Allora, il prossimo talk, abbiamo qui Monique Tappelmann e Neyolandese ci farà una presentazione in inglese quindi farò una presentazione in italiano e poi in inglese. Quindi Monique è una esperta di, una UX designer e content strategist, ha una sua compagnia di media, boy media, e come si definisce specia lei ha anche preso il virus dell'accessibilità quindi si sta dedicando anche a questo aspetto importantissimo, quindi per lei è veramente fondamentale costruire dei city web user friendly e oggi ci parla della sua esperienza con il progetto 100 days of code e ci spiegherà perché imparare ed esercitarsi con la programmazione è qualcosa che potremmo fare tutti anche se non abbiamo intenzione di perseguire una carriera nella programmazione. So Monique, welcome, she has UX designer and independent worker at her own company, boy media, she builds user friendly website because she's been caught by the accessibility virus so she thinks she's really important to build accessible websites and today she's going to talk about her experience with 100 days of code project, a challenge and she will explain why we should all take our chance with coding even if we don't fancy a real career in coding but why this is important, why we should challenge ourselves in this. So Monique. Thank you. So I am Grazie, that's sort of all I can say. I practiced a sentence in Italian and it's in my speaking notes but the display is being a bit difficult so you get sort of the spoiler on the left, don't look at that. So 100 days of what? 100 days of code and as Alice explained this is my talk about why you should learn how to code and if you're expecting any code in this talk, sorry, there won't be any lines of code so I'm hoping, I hope you don't have expectations of that. Let's see. So first I'd like to learn what my audience is, you're probably fed up with raising your hands at conferences, I'm always like oh here we go again but I want to know it anyway so sorry about that and excuse me for the bit of stereotype drawing I've been doing. I'd like to know who's a developer in this room. Good, quite a few. And any designers in the house? Yeah. Okay. We probably have some other cool cats in the house. We're all cool cats, right? So yeah, this talk is about my journey on why I wanted to learn how to code and I don't know if any of you've been to WordCamp Europe in Paris. That was my second big WordCamp I went to and I learned HTML before there was CSS so there I gave a bit away about my age. I started really, really young and but I really liked HTML and CSS but I sort of abandoned it because at some point where you got all the different devices with the different screen sizes, designing for the web got really frustrating for me and I decided to focus more on content and the purpose of a website because you can have good design, good code but if the content is not useful or not interesting it's just a vessel let's be honest. I mean we make our money with it most of us but it's a vessel to get a message across so I've been really focusing on that a lot. But when I learned about CSS Grid in 2016 or 2017 I think it was I was like oh I love this and I come from a graphical background so I was in the printing industry and I could totally relate to the technique of CSS Grid. But I kept saying for a year a year and a half I really love CSS Grid but it doesn't get you anywhere just loving it. It's not that you wake up the next day and you know how to use it. The other thing is that when I apply themes to websites in WordPress I sometimes get really frustrated because I understand the CSS, I know what to change and then nothing happens. It's like okay what did I do wrong. So that was frustrating for me as well. Then finding time to learn or making time technique. Okay it should be good. I have to do that every now and then not talk too much. Yeah finding time to learn something new is also difficult as well because before you know it you're at the end of the day again and then there's so many resources out there on the internet I really didn't know where to start. So that was sort of like why I started this whole thing. So here's a little bit about me. So I'm Monique. I'm now proudly call myself UX designer because I'm not a very good visual designer so I didn't dare to call myself a designer. But UX is really my thing. I love to make things usable and I'm actually focusing and shifting towards that more and more. I also teach a part time teach at the local university in Amsterdam. I do that for two months a year and I do that on WordPress content management prototyping. And I coach teach like individual clients who want to build their own websites. So that's when I put on my cape so because they usually see you as a hero that you know so much and they learn so much from you so that's really great to do that. And when I'm not working I'm a gardener and I'm a crazy cat lady. I even I wear my cat socks today. That's the first thing I get a first time I get an applause for that but I'm happy with it. I'll show them a bit more. We'll give you a good five tomorrow. So this is where it all started January 2019.  If you follow me on Twitter you know I'm on Twitter a lot. And there was this thing called 100 days of code and it said this new year's resolution let me read it will change your life learn to code with 100 days of code. And the year before I've been picking up things every now and then but abandoned it and I was going like oh I saw people do this and I'm going to commit to that. So that's what I did.  So it was out in the open. I was going to do it. But what was I going to do? I didn't know it really. I just committed. And actually it is what you make of it. There's this Canadian guy. His name is in my speaker notes that I can't see right now. You can read it on my website. I'll share the link afterwards. And he sort of made this up and it's actually coding for one hour for 100 days. That's it. That's the only two rules he made. It's not that strict. I'll cut it back later. And this is sort of my five things on how I started doing this. So the first thing is you have to set a clear learning goal. You have to find a course or resource that you want to follow. Find or maybe more important make time to do it. And post your progress to Twitter with the hashtag. And the last one I should have made that very big. You need to have fun doing it because it makes it so much easier to keep doing it. So the first thing, choosing your learning goal. For me, I mentioned it before, CSS Grid was my main goal. I really wanted to learn that. PHP for me was like, I'm more like front end. It's more connected to what I'm doing on a daily base. CSS, well, yeah, that was the way to go. Obviously, JavaScript, maybe later. So I started learning CSS and particularly looked at CSS Grid. So the second thing is where you're going to find some information to learn this. I don't know if you're familiar with free code camp. But that's a great resource for learning coding.  But for me that at some point didn't really work. It was easy for me to abandon and I forgot about it again. I started beginning this year with a Udemy course. There's lots of things out there. And I did this course by Jonas Smetman on advanced CSS and SAS. And he also taught me Flexbox and CSS Grid. And it's amazing the information they give you for only 10 euros a course and you can do it over and over again. So that was my starting point. I also know people find their resources on GitHub. But that's more like self-discipline. You have to read and find your things. So for me Udemy was really good because I had the short snippets and they expanded from there. So it's a personal preference. What you can also do to learn new things is go to meetups, contribute today's work camps. So good you're all here. You're learning new stuff this weekend. And what I also did to find resources is you can go on Twitter if you see someone posting updates and going like, oh, this is a topic I want to learn. Just ask like what course are you doing, where you're learning this. And people are happy to share. I get these questions as well. So that might be a resource. My presentation is not on my side today. It's I'm sorry about this. Usually I'm very professional with this, as you know. They got mixed up as well. Well, it will be good. I think I was left at number three, finding time. And this is the most difficult thing because everybody has their own daily habits. There are things they need to do besides working or just work to make money. This doesn't bring you any money. So that one hour of coding a day, when are you going to do it? Are you going to do it in the evening? Will you might be tired? Or you've got a partner who wants attention as well. You need to finish this Netflix series that you just started and then need to binge watch until two in the morning. So it's hard to find or make time. I can't tell you the ideal formula for that, but for me it works when I do it first thing, when I get behind my desk. I don't open my email. I don't open social media. I keep my phone off. And I do it the first hour so I don't get distracted. That works for me. And then after an hour I turn on everything. And I've realized I haven't really lost any time because I know because I have one hour less sort of on my working day. I'm more focused and I'm more productive. So I don't know about you, but nobody I know talking from my own experience is productive for eight hours a day straight on. So you can miss that one hour, definitely. This is the easy part. You post your progress to Twitter. You don't have to do it, but the idea about this challenge is that you do and that holds you accountable for your updates. It also helps you to see your progress because when I now see my update from day five, I'm like, oh, I've come a long way since then. I'm really proud of myself to see what I've learned every day. So it's, for me, it's good to do it. And to put it out in the open, like I said, it helps you be accountable for what you do and people respond to that. And this is a very important thing. I'll get back to that later. You need to have fun. Learning things, new things, is amazing. It's really good to do. It inspires you. It's, for me, it opens my head. I wished I had exploited that a bit more when I could do it full time when I still live with my parents. But yeah, it's really fun to learn new things. So enjoy that. Now we're getting to the why. I'm not really bored. It's not that I have to fill my days. And so at Christmas I started baking my own bread. It's not that I do that all day, but it's good. It's a nice thing to do. I like to garden, as I said before.  I like to have a glass of wine every now and then.  Yeah, I like to do nothing. It's hard, but I like to do nothing as well. I like to do drawing. I learned to draw earlier this year to do sketch noting and these slides were for me the reason to practice that. I like to read every now and then. So where do I put this coding in my schedule? Why am I doing this? The first thing is it helps me become a better designer. It inspires me. I look at things from a new perspective. If I get new ideas, looking at possibilities that are, well, things that are possible on the web. So if I look at that, I'm just like, oh, I get all these new ideas. So I get really inspired by learning new techniques. I think one of the most important things to learn code when you're not a programmer yourself. For me, it's to have better communication and understanding of how developers work. You speak the same language. Like it's hard for me to communicate with you if you don't understand English and the other way around. If you would only speak Italian to me, I would like puzzled. So it's good that I'm Dutch, you're Italian and we have English as a common language. Or if you could at least say Goeiemorgen in Dutch. You're wishing me a good morning. Bon giorno. So yeah, you understand what the person means. So for me, learning how to code, I get a better understanding of what developers want to say o try to achieve or what their challenges are when I design something and they go like, why did you think of this? So that's one important thing for me why I wanted to learn coding. I'm messing my slides up pretty bad. But this should be the next slide. I get meaningful conversations on Twitter when I post my updates because I'm not just posting like this is what I did, but I also tried to involve people as questions. So Rianne Riedfeldt, I think she spoke at this conference last year. She's one of my friends. I organized the local WordPress meetup with her. And on day 20, I learned about opening and closing a pop-up with the target selector. And Rianne Riedfeldt, she's an accessibility expert and she has a certain opinion on models. And she always says all models must die. I think that's still really the code of conducts to say that. So I mentioned her and she responded to that and someone else responded to that. But also with other questions I had because I've been learning some accessibility as well and things I learned on the courses. People gave me new resources and they alongside they learned me things as well. So it was good to have conversations about the topics I was learning. It really is a mess. I should be good. Let me see. I think we're at this slide now. It's called 100 days of code. So maybe you ask yourself what happens on day 101 will I fall into a deep boredom after that? I'll get back to that in a minute. Because maybe some of you have been paying attention. It's not that early anymore. You had your espresso so you're awake. I started at January 1st and the current day of the year is day 327. So you think I should have been done by now doing my 100 days? I'm sorry. This is my last update. And the last update is of 12th November and I was at day 19. So for me the 100 days of code one hour is not a thing that if I miss a day I have to start over again. I do it at my own pace. So in the weekend I don't do it when I travel it's a bit harder. And also the last few weeks I've been really really slow in coding because I started learning JavaScript. And that's because I was doing this 100 days of code and some of my friends from the WordPress community said hey do you want to be in a study group with us and we want to learn React and there's this course from the University of Helsinki and it would be good if you joined us and we can level each other up. And I was just like I'm the one with no knowledge and you all know these things so why do you want to do that? They said well it's good for more experienced people to learn from people who know less because when you explain someone to someone less experienced you learn from that as well. You get a better understanding of the things you need. So I was like okay I'll join your JavaScript React group and after the first lesson I was totally clueless. I was just like I'm not getting this. I'm not enjoying this. But we had our accountability meetings and they convinced me like oh we can help you move forward and it will you don't have to like it but you will get a better understanding and I was going like okay. And then after two meetings I sort of moved away from that React because I don't know developers may know about React but I've not heard anyone talk about like oh I like this. I understand this. But I realized I missed a basic understanding of JavaScript so I went back to that free code camp and said I need to do like ES6 JavaScript basic JavaScript first. So I went back to that but every time I opened my laptop and did that like after half an hour I was like oh I don't like JavaScript so maybe you should learn it deeply but I don't want to. So actually I did this talk on Wednesday in the Netherlands and there's someone else like why don't you quit with JavaScript do something you like remember rule number five. So I'm stopping I'm not learning JavaScript hey so maybe the last 10 days we'll speed up again a bit faster because I'm moving back to CSS after I return from this conference. So 10 days to go I'm going to make it but what happens after day 101 well what you can do you can just continue learning you can go to round two what I see people do is do new updates so now I post with day one 100 days of code and you'll probably see me continue with round two day one 100 days of codes but it won't be JavaScript I promise that What this talk basically is about is not well it is about learning code because when you're in a profession of web development when what are your writer or what are your designer or what are your front end and you want need to communicate with back ends I think it's so important if you learn new things but it doesn't have to be code I think I think learning new things helps you become better in whatever you do so if coding is really not your thing you can think about SEO drawing design, writing, gardening learning a new language why not 100 days of walking I don't know if you heard about this Dutch guy who walked to work in Europe this year he only did it for 30 days so it's like you know he can do portal next year so it can be anything you like and I think that's basically my main message like start learning if you're in web development design try to learn something new that challenges you gives you inspiration and you should be good and I'm happy to help you out or point you to resources if you have any questions or if you want to share your updates with me like mention me on Twitter and say hey I've started and I'll give you a thumbs up so thank you that was my talk and these slides are up on my website it's boomedia.eu WCMIL19 and if that's not working I also posted a tweet that will send you the right link if that all works thank you thank you thank you Monique very inspiring before opening the questions I have a question for you speaking of coding do you know there's this misconception of wordpress and coding so do we need to be coders have to have coding skills to contribute to wordpress in european l'ho chiesto se di parlare un po' di questa infrentendimento per cui molto spesso ci viene chiesto se per collaborare a wordpress è necessario avere delle competenze tecniche in fatto di programmazione sì, è una grande misconception quando ho attenduto il mio primo wordcamp europeo in viena io stavo sempre facendo escusi quando persone pensano oh, cosa faccio con wordpress e io stavo dicendo io non sono un sviluppo come se fosse l'unica cosa e quindi non bisogna essere un sviluppo per ottenere potere fare pieno con wordpress o essere un contributore e persone che hanno fatto quello di prima che potrebbe dire che è corso quindi no, non puoi potete fare bağderdавать o scrivere o essere sulla poliglione che è molto importante se dovete fare traduzione localizzanese per esempio per l'Italiano quindi no, non è necessario per questo grazie ci sono altre domande potete farli in italiano e poi le traduzioniamo benvenuto mi mi è misc幼 Ho messo l'inizio, ma cosa era il vostro punto di ricorda? Siete già in modo web-design e così? O hai iniziato il vostro corso da un certo punto? Ho voluto usare questo. No, ho stato un web-designer professionale nel 2011. E prima di questo ho fatto come un hobbieto da il 90' e ho già imparato l'HTML, l'anno passato il senso, quindi ho avuto un po' di comprensione, ma io credo che un po' di persone sono selfiati in un design web e in sviluppo web e quello che hai fatto, quando hai bisogno di un certo po' di codi, è che hai scoperto lo che hai bisogno e hai imparato quel po' di codi.  Does that answer your question? I asked the question because I've been trying to work out for myself stuff on Drupal for ten years and I didn't go anywhere. I don't understand, I'm not good at programming, but at least it's now for two months that I'm, say, with WordPress. And it's like more motivating, but doing this 100 days, one of my sensations is especially that you feel so alone when you get stuck and stuff. So I wonder if doing it like you did is maybe like more fun, because I haven't had fun all this time. That's the thing, if you post it out, people respond to you, but also I think within the WordPress community, if you've met some people here and you think they can help you, or just if you know them, they will know people who can help you. Yeah, I'm already meeting people. Yeah, so if you would do the 100 days of code, like I said, if I had questions on accessibility, I would bring people who would know such a thing and help me further like look into these resources. So don't be afraid to ask for help as well. All right, and you don't have to start January 1, right? No, you can start tomorrow or today. Okay, thank you. Are there questions? Everyone's starting tomorrow? Did I inspire some people to start doing this? Yeah, good. Well, looking forward to seeing your progress.  So you do it slowly. Coding and walking, maybe speech will help, like speech coding. No, it's just a joke. I'm actually trying to do two challenges. Now I'm doing 100 days of writing as well. That's going to be hard because you need your time to make money as well, right? It's the idea if you can combine it, if you get paid for doing your 100 days of code. That will be good, yeah. So, thank you so much. Grazie. Grazie, Mani.


Hey guys this is Hydro from Xtrades and in this video we're going to be talking about progressive exposure and this is basically a risk management strategy. So what is progressive exposure? So progressive exposure is a risk management strategy where it basically involves gradually increasing the size of your positions as your trading account grows and as you're making progress in the markets right and this approach basically helps control risk and minimize losses and yeah so this is how it works right so let's say you start trading let's say you've been in cash for a while right so you're coming from cash and how do you want to start off your first so let's say you're starting off in cash and then you see a setup and let's say you risk 0.5 percent of your portfolio right so this is your first trade if this first trade works actually let's say you want to risk 0.5 percent of your portfolio and you see two setups right so you'll say let's do 0.25 risk on each so two positions the risk each right so this is so you're coming out of cash and you see two good setups and you want to risk 0.25 percent of your portfolio on each position and if these positions work then the next time you see a trade then you can up your size to one percent risk right so now you have let's say these two trades work and typically when you're swing trading you want to get a multiple on your risk right so if these two trades work then you're going to have 0.5 percent gain on each one so 0.25 is your risk and if you make two times that you're going to have 0.5 R on your reward right so let's say these two trades do work you're going to make 0.5 R on each trade and you will have one percent of your portfolio as a total gain right because you're going to make 0.5 from each trade so one percent total gain on your portfolio so this is financed risk now right so once you have some financed risk then is when you can start progressively increasing your exposure and the next time you see some setups you can take one percent a total risk right so that means now is 0.5 R for each position I would say you have two setups again now you can do 0.5 R for each position and yeah so this is basically how you increase exposure and once those start working then you can up to two percent risk but at the very max I don't I may so so very fundamental rule never risk more than one percent of your portfolio one percent per trade so this applies more to people that that have larger accounts and are trading stocks or shares versus options but this is very important make sure you're not risking more than one percent of your portfolio per trade so in these examples your risk is 0.5 percent and in the beginning you start off with 0.25 right but as you continually to progress you want to make sure that you never risk more than one percent one one percent is a limit and you never want to risk more than that so that's a very important rule and so the opposite can happen as well right so let's say you start off with two positions and they end up both failing so the next time you want to do 0.12 so if that feels then you want to do 0.25 R so two positions now and 0.125 so progressive exposure works both ways right so if things are working you want to up your exposure because you have finance risk right this is finance risk and if things are not working then you want to decrease exposure and this way as your account grows you're going to be compounding because your position size is going to be higher and higher right so you're going to see an exponential curve and when things are not working it's going to be an exponential curve as well but it's going to be your losses are going to get smaller and smaller because you're positioning size smaller and smaller right so this is why progressive exposure is so important so I'm just going to recap this just to make sure that I'm explaining it well it might have been a little bit confusing so I'm going to recap it one more time so you start off with so you start off in the market and you're 100 percent cash right and you see a few good setups in the market so you think all right I'm going to test the waters I'm going to try buying two positions or two setups and I'm going to risk 0.25 percent my total portfolio for each position right and if they work then if they both work and let's say you get a two to one ratio on it so you're making two times the amount so if you're risking five dollars you made ten dollars then you made two times your risk right so that's you made 0.5 percent of your portfolio on each trade so a total that comes to one percent of finance risk and since you have one percent of finance risk now you can up your exposure up to one percent so then that the next time you see setups you can go 0.5 on each trade so this way you are increasing your exposure while you're not risking much you're just risking your previous gains right so you're not these are these are completely risk free because you're just risking what you made on your previous trades and the other thing can happen where these trades don't work out your initial trades can fail and that and now if you see setups again now you want to be more careful because market condition is telling you that the setups are not working right so you want to be more careful first of all and then second of all you want to decrease your position size so that way you're losing less and less every time and this works because the market follows momentum right so when things work things tend to work for quite some time so if things are working then you can up your position size very quickly and make big gains but when things are not working you can make your loss is smaller and smaller and go down all the way up till you're back in cash right so this is how progressive exposure essentially works so you're starting off small you begin with a small position size and uh yeah and then you always have a predetermined stop loss in each trade so this is the maximum you're willing to risk on a single trade so that's going to be one percent for us every risk more than one percent and you want to make sure that you're taking good risk reward ratio so you want to aim for at least two to one but the more the better so three to one will be phenomenal and you want to be consistent with your position size so if you're if your position size are winning or if your trades are winning then you want to make sure that you're upping your position size and the same thing if they aren't working you want to you want to decrease your position size as well and this way you're allowed to reinvest your profits into your trading account allowing for exponential growth over time right and this is the whole point of progressive exposure and you can also regularly assess how your setups are working in the market so market conditions are not good this system will help you make your position size smaller and smaller and if things are working in the market and market conditions are good then you're gradually going to increase your position size and compound profits right and the emotional control is very very important when following this because sometimes you're going to see a few setups and you're going to feel formal right you're like oh this is going to be the one for sure and you want to up your position size but you really have to make sure that you're following your previous trades and seeing what the market conditions are like right so being emotionally disciplined is very crucial and if you want to avoid over leveraging or taking really large positions and yeah you always have to stick to your risk management rules and yeah that's pretty much it the key to progressive exposure is to make sure that you're make sure that you have a controlled and systematic approach to risk and um yeah that every system or every trader can adapt these principles based on their system so it's not like this only works for assuming trading or day trading right it works for everything it's just a principle that can be applied to any system or any strategy but yeah that's pretty much it thank you guys for tuning in and feel free to DM me on discord if you have any questions thank you there's a reason why x trades is currently the fastest growing application on the market for sharing financial ideas with over 2.5 million dollars paid in the last two years to contributors users are flocking to see what trades the top traders on the leaderboard are sharing in real time if you're looking to grow your reputation as a trader on the internet or discuss your trading ideas with other reputable investors click the link below and get connected with the trading mentor today completely free of charge


n the next meeting the one is the next on the seventh seventh is that okay with everyone because we want to get it posted and um I've talked about with Kevin setting up a small um public group who would get receive the um applications and um identify sort of the top ones for the council to review and interview interview okay does that sound good all right Marcy did you want to comment yes yes I was just curious whether it will have something in there about having a strong energy um advocate given the economic and health and safety uh issues related to climate change well we could add that we can discuss that I'm seeing it so I don't know that's always possible you know that's why I was curious in there have you said to Tom we we should probably have walk on water too but we probably can't I know at one point Tom Chitenden at a previous meeting had suggested that on the committee that looks at these um applications perhaps someone from a long uh term of someone with a long term committee assignment to be on it and I was just curious that that were were still the case and if so whether someone from energy committee could uh participate in that um you know for the energy piece you know in addition to obviously the general management and analytical skills that the person would have yes I um yes Kevin and I've talked about having some um different perspectives from the public right thank you so that would be my intention thank you um okay item 15 audio visual bid for 180 market street so is Alana hi good evening um so if I uh I can keep this brief um but we do uh I think per the memo um we did put uh the audio visual equipment for the building out to bid uh we received four um bids and we over the past few days we've been looking at them and analyzing them and so I have recommendation and if uh I can share my screen I can put it up for you okay hold on a second let me let me do this okay actually pretty brave but um I don't know okay so um so I just wanted to make a very brief recommendation um find my mouse okay here we go uh so essentially um we had four bids the lowest bidder was red thread um fuzz buzz was uh just behind them uh there's uh just about um $5,000 difference audio visual corporation was behind them with about $10,000 and then AVISBL was behind them um so we went through and we looked at the pricing we also looked at the qualifications um it's a fairly technical job uh so we wanted to make sure that everyone had the appropriate certifications um and we also asked follow-up questions where there are areas that weren't clear or we wanted more to more information before we made a decision um we also called references um and then we also and we discussed the team's needs um so following that um our recommendation is to go with buzz buzz and there's three main reasons um they're highly recommended by references they're very local uh so they're a South Burlington company um and the equipment that they'll be installing has a high level of programming and integration so there's integration within each room um and then some integration across the whole building and then we would expect some future um adjustments and annual preventative maintenance there's also there's generally upgrades um so it's nice to have technical on-call folks nearby who can help in case an upgrade creates problems which from time to time those of us who have computers know that that happens um and then in addition their response was extremely detailed uh it was clear that they had a very strong technical understanding of our project and our needs and they also paid a lot of attention to our conditions and special requirements and and um and then as part of their um as part of their proposal they recommended potential cost savings um so there was um a fair amount of variation in how people responded in terms of pricing going back so when we look at these prices buzz buzz and red thread are very close but they're definitely red thread is less expensive um there are about one and a half to three and a half percent less expensive depending on how you look at it we think that um in the long run um that because buzz buzz is closer um and we know that there they pay a lot of attention to detail we think that it it is um a worthwhile investment for the city but I want to throw that out there just so that you're aware um that there is that financial difference between the two okay questions yes tom do you have your your your thing went on but I can't see your hand I was just going to ask what we need to vote on is there a motion but uh I support buzz buzz yeah I think we we possibly want to vote on this tim barrett do you have a question just a quick question I mean is there any any employee of fuzz buzz that's related to anybody in the city I I don't know um I did go online and look at their LinkedIn and made sure they had employees because they very much you know I think most of the people that they contract with are not local so I you know wanted to make sure that they did have some local references and those are the ones that we call that I wanted to make sure that they had local employees which they do so okay yeah quick question I hope I'm just curious because I've never heard of them how big a company are they so they have 16 employees okay where they also have an office in California and an office in Florida interesting where are they located here they're located behind the airport hi um um they're located on commerce I think it's commerce to have behind the airport yeah I know right what I'm just curious um any of the references you might be able to share I'm just curious yeah sure um so they so locally um they did work for uh the serenac hotel um they also did work for um we work um hang on let me just pull it up um dealer policy which is different from dealer.com it's an insurance company that's a national company okay um sorry I just want to find the reference page uh dealer policy which is in Williston um we work collaboration offices uh the Hilton there's it's the Rodel group multiple Hilton rent and properties so I talked to someone who um handled the serenac lake renovation yeah and then they also do a lot of federal work so a lot of DOD type jobs okay so like space type work um and uh control room scenario room type projects but they also do auditoriums more for corporate than for theatrical okay sounds I mean if you're comfortable with them it sounds like you've checked them out great I'll make a motion that we go with first buzz second the second okay we've got a motion that's been made and seconded to um um accept the bid from fuzz buzz for the audio visual needs um of 180 market street is there any further discussion okay all in favor let's do a roll call um Dave Kaufman comes up Megan Henry hi Tom Chinden hi Tim Barrett hi and chair really votes yay so it's a five two zero um unanimous vote thank you Alana thank you they have their name that's for sure all right moving on to almost the final um item is the October financials with Tom Hubbard yeah thanks Helen I think I can be fairly brief here I gave you a quarterly report the last meeting we've now jumped from 25 percent through the fiscal year to a third through the fiscal year um we're currently at 25.5 percent in our expenses and 31 percent in our revenue which is about where we plan to be uh we're we're still looking to protect that margin of under expending our expenses and trying to come as close as we can with our revenue projections at this point as of today still have not received the allotment due to us probably this week from the state on the local options taxes so kind of anxiously awaiting that so that I can put this in better context for you and once I do receive that I'll be happy to share out a memo to you just to let you know where we're where we came in just to update you on that but essentially not much more to report at this point on uh on the financials but happy to respond to any questions are there any questions I mean it sounds like it's following the plan we'll see what happens I'm curious about ambulance it does seem like they have really reduced their expenses at 10 percent here yeah I know it looks amazing there an explanation for it which which uh what's the line item Megan ambulance ambulance let me just take a quick look here so under ambulance um they've only spent 12 percent on their medical supplies uh to date um on the disposables and again I think that's part of the coordination with the uvm medical center in terms of the bulk purchasing the medical equipment replacement that has not been done yet that's still on hold so it's only showing a 17 percent at this point um I think those are probably the major the major parts of their uh even their fuel even their fuel is down now I have to say yeah yeah yeah there's really not much to to to talk about um right now of course we still are living within the budget freeze so um managers are being respectful of that and only continue to purchase what we absolutely need to keep the operations going we've just begun our cip discussions and we'll have an overview presentation for that uh for council on december 7th okay any other questions or comments oh you do thank you tom thank you so um item 17 reports on committees does anybody's committee besides pension have no you're having that soon tim you haven't had it yet okay no no you had the meeting but pat blizek was going to present to us soon okay all right I just okay and and the airport as of today the pension value is is up a little bit probably right right yeah get a few more vaccination um or vaccines that um have 90 plus uh you know that's right yeah irrational difference yeah we'll be doing well okay is there any other business I actually have one item I meant to um say something at the beginning of the meeting and I forgot um and that is you know I've had phone calls and um or phone call and an email from um mr donahue regarding the um discussion offline discussion the feels that the council had um inappropriately about the other paper and the newsletter and I just want to it's clear to me uh at least he told me I was the one who had done the reply all uh and I want to apologize I understand that that um is a violation of the public or the um public meeting law and I apologize and we talked about training and I assured him that we have all been trained but perhaps um maybe it's what I need to do is we have a module online so I would encourage everyone to go through that um I think it's 90 minutes or something Jim Barlow created it for us we probably should remind all the committees that are meeting again that haven't been in quite a few months and many of them have new members that they should also um listen to the module online and um I can just assure the public that I will I mean I think that's the only time I've done it I will try very hard not to push that reply all key by mistake um I think mistakes happen I I don't believe we did any huge policy decisions during our um email conversation um and I think I just want to lay this to rest and just accept responsibility for um you know making that mistake and violating um open meeting law um I think it's a small violation but it is one and I will try very hard not to do that again and I just urge everyone else I think we're all aware of what is the appropriate protocol and I would encourage you to just I think it's online the and I can have I can send you the link I'll find it and send you the link for that um training and it's probably something that's good to do on a regular basis so that's all I wanted to say thank you Helen I mean where I work we have to renew our business conduct guidelines annually as well as a bunch of other corporate policy reviews annually there's about six of them that you have to go through and they can take anywhere from 15 to minutes to you know 45 minutes to complete watching videos reviewing stuff then taking a quiz at the end so an annual review of city council conduct guidelines is not a bad idea and we can all benefit from it okay well we have the module created so we should do that so I will um ask each of you to do that and Kevin if you'll remind the committees and the committee chairs um and send that link out I think that would be um smart to do can we hit reply all if we get that email from you and just you know sorry sorry sorry sorry slip slip at the tug sorry yep is there any other business just that you've done a really good job Helen you did it you you're excellent at this online stuff I agree I mean it was a completely egregious violation that you committed but other than that you're doing a great job yeah well I mean our whole all our conversations forever have been about transparency and ironically I think the newsletter um enhances the transparency of what's going on in city government in a way that we've never had before so it it sort of all worked out well and it worked out well and I think the other paper has you know gotten thicker and has more articles that um the public wants to read and I'm reading it again I think you know they're back to performing um a little closer to the way they they used to report on our city so the combination of the two I think is keeping our public um very well informed and they put back the crossword puzzle well and the council's quarter who wants to do the next one it's due the first week in um December I'll do the one after I can't do the next one because it's due January term well you know I don't know if you can do January because if you run for re-election that's in March so you can't do January you do December Dave so you can get something in there before it yeah you can do either December or March oh boy it's going to be tough to do for December December what I don't do it in March who we got three other um Tom you know I in 600 words 600 words what do you want me to say you can talk about whatever you want I'll do December if you guys will give me input as to I'll tell you what I'm looking for you can give me some some phrases and I'll put it together how's that we each give you 120 words it's you know all right you sound like my students just put it together okay so okay who's going to do January I'll do January okay what am I going to write about give me an idea wait and see what I write about the budget maybe you'll be able to write about the budget and then February it's going to be Tom or Megan because neither Dave nor I so Tom okay well you're going to be busy because you'll be able to do a legislative corner and a counselor's corner and you'll be also I'm just going to talk about a pool and both ice skating rink at that point right that's right yeah okay if there's no other business oh bar sorry um it's it's almost Thanksgiving and you were talking about transparency and I just want to say thank you um for the fact that all of you are transparent um I sent Kevin a note saying I understand about common roots now um and I appreciate that but I just want to thank all of you for that and uh I'll see you from wherever I am from the next few months but thank you for all of your hard work thank you very much all right so adjourn motion to adjourn so moved second okay all in favor thumbs up oh good we're just about on time Thanksgiving everybody whatever you do wherever you go however you you know right with your family yeah all right stay wear your mask keep your distance right don't go inside with people you don't know all right stay healthy yes I wish you all the happiest yep you too okay though all right bye


I'm on Bowen Island, a 20-minute ferry ride from Vancouver. And while I'm here on the west coast, I wanted to talk about our oceans and the waters that Canadians rely on every day. Not too far from here is the Port of Vancouver, which handles a large amount of Canada's trade outside of North America. Travel a few minutes from there and you'll find the iconic Vancouver Sea Wall, the largest uninterrupted waterfront path in the world. That's not the only record we hold. Canada is home to the largest coastline in the world, stretching from here in the Lower Mainland to up north and out east. Our oceans are part of who we are. So when we created the Oceans Protection Plan in 2016, we did it to protect these waters and millions of Canadians and Indigenous communities who are connected to them. But what is the Oceans Protection Plan doing to make that happen? To start, we're protecting habitats for precious but vulnerable species like killer whales right off this coast. We're making shipping safer, modernizing and expanding our coast guard's capacity, boosting emergency towing, improving radar coverage, and so much more. To prevent marine incidents, we're increasing inspections and surveillance, expanding our capacity for search and rescue, and preparing faster response times for oil spills along our coasts. And we've been working in partnership with Indigenous people on marine safety and environmental protection. Of course, on top of the Oceans Protection Plan, we've made historic strides on conservation targets, too. Since 2015, we've gone from protecting less than 1% to over 14% of Canada's marine and coastal areas. Wherever you live and however far you might be from our coasts, what we're doing to protect our oceans will mean better outcomes for you. They'll mean a stronger economy and good jobs, safer and more resilient communities, and a better future for generations to come. That's what this is all about. And that's what we're ready to keep fighting for.


The program is fundamentally concerned about the relationship between issues of security, war, violence on the one hand and development on the other. Traditionally these two fields have been looked at and approached separately, both in the world of policy making but also within academia and what we are doing in this course is to try to bring them closer together. I think the stuff that we study is extremely exciting. If you look in the newspaper on any given day there is something there that is something that we will talk about in class. I picked CST because I feel there is a need to have a balance between security and development in order to rebuild a country after conflict. The fact that King's is in London means we also have access to a wealth of information, activities and events at our disposal because we're in the heart of the capital. I would recommend CST because it's a very interdisciplinary course so your options after the course are actually quite varied. We really start from the beginning by looking at the developmental causes of conflict and ask whether there is anything about the way in which a society develops that may add a few conflict or serve to mitigate conflict. Even though we are a big class of 100 people, the professors are available for us. We can meet them any time, which is really good for us. It's a very dynamic and lively department and we have very, very good students that sort of feed on each other. Oh, the students are fantastic. So we've got such a wide range and I think the most important thing to know about our program is that it's hugely international. So for example, in my own state failure and state building class last year, I think there were 20 students from 15 countries. I think that pretty much says it all. One of the best things here in the department is the opportunity to take plenty of really interesting courses, but also to take courses in other departments. That's what I'm doing. I'm taking comparative civil wars inside the department and I'm taking, I took natural resources, governance in the African Leadership Center and political economy of organized crime in the political economics department. I think that the CSD group, the Conference on Security Development Group, is one of the most impressive ones anywhere in terms of the range of expertise covered in terms of its critical mass. One of the things that I think is really fantastic about the teaching staff is that many of us actually have experience with the organizations. We've worked for them. So I've worked for the United Nations. I've worked for the World Bank. And I can tell you from both perspectives as an academic and as a policymaker how we think about these things. And it allows for a deeper and more critical kind of engagement. I think the teaching staff at the World Studies Department are truly excellent because they got a very solid academic background, but they also have very relevant field experience. So you never feel that those two aspects of their teaching are disconnected. Quite a few of our students join government, department, government ministries. Ministries of Development, specialized agencies that deal with issues of conflict and security, for example, the stabilization unit would be one example. We have others that go into the world of NGOs, some of the larger professional NGOs, Oxfam, Christian Aid, and so on and so forth. And we have some that go into the armed forces. Some of them have come from the field and some of them are returning to it as well. And then we have a fair number of students that go on to do graduate work, either within the department or elsewhere.


And the Federal Government of Nigeria in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development have distributed famine imputes to 619 farmers in Nassarawa State for the 2023-2024 dry season famine to ensure food security in the state. Speaking at the distribution exercise in Lafayette on Tuesday, the state programme coordinator of the FDN IFED value chain development programme UNIS AGIZE explained that the gesture was also aimed at ensuring that farmers across the benefiting local government areas of Lafayette, Doma, Nassarawa and Kauru are able to boost their capacities and cultivate enough food for the increasing population in the areas. The aim is to support our beneficiaries in years in crisis refining. To produce all the terrains to feed our practically growing population. We therefore want our farmers to feed their own part of the package. By ensuring that they get to meet the needs of the people. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.