ally own it but I'll You know, that's my concern is being phased out. Thank you as a tenant. Thank you. Good afternoon. Welcome Hello, uh, I'm susan howe Zach friend Thank you for being our supervisor and all of you. Um I've spoken before the main reason that we're doing this my husband and myself Is financial for a short period of time. So after five years someone else can do can have my permit I have no intention of renting it out to anyone after that purpose Um, we could have 10 cars in our driveway when I do open studio. I can have 20 cars When you live out in the hills you have a lot of space for Alternate methods of inviting people to come enjoy our county and that's what we've been doing and we've been enjoying it Um, I would also just like to say at the end. I don't know why we even had to do this to begin with Um, supervisor cappett brought it up. Um, I think we've all gone through and proved to you I hope and to anyone I know that we Should be Unlimited in the number of people with a reasonable permit that can do air BNB Especially out in the hills in places that don't impact The coastal community directly. Thank you. Thank you Good afternoon and welcome Thank you. I'm susan simmeretti and I'd like to thank each and every one of you for allowing us to uh speak to this, um To this concern Um Thank you for grandfathering all of us in I really really appreciate that and one of my concern is the um certificate Uh Again, I agree with the gentleman not to have our address on there We're happy to have the number or whatever but not the address. We don't give our address out until actually the the um The guest has Agreed to stay in and has gone through air BNB. Thank you very much. Thank you Welcome back. Thank you. Good afternoon Brenda Chadwick. Um, I'd like to comment on the alternative Sites uh anything like a yurt or a trailer You know a lot of people don't want to come and stay in a sterile hotel in uh, santa Cruz Being able to be in the redwoods or near Uh flowing water to me that seems um, you know, I'd much rather do something like that Then stay at a hotel. So I'm I I definitely don't agree that That should be excluded if you're really just talking about the space of a room and there's no other facilities there for that um, I'd like to congratulate the board and the county for Having the heart to grandfather all of these people in Um, I myself am a senior. Um, I happen to use my home for a small cannabis cultivation No such consideration was given for us And um, you know, I I think the group here is is pretty lucky Uh, hopefully as time goes on, uh, there will be a new ordinance related to the legal Cannabis that's allowed here in the state and the county and my hope is that you look at it Uh And consider because we are such a small county geographically Let's look at ways that we can have smaller Cultivation sites Allow people to Use the investment that they've made in their home to supplement their income. I'm in the same place I have a very limited amount of, um money coming in and Growing a small amount of cannabis is what's kept me and my husband in our house for the past eight years So thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you Good afternoon. Welcome And thank you, uh for this opportunity to speak to you. I'm peter shubowski I've been a resident of uh, the first district since I moved here in 1976 And I've chosen to have relatively low paying jobs In my career Because I like to walk so I was paid as a male man in the lower ocean district And as a park ranger at pinnacles national now park But my income is relatively low because of that my pension my social security, but that's okay Uh, but I have had to supplement income by renting out humans in my home, which is just outside of the Lota Um But by doing so, uh my Uh, my with my wife and i5 children and six grandchildren They they had no place to stay with us because our rooms were rented out Uh airbnb came along in our lives three years ago and it's been a A blessing because now we can block out rooms anytime we want and kids and grandkids can come and stay with us And enjoy the beach not too far away So I I thank you for having made some shift in your attitude towards airbnb and Enable our family life to continue and we've contributed a lot in to the county's operation. Thank you. Thank you Good afternoon and welcome Hello, my name is ed borowick And I'd like to uh, thank you guys for uh for making the permit process reasonable Because otherwise it would blow us out of the water as you know, most mostly everybody here Is actually supporting their ability to live in Santa Cruz in the houses that we owned here for so many years The only thing that concerned me in this this this one is why limit the number of permits? You know, I mean do you want to do you have to get your hands in every single Control of everything, uh, you'll probably be self controlling airbnb is self controlling Because we comment on our guests and our guests comment on us and how our places are and how they look and stuff So thank you very much for being reasonable. Thank you Good afternoon. Welcome back. Hi. My name is Janice Rodriguez and i'm a realtor Here in Santa Cruz. I also am a vacation room to manager. I have relationships With both hosted non-hosted owners. I was reading The proposed ordinance and have two concerns one is combining the hosted non-hosted and designated areas There are two different types of rentals completely As you know and you've made Accommodations regarding them in other areas of the ordinance and I don't understand why it can't be the same Regarding the designated areas because the host is present In those so I think you'd really be limiting people who can Our need, you know to host on site And the other thing is not including rooms outside of the home Like above a garage. I I know someone who's a retired teacher and she would be devastated If she had to stop doing what she's doing because it's helping her income And it's just above the garage. Thank you. Thank you I'm sorry. You could only testify once once. I'm sorry Is there anybody else that would like to address this during this public hearing? Uh, seeing none, we'll close the public hearing and bring it back. Well, I'm sorry. Is there somebody come please? We're gonna not close the public hearing for keeping it open for this last speaker All right, my printer was on the blink and I'm struggling with my My laptop. My name is Sharon Himmels-Bach and um Hi supervisor friend. I'm in the Rio del Mar district of the coastal zone Um, I really appreciate your time today everybody And it's been a privilege and pretty exciting to be part of the democratic process that That you know, we've seen in this this whole um situation. So I I'm really grateful to be here. Um, I uh, I attended ucsc as a reentry student and I've lived here for 24 years I have really deep roots in the community. Um, I've done Over a thousand hours of volunteer work here with rehab and, um, recovery centers as well as teaching Meditation and pain management to other people with chronic illness and chronic pain like me And I have been permanently disabled since 2001. I used to make a good income in high tech, but um That went away when I was told I'd never work again And air bnb is allowing me to stay here um, so What I'm most concerned about is that um, I was a renter for about 20 of the 24 years that I've lived here It's almost a fluke and and a lot of hard work and savings that I have a home But it wouldn't take much for me to lose that home and become a renter again And if that happens probably the only way I could stay here would be to continue as a hosted renter Get a lease get three bedrooms And what would happen is I'd have one, you know sub letter permanent resident and one hosted rental room Um, I really want you to think Consider that in our society it's axiomatic the more money you have the more power you have and the more political voice You have and I think this is a chance for us to Reverse that and say that renters who generally have less money Deserve just as much Just as many rights as the homeowners. Thank you very much. Is there anybody else? I'd like to address this in the public hearing All right, then we are now going to close the public hearing and bring it back to the board Supervisor Coonerty Before I make a motion I'd like to just ask a question there was questions about camping near its RVs tree houses um Can you discuss that? um Using RVs as a first example, there are um Other rules in there you're not allowed to sleep or use our RV as an external bedroom in general terms So um, it would be yet more different to allow that as a the use as a hosted rental And in fact, we'd have to come up with some scheme to allow them in the first place in order for that and um Tree houses um Yearts other vehicles. Um, those are all things that right now don't get building permits as dwelling units And so we haven't gone through the process of building inspection and vetting and whatever notice There isn't a community to create excuse me to create a dwelling unit. So um Um those processes would would need to happen or we'd need to change many other parts of the code to make that Possible it wouldn't be just a change to the hosted rental ordinance and be a big departure Probably also the general plan and the general plan as well Okay The second question is to for county council about this question about If it's permitted bedrooms versus bedrooms that are somehow legalized So the ordinance doesn't use the term permitted. The ordinance uses the term legal Um, so I think you know, we would need to look at how that intersects with the liap program To determine whether a particular bedroom is legal. Um, but I think it's of note that it doesn't use the term permitted. Okay So in that case, uh, I'd like to move the staff recommendation With the additional directions and just for clarity so The staff recommendation does not include the planning commission's limits on rentals. So the renters would be able to participate in this And wouldn't have a sunset With the additional direction of the clarity giving you the opportunity to create the clarity around this caps around the cap issue And how that the two interact I am interested in having those Hosted rentals count towards the cap And i'm okay with people having two different permits, but I don't want to create the loophole That the supervisor leopold was talking about is the direction I want to go and then the additional direction of having Hosted rental and a permit number In a photo and in a text so it doesn't have to be a literal picture of somebody's permit It has to just say hosted rental With a permit number santa cruz county hosted rental permit number Um in the in both the description of the of the site and in the photo So we have a motion with some additional direction I'll second the motion. Is there additional discussion on this item? Yeah, I'm I'm sorry supervisor first. Yeah. I'm just I'm concerned about the cap I just think there as I stated in the earlier discussion that we had uh a month ago Uh, I think there's some hosted rentals from the bit taken place without paying the tot and That's too bad. And so I don't want to You know let them go so to speak but on the other hand, I think a reality check Is that there's going to be many more than 250? And I know we're going to go up and then come down to that number possibly but I I'm really bothered that We're there's going to be a lot of people that have been doing hosted rentals Uh, that should have been paving taxes maybe and didn't but I'd like to see them Uh, I know that this is a new ball game and that if you want to have a hosted rental, you're going to have to start paying the tot and So that's why I would like to Allow this to expand To anybody who has been doing this and even if they had not been paying that tot To be allowed that opportunity to get into the game at this point Um It's not usually the way I like to do things, but I think the reality of it is this is going to have a tremendous impact on a lot of people in this county that would Pay the tot if they were allowed the opportunity and I think it's going to be a lot more than the The 250 that we're going to get to in the long run So I I'm going to have a problem with the motion probably miss mccray. Did you want to add something to this? Thank you Our agreement with air b&b currently Has air b&b as the tot certificate holder not the individual property owners Therefore air b&b pays based on geography So whether or not anybody who is running a hosted rental Has a certificate for tot it doesn't matter because we are getting Based on the the map that air b&b has that we audit twice a year. We are collecting the tot From current hosted rentals ever since our agreement with air b&b went into effect I It's a different answer for any other platform But for air b&b we are getting that money And if I could just add another an additional clarification the ordinance as it's currently written would allow anyone who had been Conducting hosted rental activity without Advertising on air b&b and therefore playing paying tot and without paying tot on their own It would allow them to retroactively make tot payments If they can show if they have other means of proving activity rental activity and we would then allow them to register as an existing This is what would happen when we when we first had our vacation rental ordinance. So we said if you can show activity Um, we're we're gonna believe you right come in and pay your taxes and then yeah And we did ask them to come that when they came in and said well, I don't have way then we I think Then uh, treasurer tax collectors said make an estimate of what you think you should be in the tot and um, and and that was so it's pretty Inclusive I would say It made it available for lots of people And I don't and I didn't hear any stories of people who were Felt like they had been a vacation rental and then weren't able to be grandfathered in everybody was Uh, well supervisor leopold then supervisor cap it Yeah, so I have a couple uh different thoughts One is uh, I I do think That we should people should choose to be either a hosted rental or vacation rental. Um, and that that, um That after some period of time, we might want to take a look at that but but uh, This idea that people could have two and then how does that count towards the perm, you know, if How does that count towards the cat? It's just It it it does get it does Enter a level of complication so people should choose One or the other in is my sense um, and I'm comfortable With uh, the grandfathering in as I just explained. I think that this is a This is a big door to walk in and people should be able to to make their case And at least past experience with the planning department has shown me that the planning department is willing to accept many different ways in which People can make that case and and and so it's not just limited to show me a tax receipt or Or something else. Uh, so I feel comfortable with that I I would say as a as an as a cautionary note on the questions of Parking numbers and things like that that will be really be As we see over time whether we need to to tighten that in somewhere or another I'm comfortable leaving in the language of the way it is But but that'd be one of the things that I'll be I'll be looking for it in future as we look at this in the future um, I do There are two parts of this ordinance that uh, I haven't really been able to define as as Um, I don't understand the policy goal necessarily of which is The requirement that hosted rentals have to renew every five years um, because I don't understand the distinction between that and a vacation rental if you're if you're in bonny dune And you uh, and you have a vacation rental home You have a you you've applied for your vacation rental permit and it's it's an entitlement with your land forever um, and if you live in the live oak designated area Then you have a five-year limit because we have these caps and we want to make sure that there's turnover So that That makes sense to me. I understand that but to have all hosted rentals have a five-year That part doesn't make sense to me. I I could see in and again in the designated areas Um, and I'd be curious to hear from my colleagues if there's if there's something I'm missing there um, the other part Uh Is the arbitrariness of the 250 uh number. I don't know how many Hosted rentals there are we've heard lots of different numbers um, and the past experience uh with vacation rentals is We kind of had an idea but it was a little bit more than we thought When the when the time came in and so it wouldn't surprise me that that more more than 175 show up And at least as I understand this is that if 500 Permit requests came in in those first 90 days We would honor every single one of them and it would only be after that 90 day period that of that that window That uh, that we'd be facing the limits Um, but I just I don't again. I'm not sure what the policy goal is of the 250 And so I just I just question why whether we need it And I'd be curious from my uh, my colleagues or anyone about those two pieces Why the five year for everybody and why the the 250 because because it's just that's that's the that's the part that is The hardest to understand in this Well, I'm supportive as the motion as it is only just the five year even in the previous staff report was really an opportunity for check-in One of the questions that you had raised Was in regards to renewal and whether if people had issues what would be that process and a check-in and five years provided that check-in Five years in discussions with the hosts They didn't want a one year which was their original recommendation They wanted it spread out and they wanted it to be inexpensive So we met those two policy requests from the community on that. I think a five-year check-in is not an unreasonable thing um, if you I mean one of the discussions we can have moving forward is whether the vacation rental ordinance under its current construct is meeting all of our Goals or whether a certain element should be broadened out beyond just the designated zones Including on the check-in as I mentioned at the last Meeting in regards to the cap You know, we do have a pretty decent or best possible estimate not just through air bnb, but through The site that does the aggregation to try and determine other platforms as well Not to mention our work with the auditor controller tax collector determine how many tot Permits that there were Which is we believed That this allowed for some growth if it exceeds it I think that one of the the realities of this board in general is that we've In different elements in the last couple years. We've tried to Create a regulatory framework determine whether it's Too restrictive and if it is then we're we've always been willing to come back and take another look at it As the planning commission by the way seems to be looking exactly to do Once it meets a certain component. I think that the best way to check in on this Including some of the concerns you have around the parking element would be to just have You know report back or a check-in at a designated time And if the board at that time feels that there have been no issues associated with the number of permits that we've issued In fact to the point where we feel that this is should be expanded. I think that's a proper time to do it I don't think On the front end it makes sense to just have no backstop at all And that's why we're just trying to be as reasonable as possible And I and I appreciated some of the comments that were made today that acknowledge that the board has come a really long way In a year from the original Design heard what the community said to meet these needs and I think that that's the the ordinance we have does that And if we need to come back and check in I'm completely open to doing that in a set time Yeah, mr. Chair. I I think I can see where this is going, but so if we have this 90 day window so to speak Certainly, I'd like to have a Response and then we can react to that when when it comes to us but for When would when would be the right time for 90 days we're going to get into May or something and we're getting into some tight budget discussions happening We have to go through the coastal commission as well. So I mean, so we got you would probably be in the fall realistically that we would be When the 90 day window would be closing Um It would probably my my best guess on based on Optimistic timelines would be late summer Probably more realistic timeline is fall to next winter When the 90 day coastal commission makes changes and it has to come back and we have to vote on Then we have to do a secondary, you know, right and we know we've already heard their agenda for marches like pretty packed So we're not going to be on the march agenda. So we're already looking at april optimistically. So yeah, just It takes time But I think it's it's it's deep I mean if the point is that we should have a check and that's a completely reasonable thing when you're creating a new regulatory framework that the board take a look to make sure that it's meeting the needs and if it's Leads to be adjusted. It can be adjusted, but I think that I think this framework Overwhelmingly meets the needs and the requests of of those that have come forward to participate in the process and and it's been That's why so i'm comfortable with that. I'm not comfortable with modifying I'm not interested in modifying anymore We made modifications at the last including the input that you would request it on the bedrooms and a few other things That I wasn't actually comfortable with the front side. I think that that this we've come to a In essence a compromise that I think will work and as long as we make a commitment to take another look at it That's where I am Yeah, I just think that if we if we Whenever that 90 day window close and come back in 30 and 60 days after that window close and find out what the numbers are and And everything then we can make it. It's like, oh, there's There's 150. Well, then 250 if you want to still have a cap then 250 seems reasonable, but if 450 came in then we would say well Let's let's reconfigure. So I just think that's a better time to think about what a cap is because By its very nature. It's it's arbitrary Right. I mean, there's there's nothing magic about 250. It could be 215 it could be 390, you know, it's there's in that respect And my in my overall sense is i'm just trying to I'm trying to treat people as fairly as possible and when I when I think about the hosted rental owners and the vacation rental owners Um I I can make a very sound argument that the home vacation home owners have a much greater impact on our community And our housing stock and its impact on the community than the hosted rentals But we are seem to be we seem to have just a higher level of regulation On the hosted rentals and that's that that's the part that that it seems like we should try to find some way to be To treat everybody evenly it's well then using that argument Then we shouldn't include the hosted rentals within the seda lota and Davenport because if they don't have any impacts, they shouldn't be counted I don't because that's treat that's treating them the same way As the vacation rentals within those areas, which was a motion that you would actually amendment to the motion You would put forward well The reason why I think it's important to include in the caps in the designated areas Is because When we created the designated areas what we were trying to do is prevent Neighborhoods to becoming completely commercial It's sort of a backdoor way Um to turn residential neighborhoods into commercial outfits. That's what's not we wanted to keep the residential nature of our neighborhoods and It and if you have the you know three or four vacation rentals and three or four Hosted rentals you have a lot of people who don't do no longer live in the community Um, and we might be losing some of that residential character So it makes sense to me To to include them towards that cap because there's a carrying capacity for a neighborhood Especially those coastal neighborhoods, which I'd like to respect to keep it for people who live here and And so keeping it as part of that makes makes sense to me And and counting it towards it, but but then treating them differently because they're gonna they I just you know that that's that's the part that just sort of I'm having a hard time with So and I think we're we're getting there. We've had a lot of discussion around this I would say from my perspective The vacation rental ordinance was written at a time when we weren't in a housing crisis that we were And there is no way that we would have passed as permissive of vacation rental ordinance today If it were in front of us and so to the extent that you'd want people the People should be treated equally. I think we should be looking at our vacation rental ordinances because they're having dramatic impacts I agree they have much dramatic impacts and You know reducing the the numbers and the scope of that Um, and I think this has been worked out pretty fairly I'll say I got to the 250 because that's the the platforms say there are about 200 And so we wanted to create room for existing plus more if we get a thousand we've created room for a thousand In this self-reported survey About 20 percent of people said that And that's recognized in the majority people would not rent out to renters But some people said they would rent out to renters and we had a gentleman The post postman who said he was running out and now he doesn't Um, if it's 20 of 250 That's losing, you know, whatever About 50 units of house of rental housing if it's 20 of a thousand That's 250 units of rental housing, which is far more rental housing than we've ever constructed Uh in a given year. So I think Um, the magnet from for me this this 250 is a good benchmark Based on what we know from the platforms and again, we can change it Uh, we can get everyone in the system a big door as you said and then change it But I'm not I I think I'm going to have big problems if we're talking about taking You know potentially 100 or 200 units off the market Uh, that that otherwise could be could be rented Supervisor cap, did you say you wanted to add something to this and then I think we're prepared to vote Please Thank you. All right, so we have a motion. I apologize for not having the uh, So we have a motion and a second all those in favor I opposed No So it passes three to two That's the last item on today's agenda Uh, I would like to thank community tv and the sentinel for being here today Our next regular scheduled board meeting is february 6th in the chambers here To the community health centers co-applicant commission is an at-large patient representative for a term to expire december 16th 2018 the nomination accepted on january 9th. Is there anybody from the community that'd like to address us on This appointment final appointment see none. We'll take a move approval Second we have a motion from supervisor leopold second from supervisor cap it all those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously now the final item on the agenda 52.2 is to consider the final appointment of will Force the hazardous materials advisory commission is an at-large labor representative for term to expire april 1st 2021 The nomination accepted on january 9th Seeing no one from the community on this item. Is there a motion to approve second I have a motion from supervisor cap it and the second from supervisor leopold all those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously now. We actually are adjourned until february 6th. I apologize about that


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. With that, 2019, 2020, Panini, Mosaic, Basketball, 7 Box, Pick Your Team Number 3. 7 Hanger Boxes right here, ladies and gentlemen. There you go. Big thanks to all of these folks right here for getting into the action. Appreciate it. I'm going to open up all 7 boxes all at once, and then we'll go through it packed by Pack. These retail hanger boxes have some industrial strength packaging on here. There we go. And good luck everybody. Rex, yes. He will be. I think we have the next one is Break 4. I think that's going to happen in about a few hours from now, a couple hours from now. All right, here we go. Good luck everybody. Jared Culver, Kendrick Nunn, Will Chamberlain, Bowl Bowl, and Tyler Hero. I'm going to sleeve all of those after the break or at the end. Nicola Mele. Remember, these aren't numbered, so that's why I'm not showing the backs of these. Just looking for, looking for Zions and Jama Rants, basically. Royce O'Neill, Troy Brown, Alec Burks, Chetty Osmond, and Jonathan Isaac. Those broke already, Rex. Those were one of the first breaks of the day. So the videos are already up. Be sure to check those videos, folks. Jordan Poole, Darius Garland, Taco Fall, Tyler Hero, John Stockton, no, no. We had a few more ants in the last group. I feel like we have not seen Zions yet either. Mark Gasol, Alfred Payton, Willie Collie Stein, Sarich Tru Holliday, Luka Donchich, Old School Merovich, and we've got a Zach Collins. But I believe these are the Genesis ones, which are the shortest printed of all the different parallels. Maybe even, some may even consider it a super short print, if you will. And a Silver RJ Barrett, nice. So the Zach Collins will go to Portland. That'll be for John Samuelson, and the Silver RJ Barrett will go to the Knicks. That'll be for Takayuki. I don't think, have we seen a Zion in any of these boxes? There's Drew Holliday, Silver Cody Martin, Vince Carter, Jared Culver, Wilt Chamberlain, Hachimura, and Carl Malone. Jazz, I don't think we've seen a Zion on any of these yet. Maybe early on. I don't remember. Anyway, that was Pick Your Team 3, ladies and gentlemen. Quick Seven Hanger boxes right there, ladies and gentlemen, of 1920, Panini Mosaic basketball. We'll try to get some more, ladies and gentlemen. Kevin's confirming 21 boxes, no Zion. So we're doing Mosaic 4 and 5 a little bit later, so I'm sure those will be, we'll look for him in there. Thanks for watching. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time. Bye-bye.


Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another Adobe Animate tutorial. In this one, I'm going to show you how to change the direction of a gradient, or I'm going to change the angle part of your gradient. What am I talking about? I'm talking about this is a default gradient. It goes from blue to green, and this goes left basically to right, but in a lot of cases you don't want that. Here is another example where the gradient goes top down or bottom up depending on which way you look at it. I'm going to show you how to make that change. Okay, let's start with a new document. I'm going to go file new, and then I'm just going to create an HD 1280 by 720. Regular stuff doesn't really matter what size it is. That's not the point. I'm now going to go up here and I'm going to change the window size. I'm going to set this to fit in window so the whole thing is shown. Okay, good. If you're still following along, I'm going to just click on a new layer, and this is the layer we're going to work on. We've got a second layer here. You can double click on it and call it gradient if you want to. Up to you. Doesn't matter too much, but let's do it anyway for best practices. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to left click on the rectangle tool here, and then I'm just going to drag out a rectangle. It's already pre-selected the fill, which is a gradient fill for me. If you don't see that though, let me show you how to do this. You'll want to go up here to the top right under color, and then when you click on color, and if you don't see that, go to window and just make sure that color has a check mark beside it. But if you don't see color, go there to color now, and then here. Make sure that it's set to linear gradient. When it's done, then you'll see this option here to go ahead and double click on these, and you can change the colors of the gradient. Instead of having green, you can make it whatever, something like that. It doesn't matter. That is an option, so I'm just going to do that. But anyways, I'm going to go back to work here. I'm going to click out of that, and now I want to change the direction of this gradient. This is the most important part. Anyways, what you want to do now, and this is not immediately apparent because the old version of Animate had the gradient tool embedded underneath this tool here, which is the free transform tool. It no longer does at least in this version. What you need to do is you want to go down to the bottom here, double click on edit toolbar, which are these three dots, left click on that part of me, and when you do that, you're going to get a new tool. And one of the tools that you can select is the gradient transform tool. I'm going to left click on that, and I am just going to drag it, and you're going to see that I can drop it somewhere. So I'm just going to drop it right here, and when I do that, and I close it, and I just click out, you're going to see now that I have the gradient transform tool, which is what we want. Left click on that, so it's selected. Now go up to the top here, just I want to go to about 50% because I need to be able to see a little bit better. And now I'm just going to left click on the, on the paste board here, and you're going to see here that when I left click on it, I have some options. In particular, I can rotate it, and I can increase or decrease the size. So let's go ahead and decrease the size first, just so I can show you a little bit better. And now I'm going to rotate it top to bottom. So I'm just pulling and presto. This is now a top to bottom or bottom to top gradient. If I want to increase the size out like this, or if I want to make it really sharp, you can do that just like that. If I want to have it on an angle, maybe I want it to go on a nice 45 degree angle or something like that, something cool like that. Easy to do, guys. That is how you do it. The F key, add in the gradient transform tool. Thanks for watching this tutorial. A ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned. Be back soon.


Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's live coverage of MY's, the leading cybersecurity conference. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host and analyst, Rob Strecce. We are joined by John Holquist. He is the chief analyst, Mandiant Intelligence Google Cloud, and Selena Larson, senior threat intelligence analyst at Proof Point. Welcome, John and Selena. Thank you.  So why have we been seeing more financial crime groups using zero days? Well, the biggest reason is there's a lot of good money in crime these days, right? So... Crime pays. Yeah, crime pays. I think very recently there was a disclosure of a $30 million ransom on one target. And if you look at the way that the zero days we've seen, the way that they work, they're all enabling access to dozens, hundreds of targets, and you can imagine the payout from that. Now, generally in the past, this was like a state actor problem, right? This was like, when we talked about zero days, we generally talked about APT or cyber espionage. But if you're making that kind of money, you actually have more buying power than the state, honestly. Okay, so what changes have been implemented in the industry that's forcing these state actors, these threat actors to use more advanced attacks like zero days? Well, I think we have had some success, and it's good news when they have to reach for a zero day, right? Because that means that some of the other precautions and controls that we've replaced probably have had some success. And that actually means that there's probably a higher barrier to entry for a lot of actors, which is excellent. But there are so a lot of controls that we have to consider. And the good news about this process is we're learning what those controls are the hard way, but we are learning about them. Yeah, Selena, you used my favorite word, S-bombs. Oh no. I just, and I think we cover a lot of open source and a lot of open source technology. And I think part of it is looking at how you can inject things upfront. And we also see it coming in data as well. We've started with LLMs, but we'll park that for a minute. So why is it that the supply chain has become such a great place for them to go and really start their attacks? Yeah, so that's a good question. I think there's a couple of reasons. Number one, that which we mentioned on stage, is that a lot of these organizations or the applications and services that are being compromised with the Note-A, for example, like Move It, for example, Go Anywhere, things like that are not necessarily widely known, they're widely used. But if you talk to kind of the average person in an enterprise, they might not even know that this is the type of software that's in their tech stack, right? So these kind of like lesser known but widely used applications and services are a really, really interesting target because they provide, like John was saying, a lot of access, widespread access, the awareness might not necessarily be at the top. And also, they might not even know the types of checks that are going on with their providers or their service providers, like what, to your point, open source, what open source software is being used in this equipment or in these services. And so it's really easy to kind of overlook it as an enterprise, right? There's like so much focus, I think, from the APT world, if we're talking about O-Day, in Windows, in iOS, in zero-click exploits. But these kind of off the reservation are things that people might not really know about types of tools can be very, very interesting.  And so they might not get enough scrutiny within the enterprise, but from threat actors, they do. Right, and I think you and John, you even brought up the whole file transfer aspect of it. And I think to me, I mean, obviously, as people who use that quite a bit and you start to look at it, and that vector seems to make a lot of sense because, again, especially hot, we had some, we were talking about insurance and hospitals and they have a ton of data. And as they move to cloud, that seems like a logical attack vector. I think so, and I think about lawyers a lot when I think about that, right? How do you get information to lawyers? Lawyers carry a ton of like sensitive information. You know, one of the things we've seen through the years on the espionage side is that the third parties that we give our most sensitive data to are also targeted. And we have to really start thinking about where that data lies, not necessarily who controls it, whether or not it's even in our system. Because, frankly, if they can get it from your lawyer, they can still use it to extort you, right? And you're going to have to start thinking through a lot of that. Funny enough, it's not that privileged once it's out and over, right? I mean, again. One of the biggest takeaways that I got from the panel was hearing you talk about social engineering and just how much of almost, it's psychological warfare because they are using obsequiousness to gain your trust and make you feel good about yourself, that you're being asked all these questions. Can you talk a little bit about what you've seen and what really worries you when it comes to these social engineering attacks? Yeah, absolutely. So I feel like there's different tiers of social engineering and stuff that we kind of really focus on, right? So there's kind of what you would consider business email compromise, BEC, there's that sense of urgency, there's this, oh, I'm the CEO, I need this payment, or we're changing our payments and stuff like that.  And that's kind of a bit of a romance scam. There's that social engineering kind of preying on your desire to feel wanted or be loved. And you kind of see that originating on a lot of different platforms, whether it's like WhatsApp or Tinder or LinkedIn. And those are kind of more, those are financially motivated cyber criminals. I hate those types of activities. But then you kind of get up a stage to the APT actors, right? And so then you have, for example, like we were talking about with North Korea, they're going after security researchers, they're going after academics, they're playing a long game. And what's really interesting is we're seeing this kind of shift across the threat landscape, largely driven by APT, but also we're seeing it on e-crime where they'll start having benign conversations with people. They'll just reach out to you. They're not going to include a link to something bad. They're not going to include a malicious attachment. They're going to reach out to you and be like, hey, I really like this paper you wrote. Like, do you have some time to talk to me about it? And really building that trust with a target. I mean, they're playing the long game, right? Like North Korea, Iran, these actors can spend months really cultivating a relationship before sending an actual payload. And by that point, you're in a trusted conversation with them. And then that's kind of when you have your guard down and that's when you might click and install malware. So when you have these criminals who are playing this long game and really patient, I mean, how do you solve this problem? How do you solve a problem like North Korea? It sounds like the sound of music. I mean, I know. It's super tough, right? I mean, yeah, I think Maddie spoke about we have to have more controls than just the person, right? There's just, unfortunately, it's not enough to just expect the person to always, you know, like make the right call because it's really hard to do it. These are spies, right? They're not, you know. They're good at what they do. They're good at what they do. They're incentivized to do what they do. They'll spend a month, they've got the time, right? And they'll take their time. And you have to have other precautions in place. It's not enough to just expect somebody to always get it right. Mm-hmm, yeah. Oh, sorry, go ahead. Oh, no. So I'll circle back to kind of the zero day thing. I used to be run product for a software company. I had to deal with Log4J and numerous other ones. And when you start to look at it and say, hey, you know, I had a CISO ask me, a CISO CIO of a hedge fund one day.  And I go, I don't know, two, 300 bugs per release. And he goes to me, he goes, wow, that's the most honest answer I've ever heard. Yeah, we get rid of the ones and the twos and we have structure around the threes and the fours and we do security rankings and all of that. But again, when you start to look at it and go, those aren't the zero days that we're getting rid of. And so why is it, should we look at zero days as just being normal going forward? Is that, is this the new norm where we're going to hear a lot more about them? I mean, it does depend on what kind of threat, your threat model, right? I think that's important. But I think if you're an enterprise and you have data that criminals might find interesting and you're using those technologies that they're preying on, I think, yeah, you should consider it the norm. And let's say you're using the file transfer software, you need to have controls anticipating a zero day, right? And I've had conversations with people and they're like, well, they didn't patch in time. There was no warning. They dropped on everybody's target, all these targets simultaneously. Nobody could have had that warning. So they all got popped at once. If you are, especially like say in the defense sector or supporting the defense sector, I think you have a very heightened model and you definitely need to be worried about zero days. As you sort of get away from those places where they traditionally target, you have a little bit of breathing room. But I think we find these adversaries in mysterious places all the time, right? And I think if you're an enterprise, you really need to at least work that in your model. What would happen if they can break through this one, like your perimeter? What's the next step of your plan? Right. Well, yeah, and kind of taking a look at what has been recently exploited, what are the zero days that are being used, both from like, if APT is in your threat model, from an APT perspective, but also from a cyber crime perspective, taking a look at the types of software and services that are being exploited, maybe trying to do your own internal analysis, where you're ranking, prioritizing, what do we look at first? Like, where do we put all of our resources for doing an assessment on what happens if this gets exploited? And basically using historic activities, dare I say, intelligence, to kind of help you prioritize where you spend your time or you spend your money. And maybe if you have the resources to do your own pen testing, to do your own vulnerable research. And I think, yeah, like it really depends again on your threat model. But making informed decisions within your own organization about where you're going to spend time based off of what we've seen historically in the landscape, like to John's point, FTP, that's, I mean, the file transfer stuff, that's, we're seeing a lot of that. So where, what file transfer software are you using within your own organization? And then kind of taking a step back and say, what happens if? And then go from there. There's a tremendous amount of value. I mean, there's a tremendous amount of activity at post zero day, right? And people are struggling to patch in time. And there's only so many resources in the world. You can keep up with only so many zero days. So I think you really have to take an intelligent triage approach to which one of these zero days you're going to actually patch first, right? And that has a lot to do with what actor has access to them, how it's being used, how they're targeting. There was a big difference. You remember the exchange vulnerability, for instance. That was a very unique situation where that vulnerability was massively valuable. It could get you right into, right downtown in a network where you wanted to be, right? And we knew that drop it, and we knew to drop everything and patch this thing, right? Because, and the other thing is that we also knew that it was being like, like that adversary had like ramped up, you know, scanning for this thing suddenly. That we don't always have that level of intelligence, but we have a, like there are lesser, more less clear versions of that. We can actually use to make these decisions. So, you both painted the landscape as one where the bad actors are highly incentivized, smart, patient, so it's scary. But what is giving you optimism right now? Is there anything that the defenders are doing, doing particularly well, particularly from what they were doing even just a couple of years ago? So, for me, the fact that cybercrime and ransomware actors even use zero days is a case for optimism for me personally, because that has meant that all these threat actors have to use zero days, because we're doing all these things right. So, earlier you mentioned, you know, what stuff in the threat landscape has really forced behavior change? Well, Microsoft blocking macros by default, made a huge shift. MFA everywhere means that, you know, password spraying and just getting in on exposed services isn't really the default anymore, like it happens less and less. Because the baseline of cyber security is increasing, there are decisions that have been made by vendors, by organizations to say, hey, you know, this low hanging fruit, we're going to knock it out. So, that really forces the adversaries to have to change their behavior. And the fact that they're having to use O-Day, they're having to spend resources either finding it or buying it, which is great news. And they're, you know, the stuff that they have relied on historically just isn't working anymore. I think we want to force them to innovate, right? If we live in a world where they don't have to innovate and they can get away with this too easily, then we're not doing our jobs. But it's clear that they're being forced to innovate. And that's good to hear. What you want to hear is like, here's a new threat factor, right? That's good news. That means a lot of others' controls are starting to work. Great. Well, John and Selena, thank you so much for coming on theCUBE. Thank you. Thanks for having us. I'm Rebecca Knight for Rob Stretch A. Stay tuned for more of theCUBE's live coverage of MYs.


Antinutrients are negative substances found in plant foods that impair human metabolic function. They can inhibit digestive enzymes, reduce mineral absorption, as well as vitamin absorption. If you want to answer the question of whether or not these plant-containing antinutrients should be included on a daily basis, looking at indigenous groups or traditional cultures and what they ate can answer a lot of questions. The main thing to keep in mind is these traditional groups consumed a minimum of 65% of their calories from animal foods. What this means is they got a large amount of bioavailable vitamins and minerals from these animal foods and the rest of the percentage of their calories would have been consumed out of necessity or for energy. The difference between a group of peoples that consumed 65% of their calories from animal foods and 85% of their calories from animal foods or even 95% in some cases was physical impressiveness. The more animal foods in the diet, the taller the person was and generally better hunting skills were associated with that. If you hear stories about the Mongols were big and strong, when the Roman soldiers invaded Germany they said the Germans were tall and strong, what else did they say about? The Native Americans, the newcomers to America spoke about how they could chase down bison on foot. Very interesting stories about the physical impressiveness of these indigenous groups. That being said, yes there are blue zones now such as Sardinians that consume smaller amounts of these animal foods and still consume high amounts of antinutrient containing plant foods and still live long healthy lives. So the main thing to take away from this video is going to be that there are certain antinutrients that definitely need to be avoided in large amounts and that there are various preparation methods that should be used to reduce the antinutrient content in certain foods. We'll start with leucosinolates which occur in cruciferous vegetables and the cruciferous vegetable family I think is originally from some sort of mustard seed and it's pretty much a bunch of modern vegetables that have all been created from an older one so it's kind of like unnatural to only be eating large amounts of cruciferous vegetables. And you can actually like Google and look up people getting goiter from consuming too much kale or eating too many cruciferous vegetables but these have shown free radical damage in animal studies. In order to reduce the leucosinolate content you have to boil the vegetable and most people consume vegetables either lightly cooked or raw so the levels of these other substances that are produced by leucosinolates are generally not inhibited by cooking because they're just not cooked long enough. Isothiocyanates stimulate detoxification enzymes inflammatory response they interfere with DNA segregation resulting in cell death they inhibit iodine uptake which can kind of be countered with a higher iodine intake but they also inhibit thyroid hormone and that can't be countered by anything if this is consumed in large amounts you know and consuming more iodine does not change that. Indoles inhibit ATP energy metabolism as well as estrogen metabolism. Nitrials stimulate detoxification enzymes same inflammatory reaction and they actually cause cyanide related toxicity which results in reduced appetite and food intake impaired kidney function, decreased energy production, more blood clotting as well as an increased liver weight and can actually be obtained from cooked Brussels sprouts or large amounts of certain cruciferous vegetables so definitely a bunch of negative things that can be had from consuming cruciferous vegetables in incredibly large amounts especially if raw or lightly cooked. Lectins are a much bigger anti-nutrient that causes a lot of problems for people and lectins, saponins and gluten are the main anti-nutrients associated with leaky gut and a lot of gut problems. Lectins in particular are contained in legumes, grains, dairy and vegetable oils. They damage the intestines because they're attracted to the sugar in the cell and that pretty much causes cell damage and in some cases cell death. They commonly cause joint pain as well, some tolerate lectins better than others but these can be reduced through traditional methods such as fermentation or soaking. Saponins are very similar to lectins in that they damage the intestinal lining. They also damage red blood cells, enzymes, inhibit enzymes, thyroid function as well and they have a foaming property when saponins enter the body, they foam up and that's part of what causes the cell damage. These are contained in soy, chickpeas, quinoa, asparagus, oats, onions, garlic and tea consuming large amounts of improperly prepared oats, soy, quinoa, which is something vegans likely do. This can definitely contribute to some gut problems. Chaconin and solanine are actually two things that are viewed as beneficial in small amounts but if someone can find the study, I think there was a guy, a famous survivalist who ate too many potato spuds and died from some sort of toxin, I don't know if it was this one but these inhibit the nerve synapse enzyme acetylcholine stearase and they're found in large amounts of corn and potatoes. I haven't really seen too many negative things online about this because I don't think people consume large enough amounts of these foods raw. Solanine is the primary anti-nutrient found in nightshades. It inhibits the same nerve synapse enzyme that chaconin does. It disrupts cell membranes and can cause birth defects. It opens up the potassium channel of the mitochondria, decreasing membrane potential. What this essentially does is it increases the concentration of potassium in the cytoplasm resulting in cell damage or even cell death. Isoflabones are the first anti-nutrient that we definitely need to be avoiding. These are found in soy, peanuts, chickpeas, fava beans, kudzu, alfalfa. In most cases food that is modern, man-made, wasn't really available to humans until really recently. The main concern is the phytoestrogens in these foods. It's associated with reduced fertility in rats, cell death in embryos, early puberty in women, also a regular cycle, and women fed a soy formula had menstrual cramping as well as longer periods. It resulted in breast cells in male rats and altered brain development. I want to blame isoflavones and soy formula for a lot of the problems that I personally had. I think it's something that's pretty much a poison, it alters our hormones, our system and everything. I don't really want to go too much into that but it's definitely something we need to be avoiding. Soy is poisonous, maybe even feeding it to animals isn't something we should be doing. Lignans are phytoestrogens that occur in seeds, grains, beans and berries. Although you would think they might have similar effects to isoflavones, the amount of phytoestrogens that occur in foods like soy and peanuts eclips lignans by like a dozen to a hundred fold in many, many cases. So, although lignans still might be a concern, specifically in consuming large amounts of seeds, grains and beans, in more wild indigenous foods I wouldn't worry too much as they're usually not consumed in any significant amount, especially during all seasons of the year. Glutamates, MSG, this isn't really that big of a topic but this is mostly focusing on the additive of MSG, not the MSG that naturally occurs in foods. The additive can be associated with asthma, headache, hives, angiodema, just like swelling of the skin, just various like skin inflammation too, rhinitis, psychiatric disorders and convulsions in some cases, but they do occur naturally in foods. The reason meat tastes good, especially dry aged meat is because it has high levels of umami. So do foods like mushrooms and tomatoes. So natural MSG is not necessarily a bad thing to consume but additive is definitely, you know, maybe not relating too much to anti-nutrients but I figured I'd throw it in there. Gluten is a big one. Gluten is an enzyme inhibitor and anything that inhibits enzymes impairs digestive function. If your body isn't producing enzymes to digest foods what happens is the food kind of just fermented in the stomach causes damage to cells, it promotes the growth of negative gut bacteria. It's associated with leaky gut, autoimmune disease, allergic reactions, cognitive problems, joint pain, headaches, fatigue and poor memory. I can personally vouch, you know, my father eats a lot of gluten and definitely has cognitive problems and poor memory. As well as a lot of people I've noticed now, gluten might be a big factor in that. Phytic acid and oxalids are the two big things that are spoken about in a negative light on a vegan or a vegetarian diet and these inhibit various minerals. Phytic acid being found in grains and legumes, oxalids being found in legumes and greens. Oxalids are also in high amounts in coconuts so although I've listed a lot of foods that these things are contained in I've probably missed a few things so if you guys are interested in looking up individual anti-nutrient profiles go ahead, I'll post all the information I have in the description but there really isn't a lot of information on anti-nutrient content and if you try to look up phytic acid content of nuts the information is difficult to find. I know for sure macadamia nuts are lower in phytic acid than a lot of other nuts but that doesn't mean that they're low in oxalids for instance I didn't put nuts for this too. Phytic acid is very high in nuts and seeds as well but phytic acid primarily inhibits phosphorus, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, zinc and manganese in regards to percentages, phosphorus and calcium can be up to 80% and magnesium 40% so not only is phytic acid inhibiting these minerals oxalids also overlap for things like calcium and magnesium so in a lot of cases between the phytic acid inhibiting mineral absorption and oxalids binding to minerals a lot of vegans and vegetarians are getting negligible amounts of minerals in their diet in the case of phytic acid, vitamin A and vitamin C can help counteract it but vegan and vegetarian diets are low in the animal form of retinoic acid vitamin A that's why this is a problem in large amounts in diets without animal foods they also inhibit digestive enzymes, amylase, trypsin and pepsin so not only is your starch digestion inhibited so is your protein digestion I won't touch too more on oxalids but again guys I do have studies for showing each of these and the inhibition of various mineral absorption biogenic and vasoactive amines are pretty much histamines in plant foods and these occur from fermentation, improper storage or decay and rotting this can have heart rate problems, skin flushing headaches and scamboride poisoning is an example of high histamine levels in fish and that's from improper storage of fish so this isn't necessarily specific to plant foods but it can occur in plant foods as well mycotoxin and aflatoxin are from fungus and this is specifically from food handling and storage coffee and chocolate are examples of two foods that I don't believe would not ever not have high amounts of these so if there's one reason to not consume coffee or chocolate it might just be because of the mycotoxin and the aflatoxin whether or not different types of mold or problematic or not it's safe to say that both coffee and chocolate are very high in phytic acid they're foods that are very high in oxalids very high in anti-nutrients in general especially these biogenic and vasoactive amines in addition to the mycotoxins it's hard to justify consuming either of those foods I'll let you guys read up more on that if you're interested in it yourself the salicylates are found in plants and spices and although there's been negative associations with them there is sparse evidence, just something I wanted to throw out there for you guys and these are anti-nutrients that can have drastic effects on some people but aren't really talked about a lot so alpha amylase inhibitors are found in grains, flowers and breads these cause pancreatic problems in animal models and could very likely be a reason that a lot of people are getting pancreatic cancer now just a high grain diet protease inhibitors found in legumes, greens, nuts and grains in pear, protein and peptide digestion could be a reason a lot of vegans need to consume protein powders to not be deficient in protein and also probably why a lot of vegans have naturally lower muscle mass if they're not taking steroids and lifting weight tannins can be enzyme inhibitors cause protein deficiency gastrointestinal distress trypsin inhibitors mainly associated with mineral deficiencies in children and are containing grain products sulfites, you know, cider, wine, dried fruit tend to be added several reports of reactions to sulfites, definitely problematic for some people I know that was big years ago benzoates, which are added to sodas, jams, sweets, pickles, certain preserved foods it's an antimicrobial that can cause hives, asthma and just various skin problems so this video is a little bit longer than I want it to be I mean, the main two things to keep in mind are we absolutely should be avoiding isoflavones and mycotoxins various other anti-nutrients can be reduced with soaking, sprouting various cooking and fermentation methods but I think the important thing, as I said earlier is that your diet has a base amount of fat soluble vitamins and if you do choose to include a plant food try to buy a high quality indigenous natural version of that food you know, don't go to the supermarket and buy a 50 pound bag of white rice go, you know, buy the local Minnesota wild rice that cost like $10 for a half a pound bag, you know these foods are super expensive if you want to buy high quality plant foods that's why I tend to stick primarily to a carnivore diet it's simply that these wild plant foods are just too expensive and too difficult to obtain I know Australia is known for having high quality like plant foods and large amounts of wild plant foods but New York is a little far from it so thank you guys for watching if you guys like the video, please share it if you'd like to support the channel, that's the best way to do it if you guys would like to reach out to me for anything related to maybe you want to know how to do your makeup shoot me an email for a consultation send me a message through the contact form on my website and if you guys want to look at some plant foods that are healthy for you I have some on my Amazon shop that you can check out and you don't necessarily have to buy them I don't really want you guys to buy them from my Amazon shop especially certain things like blueberries but they're listed in there so you could say oh well this is decent, this is decent and keep in mind they were always eaten for a source of energy if indigenous groups could have obtained more of their calories from animal foods they would have preferred to eat almost entirely animal foods in many cases and maybe only 5-10% of their calories from plant foods but before I go on anymore, thank you guys for watching if you feel like I missed anything just feel free to let me know I'm sure there's something that's just such a broad topic to cover you guys like my little drawing here? this guy does not like broccoli