be for shon mattaq We got jersey and autographed juju smith schuster one out of 49 That's for the stealers pittsburgh one is pj And looks like we got a nice justin jefferson jersey and auto That's awesome vikings part of the 11 team a number block And that goes to vikings, I think four There it is 64 out of 99 We've got a little wrinkly here, but Pretty nice hit for brandon hall Who won a spot in that number block and then gets himself a nice justin jefferson rpa All right, it's bon jovi once in we're halfway there And another justin jefferson on the bottom So let's see who's going to get it on that on that list over there Let the whistle a little bit nice patty mahomes right there on top Over there that's a highway 23 out of 35 That'll be for the chiefs matt lever picked up the chiefs straight up nice mahomes remember matt We're having to use larger topplers because of the global toppler shortage so be careful with that mahomes Should be blue tape though We've got troi paulamalu That's just a nice base card on that's pretty cool Those are the stealers part of the stealers number block Where's the number? Oh, this is the rare card with no number the rare antique car with no number So we'll randomize this to one person in the break In that 11 team or that is there's morten anderson 53 out of 99 saints Part of the 11 teamer up there saints three Craig thomas We've got 97 out of 99 I think I actually grabbed two cards right there lions. We've got deandre swift and jeff okuta two-color dual relic Top loader box around here lion seven Is going to be matthew shiro Yeah, I thought so too, but I heard someone mention that the other day that he got a car that didn't have a number All right, there's ronald jones tj's dad 44 out of 49 Buccaneers pj picking up the buccaneers straight up 26 out of 50 gabriel davis dual relic buffalo Sean maddock with buffalo six We got zavier mckinney Giants 55 out of 99 Giants picked up straight up by jeff meyers Yeah, that eddie van halen cut out of venti was pretty awesome We're very happy about that. Oh, this is awesome, too One of one Antony mcfarlane And that's awesome mookie bets with a double at least Yeah, stand up double and nice for pittsburgh pittsburgh's part of the number block group So pittsburgh won pj All aboard the big hit express And we got a triple auto teddy bruski willy mcginnis and andre tippet Prime trios also for pj who bought the patriots straight up. I mean, I know That's out of 25 pj 18 out of 25. I know this stuff can be expensive ladies and gentlemen, but With the high cost comes Some high rewards at times All right, last one here the justin jefferson 98 out of 99 robert ronkel With minnesota 8 could be a receiving prodigy. That's for sure All right, but wait, there's more It really is mix up We we can handle the we can handle the toilet paper shortages You know throughout last year's pandemic and even Even at some points last fall last summer, especially we can handle The the cleaning wipe shortage Well, we refuse to handle top loader shortages. Come on And nt cards no numbers And bring back the wooden boxes panini I don't mind the number the non numbered car panini in all honesty, but I don't know bring the wooden box back. Those are nice and We're gonna close out the last card is gonna be a redemption Now if it's part of the 11 teamer, it'll go to josh When he has zero if it's part of the high end group It'll be for steve steve k kissle with the number zero interesting Or it'll go to someone who bought a team straight up We'll see. Good luck. It's joe mixon It's for shawning the bangles Sam darnel to 99 It's for mark and the jets We got a quad relic two at a 25 koofer cup robert woods josh reynolds and van jefferson Quad relic of uh the Los angeles rand's past catchers for jeremy jeremy l And we've got nfl gear combos a j green and joe mixon two-color dual relic to 99 Nice tremendous treasure here chase young To 25 kenith barefoot With the washington football team Got another dual relic and a randomizer one person happy one person sad joe burrow And justin herbert Well, that means there's like there's a one of one of this out there somewhere, right? It'll be pretty nice. Anyway, this one's out of 99 81 out of 99 So it'll either go to we'll do a randomizer randomizer at the end It'll either go to Sean who bought the bangles straight up or chargers one Which will be for j goings Oh, look at this It's the the snout of the ram One out of five cam acres For the rams jeremy l who bought the rams straight up Rewarded for his boldness and out of five and under train whistle All aboard the big hit express That's awesome. All right, he could be pretty good too. He showed some moments That looks great. Definitely have to snap a picture of that. All right. A few more to go. Gabriel davis. That's a nice patch, too to 99 Part of the 11 team number blocks looks like that's four. Yeah four out of 99 Buffalo brandon with the bills Right here is harry carson 27 out of 35 for the giants jeffrey mires with the giants straight up Yeah, I saw that david that lions patch that shon pulled shon jasmine pulled the other night was awesome. All right, and Sport football. Yes, we would hope so Program. Yes, nt card set Crossover rookie patch autographs laundry tag. I'm going to assume it's a train whistle joe joey bosa joey b rookie crossover patch autographs laundry tag joey b for the bangles shon m Picked up the bangles straight up Scared money. Don't make money All aboard the big hit express Woo, that is awesome. That is cool. You're welcome. Sean. You put in the work And it worked out nicely this time I can do joe. I think I can do joe borough's autograph I'll I'll give an example of what it looks like I think Something like that And that's the way it ends ladies and gentlemen There you go. Hey, i'm joe for jasky's case break. Thanks for getting in.  He's got to come back strong But right out of the gate. I think that's gonna be pretty nice Yeah, adam's in new york city. I'm here in la Yeah, it's not gonna buy buy a house in new york city all right And it's out of five sam saying it's out of either way It's a train whistle joe borough It's gonna be pretty awesome You know, it's an rpa All right, here's the dual relic. That's the no actually let's do the 11 team number block first Let's grab that Put them in there. So that name on top is going to get that non numbered polo malo card And then the dual relic is the uh bangles and chargers All right three into two five times for each list one two three four and five After five times there you go The luck continues to show and you get that non numbered card three into two five times one two three four and five And after five times shan again. Wow, what a break for you. I'm joe for jaspy's case breaks.com Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'll see you next time for the next one joe borough sign your cards Please. Thank you. Bye. Bye


We're going to get in trouble. You don't catch Tom's have a good, good break. And I did. It's interesting in the in the in the zone. Yeah, that is interesting. I'm going to ask you reoriented. Also wouldn't they do their projects. 2013. Good evening. I'd like to call the Durham City Council meeting to order for. For Tuesday, January the 2nd at 7pm. And certainly want to welcome all of you all in attendance and especially want to wish everyone a happy new year. We're very, very glad to see you here tonight. Could we now please pause for a moment of silent meditation. Thank you. I would like to recognize Council member Reese. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We are joined tonight by boys. If they would come on up here and help us out with the pledge that would be great. On their way up, I'll just let folks know that if it is your practice to do so. And if you're able, if you could rise and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance, that'd be great. Thank you. Hello. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. The Republic for which it stands. One nation under God. Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you gentlemen. Thank you all very much for being here. And now, Madam clerk, could you please call the roll. Mayor Schuyl. Here. Council Member Alston. Here. Council Member Freeman. Present. Council Member Middleton. Here. Council Member Reese. Here. Thank you very much. You did that very well. Mayor Pro Tem Johnson. Did you miss anyone? Yeah. Whoops. Okay. Not quite as well. But it was your first attempt, Diana. Thank you. And we're very, we appreciate you being here and your inter-roll. And Tonetta, thank you for filling in tonight as well. Appreciate you. And now I'm going to introduce the ceremonial items. And we have two, we have two ceremonial items tonight. And the first is a proclamation regarding National Mentoring Month. And I'm going to ask Council Member Reese if he would do the honors tonight. We do. Uh-huh. Dwarren Langley and others, I believe. Yes, and others. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you members of the public for being here tonight. We're doing a proclamation tonight on National Mentoring Month. And I appreciate the mayor for giving me this opportunity. I'll read this. And then we'll give Dwarren a chance to say a few words if that's all right with you. Awesome. Whereas in 2002, the Harvard School of Public Health and Mentor, the National Mentoring Partnership, created National Mentoring Month. And whereas the goals of National Mentoring Month are to raise awareness of mentoring, recruit individuals to mentor and encourage organizations to engage and integrate quality in mentoring into their efforts. And to motivate youth to persevere even in the toughest of times. And whereas a mentor is a caring, consistent presence who devotes time to a young person to help that young person discover personal strength and achieve their potential through a structured and trusting relationship. And whereas quality mentoring encourages and empowers young people to make positive choices, promote self-esteem, support academic achievement, and introduces young people to new ideas that put them on a path for making better life decisions to improve opportunities. And whereas mentoring programs have shown to be effective in combating school violence and discipline problems, substance abuse, incarceration, and truancy. And whereas mentors help young people set career goals and use their personal contacts to help young people meet industry professionals and find jobs. And whereas youth development experts agree that mentoring is critical to the social, emotional, and cognitive development of youth, helping them navigate the path to adulthood more successfully. Now therefore, I, Stephen M. Schul, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, do hereby proclaim January 2018 as National Mentoring Month in Durham. And hereby call upon public officials, educators, business and community leaders, as well as encourage all citizens to observe this month with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs. In order to, number one, recognize the men and women who serve as staff and volunteers at quality mentoring programs who are helping our young people find inner strength and to reach their full potential. Number two, promote the creation and expansion of quality mentoring programs here in the City of Durham and across the country to equip young people with the tools needed to lead healthy and productive lives. And number three, support initiatives to close the mentoring gap. Witness my hand in the corporate seal of the City of Durham, North Carolina, the second day of January 2018, and it's signed by Stephen M. Schul, Mayor of the City of Durham. So congratulations. Got to warn Langley here. He's going to say a few words. Here you go. Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council, thank you so very much for claiming January as Mentoring Month. This is a very important month to me as well as others throughout the community who have grown up with mentors who've helped us navigate college to career, helped us to navigate the challenges of our community and just build the self-esteem and awareness necessary to be successful. This evening we have a few organizations represented. I represent the Charles Hamilton Houston Foundation which works with the Young Winter of Color in high school and college to help them understand what their career pathway is and also to connect with internships and other work-based learning opportunities and help them transition to full-time employment. Also have with me the MBK, My Brother's Keeper, Durham Coordinator, Mr. Edmund Lewis will be working together to have an event on Tuesday, January the 16th at Mellow Mushroom where we're the goal of My Brother's Keeper in the month of January is to have 31 mentors in 31 days. We also have Atreus Good. He represents movement of youth as well as mentors, Carolina. That is an organization that is going to be working to expand mentoring, quality mentoring programs and provide support to organizations in North and South Carolina. We also have with us the President of Men in Vision, Steve Chalmers which is working in the McDougal Terrace neighborhood to provide a mentoring to young people and help improve quality of life of families. So thank you so very much for this opportunity and thank you for your support and continuing efforts to provide young people in this community with meaningful opportunities as well as supporting mentors. Thank you very much DeWarren. Thank you, Council Member Rees. And now we will have a proclamation honoring the life of late Martin Luther King Jr. and I'm going to ask Mayor Pro Tem Johnson if she would do the honors. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I believe that this is also being presented to Mr. DeWarren Lang. I can back up. And the Durham Martin Luther King Jr. Steering Committee. Proclamation honoring the life of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Whereas a champion of justice, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. devoted his life to strengthening the content of the American character and fought unrelentingly for the civil rights of all Americans and taught us that through nonviolence that courage displaces fear, love transforms hate, acceptance dissipates prejudice and mutual regard cancels enmity. And whereas Dr. King helped to organize efforts, plan events, and lead marches to advance the rights of African Americans to vote, for desegregation, for recognition and respect for labor rights and to ensure other basic civil rights. And whereas Dr. King was one of the leaders of the successful Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and helped found and served as the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 to coordinate and support nonviolent direct action as a method of desegregating bus systems across the south. And whereas between 1960 and 1964 Dr. King made addresses in Durham, North Carolina at White Rock Baptist Church the Durham Business and Professional Chain Hillside High School Jack Tar Hotel to the Southern Political Science Association North Carolina College now North Carolina Central University and Duke University urging civil disobedience and nonviolent protests to end racial segregation and discrimination. And whereas Dr. King helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama that drew national attention to the struggle for civil rights and to the hateful and brutal responses of the local law enforcement and helped organize the march on Washington during which he delivered his eloquent and moving I Have a Dream speech. And whereas he helped to organize the monumentally inspiring Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 to advocate for passage of the Voting Rights Act to guarantee African American citizens the right to vote. And whereas Dr. King was supporting the garbage workers in Memphis, Tennessee and planning the Poor People's Campaign to promote economic justice when he was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. Now therefore I, Stephen M. Schul, Mayor of the City of Durham do hereby honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his service and dedication in his committed work towards a free and just world and hereby urge all citizens to take special note of this observance in celebrating and honoring Dr. King as we reflect on his life in his dream. Witness my hand in the corporate seal of the City of Durham, North Carolina the second day of January, 2018. Stephen M. Schul, Mayor. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Good evening, distinguished members of the City Council. I feel like I'm too tall for the mic. Well, you're following Mayor Pro Tem Johnson. That's right, that's exactly right. I'm going to leave that alone. My name is William Lucas, Pastor William Lucas and I'm the Chair of the Durham MLK Steering Committee and tonight we want to thank you for being a part of a city that will stop to honor a man named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The name itself represents so many virtues. It represents love, grace, mercy, kindness, goodness, freedom, etc. and for you to stop and honor Dr. King and for us to live in a city where individuals would take time to do that. We, the Durham Committee do not take that lightly. We thank you for this honor and as we continue to live out the legacy of Dr. King and to remember the legacy of Dr. King this year we will remember 50 years since his assassination. We still have a lot of work to do. Our committee every year tries to honor that with various programs that we have throughout the city. Also we try to honor that by keeping the dream alive through an ecumenical service that we have this month. This is the beginning of our services. We consider this a part of the program this year. So again we want to thank you for honoring Dr. King and all the virtues that he stood for. We have several members here standing behind me that are members of the committee and I'm going to ask if anyone is in the audience that is a member of the Durham Martin Luther King Junior Steering Committee which you stand at this time. Thank you mayor. Thank you city council. Thank you pastor Lucas and the rest of the folks representing the Martin Luther King Steering Committee I just want to say to the members of our public that on that weekend not only on Monday but on other days of that weekend there are wonderful celebratory events here in Durham and I urge everyone to check out your various sources of information to find out when they are it's always a great weekend in Durham and I urge everyone to try to I'll certainly be at several of the events very much look forward to it and I know a lot of other people will be as well. So thank you all so much. Are there any announcements by members of the council? Mr. Mayor I have an announcement. Council Member Middleton. Thank you sir. Happy New Year to everyone. Mr. Mayor and fellow council members last night I attended a vigil in Durham as part of their week of peace to commemorate victims of gunfire in our city from the last year and also to call on our community to unite together to combat gun violence and I want to just publicly acknowledge Bull City United and congratulate them on their work I do also want to say Mr. Mayor that vigils by definition are held after the fact after something happens and I heard a number of people from the community last night say we need to do this we need to do that we need our government to do things well I want to say to activists throughout the city and community members this council I know I speak for this council I want you to feel just as comfortable coming to this chamber as developers do often times we do things as a council because people ask us we change zoning designations we dole out incentives if you have ideas or request or recommendations of your government things that you think we can do to silence gunfire in our city and we've made some progress in terms of homicides this year but we still got some work to do on gunfire you should feel just as comfortable coming to this chamber as multi-millionaire developers nothing wrong with that but this is your chamber as well and I heard a number of our community members say we need help from the city we need us to do things well this is your chamber please come and let's stop just lighting lights after the fact let's light a light before the fact and keep it burning as we move forward during this year thank you Mr. Mayor happy new year thank you for those comments anyone else alright thank you for those excellent comments councilmember and now we're going to we'll get to the priority items are there any priority items by the city manager thank you Mr. Mayor members of the council good evening I want to wish everyone a happy new year and to report that the city manager's office does no priority items this evening thank you Mr. Manager city attorney any priority items thank you Mr. Mayor no priority items city clerk thank you Mr. Mayor no items thank you very much and now we'll move to the consent agenda the next order of business is the consent agenda all items on the consent agenda may be approved by a single vote unless an item is removed by a council member or a member of the public for separate consideration at the end of the meeting tonight and I'm going to read each of these consent agenda items item 1 approval of city council minutes item 3 municipal record retention and disposition schedule amendments item 4 FY18 19 budget development schedule item 5 FY2017 18 grant project ordinance amendment for us department of housing and urban development block grant home investment partnerships agreement emergent solutions grant and housing opportunities for persons with HIV AIDS performance grant item 6 option contracting commitment of subordinate financing for the Jackson pedigree street development with self-help ventures fund and DHIC Inc item 7 the city of Durham and North Carolina Department of Transportation grant project ordinance for the downtown transportation study I have a question on that Mr. Mayor we'll pull item 7 item 8 master agreement for bicycle facility design item 9 amend chapter 15 part 15-120 100 meter deposits and rental rates of the fee schedule item 10 bid report for November 2017 I will now entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda with the exception of item 7 so moved is there any discussion if not Madam clerk will you open the vote close the vote motion passes 6-0 thank you very much and now we'll move to item 7 councilmember is there a staffer this is going to be real quick I love the amount of money that the city's got a pony up for this most important study but I notice I apologize for not bringing this up into work session I noticed some language in the memo that said due to the nature of this agreement this item was not reviewed for compliance with the ordinance to promote equal business opportunities in city contracts I was just wondering what is the particular nature of this agreement that exempts it from that type of consideration Terry Bellamy director of transportation city of Durham the reason why that statement is in there because the funding that we receive is federal funding which is a minority and women business program which is separated which is separate from the local program and so that's the reason why that statement is in there secondary question is that it is also a professional service agreement but it does note that it follows the federal regulation as relates to minority and women businesses great and we don't we have not determined who's conducting the study yet right right now the RFQ is just came back we received the packages right before the holiday break it'll be reviewed by our panel and we'll come back with a selection this is just the grant project ordinance which establishes the funding authority got you thank you thank you very much thank you very much Terry is there any other business to come forward do we have a motion to approve the item second is there any discussion if not madam clerk will you please open the vote close the vote motion passes 60 thank you very much y'all can see I'm still getting the hang of this is there any other business to come before this body if not I'm happy to say that this meeting is adjourned at 721 p.m. thank you all for being here tonight and happy new year I should say to the scouts it's not always this quick


When it comes to the amount of steroid hormones we're exposed to in the foods supply, milk products, dairy products supply about 60 to 80% of ingested female sex steroids. I've talked about the effects of these estrogens and progesterone in men and prepubescent children, how milk can take in spike estrogen levels within hours of consumption, but in terms of effects on women, I talked about the increased endometrial cancer risk in post-menopausal women. But what about reproductive age women? Might dairy hormones affect reproduction? We've known dairy food intake has sometimes been associated with infertility. However, little is known with regard to associations with reproductive hormones or anovulation, meaning how might dairy do it by affecting how the uterus prepares or affecting the ovary itself? The researchers found that women who ate yogurt or cream had about twice the risk of sporadic anovulation, meaning failure of ovulation. So in some months there was just no egg to fertilize at all. Now we know most yogurt these days is packed with sugar. Even Greek yogurt can have more sugar than a double chocolate glazed cake, dunk, and donut, but they control for that. And the results remained after adjusting for the sugar content, which suggests that the risk of anovulation was independent of the sugar content included in many yogurts. Now we don't know if this is just a fluke or exactly what the mechanism might be, but if women skip ovulation here or there throughout their life, I mean, might they end up with a larger ovarian reserve of eggs? I mean, women are starting to have their first baby later and later. There's been a rise in women having babies in their late 30s and 40s. We used to think that women's ovarian reserve of eggs stayed relatively stable until rapid decline at about age 37. But now we know it appears to be more of a gradual loss of eggs over time. Here's what the graph looks like, where there's a steady loss starting at peak fertility at one's 20s. This is measuring antropholical count, which is an ultrasound test, where you can just count the number of next-batter-up eggs in the ovaries. It's probably the best reflection of true reproductive age. It's a measure of ovarian reserve, how many eggs a woman has left. Okay, so what does this have to do with that? Researchers at Harvard looked at the associations between various protein intakes with ovarian antropholical counts among women having trouble getting pregnant. Even though a diminished ovarian reserve is one of the major causes of female infertility, the process leading to reproductive deterioration with age is still poorly understood. In light of women delaying pregnancy until older age, the identification of reversible factors that may affect the individual decline might be of significant clinical value. So they did ultrasounds on all the women and studied their diets, and concluded that higher dairy protein intake was associated with lower antropholical counts. In other words, accelerated ovarian aging. Here's what the graph looked like in non-smokers. Significantly lower ovarian reserve at the highest dairy intake, which would be like three ounces of cheese a day compared to the lowest dairy intake. Okay, but what these numbers mean in terms of biological age 16.9 down to 12.7, really? That much of a difference? If you look at women with really robust ovaries, a follicle count of 16.9 would be like what you might see in a 36 or 37 year old. Whereas 12.7, what you see in women eating the most dairy is like what you would see in a really fertile 50 year old. So we're talking years worth of ovarian aging between the highest and lowest dairy consumers. Well it wasn't possible for the researchers to identify the underlying mechanism linking higher dairy protein intake with lower follicle count. Several educated guesses. One, it could be the steroid hormones and growth factors. Two, the contamination of milk products with pesticides and endocrine disrupting chemicals that may negatively affect the development of these ovarian follicles and egg competence. Regarding the hormones, studies suggest that commercial milk derived from both pregnant and non-pregnant animals contains large amounts of estrogens, progesterone, and other placental hormones that are eventually released into the human food chain, with dairy intake accounting for 60 to 80% of the estrogens consumed as I mentioned before. Dairy estrogens survive processing, appear both in raw and commercial milk products are found in substantially higher concentrations with increasing amounts of milk fat with no apparent difference between organic and conventional dairy products. It's important to realize. It's not just cows that have been injected with growth hormones. These hormones are just in their bodies naturally. And once inside the human body, these bovine hormones get converted to estrone and estradiol, the main active human estrogens. And following absorption, bovine steroids may then affect reproductive outcomes. It's imperative that further studies are designed to clarify the biology underlying the observed associations. This might be crucial given that consumption of another species milked by humans is an evolutionarily novel dietary behavior that is the potential to alter reproductive parameters and may have long-term adverse health effects.


Oh, nice and cool here. Keeps you awake, yeah. Hey, folks, how's everybody doing? Hello? Hello? Hey, interwebs. Good afternoon, everyone. OK, everyone. Get ready. For those of you watching online or listening on Intune, please get your questions in the queue. It's hashtag FMC12. Jean's last presentation certainly was very relevant in light of earlier discussions on collective licensing and collective bargaining. And this conversation, too, is very relevant on some of the free speech issues that's cropped up earlier with Senator Wyden. One of my absolute favorite things about the Future of Music Coalition is our ability to be nimble in our programming and to be able to present conversations with really intelligent people that address issues often before they really hit the general public and certainly the academic community in the broadest sense. Future Music Coalition is pleased to present this groundbreaking panel and the first of its kind. And it's only the beginning of many more and for many years to follow. So here's why Pussy Riot matters. Music is a vehicle for expression and oftentimes throughout history that expression has taken the form of protest. Take, for example, the case of Pussy Riot, the Russian punk band that grabbed headlines around the world following a 45-second performance in the Temple of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Whoops. Maybe Christ is saying something. When members of the Pussy Riot Collective were imprisoned in later sentience to two years in a labor colony, other artists, specifically and namely musicians, including Bjork, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yoko Ono, just to name a few, rallied to their defense. This case brings up a lot of issues, in particular free speech, human rights, feminism, and confrontational art in a networked world. So here to help us think through the implications is an amazing panel, including Molly Newman, Vice President of Label Relations for E-Music, who's joining us from New York, Dr. Mark Yafi, author of Rock and Roll in Nationalism, Curator of the International Counterculture Archive at George Washington University, musician Blue S. Moon, artist, writer, activist, Amy Klein, and our moderator, Lindsay Zolads, who's a freelance writer and pitchfork contributing editor. So ladies and gentlemen, here's why Pussy Riot matters. Thank you. And like Lyssa said, I'm so excited that this is the first panel of its kind on Pussy Riot, and I think we're all honored to be a part of it. You did a good job of sort of introducing why this issue matters to the future of music, so I don't wanna waste any more time with the context because I think we have some really fascinating perspectives to share. And I was thinking earlier, I was listening to Thomas Franks' remarks about he kept using this phrase adversarial art, which I think is something that's so rare in global culture these days, and I think something about the Pussy Riot protest that resonated so much in the West was it was this perfect example of adversarial art and what that looks like in 2012. So I'm excited to keep talking about that with this panel. So I wanna first field a question to you, Mark, because you've done a lot of really fascinating work on looking at Russian countercultures in the past couple decades, but particularly post-Soviet. So if you could maybe, first of all, put this into context a little bit and the charges against Pussy Riot were hooliganism based on religious hatred, and hooliganism in Russia carries a very historic context. So if you could maybe speak a little bit about that and put this into context a bit for us. Yes, well, it will take probably many years to sort out what really happened and what Pussy Riot really is. Is it punk band? Is it art collective or is it both or it's neither? But the resonance of their 45 second performance at the Temple of Christ the Saviour is tremendous inside of Russia and outside as far as United States. But Pussy Riot doesn't happen out of the blue but comes out of, well, actually historically, anthropologically speaking, from ancient Russian tradition of religious hooliganism that is known as Russian or Byzantine tradition of holy fools.  And one of the historical elements that Pussy Riot members were very much aware of was usage of absurdist, obscene hooligan and satirical, parodic, ironic idioms in their action. So Pussy Riot is, in Russian mind, Pussy Riot is inseparable from the satirical, humorous tradition of Russian counterculture from which they grew out from. What is new about them is not even their humor because this kind of humor is known in the history of Russian counterculture but what is new about them is the generational thing and the gender thing because until Pussy Riot, Russian counterculture, which is old and venerable and has done many heroic things, was entirely male-dominated and then something happened in this century with the people of Pussy Riot's generation that is the ones that grew informed after Soviet Union. Something happened, something that harkens back to 20 years, probably back to the traditions of American feminist Iraq, punk rock. And I think that's a good segue to, I wanna bring Molly Newman into the conversation too. Who was a sort of founding member of the Riot Girl movement with her band Bratmobile back in the early 90s and in addition to, I think it was sort of lost on Western audiences that Pussy Riot were riffing on this idea of the holy fool and a history of absurdism and humor in Russian satire, but the signifiers that really translated over here was that they were calling upon the imagery of the Riot Girl movement. So I wanna talk to Molly a little bit about that.  I wanna ask sort of a two-part question of you. What was it like when this case first came to your attention and these women in interviews were citing the Riot Girl movement as a source of inspiration in this work that you've done about 20 years ago now, what did it feel like to sort of see that enlivened in this new context? And also what are the differences, both cultural and in the way that media is used by each of these radical collectives? If you could just speak to that. So the first part, and you can hear me okay? Yeah, we can. Okay, the first part, I mean, it felt, certainly, I mean, I don't know, flattering is the right word necessarily, but certainly gratifying. But also, I mean, at the same time, what was happening to them was certainly shocking. And I think Mark hopefully will speak a little bit to, again, to the context of how this is happening within Russian and Russian culture and the Western view of how it was perceived. I think sometimes we had to keep ourselves and check a little bit because our values and assumptions about freedom and liberty and what's available to us as humans is perhaps there's a different construct. So I tried to look at what they were doing for what it was and how brave it was. And certainly felt, in thinking back in context in comparison to the work that we did and starting our bands and the messages that we were talking about, we never were necessarily concerned with going to jail for how we were, for the things that we were saying and the fact that they almost knew that they would be put in jail, that they were taking that risk was something that I think caused me to reflect quite a bit. Thanks, and yeah, I think that another aspect of this that is so interesting, Amy, maybe you can speak to this. Amy's done a lot of organizing as the founding member of the Permanent Weave Feminist Collective. So you're sort of bringing the current state of DIY and grassroots feminist organizing and the impact that this had on Pussy Riot or that Pussy Riot had in that context. So maybe if you could just speak a little bit about that. Yeah, so I wanna talk in a kind of personal way about my experiences, organizing and working with others to organize actions in support of Pussy Riot. I'm a member of Permanent Weave, which is a series of linked feminist collectives that focus on encouraging women to participate and collaborate in activism and the arts. So in the New York City group, we received a message from a member of Pussy Riot's International Legal Defense Team, which is a man who was in communication with Pussy Riot's lawyers.  Can you do something in the United States to support Pussy Riot? So what we thought to do initially was to have benefit shows. We actually, the first benefit show featured ad rock from the Beastie Boys, which was a huge deal. It was the most high profile thing that I've ever done or that I've ever been involved in. It definitely was for the group. And so the benefit show for Pussy Riot, featuring ad rock, generated a lot of media attention. It was the first time that the case was mentioned in The Guardian and the benefit show led to the case of Pussy Riot being mentioned in Rolling Stone and Spin and magazines like this. So it really got a fair amount of media attention. There were other less high profile benefit shows that we did after and the Permanent Wape Boston did one. So yeah, it was really interesting that the effect that people, seemed to have, the effect that the case had on women my age where we heard as a group Pussy Riot needs help and immediately people mobilized to help them. That was really an interesting experience. People felt like this was something we could come together about. After the Pussy Riot case, actually the concepts that we've been thinking about led to a lot of discussion and introspection among members of the group. I think one of the things that came to our attention was like how, in what ways this case was similar and different to issues of feminism at home. People, I think, thought it was important and yeah, as a group we thought it was important to talk about people who are incarcerated in the United States wrongfully. And around the same time that the Pussy Riot case was happening, a transgender woman of color named Cece McDonald was also wrongfully incarcerated. This was a situation in which a transgender woman was defending herself against a hate crime and was imprisoned for murder for two years which is the same length of time that Pussy Riot got. So one of the things that we started thinking about as a group of feminists was what kinds of issues get major media attention when people are incarcerated. What stories of incarceration are played up in which ones are sometimes overlooked? I mean, overall, this was in a personal way I think an important moment where a lot of young feminists realized the importance of race within feminism, within feminism, the importance of respecting and paying attention to differences that exist in America and how things don't necessarily translate directly from Russia to America in the same context. So I mean, after having done something very public as kind of activism that was public with these benefits shows a lot of feminism that I'm doing now and I think other members of the group are doing now has to do with more introspective consciousness raising and discussion which I think is equally important that there are big moments where people put on public displays but then there's also a lot of thinking and work that needs to go on if we wanna move feminism forward. I think one of the things that you could see as a weakness of punk rock feminism as it's been viewed by our society or as people tend to think of it is that people see punk rock feminism as something that focuses on the experiences of white women and I think that needs to change if we are gonna continue to work with punk rock feminism and if it's gonna be a useful or valuable thing to work with here in America in the future. Yeah. And you brought up a ton of good points there but I wanna sort of zero in on one that you mentioned a while ago that I think something that we saw reported on in this case too is that there was such a disparity between the way that this case was perceived in the West and the way that a lot of like you mentioned ad rock for example coming out and vocalizing his support. There were so many celebrities in American culture and in Western culture who were Madonna wrote free pussy riot on her back at a concert and that was a very iconic image here but that was so different from the way that this case was perceived in Russia. So there becomes a question of how do we reconcile this? How do you consciously support this in a country where I can stand up here at this podium and say pussy to y'all like that's free speech and that is great but how I think it brought up a lot of questions like you were saying of how we can support this in a way that keeps our privilege in check. So open question to anybody but Mark this might be something that you can speak to of just the disparity between how this case was perceived in the West and what to your knowledge how what do people in Russia actually think about pussy riot? Well the whole notion of reception and perception of pussy riot both in Russia and in the West kind of bewilders me because of what happened in terms of reception and perception here didn't follow any expected patterns. For instance, speaking of Russian artistic community there was immediate schism between some avant-garde and performance art and rock musicians who supported pussy riot vehemently to a great extent in dangering themselves. The same goes to a number of prominent artists, writers, journalists and film directors in Russia.  For phrasing it not necessarily the way putinistas did that they have to be punished with jail term but at least they have to be taken outside and have their pants taken down and publicly whipped or there was a lot of talk of physical punishment even metaphorically which I and many of my colleagues find absolutely disgusting.  When you whip someone you undress them. So there was this voyeuristic desire. Then there was of course the simple folk in the street that were very divided babushkas.  But there was lots of nevertheless a public demagoguery about how offensive to religious spirit that performance was. To which, to my astonishment I just found out today American feminist establishment personified to some degree by Camille Parry signed up to entirely speaking absurdities about how she empathizes with Russian believers that were offended by pussy riot. Excuse me Camille.  Yeah. Then what happened in the West?  I mean, there's Madonna, there's Sting.   But very many, both in the West and in Russia very many complained about pussy riots lack of artistic value in their music. Well, if that was a good music, I would support them. But since this is this garbage homemade DIY punk I cannot support it. And I cannot lend my honorable name to the cause, insane. But luckily we Americans have a lot of experience with sloppy DIY punk and have a sort of grassroots infrastructure now of people who will kind of come around a cause like this in blue. I know you've done some activist work related to this as well. Cause, you know, Mark you were speaking about more of the mainstream feminist and mainstream intelligentsia. Even in America not really coalescing around this issue. But I think that there was, as Amy was speaking to a huge just a groundswell of feminist support for this issue and a lot from younger women too. So if you could maybe speak to that blue and like what, how you see this sort of impacting a future generation of activists and feminists. I think that this was quite interesting to find out about and learn more about especially. And I think for the younger generation or even, you know, my generation just noticing how this was like a moment of women showing that they can be brave and stand up for whatever they believe in no matter what the consequences are even if it's to go to prison or whatever they still, you know, got to have a voice and do something about it. And you know, I also volunteer for Girls Rock and I think that's one of the things that we also teach within Girls Rock and, you know, this is a camp for girls from the age of eight to 18. And, you know, they learn a ton of things but one of the main things that they learn is to be proud of who they are and that they have a voice and everyone deserves to hear it no matter what. So I think even seeing this it's also just another example is, you know, despite what may come from what you're doing if you believe in what you're doing and it means enough to you then you can make people listen to you by any means necessary, you know what I mean? And in this particular instance there was no violence that no one was hurt or anything it's just them saying, listen, we matter this is what we want heard and this is what we're gonna do and I think that within itself is, you know, beyond powerful, you know, it's like this is what I'm gonna do and if this is the consequences that's fine too I'm not gonna be hushed I'm not gonna be ignored and, you know, I matter so I think that's great, you know? So I'm gonna go on. And so much of, you know, a huge factor obviously in this story is the role that the internet played and, you know, we've been talking all day about these shifting ideas of music in the digital age and new emerging platforms and this is, you know, a central component to this story and I think it's really something that we can look to to see the ways that the internet really can be used for social change in a way that people had not really seen before. So, and I, we were discussing this earlier but I've been really fascinated to read things about the role that memes played in this current election and I read something that said this was the first meme election which I think is so true you saw the binder's full of women and the big bird out of Mitt Romney's mouth like all of that sort of again coalescing into this internet phenomenon but in a way I think Pussy Riot were a meme too and I mean that in a good and a bad way and that they were able to tap into this very visual visceral image and transmit that but, you know, I think we also see now that the benefits that you get of being a meme is that a lot of people will pay attention for a very short amount of time and then there is sort of a crest of that wave. So I wanna, and this is open to anybody who wants to jump on this but, you know, what can we learn about the good and the bad of using social media and digital platforms to kind of get this sort of a message across? I saw you like opening your mouth, Amy so I don't know if you, not to put you on the spot. Okay, I mean, one thing that is interesting about Pussy Riot is that visually, I mean, they had a complete package with the music, the message and the costumes that made them so shareable and like a musical level. Yeah, right, they were, for those who don't know, they wear a full balaclava so you can't tell who they are and they wear bright colored clothing but the point is like their identities are pretty obscure and it was a big deal when certain members were found and revealed. Anyway, I think like the mask element was very interesting because part of the point was that anyone could put on the mask and anyone could be Pussy Riot and they were talking about that a lot in their messaging, you are all Pussy Riot, we are all Pussy Riot, became something and there's a little bit like the social media aspect of it where anybody could share Pussy Riot and there were people putting on the mask and taking a photo and uploading it, the photo of themself and then all of a sudden there were pictures of Pussy Rioters all over the world and all over the internet so I mean, that's a real meme situation and it was interesting, I mean that's a very like occupy era kind of philosophy, like there's no leader, you can do this too, anybody's a part of the movement, that's a very social media kind of 21st century way of branding and messaging and it was very effective like in terms of the organizing work that I did, there was an older woman who was interested in organizing around women's right to contraception this summer when there was a lot of really damaging rhetoric about women in the presidential election and every other thing out of somebody's mouth was what's legitimate rape or something about women don't deserve birth control so I mean, people were really mad and so I met an older woman who was saying why don't younger women wear Pussy Riot masks and start having Pussy Riots about the issues that matter to us in America like birth control and our rights because I think this summer was a particular time when young women felt Planned Parenthood is being cut and the rights we took for granted are taken away, there was a lot of anger and Pussy Riot tapped into that sentiment and because it was something that anyone could do conceivably you know all you needed to cut some eye holes out of a hat and you got a balaclava, it was very interesting of course the downside of a meme is that I mean once you hit mainstream media and you're on the front page of a lot of publications then it becomes a trend and it's not really a social movement anymore it's the hot button issue and then after a while it's replaced by the next trend so I mean now most people are not talking about Pussy Riot even though Pussy Riot members are still in jail although we're talking about it now that's true because I if I could just interject I think it's the same media cycle that I don't think that the internet necessarily you know makes those conversations more superficial or shallow or anything like that I think it just speeds that cycle up you know I think that any interest or any case like this and story like this people the interest crest and it always has and that's always the way that the media has worked but you know it comes in these flashes now and I think that is the big difference and it makes me wonder and Molly might be able to speak to this particularly about anyone who wants to jump in you know is how do we kind of get beyond like how do we tap into that really visceral flash of you know energy that like you were saying Amy that I think a lot of young feminists felt over the summer but now that you know we're kind of in this post election I think like a lot of women are feeling pretty good about the way things went how do we kind of tap into that and not fall into complacency and what might this story tell us about how to do that? Oh Molly if you not to put you on the spot now I'm not sure I have a nice clean answer necessarily to the question I mean I think because I think it's a big expectation to you know have for any one you know situation to sort of invigorate or reinvigorate one thing to with you know I guess like I said a clear expectation of it but I think that it has generated enough conversation around the term feminism and the idea of young women in mass culture again having you know seeing calling themselves feminists and the energy that they've been able to generate I think is something that you know obviously there are many women in many parts of arts and creativity making music and you know Blue mentioned the girls rock camps I mean those are some things that are you know tremendously exciting to someone who you know 25 years ago could only have dreamed of having something along those lines I mean it was actually unfathomable so I think that this sort of energy and reintroduction into a wider conversation of you know feminist acceptance and energy associated with music is something that hopefully there's a way for that to resonate and continue on I just don't know necessarily about what you should what we should expect of it necessarily because I think I've always believed personally that any action and any creativity and any sort of momentum is something positive and you know 20 years after I started my band that I'm still for some reason you know my opinion now is still requested on topics like this is something that I wouldn't have imagined then either but that's been my personal philosophy is to keep making work keep doing what you can and still and remain connected and then hopefully that will transcend and continue to inspire and generate more energy and momentum is that sort of answer your question? Yeah it was a tall order it was a big sort of utopian but we're actually going to move to questions now because I want to make sure we have time for that any questions? Nobody wants to say the word pussy into the mic I thought that was going to be like the galvanizing force here A lot of people have liked saying that though that you can certainly tell Yeah I think we have a question up here I just wanted to know like what would the whole puppet behind Pussy Riot and their movement? Could you repeat the question? I just want to know the whole movement behind Pussy Riot here in the US and also in Russia So just a quick Let me just say a few words where they came from in Russia Back in 2008 there started Botan Moscow and in St. Petersburg an art collective of guerrilla artists engaged in extreme public art called Vaina, that means the war The name itself speaks for itself and they started with the bank literally with an orgy that occurred at the Museum of the Zalzological Museum of Moscow State University celebrating President Medvedev's coming to power in 2008 Well after that and the two of the Pussy Riot members were the founding members of that art collective but these two founding members were the most radical ones that agreed to go to jail and therefore they splintered from their mother group That's the history I can make a really quick comment too that something you had mentioned because I think looking at this in terms of the internet cycle doesn't tell the whole story here because as we said this is the first panel where this is happening and Mark, something you had mentioned earlier in the green room that I thought was interesting is that it's sort of moving through this phase if once the mainstream media gets tired of the story or doesn't see a new angle to report on anymore this is moving sort of to the academic realm now and I think you mentioned that there you're going to I think a Slavic Studies conference where there's also going to be a whole panel on Pussy Riot and you said this will spawn many, many a dissertation for many years to come so again I think that this conversation still has a lot of life in it even if it's not a trending topic on Twitter anymore I don't think the conversation is over here so any more questions out there? I'm curious about the more general sort of counter-culture and unrest happening in Russia which started with the idea that the election was thrown and went through sort of public outcry and that sort of stuff and then at one point took the form of little dolls as protests and then to Pussy Riot and I'm wondering if there's a fatigue maybe they just have gotten tired of getting arrested maybe? Well in regards to Russian protest movement in general outside of guerrilla artists such as Vaina and Pussy Riot the movement as such is pathetic it's laughable it consists mostly of overeducated overpaid urbanites and they can't gather a crowd larger than 30,000 Yappies in downtown Moscow and it usually looks like a fashion show so we can't seriously speak yet about social movement per se. There is no reputable sizable parties that can't test and there is no organizations of any sort that represent dissent it is left to Russia's youth that 22 year old wants to decide this problem because they are the ones who grew up without Soviet indictrination. They are absolutely free people like Pussy Riot have proved it. They are not brainwashed they are fresh they are smart, they are extremely well educated and they are extremely knowledgeable people about media and social media in particular Pussy Riot would not exist if they did not have in mind social media. They created themselves for social media so it is all in the future it's a hopeful note to end on I think yeah well thank you so much. This is a really exciting discussion to have been yeah thanks thank you


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regular meeting of the 2021 Council to order. Would the clerk please read the quote for the day. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. What you do has far greater impact than what you say. Thank you very much. Would the clerk then please call the role? All the person born? Here. All the person down at you? Here. All the person Feldy? Here. All the person Ackley? Here. All the person Phillips? Here. All the person Decker? Here. All the person Sorensen? Here. All the person Savaglio? Present. All the person Felicky Paneski? All the person Felicky Paneski? No. Okay. All the person Mitchell? Here. There are nine present. All the person Felicky Paneski is excused. Hopefully, we'll see her in a few minutes. Next item is the Pledge of Allegiance. If those in the Council chambers would please recite that. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Next we'll go on to approval of the minutes from our 15th regular Council meeting which was held on November 2nd. All the person Sorensen? Thank you, Mayor. I move to approve the minutes from our previous meeting. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes. City Clerk, do we have anyone for public forum tonight? There is no one this evening. Okay. Next we'll go on with Mayor's announcements. I'd like to ask Jane Davis-Wood to come to the podium and Todd Wolf, if you could join her there. I've got a proclamation to read and Todd will then present it to her. The proclamation is whereas the government of Sheboygan, Wisconsin celebrates our local small businesses and the contributions that they make to our local economy and our community. And according to the United States Small Business Administration, there are currently 28.8 million small businesses in the United States. They represent 99.7 of all the businesses with employees in the United States and are responsible for 63% of the net new jobs created over the past 20 years. And whereas small businesses employ over 49% of all businesses with employees in the United States and whereas 89% of the customers in the United States agree that small businesses contribute positively to the local economy by supplying jobs and generating tax revenue. And whereas 93% of the consumers in the United States agree that small businesses are critical to the overall economic health of our country. And whereas Sheboygan supports our local businesses that create jobs, boost our local economy and preserve our neighborhoods. And whereas advocacy groups as well as public and private organizations across the country have endorsed the Saturday after Thanksgiving as Small Business Saturday. Now, therefore, I, Mike Van der Steen, Mayor of the City of Sheboygan do hereby proclaim November 28th, the Small Business Saturday and urge our residents to in our communities across the country to support small businesses and merchants on Small Business Saturday throughout the year. And I'd like to offer Jane Davis Wood, who's here representing the Heart of the Hometown Small Business Group, as well as our Business Improvement District in our downtown and Harbor Center. Jane, do you have a few words you'd like to say? Yes, Mayor. Thank you. First of all, thank you for the proclamation. It's really exciting. And thank you very much. We are the Heart of the Hometown. This is Jody from Board and Brush. And Jody and a few other of the leading store owners downtown got together to form this group to encourage people to stay local this year, especially on Small Business Saturday. So we've banded together and our group is called Heart of the Hometown. And we are doing ads and we'd like to formally thank the Harbor Center bid for help funding this project. And the city, thank you for your support for the additional advertising and mentioning of us in your newsletters and getting people more interested in staying downtown. There is a saying out there. It's buy local, B-U-Y, or buy buy local. So we would really like everyone to come and support us. We have, it's very important that you do the dollar stay here. We are the ones who are supporting most of the walk-in charities of the city, baseball teams, and various fundraisers for health and wellness. And if we aren't here, that money goes away. You know, so also the every dollar you spend in our store stays in the city of Sheboygan or the area for at least five rounds of people touching it before it leaves. So we are community constantly creating revenue for our area. So thank you for considering and tell all you friends that you can go to our website, Heart of the Home, Heart of the Hometown, and come on down and see us. There'll be a lot of activities, fun things, giveaways, goodie bags, and it's worth your time. Do you have anything to say? I think you covered it all. Okay, thank you again. Thank you. And we also want to advise everyone that Sheboygan Metro Transit is providing free bus rides all day on Black Friday, and then there's free parking in downtown on both Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. So hopefully you can take advantage of that. Our curbside leaf collection continues through this Friday, November 20th, and residents are allowed to rake leaves into the street gutters. And there'll be one day each week that they go through different areas of the city to finish up the leaf cleaning. I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Please note that City Hall offices will be closed both Thursday and Friday, November 26th and 27th. And we also want to invite people who are looking for a Thanksgiving dinner to consider going. There's a free traditional holiday meal that'll be served from 11 o'clock till 2 o'clock on Thanksgiving. It'll be curbside pickup only. No reservations are required. It's a non-denominational event. Just pull up and tell them how many meals you need and they'll be brought to your car. And you want to go to the Immaculate Conception Church and Christ Child Academy building on 2722 Henry Street. I also want to make people aware that the city is having a public input session on the JC Park Master Plan that's being drawn up. That'll take place on Tuesday, November 17th. The meeting starts at 4.30. It'll be broadcast on WSES Live. And if you'd like to participate in the meeting, see the meeting notice so that you can get the link to the go-to-meeting link for that. And I also want to let people know that our Visit Sheboygan office is now open. It's in a new space on A Street. Just before you go across the Sheboygan Bridge, just on the north side of the Sheboygan River. And we have a new retail area that features a lot of Sheboygan merchandise. You may want to look at some of that for your gift giving during the holiday season.  Sheboygan County will continue to have community testing through the Wisconsin National Guard on Wednesdays and Fridays at the Sheboygan County Aging and Disability Resource parking lot in Sheboygan Falls through December 9th. There will be no testing, however, on Friday, November 27th for the Thanksgiving holiday. It's strongly recommended that you register ahead of time via the COVID-19 Wisconsin Connect website. Registration does not give you an appointment time, but it speeds up the process at the testing site and prevents potential data entry error. Testing is on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 450 individuals for the day. And usually we haven't reached that amount. I just want to update some of the numbers today over the weekend. Our positive case count grew by 110. It's now at 7,225. We have 2,199 active cases, and that's down from Friday. It's down 262 cases. Over 4,983 people have recovered. That's up 372 over the weekend. And the deaths remained at 43 over the weekend. And we have 32 individuals that are currently hospitalized, and our negative case count is up to 33,783. Governor Evers recently issued the executive order number 94 that urged that Wisconsin residents should take precautionary measures during the surge of COVID-19 cases in the state of Wisconsin. Sheboygan currently has experienced a very high level of COVID-19 and significant spread throughout our county. In the last few weeks, we were regularly seeing 100 to 200 new cases per day and are now over 40 deaths. Disorder is in alignment with the recommendations of the Sheboygan County Public Health Department, and it stresses the importance to stay at home as much as possible, only make trips when necessary, such as going to work and picking up groceries or filling prescriptions. Only leave your homes for essential activities, also like school grocery shopping, and do not hold gatherings with anyone outside your immediate household and avoid all in a nonessential travel and do not gather in person with friends and extended family members on holidays such as the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Standing local recommendations include the physically distance at least six feet from the people whom you do not live with to wear a cloth, a mask, wash your hands frequently with soap and water, or use hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.  Cooperate with public health officials if you've tested positive and had a close contact. Businesses and community organizations should use the WEDC guidelines when possible and encourage remote work opportunities to support physical distancing. Retail, hospitality and restaurant bars need to encourage curbside pickup and delivery option, require mask face coverings of staff and customers, limit capacity within nonessential business bars and restaurants to 25%. Community and large gatherings are not recommended at this time as such sporting events, weddings, reunions, or celebrations that bring large numbers of people together. Avoid unnecessary activities and travel within the community that puts you in contact with others. Cheboygan has really reached a critical point in the surge of the COVID-19 and this new advisory is a multifaceted comprehensive effort to stop the virus in its tracks. The gains that we've made in the past year have been the result of our willingness to work together. Even in this difficult time, we will continue tonight as unite as we always have for our city in order to help the rise that we're seeing. And let's shake out of the fatigue that we've been experiencing and make a critical difference in stopping the coronavirus. Thank you very much. Mayor, this is Alderman Bourne. Yes, Alderman Bourne. I didn't know if you were going to do it yet, but I wanted to just take a moment and thank Meredith De Bruun and the staff in her office, her team, and all of the poll workers that worked on election day. I want to thank Meredith and her team in the office for conducting this election in very trying circumstances and also thank the poll, again, thank the poll workers that came out. Join me and give Meredith and her hand, please. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Alderman Bourne. Well, is that Meredith? I said, thank you. Thank you. Next, we'll move on the consent agenda. Alderperson Sarnsons. Thank you, Mayor. I move to receive all our O's, receive all our C's and adopt all resolutions and ordinances. Seconds. Thank you for that motion and support. That includes items two point through through two point six. Is there any discussion on those items? Alderperson. Is there any discussion? Roberta has a question. Please go ahead, Roberta. Thank you. Two point two and two point three are tax bills from the county and the Sheboygan area school district. Once again, are those millions of dollars their budget that shows up on our tax bills, but we don't make the budget. It just shows up on our tax bills. Yes, that's correct. They are following the notice that's necessary to give the taxpayers within their taxing jurisdiction notice that that they put their budget together just as we did at our last meeting. And, you know, this all this money is collected by the Sheboygan County treasure, and then it's dispersed to the different municipal entities after the taxes are all collected. So the county collects all the taxes for all the entities. And if I'm a city of Sheboygan homeowner, I get the tax bill, but it's not all my city tax. That's correct. Thank you. Is there any other discussion? Yeah, if you do want to raise your hand, just please speak up. Can't see anything tonight other than what's on the zoom. All those and we're going to have to call the roll on the consent agenda. All the person flicky ears, your name is not coming up. How do you vote? Thank you. There's 10 eyes. Motion passes. Next move on to report of officers that'll include items 3.1 and 3.2 and those will lie over under 3.3 and 3.5 will be referred to the finance and personnel committee under resolutions. Item 4.1 is resolution number 126 by Alderperson Sorenson, authorizing and entering into an employee leasing our agreement with Gov Temp, USA, LLC for finance consultant Alderperson Sorenson. Thanks, Mayor. I ask for the suspension of the rules. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed. Thanks, Mayor. I move to adopt the resolution. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? I have a couple questions, Mayor. This is Alderman Sorenson. Please go ahead. Alderperson Sorenson. Thank you, Mayor. I hope I can direct these questions to our city administrator, Todd Wolfe. Todd, I had a chance to review the contract and I don't have any issues with the contract per se. It's pretty well laid out. I guess one thing that I possibly was looking for more on the contract or maybe you can explain to us is, first of all, what do you anticipate the duties of this person to be? And then second of all, with a person coming in from the outside, can you kind of cover what this person's authority will be as far as making changes in the department and also the employee, the existing city employees that we have that are working in the finance department? Are they going to know what, how this person is going to work with them, where the buck stops per se, that type of thing? Thank you. Well, thank you, Alderborn. Administrator Wolfe. Thank you, Alderborn. I will try to answer those questions. If I miss one, please let me know. First and foremost, Daniela will be working very closely with me and with our deputy, Tara. And we will be working to continue the goals and basically the plans that we've set forward for 2020 and 2021. Basically, Daniela will be overseeing the department and the functions and functionality to helping to assist us in making sure that we achieve the goals of our munis upgrade. We have our tax season coming up right now. And then we have our munis upgrade that will be completed by the end of February. And then we go into our actual tax audit. So we're anticipating that we will have quite a few months while we're doing a search for the replacement of this position. I will be taking the responsibility in the meantime with Tara as far as any approvals and responsibilities that the finance director had prior. And I will be working with Daniela on basically the processes and functionality of the department. And she will be overseeing the operation of it in the meantime. Does that help you? Yes, it does. But then if she has, as she's working with the employees in the finance department and making suggestions, will those suggestions go through you and Tara or will they go directly to the employees? And are the employees going to be made well aware of where she fits in the equation? Daniela and Tara will be working with me. And basically what will happen is Daniela will be overseeing with Tara the overall operations of the department. I will be working with Daniela and Tara on a day-to-day basis. But the employees are all already aware of the protocol as far as the daily operations. Thank you. That's helpful, Todd. Thank you, Mayor. Go ahead. All the person Sarnson. Thank you. I do just want to speak on this item as well, too. I do want to thank a minister to Wolf for putting this together. I know I think we all know that our finance department has had a lot of challenges over the last few years. While this is a difficult position we're in right now, I do think that this is a great step for us to move forward and address a lot of the challenges that our finance department has made. So I would encourage and I hope that all the other elders vote in favor of this and support this item as well. Thank you. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none, then I'd ask the clerk to please call the roll. Ten ayes. Motion passes. 4.2 through 4.9. Those items will all be referred to various committees. Under reports of committees, item 5.1 is RC number 187 of 2021 by the Public Works Committee. Tumor is referred, RO number 97 of 2021 by the city clerk's meeting. Communication from Michael Thomas, president of the Black American Community Outreach regarding the Juneteenth Day celebration. It recommends Common Council instructs staff to prepare the appropriate document to waive the park rental fee for the Juneteenth Day celebration. Alderperson Decker. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to send it back to Public Works Committee for additional information and clarification. Second. Lauren. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on that motion? Seeing none, the clerk please call the roll for referring it back to committee. Who was the second on that? Is that Boren? Boren. Thank you. Ten ayes. Motion passes. Under general ordinances, item 6.1 and 2 will be referred to various committees and under matters laid over, item 7.1 is resolution number 115 of 2021 by Alderperson Phillips, officially recognizing the Franklin Park Neighborhood Association. Alderperson Phillips, need a motion to pass resolution 115. Move the resolutions. Second. Very good. Motion's on the floor and then there's an amendment needed. Alderperson Phillips, are you ready with that? Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I would like to move to amend the resolution. In the fifth letter as clause, so as to replace the word Georgia Avenue with the word Broadway Avenue. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Second. Very good. Is there any discussion on the amendment? Seeing none, all those in favor of the amendment is presented. Please signify by seeing aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Very good. The amendment passes. So now we're discussing the resolution as amended. Is there any further discussion on this? I would just like to take this opportunity to thank Cheboyga Neighborhood Pride and Penny Weber for their work in getting the Franklin Park Neighborhood Association to take this step to become a full association. And this is our 12th neighborhood association. And so we've come quite a long way and we're happy to bring them into the fold. With that, I'd ask the clerk to please call the roll. Ten ayes. Motion passes. Next we'll move on to other matters authorized by law. Call on city attorney Charles Adams. We have one other matter. 8.1 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31, 2021 and June 30, 2020. That'll be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee. Thank you. Next we have a contemplated closed session. All the person sorenson. Thank you, mayor. I move to convene in closed session under the exemption provided in Wisconsin State Statutes 19.851C considering employment promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility for and to discuss the regarding resignation of the director of finance and evaluation of his work as finance director. It impacts the future of the city. Second. Thank you for that motion and support with the clerk. Please call the roll for closed session. Ten ayes. Motion passes. We'll take a three minute recess to convene in closed session. And I'd advise the viewers tonight that this will end our transmission for this evening of the council meeting. We will be adjourning in closed session. Thank you very much.