The early period of life, namely from birth to two years of age, is critical for the promotion of optimal growth, brain development and health and behavioral development. Ensuring that children receive a balanced diet is therefore essential, particularly for those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A linear programming diet model was used to determine an affordable cheapest food basket that meets the daily recommended nutritional requirements for children aged two to three years in Malaysia. The results showed that the average cost of this food basket is RM 2.69, consisting of 474 grams of eggs, 55 grams of tofu, 29 grams of papaya, 5 grams of spinach and 201 grams of potatoes. Parents can save up to 40% of their child's daily food expenses with this food basket. This article was authored by Noor Hayati Binti Shafi'i, Rahana Alias, and Noor Adila Radzuan.


Okay, hi everyone. So I have five minutes. So let's check all the cool improvements from the past year on CollaborationLine. So first it's great to be here with friends and I think Frank already mentioned earlier yesterday that we have really this joint effort on the technical front but this relation goes further. So across the board we really hope that if you are trying to find a solution with a cool office suite, just talk with next clouders. We actually prefer that way. We like to handle our business via our partners. After all, they are cool people. So yeah, and of course this wouldn't be possible with all the names within our community contributions. And this is not even all of them. So then we even have our translators and for that we even have monthly crediting. So we really hope that everyone is happy and we like to see you on our side. So yeah, thanks. Yes, yes, yes, thanks, thanks. So yes, and we really don't strive only to be cool. We really like to be interoperable. So we will see that we not only care about file format standards and all these jazz that you have here about during all these days but also these features that might go an extra mile on being interoperable. So file properties got improved. Now native thanks to Athenis and all the cool work from Nick Wingate. Thanks for that. Sparkline's awesome. Now available again, an extra mile on the interprobability front. Thanks to NGA and Tomasz, quickie. Thanks. He's somewhere, yes. Thanks. Yes, also it's quite important to make sure that your documents are properly created. They are not missing any accessibility tag. So we got you covered. Don't worry. So yes, it's an intelligent way to keep your documents in check. But also it's an intelligent way to keep it interoperable. You get the gist. It's also possible to repair a document now with improvements, dialogues are getting improved. And again, native as well. Form controls. This is a big one. Now you can start to plan the October fest from this year. Oh gosh, I'm quite late. I need to get back to it after this conference. But thanks to NGA Dapsey. And of course, Miko Zvane, which is somewhere, yes. And Rache Spadia, two minutes, thanks. Spreadsheets now got huge improvement. And again, this is one of those things that are resulting from this joint effort. So thanks everyone. Like, spreadsheets are now with a beautiful face and it's just getting better. Like we have things hidden, waiting to see the light. So it will just get better. I cannot wait here. I cannot show you everything, but this is not really 100% ready. But there are more things coming. Mention, new additions. Now it will be possible to mention users right within your documents content. Again, part of this joint effort. So it's really great. I think I have too many slides. Scroll bar has got improvement and more spreadsheet improvements where your content is the key. So we try to get the interface out of the way. And all these, one minute probably, right? Being even more performer. So 75% bandwidth saving faster CPU processes and we are moving to a better compression algorithm. Thanks. Thank you, Pedro. The always entertaining person from Culebra. Thank you so much. Bye. Bye.


The immersive Frida Kahlo exhibition started showing last Thursday in Boston at the lighthouse, our space at the castle. Now fans of the Mexican artist can experience and step inside her world through state-of-the-art technology. I love how they sort of merge like the history and all of her art and made it like a motion, immersive experience. That was really cool. I've never seen it portrayed like that. Some fans struggle from other states just to see her work including her iconic painting The Two Fridas Come to Life. We traveled all the way from Waterbury, Connecticut. This immersion experience was amazing. And it was like time traveling through her life. It was a beautiful experience. The immersive theme incorporated key aspects of Frida's life like her relationship with Diego Rivera so visitors can really understand how she used art to empower herself. Frida's microalism art has become a symbol of resilience and perseverance. She's just a woman that I admire more. If you're looking for something fun to do in Boston and want to be the first in the life of Frida Kahlo, come and visit her exhibition that will be showing for the next couple of months. This is gonna be a simpsons for me and Timmy.


I'm Daryl Hedley. I'm the VP of Engineering at HAPOSLIS, and I run the engineering team. I work very closely with the product, and I help the engineers get through their day-to-day jobs, as well as having architectural conversations and pushing the product board. If I understand, you are the creator of an open courseware platform that's achieved some success. Tell me a little bit about that, and as I understand it, it's been used by hundreds of millions of people now, which is pretty extraordinary. Yeah, so it was back in the day when HTML5 was pretty brand new, and Apple decided to kill a flash, so we ended up creating a really cool responsive HTML5 framework, had really cool widgets, followed a pattern of ABC, which was articles, blocks and components, super highly interactive for e-learning-based content. So that was internal and external learning, built at a company called Kinio, and then they offered to make open source, which was really, really, really cool. We collaborated with multiple companies to end up building an offering tool that also worked with that, and yeah, got picked up by the likes of some of the biggest companies in the world. And also lots and lots of e-learning companies all jumping in together to carry on building and improving it. And what inspired you to create that? Why courseware? What's your interest there? Yeah, I come back from education, so I used to be a teacher way back when. I taught in primary school, and as I was building out websites, I got a lot into design. I got employed at Kinio as a designer, which was interesting, and I was also coding at the same time, and I just love the online learning space. It's highly interactive. There's a lot of theory that goes behind it around learning objectives, bringing that all back, and I am a huge advocate for learning. So building something like this was just pretty much a dream for me, because I was able to build and take over knowledge that I learned from learning and see how you can merge it into technology. And it was really brand new, like responsive design was brand new back then. They'd only just brought out the video element, so it was really, really early on. And we could do it all in the browser now. You could work across multiple devices, and it just meant that everyone had the access to be able to access it, which I think was a huge thing for us, so we made sure that everything was accessible. But we went down to, you know, not just keyboard tabbing, or whether it had colour blind ratios. We went down to, will it load fast enough on my device? So we optimised images, we would have different image types with different devices. Yeah, so that was always a forefront of what we were trying to do. So in building any complex project, you know, there's always tons of obstacles. And what were some of the challenges that you guys faced, some of the problems that you had to solve for? The initial requirements was they had to work on IEA, which was a real hard one. Anyway, just, so that was browser spec. And, you know, we're dealing with new technology, it's HTML5 back then, and they actually labelled it HTML5, and it's now just gone back to HTML. So we were coming across multiple browsers not supporting certain things. Just the technical deficit across that was just really, really hard to solve. We tried it with different poly fields, we had different interactions that would work slightly different based upon the browser. Moderniser, a really cool library that would tell us which features the browser had would save us daily every time we were building out a new feature. So there was that. Then we had also client demands at the same time as trying to build out a product. And that was kind of solved by us forming an open source branch inside the Atkinia, which is groundbreaking. It was really, really cool. There was a few of us all working on the open source product, and we separated that from the client work. And that's really tough because you have client work that's coming in that is actually almost like pushing you in a certain way, but actually you're trying to build something that's open source where you need a whole plugin system. And the plugin system we have is incredible. So you're able to plug in components, you're able to plug in this thing called extensions, but they could actually modify parts of the content. And we had pre-render hooks and post-render hooks that would come in and actually adjust content or add labels or anything like that. But it's extra functionality you could plug into. When you're trying to do that with something that a client's asking for, it's super hard to be able to catch all those requirements, make it into something that's pluggable that you can extract. And so we kind of had a really nice philosophy, which was the core can be extended but not modified. And by keeping to that rule, we just had this really lovely core. We actually called it core as well. And then everything else, all the components, the themes, extensions for all plugins. So if you actually ever rendered the first version of it, it rendered nothing. So you'd have to add a text component, then a graphic component, then a question. But it also meant that when you compiled that down, we worked into accessibility needs because you'd only have three components rather than say 50 components. So the actual space of downloading stuff worked out as a benefit. So in order to find market fit, any product, with the users and customers, any product needs to find that kind of sweet spot. How did you guys measure that and how did you get there? For this one, can I switch to evolve? Yeah, sure. Let me ask the question. So after at Kineo, you founded a new company, a co-founded a new company to take the concept and the product further. Is that right? Yep, that's right. And so what we ended up doing was taking an adapt. The actual framework, using that and put an offering tool around it. Later on, we actually took out adapt and put our own framework in it for speed and actually getting to faster product market fit. And that product was called? Evolve. Evolve, okay. And a company that you created was called Appeteer. Is that right? Yep. And so in, what was the point at which you found kind of product market fit and things began to kind of take off? And any of us who've been in companies where that happens is always kind of a magical moment. What was, how did you guys get there? And what drove that process? It's magical, but also scary. Especially when you have a whole load of people coming in and signing up. We, we went about it in a really different way. We were self-funded. So we went after kind of almost like gorilla style kind of marketing. We spun up a cool stand learning technologies. And we were one of the first companies to actually just let people use our software. All the other stands tend to actually be salespeople selling it. And we were just like, hey, come and use it. Come and actually play with this. And our whole thing was about, we had this kind of analogy that we wanted our users, the people using Evolve to, for Evolve to be like the pencil of an artist. So the first thing that an artist picks up in the morning is their pencil. The last thing they put down at night is their pencil. We wanted Evolve to be that tool that all learning designers pick up in the morning and they put down at night. And we had to make sure that we, it was easy to use. It was fun to play with and that meant design, but also small little animations or the way that something worked or the way that we could join up pieces of content to another piece of content. We built a live preview. So as you're building it, you can see it all live. So our aim was purely that. And so we gave everyone purpose in the company to be able to build into that.  So we had Google within six months of starting the business and it just grew and grew and grew. Yeah. I think there's some more that like we can probably go into how we actually went around product market fit, which was, we just spoke to a lot of people. We spoke to, we had some really great people who came in as beta testers.  And so they would come in, give us feedback. We'd like, that's so much to do. So much to do. But actually we learned quite quickly that we needed to hear what their actual problems were. They would actually, they came in a lot with their solutions. And I remember a chat with one of the product managers we had at it. And I was like, I think we need to go into this call and actually change this conversation. They're just giving us these solutions. Let's go in and actually give them like asking for their problems rather than their solutions. And this kind of changed our whole philosophy. And this is massively in product management now. We went around and just asked them what their problems were. And actually a lot of them were on scale. And so we then think about all these features that to do with scale. And then we'd come back to them and be like, hey, we think we could solve this problem by doing this. And they were like, that's so much better than what we were thinking. We're like, yes, we can do this. So we actually went in that way. We had a really amazing, amazing company called the cotton on group who were just phenomenal. They had seven brands I think across Australia and they used Evolve and they were instrumental in what we built. They gave us really fun interactions to think about. They'd give us scenarios where they wanted to teach their learners in a specific way.  And that would actually help them bring that back to them. So we went after their problems and we tried to solve their problems. And that's what really brass market fit because we were listening to all of our customers, but constantly. Like I was probably on hangouts and calls a good time, a good couple of times a day. As you led those different teams and kind of scaled those different organizations, what are some of the fundamental lessons you learned as an engineering later? Give people space. I think that's the biggest thing and trusting them. And even when, you know, you have these hard times as long as you can put the trust and you give them a sense of purpose and they're trying to achieve this. They fly past that purpose and it's just one of the most incredible things. I worked with some of the best engineers. I think I've ever worked with there. And it was just one of these moments where you go, this is where we'd like to get to. Gov and it. Here it is. Here's some of the boundaries that we have around kind of, you know, what we're expecting from time, roughly what we have from the technology choices. Gov and it and we'd work closely with them. We'd bring in customer feedback and it just, we've had this kind of really cool loop for a very, very small team. So we had support coming in. We had sales coming back in. And we did a few things that just helped us gain that almost like slightly larger purpose that we all believe that we were doing something that was really amazing. And one of the things is giving credit where it's due. And I felt like I was giving credit a lot because these engineers were just jumping through getting up to this purpose and you could feel it. So our support team, an amazing person would bring back feedback from the customers around features that we had and it fed straight back in. And so the engineers would hear it. The PM would hear it. Everyone would hear it and be like, wow, we did this. Do you see what we did? We did this. And then they would jump into that. If you can bring data along with that, then you kind of push that and it kind of accelerates that. Why hypothesis? What did you see here and kind of what inspired you about what we're trying to do? Where did you join? Well, firstly, I had a conversation with you. And the conversation with you was really inspiring. You told me what you wanted to do. And that was purpose. And I'm a very purpose driven type of guy. So when you spoke to me about purpose, I was like, damn, this is cool. If we could get onto this and we could build this out and keep this going. And then you mentioned about the education market. And I was like, ah, that's sold for me. And those two things together, making sure that we're always in education, that we're pushing education and actually some of the things that side effects of all of those things, like, I don't have to download a thousand page document to annotate it. I can now do that as a group. I can do that as a single person. I can also bookmark important pieces of content. And I just believe that content is expanding, expanding throughout the world, a bit like space. And we need some way to be able to join up those pieces of content. And if we can do that by links, by bits of content, you know how I like my wonderful comments of quotes that people have. I have them bookmarks so I can then come back to them and be like, oh yeah. And then I'll jot something down to it. So that a few of us that have some of my old engineering mates are, we're commenting on little bits of snippets of code externally and having our thoughts of like, what is your first thought? And we're playing a game at the moment. What's your first thought on this? And seeing what we can like post out of it. So it brings another dimension to communication, but it also links up content. And I just think with everything expanding, there's a really wonderful way that we could be connecting content. And then I met the team. And the team are just an incredible bunch. Some of the most senior engineers I've ever worked with. So they challenged me to a really lovely kind of space where I'm like, wow, it's really, really far advanced. I'm going to have to go up and do some research on some of this stuff. And so it's really great. I feel like the team kind of pushes itself. Moving forward, as you scale the engineering and product teams, what are some of the fundamentals you're looking for in new team members? I've mentioned a sponge kind of attitude where someone can soak up a huge amount of knowledge and be able to use that sponge in kind of different areas. And what I mean by that is someone who can say, take a theory of something and then being able to apply it to multiple places.  It sounds really simple, but actually our culture is really lovely here. People share things. People are very open. It's actually one of the other things around joining was, everything was open. So me going back through the history of some of the videos and watching the interaction between teams, the conversations we're having around architecture, I could literally go back in time, see it all and be up to speed with everything. And it was just really lovely. So someone who's open, someone who's willing to share, but also someone who's able to passionately put across their view and believe in that view as well, is something I need. Great. Well, I'm just thrilled to have you here. It's been an amazing couple of months just getting started and just really looking forward to the adventure ahead. So thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. It's going to be really great.


Because it hurt the silence in the heart. Destiny was daring from the start, beginning with a certain guy who was gained and envisioned a new world. It gathered to a great, deciding force who was faithful to integrate an awareness of unfulfilled needs, of human needs, of unfulfilled desires, of breaching that divisive world. The communication gap has became the challenge and the charge to mingle with the mainstream and to master that it is fit to hang ups and prejudgements to be little. But the bag of heart from the experience in the vestibule, will stand the many ports of destiny embark upon their chosen audacity, meaning so many things to these are people. Today we pause to dedicate a new and the dream they kept all frontier so to me.


now we talk to our man teddy cakes that as we do every every wednesday at forty past the hour folks you can check out teddy's tiger forex report right under the newsletters tab the tiger forex report you can sign up for ninety seven dollars per month it comes with a thirty day money back guarantee folks and don't forget teddy's got a couple of great webinars out there capitalizing on time with calendar stock option spreads ninety seven dollars and japanese candlestick pattern stock and option strategies with our man teddy cakes as well both great webinars that you can watch as many times as you'd like and let's jump into it teddy cakes at good morning good morning tommy where do you want to start do we have enough action going on this week man what do we got going on where do you want to begin um well i think the numbers is where we should start out with you know i mean i've been saying it for months the economic numbers are more more important they have been in probably over a decade you know especially as we're trying to figure out what the fed's gonna do cpi obviously you know the market reacted and then we had a flat line in the currencies and then now we had this one thing is yet cpi in the uk that came out this morning a little bit better than expected so that kind of put the brakes on the slide i would say as far as the pound dollar meaning that the dollar is probably a little overdone now from that news from yesterday now we do have unemployment claims tomorrow and we still have building permits on friday and that one could be a a big one to shake up the interest rate market you know so uh that's when i would definitely watch today i think that you're going to see probably the s and p's hold up in the bond market probably in the interest rate market pull back a little bit as we you know track through the day and the lunch time and stuff like that i wouldn't expect a big bounce you know i'd be very careful being uh bearish the dollar right now and i would definitely be watching those numbers and we've had we've got some pretty interesting situations like the the u.s dollar yet is probably the one you have to watch out for the most because it's above that 150 even area which is the threshold for the bank of japan and now we also have oil breaking out to the upside you know and we also which is probably going to get up to 81 to 83 area i think and then we also if that does happen that's going to put pressure on the yen and give the u.s dollar yen a lift especially if yields continue to to break out to the downside which interestingly enough like i'm saying that today i think you're going to see yield start to pull back but i think it's going to be a profit taking move i'd be very very very careful i think you're going to see newer lows in the uh interest rate market because i can see the tenure and especially the short terms still pressing the lows i wouldn't try and call a bottom in that move at all and talking about lower price higher yield correct yes yeah no it's it's quite the move man and yeah that dollar yen pretty remarkable we're back above the the 150 pushing 150 190 the highs that we had back in october um what do you think about how well and i know you know we were always talking about four experiences but how well kind of the market has held up even in the face of this reversal we've had from october now we've had some gangbuster earnings of course but it's pretty remarkable you got the s&p sitting at 5000 right now and we've had yields kind of give back from 3.8 to 4.3 or so and i know i'm going beyond 4x but what do you think about that as it ties in because it's just a remarkable resilience right now oh it absolutely ties in though tommy uh right now with the s&p's it's pretty obvious that earnings are driving the market you know it's a i talked to a lot of people they're always like teddy why is the market pushing these highs i don't understand i'm like earnings i'm like as long as earnings are good you i remember being in the s&p's when the economy was in the complete gutter for over a year two years we were in true recessions by the number if you will you know and this s&p's were railing i mean every day we'd be like yeah we're making new highs we're making new highs or making new highs and everyone's like what in the world is going out of the stock market well the stock market's forward thinking you know and then there's also you got your equity curves cycles of curves you know right now you have gold that's under restraint a little bit your interest rates are high as they go higher that also you know there's a cyclicality to these markets and right now we're coming to the end with this with the s&p's i'd be careful after earnings season as far as you know i'm not going to try and say there's a top in the market but we could easily see you know a three four percent correction especially if economic numbers start to you know point that way like building permits for for example on friday if building permits drop by say a significant number especially if it's way below forecast you know that's something that would cause a shake-up in the bond market you know what else it's going to cause a shake-up in is the s&p 500 pit for sure without a doubt the futures will react off of that news you know i mean building permits aren't the biggest economic number but they are right now when you're looking at where inflation you know it is is subsided but it hasn't gone away you know the media may keep saying they want the you know the fed to start cutting rates and i heard you earlier say you know about the one article why the public's like why haven't they started cutting rates it's really simple the numbers don't justify it numbers are economic numbers are lagging now we've had enough time where they haven't done anything and they're like oh geez inflation's still there and oh look at yesterday's cpi cpi went up you know that is a big deal especially considering what they've tried to accomplish you know so just if we stay at the rate the cpi just has this kind of outlook just for the next couple of months you're probably not going to see a rate cut until september right now you're looking at may is probably the first time maybe even june before they even do one quarter point you know just in time for the election just in time for the election it's like well that's that no matter what i believe i get this summer i mean it's going to be hysteria either way um so why not add some some cuts that come in like right a month or two i have but i agree i agree man because you know i go back to that i don't know if you saw him on 60 minutes i'm sure you saw the take on it he was just so strong and the the comment that caught me the most was when he just brought it home you know that we got to get back to when nobody's talking about inflation you know you're not even worried about it it's like that's all everybody talks about kind of and then you get a cpi number like that and the compounding of the the inflation is really what gets you man you go 10 percent you go eight percent then you go four and you go four my goodness you add it all up and then that's how do you get out of talking about here's a perfect example of inflation for you i went to meet a friend for lunch yesterday we each had the same thing we had a french onion soup she had a cup i had a bowl she had a caesar salad i had a chicken caesar salad and one coke do you know how much it costs with the tip 75 dollars for two soups and two salads and one coke that's ridiculous i'm sorry i mean like 75 dollars two years ago i could go out just for myself and have a nice dinner i was gonna say a little bit more i'm getting dinner for two i see restricts like that only from uh las vegas in the superbowl man not chicago having lunch for a soup and salad no it is it's yeah it's um and that's and that's where and so i agree that you know if the chairman is being real and you know it would make sense that to a certain degree he wants that to be the case um and and his legacy not to be that he let you know generational inflation soar that boy they got a long way to go before nobody's talking about inflation man because these compounding numbers are pretty critical yeah hey what do you um you know 81 82 bucks on crude so is that something where you're looking possibly for it to chop around and then longer term maybe going higher if we get to that level because we're almost at 79 right now which is remarkable you're up more than a percent um do you have any analysis there you're going to look for how to trade at that price point i think we'll get a little toppy around 81 just over that and i think you'll probably see it spike up to 83 that we may start to see a digestion phase in that area too where it'll be probably from eight and see right now i was looking at 70 75 dollars a barrel now we've broken out to the upside now it's probably be around that 80 to 83 dollars now if we get above 83 you can close above that and sustain well then we got a major issue then we then we're looking at something like we could see a hundred dollar oil again and then we have inflation coming back in a big way yeah nobody's going to stop talking about inflation if gas prices hit four or five bucks that's for sure teddy i appreciate it as always man uh i hope you enjoyed that soup and salad yesterday man uh listen thanks so much for coming on i'll talk to you next week man take care tell me folks check it out the tiger forex report outstanding newsletter go sign up for it during the break you got a 90-day money back guarantee we'll be right back folks


So, welcome to the seventh session and recall that we did examples of homogeneity in the previous session and we defined the idea of shift invariance. What was the meaning of shift invariance? When I shifted the input by a certain shift or a certain quantity on the independent variable, the only change in the output was to shift by the same quantity on the independent variable. Now, let us take all the examples of previous session and ask the question of shift invariance on those. So, let us begin with the example of y of t is x of t the whole square is the shift invariant we ask. And of course, we reason that if x of t minus t0 is given to the system what comes out is x of t minus t0 the whole square which is indeed equal to y of t minus t0. So, the system is indeed shift invariant and you now summarize this system is shift invariant but neither additive nor homogeneous. Now, we ask the question about the second system that we saw namely y of t is x of t plus x of t minus 1 minus x of t minus 2 and we apply x of t minus t0 to the system clearly the output is going to be x of t minus t0 plus x of t minus t0 minus 1 minus x of t minus t0 minus 2 which is of course equal to y of t minus t0 that is not too difficult to and therefore, the system is indeed shift invariant. So, here is a beautiful example of a system which is shift invariant and also additive and homogeneous it has all the three properties that we have discussed so far additive homogeneous and shift invariant. Let us now take the third example that we saw you see you will now understand why I introduce those specific examples in the previous two discussions because you will see a distinction now when you look at these three properties. Let us come back. So, let us look at the third example which I had introduced in the previous session with the intent of investigating this particular property t times x t. Now, this is a tricky one when I give x of t minus t0 to the system what comes out is t times x of t minus t0 and not t minus t0 times x of t minus t0. So, let me give you an example let us take that very unit step input. So, we give the unit step input to the system 1 for t greater than equal to 0 and 0 for t less than 0 and query what the output is. The output is of course a ramp as we saw. So, from t equal to 0 onwards it give you t times u t essentially a growing straight line here. Now, let us see what happened if you gave it for example u of t minus 1 unit step shifted by 1 forward. So, essentially you have from t equal to 1 onwards you have the input being 1. So, you know we write this as u of t minus 1 being given as the input here and we query what the output is. Now, please note that the output would of course begin to be non-zero from t equal to 1 as you expect. So, it would be 1 at t equal to 1 1 times 1 and from there it is going to grow linearly. So, it is essentially going to be 1 multiplied by t from there onwards you know that is interesting. So, for example at t equal to let us say this is at t equal to 1 but let us say I take t equal to 5 at t equal to 5 the output is going to be 5 when this output as we see it this output is not the same not the previous one shifted by 1. This is very important it is not the previous output shifted by 1 forward and therefore with this one counter example we have shown the system is not shift invariant. You see you have to be very careful when you try and establish a property or when you try and contradict a property you will notice that here it was enough for me to use one counter example to contradict the property. I took an example of an input I shifted the input by 1 step and I asked whether the output was shifted by the same amount same shift and I found the output was not shifted by the same amount and therefore I could conclude the output is not the same as the input shifted by whatever shift the input had for this particular counter example and that was adequate to say the system was not shift invariant. However, I cannot use the strategy to conclude that the system is shift invariant. So, I cannot take an example and say well here you are there is this input I observe the output I shift the input by 1 step forward I find the output is also shifted by 1 step forward and therefore I could conclude the system is shift invariant no. If you wish to prove the system is shift invariant you must do it independent of which input you have given and which shift you have made you must prove it for all shifts and for all inputs. But if you wish to disprove a property it is very easy pick one counter example you see it is like trying to prove or disprove the statement that all residents of a particular colony are liars.   But if you wish to disprove that statement go to the house of one of the residents in the colony and observe him telling the truth at least sometimes and then if by liar you mean somebody who tells lies all the time and if you detect this person telling the truth sometimes there you are you have disproved that statement. So, this is a general principle that we must remember in signals and systems to disprove a statement a counter example is adequate but to prove a statement an example is inadequate anyway coming back to this particular example. So, here you notice that we showed with a counter example that the system is not shift invariant and therefore we can make a conclusion about this system. The system y of t is equal to t times x of t is not shift invariant but it is additive and homogeneous and of course now I am going to leave one exercise for you and before we conclude that session I shall put down the exercise for you. Exercise is analyze y of t is equal to xt plus 5 for shift invariant. Is it shift invariant? And this is a little exercise for you to work out before we come to the next session. Thank you.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyskatespace.com, 2023. Meaning national gold VIP 10-pack break, random first name, first letter, number four just sold out. And again, guys, 18 total spots. Everybody gets a random letter from the list below on all cars shipping. As an example, of course, letter B. We're to pull a Bryce Young that goes to you. And let's go with the dice roll first. Let's roll it. And it is a one to six, seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Seven times. One, six, seven, seven. Monty, done a shawmatic. One to six, seven. Seven times here. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Somebody will, Timothy. And they're going to get an Alvarez red out of five autographs. We were worried of calling it. Q-O and all other letters down to R. R. All right. So, let's make this a little bit bigger. So, Monty, you have the combo spot there with Q, O, and all other letters. Nestor with P, Brian with G, Sean with J, Nicole with T. Jesse with E, F, U. Walter with C, Sean Matty with K. Brian with W, Nestor with B. Brian with D, Sean with L and S and N. Brian with A. Monty with M. Tristan with H. And then Sean with R. R-I-T. All right. So, there's your guys' letters. And I'm just going to do it the way I was doing it over here, guys. There's like six stacks. All right. There's eight stacks. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. I'll choose a stack, and that's where I'll grab the packs from. And let's quickly generate a stack number. Five. So, I'll grab from stack five right now. So, one, two, three, four, five. There's a huge stack back here. There should be more than ten, so that's the good thing. So, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Right there. All right. If anybody doesn't want to make any trades, we'll close the trade window right now. Nicole gets a spot in the NTR&B Chronicles pack filler. So, I'm going to put that on the schedule, actually. I think let's try to determine how our night's going to look. So, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to put it on the schedule right now. This pack filler. All right, sweet. So, I already kind of set the schedule up there. All right. I'm going to close in, guys. Yeah, the NT baseball number five was just hitting. So, kind of made up for the other break. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. All right. Here we go, guys. We've got Mariano Rivera for letter M. Let me actually show you guys your list again one more time. So, M right there would be Monty. That's $23.99. And then we've got a Chet Holmgren for letter C, Walter. You've got A-Rod and a base Mark McGuire. A-Rod does a number to 25. Letter A going to Brian K. You've got Benedict Matherin with the Arch Manning. Letter B, Benedict is Nestor to $149. And a little Arch going to A, Brian. Joe Namath, number to $149. Nice Paolo Boncero, or Boncaro, sorry. And then Joe Namath, of course, is letter J. Going to Sean Madaglas Bonmojo. That's 46 out of 75. Letter P going to Nestor. We've got Joe Burrow there. Nice Chet Holmgren. That is 67 out of 199. Another one for letter C. Kate Cunningham, number 144 out of 149. Letter C going to Walter. Nice Bryce Young, letter B going to Nestor. Nice little color match too. 122 out of 149. We've got Jason Tatum, 39 out of 149. And the last one here is Bo Jackson, letter B. One out of 75. Alrighty, well no autos or anything like that here, but a lot of nice colors here of course. A couple nice rookies. There you go guys. That was the National VIP Gold Pack Break, number four. I know we hit a nice, like Anthony Richardson but there's still a lot of packs in our box guys, so a lot of chances of potentially getting some hits in that whole box of VIP Gold Packs guys. So next one will be in the star guys.


Although some animals and people may go into hibernation at this time of year, the South Portland Recreation Department is not one of them. Director Rick Toll tells Leslie McVane that their winter activity schedule is as crowded as ever. Well, Rick, it is the season to be jolly in South Portland. Absolutely. Absolutely. You've got a lot of fun things coming up. Well, yeah, we look forward to this time of the year. People would think with parks and recreation, we would go and hibernate. Uh-huh. It keeps rolling. Yeah. You don't stop. Now, coming right up is the Christmas tree lighting in the park. Yeah. It's an annual event that we're really proud of and the Rotarians and the businesses in downtown Mill Creek area, they really get behind us and they support it and we thank them for their generosity, but they light the trees in the park up with the festive lights that we put in them as the Parks and Recreation Department, and it's really a neat thing to see and the kids all come and they're amazed, but there's events from early afternoon into the evening on December 7th, so we encourage people to come back out to that annual event. Will there be hot chocolate? I'm assuming there will be, yes. Absolutely. It usually is, it looks like that. And not only will you be having this annual event, but it'll be in a new park. Yeah, the park's been renovated, so we have a lot of areas that we can use that we couldn't over different times of the year in the past, so people could come in from the formal garden entrance now on Ocean Avenue and Broadway. We maybe take a picture this year and if we get some snow between now and then there's some really neat new places to set up to take a family picture for the Christmas holidays that you send out to all your friends. Oh, what a great idea. Yeah, the new plaza that's sitting there too. Oh, what a great idea. So even if people have been in the past, this is going to be totally new and exciting. Yeah, it's very different for them, ways they can use the park they couldn't in the past. Yeah. Well, you've got other things coming up too. As you said, Parks and Rec doesn't close up shop after the good weather stops. No. We have our basketball program that's already underway and things for youth, but we encourage people to come into everything from drop-in sessions where they can just come in and participate, but they can also sign up for regular classes or programs they want to sign up for, ranging from art and yoga all the way to, you know, them getting involved with swimming and getting in more in the pool and I encourage that this time of the year, significantly. Well, it's hard for people who are outdoor runners or bikers or something and then all of a sudden that snow comes or just the cold weather. Yeah, if you're an orthopedist, you're loving it because all these people are too stubborn to go indoor and do something that when it gets icy on the sidewalks or the roadways and things, we're encouraging them to avoid that hazard, keep up and keep in shape. But the simple ways for folks who are just trying to do it for basic health is we have an indoor walking track inside the community center located on Nelson Road in South Portland. We have a 12th mile, so you do 12 laps and it's a mile. You can walk, which is really good for you, but you can also do a combination with that of swimming. And if you don't know how to swim, we have the lessons all winter, too, that you could take and start with that and then build up. We have cardio fitness programs in the pool. We also have cardio fitness programs in the gym and they're age-appropriate. So if someone's a senior, they can join a senior group if they want. If they're a little more fit, they can join another group. So it's neat to see that it's like a hibernation on, you know, on a treadmill.  And we all know how important that is that if you stop using something, it's just going to break. Well, the hard part is, like I said, all summer and fall, you see people put all the excellent time in and the holidays can kick in the butt a little bit because, you know, you get active and do things socially, but if you don't stay with it, it's twice as hard on your body, twice as hard on you mentally in the spring to pick it back up. Yeah, it's so true. It's so true.  Absolutely. You can be any person and start out and start from scratch, or you can be a person who's been swimming and we can help you advance your strokes or advance the way you're doing it. So we have a great staff. Our aquatics crew is really neat. That's great. Now, do you have special children's programs that are geared just for winter coming up? Oh, yeah. We have, like I said, we've got these kids that want to be artistic and do things and use their hands, and we have a great art classroom or two that we do that with. We have teen-based programs, teenagers, a lot of times, it's time of the year. You know, you're kind of sick of seeing them, and we started a new one at our Red Bank Community Center in that facility each evening of the week and some weekend activities for them. Some of the teenagers like to go into our skiing program, our learn to ski program. Oh, great. This is the facility we go to, Slope, there's lots of things like that. Well, thank you for being here. And if they want to find out more, they can go to... Well, obviously, you can find us on our website at any time at southportland.org, and we'll click on Parks and Recreation and you'll weave your way through there and find things. You can also call us at our offices at 767-765-0, and we'd be happy to help you as well. Well, great. Thanks, Rick, for being here, and I look forward to doing some of this myself. Well, I appreciate it. We look forward to seeing you. Okay.


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Asha and I am going to help you with the following question which says if A into 1 upon B plus 1 upon C comma B into 1 upon C plus 1 upon A comma C into 1 upon A plus 1 upon B are in A, B prove that A, B and C are in A, B. So let us now begin with the solution and we are given that A into 1 upon B plus 1 upon C comma B into 1 upon C plus 1 upon A and C into 1 upon A plus 1 upon B are in A, B.  So taking A comma from both the terms it can be written as A into 1 upon B plus 1 upon C plus 1 upon A. Now dividing these three terms by 1 upon A plus 1 upon B plus 1 upon C implies that A, B and C are in thus we have proved that and C are in A, B. So this completes the session. Take care and have a good day.


Now host communities of oil and gas companies have been tasked to bring long-term abuse and neglect in the Niger Delta to an end through sustained environmental monitoring and advocacy. Executive Director of Health and Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, Nemo Basi urged the communities to ensure that economic interest of investors did not threaten the environment. It stressed the need to raise community activists who will defend the ecosystem from degradation and pollution. Due to severe devastation of the ecosystem and the effect on people of oil-producing communities in river states, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, is championing advocacy against environmental pollution in the Niger Delta. In that capacity, HOMEF brought together people from Kediri, Po, Goi and Moho communities in the state to share information on the usefulness of community monitoring organized in an advocacy. During his address to the participants, the director of HOMEF, Nemo Basi, stressed the need to protect the environment from further pollution. He said the aims is to empower community members to be ready to hold environmental destroyers accountable for any damage done. This training is meant to equip the community people, not just to see things and walk away, but when they see things, they will take notes. They have to become citizen journalists to report on what is going on in their communities. We also train them on community organizing and solidarity building. Introducing them to continental networks of fishers, because these are people who used to fish, but can't fish anymore. HOMEF project lead on networking and alliances, Steven Nuduwari, urged the people to learn to task political leaders who approached them for votes to begin to take issues of environmental pollution seriously. Some community members share their experiences on what they suffer from the destroyed environment and loss of means of livelihoods. Today, if you plant yam or cassava and you don't have fertilizer and other chemicals to make it do well, you don't get anything out of it, that is to say that the land is no longer better. Or a party life has been destroyed, just the environmental system was changed. And if you go to the clinic, even as I tell you, to camp, it's very, very crucial. The major sickness you see is typhoid, you talk of malaria, you talk of kidney problem, you talk of demand problem, or is as a result of oil pollution. Correspondents recalled that Kediri community with about 54 oil wells had a major oil spill on the 12th of April 2009, went far from Bomo manifold, burned and spread to neighboring Goi and Moho communities, which destroyed people's means of livelihoods.


How can having a disability be an asset, not a deficit? Men in wheelchair speaking, Derek O'Brien. I find if you ask politely for people to lend a hand, they'd be willing to at least give you a little bit of their time and help you out as much as they can. John Lemieux. The ability to look at things differently, the ability to look at myself differently is one of the positive things that's come out of my amputation. Man in wheelchair speaking, Bud Buzzel. I can still get out and work. I can get out and do my grocery shopping and do my housework without having to hire somebody. Having to hire somebody to do it for me. Woman speaking American Sign Language, The asset in a disability for me are my eyes. As a deaf person, because I can't hear, that doesn't mean at all that I can't appreciate the birds singing because what I do is I watch them fly. I see nature around me and I appreciate it more. I relate to people visually. I have a real visual appreciation. I guess that's what you'd say. The support came to his right, Ken Shapiro. My disability is giving me a greater appreciation for diverse viewpoints and maybe a better, more patient problem solver. Karen Perry. Disabled people have a lot of opportunities available to them, including therapy and adaptive activities. Haley, pass. Having a disability can be an asset and not a deficit because it makes you unique and as well as having an open mind about the world. James Devine. It's my observation that a lot of people with disabilities make up for the lack in one specific area by building up their abilities in other areas. In other words, a blind person becomes a very good hearer who is really tuned into music or whatever, more so than the average Joe on the street. Jessica Russell. Having a disability allows me to connect with others in the disability community and instantly form bonds and unite and try to make change together. 18 years ago, I became a part of a minority group and that has pushed me to fight for change and equality. Portland Disability Advisory Committee. For more information about the committee, please go to www.portlandmain.gov made by the Portland Media Center, portlandmedia.org.


Does anybody have any questions, additions or deletions to the minutes? Move to accept as presented. May the Louise move. Is there a second? Second. I read you second. Is there moved and property second? Everyone in favor of approving the minutes from the February 9th meeting, say aye. Aye. All right. Perfect. Okay. So guys, today is a working meeting where we know our committees have been meeting. Some have some meetings coming up, but have some preliminary information. So I wanted to kind of dive into these meetings before the reports from the committees. Before we actually do that, just wanted to talk a little bit about where we are, because I do think that we are at the appropriate point in our work after we talk about our committees and the committee goals today to put all of us together in some kind of interim report to city council. So I wanted to just reiterate and make sure everybody understood kind of where we are right now. So right now we do have a definition that we, there's consensus around regarding what affordable housing is. Affordable housing is the continuum of equitable, inclusive, and quality rental and home ownership opportunities for people at every income level, which is critical to creating safe, complete, and thriving communities. We also talked about having a goal. We want to settle on a goal for 2022. Our discussion after much conversation was, we will use 2021 to actually look at what is being added or rehabbed and returned back into the market. And then once we analyze 2021 with benchmarks, we can look at a goal for 2022, 2023, and 2024 respectively. So that is where we are. Does anybody have any questions on that? Or does everybody feel comfortable that that kind of lays the groundwork for the overall part of our work? And now we're going to talk about specific committee goals. Okay. All right. So with that said, and did Julianne join us? Okay. So Julianne is not on yet. I know the accessibility committee has met at least once. I don't know if there's been an additional meeting, but there were some conversations regarding understanding some of the challenges for access to affordable housing. And one of the things that we talked about there is making sure that we have a diversity of housing. So I think really completely goes into our definition when we talked about complete and thriving communities, because we talked about there's a need for seniors that are on fixed income. There's accessibility issues that come with aging in place. There are accessibility issues for those who are physically and mentally disabled. We also talked about the accessibility barriers that are presented based for our returning citizens, formerly incarcerated people who are returning to society and there are barriers there. So those are kind of some of the areas that they've identified as accessibility issues that they'd like to delve deeper into and what some of the solutions can be as far as making accessibility to affordable quality housing a reality for people within those special populations. I did wanna ask, based on that brief report back, does anybody have any other thoughts of accessibility issues that the committee is not looking at right now? All right, so if not, I'm gonna go to Mr. Barner and the finance committee. And Reggie, I think I dropped the ball on Gloria and I were texting over the weekend. Gloria is gonna be your staff support for your committee. So moving forward, that is who you can coordinate with from the staff perspective, but I know I think you and Brian have talked and so you have a report back for us. Yeah, yeah, so one of the things to make a thank you that we wanted to kind of get an update maybe from you and Gloria and not necessarily today, but we can kind of identify for the next time. I know a couple of years ago, the city council worked in past for the local tax, affordable housing tax credit or tax abatement program. And I know that that went to the county for some collaboration with the county. And so maybe we get an update on where that stands locally within the community as well. Cause I know in order for that to really go into effect, the county had to adopt some legislation there as well. And so I kind of don't know where that stands cause I know that that too within itself could be a major benefit to affordable housing development from a financing standpoint in the community as well. Okay. Some of the things that Brian and I kind of briefly talked about and kind of want to go back to and mention for the good of the group, looking at some communities are now and I know that I'm working on another project and a private investor fund from a social impact investment standpoint is looking at a project that we're working on somewhere else. And so one of the things that Brian brought up potentially is a social impact bond program or a social impact fund where private investment or private investors invest. And so they typically get a lower return on their investment with those type of programs than they typically do. So in most cases, people are looking for a double digit return from ROI standpoint or our standpoint but when they look at a social impact fund they're looking at the benefit of the cost of their return as well as the benefit that they're making in the community. And so as we continue to go forward maybe we can have some discussion around potentially looking at the development of a social impact fund for the Midlands area or within the city. And so that was one of the items that we wanted to kind of mention for the good of the group from a finance into a standpoint as well. The other option that we want to consider from a finance and standpoint that I mentioned for the good of the group and I know the city of Atlanta passed one doing 2020 where they created a local fund bond program that's supported by the city. So the city of Atlanta did an affordable housing bond program and kind of don't know what the appetite is there in Columbia potentially for a bond issuance program related to affordable housing. One way that we can potentially maybe tackle that and you all may already do this in Gloria when we talk she may provide some additional information. I know some cities through their special option sales tax the one cent sales tax program that they're putting some affordable housing mechanisms into their one cent sales tax programs as well. So there are different initiatives that are helping to support affordable housing through the splosh programs or the one cents sales tax programs that we can incorporate into the program. The other thing that I wanna mention that's been around for a long time. I know a lot of communities don't necessarily want to look at a tax increment finance district or tax increments financing better known as a tip. But one thing that we can already facilitate is utilizing the multi-county industrial park legislation and what that basically does for lack of a better word is industrial whenever a new company is coming in to the city or the county generally what ends up happening from an economic development standpoint they partner with an adjoining county and create what is called a multi-county park. And then so when you look at the tax revenue when an industry comes in they basically give them a tax abatement for a 10, 15 or 20 year timeframe by creating this multi-county industrial park. In some cases you can utilize that. It's not widely utilized because a lot of people don't think about using it from an affordable housing standpoint but we can utilize the multi-county industrial park legislation that's already in place to be able to create affordable housing and use that as a mechanism as well. And then another thing that Brian mentioned that happens in Ohio that I thought was pretty unique is the state which in this case we could potentially tap into the city or the county but the state created a program there where the unclaimed state funds, the affordable housing aspect can tap into the unclaimed state funds and that goes into a fund that helps to create affordable housing and even is used to leverage low-income housing tax credits to kind of feel as additional gap financing for low-income housing programs in Ohio. So once again that's another tool in the toolbox that we can potentially look at. I know that a lot of communities have land banks so we can look at the continuation as we have discussion this year on in and around creating a land bank. There's a lot of vacant property and we talked about that on the other meeting before. There's a lot of infill lots in the city that maybe with the city support, we can tap into a lot of those. And when people think about building affordable housing even from a tax credit standpoint we always think about it in the sense of having a four-acre track or a five-acre track to build one single development but what you can do is kind of take those lots and rezoning and be able to create multiple affordable housing in an apartment complex style and utilizing that by taking advantage of a lot of those infill lots and still develop it as one development but build it in infill lots opposed to trying to piecemeal it with one house at a time where we can be able to create more housing at once by taking multiple lots and creating one development utilizing multiple lots as a tool there. The other and lastly, the other thing that we kind of talked about briefly and I looked into is creating an affordable housing impact fee and that is where an assessment at the city and county level is on new residential and commercial development. And so that assessment fee, that affordable housing impact fee is added on for commercial and residential builders that are building new units and a portion of that will then go into a fund that can help create affordable housing. So that way you don't necessarily have to have an inclusionary zoning requirement that they build some affordable housing in their developments. However, if you build within the city, if you have that affordable housing impact fee, a portion of those fees that are paid would go into a fund that can be designated to help create more affordable housing in the community. So those are some of the things that we kind of talked about. To me, I will provide you a written narrative of all of those things that I just mentioned that can be included and we can have on record as we go forward this year with our planning process of different initiatives that we can look at from a finance and standpoint. I do wanna mention that last year, a lot happened even with COVID, a lot happened. And so I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that the passage of the legislation that allows non-profits and housing authorities to be a part of developments and if they have a major contribution or participation of ownership, those properties can get a tax reduction or tax abatement. And then also the benefit of the state tax credit program. If you don't know with the advent of the state tax credit program and at the end of December, with the 4% credits being at a floor now at 4%, that has created more interest in South Carolina. We have more developers from around the country coming into South Carolina focused on the bond program, the 4% program like never before, not just in Columbia, but all over the state. And so a lot of people have an interest in this state now because of the state tax credit program. Awesome. Thank you, Reggie, and you're right. I've talked to several developers in the last two weeks and all of them have mentioned the 4% and just the newer incentives. But I think what the work that you guys have done have been great. And I apologize. I think I another kind of dropped the ball. I think Chris is supposed to be on your committee. So moving forward, we'll make sure that y'all tap in, Chris, for these conversations as well. But I think great, great report. And I actually have a friend in the governor's office in Ohio, so I will reach out to her and get more detail on that unclaimed state funds. I've talked to Treasurer Loftus a few times and he tells how much money we have in unclaimed funds and how he's trying to get it back to people. But I know that if there is a potential for any option for that to be used, that would be great. So I'm gonna open it up, see if anybody has any questions or comments for our financing subcommittee. I do, Tamika. Okay, Jeff, Jim. Yeah, and if you could include me on that committee, I'd like to be a part of that also. Just a quick question to Reginald and Brian, was any consideration given to supporting a countywide trust fund or affordable housing? Yeah, Jim, we've talked about that before and are more related to a local trust fund. And so I'll add that back to that list. Great, thank you. Sue, were you gonna say something? No, I was just going to say, these are some really, really interesting and I really appreciate the report. That's all I was gonna say. I think there's some really good options here. Anybody else have any questions or feedback for the financing subcommittee? All right, well, thank you. Great work, gentlemen, I appreciate that. And Patrick and TK are on here as well, as Gloria is your staff support. So one of the things that we can do between now and then the next subcommittee meeting for you guys is any additional research or legal opinion on what is currently available, what is, might need slight legislative support and then what might really need a lot of education and lobbying to get done would be helpful as well. So we'll do that too. Thank you, gentlemen. Okay, so next Sue and Lala Anna on the legal and zoning. Lala Anna, you want me to start? Go for it. I know that we talked so we're sharing the knowledge today. Yeah, yeah, we have, we are meeting later this week and I apologize. We have been a little bit slow in going, partly because I have been more focused on- You've been a little bit busy at the same time. You've been a little bit busy at the State House, we understand. And also been working, dealing with the statewide, a lot of the eviction problems that folks are facing. And so I apologize for that. And, but Lala Anna and I are gonna have a meeting on Thursday and we've really looking at two particular issues. One, while development of housing is really critical, we in Columbia have an eviction crisis and talking, we wanna talk further about the eviction problem. What we need to do not just be, and I shouldn't say not just because of the pandemic. I mean, obviously the pandemic has exacerbated what was already a problem here in Columbia, but some mechanisms that one of them that we, I've been working with the Columbia chapter of the NAACP and I wanna thank the city for giving resources. I believe Councilman Davis, you've been critical in that getting resources to the Navigator project, but to be thinking about how do we address the issue of getting people the assistance that they need as well as about what we need to be doing about funds, while it's an eviction crisis for the tenant, it also can sorely impact landlords, especially those who only own one or two properties. And then Lala Anna, if I misstate this, you feel free to correct me, but in the zoning piece, we do know that the city is looking at zoning issues, but what we specifically is addressing zoning issues is what's getting in the way of affordable housing. And obviously there's some things that we wanna look at to that there've been some innovative things that have been happening in other jurisdictions and how zoning ordinances could help with that, especially when we're looking at properties that may have been abandoned or that may be former hotels or motels. And also where that's getting in becoming a barrier for actually the production of affordable housing. And clearly Lala Anna has experienced from producing affordable housing as well as helping get people placed. So she will probably wanna just say more than my simplified explanation of what we wanna see our subcommittee look at. And if there's anybody who feels that they wanted to be on our committee and had not availed themselves of the opportunity to participate with us, we welcome as many folks as possible to help us with this. And the only thing that I'll add to Sue's pretty concise explanation is, so we've kind of charged the committee and anyone else to bring us these best practices or these projects that we're seeing in other cities and other areas. I think a couple of meetings ago, we talked about Charlotte and their renovation of motels to become single use apartments. So the idea of really kind of digging into, we bring these projects to the city, what would be stopping us other than funding and what changes are going to have to be made to incorporate those specialized projects into a larger affordable housing plan. So like specifically, I don't know if you all remember but it was the reuse of abandoned motels. So some of the zoning issues, I hate the word issue because that's negative. I think it's more of an education and kind of identifying what's in place and what fine tuning needs to be made. Awesome. I will say, I think Regina Williams is clocked on down. I think she would like to be on your committee. So I'll make sure to have Regina on there. If anybody else wants to join Sue and Lila Anna for legal and zoning with, I think either Chris or Lee, I don't know who the staff support is but we'll make sure that you guys get looped into that meeting is Thursday. Is it 2.30? I remember 2.30. And if you're interested, I'll get you the Zoom link. So please just let me know. You can even put your email on the chat and I'll get that forwarded to you. I know one other thing that was raised to me, Sue and Lila Anna, I think Tanya raised this a couple of times and then some other folks I've been working with in the community have raised it is just understanding I guess the authority mechanism for apartments that may not be housing authority owned but they're under section eight or they might be tax credit. And I think for the community's sake, they are confused as to if there is a issue regarding the maintenance of the property or there's an issue regarding sewer and other things. Who do they go to? I think a lot of folks want to always go to Ms. Matthews and her team but that's not always the regulatory or authority person. So we can maybe understand that process and then be able to figure out even maybe in partnership with the partnerships and education group, making sure that that information is available so that people know who do you go to as a tenant when you have some of these concerns? That would be great. I'm wondering if, and this may be something that the Columbia Housing Authority has or it may be a hybrid that the State Housing Finance Authority and the Columbia Housing Authority has but it would be wonderful to have an inventory of the properties that are either accepting vouchers and I realize if it's an individual, it would be really, really hard for us to be able to have all of those but especially for those that might be tax credit or might be a larger property so that we know what the properties are so if we were to put something like this together as far as what your rights are and who you would complain to or we would be able to make Columbia to be able to utilize. Awesome and I do think that Brian has at least some of that already because I know he and I have shared some emails regarding that so we might just get with him on that. Brian, you're like our go-to person a lot. I figured Brian might have some of that. Yeah, yeah. So you may remember when I was speaking about, I think it was our meeting in August, trying to get an estimate of the current inventory. So there's certainly the ability to put together some sort of resource that would say, all right, here's the list of tax credit properties. Here's the list of Columbia Housing properties. Here's the list of other subsidized properties certainly as you know, tax credit properties are required by law to accept vouchers. Certainly a directory of private landlords who are willing to do that, I think would certainly be something that could be very useful. All right, thank you. So guys, anybody have any questions or feedback for the legal and zoning committee, subcommittee? Yes, I like when he said the directory idea, because definitely when they give you your lease to sign, you do get a list of rights and responsibilities, but it is so large. And I don't think many residents take the time out to actually read that paperwork. So having it in a form that will be more compound and more straight to the point. Like you said, like he was saying just now, I think it will be much better for residents to be able to read it and understand it and know exactly where they're calling and where they're going to when they need those resources. Thank you, Tanya. Anybody else questions or feedback for the legal and zoning committee? Thank you guys and anybody wants to join them, make sure they have your information so you can join the meeting on Thursday. All right, Jennifer for partnerships. Good morning, everybody. So for the last few months, partnership and education committee have been meeting jointly because we felt like there was just such overlap and the ability to leverage the work of the two committees. So I'm actually gonna ask Brenna, who is chair of education to report for both of us because she's done a great job compiling all of our notes. But then just wanna give a special thank you to Lee, who's our staff support, who's been adding a lot of really deep value to the work as well. So just wanted to do that. Thank you, Jennifer. Brenna. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. So we partnership and education have been meeting about the past three months now, I think kind of joined together. And we last met last Tuesday and came up with kind of categories for outreach. We have eight categories that we're hoping to start working with divided between us looking at political developers. So city and county councils, business and community partners, state and local housing agencies, funders and real estate partners, neighborhood associations, potential home buyers and new renters, community neighborhood coalition groups, and then the media and partnership with the PR department. And we're looking at starting a kind of success story model working with some people who have gone through affordable housing to really share their success stories. So we can get that out on social media, start promoting the positive side of affordable housing. And we're looking at the goals or outreach are to demonstrate the worth and the positive side of affordable housing and to debunk the myths and work with opposition. So we're trying to come up with a kind of one page information with goals of kind of every committee that we're working with, just a goal for each committee, and then some maybe a type of slogan. So our definition is great. It's a little long. So coming up with something that's a little bit shorter for like social media campaigns and things like that. And then to really work on the overall task force goals and get, start getting that out to communities and partners as fast as we can. Awesome. Brenna, I saw Mayor Louise put in the chat, add the local chamber to your list. We have them on there. They fall under the first and second categories of our outreach plan. Okay, great. All right. Anybody have any questions or feedback for Brenna and Jennifer on the public education and the awareness committee? And we have joint meetings monthly. If anyone would like to join, I can send out the information for that as well. So Brenna, let me ask this. So, cause I think you guys got a lot in there. What's the next steps for you guys? I think our next step is to come up with, we have a goal of the partnership and education outreach that we want to start conducting as fast as possible. I think our first steps are getting that one pager kind of complete. So as we all go out, we're all saying the same types of information to the groups. We talked about the partnership, reaching more out to the business side. So really working with the financing, zoning, legal committees to see what their kind of goals and objectives are a little bit. And then the education and awareness will work with accessibility and some of these other groups to really hone in on what's most important to the individuals in the neighborhoods. And get this like one page information sheet out so people can kind of see the overall goals and objectives that we're working on and try to add to that. And do you guys have, I know the media part would be done, but do you have an idea of already what the data would be on that one pager or y'all working on that now? We're working on that now. I'm getting a draft over to Jennifer this week. Okay, cool. Any other questions for Brenna or Jennifer? Alrighty. Okay, so right now I'm just gonna open it for open discussion. We've heard from all of our committees. I think work is moving forward. I think jointly next steps really is going to be based on what I've heard is Erica and I will, well, I said Erica and I really, Erica will work on the minutes from here and pulling it also together into from our work from last month on the goal and the definition of affordable housing and what all the committees have laid out today, we will pull that together into a document. And then once we can pull that together and document, get it to everybody for additional input or feedback. And then if that has creating a buy-in for neighborhoods is an important task. Yes, Regina, you're right. So pull all that together. And then once we're able to pull that together, we can then give an interim report to city council and county council. And I don't think Ms. Teratia was able to join us. Oh, yes, she is. Allison, do you wanna add anything? A bigger next step would be we'll take this document. You and I can present it to our respective councils and get any feedback or questions that they have and then start compiling up with the action items and goals for 2021. I think that's perfect. Thank you, yes. So I think that's kind of where we are but I'm opening it up for discussion. If anybody thinks there's something missing there, is there another action item that you guys would like to see elevated as we compile this report and 2020 action items or 2021 action items. Seeing none. Okay, so I think we're doing really good. I mean, I think we've got some great information. So my goal would be, and Erica, if you will calendar this for me, our goal will be to get this one page or this information that we're talking about to you guys by the end of this month. So, and then we can have everybody kind of take a look at it and then the report backs next month we'll finalize that. And so that Allison and I have something to take our colleagues. So with that said, announcements, Ms. Matthews, I think you've got a lot going on but do you wanna make any announcements on where you are? Yes, I'd like to invite all of you as well as anybody that you know my own property in Richland County in the city of Columbia, of course, to partner with us on becoming a landlord for our housing choice voucher program. We have a virtual meeting that's scheduled for Monday at 6 p.m. And the information is on our website about how you register. I can also get the information out to everybody on the call as well. That way you'll have it in your inbox and can easily access it. While we're looking for landlords, Columbia Housing currently has an allocation of $30 million that comes directly from congressional appropriations from HUD. And so we partner right now with a little over a thousand landlords in the community. We're looking to partner with more landlords. We have the opportunity to put more people in an affordable housing place. And so we wanna be able to maximize those resources because you know when we receive federal funds, if we don't use them, we lose them. And so we certainly don't wanna lose any of our available resources that we have to be able to provide more housing for people in the community. So just let us know, share it with anybody. It could be Mama Pop, it could be multi-family landlords but just we need more landlords. Thank you. Anybody else have any announcements that they wanna share or any projects that you're working on? And Jeff, y'all have something coming up? We do, we have our night of promise Gaila. And that's happening virtually a way for us to get with all of our volunteers as our congregations are unable to shelter our families. We had to be really creative in getting them involved and still being able to volunteer and help support our families. So we're really focused on finding creative housing solutions and sheltering options but also providing stability support for the children in these households that are having some of these challenges. So you know, working really hard with that now and getting our volunteers involved is really the main thing because we have a lot. So wanna find them ways to get involved safely. Jeff, is this a fundraiser? Yes, yes it is, it is. I'm not a promise, it is a fundraiser. It is a virtual Gaila. We generally have it every year in person of course but we're unable to have it last year and we're doing it virtually this year. So brand new for everyone, but I'm really excited. thankful that you're a part to be able to talk about affordable housing and some of our needs there but also excited for our congregations and the districts they represent to learn a lot more about affordable housing and some of what we're trying to do in our communities. You know, as we try to establish these neighborhoods I think of options for affordable housing where our churches are, you know trying to create these pockets of affordable housing there for our families. So the more I think we can educate of course being a part of that subcommittee the more that we can educate our community on the need and for them to be able to see our families and put a face in the name to our families I think our volunteers can truly start to understand why it's so important that we have affordable housing in our communities and that's kind of what we're working on now is the education piece within our congregations and then for them to honestly be able to find housing options for us to be to start to plant the seed now for them to help us find affordable housing options for our families in our program. So working on a few different things. So if you send us the link we'll make sure Eric can get it out to everybody and see how they might support the night of promise. Thank you. Thank you so much. I sure will. Anybody else have anything, any announcements anything they were working on? Amika. Sorry, go ahead Sue. Well Anna then Sue. No, go ahead I can wait. So we have opened the application process for Myrtle Grove which is our affordable housing development over on Wates Road. Those applications opened this past Friday. The application is available on our website as well as when applications are received. There are 15 units and they are at 30, 50 and 60% AMI. They are not voucher driven. It is what I call the front end voucher which means the rents are reduced based on income. So if you know of anybody who would like to submit an application honestly the best thing to do is just send them to our website and they can download it. Well Anna a question on that. Does it have to be a family? Can a single person apply? It is family. The funding was written based on having one child in custody but understand that can be multi-generational. So it could be a grandparent with a child 18 or under. Okay. And I'll just add that. So it just reminded me and maybe this is something for the accessibility committee as well is I've had probably in the last four weeks two or three people who are single that have not been able to found housing because they don't have children. So I think that's another barrier that we don't think about are folks who are not making enough and they can't afford affordable housing and they don't qualify for certain programs because they don't have families. Okay. Sue you had something? The project that was initiated by the Columbia NAACP is now in really moving forward. It's an eviction navigation project and I want to make sure people are familiar with it. They can contact the Columbia NAACP office and the person will be partnered with a navigator. I've been that when all the money started to get released for eviction protection to pay and get people caught up that that would be a big piece of it. And that didn't last very long. So we're very excited and waiting to see when Richland County money will be released. And I've been, Gloria, just so you'll know I don't just stalk you. I've been stalking Richland County as well about their funding project with it so that we can help get people the help they need if they need further legal assistance sometimes they will get sent to a pro bono attorney or they will get forwarded to South Carolina Legal Services and all in an effort to help keep people in their homes as well as hopefully getting landlords the resources for their rent. Awesome, thank you, Sue. Anybody else? I'll have a final comment, but Allison I wanted to give you an opportunity to have the floor if there's anything that you want to add just from the county's perspective or your personal perspective on what we're doing and how important and where we're going from here. Thank you, Tanika. Yes, so we've obviously had a little bit of change over kind of quite a bit of change over on County Council. So new folks are coming on and I believe that some of those are also folks are excited about working on affordable housing. So it'll be nice to have colleagues to see this as a major issue in Richland County that will just go a long way toward working with staff and other council members and getting those votes we need to get what we need passed. We're also seeing a little bit of change over with staff and so I'm looking for those folks on who are working on the staff side just who are interested in champions because again, when we know when people are passionate about this issue it just moves the ball along so much better. Thank you. Well, thank you. I'm glad to know that there and I know a few of your new colleagues and I know that that is but thank you for your commitment that you continue to work with us and we're really at a really good place at trying to put this task force and your leadership on the county and the work that we're doing at the city to see us being able to really impact it. So thank you, Allison. We wanna make sure that you know you're appreciated and we know you can't make every single meeting but we wanna make sure that we say publicly how appreciative we are of you and your leadership here. Thank you. And I'll just add, I'm sorry I didn't speak up before but I was on a neighborhood meeting last night and one of the people in the neighborhoods are, you know, there's a narrative around if there are multifamily housing, density requirements, those sorts of things and just lots of misperceptions about, you know, the people's needs like the benefits to communities for having density. And so I love being on the committee that I'm on just thinking about how we're educating the public because we really need to be able to go into these meetings with, you know, well-meaning people who have kind of an instinctive reflex to push back on density, to push back on multifamily units just because historically they have been, I think maligned. So, you know, I was sitting there with my housing notebook in my lab and just listening to people talk and thinking I have got to be able to be a better spokesperson for this because this mythology is perpetuating. So that's just from a personal experience that I had in the past 24 hours. Thank you. Well, I appreciate you sharing that. Anybody else, I see our city manager has jumped on and I thank Ms. Wilson for being here again and see if you have anything, Teresa or? I don't, Ms. Devine. I'm sorry I couldn't jump on before now. Y'all are so efficient. You're already probably wrapping up but I'm kind of double booked as usual. I'm sorry. Now your good staff is here and done a good job but we appreciate, we know you have a lot going on. Yes. So with that said, we have pretty much finished our work for today. I did want to, I guess my closing comments is I really appreciate all of you. This is something that has been an issue for me for many years and several of you have reached out to me so I want to thank you for reaching out and saying how much you appreciate this work and the thoughtful manner we're going into this. I will tell you that we are unfortunately or fortunately going into a campaign season and I raised this only because a couple of you have called me offline about affordable housing and I want you to know that my pledge is that the work that we do in this committee, this task force will not be politicized. It will not be derailed or used either by myself or anybody else. So I just want you to have that commitment and pledge from me. This work is personal to me. I think we have amazing, amazing task force with great expertise. And in my years on city council, nobody has taken the leadership to pull a group like this together in order to get real solutions. And so I'm honored that you guys took my call or answered my email to be willing to serve because I think that we are going to get to the point where we are really going to be a leader not just for South Carolina but nationally because this is a national issue. It's not an easy issue. And unfortunately, we have even elected officials who now wanna say that they think this is important but when they could stand up and agree to have affordable housing within their communities, they didn't wanna support it. So I think that to Allison's point, the narrative is the first job that we have but this expertise that we have on this committee will allow that narrative to be pushed back with real facts and data and solutions. So with that, I just want you guys to know how much I appreciate your time because I know you are all so busy and you could be doing so many other things but this is important work. And with the resources that we have, with the staff support that we have and with the knowledge, I know that we're gonna see solutions. So our last thing I'll say is the last two weeks I've had maybe four or five meetings with affordable housing developers who were not looking at Columbia but are now looking at Columbia and Richland County, Allison. I actually connected one with one year colleagues, Allison, for a project that he's doing in the unincorporated area but we have developers who are looking at this city in this region that we're not doing it before. And I think because they do see the solutions that are bringing forward. So I'm excited. We got to say the course. We know the education piece will be a big piece. It won't be easy. But I think that the information that we're gonna provide will make this issue not just important to those of us who are sitting around this table but will make it important to our whole community. So with that said, our next meeting Erica has put down is April 13th, 2021. I wanna, we will get you the information that you guys need to continue the committee work in the interim. And I would ask that you do try and get your committees, meet with your committees before the 13th so that we can have some finality to some of the goals for 2021. And if there is anybody who is not on a committee and you wanna be on one or your own one and you heard something today that makes you think I wanna be on another one because I like what they're doing, please reach out to Erica or myself and we'll make sure that we tap you into the committee. So with that said, thank you so much. We are adjourned, enjoy the beautiful day and we will see you guys in April next, well, it'll be spring by then. So we'll see you guys in a few weeks.


So I just want to play a quick video for you all. There's not going to be any audio But I just want you to make some observations and if you don't already know then I'll tell you why this might be an issue so You see people here Lots and lots of people over a hundred people all partying having a good time You know, you know mingling having some cocktails and if you didn't notice this individual is the Governor of Texas. This is Greg Abbott. Now one day after this took place Greg Abbott tested positive for COVID-19 So I just want to go back. We'll kind of scan through it again. I counted Zero masks zero masks he is not wearing a mask and Every single person in this room is now exposed to COVID-19 now The reason why this is so interesting is because I'm going to read a little bit. This is from the Texas Tribune Governor Greg Abbott of Texas tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday and is receiving an antibody treatment Though he has no symptoms the governor's office announced now Here's where it gets interesting an ardent opponent of mask and vaccine mandates Mr. Abbott a Republican has taken his opposition to such requirements all the way to the state's Supreme Court Mr. Abbott who is fully vaccinated will now be isolated in the governor's mansion while receiving Monoclonal, I probably put you that word antibody treatment which can help patients who are at risk of getting very sick Folks is this not like the perfect illustration as to why masks are really important So when in chat so that this is Obama's birthday party and I These people are so old. I'm sorry if they get COVID there That's it game over if they're not vaccinated rolled by Governor Abbott that sucks like Nicknames like Ron DeSantis is be called like Ron DeSantis now I mean Republican governors are not taking it seriously and honestly it's like if they get COVID. I'm not gonna be sad about that It's just like I had two thoughts initially when I saw that video after I learned that he tested positive It's like one how many of these people who are really old probably vulnerable are going to die and To how many of them are donors like how many of them help him get Elected and to see all of them like living it up. I Don't know like I don't know Dan do you have anything to say? I'm trying to bite my tongue. No worries is was that video for where they in Texas I don't know where that video was taken. So this is the heritage ranch It's a Republican club in Texas. I believe Okay, so Texas is behind the nationwide average I mean 51% of people in the nation are fully vaccinated I think in Texas that's at least 5% behind that so less than half the people in that audience were You know, I'm just maybe more because there's old people.  He'll be right back. I'll bring them in The village people Also, I'm sorry, is it heritage ranch? Is that what it's called? Yes, sounds about white, okay Yeah, it definitely fitting Let me get back to Dan Dan.   It was the deep state All I was getting at was it just seems to me that a lot of people in that room made a bad decision, but That's what you get when you have people that don't Understand science when they think that they do Yeah Yeah, it's just this is this to me is I mean this keeps happening And I don't think that Greg Abbott is going to feel bad at all that he infected possibly more than a hundred people I mean, how cruel was it when Donald Trump? He had that rally? I can't remember where it was but Herman Cain ended up dying who attended that rally There were no masks and did Trump even like shed a single tear for his friend and political ally I don't think so. So I mean at some point you've got a thing. Okay, these Republicans are now killing each other Are they ever Yes, oh my god, I'm trying so hard to not say anything bad.  They're even wearing it outside all the time during a hotter weather than in California But if you can believe it, so I want to believe I really want to believe that we can have a better world You know and all that but I can't help but be skeptical when half the country in this Lovely place, uh, don't wear masks I'm confused. Uh, how can I be optimistic? Yeah, you know, this is interesting I'm glad that you brought that up because in Korea the masks aren't a political thing like they're not political Even if you're conservative politically in Korea, this isn't controversial Is it do you ever see anti-mask viral videos out of Korea or or anywhere else in the world? I mean in Korea, I never saw see one I mean, I'm sure that if that came out The government flacket of misinformation and then people will um troll that person forever and as for Other countries. Um, I haven't really seen I mean, maybe there are I'm pretty sure there is, you know There's the resilient president, but you know, most of the I think is really about a US thing this Mask opposition movement that makes so much scientific sense, you know