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So please consider signing up for it and checking us out. We have events all week long, every single week. It's just amazing. We are here. So and it's cold out because it's summer in San Francisco. So it's a good time to spend time at the library virtually or in person. All right. So today I'm so excited to have back and welcome back Linda Jackson. Linda Jackson today is going to be talking about Black music in San Francisco. And it is June is African American Music Appreciation Month. So yay. And I really appreciate Linda for being here and taking us on this musical journey. And Linda Jackson is a native San Franciscan, a writer, historian, photographer and food artist. She holds a bachelor's of arts degree in English from Mount St. Mary University and received her MFA degree in creative writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Workshop and has recently completed a collection of short stories entitled The Religion of Slaves. She is now working on her memoir. And I welcome Linda has been with us before and I will put some links in the chat about her previous event. And welcome, Linda, unmute yourself. Can you hear me now? We got you. Hello and thank you so much, Anissa and the San Francisco Public Library for allowing me to share some of the joys and memories of San Francisco's African American musicians. This project became a small started out as very small and has grown so quickly that I've already discussed the possibility to come back and do part two. So this is part one today. And I just want to begin by thanking everyone for coming. It's a wonderful Sunday afternoon. I know they're having concerts at Stern Grove, but you elected to be here. And so I appreciate you. Having a little bit of a challenge here. There we are. The name of this presentation is called There's Something About the Water. And it's been inspired by my fascination with the water being born and raised right here in San Francisco.  And then I came along this wonderful book by Wallace J. Nichols called Blue Mind, and it describes how water makes us happier, more connected and how it makes us better at what we do. And I think that that is especially so for people in the creative arts. One of the things about the artists that I'm going to be presenting today is that they are the progeny of African Americans who came from the south to the west, escaping Jim Crow. And this is the second part of the second. This is the part of the second great migration. And so it began like right before at the brink of World War Two and continued on into the 1970s. And so a lot of the people that you see here today, they were perhaps born in the south, but came here as toddlers and young children. And so they are true San Franciscans worlds away from the lives that their parents grew up with. I want to describe how Black Music Month came about. This is Diana Williams and at the time her husband, Kenneth Gamble. Now, Kenny Gamble is a music and songwriting master. He is responsible and part of the team of Gamble and Huff that created the Philadelphia sound, what we call the Philly sound. His former wife, Diana Williams, was a journalist and a radio personality and a musician in her own right. They came up with the idea of a Black Music Appreciation Month because Kenny Gamble in the 1970s went to Nashville, Tennessee. And everywhere he went, he saw little monuments and some way to pay homage to the country music artist who were a part of building the music, the country music sound out of Nashville, Tennessee. And Kenny thought that the same thing should be done for African American music. And he and his wife set about doing that in the 1970s. And it finally came into fruition in 1979. The bill to Institute Black Music Month was originally signed by Jimmy Carter in 1979. However, there was some sort of a glitch and a neglect in signing a proclamation. And that didn't get signed until the year 2000. And so in the first term of his presidency, President Barack Obama signed a new proclamation and renamed the historic month African American Music Appreciation Month. So it just didn't come out of somebody pulling an idea out of the wind. It took time. It took a lot of writing. And it took a lot of support by people in the industry, people that you know and people that you do not. Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder and even Bob Marley. And there's one name that I'd like you to remember. And that is Clarence Avant, A-V-A-N-T. There is a wonderful, wonderful documentary on Netflix about Clarence Avant, and it is called The Godfather, the Black Godfather. That's exactly what it's called. And he was instrumental in really getting Gamble and Williams to the higher levels, to the presidential level, where they could actually get this, make this a done deal. And so now we begin. And I have to tell you the reason that this is cut in half is this presentation is cut in half is because when I wanted to include so many people and I wanted to do it chronologically so that we could see the evolution of music. And so that was my attempt. And so I'm giving you the best that I've got for right now.  If I left somebody that you love out of it, I'm mad at myself. But come back for part two, I promise you they will be in there. This is a San Francisco homeboy, John Royce Mathis, born in Gilmore, Texas, in 1935. His family moved to San Francisco in around 1937, and he grew up in the Richmond District on 32nd Avenue. You know, his father was in music and his father was actually a retired Vodvillian. And so he always encouraged Johnny his, you know, to pursue his interest in music. And he even bought him an upright piano for twenty five dollars. And that's how Johnny began to play. And when he was a young kid, he'd go around just local things, you know, in school events and churches and sing. And he built quite a name for himself before he was even a high school graduate. Johnny was a very industrious young man and he actually worked out a deal with his first vocal coach to get lessons and he would do chores around her house for her. Her name was Miss Cox, and he was with her for six years. And we can all see that she did him a lot of good. And he's thanked her many times in different speeches. Johnny is a graduate of George Washington High School. You know, the nemesis to my alma mater, Lincoln High, but he was a stellar athlete there and he was still singing around the city. And he graduated in 1954 and went to San Francisco State with the intention of becoming an English teacher and a P.E. teacher. Johnny was actually quite an athlete. And in 1956, he was invited to try out for the US Olympic team. They were going to be going to Melbourne. And Johnny at the same simultaneously, he was heard at a nightclub by a representative from Columbia Records and he gave Johnny a contract at the age of 19. Johnny Mathis had his first recording deal. Johnny had a very interesting life and he lived very privately. But in 1982, when he was doing an interview with Us Magazine, he thought he was off the record and inadvertently made a statement that changed his life. All he said was homosexuality is a way of life and I've grown accustomed to it. What did he say that for? I mean, people went crazy. He got death threats and probably lost some gigs at the time. Well, this is 1982, but it was really, really bad for him. And he never really spoke on it again until like 2017. He did do another interview with Larry King. But this is an interview that he did with CBS News Sunday morning. And he says, and I do quote, I come from San Francisco.  I've had some girlfriends, some boyfriends, just like most people. But I never got married, for instance.  So one thing we can give Johnny Johnny Mathis credit for is not living on the down low. He lived a very quiet, private life. But he was always true to himself and true to others about who he was. And I love him for that. Our next San Francisco native daughter is Carol Channing. And you might be surprised to see Carol Channing there amongst African Americans. But yes, Carol Channing is a biracial woman, African American on her father's side and German on her mother's side. Carol was born in Seattle in 1921. And as a toddler, her family moved to San Francisco in 1923. So she was born in the Roaring 20s. And believe me, when I tell you, if you are not familiar with Carol Channing, look her up this sister, Roard. She went to Aptis High, Aptis Junior High School, and she's a graduate from Lowell, like one of the presenters in the book for the summer series. Carol graduated from Lowell at the age of 16 and was accepted into Bennington College in Vermont. And but before she left, her mother told her something that she'd always kept from her. And Carol writes about it in her autobiography, Just Lucky, I guess. Her mother told her that she was black and told her of the origins of her family. Her father was a very, very light-skinned African American man. And his mother, a black woman who worked as a domestic in Augusta, Georgia, decided that her children would have a better chance if she could separate from the separate them from the consciousness of Jim Crow culture in the South, where people were more likely to recognize his full features. And so she sent her children to Providence, Rhode Island. And so that's how Carol's father ended up living the life of a white man and separating from his African American roots. Another. Oh, wait a minute. I need to go back and tell you one thing about Carol before I go on. Carol Channing went on to win an Emmy, a Tony, a Golden Globe and a Grammy. And she lived to be, I think, like 98 years old and just died in 2019. So and she died in Southern California. But again, she makes the case for me that there is something about the water here in the San Francisco Bay Area. David Diggs, you might recognize him. He is a Broadway actor and received a Tony Award for his performance in Hamilton. David is Jewish by his mother and African African American by his father. And he is a graduate of Berkeley High School, and he went to Brown and graduated with a degree in theater arts. If you're looking for something really interesting and you want to see where he fuses his Jewish and his African American cultures, go on YouTube and look up a puppy for Hanukkah. It is a little hip hop Jewish African American rap video. And it is so adorable. It's about a little boy who waits eight days for the puppy that he's hoping for for Hanukkah. David Diggs received a Tony Award in 2016 for his performance in Hamilton, and he actually played two roles in Hamilton. And he also won a Grammy for the musical performance of Hamilton in the same year of 2016. Now I want to take a moment and introduce you to a couple of the gospel dynasties that were born right here in San Francisco and Oakland Bay Area. Now, the interesting thing about it is that these artists are all most collectively from the Church of God in Christ, which is called Kojik, C-O-G-I-C, Church of God in Christ. And you will meet other artists today that are also part of that church. And it's very interesting, the kind of music they produced once they got out at a church. This is Edwin Hawkins, and he was born in Oakland, California. He has been a mainstay in the gospel music industry for over 50 years. He is credited for one of the biggest gospel hits in world history. Oh, happy day. Now, a lot of people think that Edwin Hawkins wrote that song. He did not. Oh, happy day was actually written by Philip Dodridge in the 1700s. That's right, this song was written in the 1800s. What Edwin Hawkins did was he did a new arrangement for the song, and it has never been the same. If you're familiar with it, you know what I'm talking about. If you're not, wait till we're done.  Edwin Hawkins went on to sell more than 7 million copies of the recording of Oh, Happy Day, which means it is a mainstay throughout the world religious communities, well, Christian communities anyway. This is Edwin's brother, Bishop Walter Hawkins. And I love Walter Hawkins not just because of his music, but because he founded a ministry, the Love Center in Oakland, California. And when it wasn't even Vogue or accepted, he opened his church to the LGBTQ community and and they got musicians and artists and people from all around the Bay Area to show up at the Love Center on Sunday and make a joyful noise. One of the things I have to tell you about the Church of God and Christ is that compared to other churches, particularly those in the African American community, they are the noise makers. Believe me, if noise could beat the devil back down to hell, the Church of God and Christ would do it because they make a loud, joyful noise. And the choir at the Love Center was known for just that. And they actually had a number one hit back in the 90s. That stayed on the gospel billboard charts for 33 weeks. This is Tremaine Davis Hawkins. She was once the wife of Bishop Walter Hawkins. Tremaine was born here in San Francisco, and she was part of a music group called The Heavenly Tones, when she was a teenager still in high school. One of the members of that group was a girl named Vett Stone. And Vett's brother, Sly, had just started his own band. And the girls, Tremaine, Vett, and the others of The Heavenly Tones were signed to sing background music for Sly and the Family Stone. Tremaine did some work with them, but she ultimately left that because her heart was with gospel. And that's where it remained. And she won her first Grammy Award for Gospel recording with her husband in 1981. Now, the second dynasty of gospel music from the San Francisco Bay Area is the Crouch family. And this is Andre Crouch, born right here in San Francisco. Andre has worked with his career spent over 45 years, and he worked with every major artist from Elvis and Little Richard to Michael Jackson and Madonna. As a matter of fact, if you're familiar with Michael's recording of Man in the Mirror and the gospel phrases throughout, that was Andre Crouch and his singers backing up Michael and Man in the Mirror. Andre also received an Oscar nomination for musical arrangements he did for the film, The Color Purple. One of the things that surprised me, I mean, I learned, I learned things as I go along. I sang in many church choirs over the year. And one of the main songs that used to just really get everybody going was the blood will never lose its power. I did not know somehow that that was written by Andre Crouch until I did until I started working on this presentation. And the funny thing about it is that at that time, this song was so powerful, it used to make me want to fly off of the power and understand if you love gospel music, if you love sacred music, go and try and find this one on Spotify or YouTube or somewhere. Believe me, it's out there and it will move you. OK, Andre is a recipient of seven Grammy Awards and he's been inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and he's only one of three gospel artists to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which is really saying something because, you know, Hollywood ain't no gospel town. This is Andre's sister, his twin sister, Sandra Crouch, which means she had to be born in San Francisco, too. So Sandra sang along, sang along with her brother and she also co-pastored a church with him after their father died. She won a Grammy as the best soul gospel performance female in 1984. And again, a beautiful, beautiful voice. Now we go to rhythm and blues, funk and soul. And I don't know how you feel about it, but I'm feeling the funk just looking at the words. But I had decided that I needed to start in. I didn't know where to put this person because they were just such a phenomenon and crossed over in so many genres. So before Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and before RuPaul's Drag Race, in the days of yester, there was a queen who reigned supreme and her name was Sylvester. Sylvester James, the baddest girl, the baddest boy to touch the shores of San Francisco Bay. Originally from Los Angeles, Sylvester always identified as gay or was identified as gay and bullied. Again, another member of the Church of God in Christ. Sylvester couldn't find acceptance for his life and the way he loved cross-dress. And believe me, he was beautiful as a man. She was beautiful as a woman. So Sylvester came to San Francisco where he could be free and really come out.  That one just gives me the shivers and dance disco heat. But you have to hear Mighty Reel. Again, I urge you, go check Sylvester out on YouTube. You will not be sorry if you like to dance, if you like to whoop and holler. All that he got from the Church of God in Christ, when he put it into rhythm and funk, it smoked. It smoked. She was really something. Sylvester, one of the iterations was Sylvester and his backup seniors, Martha Wash and Isor Armstead, and they were known as two tons of fun. I mean, that's a little politically incorrect for this day, but they loved it. They embraced it.  Martha was also a native San Franciscan and and a high school graduate here in San Francisco. Isora, ironically, is originally from Houston, Texas, which is where a lot of my family is from and a lot of people from San Francisco with southern roots, many from Houston. Martha and Isora eventually left Sylvester's group and they had and became the weather girls. They went from being two tons of fun to being the weather girls and they blessed the children with an anthem and what remains to be the biggest hit of their career, its main, its reigning men, which was released in 1983. And I know I don't have to remind you about that song. Everybody knows that song. All the boys, all the girls and all the children, and it is a winner. Sylvester also before he got with Isora and Martha, he was with he had his own band, the Hot Band. So Sylvester was this beautiful drag queen with a group of funky white boys and they used to make great music. I like to put a lot of these photographs up because he was so beautiful in any way. And you can see that he was also pointed with our beloved Harvey Milk. If you want to know what Sylvester really meant to the city of San Francisco, you can go to 19th and Castro to the Rainbow Honor Walk, the Rainbow Walk of Honor, where you will find a plaque of Sylvester. And it reads multi gold records, singer and songwriter known as the Queen of Disco and a visionary of queerness, music and race. Yes, that describes Sylvester in a nutshell.  Disco was the first time we got long play records where you could actually dance to one song for half an hour. And believe me when I tell you, if that song was Sylvester, the way he wailed and the way he shouted and the way he growled, you didn't even want it to stop after thirty five minutes. Now we come to another another Sylvester. My boy Sly Stone. Sly was originally from Denton, Texas, but like most of the other artists that you've met and will meet, he also came to San Francisco as a child and grew up playing doing music, playing keyboards and and actually just being in a doo wop band before he actually broke out to what to who we don't him to be today. I like these photographs because these are album covers. And so this first one, Dance to the Music, was their first album. And you can see how they are. They're very sixties. This is the mid sixties. And you can see Larry Graham there right behind Sly Stone. But you see they have their little tight afros or Sly and they're looking very serious, but by the time they blew up, this is how they ended up. They were the true funk masters. And so when people, there's all genres of music, but in black music, there's this one little beautiful, tiny niche called funk, funk, F-U-N-K. And Sly is the orchestrator and the perpetrator and put his finger, his fingerprint on funk. So every time you listen to funk, I don't care if it's confunction, Parliament Funkadelic or print, it came from Sly Stone. He was just that bad. One of the things I want to tell you about Sly Stone, he's got many, many hits, again, look them up. But Sly wrote every single song they ever recorded. And that was hit after hit after hit. Sly has a special place in my heart because when I was growing up, he was a radio DJ on K-S-O-L and then radio K-D-I-A. Now, this is back in the 60s and I'm like a little teenager, a very young teenager. And back then you had to have a radio name. I mean, people called into the radio just like they probably do.  But back then all we had was telephones with rotary dials, but we still managed to get through. And when tickets to concerts, talk to celebrities and talk to our DJs. My radio name, when I was a little girl, was called Mrs. Soul. And I would call and I would dedicate. Dedicate is the 60s and 70s version of a shout out. This is how you tell someone you love them, you're thinking about them, you want them to hear a song that you've asked the DJ to play. Now, one of the very special things about Sly was that when you called Sly and you told him it was your birthday, he had a keyboard right there in the studio and he would do some jam and version of happy birthday for you or whatever it might be right there on the spot. So, of course, when he formed his band Sly and the Family Stone, everybody in this city was already behind him and loving him. And we made no mistake, they really brought the funk. During that era, it was also important for a lot of artists to do some sort of consciousness raising song, something that made someone think. And for me, that song is stand, stand in the end. You'll still be you one that's done all the things you set out to do.  It's the truth that the truth makes them so uptight. Again, we see that even today. People can't handle the truth like the election. Stand for the things you know are real. You have youth to compete and there is no deal. Stand is a song that tells us about standing up without compromise. If you've never hear anything else by Sly and the Family Stone, I urge you to go listen to this song. It can actually it's a torch bearing song and it'll make you want to stand up and keep and keep up the good fight. Now we come to my girls, the pointer sisters, Ruth, Anita, Bonnie and June. They are all Oakland natives and they were the original funky divas. I know some people say in vogue, but trust me, the pointer sisters were the original funky divas. One of the things about the pointer sisters is that, again, Church of God and Christ, they had the best harmony and they actually emerged onto the scene doing a lot of forties pieces. Boogie Boogie Bugle Boy song called Jada and they also dressed the part. They had women all over the Bay Area dressing in 1940 suits, just raiding goodwill stores and secondhand shops for hats and shoes and purses. And we did the thing because of them. They went on to stellar success and were showed up in movies and television shows. And one iconic film that you will find the pointer sisters in is Car Wash with Richard Pryor and George Carlin and Franklin Ajai and Ivan Dixon and so many others. Car Wash is a cult classic and just as just as much a cult classic as Fridays or or any other film that people just can't let go of. So but the pointer sisters, they were also on the Carol Burnett show. They sang on the soundtrack for Eddie Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop. And. They still perform today of the remaining sisters and their daughters. Now, in the in the name of funk, Tower of Power. Don't you just love that picture of the bridge? I mean, we were so proud of that when this album first came out. And now we can be especially proud of it because the bridge doesn't look like that anymore, you know, and they again with the DNA of Sly Stone, they were the funkiest band around. They had a lead singer by the name of Lenny Williams, who is still around San Francisco and the world doing gigs everywhere. But Lenny is a Renaissance man who was also a probation officer in the San Francisco Department of Probation. But if you love good music, if you love good funk, it's Lenny Williams and Tower of Power. Now, in the name of funk, again, we have confunction. This group was out of the Leo and they hit the scene with hit after hit after hit and they never let up. I put a list of some of their top 10 hits here. Fun loves train and one of my favorites miss got the body for the obvious reasons. OK, now I decided that this would be a good place to stop because I know that we're doing Q&A and there's so much more. And I, again, doing this chronologically, I wanted to leave enough time for some discussion if anyone is ready. There's lots of info in the chat going on. Some people love those images that you pulled up, Linda. Don't see any questions at this moment. I wanted to just say that all of these resources, I knew you were going to come with all of those great resources and we have so much of this music and books and films on all of the people you mentioned. So I threw a bunch of those links in there. But yes, if anyone would like to raise their hand or ask a question and you too, you as well. I totally remember looking at my mom's slide in the family stone record albums covers and going through them. Yes, yes, they did some really fantastic cover art. As a matter of fact, Album Cover Art was a big deal back in the day. And you could actually go to record stores and buy frames that were fit and made suitable for Album. So all you had to do, slide your album in it and hang it on the wall. Lots of love coming in from YouTube. I see from the chat. I didn't realize Confunction was from Valeo. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Yes. You know, and that was the great thing about growing up in San Francisco because when Larry Graham actually did a concert at Lincoln High School, you could find different groups doing impromptu concerts in the park and some were set up so you find Sly out there, Santana. I mean, this was a great music hub. And that's one of the things that I want to say about this presentation, too. I'm specifically doing African American music for this month. But there's great music all over San Francisco. I mean, they're wonderful things of the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane. We used to go to the Jefferson Airplane House over on Fulton Avenue near Willard North and just kind of hang out and want and hope that we could see somebody. But I did see on hate one time when I was a kid, I cut school with Jeanette Amaya and we were on Haidt Street and I wasn't prone to this. The first and only time I ever cut school. I think I was probably like in the seventh grade and we were on Haidt Street and we saw Janice Joplin, so it was worth it. That is so fun. Awesome. So we do know we have one question that ask if you know of any music museums that specialize in black music specifically, you know, we know there's the rock and roll all the name and. Yes, yes, there are. There is a museum in Stax Records. Where's Stax Records? Is that. I want to say Tennessee, but I could be wrong. There is an African American Museum. Excuse me, Tennessee's correct. Yes, yes, yes. So there is a museum of African American and it's probably small, but the greatest museum, if you wanted to find out about a lot of African American music as part of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. It is the African American Museum of History and Culture and it has several floors and one floor is completely dedicated to music. I'm aware of this because some of my father's work. My father was a San Francisco photographer, a jazz photographer, Steve Jackson. I did a presentation last year and, you know, using some of his work and his work is also in that museum, but I would suggest if you want to find out about any major players and even some of the minor ones in African American music from the beginning of black people on American shores up to the 21st century, that would be the place I would suggest that you go. It's wonderful. I'm putting your dad's link here into the chat. So amazing, Linda. So tell us what was your favorite record store back in your day? Back in the. Records at Columbus and Bay. And Tower Records was so cool because they stayed open until midnight.  Or it was just a wonderful, wonderful place to be. It was a happening and it was right up the street from Bimbos 365. And it was right up the street from where beach Babylon beach blanket Babylon played. So, I mean, it was a really, really thriving area. North Beach, it's still nice, but not like back in the day. Yes, it's true. When I first moved to San Francisco, that Tower Records was still open for years, but then it closed down. Yeah, yeah, I hate to see the record stores leave. Yeah, so SFPL has a whole LP collection. So you can check out vinyl from from the library now. And that's that five different locations or you just place it on hold and go pick up at your. Oh, great, great. You know, I have another shout out or a dedication because there was another record store. There was a neighborhood record store over in Bayview on Third Street called Caesar's record store. And it was a great place to go.  If you don't know what forty five is, it's a vinyl record. It's a little small one. I know some people don't know, but OK, I've been around. And there was always great music playing there. And sometimes he'd have some artists come in, they come in to play. And so, again, you'd have people like the Whispers, which the Whispers also Bay Area group and so many others. And you'd see them on the streets. But I also was a little fortunate in that my father was a photographer. And so sometimes I got to go and meet some of these people in person. So that was always a gasp. I was so young, much of the time I was afraid to take photographs with those people. I could just kick myself now, but I can just be happy and thankful that I had the experience of meeting them. Absolutely. Absolutely. Any questions out there, friends? Don't be shy. A terrific presentation, loving all the memories and the appreciation. Oh, thank you so much. Is there still an original record store still in the Bay Stacks Records Museum? You know what, I don't know about that. I'm going to have to check that myself. We have a couple left, but not like you used to. No, no, no. But vinyl is making a comeback. It's just not being distributed through record stores anymore. But vinyl is definitely made a comeback. It seems like the only one left is Amoeba almost, you know? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's a different experience. Yeah. I mean, nice. I mean, very little in Amoeba is brand new. But I mean, this is when you went in and had brand use kind of flip through the records yourself and and sometimes you'd buy it simply because of the art on the cover, you know, was so beautiful. And one of the best cover art musicians was Santana.  Are you saying something I can't hear you? I am going to put the link into your presentation that you did with us before, which was San Francisco in black and white in 1951 to 1980, which was really great. I encourage you all to check that out on YouTube. Oh, thank you. Yes, it really addresses the great migration and how all of the people you've seen today got here and why they came, why their families came here. I really had a lot of fun doing that. And I was able to use a significant portion of my father's photographs. And so I hope that that will be a treat and you can enjoy that as well.  And where do you see that going? Do you are you looking to get it published and? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, I've done some I've been published, but I'm working on a memoir and I have to tell you memoir is challenging because you have to relive some things and some things are not always, you know, pleasant, but it is part of the process. And so I have a great writing buddy and, you know, and so I'm working with her and getting it done. But then I have a wonderful collection of short stories, which are about the church and they're called The Religion of Slaves. And those are the ones that I'm trying to get published in a collection. But they're really, really wonderful stories, if I do say so myself. And they're about church people. And one of the messages that I'm trying to convey through all of that is that church people are just people just like anyone else, you know, with flaws and warts and and halos and all the things that everyone else has. I would love for you to come back and do an author talk when that when you get, even when you don't get it published, you know, you can come to you always have a spot with us, Linda. Oh, thank you so much. You know, I have a couple of really fun, short stories that I'd like to share. And I've been I do readings around the city. And I actually participated in Litquake when we had a Litquake, you know, before the pandemic and everything. And so the story was really well received there. And I have so many more. And it's a funny thing about these stories. It was a collection that I finished in graduate school, but the collection wouldn't let go of me. And so since I did the collection in graduate school, I've written about four more stories because these people and these situations just won't let go. And while I don't have stories that are what I would what some people would call sequels, I have stories where I revisit the same characters. And I just call them companion stories. That sounds lovely. Yes, well, we'll have to invite you back for sure. And we have a comment from Judith. Do you remember when you worked together at the Exploratorium a long time ago? Linda Judith Wing, Judy Wing. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You know what? I don't remember your face, but I remember that name. Oh, my God. And I love working at the Exploratorium. Do you? OK, OK, let me calm down. I worked at the Exploratorium for several semesters when I was in high school and I had the best job in the world. Besides being a docent, I have the job of dissecting pigs' eyeballs. Yes, yes. And it was such a gas and I learned that. And listen, I'm saying such a gas because I've been living in the 50s in the 60s, that's an old term, but I've been loving it. You know, I got into the subject and the subject got into me. But working at the Exploratorium, they used to give me and this is when it was at the Palace of Fine Arts, I would get a bucket of pigs' eyeballs.  And so I had eyeballs all day long that I could dissect. And the interesting thing about it was that I mean, and it was a pigs' eyeball because they say it is closest to a human being's eyeball. So I imagine that they use them in anatomy classes and medical school and that sort of thing, particularly for automotry and such. And it was so great because doctors and scientists would come in while I was doing my presentation and they would give me more information. And I learned more about a pigs' eyeball than I ever thought I ever wanted to know. But it was a learning experience and I loved it. I just absolutely loved it. Judy Wang. Judy said you were braver than her. That is so fascinating, Linda. You're you have such a fascinating San Francisco history and I am so happy that we have connected and that we get to continue bringing you to our library and sharing your stories with us. And I don't see any more questions and there's just lots of love going on on YouTube as well. Did I miss? No, you did not miss the link. I was still looking for it. Let's see if I can find that really quickly. Well, also. Not looking like I'm searching for something. Linda's father's work is also in the book that I just put in, which is Harlem of the West featured in there. But those photos are also so stunning. Yeah. Well, friends, I do want to put this one more time. And wow, Linda gave us just an enormous amount of links. All of this stuff is available at your library. All of those things that she mentioned. And we we took notes as you were going, Linda. So we hopefully caught everything and I will include that link to the YouTube.  And it was gorgeous. It was really gorgeous. Thank you. Thank you so much. And one of the things that I'd like to say, if there are any younger people out there who are not familiar with a lot of this music and they say, oh, I wasn't there. You don't have to be there to know history. You just have to learn your history. Not being born at a particular time is no excuse for not being up on your history. And you don't have to know the history of the world, but you should know at least the history of your community and the people that you admire. And that's there. So being young is no excuse. Crack open those history books or go online and and learn something about who you are through who we are and where we all come from and how we got here together. It's very, very important.  I promise you true, true, true. And what an amazing history we have here in San Francisco. We all have an amazing history. So many of us just don't know it. That's true. I have so many times, I think, back to we have an author, Alvin Orloff, who is a very queer guy who wrote his own memoir called Disasterama. But he said everyone should be mandatory to write their own memoir. So I always think about that and you just reminded me of that. So. Oh, yeah, that's great advice. But I mean, that's like creating a whole boom for this psychiatric industry. Writing memoir is not easy. You got to go in. I mean, first and then, you know, put on some hip waders and go in because memoir is tough, but I do agree with Orloff. It is very important, even if it's just for your family record. True, true. All right, friends, thank you for joining us on this Sunday. I know there's so much going on today. I think the sun is about to peek out so we can take our arms off and head out into our San Francisco summer. And thank you so very much. I thank everyone for joining me and I hope to see you again. And I will have more for you in part two and you're going to love it. I've got people that you're thinking about and I thought about them too. And we'll get to them next time. Thank you so much.


Good morning, good morning, good morning. It's time to rise and shine. Good morning, good morning, good morning. I hope you're feeling fine. Good morning, get up, get out of bed. It's time to wake up, you sleepyhead. Gump is a brand new day, and we can't miss out on that day to decay. Get your day planned out to be at your best. And you gotta make sure you got the right back test. Like this sleep away, make sure you're awake. Cause we don't have time for fat finger mistakes. And ratio condo, break, small gap. Good morning, everyone. Happy Monday, March 25th. Welcome to today's Zero DTE live stream. S&P down 16. NASDAQ down 105. Russell is up four. Dow down 60. Gold and silver are green. Notes and bonds a little bit red. Ten year yield up tiny bit. Oil up a little over half percent. Natural gas down 1.75. Soybeans up, weed up, corn down. Euro in the pound a little bit higher. Bitcoin up almost 5%. VIX at 13.5. Strikes in SPX. Pretty narrow, my friends. Pretty narrow. But it is Monday. So hopefully we can get some Monday magic. Working. As posted in the positions and updates, I'm going to do my Monday AM ratio iron condor. My NDX daily, 25 delta trade. My challenge portfolio will be doing re-entries. Along with the 1DTE iron condor. I'll be doing the 945 AM ratio iron condor. Potentially some JSP's. And then I might sprinkle in some additional discretionary price action iron condors if I see fit. Then later on, if they set up, do my quiet NPM tranches. And then power hour, if there's any premium left, we'll see. So that is my plan this morning. I've also got a 3536 and a 45 calendars from Friday. The IV did not coordinate well between the front and back. My 35 and 36 are both down. My 45 is up a little bit. I stayed light on these because it is a shortened holiday week. Friday markets closed for Good Friday. So I did stay small. But the 35 and 36 looks like they are going to be losers. Opening bell in 90 seconds. I am going to refresh my coffee. I will be back in one minute before the bell. All right, I made it. 20 seconds to go. My bots will start firing off positions about a minute after the bell. And here we go. Expected move in SPX to start the day. 16.4. Yuck. Friday was 19. 16.4. NDX. Expected move. 82.8. We are in the midst of our second day of a pullback off of all time highs. We hit 52.61. All right, here come my trades. It's good to see the bots firing correctly on a Monday morning. All right, so my AM ratio came in. I'm on the 52.10. 52.30. So whopping 20 wide. My NDX came on the 18.140s and the 18.290s. My 1DTE came on on the 5200s, 52.35s. One day, Iron Condor only 35 wide. And I got my 1-1 and my 3-2 re-entry fired as well. All right, so to recap, and I just fired some JSPs at the 52.20 puts. Got a little bounce. All right, so here's my NDX 18.140s, 18.290s. Here is my AM ratio. 52.30s, 52.10s. Yeah, there we go. So there's my AM ratio. Here's my JSPs. 52.20. Yeah, I got filled on my NDX. I got filled at 4.27. So it must have been a 4.25, 4.30 split fill or something. 4.27. And then in my Challenge portfolio, here is my 1DTE. Pretty narrow for a 1DTE. And then my 1-1 is on the 52.15, 52.25. And my 3-2 re-entry is on the 52.10, 52.30. Are you getting some good decay? Holy moly. My 3-2 is already at 14%. NDX was at 18.140 puts, 18.290 calls. As far as news this week, we do have new home sales. It's got an orange, orange impact, which is kind of medium. It's not high impact, not low impact, medium impact expected. That's at 9 a.m., so here in about 25 minutes. Tomorrow, pre-market, durable, good orders. 30 minutes after the market's open, consumer confidence. Wednesday, the 27th, Wednesday, 5 p.m. So that's after the market, two hours after the market closes. It's showing high impact for FOMC member Waller speaking. It's nice of him to do that after the market closed. Thursday pre-market, GDP and employment. Thursday, 30 minutes after the market opens, pending home sales, which it's pending as high impact, along with consumer sentiment. Then Friday, the market's closed, but we do have core PCE and Powell speaking. So, nice. I mean, these Fed speakers are finally doing something nice, and they're speaking when the market's closed, so that's good. Yeah, I've got my 35, 36, and 45 to exit. So let's check out the 45. See, so I got into that one at $1.50, put my order at $1. See if I can get out. We get a little bounce. 35, I'll go ahead and close those. That was my 36. All right, 35 and 36 are closed. My 45, trying to get filled at a buck. SPX pulling back a little bit. My JSP, I'm on the 52.20, but I think I have it set at 80 wide on the long. This would be the 50.40 is the long one. Fiche, my risk profile appears to be doing fine. SPX heading down to the low of the first five minute bar on top of the mountain. No, I have to do that manually. I have one bot for the reentry, and then I just, when I hit 30%, I reduce my stop and close half. Same thing on the 32. It's just one bot. I just wait for it to hit 30%, and then I have to manually reduce and close part. So not as fully automated as I hope it will be at some point after he gets the broker's situation with Trader and Schwab ironed out. That's kind of one of the things at the top of this list to add in some type of automated, kind of ratchet down stop at a specific profit target. So for now, I've got to do it manually. I just set an alert. And when it gets close, that way I don't have to watch it like a hawk. Correct. No, there's no special discount with Trade Steward. That's another thing that I've talked to him about. But again, he's trying to get all this stuff in order before he, he's kind of grown faster than he expected. So he's trying to get all this stuff in order before he even puts any focus on marketing or growth or, you know, that kind of stuff. So he was, he wasn't, he was wanting to hold off on any type of deal like that. All right. SPX pushed a little bit through the low, the first five minute bar. VIX got a little contraction out of the gate and it's bouncing back up a little bit. Of course, similar opposite reaction of SPX. SPX pushed up at first, now coming down. VIX futures are slightly red. Yeah. So what I'll do on top of the mountain. So if you're looking at my screen here, I probably already know this, but for anybody who is newer to Trade Steward. So for example, my, here's my one to one. And so in this case, I've got 11 contracts. So my, so what I do is like, once I get to 30% which is displayed here, then I will close half. Then which is obviously an odd number. So in this case, I'm going to, I would close six. So I was, you know, if it's an odd number, I close a little above 50%. So that gets to 30%. I will just hit this little reduce trade size button, close six of 11. And then at the same time, I would reduce my stop to two bucks. And then from that point on, it's just kind of in autopilot. And what I'll do a lot of times if I, you know, if I'm in the middle of something is, so I'll pull up the, I'll pull up the trade. So here's where I got filled, right? Or here's where I got filled. I got filled at 1095. No, that's my three two. I got filled at, yeah, 1095. There it is. There's the six and the fives to make up the 11. My one DTE got squeezed in in between there at the same exact time. All right. So I got filled at 1095. So 1095 times 0.7 equals, so about $7.65 would be 30%. Right? So once this gets down to $7.65, that's when that spread would be at 30% of max profit, which would be the time that I would do that. So what I'll do is I'll just, I'll right click on this, create opposite order. And then I will right click on that and do create alert. And then I will do a few cents above that 7.65. So a few cents above the 30%. So I'll say at or below. So it was 7.65. So I might put like 7.75. Right? So once that spread gets down to, you know, 10 cents or so from my profit target, I'll have an alert. It'll send me a, I can set it to send me a text message.    I should go in and be ready to adjust that. That was a little tip from my boy, Meach. Yeah, 15s and 25s. I have mine set at, yeah, 31, 931. I don't know if I've had better luck. I don't think I've ever had it set at 932 on those. I just want to get into those at the open. My three twos already up 17%. Halfway there. Halfway there to close in half and reducing stop. My AM ratio is also up 17%. My one DTE is up six. My one to one is up 11. My NDX is just kind of flat. My JSP's are back in the green with this little bounce. JSP's are going to need to bounce about up to call it 5229. 52, depending on how quickly it gets there. 5229, about eight point move higher, seven point move higher to hit 50%. Once it gets to 20%, I will reduce my stop. Making a push towards highs of day. High of the first five minute candle. Vic's coming down. The good news is, my friends, I think we're going to see some higher implied volatility, at least the latter half of the year with the election. So there's there's some built in implied volatility increases later in the year, at least. Nothing else crazy happens. For now, we just battle with what we've got. That's right. Make Vic's great again. That's what I'm voting for. You know, if somebody ran on that ticket, they would have the entire trading community have their vote. They need to look into that. They're discounting the trading community. Not given the trading community the attention they deserve. Still chopping within that first five minute bar. Didn't break out to the downside. Hasn't broken out to the upside. I haven't taken any futures trades yet this morning. All right, let's see. My four five still has not hit. Trading for about a dollar 15. Got my order at a dollar to close. Should be about 30%. Get one more little push through to the upside should hit. Yeah, 30% is my profit target. 30% or exit at 10 a.m. tomorrow. I mean, if we fall down to the expected move to the downside, it'd be be pretty deep in the red at that point. Three fives and three sixes did not hold up well.  Set the premium out of the options later in the week. All right, my friends, I'm going to jump off here. We'll be back for power hour. Chads in the woods hunting turkeys. Shooting poor innocent little birds. With his big gun. So. But so as far as live streams go tomorrow. There won't be any live stream in the morning. But we've got power hour every day this week. And then I'll be doing zero DTE live stream on Wednesday as well. But no morning live streams on Tuesday or Thursday. The power hour every day. If there's any premium left. All right, all have a good rest of your day chat with you soon.


on the first Tuesday in March, March 1st, 2022. Town meeting is traditionally where voters weigh in on local government representation, municipal budgets, school budgets, and local ballot items. All candidates on the ballot are invited to participate in Town Meeting TV election forums. Town Meeting TV election forums introduce you to community decision makers and connect you with the issues that shape your local community. My name is Emily Brewer and I will be moderating tonight's forum between South Burlington City Council candidates, Tim Barrett and Linda Bailey. Tim is the incumbent and this is for a three-year term. Now, if you are watching this live, we welcome your questions at<PHONE_NUMBER>. And you can watch Town Meeting TV on Comcast channel 1087, Burlington telecoms channel 17 and 217, as well as online at Town Meeting TV's YouTube page. With that said, we'll get started with tonight's discussion. And Tim, we'll start with you for opening statements. Can you please tell us why you are running and what will be different for South Burlington if you are elected? Thank you, Emily. As you know, I'm running for city council. Again, it's a three-year seat and this will be my third term if I'm elected and I do hope I am. I came to Vermont in 1981 as a new engineer at IBM. I've been there for 40 plus years through the transition to global foundries. I've served on the library board of trustees for the city. I've also been on the DRB for four and a half years and I was the chair for the last year and then I was elected in 2016. I hope to maintain the type of attentiveness and attention to the details of the subject matter that's facing the city over the next three years as we've just come through a really difficult time with the pandemic and a bit of discussion about some recent changes to the LDRs. And I think we have some other goals and challenges ahead of us and I wanna be part of that discussion and I wanna have that vote of the five people that are on the city council when that time comes. Thank you. Thank you very much, Tim. Linda, can you please tell us why you are running and what will be different for South Burlington if you are elected? Hi, everyone. My name's Linda Bailey and as you've heard, I'm running for the three-year seat on city council. Why I'm running is a question I get a lot. I wanna support our city and being a place where all of us all across the cultural and financial spectrum can thrive. I want to help balance the needs between the environmental needs and the human needs. The residents in all corners of our city need to have attention. South Burlington doesn't exist in a bubble and growth is inevitable here in the heart of the state's highest employment area. The choices we make here and now, they're gonna affect things for a long time with wide-ranging consequences not just for us but for the region. I wanna build a future that's sustainable and welcoming for our children and grandchildren. I would be a fresh voice and fresh ears for everyone here. Let me know what your needs are. Thank you very much for that, Linda. And now we will get going on our questions. So we will start with you, Linda. What do you think is getting overlooked in the conversations that are taking place at the South Burlington City Council? Well, over the last several months, I've been either attending or zooming in on the city council meetings. And I've heard a great deal of talk about city center, a new city center and about the SEQ or the Southeast Quadrant. We need to be looking at the rest of the city. So we need to continue to build bike and walking paths that connect all parts of their city for work and for play. Maybe another park in some of the areas like the Sheldon Road area where they have two small parks with some more for that level of residence wouldn't be a bad idea. And one of the biggest things we need to do is we need to ask the people who maybe aren't has connected to the daily city government what they need. We don't want any corner of our city left behind. Thank you very much, Linda. Tim, what do you think is getting overlooked in conversations right now in the South Burlington City Council? Well, we've been preoccupied for the last few months with lots of heavy discussions about the draft regulations that came out of the planning commission and not to minimize the other things that have come up in small bits and pieces, but there are some pressing issues that we need to address and one of them is overtime for the fire department. There was a slight misunderstanding for a while about the number of fire department members that were active that's been resolved at this point. So they're not really down on their numbers but they have had to work so much during the pandemic servicing. So many people between fire and ambulance that there needs to be some recruitment there to fill in some slots to get more people on the fire department. They've got a couple of recruits they've had in the last couple of years. We've also had some departures unfortunately but it's really important that our public safety, police and fire don't suffer through too much overtime because I think you can have a long-term stress effect on their good being. We also had to kind of put the rec center on a back burner for a while until we get through the budget process and through the LDRs to figure out what our true direction is that and whether we're gonna bring something to the voters. And last but not least, if you haven't noticed trying to drive between Trader Joe's and Williston Road those lights don't function very well. They don't talk to each other and there is a block of money and a project to be done to put adaptive controls on all those traffic signals from Trader Joe's down to Williston Road so that they interoperate, they detect cars that are in the lanes waiting to turn and then change the light after the lane empties. It's little things like that plus repaving that section of Dorsey Street that's got the ruts in it to make that commercial area of the city much more palatable to drivers. Great, thank you, Tim. And we will stick with you and move on to the next question here. Given the rapid growth of housing options in South Burlington do you think that the city has enough public safety resources and school capacity to handle this growth and how do you think this problem can be addressed? That's a really great question. And like I just said, they're finding it. Lots of businesses are finding it hard to hire people right now because the participation level in the workforce is down across the whole country. And I think that police forces are also finding it difficult to find people but they are getting some. It depends on how much extra roadway and density of housing that we add whether it depends on how many police personnel we need to hire. And as far as the school goes the school is already under some pressure in two of its schools in the Orchard district and also at the Marcot Central School they are preparing to go out to bid to put trailers to extend some area in the school so they can make more room for the different activities that the kids have to have. The city's part that they can play in that is that there's already a committee right now to study impact fees and how to set the correct impact fee for new home construction to aid the schools in their ability to meet future budgets and also take on extra load of kids in the future. We've already worked well with the school with the building of the library city hall by having to engineer a storm water facility underneath the new parking lot after we reached a land swap agreement with them which benefits them because it helped them to meet their storm water permits because they have more than three acres of impervious surface. And so it met their needs and we engineered that for them. I think we paid for it as well and then it also took care of the new city hall. Great, thank you very much Tim. Now Linda, do you think that the city has enough public safety resources and school capacity to handle the growth of housing options in South Burlington and how do you think this can be addressed? Well, let's under the capacity of the schools is still up in the air a bit in my opinion. We are showing some slow growth here in South Burlington but across the state most of the schools are showing declining enrollments. A lot of the students that we get here are being tuitioned in. So that certainly affects what we have. One thing to keep in mind is that statistically across the country, family sizes are shrinking. So even though we might add more housing here that doesn't necessarily mean a big jump in the number of students in the schools. As far as the public safety, crime and public safety I believe is what you are asking about. Climb certainly impacts the quality of life for everyone whether there's someone who has been hurt by crime directly or not. Fortunately, we do have a very good police department. When I'm on city council, I'll request that we get regular updates on what crime is happening, where it is, in our city, how they're occurring and then work with the police and the residents to make sure that everyone can know what's happening, be proactive and feel safe. Short or buttle? Absolutely, go ahead. Just a small correction. The only tuition students that the school district has is in the high school and they're usually up from the islands area. The elementary schools do not have tuition students and that's where the need is right now. I just wanted to make sure. Yes, that is a good distinction to make. Thank you, Tim. All right, thank you both. We will move on to, we'll stay with Linda. Where do you see opportunities for addressing racial justice in the community of South Burlington and how will you use your council seat to meet this challenge? Well, this is certainly a very serious issue but it doesn't start or stop just with our borders, the borders of our town. We should, for starters, I think work with our neighbors, Burlington, Winooski which have a higher mixed population than we do. They both have been working hard and we should learn from what they're doing as well as learn from their mistakes so that we can make sure that everyone in our city feels safe and welcomed. Great, thank you, Linda. And Tim, where do you see opportunities for addressing racial justice in the community of South Burlington and how will you approach this on your city council? I agree with Linda on this and I think there are several aspects to this question. It's very broad, right? But the one laser beam that came out to me in 2016 after a black man was shot in his parked car after a police stop out west was the fact that we need to really maintain a lot of attention and focus on how well our police force is trained in recognizing their own bias and to make sure that our police forces as diverse as it can be is that we can hire into and that the training happen annually and be above and beyond whatever the federal regulations are. I asked the chief whip will come in and talk to Helen really in me back in 2016. And I also have had, we've had Chief Burke come in a couple of times and talk with city council and review for us what the training schedule is for the police force. And I think that South Burlington has a really good police force and I think that they are one of the best in the state for this type of problem. As you've seen the studies come out of UVM regarding the percentage of stops of different races of people when their cars are stopped, that South Burlington was like right in the middle in that Pareto chart. And we improved a little bit, I think, for the second review of the data, but we need to do better and we have to make sure that we keep training for that so that the police understand exactly what is correct thing to do. Great, thank you for that, Tim. Let's see, let's move on to... And Tim, we'll start with you. What is the city of South Burlington's most important source of revenue for city services and how does this relate to the overall financial health of the city? And as a follow up, how do you propose to support financial vitality? So, I mean, if you look at the budget sheet, right? The biggest source of income is from property taxes. And I know that everybody that's watching, all 12 of you, got a shock when you got your tax bills last year. Probably most people saw increases in their taxes and that's because we had to reassess the entire city, both residential and commercial. Unfortunately, commercial values were assessed to be depressed because of reduced revenue, which is how they're assessed and the burden came and shifted over to residential. And then you had a lot of out of state people bidding up the prices of homes. And so those values went way up and plus it hasn't been done since 2006. So a lot of homes were actually fairly far undervalued for what the real market price was. So now the housing prices are about at the correct level. I think the CLA is like 100.9% or something like that. That's a part of the factor that goes into calculating your education taxes, which is not what municipal is, right? But it's important that that CLA is around 100%. So most money comes from our property tax revenue. The other biggest revenue source, I think, is from our local sales option tax. We have an extra 1%. 70% of that comes back to the city. Montpelier keeps the rest. And then you have the rooms and meals. And of course, what killed that was the pandemic. It has come back. I think Amazon sales contributed a lot to surprise us, three cores away through the pandemic that sales tax actually didn't suffer as badly as we thought. There's also revenue that comes from electrical inspections of new duplexes and commercial and multi-family housing. That brings in a significant amount as well. And so I think you have to tailor your expenses in your budget to what your property tax revenue is and make sure that you cover all the services and also ensure that your capital improvement plan doesn't get lost because you're gonna need things like ambulances, which we're gonna get next year.  So we have to make sure that we stay on top of these things. Great, thank you very much, Tim. Linda, what do you believe is the city of South Burlington's most important source of revenue for city services? And how does this relate to the overall financial health of the city and how do you propose to support financial vitality? All right, Tim, you did a great job of talking about where all of that revenue comes from. I'm not gonna bore anybody by saying all of that again. One of the things that is good for our future on tax revenue, one thing, the commercial, I expect will balance back out in a year or two once we come through the pandemic stage so they'll pick up more of the burden of the taxes. But we've also been really fortunate to attract some clean employers like beta technologies that's looking to expand here in our city. They'll improve all of our lives with good jobs and good jobs lead to people with the money to pay the taxes. One of the problems I've heard from business owners is the difficulty in attracting those good employers. Housing for them would be a good help here. These businesses and employees, they'll help create the sustainable tax structure and secure future. Let's do it smart. Great, thank you very much, Linda. Linda, we'll stay with you and the next question is about the airport neighborhood. The neighborhoods around the airport continue to face pressure from airport expansion and a need for noise mitigation. How do you think South Burlington should assist the residents in this area? This is one that is close to home. I live in the Chamberlain area so I definitely hear the airplanes, the F-35s, the whole thing. It's one of the things I evaluated when we moved here. All of the folks here near the airport, they've seen their neighborhoods go through drastic changes and it's really hard. For the airport things that are going on there, there is an airport zoning pass force. Not a bad idea, but there are some questions that need to be asked along or even before that. The airport property may be under exclusively FAA control. It may because I haven't been able to find where we've done anything to find that out for sure. As a city councilor, I'd want to ask the city attorney to provide an opinion on defining just what extent of control do we have over the zoning, future building, the things that are going to go on with what's now the airport's property. Great, thank you very much, Linda. We'll move over to you, Tim. How do you think South Burlington should assist the residents in the airport neighborhood? Well, I just want to back up and say that the single biggest blow to affordable housing in Chittenden County was the destruction and demolition of 200 homes in the immediate area around the airport that were within one of the decibel lines over the last 10 years. And we all grieve that loss because those people left the area, they're gone, and those homes, they were single family, small yards, picket fence. It's just the type of thing that I think when affordable housing advocates talk about the type of housing that they would like to have for a lot of people, those were the types of houses. And so the people that are remaining in that neighborhood are very sensitive to any other changes. That being said, now that the FAA is paid and the airport owns all that property, you can't build housing on it again for a very long time. I think it's at least 25 years. But in that ring around the airport that's contiguous to it, there's a lot of opportunity economically for new businesses that would work on projects that concern the airport. So I would love to see a business get a chance to go through a process and take advantage some of that property, but we can't do this without engaging the neighbors in that neighborhood very closely and make sure that their voices are heard and to ensure that at the very least, there's no new noise that's injected into the neighborhood. I would hope that any buildings built at the edge of Pickhart Circle would actually act as barriers and prevent some noise from entering the neighborhood. But we have to have a defined process for including those residents to make sure that they're happy with whatever the final disposition is. Thank you very much, Tim. Now sort of going off of this question and we will start with Linda. While the talk about the F-35 seems to have quieted some, is there anything that you are hearing from the residents about the planes right now? You still hear about, boy, they're noisy, that sort of thing. Some people have concerns about safety about them, but I think they're here. They're gonna stay here as long as the air guard does. And that we guard, there's not a lot about it that we can do. And the air base, it really isn't under the city's jurisdiction. We can certainly work with other cities in the area with new skin such that are so much affected by the noise like we are here in the Chamberlain area, maybe keeping flight training schedules during business hours, things when people are waking up. Certainly keep an eye on the noise mitigation that is going on by the airport and the FFA. Make sure that that is going along at a good pace. It's not being slow walked, otherwise they're here. Great, thank you, Linda. And Tim, any comments on what you're hearing from residents about the planes right now? Yeah, there was, you know, if you follow the arc of the discussion about the F-35s before they came and then they arrived and then, you know, there was a lot of protest either in Front Porch Forum or in other venues. We had people show up at city council meetings, you know, who were protesting them. I think, and I agree with Linda, you know, they're here. The congressional delegation has said over and over again they're not going anywhere, that fighter wing is here. Those planes are here. We had a six month hiatus of noise when before they arrived after the F-16s left back in 2019, but that's gone now. So there are some positive things that are happening, okay? So there are 19 homes now that are selected for new windows, new doors, sound insulation. That's a project that's just starting off. Helen really is a representative on the airport commission. She had some news about that last week. And there's also, there was a project to reinstall some brand new HVAC, including mostly air conditioning in the Chamberlain School, which was really important because it meant that the school didn't have to open their windows during warm weather. And from the school board's report at our steering committees they're very pleased with the amount of sound mitigation that they get when the planes are taking off. So that's a positive thing. And most importantly, that's for the kids in the school who are trying to learn. And I've been in that school when the F-35s took off and the teachers would have to stop and pause for like 20, 30 seconds until they were gone. I know it's a short amount of time. But now they report that that doesn't have to happen, which is, that's a good thing. There are also three new sound meters, South Burlington-Winooski and Willis-Nayton, I think. And you could go onto a webpage and as planes are flying overhead, you can actually see what the decibel readings are on these pole-mounted sound meters. Thank you very much, Tim. And I think we're getting close to time here, but I believe we have enough time for one more question. And then we'll wrap it up with some closing statements. And I will send it off. So while we have time, we'll stay with you, Tim. What role does municipal government and specifically South Burlington play in the mitigation of climate change? So it's a really good question. And this issue has come to the forefront over the last, well, I mean, if you've ever watched Al Gore's movie, you know, after 2000 until now, this subject has been building an attention in the media for a long time. And there are a lot of parts to this equation. The city has the difficult role of acting as an arbiter to try and understand what the balance is between growth, right, because growth is going to mean, in today's definition, growth is gonna mean more houses, more natural gas, CO2, more driving and CO2 from cars and just, you know, more energy use, right? As opposed to preserving natural open spaces and or forest blocks, which act as, you know, sequesters for carbon and also to act as filters for rainfall, especially heavy rainfall to clean that water and let it go into the, you know, to the water table and not have it spill over and run into potash brook, which is an impaired waterway and have that then flow into Lake Champlain because Lake Champlain is where we get our drinking water. It's also where our wastewater goes as well. But the point is that we want to send the cleanest water we possibly can in there. And so the city has that responsibility of trying to figure out what is the best, smartest growth to be able to make the best of both worlds. Thank you very much, Tim. And Linda, what role does South Burlington play in the mitigation of climate change? Yep, we've got a climate change task force that I know is working on proposals. They expect to have that out this coming September. I will be eagerly awaiting to see what they have come up with. As far as climate change, that we might have any form of control over. One of the major contributors to greenhouse gas is vehicle exhaust. According to the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, 45% of Vermont's greenhouse gases are from transportation. So we do have a role to play in that. We are, as I said before, in the heart of the employment for the whole state of Vermont. More homes here in this heart of employment would mean that there's less driving. Every home that we have here is one that is not having to drive an hour, coming and going every day. It's one less house that is out in a major forest and open areas in the state using up that land. There are certainly ways to balance what we do here as far as open space and what we need for housing for people. I know that here in South Burlington, as of today, there is about 15% of our acreage that is already conserved in one way or another that isn't going to be built on. And that's before the new land development regs, which are predicted to take about another 1,000 acres out of our city. So that would put us at about 25% of our city with no development on it. And I just don't think that that is doing our part for helping with climate change. Thank you, Linda. And- Can I have a shorter bottle on that? Yes, of course. Go right ahead, Tim. I just want to emphasize the enormous amount of work that the city and the city council did since 2017 to create the TIF district and have it passed by the voters and create Market Street and create Garden Street and create the Allard Square building for the seniors and create the other affordable housing complex that CHT owns. And I want to emphasize the amount of land in city center that's going to be utilized to build housing four stories tall and it's on a bus line. So the city has this other responsibility to ensure that they make the best use of their urban core to create a lot of housing. And we have been very well dedicated to that and we have spent a lot of hard effort and time and also an enormous amount of money. Thank you. Thank you for that, Tim. And we are pretty close to time. Yes, go right ahead, Linda. I said ask if I could have a slight rebuttal. Sure. We'll do a rebuttal instead of closing statements. Okay. Tim, I agree that city has put a lot of time and money into coming up with these new land development regs. Unfortunately, I think that the biggest thing that they have done is keep land in the Southeast Quadrant from being usable for housing for the people that need to live here. The Southeast Quadrant according to census data is the wealthiest highest income area in the state of Vermont. I don't want to see something that resembles a gated community down there. We already have built and paid for the roads, the sewer, the water, all the things that are there and paid for to build Admore housing. I think that it's something well within our ability to have housing balanced with good environment for the people to live in. Great. All right, unless you would like to do very quick closing statements, which you are entitled to do, I will move on to wrapping it up. Linda, would you like to say a quick closing statement? Just that I am so part of, I love my city of South Burlington. I want to see it to be a good place to hand off in the future to my children and grandchildren. I promise that I will be a fresh new voice and new ears for the residents here if I am elected. Thank you. Thank you, Linda.  So I just want to re-emphasize the people that I am a moderate-minded, independent individual when it comes to city council. If you've ever watched any of the city council meetings, I will argue with anybody if I feel there's a point worth arguing. I have argued with the conservationists and I have argued with the business people. I have endorsed exit 12B, which most other people didn't, even the planning commission. And I have also argued on other things as well. And I just want to say that I look forward to serving in another three years if elected. And it's my hope that I can do that job. And when you go to the voting booth on March 1st, this is my name and how it's spelled. I know that Linda's name comes first on the ballot, but I'm the next name, please. So don't forget, Mark, feel the circle on mine. Thank you very much to both Tim and Linda for part four, participating in tonight's South Burlington City Council election forum. 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Hello guys, so last weekend we were working like we went to a hackathon which basically focused on WebRTC to build some collaboration tools out of WebRTC. So how many of you are aware of what is WebRTC or used in some projects? So how many at least know about what is WebRTC? Okay, so let me start with this morning production. So WebRTC is basically a new project, a new functionality added by, like worked on by Google team and Chrome team basically and they added it to Chrome and Firefox. This is basically about peer-to-peer connection between two browsers. So in past, the way the browser works is basically you connect to a server, you download your data and you make things work. But it has many challenges, you cannot connect to a direct client, every data has to go by a server. So what WebRTC is all about, you can communicate direct to another browser, do all the transfer, file sharing, video transfer or whatever you want. Directly peer-to-peer, just work like Skype without having Skype inside browser. You can just completely replace Skype in the future when WebRTC is fully ready.  APIs to access your camera, your microphone and a lot of things in your browser basically. And second thing is, second API is more about making a peer-to-peer connection, sending the data and getting the data. And third API is, these are the two major APIs you can basically work and make a Skype for your own self and a very small amount of code. So we tried WebRTC in the last hackathon and we've all done some demos, demos are not up yet, we tried to get it up. So this is all about WebRTC. So what we can do with WebRTC is one thing you can completely replace Skype. And let's say normally what happens when you have to, some of the challenges we face in day-to-day life is you have to connect to someone, share some screens and do stuff like that. You need to install desktop softwares, most of the people have browsers but when it comes to sharing files, sharing documents, sharing screens, audio and video chat. You need to install plugins and a lot of, you can install something or something or other and you need to make accounts and things like that. So this, all things can go with WebRTC. It installs just Chrome or Firefox and any WebRTC supported browser. These kind of things will work end-to-end without any problems. And one of the biggest peer-to-peer advantage that WebRTC is offering, you might, you guys might not, might have heard of that prism rate. Prism is going on, like US is monitoring all the data for the, like between, from Facebook and Twitter and things like that. So when you are making a peer-to-peer connection, you are kind of safe. So no one is tracking, looking over your data and you can even run something like, you can build a torrent engine or something like that. Is it encrypted? Yes, yes, it is encrypted. As of now, we cannot say whether it is encrypted as such because it has not been implemented. So basically the way it works is, if you see the string, this server is done, there are two stun and turn button was. These are required for signaling. So this WebRTC concept has come to the stable 5S such that you connect to a peer-to-peer host, which is on the same network, even on an internet. And once you are connected to that, all the streams of data, maybe a video stream or audio stream, something which is got by your local hardware, or maybe a binary file, you need the form of data, you have something like that. So that can be transferred peer-to-peer. So this data exchange does not need to go to the server and then like, for example, if you want to share a file on your raw box, you have to first host it on raw box and then give the share link to someone else. But here what happens is, this JavaScript API inside HTML5 allows you to hit the server. So as of now, the very famous Google server is there. If you hit the server, you create a signaling protocol. So every demo out there, which is on WebRTC and peer-to-peer connection, is either using this server or there is a Google App Engine server. The Google App Engine demo also connects to some kind of server, which is on Google.com only. So what this server does is, you require this for signaling things. So how it works is, you have two clients, they want to share peer-to-peer, or they want to see each other's video or share files between them. So first client, say, A, A will request, it's like making a phone call. So A will request access, A will hit the server and say that it wants to make it offer. So this server will receive that. So till now, the server is still there in middle. And A will say, I just want to broadcast, or I want to reach a particular peer. So the signaling server will take that A's request and it will connect to B and it will say that A is offering you something. So B has the option to accept it or not accept it. So once B accepts it, B has accepted the offer. Now A can add stream to that offer. So that stream is now not through the Google.com or anywhere else. Now that stream is through the peer-to-peer connection. So that saves bandwidth and the video is very fast. So there was a Tata communications hackathon last week and the winner is all sitting there in the first row, second person. I was also one of the competitors and we built, and Ankur was also one of the competitors. All of us, we built a demo. It was purely on WebRTC and it was sharing, peer-to-peer sharing. And I'm trying to showcase my demo over here. And the way, yeah, well, I'll show you this thing, how it works. If anyone else has a laptop, which can, you know, click the icon and connect, maybe we can see each other's video. Obviously, it's anti-climactic in Google Server. What do you say? Signally Google Server. What do you say? Signally Google Server, so they're getting their meta data. So actually the thing is... That's why it's not encrypted as such right now. So actually the problem is, like, most systems are behind ad these days. So we need a stun server for, let's say, 14% of the sections of the computers which are not able to make a peer-to-peer connection directly. This server is a relay server. It doesn't work like any web server or thing like that. It just takes data and puts data to another site. Can you set that up by yourself? Yes, yes, it's possible. You set your own server. But your server needs to support those protocols of NAT. Yeah. It's easy. So I've made an offer. Here comes my video. Somebody else who would like to hit this IP, <IP_ADDRESS>.<IP_ADDRESS>.<IP_ADDRESS>. The board is <IP_ADDRESS>. Or maybe I can do it with my single, but you can't do the work. As soon as I access over here, I don't think this will work. Somebody else has to think. So this is an incoming run work on that. <IP_ADDRESS>.<IP_ADDRESS>.<IP_ADDRESS>.5.6. I'm not getting my own video. If this works, my lyrics. So basically, I just click get started and get to the dashboard of the product. So basically, this demo is all about sharing and sharing with another user.  So this is a page in, let's say, a user come. And this is the small widget put on the page. So all you need to do is put some new name. Let's say, we put anchor over here and just click connect. So what happens is when you click connect, so this is the dashboard login for the person you sent a request to. And this person need to login also. Let's say, person and you also send a connected request. So he can see who people have made a request to connect to. So he sent, okay, he accepted that request. And this request is coming from the previous user. So when I accepted this request, so he can see the screen, my own screen. I'll have to call them all back, please. So you guys, you can try Polapi Fire right now in your browsers, buggyfire.net. Just switch to L-A-B-I-F-5-Q, okay. Thanks, guys. Okay. Just put that that one and try it. The modules have also been introduced in the video. It works so that you post it on your server and let somebody else get it. So I'll show you how it works. Okay, guys. So that was the last talk. So now the best part of the meetup, right? The food. Yeah. So, yeah, let me just say, S-Gig group for shooting the dogs. They will be on YouTube and S-Gig TV and...


Hello friends. I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you how you can read a number from user and another number from a file. Now you have to compare them using file handling in C programming. Before starting, you can note how you can search my YouTube channel. You can type my name Sanjay Gupta in YouTube search. My channel will be available there. You can watch various programming related videos there. So now I am implementing solution of this problem. So in this problem, I have to read two values, one from user, from output screen and another from a file. And I have to compare those numbers, whether they are equal or not. So for that purpose, I am including two header files. First is stdio.h and second one is stdlib.h. Now I am going to define main function. Inside main function, I am declaring two variables n1 and n2. Now I am going to declare file pointer. Name of file pointer is fp. This file pointer will be receiving address of the file from which I am going to read a number. So first I have to open that file using fopen function. So here I am passing name of file as number.txt and I have to open this file in read mode because I am going to read a number from this number.txt file. After execution of fopen function, I have to check whether this file is opened successfully or not. So for that purpose, I have implemented this if statement. It is checking fp is containing null or not. So if fp is containing null, it means file is not opened successfully. So then I can print this error message. File is not present. And then I can call exit function so that I can terminate execution of the program. And you can write any particular message that you want to display on output screen here using printf. So if fp is having null, then only this printf will be printing this message and exit will be terminating execution of the program. Otherwise this if condition will be false and the statements which will be written after this if statement will be executed. So first I am going to read a number from user. So the message enter a number will be displayed on output screen. And the entered number will be stored inside N1. After reading that number, I have to read another number from file. So for that purpose, I am using fscanf. I am passing first argument fp then %d and %n2. So the number which will be received from file will be stored inside N2 variable. And first argument is fp that is source of the file where the number will be received or retrieved. So fp is having address of number.txt. So in the system number.txt must be present and it must be having a integer number inside it. Now after reading both the input one from user and one from file, I can apply if condition. So this scanf reads input from user and fscanf is reading input from file. Now I am applying if N1 double equals to N2. So I can print the message on output screen. Numbers are equal else I can print numbers are unequal. So this way one of these messages will be displayed on output screen and after completion of calculation I can call fclose function which is closing at open file and then return 0. So this way I have implemented the complete code in front of you in which first input will be received from user and second input will be received from file. Now we have to check whether this number.txt is present in the system or not. So for that purpose you have to follow this path c, tc and bin. So you have to open c drive, tc folder and bin folder and you have to check whether number.txt is present or not. So I have already opened bin folder so you can see the path c, tc and bin. Now I am pressing N. So the file which are starting from N are available here. You can see number.txt is not available here. So without creating a file I am first executing this code so that you can see whether the error message displayed or not. So you can see the error message is displayed, error file is not present. So file is not available that's why this if condition gets executed and the message error file is not present is displayed on output screen. So to execute this program properly first we have to create this number.txt file. For that purpose I am opening notepad I am writing 10 inside this file. Now I have to save this file so I am choosing c drive, tc folder and bin. Now inside bin I am saving this file with number.txt name. So you can see in bin folder now number.txt file is available. So I am closing this file number.txt is having a number 10. So I am executing this code now it is asking for a number I am entering 10. You can see the output numbers are equal. So I have only entered 10 and another 10 is received from the file that is created by me right now. So this number.txt is also having 10 and I have also entered 10 so that's why it is showing numbers are equal. Again I am executing this code this time I am entering 20 you can see the output it is showing numbers are unequal. So this way I hope you have understood how I am reading the number from user as well as from file and I have created the file right now in front of you. So I hope you have understood how we can check the error message through read mode whether the file is present or not. How you can create new file and how you can read numbers from user from output screen and from a file and how you can compare both the values. So this is all about this problem. I hope you have understood all all the concepts which I have demonstrated you in this video. If you want to watch more programming related videos you can search my name Sanjay Gupta in YouTube. My channel will be available there you can watch various programming related videos there. Thank you for watching this video.