It sure seems like coming up with names for NES games must have been the easiest job ever, like, hey what do we call this one? Well, what's in it? I dunno, some swords and serpents and spiders and giant bats and zombies and nah, we'll just stick with some swords and serpents I guess.  Just to drive the point home further, there's another game on Intellivision with the same name but it's got nothing to do with the NES title. And yeah, the story of Swords and Serpents actually has to do with a serpent that brought terror to this land for hundreds of years, and for a well-to-do folks band together to try and put an end to it, but you gotta navigate a series of gigantic mazes first. Your party consists of Ajax, who's apparently Peter Steele cosplaying as Tarzan, this gal Aron who has the same face as the woman from Law & Order SVU, you got Mask, a thief from the city who's just in it for the money, and a wizard named Iago. The serpent torments his dream, so he's gotta put an end to that nonsense. The thing is though, the game itself never mentions serpents, only dragons. Sure whatever. So all that sounds well and good, but unfortunately it's always a bit of an unenviable task to create a playable 8-bit dungeon crawler for NES, let alone a good one. But Swords and Serpents tries its damnedest. For one thing, this game already has one big advantage over its peers, at least on NES, cos unlike titles like Bard's Tale or Might and Magic, Swords and Serpents was made specifically for the NES. It's not a port, and it shows. The user interface is a little easier to use in the combat, alright, the combat's still kinda slow, but the battles are simple and don't take nearly as long as in other home console games like this. As you can see, you control a party of 4, and to start out with, you get to pick which classes they are between Warrior, Thief and Magician. Warriors have higher strength and can wear heavier armor, thieves lack in strength and defense but are adept at landing critical hits, and magicians have the lowest strength and defense but can cast a ton of spells, including a nifty healing spell that you start with. You can also allocate points to determine stats for each party member, just a simple number value that's automatically generated, and hey, if you don't want to bother with any of this and you just want to play the game, you can have a party automatically picked out and set up for you. You have a total of 16 mazes you have to navigate, and as you might expect from a dungeon crawler, they are long. You could easily spend a ton of time in each, and this playthrough could very likely climb up to 7 or 8 hours. You do have a map you can use in the upper right, but it's the old fog of war mechanic where you can't see anything until you've uncovered it yourself. And even then, this map is a wee bit limited, to say the least, and since these mazes are pretty dang big, what's kinda neat is that the manual, which is 60 pages long by the way, includes a section of several pages so you can draw your own mazes. So hey, the people that made this game figured that anyone that would want to play it would know what they're getting themselves into. The combat is really simple, you run into random battles with the maps switching out for enemy health bars, and you have the option to use a physical attack with the A button, cast a spell with one of your magicians with the B button, or to run away. What's interesting here is that when you press A for an attack you can hold down a button on the D pad to do damage to a certain part of the enemy's body, and the further along you play the more you'll learn where enemy vulnerabilities are. Like I said, this game was specifically made for the NES, and stuff like that is a reason why that's important, because it simplifies the combat while keeping it at least a tiny bit engaging. Another positive is that this game is multiplayer, two up to four players, albeit player one, would be the one navigating the maze, but the other players would be controlling their respective party members, so that's cool. The thing is though, well, this is a dungeon crawler on NES, and it still has a ton of limitations. I already touched on the map system, but the menus here as you might expect are slow and extremely cumbersome. Press select, wait a second, press A, wait a second, press A again.  You also have to discard stuff before equipping, as well as trade stuff between party members. Ugh, it's just so annoying. Another major detriment here is the music, and it's not that bad at all, it's just that there's only a few songs. I mean, come on, really?  Also, if you want to play this one in the original cartridge, there is a password system, but you have to input five different passwords to continue your progress, one for each character and one for your overall progress. But it's all pretty pointless since it resets your experience. So yeah, if you're not into 8-bit dungeon crawlers, I don't think swords and serpents will win you over. There's just too much here that hasn't aged well, but if you do like older first-person RPGs like this, then you'll find plenty to enjoy in swords and serpents. I gotta admit, I don't normally like games like this, but I did enjoy some of it, like the simplified combat, I thought the enemies looked cool, and the random battles weren't too grindy. Games like this are obviously made for a specific audience, and well, if you're part of that audience, you'll find a bit to enjoy here, but if you're not part of it, then you should probably avoid this game. Alright, I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


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Hey everybody, this is Brett, and I'm here at Summit Automotive. It is Cyber Monday, so check out our website, which is right there, Summit Auto, oh, right there, summitauto.com. Great deals going on right now. We just marked down, I would say, a third of our used inventory on Friday, so great prices up there at summitauto.com for our used inventory, and right now there's like 17% going on, 17% off going on on Grand Cherokeys, so definitely check those out as well. It is Monday, November 27th, 2023, and this is the lot walk. I know I haven't done it in a couple of weeks, and there's been reasons for that.  So anyways, that's part of the reason, and it's been cold, and we've been working really hard to keep our month going, and we're getting close to our goals, and there's a week left. So if you're in the market for a used or new vehicle, come check us out, like I said, at that website right there, summitauto.com. Let's get right into it. It's going to be a little bit different today. Some of these I don't know, and they're not going to be linked in the description. Just go to our website, find them on there. I don't have time today to do all that, and I didn't have time to prep. Even it's snowed, we got about two inches over the weekend, and it's just kind of hard right now. Anyways, let's get right to it. So this is a very cool 2022 Hyundai Elantra. This is an actual N package, so it comes with the 2-liter turbo, and it's got more horsepower than the typical Elantra. Performance blue is the color on this one, this one only has like 9,000 miles on it, and that is going to be going into the shop today. We have full pictures and descriptions up on that. This is a 2013 or 2014 Ford Escape. This one's got 98,000 miles. It's a titanium, it's got nav, panel roof, and it's in really nice condition for the miles. I got to be careful, I don't slip on the ice here, but this just came in on trade. It's got the 1.6-liter turbo heated seats and four-wheel drive. That is going to be an awesome ride for somebody. Here is a 2023 Jeep Wrangler Willis Edition. It's got either 9,000 or 16,000 miles on it, and it's black. It's got adaptive cruise control and heated seats and everything. This is definitely in its absolutely perfect condition. We just put that into our shop last week. This is a 2000 and I want to say 18 or 19, probably a 20 or something. Let's see, can we see? This is a 2022 Ram 2500. I think this is a Laramie package, it's a Laramie. I think it's got 22,000 miles on it, or maybe 9,000 miles. Painted 20-inch wheels with the night edition 4x4 off-road package and granite crystal is a color on that one. That is in really nice condition. This is a 2013 Chevy Cruze. This is a stick shift, 127,000 miles on that. I don't even know the condition because we just got it in and it's all covered in snow. I've not looked at that one yet, so I will be looking at that soon. This is a 2020 Chevy Tahoe Premier that just came in. This one has right around 60,000 miles. It is in fantastic condition and probably going to do tires on that one. This is a Dodge Durango that we filmed the other day. This is not an RT, but a GT. All-wheel drive, just got through service. We do have to send this one to the body shop to get that passenger side door fixed that's next in line to go to the body shop. This is an absolute gem right here. This is a 2021 Ram 1500 Laramie Level 1 Sport Edition. It's got the 5.7 Hemi without the e-torque. This one only has 9,000 miles. We just took this in on trade. That would probably be my deal of the day right there to get this truck. It's like new inside and out. This is a brand new Ram, I believe that is sold. This is a Ram 3500 that we just took in. I believe this is a Big Horn Level 1. Not sure on the miles. It should be a 21 or a 20 and that's a nice vehicle as well. That one has pictures up on our website. This is a 2013 Dodge Durango Citadel. This thing is fully loaded. It's got 155,000 miles on it. You would not know it by the condition of the vehicle. It is in fantastic condition and really a good looking ride, fully optioned out. HID lights and we just took that in trade. We will be getting pictures of that later today. This is a trade-in. I have no idea what it's for. I don't have keys. I don't know the stock number. I've got to figure that out. This is one that we just got through, 36.9 I think. No. That can't be right, is it? I don't know. I apologize. I don't know what that one is. I think it's 24T4A. Then we got the twin to it right here. This is a diesel. This is going to be in the 40s. I think this one has high miles or is a trade. They're identical. We have one that's 36.9 and one that's not priced yet. It's going to be considerably more. I think it's this one that's considerably—no, this one's 36.9. I can't see it. I think it's a 17. This is a 17 with 110,000 miles on it for 36.9 for a Cummins diesel. That seems like a good deal. I'd do that one. This one's going to be considerably more. It has way less miles. Anyways, this is a 2019 or a 2020 Subaru Outback Touring. This one's got all the fancy gadgets and gizmos on it. It's got the eyesight thing. It's got the retina scanner, the eyesight scanner, whatever, and the brown leather interior. Really a good-looking ride from what I've seen. It's really clean all the way around. I think it's got 20-some thousand miles. I don't even know. It's on the website. This is a trade. I don't know if we're going to keep that. Then we have finance people that park here. Not supposed to. This is a brand-new Wagon-Ear that we just got through for pictures. Those pictures will be up on the website, Wagon-Ear's, definitely number one in luxury in the Jeep lineup, 24J128 is the stock number. We've got a couple new renegades in, a couple vehicles I just got through service. I've got a regular cab, gasser, 3500, the cap on it, that thing's really nice. I've got an RST Tahoe that just got into the shop. I've got a TRX that we're waiting on paperwork on, Laramie Dooley that just got out of the shop, that is an 18, I believe, Ram 2500. Just a bunch of stuff that came in. I've got an Overland with 80-some thousand miles on it. It's going to be a nice ride, Cadillac that just got through. We've got to do dents on that yet. This is a Ram 1500, higher miles, not sure if we're going to keep that one. Got a lifted up Ram 2500, that thing's hot. This is one I just did a video on. This is an 18 with 26,000 miles. That's probably the hottest ram we have on the lot right now. This is a Rebel that we're waiting on a paintless dent repair on. This is a Hyundai Sonata. We took in trade, that one's got 102,222 miles on it. That's going in the shop. This is an 18 Ram 2500. Got to do a little bit of buffing and stuff on it. We've got a lot of stuff. There's Austin, say hi to everybody in YouTube land, Austin. Good morning, it's afternoon, I think. That's a Chevy Silverado. It's got the 6-2 in it, RST. That one just got out of the shop. Like I said, all this stuff's on our website, great deals. We've marked down a ton of stuff on our website, on the used end, and the prices are insane on the Grand Cherokees going through. There's a nice Cadillac Escalade, premium luxury, four-wheel drive, dual Blu-ray, passion red tint coat, it's the color on that one. Anyways, that one came in trade, this RST Tahoe came on trade, and I got a Jeep Compass that came on trade. We sold the Tundra, we sold that Ram, that's wholesale, got a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff going on.  All of our stuff is lifted, all of our stuff is priced to move, and we're going to finish out November strong, and more importantly we're going to finish off 2023 with a bang. Sell a lot of vehicles, and keep them rolling, keep you guys entertained, and thanks for checking out the video, and have a great Monday, finish strong.


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Hi, good morning everyone This session has three presenters myself Amir Leah from Google and Chandan is from Oracle is remotely Chandal Chandan. Are you there? He will show up I'm here. Hi, Chandan We are the three XFS stable maintainers each responsible of a different LTS I do 5.10 Lia does 5.15 and Chandas tank it's care of 5.4 Of course, we're here to present XFS stable maintenance as a case study because you all have similar issues and I was very happy to see that Sasha is here with us today So we're not talking to I'm not preaching to the choir. That's one good thing and I wanted to start by showing retrospective of what happened in stable kernels XFS and stable kernels over the past five years this is a plot of number of Backports per LTS release It's loosely on the time series. It's not exactly. It's on a release number series, but I try to align them as much as I could and We can see some drama going on here, right? And I'm going to talk about what happened Why does this plot look so hectic But you can clearly see that five years ago there was an Okay period for maintaining backports of XFS to stable trees and Around the year zero or whatever that is around the release of 5.10 Zero Things came to a halt So a little bit of history what what happened there actually you can also see if you look closely around year minus 100 you'll see a slowdown in the fire 4.14 backports and also a Little bit of shaky start for 4.19 so around the time there was a little bit of a Another clash between XFS maintainers and the stable tree maintainers Which had the XFS maintainers go You cannot backport stuff without testing properly and testing properly is this and they defined what this means and then Such I had to do some work in order to accommodate the new defined requirements and that was The period of slowing down and at the same time Louise started polishing up K-Devops and they both had a talk about this at LSFMM 2019 and in the start of the 4.19 is there when Louis started to Run tests on K-Devops and porch some post some patches But after that after a while Sasha got his setup He had finished the learning curve Put the FSS to regression testing and autosale was working fine. What happened around the start of 5.10 Combination of a few things. There wasn't any big disputes. There was some in small incident It's mentioned on NWN. There's a link from my talk on stable backports last year to this small incident This small incident actually had to do with linger time for taking patches and this is an issue that just was just discussed and Even Sasha made some changes about lingering patches longer before they go to stable But it wasn't the main issue. The main issue is that Sasha just couldn't keep up with maintaining FS tests maintaining the Test infrastructure in a way that is sustainable It took too much of his time of his private time to do it and there was also an employer exchange at that time that Contributed and then there was nobody to do the job I mean the requirements were set and their high bar was set for what it takes to get patches into a XFS patches into stable but no one the user was there to do the work. So for two years XFS in stable was on life support I should say that None of the users of those distributions. I don't know that we're using 5.10 Ubuntu Microsoft There are several distribution using 5.10 for the users of those distributions The title is that they get a stable kernel and they are using XFS and XFS is a well-maintained file system. So How would they know they're they're getting? Non-maintained file system nobody told them Anyway Two years later LSFMM last year we met up, of course we discussed this before There was work going on behind the scene between me and Luis and Leah, but We set up of course with Derek and we set up a system where we have three maintainers each takes care of testing their own kernel specializing in the old LTS kernel and starting starting back porting patches and What hopefully looks like a sustainable process? We have the yellow line here of Chanda and making all of us look bad, but But one thing I want to say and you don't see this in the plot The red plot at the bottom is Leah's work this is backed up by Corporate Google that's contributing resources and of course manpower to to a distribution to Google cloud OS distribution that They had business needs for this to make this happen same goes for the yellow line. It's backed up by Oracle and driven by business need of Unbreakable kernel release And puts cloud resources on that while the green line is community resources I started doing that for my employer when they were using 5.10, but right now it's this is volunteer work and Is community resources contributed by Samsung and the work that Luis is doing I mean without getting KDevOps and a machine I Would be able to have good will to do this work But I wouldn't be able to do that and this is what was happening before we started to do it I was doing the back porch for my employer, but I couldn't do the community work so There's a lesson learned here, but first of all we need the companies that do and the distributions to support But also to contribute it community resources So we can deal with orphan releases like 5.10 and Also need to take care of this new one Yeah, so I think a lot of you are probably already aware of the problem And so a lot of right now a lot of the backwards are very ad hoc And so authors will sometimes backport to some branches all the branches or sometimes not care And then also there's the fixes tags and see seeing stable, but again, that's hit or miss And then there's auto so which is going but even with the automatic backporting a lot of patches that don't apply often Just get dropped because no one follows up with them And possibly even worse patches that might apply Patches might apply even if they're a critical predict like prerequisites missing and so that would totally slide under the radar And yeah, also there's little testing So what we've been doing it's it's pretty simple I'm just designate one person per tree and it's just so someone can be more familiar with that specific stable tree and keep an eye on things And then we're just grouping things into batches running a set of tests on them and sending it out to the Linux X of s tests Or linus Linux X of s mailing list with the testing results Everyone can take a look get some people to sign off on it And then if no one yells send it to the stable List and back this is already seen by the chart and stuff But several hundred patches already got backported through this and as we talked a little and they'll be session on K Dev Ops But there's been improvement testings to both K Dev Ops and GCE X of s tests I should think are the primary testing use for backporting and Derek Hey everybody so Obviously, you know I Put this I got this slide into the presentation, but What management what Oracle management kind of wanted me to do it LSF for this talk is to Tell us tell everybody a little bit more about what we've been up to with the LTS kernels now You know it basically in the old days, we would just kind of take a kernel and branch it off Apply random patches to it as necessary ship and ship it to customers, which is basically You know the classic Linux distributor model, but we have reworked all of our processes to Make it so that the unbreakable kernel is basically hitched directly onto the LTS trains so Now so nowadays we actually do take just follow the stream of LTS backports and Everything that goes into them ends up eventually in a UK release. What when we get around to doing that The standard Oracle disclaimer here, I'm not talking about future products blah blah blah blah blah Other than in the most vague hand-waving terms that there will be more LTV There will be more UK kernels at some point. I guess Anyways, so One thing that I that I feel like has been complained about a little bit by the stable maintainers is that there aren't a lot of people who Are willing to stand up and say yes, we use the LTS kernels. Yes, we build it into our products Yes, we are willing to fund development to do back porting work and whatnot and you know upstream work, too So here we are Oracle Linux uses LTS We pick up the odd year LTS is for UEK and we are totally willing to fund The part at least the parts of the stable backboarding stuff that we actually have any expertise about at all I mean, you know, we're not we're probably not going to end up backboarding like I don't know AMD GPU or anything like that But I mean at least for the XFS and storage parts. We do take care of some bits and pieces of that we've actually integrated the LTS process in Into our own UEK Backboarding process to the point where it's now actually easier to get things into UEK by simply taking the upstream patches and getting them backported into Whatever the target LTS kernel is then it is to go through our whole entire bug filing process and bug trees and yeah No, but I don't particularly like it But like doing the old bug process. So it's really nice to be able to just see things slide in Like that Let's see you mind advancing to the next slide So we we would like to continue to ensure LTS kernels stay current for a while. Now, I've kind of heard some Mumblings about shortening the LTS release window. I think it's like six years or something like that and slowly decreasing We would kind of like it to stay We would like we'd like it to stay at least a couple of years because frankly it takes a while for us to get customers actually on to a new UK you know I Since I sometimes work with directly with customers, but often don't I'm not exactly sure how long it takes, but I know that it's more than a few months and probably a Year or two would be a reasonable guess Is my best estimate on how long it actually takes customers to end up on a new UK? so Hopefully the support window for them does not shrink too much But we also recognize that all of this stuff does take a considerable amount of engineer time and some amount of Cloud resources conveniently were a cloud vendor So, you know We got a we hope to find some kind of balance somewhere in there Let's see other bits and pieces So You know, I think I I think Ted's been talking about how he's interested in having a stable team for EXD4 similar to what we do for XFS so I So I just want to say that as the upstream XFS maintainer I am really really really grateful to Amir and Leah and Chandan for taking on this task of familiarizing themselves with a particular LTS kernel release and Backporting things and running things things through QA Because as it is I can I can just about keep up with upstream as it is and Part of that weird plateau in In the graphs on the first slide was just me not scaling and not keeping up with anything anyways, so Oracle is willing to contribute to making various bits of per subsystem or permanent here's Stable patches happen Obviously these things come with some limits like we do not want to have random on-disk format changes back forwarded into stable I mean generally that's not that hard because the on-disk changes are really obviously large chunks of patches and You know Internally, we've kind of talked about whether or not it's better to cherry-pick backports like Like like we're doing right now or whether it would be better to try to forklift and tire releases into old kernels Of course the standard answer to that is LOL folios So I don't know that we can I don't know that we could even really do that. I mean, I think that's just too much stuff to backport Anyways, so that is my contribution to today's presentation Just to address the LOL folios I am totally up for maintaining a folio compatibility layer for old kernels If this is something that people wants to in general, I mean it wouldn't necessarily be just XFS the benefit from this I mean if EXT4 wants to fork or if somebody wanted to forklift EXT4 or butter FS into an old kernel Talk to me and I will be interested in talking back to you Actually, it's not just forklifting We're also going to run into the problem that the changes for folio are invasive enough that Mechanical backporting of patches is also going to be difficult without this layer that you propose So pretty much autosale is going to break as soon as we get enough changes into folio because a patch that applies on a folio kernel Won't apply on a Non-folio kernel and so we need some way of either coping with that or we need a lot more work put into backports I mean I can only speak for butter FS, but chances are if there's a Bug it's gonna be somewhere not folio related and if it's folio related It's because folios are there and we screwed something up.  I was thinking we'll have Yeah, I mean that that's essentially one of the reasons why I am very very interested in trying to recruit People who might be interested in Learning more about ext4 for some sort of ext4 stable backports team number one I think it's a really great way of Career progression So if we have junior engineers who today are you know fixing spelling mistakes and maybe a trying to address this spot bugs But don't actually have the background to understand why the sysbot Bug was being triggered or report was being triggered I've actually found that sometimes I'm spending more time with You know new engineers for whom the first thing the company has assigned them up to do is to fix six by sysbots reports Teaching them that you know hammering on it until the until the warning doesn't trigger without actually fixing the underlying bug Is actually not useful? And it occurs to me that if there are people who Companies that just simply want to get their engineers up to speed on a file system Giving them a pathway so that they can contribute in a structured way to the community and the advantage of doing Backports is it Someone has already fixed the bug. It's just simply a matter of transplanting the bug fix Into an older kernel It's a great way for them to get up to speed And it's a great way of expanding the development community for that file system So that's one and then the other is Because of the folio changes and sometimes it's not even You know the folio changes proper It's people saying well while we're making all these changes Let's clean up the function signature. So instead of returning a boolean we return an error pointer And the patch applies cleanly But in fact will horrendously malfunction We had one of these this last merge window where the xd4 tree worked just fine in isolation The mm tree worked just fine in isolation, but when you merged the two the result failed And there was no merge conflict And we've had another situation in the xd4 where a missing prerequisite patch Which you know changed the semantic meaning of a function But didn't change the function signature meant that it builds ship it isn't going to catch the problem We had to revert the patch and then reapply the patch after applying the prerequisite patch in the stable tree and I think some of this is one the reasons why the XFS community really decided to go down the stable maintainers Path and I've started to see that more with the xd4 And I've certainly seen problems where I just haven't had time so critical bug fix patch Didn't apply and Greg and Sasha very dutifully sent me an email saying this patch didn't apply So we dropped it, you know We tried to backport it and we couldn't and I just didn't have the bandwidth to Backport the patch myself and it fell on the floor And if you know if it's a critical bug fix or security fix That's not particularly good for those companies that are relying on stable for you know Keeping up with bug fixes, right? You know there are You know some customers demand that you remediate high severity CVE's and in a short window of time and to the extent that Automated backport solve that problem. It's great But I have a concern that you know things the churn rate has gone up so much in file systems And you know, maybe this is not a new problem because other parts of the file system have had a lot of you know API churn But I've noticed that that's becoming more of an issue in the file system space And that's one of the reasons why I'm you know Seriously thinking about trying to recruit for an ecsthe four stable backwards team much like what has been described here This may not be the best place to actually do the recruiting But if you know of some people who are interested in learning about file systems And are trying to find a way to you know take that next step beyond you know my first patch You know have them contact me Yeah, and another thing with that is It's a very Bite-sized way to learn about things because you get sets of patches and you can dig into just those areas at a time And so it's not as overwhelming if you aren't extremely familiar with the area And also if you are on the latest want like six dot one if you're say on like five ten or five four You're kind of following along with the patches that are already going into the ones ahead of you So it is a very approachable thing to get into The other things we have left to do is to make it easier to identify potential backboards So this does end up taking a lot of time. I think Shondan mentioned it take took him some time to So I'm not quite sure the best route for that. I know besides just manually combing through things I know there are some opinions against adding CC stable or fixes, but adding those things would at least be like a red flag for us to like look at them Okay, make sure you don't miss me even if they aren't automatically pulled in through the automation The other thing is unifying accepting testing procedures. There was discussions a while back over some emails about How many runs do how I can fix to do and things like that and there was very degrees of What people are comfortable with so it would be very nice to find the minimum amount of testing We need to do that makes everyone happy. So we aren't just wasteful with resources. I I guess just one idea that might help Even though some patches are not pegged with the cc stable and even though automation is not used now and we have a proper testing requirement for patches Auto-self is still a tool and I am I am curious if one of the things that might help would be to see if we can get an Output at least from auto-self candidates that could be reviewed by the LTS team So that that would just be a tooling exercise right kind of like hey Can you guys help to provide at least the candidates? It won't mean that you automatically backport them or that you will backport them It's just like at least information, you know, is that a possibility? Yeah, I'm totally unsupported So This is something that was already asked before and the KVM and parts of x86 already get that We would send stuff with a manual cell tag and we saw that in the past few months They had the actual number reduced quite drastically because I I don't know why maybe those subs Maybe those subsystems became better at tagging things as a result, but that infrastructure already exists Okay, is it is it possible to reproduce this entire environment so a way one can do and gather the information ourselves Auto-self is a massive pilot egg that it's still running on this old Azure via All right Can I can I work with you to try to get that to be a possibility so that way then no one has to rely on you know Sasha or whatever, but they can go and get this up All right Just saying that we are a bit over time So There is one elephant in the room here Which is that Derek put his hand up and said Oracle is assisting with this work because they use the LTS kernels But we have several other distributions who also have huge backport teams who need to identify all the bugs Before they backport them and then actually do the backports who could potentially contribute to this effort as well I'm looking at sort of red hat and see say and Android Ted because you have a massive Backport team in Android for file system stuff, don't you? But but anyway, is there a way we could actually pool resources across the distributions? I also want to mention then for from the five years retrospective a Lot more a lot more Oracle and Susan both joined like sync to the LTS since those times So from a minority of distributions that followed LTS now as far as I know There's only red hat That's not no Suze is on 5.15. I'm not saying they're following LTS per se Like Suze enterprise kernels are currently on 5.14 So so we do backports to 5.14 and we do a lot of them but So which kind of does a lot of work what's needed for 5.15 or 5.10 But it's not quite there. Yeah, so So 5.14 is not going to change of because obviously For the future. So we don't have Yeah, so actually plans are that We do kernel version upgrade every other service pack And that means that whatever is released at a time and is stable enough so that it passes Mostly melts long-term testing then we just Hook on that and and then maintain for whatever it takes so Actually, our trees are available So whoever wants to start their backporting on that and we heavily rely on get fixes Tagging we have whole infrastructure internally to Backport and evaluate most of those All right, we're calling time guys, that's four minutes over Wrap it up. I Think the rest of it's Been covered just a summary Ted already gave a spiel a pitch for other file systems Benefits healthier trees Efficiency it does require more testing but by batching things together you save time by working Simultaneously with the other stable maintain your maintainers you save time So if you are looking for better coverage and better testing and catching more of the bug fixes, it's The best way to do it. We found so far As far as making it easier to identify potential backports goes I think it's generally helpful either to put a fixes tag on the Commit itself or push something push a new test case into FS tests to mark it as a regression since there's all those All that tagging that Amir added to say that when this test fails Suggest that maybe you should think about backporting XYZ patch That that has also been helpful for actually watching those things go by


In Fremont Bridge, it's on Interstate 405 in Portland, Oregon, and this spans over the Willamette River. I don't think you would find anybody that would advocate putting about six or eight inches of asphalt paving over this bridge deck and would expect this bridge to carry that kind of extra loading. We have cases over the years where we've actually done that to bridges, paved, overpaved, overpaved, and asked our old bridges to carry a tremendous loading. What we're looking at here is some of the typical flaws that you see in roadway pavements, AC pavements. There's a plating out and some utility cut damage and longitudinal cracking and alligator cracking and all of these are brought on basically by too much load and too much water and the hydraulic ram effect that water can have under loading and over the years we end up with these kinds of failures. Here's a classic example of paving patch upon patch upon patch and you end up without the curb exposure. Here we're looking at maybe two inches of curb reveal left. Water splashes on the pedestrians on the sidewalks. There's much crown buildup that high container trucks would hit the telephone poles along the sides. There comes a time when you can't add any more and you actually need to start removing some of that. Reshape your road and repave and what we've found here in the Portland area over the years is an excellent tool for this is the large coal planer. We use that for removal of AC and also what we term inlay patching. Here's a typical flaw that you encounter, it's longitudinal cracking and alligator cracking. You could use the large planer in an area like this to remove that down maybe three to four inches, use some paving fabric and pave it back to match the surrounding road area that wasn't flawed. You aren't adding additional mix to reduce your curb reveal or increase your crown so your water will run off as it was designed to do. You can come in on a road like this and you see how the flaw is localized in one line. You could remove all of your AC out of that one lane and then take your small coal planer and deal with just the flawed area and actually rebase that. You could cut it further on down maybe six, eight inches and rebase that using your grinding material and then pave back your inlay to match your surrounding lanes. Here's a classic example of an area where a small coal planer would fit in, maybe a three foot wide cut outside of that old underlying concrete pavement. Here where we have this edge cracking, that's an area where the water can get into the area and since this is a narrow old underlying concrete pavement, the trucks, heavy loads actually run off of that concrete and start breaking down that shoulder area. This is some longitudinal cracking indication of possibly a base problem or differential of materials. It kind of tends to look like it maybe could be involved with the utility cut too. There's a manhole and utilities if we didn't have any in any of our highways, I think we'd be better off structurally but that isn't reality and we have to deal with those. It's really important to get the utility companies to do a good quality job when they work on the highways but you can't always have people out there watching that activity either so many times we're left with dealing with the utility cuts after the fact and going to make the repairs. This is a good example of a utility installation where they've done a good quality job. Here where we're into an inlay patch, the old AC is being removed not because we have a structural problem, we don't, it's an erosion problem that's taking place is creating some fairly severe ravelling and rutting of the road. So we'll mill out this lane about 11 foot wide. This particular coal planer is a DynaPak front conveyor 6.5 foot wide so you'll make two partial passes there to remove the lane. They're milling down about two inches and then they'll pay that back. Won't be necessary to use any fabric because we don't have a structural problem. You note the front convey is especially important on a high volume road so that you can keep all of your operation in line. If this were a rear convey as some of the coal planers are, that driver of that truck would be backing up to the coal planer that would be pulling away from him. And so you're dependent on somebody to load the truck and motion them forward all time or backwards all time. It works a lot better with the front convey and the truck moving ahead. Then he's lined up with traffic in the normal flow direction. This particular coal planer is DynaPak at the present time as we think is kind of the state of the art. It's a good heavy machine that's got plenty of horsepower and does a good job, holds good grade. Just an all-around excellent machine. Whoever invents a good durable sweeper will have their fortune made. I don't think there's any such thing on the market right now. Sweeping these millings is extremely hard on a sweeper. They tend to pack and all kinds of little recesses in the sweeper and this causes them to break. This shows the area after it's cleaned up, the cut area. And it's important to, if you can, to plane through your lift so that you don't have a thin partial lift left there that is deep-onded. You want good adhesion with your new mix. You can see the old highway stripe in that particular picture there. Here they're tacking the edges of the cut and that's important to get a good bond there. And that edge is roughened by this coal planer so it makes a good vertical bond with your AC also. They'll use the hand one here and then they'll shoot the center of that with the distributor. This is a Mulsvite asphalt tack, CSS1 in this case. We found that it's a little more compatible with some of the loose crumbs or dust that's left in the cut. We found it isn't really all that important to clean it like a house tooth that just get it fairly clean. And then the CSS is liquid enough that it'll flow in amongst this stuff and create a good tack. Now the distributor is shooting the main part of it. You see that when this is paved back it's going to match the lanes either side. So it isn't necessary to do any feathering out over those areas and use that additional mix that you don't really need. And it also leaves the cross section of the road intact where the water will run across like you want it to. Super sections, that's particularly important that you aren't reducing the amount of super on a roadway. You can hold the design. Now here we're using a paving machine to pave this back. It's adjusted to the width of the cut. This is a little self-propelled paving machine that we rent. Squaring up the edge of the panel, that's important. The cuts should, the payback should look neat and if you have ruts you need to rake a transition into that patch so that you don't bump up onto a nice level patch from a rutted road. You get a lot of criticism from people if they bump up and off of these patches. Now here you can see kind of a side view shows how they're allowing for the compaction actually leaving the loose AC a little high so that when you get your compacter on there it's going to push it down to match the surrounding roadway. After in a year's time or less you'll start seeing a crack open up along these inlay patches. So it's important that prior to that time you get in there and seal those edges with some kind of a flexible crack sealer. We use a rubber asphalt crack sealing material. Now here the roller is pinching at edge. Starting at the outside edge you'll do both sides of that panel and then you'll start in towards the middle. This is especially important. It should always be done this way to pinch that material against the existing pavement edge. On the low side of a super, if you're making a cut on a super section you want to start your compaction on the low side of that.  This particular compactor is a vibrating steel on the front and pneumatic on the back. It just does an excellent job of compaction. We've run some density tests on it with a nuke. Generally on a two inch lift like this where you don't have a yielding under surface two passes you've got your density. This is the finished product. If you notice how it matches the surrounding area and a good writing, a good quality patch. I appreciate the opportunity of talking to you about inlay patching with the large coal planer.


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that happen. All right. Yep, I see it. And have a good meeting, everyone. Thank you so much. Welcome, Yvonne. Nice to see you. Okay, and I, hi, I do believe that Alexis will be joining us at some point. So I'm going to go ahead and let me just pull up my agenda here. And I'm going to call to order the June 21 meeting of the African Heritage Reparation Assembly at 202 p.m. Pursuant to chapter 20 of the acts of 2021, this meeting will be conducted via remote means. Members of the public who wish to access the meeting may do so via Zoom or by telephone. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the proceedings in real time via technological means. So welcome to everyone. We have a very specific agenda today. But before we get into that, let's go through and make sure everyone can be heard and can hear us. So let's start with you, Dr. Rose. Here and I can hear. Great. Dr. Shabazz. Yes, also here and can see. Okay, Hala. Yes, I can hear you and I think you can hear me. Can hear you. Yes, and Yvonne. Yes, I can. I can, but I know my internet is a little spotty. So if I get dropped, I'll get back in and I might need to turn my camera off in order to stay in the meeting. Sure, that's no problem. Okay, great. So today's particular, today's agenda is particular to our request to designate cannabis tax revenue for the town council to designate cannabis tax revenue for reparations. We have a meeting with the finance committee at 3pm, in which this will be discussed. And I want to share with you I'm going to start to share my screen here in a second. Just give me a quick second here. Okay. Actually, you know what? I'm going to stop to share real quick. Before I go into that, just taking a moment to pause see if there are any just immediate sort of comments or questions. I wanted to say I thought it was an excellent Juneteenth weekend, both Saturday and Sunday. And I saw on Facebook, Dr. Chavez on Monday looked like some really great stuff happening as well. So that's fantastic. And so before I jump in, are there any comments or questions right now from the committee? Okay. All right. No. Share my screen. And let's see here. All right. Can everyone see the screen? Yeah. Okay. So we met last week. And we had a very good discussion I thought about policy proposal that I had brought forward. We made some adaptations to it. We talked about a couple of different, a couple of different ideas around modeling versus designating the cannabis tax revenue. We talked about number amounts. Since then, I have had what I thought was a really great meeting with Sean and Sonia. So Sean is our finance director at the town and Sonia is the comptroller. And we had a discussion so that I could understand from their perspective, where they were coming from in terms of our request and their concerns, the challenges that the town is facing financially in the coming years. And I thought it was a really good discussion. And they started off by stating very clearly, Sean stated very clearly that it may appear like resistance and sort of acknowledging that the town council made a commitment to reparations. And there are lots of other really pressing and demanding initiatives that the town is undertaking right now, including two new departments Cress and DEI. And as and maybe for AHA members, it's not clear that the town also hired four new firefighters that are being funded currently through ARPA funds, and will need to be worked into the budget. So with that discussion in mind, Sean felt like he could support as the finance director, a model in which we begin by sort of what we talked about last week, a hybrid model, where we begin by modeling the appropriation annually off the cannabis tax revenue. And then at some point, once DEI once Cress and once the four firefighters are worked into the budget and more stable switching over to designating the cannabis tax revenue in FY 26. So that's what you'll see reflected here in this policy, which is basically everything that we discussed last week. And including concerns, I think that counselors, so we're looking for broad support, we want this to be supported by the town council, we want it to feel like a meaningful, significant and responsible policy that we're putting forward here. So just going through each of these items. Again, I used that base appropriation, which comes from the FY 21 actual cannabis tax revenue. We talked about the $2 million. So the appropriations would expire once the fund has reached that $2 million mark. And again, this is just related to the cannabis to this policy. So if we are to get CPA funds, for example, that is not included in this commitment. And then the appropriations come from certified free cash in FY 23, 24 and 25, and then beginning in 26 come from cannabis tax revenue. There will be an annual review by the finance committee during the drafting of the budget policy guidelines. And this is to determine the health of the budget and the health of the finances in the town on a yearly basis, which happens anyway, and is as a part of our process. And then we will this piece is added. So I found a really interesting document today from that that outlines MGL, Hollis or MGL law basically, as it pertains to stabilization funds and how money gets into them, how they're created, how money gets into them and how money gets taken out of them, what sort of votes are needed by a legislative body for those things to happen. So we can pull that up if we want to in a second. But basically, this is saying that we're going to do everything legally. And then we have a possible use of funds here. And then at the bottom, it says that the full plan and eligibility criteria will be recommended by the HR, HR and their final report and approved by the town council. And I see coming into the finance committee meeting, this is what we'll be proposing. And I see two potential points of two challenges or two potential points of discussion, let's call it that let's call them opportunities. And I will talk with you about what those are in a minute, but first just wanting to pause and take comments and questions about this. Yes, Dr. Shavas. So I would just say all of this looks very consistent with our discussions and particularly feedback that I offered. So I have no, I'm very appreciative of all the work you've done to try and, and workshop this through staff and town staff and, and other counselors and on the finance committee and to kind of get a sense of what, what might meet some of the expectations that your colleagues on the finance committee have. I, I know there is this continuing and abiding concern about possible use of funds. It, you know, I, I can, I guess go along with a lot of seeing that but that bullet point go in. I again, really feel as though it kind of encroaches on the community discussion. It kind of encroaches on the community consultative process for us to already be outlining at this point where the funds may go. These are, I get the point of possibilities and for those that, that need to have to hear that, see that, you know, maybe as a, as an asterisk or whatever, but, but in some ways that's the only thing that rankles me a little bit on, on this listing toward trying to get a policy through. But, but again, I, I salute you and all, all your efforts and that's what I'll submit to at this stage for a discussion. Thank you, Dr. Shabazz. And I want to point out that I don't see any reason that the use of funds would come into a motion at this time. This was more or even into the policy. I think this is more to give counselors some sense and I did pull these from the Encobra website from their suggestions for municipal reparation benefit ideas. So I agree this may not be comprehensive for our community and I also don't believe it needs to be incorporated into a motion at this point as we're creating this policy. Yes, Dr. Rhodes. All right, so you just said something. So the possible use of funds will not be a part of the motion. Is that correct? I don't believe that it needs to be. You know, we'll have to wait and see when we get there, but my, I don't, I believe that the motion that will get the broadest support in finance committee and on the council will be much, will be more simple and include just the financial aspects and not the uses. So the uses are really there just to give any counselor or counselors a sense of what may be because one of the concerns we heard by a couple counselors is, well, what is the money going to be used for? But I don't think it will be in a motion, but please, yeah, Dr. Rhodes, please, what we're going to So under the possible use of funds, under direct, under direct materials benefits, I certainly would add youth entrepreneurship and scholarships and I'll talk more about that. And the other one would be recreational program.  Okay, youth entrepreneurship and scholarships and what was the second one? Recreation, recreation programs. Now, the reason for youth entrepreneurship and scholarships is that I would like to see one of the national youth entrepreneurship programs happen here in Amherst and there are a couple of them and one of them I directly participated in years ago as a director and also as a teacher of youth entrepreneurship especially in New Orleans after Katrina and some of those programs when you bring them in require that people pay for them so having scholarships as a part of them is one way to ensure that especially African-American citizens, students, kids will be able to participate and obviously the recreation programs is something that we need to be mindful of especially in light of the ARPA money that's in process of being spent about $500,000 where they're exploring recreation programs and those programs ones that have in one sense a specific emphasis for minority students. Excellent. Okay, excellent. Yes, Yvonne. Is there any mention, maybe I missed it, of using funds for education because we're going to end up doing that right with some of these funds about not just scholarships but programs that will educate or inform people about moving forward with reparations? I think that's a great question Yvonne and I think that's a separate discussion related to our operating budget that we need as we begin to go into education and engagement of the community and I've talked a bit with Paul about that already we had some money that he had set aside from last year we used about half of that now for the black census but we have more and we have a small seed fund of the $206,000 in there so if we put together a budget for operating expenses that include educating, engaging the community we can bring that forward and ask for the council to approve that at any point so that's a separate sort of matter from this if that makes sense. Thank you. Sure, yeah absolutely. So let me, Dr. Rhodes, your hand is still up. No, I'm done, I'm done. Okay, I would like to, I don't see Hala's hand raised yet but Hala please let me know if you'd like to jump in here. I, what I wanted to spend a little time on is addressing the two matters that I think will be the points of discussion at the finance committee. The first matter is whether this should be a policy that's fully modeled off of cannabis tax revenue whether this should be a policy that's hybrid as we've suggested here and again that was the recommendation of Sean this morning in my conversation with him and then the third being whether we're talking about a full designation that does not include modeling but is an earmark which we've had the most amount of challenge with I think. The second matter that I believe we will have an opportunity to discuss is the total commitment that we're looking for. I don't believe that the yearly or the annual appropriation will be a major discussion I believe that the two million that we are recommending may be a point of discussion and so with both of those being that I'm the only one in our group that can make an amendment to a motion that could be brought at the finance committee meeting I'd like to get direction from you about where you'd like me to go so for example if a motion comes forward that's based fully off of modeling or can we live with that as long as we are clear that the intention is that we're modeling it off of the cannabis tax revenue for all of the reasons that we've outlined is morally and ethically important and if let's say a motion says appropriations to reach one million or a million and a half would you like me to make a counter motion or a motion to revise the motion that's on the table for example to take us up to that two million and before I open it for discussion and it doesn't mean it will be approved but I'd like to get um I'd like to get your sense of that so those are the two the two things that the sort of function the modeling versus the designation or the earmark and the total appropriation um just be it's important to understand that this is a finance committee recommendation in my mind it carries a lot of weight it is important because this is the body that is tasked with really understanding the health the financial health of the town and so the more consensus we can get the better that being said we could make a recommendation as a finance committee and at council when it comes as recommended to the full council another entire discussion is going to happen that could change um it's not necessarily going to mirror 100 percent what the recommendation from the finance committee is so just to be clear on that so taking comments now on those two matters yes dr shabas thank you that that was a lot so i'm gonna try to address it the best way i can think about addressing it and that's first of all to say you know the um the two million dollar figure i recommend it is really a floor it's not a ceiling so in terms of if that becomes a a point of discussion relative to the finance committee recommendation the you know negotiating and haggling for for less um over less is um i i just can't even begin to think about the the scenarios around that um the the real issue here that i see is you know where we're it seems as though we're backing into um into we're putting ourselves in a box here we started out with this as a recommendation around one funding stream one funding stream we were trying to identify and trying to get a sense of the council if there might be a will to um capture that funding stream for the purpose of the reparative justice plan we've been charged to develop it now seems as though even though you know it has there from cannabis tax revenue the the sense that i'm getting as you talk about these possibilities of the debate around the finance committee recommendation it almost sounds like you know we're we're we're in a box now of what the whole funding package might be you know odd infinitum around reparative justice black reparations in and amherst and and and so it it's a it's a it creates a a feeling a bit of anxiety that where we move we're moving from just one funding stream to begin to see what we have so to speak no pun intended what we have in the pot to to begin to develop proposals and and go through a consultative process with the community around it now seems as though we're we're we're we're moving toward defining the total financial commitment that the town may be prepared to put in on this forever and and that that just feels feels bad at this point you know the so for me coming back to the the one other part of the question modeling versus a direct earmark vote versus some type of hybrid well around that i'm clearly in the middle which i see kind of consistent with what's on the screen because again as i see it from the current fiscal year we're in the if if any contribution is to be made this year this year in october in november whatever at all from a certified free cash if any contribution is to be made this year the way it was done last year it's got to come through this process okay cannabis earmark isn't even going to touch that whether you made it for the for you know for whenever you made it for it's not going to touch this year's contribution to reparative justice it's not going to affect next year's contribution okay and then hearing the concerns about the financial picture the cliff and all of this i was prepared to say let's not even try to to address an earmark for fiscal year 24 or 25 if there are those concerns let's go with the free cash certified free cash process to the extent there may or may not be anything there relative to other financial commitments relative to the percentages you want to maintain and all of the other discussion we've heard maybe there won't there'll be zero in fiscal year 24 contributed or or from fiscal year 25 i get all of that okay but it's about a projection it's about what we're what what we're willing to put ourselves on record to trying to do by 26 i feel if the financial picture the working in of these four firefighters the working in of crest the working out of of the office of equity and inclusion and getting a sense of the needs of those units those new departments and and and our firefighting force and then the big pack capital projects looming and inflation and recession and everything else i get all of that so for me i i'm totally backed away from trying to ask for a direct earmark beginning in the most immediate fiscal year possible i'm not asking for that i i've been persuaded that that's not um something even uh remotely possible or wise so i'm done with that but i'd like say that we would come back to the conversation in fiscal year 26 okay and and begin now to say sort of put that on the horizon if you will so i'm clearly for that part of the process now this the question of of the the two million and and haggling over that i don't even know why that's necessary per se if we're committing ourselves to this process of earmarking based not earmarking but process of continuing to strive to make an annual contribution based upon the initial step taken last year of 200 000 that we're committed to that for the coming fiscal year if anything is certified from certified free cash is available as close to 200 as possible put it away the next year put it away on to 26 then let's see where we are from there that to me i've been persuaded makes the most sense fiscally doesn't tie the hands of the council as it looks to go into financial hard times and so i'm i'm just there but i don't really know about the at this point with that idea in mind as the approach that you know two million and haggling over you know to a million and and how finite this thing is this is just blowing my mind that in order to get this this little approach we're trying to take done we've got a we've got to go ahead and nail down the ceiling of what's possible here i'm really having a hard time with that yeah and i really appreciate that dr shabazz and i will say that i don't think this is necessarily a ceiling in the sense that i feel very strongly that the two million dollar commitment is that's the number that we've discussed it's meaningful it's significant i ran some numbers um and again we looked at evanston and what their budget is four times ours and i understand that we are not evanston but it's sort of in line and i know they did a lot of work to understand to come to that 10 million um and i crunch some numbers looking at this as an endowment as we've talked about and i really believe that getting it up to that two million dollar mark is really important and so i will definitely be pushing for that personally as a counselor in in committee but i don't believe that it's a ceiling and i say that because as the program gets underway as we begin to direct benefits um and as other initiatives of the town become stabilized there's absolutely an opportunity at any point in any council in any review of the budget guidelines annually for us to or for the ceiling to raise higher and so i i know that maybe doesn't make you feel a whole lot better but i do see that there's possibility for increasing that number down the line i think what's most difficult right now is the concerns about the financial picture ahead and the challenges and and sort of the unknowns with all of the things you mentioned like inflation and all of the other challenges that we've talked about quite a bit now um dr roads i just want to make sure we're clear on at least myself want to be clear on this when we say model uh after economic cannabis uh what i understand that the mean is that uh the uh money that will go and go to the ahra fund uh in terms of going in to the stabilization fund is that uh if for example uh fiscal 23 uh certified cash uh we would say that that number that goes into the ahra fund and the stabilization fund will be the amount the similar to the amount of money that was came through uh the cannabis for instance if it was 200,000 then the free cash the free cash is there for 200,000 then 200,000 would go in there for fiscal 23 whatever it was in fiscal 24 would go there and fiscal 25 etc is that what we're talking about that's my understanding yeah um of what the modeling looks like so we would be looking at like for example last year in f y 22 they looked at f y 21 actual numbers of cannabis tax revenue um to make that appropriation from certified free cash so uh you know there's risks and and benefits um we aren't sure what the trending is going to look like in terms of um the cannabis tax revenue given what we've talked about in uh there being competition um in the community surrounding us being that we've lost one recreational facility however we I believe have the capacity in Amherst to go up to eight recreational um and so I think that's another reason why the two million dollar for example um why the two million dollars is important or having that is because um it may be that one year only 150,000 comes in for cannabis tax revenue and then in two years from now it might be up to 300 you know or depending on how things go so there is I think last week I shared with you what Sean had projected um for the next several years which is basically 200,000 a year and I think he's projecting that conservatively but not too conservatively given that the numbers that they um were throwing around from this year which were definitely lower does that answer your question doctor yeah and and and I think that that's um I I like that model because it it does say exactly what's going to go into uh the um stabilization fund and what and and and the um the the number will be determined by what cannabis brought in uh so and so I go along with it I also want us to really understand that uh that is really a better alternative than to go with an airmark and the reason for that is that uh everyone is saying that literally that the HRA will stand stand behind the firefighters the other areas um such as uh DEI uh and and and those three things are big uh those are big numbers as it moves through uh when I hear that you got the firefighters funded by AARP money uh we know that for fiscal 23 and 24 uh 24 is that money disappears to AARP it has to be spent by the end of fiscal uh 24 AARPA yeah yeah our money has to has to be spent by the end of fiscal 24 that's federal law so you can imagine what that means if you get firefighters uh the DEI and Crest uh fundamentally being funded by temporary funds and those funds disappear uh and yet they are still a part of the budget that's a huge number that number will come back to haunt this town physically for years to come so I want us to have our eyes open that this this if the council votes to approve it at least guarantees us that we will have money going into that fund regardless of the physical situation that the town will be facing in the future because they're committing to putting that money in there based upon what has been raised with the cannabis but not coming from cannabis money thank you Dr. Rhodes and and I think you know part of this is also really having a bit of um trust um developing trust between all of us that I think we're all trying to put our best foot forward here um and we're all trying to build this fund um and you know like anything the financial picture will need to be considered um annually but I think what you said Dr. Rhodes about you know making this meaningful and being assured that this fund will be developed over time um through that method so um it's 237 and I do think there are uh one or two people or three people in the participants so I'm going to pause for a second to Dr. Schwarz is your hand raised no okay I'm going to go ahead and pause and call for public comment and then uh we'll have a little more time for discussion after that so I'll just read the public comment statement during the public comment period the chair will recognize members of the public when called upon please identify yourself by stating your name pronouns and residential address residents are welcome to express their views for up to three minutes at the discretion of the chair based upon the number of people who wish to speak uh we won't respond um except in unique circumstances sometimes I have seen that done but generally speaking we will not respond but we'll be listening closely um and so if you'd like to speak please raise your hand by using the raise hand function and I see Lauren so I'm going to move you in Lauren just give me one second here all right Lauren we you're here hi hope you can hi yes okay um yes I live uh at um Long Middle Drive Long Middle Drive South Amherst and um I first wanted to say it was a beautiful weekend and I really appreciate all the the work that went into the um the Juneteenth tour and the celebration on the common um and my I just got a new phone and I had to um trade it with my daughter in order to to speak and use the computer so I had a lot of notes but as usual someone you know has to use my phone but anyway um I had a few um notes and one of the the uh issues that I have is that with the term BIPOC I don't think it's realized that you know black people in Amherst or around the country can be black they can be indigenous and they can be people of color at the same time and I think that throughout this conversation of reparations it seems that there there's always this um issue of bringing up other communities that may need reparations or you know are in need of restorative justice which is true but in in the work of of this assembly and also the the the the things that have occurred especially in 2020 have happened to a particular community and obviously affect all of us but they continue to happen to pretty much black people and so I really think that it's important for the assembly and also going forward with the conversation of reparations to really you know focus on that and not lose the focus and I so I just want to say that and also I just also feel like um there hasn't been enough outreach to communities of color or BIPOC or black heritage however you want to put it to really put a you know certain numbers in you know this policy and I would rather see a vote postponed if it if you guys want to come come down to a vote I just don't think that it's really fair to put certain you know dollar amounts or even like how the money would be used without really consulting a body of BIPOC or African Heritage community members so I'll just leave that at that I always have more to say but I'll leave it there thank you Lauren thank you very much and I just took notes while you were speaking so thank you um is if there's anyone else that would like to make public comment please raise your hand just wait a second okay so not seeing any so just coming back here for the last few minutes that we have um to see if there are any additional comments questions thoughts yes Dr. Rhodes please all right so the reality here is that there is there is a threat uh you know in terms of this model and that is uh is how money gets into the stabilization fund uh given what I'm seeing out there coming up the risk that I see is that um the capital projects that are forthcoming uh are going to um put an incredible strain on on on the on the capital account and therefore there's going to be a lot of pressure to increase the amount of money that would go into capital although that you know as has a ceiling to it but there will be times when the council and the finance director town manager are going to say look we have to um put more money in the capital and if we're going to put more money in the capital uh the way to do that is to use money that would be going into the stabilization fund and direct it to uh the reserve fund uh that is a risk and so all of us should understand that and as far as I'm concerned and you know when I look out over the capital projects that are there I I I I see that the library the school the DPW etc are those those estimates for spending are going to be 20 to 50 higher when we actually go out to bed and there's going to be enormous pressure so we all need to understand that that that's going to be there thank you Erv and remember um I think at the time of our meeting with the finance committee when these matters are being discussed um I know that Andy will give will open the floor um and I think the way he does it is there's not really an order raise your hand uh that's the order so whether you're from the HRA or from the finance committee Dr. Shabazz thank you so my final comment is is a long similar lines to what we heard in public comment the the third event that the person commenting Ms. Mills actually attended um that was held on Monday that was held in her community um really brought out what she's saying in terms of people who are you know part of other ethnic groups or other kinds of identities but also share with with black folk uh we had Dominicans they're joining in the drum circle we had uh you know they're people from from other different nationalities or ethnicities that may not always be identified as uh or not categorically black but uh but but do have black ancestry and do have a connection with uh with us here so um I I concur that you know there is um complexity and um when I as I share my thoughts on the what we've been calling this eligibility question you're going to see that what I'm what I will recommend is that we take a spectrum approach not a binary we got to get out of the binary of American descendants of slavery on the one hand and those who are not American descendants of slavery and if you're not an American descendant of slavery you're out you're out of consideration for for for uh the discussion of reparations versus you know those who who um would would uh uh be categorized as black or african-american but they're not American descendants of slavery what sandedarity estimates uh as only about 10 percent of the total af black african-american population anyway less than 10 percent are are in that group but but for me we we get away from that when we when we approach from a spectrum and by that I mean that we look at the harms across the spectrum and we look at the um uh uh the way in which we can redress uh that and and bring closure to those harms across the spectrum so prioritizing for certain aspects of the Reparative Justice Program things that are specifically targeted to American descendants of of the enslaved specifically in Amherst as residents of Amherst and then being able to look beyond that to other ways in which there are benefits community benefits as you put it in this bullet item that would also extend to other black african-americans who may not be have the lineage criteria meet the lineage criteria of a descendant of being the descendant of an ancestor who was enslaved in the united states of america or in massachusetts or in Amherst but rather embrace all of that the whole spectrum so ancestral bridges folks we were with on saturday some of them actually do fit that criterion of being residents of Amherst who had an ancestor that that goes back to the time in which slavery was still practiced in Amherst was still allowed in legal and practiced in Amherst the thompsons the the uh you know and and others so uh that fought in the civil war and all of that so you know there are some that meet that criteria but we're not limited to just that there are some that are american descendent that are descendants of the enslaved like myself but not in massachusetts or not in Amherst but i live here now yes i would be in the you know be in the program uh for consideration and then even those who come here since 1960 what that are black or african-american that did that have experienced harms of anti-black racism in Amherst would also be if we take us an approach of looking at it on us on a spectrum would also be eligible for consideration and for some discussion about activities benefits that would also address that part of the spectrum so that's i'll be coming with with with my rationales for that and more on that but uh but i just wanted to highlight it now consistent with what we heard from the person in public comment that it it doesn't have to be all one thing or we don't have to be binary about this we can we can take a spectrum approach and as we consider the benefits the eligibility criterion and the kinds of restitution and redress that we that we aim to we try to bring about thank you thanks dr shabazz yeah i appreciate you foreshadowing that and also just addressing lauren's um comments about i i think that we determined in our last meeting that once we get through this piece of financing and finding the revenue stream we're going to turn fully toward engaging with residents of african heritage in the community um and making that our our next very full mission um so i also wanted to just say that when speaking with older woman robin russ simons early on i asked her why she had in her resolution and i believe in the initial resolution and maybe even in the one that committed the funds used the term african americans and not black and what was the rationale you know and um she had said that if she could have a do-over she would have used the word black um as opposed to african american um and so i just put that out there as as some experience anecdote anecdotal experience um okay so are there any other comments or questions in closing before we will close out this meeting and then we will you'll enter in um i believe just on the link for the finance committee meeting you didn't receive a particular panel invite for that right last time we just entered you entered in okay um so that what's that doctor how do we enter into this meeting this finance yeah um when we get off here i'll send you the agenda and it has the link right in the top you just click on that and then athena will see you and when it's time for that conversation to happen she'll bring you in as a panelist thank you absolutely um and i just check checking the agenda real quick making sure i didn't miss anything so i did not have any um anything that i did not anticipate if there aren't any other member reports or comments then i'm going to move to adjourn the meeting and we'll see you soon is everybody able to be there at the finance committee meeting yes okay you're not able to be there okay um no hollow will you be there at three o'clock okay i'm just doing i'm working and doing double duty so i could up but i won't worry okay we'll see you all and iban will give you an update after the meeting okay you're muted iban can you send me the link in case i can i could probably you like the first 10 or 15 minutes and then i have to bounce absolutely i'm gonna send me the link everybody yeah sure i'll send it to everyone now okay so i'm adjourning at 2 54 p.m and we'll see you soon bye bye


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Hi everybody happy Monday. I'm Joe for jaspercasebreaks.com coming out to a 2022 Panini legacy football four box Pick your team number 17 No vet common ship and Follow the instructions here. You got a chance at a little bit of break credit. We'll do that at the end of this video Big thank you to everyone here for getting in on it The final four box of this case that we popped open is loaded up So if you want to run this back tonight I am down Stephen Kendrick Stephen K with double last-bought mojo cleaning out this break closing out this break So thanks to him. It's got a shot at break credit Thanks everybody for making this happen All right, we're looking for two bought autographs per box on average A lot of fun parallels in here mini cards Nice rookie autographs This is the sort of product that where we start seeing Seeing these guys in their pro gear most most of them anyway Start to see them in their pro gear. I guess maybe college uniform, but pro logos So we're getting closer and closer seeing all the all the rookies in their pro uniforms. Finally This is a nice sort of preseason break traditionally Fall in the preseason Season Evan Phillips Dodger deliverers and having One for ERA over 45 innings Bonus are only hitting 150 off. All right box one of four. Good luck everybody out of 125 Ronde barber Kenny pick it in here's our first rookie auto for the Ravens David a job, oh That is for Rick and the Ravens No Evan Phillips. What's going on? Why are the trainers out there? Kenny pick it for Peter the Steelers The barber goes assignment.  That's why the trainers are out there Tom Brady under the lights insert Jalen hurts to 150 for the fly Eagles fly That'll be for Patrick and the Eagles our first mini is Khalil Shakir 75 for the Buffalo Bills Aaron with the bills Got an orange paralleling here. That is awesome Echler 23 out of one 99 remember what Austin Echler did last year. He he he had like a Sort of a social media thing. Let's go to the chargers Logan M where he said that he if If he was in your like daily fantasy lineup or something like that And he was the reason why you won like he would send Like a jersey to I wonder how many people actually cash in on that Travis Kelsey 299 For the chiefs That'll go to Sean Robinson Got a mini Cooper cup. We've got a Pierre strong junior rookie autograph for the Patriots That's gonna be for Karen and her pats There's a little Marv Jackson Jillo still think about how I don't have an air fryer. I have an oven and a toaster oven. I Don't have a microwave either. I'm not single. I wouldn't say I'm in a Relationship either if you catch my drift Gilo Oh, and a one-of-one Mark Andrews Gilo saying if you're single you don't have an air fryer. I don't know how your life has lived by cooking with pots and pans and Pyrexes and ovens and you know cook I cook Rick Thomas with the Mark Andrews one-of-one and All aboard the Big Head Express Here is a Jalen Tolbert autograph if you feel like people have been Saying good things about him Logan with the Dallas Cowboys We got a Malik Wilson eight out of ten Damien Pierce for the Texans Nice low-numbered card for Patrick in Houston Air fries for the Patrick Holmes of kitchen utilities. I feel like you're doing a disservice to Patrick Holmes I feel like he is a He is a really expensive like espresso machine a He's like La Crescent kitchenware There's Breeze Hall to 125 It's not just an air fryer that you get a target There's David Bell four out of 50 and there is to 199 Kyle Hamilton for the Ravens So you're saying he's the whole package like an air fryer. I don't know.  I'm gonna work on expanding those horizons Give Patrick Holmes the real credit that he deserves He's like a cuisine art food processor the way he chops up defenses Jilo something really nice like that There's Bailey Zappi. I think I heard a broadcast where the announcer saying Zappi. So I'm gonna go with that for now that goes to Karen and the Patriots and we got a Jeremy Rucker rookie autograph for Nico and the Jets Air fries like the Raiders, right? They are the whole package Gilo using your definition. Thanks Coming from a chief's fan. That's a lot of respect. I appreciate that Aaron Miller with the ATL a half way through this four box break Here comes box three pick your team seven Pick your team 18 is on the side right now. You ask these case breaks calm And that is the final four boxes of this fresh case that we popped open a few breaks ago And then I'll have to double check. I don't know. We'll cross that bridge after we finish break 18 But pretty sure I saw one more case of legacy that we can work on after break 18 Unless the personals channel has been selling those boxes out. So we may not have more to post Either way Getting close to wrapping up our run of legacy football. I think it's a good run pulled a lot of nice hits out of here. So Keep at it while supplies last Jashby's case breaks calm. We go. What about some Clyde Edward de Lair for the chiefs to one? 99 Was Gilo's chief so be Sean Robinson and our autograph is for the Patriots Taekwon Thornton That goes to Karen and the Patriots. I really wish he was I don't know what number he is on the Patriots But if he's gonna sign like that, I wish he was number 11 Right because they kind of look like ones I'll have to write a letter to to Taekwon Thornton and now that we are in an era where Football players can wear whatever number they want right everybody Can wear whatever they want? So there's Mike Evans 299 for the Buccaneers Simon Got under the lights to 75 Matt Corral My belief is a Carolina Panther Steven kind of another Desmond Ritter right here Shipping team will look all that stuff up Yeah, he is a panther Still kind of in preseason mode on kind of remembering where all these Players go. There's James and Williams 4 out of 25 nice low number for the Lions be like All the training camp reports seem to suggest that the Lions are pretty high on the sky Aaron with the Lions There is Sean Alexander for the Seahawks Stephen K. It's orange parallel to 125. He's pretty good in his day Another Kenny Pickett rookie card Let's see like a low numbered card of his or something like that Peter with the Steelers maybe some ink and we got a Dak Prescott 2 out of 25 For Dallas that'll be for Logan. We got a mini Jonathan Taylor and we got a Roger Whirly 100 out of 100 hollow fame Autograph nice hollow parallel What's the what's the story with this guy? This goes to the Arizona football Cardinals one of NFL's first shut-down corner backs Whirly I think let opposing QBs know the right side of the field closed for business Those who tested him quickly learned as Roger saw back did in 1975 the Dallas second car was intercepted three times on December 7th Cardinals won 31 17. I'll go the Arizona Cardinals. I'll be for Simon. All right fourth and final box Good luck everybody. All right anything going on the NFL here Seahawks trade for wide receiver slash tight end JJ Arthigo white side. I didn't realize he was designated as a wide receiver slash tight end traded Arthigo white side for Defensive bags Ugo Amati Seahawks are planning to cut Amati as part of their first wave of roster reductions, but found a trade partner Oh, I didn't realize that the Eagles moved the 6-2 237 pound Arthigo white side to tight end earlier this off-season And the Seahawks plan to use him as a hybrid receiver tight end according to a source Arthigo white side was viewed as a long shot to make the Eagles final roster Yeah, it was a weird description on that old schooler, right? I guess I guess maybe the It says one of the first NF one of the NFL's first shut-down corners I don't know. Maybe the maybe that secondary back in the day was You know was more Team-oriented as opposed to the individual play defensive playmaker. I don't know my football knowledge of that That time period is not very strong We got an orange mini to 125. That's Garrett Wilson for the Jets This little little guy going an eco Daxton Hill rookie autograph for the Bengals Eddie Right. Yeah, that's the wide receiver tight end. How many of those are out there? It's kind of like a Gilo saying wide receiver times like a Schmedium size shirt There's Kenny Pickett Peter with the Steelers. I'm sorry knocking over cards here We got a Chase Claypool 24 out of 50 for the Steelers See what I knocked over here nothing too crazy there. Let's go back over here. There is Jersey and Otto Matt Corral For Carolina, that's last spot mojo Stephen K 70% of the time last spot mojo hits a hundred percent of the time That's 24 out of 99 Someone was saying I wasn't watching that Panthers. I haven't watched a lot of Panthers preseason action, but Some I feel like someone in the chat was saying hey Matt Corral actually looked or coral Corral Actually looked pretty good and preseason action for whatever that's word Marquis Brown to 150 that's still Raven's addition. That'll be for Rick and another Desmond Ritter rookie card for for Aaron There is Deontay Johnson 23 out of 75 little mini for Peter the Pittsburgh Steelers All these Kenny Pickett rookie cards Another quarterbacks. We really haven't seen the motto for these guys. All right. We got Brett Favre legends to 199 Aaron with the Packers Parallel All right, we've got something numbered here double oh two out of 100 Peter with Pittsburgh gets the pit panther Picket and we've got Carson Palmer for the Bengals to 299 And a Marcus Allen for the ages insert for the Raiders and there you have it another four boxes of legacy football in the Book that was picketing 17. I'll see you next time for the next break. I'm Joe. Bye. Bye