Hi there, I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube with some no-line Copic fall flowers. All week I am sharing a whole bunch of videos on coloring fall flowers because we are almost at fall. So there you go. And I'm using the Stamp Markets stamp called the Friendly Bunch. You can see how big it is compared to my hands. It's a giant stamp which is kind of nice having all the flowers grouped together already for you. You don't have to do any masking. You want to get the leaves and the flowers and everything in there. You can turn the stamp every which way to try to get it stamped in the orientation that you want. And I've got it stamped in some neutral ink and it's a dye ink. It's a very old pad and the pad is dry which means it took me like four times to stamp this to get this much ink on the paper which is perfectly fine with me for no-line coloring because I don't want much ink. I want to be able to draw right over top of it with my Copic Markers and just completely cover it up so that I can then make all the marks that I want with my markers and not worry about having lines there. And then it looks like I actually drew the flowers which is always kind of fun to fool your family and friends. And they think that you drew this. I'm putting just a basic light coat of color over the whole thing and now I'll slow it down a little bit just to do one petal and then we'll zoom through some of the rest. So I wanted fall flowers because this is actually I think a dogwood. I don't even think this is just a normal kind of spring flower because it looks like dogwood to me. But it's art so we can make it any color we want so I'm going to make orange flowers. And I'm using progressively darker colors, richer colors. This is an RV66 which I haven't really tried too much. But I've been looking for a color that works along with my V04 so that the shadow is in that darker color and the V04 then makes a nice transition into the lighter colors. And this one worked really really well. I was very pleased with it. But I'm drawing the veins of the flower that I've decided to draw going along that that same direction of the whole flower. It's just kind of going to curve out around to the edge. And then I'm leaving some of the edges that that edge at the very top. I left it light so that it's going to look like that petal is curled a little bit. And you can do this with watercolor and all kinds of things by just layering the colors and slowly building them up. But for Copic Markers it works really nicely to do this. But sped up it's really fun to watch these things even though I know it's probably driving some people crazy. You want to see me color the same petals over and over and over again. But go back and watch that one petal. I'm using the same two purples in order to make the shading. And then going over it with a little yellow so that I can smooth that out. For the insides of the flowers I added just a few lines of some green and then used some black to make the little center bits just to add some contrast to it. And then I decided to add a little bit of a blue violet to add a little extra shadow. Now that I had that black in there it felt like I needed a little more contrast. So I'm just putting a touch of the BV00. I kind of wanted to go BV01 or 02 but I thought you guys might freak out so I kept it at the 00. Because the blue violet is going to add just a little bit more of that contrast even more than the V04 and that RV. So now I'm going to zoom around and do all the other petals on these flowers. And I will talk about in the meantime what I'm doing this week on the blog because we have lots of flower stamps. I don't know about you guys but I have a lot of flower stamps. I don't even like flowers all that much. I know you like flowers and I like to teach you what you like to learn so I do buy a lot of flower stamps. And yes I do buy my stamps. I don't tend to take freebies because then it makes me feel like I have to use things and I don't like to feel like I'm selling something and pushing something on you that I wouldn't already have bought. And so I buy pretty flowers and color them all the time. I'm just not a fan of coloring flowers. I like coloring unique things and it feels like coloring flowers is just the same coloring flowers all the time. But this whole week what I'm doing is taking some of these flower stamps that I have been hoarding all summer. I shouldn't say hoarding. I've been coloring them and practicing and having fun with them on my own. But it's turning to fall and we're going to stop doing the flowers really shortly so I wanted to get them all out. And having the excuse of having a whole week full of flower videos seemed like a good thing. And I know lots of you love to color flowers so there you have it. I love to do things that make you happy and therefore I am coloring lots of flowers. I'm doing a bunch of different techniques. I'll do another Copic one. I've got some watercolor planned and some pencil course. Lots of fun techniques so that you can both use these for some fall flowers so you can make some cards still using some of these spring stamps. So even something like this one that is pretty clearly to me it looks like dogwood and would only be used in the spring you can change it into something else and use it later on. You can make these beautiful white flowers and give them red centers or make them red flowers and give them gold centers and make them a holiday like a Christmas type of card. That sort of thing. So you don't have to always just stick to what the stamp is and especially when you're doing something like no line coloring this is your opportunity to change things up. So if you're going to try to turn these into a flower that's similar but not the same you could actually look up the leaves on that flower and see what's the difference in the shapes of the leaves. With no line coloring you can cover up those lines and change them into something completely different if you want. So what I'm doing here is taking a darker green and adding some veins. You can use the stamp package that has the images printed on it and follow that because if you did like I did you can see that the stamp lines are mostly covered up and you can change them up or leave them the same as they are in the stamp and I left that one at the bottom because I was going to be dealing with the smile sentiment and when you have a sentiment like that that's stamped right into the image itself it poses a few challenges so I'm going to deal with that when I get to it. But I'm using my favorite YG9 combinations for my leaves because I love this combination of colors. They're not as bright as I know a lot of people do tend to like but they're much more realistic and I love my realism. So I am doing some simple strokes in order to add my darker color and notice that I'm letting the outside of the leaves just kind of disappear. I'm not making a dark shadow around the edge because for me the impact is in the flowers. The leaves are the supporting actor and whenever you've got a supporting actor on your image you want to let that actor take second place at second stage and allow the main thing to be the main thing. So I wanted the flowers and then that big smile to be the main thing. So I switched to a lighter green. This time the really dark part of the veins is that YG9-5 the mid-tone color for everything else and I'm using a second layer YG9-1 for the rest of that leaf. So it remains light in the background behind the word smile and leaves it much more readable. The last thing on the rest of the leaves to finish off is taking my YG9-5 to create a little more detail and add a little more interest to some of the other parts of the branches and you can add lots more branches once you get used to drawing these leaves by tracing over what the stamp designer has used. Now you know how to draw leaves so you can add more if you wish. If there's a spot that you find is just really blank on your card you can add another one in and now I had the issue with the word smile that it was not standing out enough. It was not powerful enough. You can stamp the word smile afterward if you want but then it doesn't allow you to work through the colors that are behind it. The way I did with that leaf at the bottom it doesn't allow you to do that because you could end up creating a leaf that you can't stamp over top of or that you have to stamp in black in order to make it stand out and I didn't want that so that's why I stamped it in the first place. I believe it was an MFT ink but I did not. I didn't write down which one it was that I used. I apologize for that but I'm using two different greens to make a transitional color going from the top being darker and the bottom being lighter and when you've got a big heavy sentiment like this and that sort of thing you can get your Copic marker in there to color right over top of it. I still didn't have enough darkness at the very top right where the flowers were so I'm going over actually with a little bit of C8 to add just a little more contrast on the parts of the letters that go right over top of that orange. To finish off the card I trimmed it down so I have a nice border around the outside edges and stamped a secondary sentiment. Today is a good day. Stamped it incorrectly. I stamped it kind of crooked off to the left. It was not centered on that little panel and rather than re-centering it I tied a piece of twine around one side to distract people from the fact that I did not have it centered. So now that's probably all you can see right? I shouldn't have fessed up to that one. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this video. Hope you learned something from it. If you did click the like button share it with your friends and I will see you guys again tomorrow for another in the Fall Flowers series so make sure you stay tuned. See you then. Take care and have a wonderful day. Bye bye.


This is Stu Miniman with wikibond.org. Here we're SiliconANGLE TVs, live continuous coverage from VMworld 2012, here in Moscone North, the Hang Space, day three. Some of us are getting a little raspy in the voice from the long conversations we've had and pleased to be joining you for the networking panel. So networking is a huge discussion here. If you talk about the NICERA acquisition that just happened. The networking stack is a piece of the virtualization environment that everyone is focusing on. Storage gets a lot of play from us here, of course, as well as everybody there, but I think for the last year or so, everybody's saying that the next big innovation and changes in the marketplace are happening in the networking side. And as I said, pleased to have a nice distinguished panel to help walk through some of those changes. So joining me here, I'll walk through how is you from Big Switch, Greg Shearer from Broadcom, and Haseeb. Badani from Infanetta, sorry about that, Haseeb. So guys, welcome on theCUBE. Greg, you've been on before, but the other guys, try to bring to our community kind of the latest changes, the disruptions in the marketplace, helps extract the signal from the noise. Last year, networking was a big part. I remember right at VMworld, VXLan and NVGRE was the big discussion point. And here again, with the NICERA acquisition and Software Defined Data Center is going. So, Howie, I think the networking folks are going to know who you are, but can you give us a little bit of your background and start us off with what you see as the kind of Software Defined Data Center and network. So give us a minute or two on that. Thank you, Steve. Thank you, Steve, for inviting me to this place. This is my first time, that's why I'm a little bit nervous, but I'm the VP Engineering at Big Switch. Prior to Big Switch, I was at VMworld for almost a decade, and then running the entire networking strategy, vision, and engineering execution. I have been associated with server virtualization revolution from day one, and now with SDN journey from day one. It's such a blessing for me. And a lot of things VMworld innovated and then revolutionized over the last decade. It exposed a number of issues, and that's where SDN gets more important, because there are more and more boxes. There are more and more silos. And VMworld made a server-side provisioning management so flexible, automated, so much things. It exposed the slowness on the networking side. I often call the server side, it's the machine speed, and the networking side is the human speed. Now, it's such a disparity. It creates this opportunity for SDN to catch up. So that's why I'm excited at this SDN. Okay, great. Lots we're going to get into. So, Greg, when you talk about software really being a critical component, and the networking side, most of us that look at this say, merchant silicon is a real important piece of this. And of course, Broadcom supplies both the server side and the switch side chipset that many of the players, the majority of the players use. You guys made an announcement this week. Can you just give us an intro about what you're doing in this space and what's the dynamic in networking of hardware or software? You bet. So we're very excited. So we did, as you mentioned, our announcement. We made a couple of announcements, but we announced our Triton 2 switch. So it's a little like, we've been pregnant with Triton 2 for quite a while, and so it's wonderful to actually bring it to market and be able to talk about it openly. But it's the first device that has over 110 gig ports in a single piece of silicon. It also supports a very rich set of SDN manageable features. To be able to export that control plane, be managed through other frameworks. In addition to that, we also have a lot of offloads. So NVGRE and VXLAN are built into the silicon now, as opposed to just having to have specialized gateways, literally all of our XGS line moving forward will support this capability. So we're very excited about that. Inside the server, from a host perspective, we also have announced network virtualization acceleration from the standpoint of being able to take NVGRE and accelerate large send offload, large receive offload, but at a UDP basis, since NVGRE is really L2 over UDP. So great. So taking a lot of the protocols, baking it into the hardware, making it kind of transparent across all product lines. The control plane belongs in the host, but hardware does what hardware does best, and that's accelerate, that data plane. And we're very excited about that, but that's where we need the rest of the ecosystem and our partners to be able to, how we talked about the incredible volume of VMs and traffic that's going up, that management really needs partners to be able to manage the scale. It's just unprecedented. Okay, so, see, when I look at kind of the overall trend, yes, software defined data centers, interesting marketing term, that the long-term trend here is distributed systems. And of course, can you kind of just give us, want to understand, Infineta was founded for some of these changes in the way and distributed systems place.  Sure, so I'm the chief product officer at Infineta, as you know. Infineta's claim to fame is that we are the only van optimization company focusing on data center to data center links. Now, the thing that's different about data center to data center links is, the links are larger, right? So, when we started the company some years ago, one of the things we had to think through was, how do we design a system that can sit on multiple trunks, you know, 10 gig trunks in a data center? I mean, this was pre-STN. So, the only thing that would work for us was Merchant Silicon. So, without Broadcom, you know, we don't have a play. So, we started a long time ago with the 56802, like, you know, an old strategy XGS, and the platform we're building right now uses a Trident Plus, and going forward we'll use Trident 2 as well. So, the thing that we look for, you know, when designing a system is, how, firstly, how do we take as much of the software work and push it to hardware, right? Just simplify it, accelerate it, push it out to hardware, so that we can focus on the work we do well, which is deduplication, de-septimization. Broadcom makes life very easy for us. But, going forward, you know, in terms of what we see, you know, two years ago, the big requirement our customers had was, well, you need to support VPLS in a large data center, or a large provider environment. If you do that stuff in software, we have a big problem, because it's going to be very slow. So, we have been relying on Broadcom to help us solve those kinds of problems. And going forward, some of our larger service provider type customers are asking us for, you know, NVGRE, VXLAN, in some cases, STT support. There, we are also planning on relying on Broadcom to help us solve that problem, because, I mean, today we'll do it in software, but really the right place to do this is in hardware, so we can scale to, you know, 100 gigabits or even higher going forward. So, Greg, I'm going to come back to you, because, you know, while 60% of applications are virtualized today, and VMware is dominant in this place, one of the things that we've heard very clearly is, it's not a homogenous environment. Multi-hypervisor is for real. Acquisitions like NYSERA, like dynamic ops, like Wanova, are all kind of VMware's thing. In many ways, the hypervisors commoditize, and there's going to be heterogeneous environments. You know, one of the things you guys have done, which was kind of news to me, is VXLAN and NVGRE. Usually there's the standards wars, and, you know, we have to get one, and we have to, you know, get the other. Can you fill us in as to, you know, what you've got coming down the pipe? Absolutely, and, you know, you're right. I mean, normally there's multiple camps, and we certainly see, especially in the virtualization world, there isn't going to be a single player. You know, certainly VMware is an incredibly dominant player in this market today, and will remain so for a long time, but, you know, you look at Zen and KVM hypervisors, Microsoft with, you know, the advent of Windows Server 2012, formerly known as Windows 8. You know, that's going to come on strong, and that's where, you know, NVGRE comes in, and so that the issue becomes, how do you tie together these, you know, dis-separate environments that are not going to adopt one homogenous, you know, environment, even when the controllers or the host software supports tunneling in the native format of, say, NVGRE or VXLAN, what do you do once it gets into the network? And the only way to handle that is through gateways, to go ahead and handle, you know, proxy, and be able to convert, you know, from one network into the other. The fortunate part is, is that NVGRE and VXLAN are very, very similar. You know, both have a 24-bit ID. You can think of it in a logical sense, as really having a 24-bit VLAN that just represents the tenant ID, you know, the VM at this point. You know, one tunnel's under, or over IP, the other over UDP, but, you know, the basic concepts are really ripe for, you know, the hardware to be able to migrate that tunnel from one to the other. But again, it's that control plane, you know, our partners to be able to figure out that gateway strategy. The hardware has all the capability and acceleration, but we really are looking forward to our partners helping us put together that rich ecosystem to be able to blend that environment. So it doesn't matter what environment, even, you know, some GRE-type environments that want maybe a little bit more than NVGRE, you know, NYSERA and others have talked about, you know, extending some of the capabilities that we find in NVGRE. So, very interesting. It sounds like, you know, come back a year from now, we'll really be talking about, you know, being able to stitch these multiple environments together. Absolutely. So, Howie, coming back to you, physical networking, virtual networking, you know, what's the balance of power these days? You know, where are things going? You know, what should, you know, if I'm not just a networking guy, but my CIO, how do I look at the network? Well, so from big switch perspective, we sort of look at it from three different perspectives. Number one, just like you said, stitching things together. We don't just decouple logical network from the physical network. That's one important thing to do, but we also stitching and the bridge, the virtual and the physical switch or network together. So that's sort of one way to look at it. The other way to look at it is, we stitch the protocols or technology from different vendors, different hypervisors, different switches, different VXLAN or NVGI protocols. So that's the sort of the multi-vendor heterogeneous environment. The number three thing is the openness. Openness is so important. People don't like vendor locking, right? So for us, we love open API, open standard, and then open source stuff. So, VXLAN and NVGI being the open standard, we love that. Okay, OpenStack Quantum? Yes, we actually have OpenStack Quantum Plugin as well. So I see, but we're getting low on the time for the panel here. When you talk about scalability of environments, how much does the WAN play into this? So the way I think about this is, eight years ago, seven, eight years ago, when I was at my first one of my position company, the problem we were solving was file access.  They don't think about it, they go do it because the WAN is not their problem, somebody else's problem. I think with SDN, the same thing is happening. And now I can go get a VM or talk to a VM that is who knows where, it doesn't really matter, I don't care, right? Because that is happening because of Messera or Big Switch or whoever, now we're going to see more and more traffic on the WAN. So bread and butter for us was replication backup. These are well thought through processes, but more and more, I'm 100% sure this is what's coming. People are going to just blindly start pushing a lot of traffic because they can, and that's the good part, right? I can go do anything, I can do overlay tunnels, there's a gateways, whatever, right? And that's going to push traffic over the WAN, same as it did for tens of years, I mean at least since I've been in the industry, and that's their trend I see. Because of this ability for application developers to push traffic everywhere, they will, and because they will, you need more and more support for the WAN, the WAN needs to be stronger, the WAN needs to become the land effectively, right? And that's where VC have played for folks like us. But more importantly, I mean, the scales are not what they used to be. So now you've got to think about merchant silicon. Without this, you cannot solve it. Either you build your own ASIC, which is foolish, or use merchant silicon. There's no other ways to do it. That's what you've chosen, the merchant silicon path. All right. Greg? We're just a piggyback on that because boy, I completely agree with this. This is such an important concept because when you look at where we were several years ago, you know, we were at using vMotion, moving workloads from one server to the next within a rack. And then it became, well, we can kind of do that within multiple racks. The SDN and the new virtual networking paradigm allows us to do vMotion at literally a global scale. So whether or not your data center is in New York, San Francisco, or potentially in Iceland for power reasons, you can move your workloads around where you have capacity. And that is going to cause incredible load on your WAN environment. And the best part is, you know, even if the VMware says, hey, today you cannot do vMotion across five, you know, over five milliseconds or 10 milliseconds, you know what? A network guy may think about it, but an app guy, they don't care. Damn, they don't even know what that means. All right. So some of the long distance vMotion, really cool. Howie, I want to be able to give you the last word here. It sounds like you have something you want to say, but also can you speak to kind of automation and simplicity because, you know, as you said, kind of network has, how do we get beyond network as the human speed? I like that. And make it, you know, work. Well, to me, it's sort of the three steps journey. Number one is the VMware innovator so much, make the server side so automated, so flexible. Now the networking needs to step on and then being very, a lot more flexible. But the end game is to really have a virtual networking covering both the virtual and the physical altogether. You know, and I also covering not just the LEGO 2, not just the WAN optimization. It's the entire LEGO 227 needs to be flexible enough. The networking service needs to follow the workload immediately, anything, anywhere, anytime. That's the Nirvana. I think in the WISD SDN, we will get there. That's why I'm so excited about this. Okay, so gentlemen, I apologize we're so short on time here. Recommend that all of our viewers, you know, check out all of our panelists. There's definitely blogs and papers that you can find from all these gentlemen and presentations that their folks are doing here and demos and the like. So this is Stu Miniman with wikibond.org and we will be back with our next guest right after this brief break. Stay tuned.


All right, very good morning Thursday the 9th of September. I hope you're doing well I'm gonna focus predominantly on the kind of news and fundamentals this morning rather than the charts from a technical perspective A few things definitely I want to get my teeth into which is the growing pessimism among some US major banks about the Direction for US stocks going forward. I want to talk about Asia. We have some inflation data overnight Chinese PPI 13 What are the implications for that for the stickiness of US inflation and why is that not impacting? Consumers in China. I also want to talk about the Fed as a whole batch of Fed speakers this afternoon And it comes on the coattails of what we heard from feds Williams yesterday And we'll have a look at his comments because they're particularly important because he was speaking explicitly about the economy and policy And he is very closely aligned with the Fed share Jerome Powell a lot of focus of course on More details on tapering. We also had the feds beige book last night. We're also going to talk about the energy market We've had the delayed release of the API infantry's last night We've got the DOE's obviously this afternoon Nat gas futures trading a seven-year high and why is that happening we can discuss and then of course we've got the ECB Interest rate meeting and subsequent press conference with Christine Lagarde as usual with also their latest economic Forecasts so all of that coming out later on today, and we're going to discuss a little bit more at length But let's just have a quick review of the charts as they reside this morning dollar index pretty much unchanged That's reflected in the major pairs top left both trading in euro dollar and cable pretty flat US 10 year the same as far as other Products the equity index futures Marginally lower however, just gone through 7 a.m Slight bounce off their lower levels does come after a lower close on Wall Street And what we saw was the S&P and Dow finishing down point 1.2 percent each respectively a little bit of underperformance in the Nasdaq 100 down point three five percent But yeah pretty pretty steady this morning overall not too much to talk about from a sentiment perspective right here right now So let's get straight into the headlines and let's talk about this Bloomberg R score that came out yesterday Now we're talking about investment banks turn sour on the US equity outlook and two names You can see cited here being Morgan Stanley and city group And as I always say you know if you are a student and you're applying to these banks or indeed Preparation for interviews. You definitely should know what the house view is for these types of institutions It's going to it's going to definitely give you a little bit of an edge in Understanding their view as well as constructing your own so city group strategists. They've said that positioning In particular has become ultra bullish and what they're talking about is longs on the S&P? 500 outnumbering shorts at a ratio of 10 to 1 which is pretty extreme And it means that half of those bets are likely to face losses according to their calculation on a drop in the index of as little as 2.2% and even a small correction could be amplified because of the notion then that it would create forced Long liquidations you could see that kind of very quick unwinding in markets that could promote then on any one day quite a significant drop Morgan Stanley they've slashed US equities to underweight and global stocks to equal weight on Tuesday Citing outsized risk. They called it going through October. It's not unusual I've seen a lot of Wall Street banks saying a similar type of thing about a near-term perhaps Spot of weakness before then we resume the upward trend the upward trend generally has been fairly one-dimensional So some would suggest that perhaps it's a little bit overdue anyway credit Suisse the final bank They said that it maintains a small underweight on US equities due to region reasons such as extreme valuations and regulatory risk as well They also Morgan Stanley noted which I thought was quite interesting from an analyst who works in their Cross asset Division he said we're going to have a period where data is going to be weak in September We've already kind of seen that right in US equities where the rate would be the jobs report But more broadly US kind of the idea of the peak recovery these sorts of things We've we've seen clearly evident in US economic data in recent weeks Went on to add that there's heightened risk of the Delta variant which we know across Pockets in the US but that again exacerbated somewhat by the fact that we're going to go into the seasonal school re-opening as well in the US and obviously the Possibility of further greater transmission of the Delta variant of course, so a couple of things that I thought I'd summarise Again, if you're a trader you need to take this all with a bit of context, of course This doesn't mean that right. Let's just pile in today and and reassert short positions I mean the market has been drifting lower throughout the week and so, you know technically I think the S&P perhaps it's trading at the moment on a daily chart below quite a key area of support So it's on the south side of that which does give some scope perhaps for a deeper move But overall, I think it's just to be aware of I don't think anything that's being said is particularly new information And we saw Goldman Sachs come out with a note downgrading US GDP a few days ago Again context is super important Goldman's were always more super bullish on the vaccine rollout and the impact that would have on the economy and them Downgrading growth forecast is actually them coming back in line with the street. So it's not quite as bearish as it might sound on the surface But let's move on. There's a couple of other things here that I wanted to talk about One was this idea about seasonality in September a lot of people were talking about that of course going into the month Bloomberg kind of featuring it in this article talking about these pessimistic bank comments September is the worst month of a year for stocks in the last two decades You can see here kind of negative months over a 20-year period would be February June and September being quite clearly the outlier Which is the worst which on an average basis finishes down 0.8% as far as the S&P's monthly changes concerned Again, good thing to do when I you know when I look at this sort of thing the first thing I think being curious minded is So what's the deal with September? And so I thought I'd share is yeah Yes, that the everyone's best friend Particularly if your student investopedia, but they had a couple of good points about the explanation for the September effect Which I thought was quite interesting So importantly the September effect is not limited to just US stocks So that's point number one is associated with a phenomenon that happens associated with all global equity indices Most analysts considered a negative effect on the markets to be attributed to seasonal Behavior biases now a couple of things to be aware of there Another reason could be that most mutual funds cash in their holdings to harvest tax losses Another particular theory points to the fact that summer months usually have light and shade volumes and so then when those market Vacationists come back then in September They kind of come in and start to readjust then more actively their portfolios And then once the fall season begins those people who are on holiday exit positions They've been planning on selling When that incurs obviously increases the overall market selling pressure and then finally many mutual funds experience their fiscal year End in September manager or mutual fund managers on average typically selling losing positions before year end The trend is another possible explanation behind that September seasonal bias So there isn't kind of one thing, but all of those factors just mentioned seem to make quite logical sense and something to just be aware of All right, let's jump elsewhere geographically and talk about China Why well we had some inflation data overnight the latest CPI number came in at 0.8 percent Expectations were for one that the PPI perhaps as per the headline the more interesting China factory inflation surging to add pressure to global prices and that year-on-year PPI number came in at 9.5 percent Versus an expected 9 percent that does mark a 13-year high Interesting points here that Bloomberg points out. Let me run you through it China's exports to the US through the end of August are up by a third compared with 2020 the boost to US demand from stimulus recovery combines with Rising commodity costs and faster factory prices in China to drive up the value of goods trade Now here's an interesting graphic. So this is looking at the white line I did share these on my Twitter account if you wanted to review them in more detail these graphics by the way The white line is Chinese producer prices So as you can see just peeking up here nine point five percent We saw overnight we're then looking at the blue line, which is import the US import price index specifically for goods from China ticking up and therefore Consequently the pass-on effect then the trickle down on what that then means for US consumer prices Which we know elevated up at around the five percent mark moment, you know The other thing here that's it's interesting is in addition to what I've just mentioned The you've also got shipping costs have soared due to container shortages Shuttered ports remember particularly that main one in China because of covert outbreaks We've been seeing amongst other factors have all been adding to the cost of moving goods From China to the US or elsewhere and so as producer prices are going up That's then causing import prices for the US to China to increase and subsequently then does give that bit of a Further support and evidence to the fact that US inflation might be that little bit more sticky than perhaps this full transitory pullback In terms of how far that argument has gone back and forth over recent months again I would say the transitory effect outweighs the sticky nurse But it does mean though the inflation is not just going to disappear overnight and hence the rationale why on these Factors alone the feds probably right to start tapering Before year-end The other thing here though is having a look at China in itself interestingly The gains in PPI are not being passed through to the Chinese Consumer inflation reading the CPI and but we've got very big divergence typically between PPI and CPI Now the reason behind that is that the consumer price inflation is remaining subdued due to lackluster demand Remember there has been COVID outbreak Through many provinces in China There's also falling food prices There was some time ago that whole kind of African swine flu cull of pork in particular which is causing price to be very elevated So from a year of comparison it's down quite sharply and also drop on travel services As I mentioned after the government imposed stringent controls to curb the virus outbreak through the month of August She further amplifies that division or divergence in those numbers So that's hopefully explains a little bit about context of China What they're confronting at the moment? Implications for US inflation, but why that isn't actually feeding through into China in itself Also where overnight in Asia It's probably worth being aware of the fact that the Hong Kong the Hang Seng actually underperformed down over one and a half percent But the mainland stock index was relatively flat now the Hang Seng has a lot of tech names in particular And names like Tencent came under some quite significant selling pressure overnight again after the government and cyberspace regulator summoned gaming companies to instruct them to implement measures Against gaming and entertainments of putting pressure on them to do as the government is saying otherwise the government literally warned of severe Punishment for those not implementing regulations whatever that might mean All right elsewhere. I did say there's a lot of Fed speakers coming out later So first things first let's get up to speed was what feds Williams This was kind of one of the things I highlighted on Monday for the week ahead to be watching out for on Wednesday He said assuming the economy continues to improve as I anticipate could be appropriate to start reducing the pace of asset purchases this year I will be carefully assessing the incoming data on the labor market and what it means for the economic outlook as well as Assessing risks such as the effects of the Delta variant. So overall, I'd say that's very balanced Very much then the status quo of what you'd expect from Jerome power himself and someone aligned with him Such as Williams in that kind of small center ground position So certainly nothing near as hawkish as the likes of Bullard and Kaplan and all of those guys And I think that still speaks to the core of the Fed message at the moment And certainly why as we discussed in previous briefings, I don't think it's going to be a case of seeing tapering beginning as soon as next month The other thing you had overnight was the feds beige book So very briefly the beige book is this regional representation of the 12 reserve districts across America and essentially it gives you a health check of these different locations and US economic growth downshifted slightly to a moderate pace in early July through August according to the beige book kind of top-level summary The deceleration of economic activity largely attributed to a pullback in dining out travel Tourism in most districts. So again, this is all reflecting those safety concerns to do with the latest outbreak We've been seeing over that period of the Delta variant in the US. So nothing too surprising there Fed speakers though continue in earnest today. So just brushing aside the guard for now Later on this afternoon, you've got feds Evans and feds daily both who are voters speaking at just after 4 p.m London time and you've also got bowman a voter and Williams again at 6 and 7 p.m respectively and then you've got Kaplan Kashkari and Rosengren at the closing Wall Street So at 9 p.m. London time So a whole load of feds speakers to keep an eye on today and of course just sensitive to the idea about any details on tapering On the speaker front while we're here, obviously Christina guard later And you've also got bank of Canada's Macklin speaking as well later on late afternoon Um quick look in the energy market. I just thought I'd mention this. This is a multi-year look at natural gas futures And the reason why I've brought this up is that we are as you can see here this dotted line We've just yesterday got our heads above the peak in late 2018 Which puts us at a seven-year high amid escalating concerns about tight supplies heading into the winter Heating season. I remember we're going into September now and towards the fall And a confluence of production and processing disruptions are running headlong into robust demand For the fuel in some of the world's biggest economies and This separately the other thing is in the u.s Sector of Gulf of Mexico About 78 percent reports are suggesting of production remains offline More than a week after offshore crews fled for safety concerns because of hurricane Ida at the time's arrival Meanwhile, European energy executives are warning of a difficult winter as already tight supplies are stretched By post pandemic economic Reopening this as well And this is all fueling this latest uptick that we've been seeing quite aggressively In natural gas futures of late Away from that in the energy complex You also had the delayed as per usual due to labor day holiday api inventories Um, I think really not that interesting to be honest um, perhaps the gasoline number A little of a standout we had a build there of 6.4 million expectations were for a draw of 3.6 The headline not too dissimilar from expectations a draw of 2.88 million And of course we'll get those dobs later No real definable impact really on the price of crude oil Which in context still trades up close proximity to Is weekly high at the moment And trades are flat this morning 6940 All right to finish things off just a quick word on the ecb The market Certainly has recently been a little bit more doubtful on the ability of the ecb to remain Very much of a dovish disposition and the reason for that It comes in the context for one about a lot of central banks talking about tapering Of course led by the narrative coming out the fed And also we've had a couple of other things specific for the ecb. One is we've had a Rising eurozone inflation seen the other week to a level much higher than many were anticipating Secondly as a byproduct of that we've had a number of kind of more northern based geographic Eurozone nations so typically your germans austria nedlands talking about this idea of sounding much more hawkish And and playing to the tune of the at the moment. We are seeing excessive monetary stimulus ING analysts they expect the governing council will try to keep any tapering speculation at bay And I think that definitely is an important thing for the guard to Kind of convey today because she definitely doesn't want to spook the market And should refrain from front loading of asset purchases, which would would likely be interpreted as a de facto tapering So a couple of things the meeting marks the beginning of a crucial period of course for the ecb And this is why that whole bomb buying question is emerging Is because that 1.85 trillion euro envelope that was created in order to then counteract the covid-19 crisis Is on track to expire in march So Unlike the fed which is generally unlimited and open-ended with ecb to have a definitive deadline As we've discussed before a lot of times this is how monetary policy works It's very much sending the signals now in september For something that's actually not finishing in march because the journey to get there the communication forward guidance needs to start now In order to make sure that markets can cope with the withdrawal of stimulus in the future Economists polled by bloomberg still expect the ecb because separately we're going to get forecasts So economists still expect the bank's upgraded growth projections for this year while keeping those for next year 22 and 23 Roughly unchanged. They also said the inflation outlook will likely be revised up for this year That I don't see it will come as any surprise given the figures we've already seen um, and so As per usual i and g have issued their normal Kind of bingo card crib sheet Really useful, of course to determine the kind of what is the base case What needs to be said on things like inflation growth rates qe taper these sorts of things And what combination of these might constitute a more dubbish i.e. Euro weakness or hawkish euro strength type move And so again, I tweeted that if you wanted to have a look at that table in your own time um, all right, but Other than that quick jump back on the calendar The only other things to mention are from the us this afternoon. You've got your regular us jobless claims coming out um, and That is it so going to leave it there let you guys get on with the day Hopefully that was interesting and useful any questions at all feel free to leave me a comment If you're watching this and you're not subscribed to the youtube channel Really appreciate it if you hit that subscribe button Turn on the bell icon and you'll get a notification every day when these videos go out All right. Have a good day and good luck


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Okay, I'm going to call the meeting to order. Licenseeering and Public Safety, May 25th, 2022. Roque Hall, Alderperson Betty Ackley. Here. Alderperson Dean Decker. Here. Alderperson Joe Heidemann is excused. Alderperson Amanda Salazar. Here. And Alderperson Barb Felde. I am here. Okay, Pledge of Allegiance. Stand if you're able. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Introduction of community members. All right, Amanda, we'll start with you. Sure. Hi, I'm Alderperson Amanda Salazar, District 3. Dean Decker, Alderperson District 6. Chuck Adams, City Attorney. Dan Felde. I'm Tom Bill Adams, Spoilers Department. Kathy Hoffman, City Attorney's Office. Barb Felde, Alderperson District 1 and Chair of the Committee. And Betty Ackley, Alderperson District 4, Vice-Chair of the Committee. Okay. All right, we're on to Number 5, Approval of the Minutes from May 11, 2022. I make a motion to approve. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Chair says aye. Motion approved. Items for discussion and possible action. General Ordinance, Number 6. General Ordinance Number 1, 22, 23, 5, 16, 22. In ordinance amending the rule contained in Section 74 through 56 of the Municipal Code regarding alcohol possession and consumption in parks, so as to more clearly provide for possession and consumption of beer and wine while maintaining a prohibition on liquor. So this issue came up because when we had a license come through that wanted to serve wine in the park, the ordinance as it was written didn't clearly allow it, and yet we come to learn that it had happened many times. So we decided that the best thing to do was just to fix the ordinance to make it clear, and so that's what's been done. So there are two basic changes. One is in sub E that just includes the fact that they can serve and permit the consumption of beer and wine in a park if they have a temporary Class B license, and then F talks about like ban certain types of containers in the park, unless the group or organization is bringing them in, so you can't bring your own to an event, and then again makes it clear that beer and wine is allowed to be brought into the event in these various containers by the groups, but not by anybody else. So that's it. Chuck, do they get when people rent one of the park sites, do they get some rules for us, what they can and can't do? So renting a park site is a little bit different than what we're talking about here. When you rent a park site, I don't know what they get, but there are some parks that allow alcohol. So if you rent a park where alcohol is allowed, you can go there. There are other parks that don't. This ordinance relates to the parks where alcohol is normally not allowed, but says that an organization that gets a picnic license from the city to go to that location can serve beer or wine at that location. So as an example, the lobster boil that'll be later this summer in Fountain Park. Fountain Park is normally a park where we do not allow alcohol, but we'll give them a license. They want to serve wine. This actually came up to make sure that the lobster boil is all legal, although it will affect others as well. Okay. Are there any other questions? Okay, looking for a motion. Go ahead. Go ahead. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. Any discussion? Okay, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Oppose nay. Chair votes aye. Motion passes. Number seven, RO number 14223 51622 by City Clerk submitting various license applications. Business. So this is one of the few ROs during the year that you'll actually see a lot on, because this is the most most of it is the renewals of liquor licenses that have happened every year at this time. And so I'm going to walk through one at a time, the things that are different, and then at the end there'll be a motion to approve the remainder of the licenses. So the first one, it's license number 3540 being applied for by North Shore Property Management Inc. This is a new class A beer license. It was on the RO incorrectly. It was listed as a class B liquor license, but it's not. What they're asking for is a class A beer license. And so the motion would be to approve giving them a class A beer license. This is going to be a little shop on the South Pier where people can get like surfboards and stuff, but they'll also sell beer at that location. South Pier. South Pier. Okay. So do you want us to make a separate motion right now? I think, yeah, I think it's going to be easier to do that each way. I'll make a motion to approve the class A license. Second. Class A. Yeah. Class A. Okay. Is there any other discussion? Okay. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. Motion passes. Okay. Now licenses number 2984 and 3362. These are licenses. One is a class A. One is a class B. That's being issued to Jame Marketing LLC. And what we're saying is they should be granted contingent on correction of the described premises so that the premises don't overlap. What happened is this is one of the businesses where they divided it in half. And they changed, they included that on the newer of the two licenses, but on the older one where it used to cover the whole thing, they didn't change it. Can't have both in the same place. And so that is, that we're recommending approving with that contingency. Okay. What is the separate? Is it like separate businesses on the same premises? Yeah. It's one of these little gas station restaurant things. Jame Marketing is 1710 Indiana. That's the little Indian restaurant in a BP 17th in Indiana. Okay. So one is to... One is a class A beer license, meaning that they can sell it for like a mini marketing. And the other is a class B. I think in this case it is a class B beer only. And so then they can sell beer with their Indian food. I'll make a motion to approve. Second. Is there any discussion? All in favor say, aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Chair votes, aye. Motion passes. Next one is a similar situation, 3243 and 3531 being issued to Harbor Petroleum LLC. This is a Harbor Petroleum I believe it's 905 Indiana. Yep, 905 Indiana. They're asking for a class A beer and cider only sort of on the mini mart side. And then on the restaurant side it's a class B beer. Class A means you can take out of the premise, correct? Yes.  Both of these are beer only or one of them is a beer and cider I think but neither of them is liquor. And they just need to again make sure that their two premises are separate and don't overlap. There were some concerns with this group applying for the liquor license, correct? Right, but this is not a liquor license. This is beer only. Okay. So we don't really have a basis, we don't think to deny the license, but yeah, I mean one of the issues with the number of these is that there's some question about whether, you know, are these really restaurants or are they more gambling machine important? Yes, right. I gotta get out more. Do you have any comments, officers? Well, I don't know that like Chuck said, I don't know that there's any things you can do to deny it. No, I see plenty of issues with that. I don't know that there's anything you can do. I don't know like with a liquor license, sorry, I'm going to ask another question. A liquor license, there's like limitations of what your sales are, right? If you go over food, it becomes a different type of license. Does that apply to B and A's? So what we're talking about when we talk about percentage of food, that has to do with the underage on premises restrictions. So yes, if someone holds a Class B license, whether it's beer or liquor, if 50% of their total sales comes from food, they qualify as a restaurant and they don't have to obey the underage, there's an exemption from the underage persons, but it does have to be 50% food, not some people, some of them think it's more food than alcohol, but that's actually not the case, which is why, for example, a number of years ago, the place that Marie sometimes works, yeah, Anglers Avenue actually had to kind of divide up. They were one of the first to do that division. It's a little different than what these gas stations are, but they split the bait and tackle from the restaurant. They wanted to do it all both, but the problem was is that when you add up beer, food, and bait and tackle, food wasn't going to add up to 50%, which is why they then designed it the way they did. They did it right, but that's probably that system is what probably gave the idea to some of these others to do what they're doing in slightly different ways. So, but does it account for the revenue, would the gambling, the money they make up the gambling machines be included in that? Yeah, gambling machine money has to be included in that. So, if they're made, now here's the thing, are they really legally making any money from gambling machines and how do they report that? Those are issues that law enforcement really has to kind of deal with and monitor. No, with the bees, though, they're allowed to have the correct way. With this particular one, they're allowed to have gambling machines. They have to have a full liquor license, or full bar license in order to be able to have them. They're not allowed to have them at, which A's are bees. It's one of the two. A's are not bees. I think you can't. B's, you can't. That's my understanding. A is a gas station one. You cannot have them there. That's that. That's why they're creating these little bees next door, just because they can have them on the food side. But there does have to be a complete separation. They have to be a separate premises, separate entrances, all that. Okay. Thank you. So, next one is license 3034. Oh, we didn't do the motion. And we didn't do the finish the motion. Okay. Is there any more discussion? Can we make motion? Oh, we got that. All in favor say aye. We didn't. Right. Nobody. And what is the motion? Sorry. Motion to approve staff with a contingency. I'll make a motion to approve staff contingencies. Second. Second. I have a motion and second. Any more discussion needed? Okay. All in favor say aye. Opposed, nay. I voted aye also. So, she can't pass this. Okay. License 30 number 3034 is being issued to family entertainment LLC. And the only issue there is they just had needed to appoint a proper successor agent. And our recommendation is the grant for license contingent on their duty. I'll make a motion to grant for staff recommendations for accessories. Second. Discussion. All in favor say aye. Opposed, nay. Chair votes aye. Motion passes. License 3018 is being issued to the owners of Flo VN Restaurant, Tina Nguyen, and Karen Pham. And there were just a couple of issues there that they had to fix too. So, we're recommending that the license be granted contingent on receipt by the city clerk of the completed application, which includes needed information about whether it's an individual or a partnership that's owning it. And then a seller's permit form needs to be turned in. But we're recommending granting contingent and receiving those things. So, was there a change of ownership or is this just kind of mixed up before? Because we didn't have the entire form, it wasn't clear what's actually happening. And so, that's why we need that rest of it filled out. If it's going to be a change from, I don't remember what it was last time, you'll have to do the right paperwork for that, but it'll all be approved contingent on their duty. And is this a liquor? I believe Fabien has beer. Yeah, it's beer. It's beer only. Okay. Okay, I'll make a motion to approve with staff recommendations. I'll second. Any more discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Chair votes aye. Motion passes. License 3254 being issued to Bookworm Gardens, Inc. The license should be granted contingent upon receipt of a remaining auxiliary questionnaire from a newly appointed officer. They have a change in officer who just need a form. I can't, I need to. Yeah, you got it. Yes, yes. Okay, okay. I'll make a motion to approve with staff recommendations again. That's all. Second. Any more discussion? Okay, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Chair votes aye. Motion passes. All right, then license 1089 being issued to Dave's who's in. We're recommending that the license be granted contingent on his continued following of requirements imposed by staff on the operations of the Tavern in lieu of filing a revocation proceeding against the license. I'll just give you a little bit of background here. There have been some issues at the Tavern. As a committee, as a staff committee we met and we imposed a number of punishments on him, penalties on him, including he had to be shut down for 30 days. He's got a number of other things that he's going to continue to have to do and we're recommending that the license be granted contingent on his continuing to follow those rules. Bill, I don't know if you, you probably have a better memory of exactly what all the rules were, but there were quite a few. Right. Yeah, I didn't bring the list of them unfortunately, but there are a number of things such as his staff should not be drinking while they're on duty, having an ID scanner that also takes a photo of the person presenting the ID so that it helps curb some of the passing off IDs to other people. No weapons on premises, using a wand, a metal detecting wand on patrons coming in to the premises. Those were the big ones. No underage people, no intoxicated people on premises. Those were the continued participation in the Tavern Safety Coalition and following their guidelines, which he has done. How long does he have to do this? I think we, did we make it like a whole year? I don't know when it's specified that he's kind of open-ended. It might be open-ended. It might be forever. So like for at least for the duration of this license. It will be for the duration of this license with these both. Okay, good. All right. Is there, what was some of the specific, some of the, did he, were there some like weapons violations that people had in them? Yeah, so he, Dave's who's in was already under a chronic nuisance with the department because of a lot of the calls that were happening. We had a couple of weapons related calls last year. What kind of, so while he was still under that chronic nuisance, there were a couple of events that happened over the holidays that caused us to re-evaluate and then impose this or offer this 30 days suspension, voluntary suspension and lieu of revocation hearing and he chose that. So there had, you know, we had been working with him at the police department through the chronic nuisance process and then because some of those issues still were not being addressed. Is there a follow-up to this? I mean, do you check to make sure he's got everything checked off before he's allowed to open or are you just going to do some spot checks after? So the 30 day suspension period has already expired. So he has recollected his license and he's open again. Third shift officers, they generally deal with the taverns for the most part and they have officers assigned to every tavern in the city and they do regular inspections and they're all familiar with the requirements. Okay. All right. Any other questions or comments? Looking for a motion. It's only a motion to approve with staff recommendations. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. Passes. Next one is license number 3333 being issued to the caller company. We're asking that this one be held pending a request for them to make an application for an extension of the requirements of the continuation of business ordinance. So basically they need to come to you and ask to be extended. This is a little bit different than some of the other ones because this is one of those $10,000 reserve licenses which we're not as short on but we feel like because we have the ordinance that says you still have to do this we think they should come to you. It may not require sort of the same restrictions. You could probably grant it for a whole nother year and they probably should be coming back every year to do this until they actually open or until such time as we start running out of $10,000 reserve licenses in which case you mean one of it. So caller company is opening in Sheboygan the city of Sheboygan? This is in the golf on the golf course that they want to build so they got a liquor license for their golf course and they chose to get it right away I think with the idea being they wanted to have everything buttoned up so they'd be ready to go once everything else settled but of course they're in all sorts of litigation. Don't they have to use it within so much time or? We're telling them they need to come in and ask you for an extension because it is a reserve $10,000 license and because even though we do have restrictions on the number of those we're nowhere near that restriction and we hardly have anybody come in and ask for those licenses. We don't need to be as restrictive as we were if they were just if they were here on a on a regular $500 to some dollar license they would have already lost it because six months and you and then you guys will generally give you know maybe another month or two or whatever but this is a little bit different because of the type of license. Second. Any more discussion? All in favor say aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. Next one is another poll. This is license 2301 applied for by one more time LLC. This is Mojo Tavern and we're requesting that this license be held as well pending a hearing by you regarding the staff's decision to recommend that the committee not renew the license. So our out of our committee we determined that they should not be renewed because they are not meeting the continuation of business ordinances and have not requested despite our conversations with him an extension of the requirements. He obviously has different feelings about that and he requested that he have a hearing and that hearing will happen two weeks. Well it would normally be three weeks but we'll talk about that. Hasn't been opened actually for probably almost two years now. It's yeah they did get about this time. I don't remember exactly when it was but last around sometime last year we dealt with him and he provided us enough evidence to show that he had opened briefly like on a Sunday during a Packer game and had 15, 20 people. This time he tried to provide us some evidence that he might have been open recently but the evidence I don't want you guys are going to have to decide whether that evidence is sufficient. Okay the staff didn't think it was he thinks it is. You guys will get to decide. Okay any other questions? We have to do any action on this. Motion to hold. Motion to hold. Second. Any more discussion? All in favor say aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. We'll hold that one. Next one is 3504 license being issued to streamers to LLC. We're recommending you grant the license but contingent on receipt of one remaining auxiliary questionnaire from an officer just missing. Make a motion to approve contingent on staff recommendation. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. Next one is license 1337 being issued to the Schwoigen-Elkslach number 299 benevolent association. This license should be granted contingent on receipt of a remaining auxiliary questionnaire from the newly appointed officer. Motion to approve the license be granted upon retrieving an auxiliary questionnaire from the newly appointed officer. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. I want pass it. 3307 being issued to Umisushi and Steakhouse Inc. That license should also be granted contingent on receipt of a remaining auxiliary questionnaire from an officer just where their officers didn't turn it in yet. Motion to grant a digit upon receipt of a remaining auxiliary questionnaire from an officer. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. There we go. Then as to license 3250 being issued to FinalQuest LLC this license should be denied because there isn't a license to renew. So it's a little bit of a weird situation but what happened is two weeks ago you guys approved the transfer of this license from FinalQuest LLC to JLLC. So this is Bezut of Arakari owns some gas stations and things. He bought the work zone tablet down on the far far south side and you guys approved that two weeks ago. Um for some reason Kurt Hins chose to put in a renewal even after that but because the transfer had already occurred I think he was just like being super super careful but we can't grant it so and so and there were there actually the J's renewal is also on here. He can't do both so it's just going to be to deny FinalQuest LLC. Technically we'll have to send him a letter saying he got denied and he's be like why'd you send me that letter I don't want it anymore but right.  Okay 14. Go for it Dany. You gotta be mouthful. Motion to deny. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. Then all other licenses on this RO should be granted and Amanda you can vote on this one. I can. Yes because we already took care of the one you can't. You'll have some other ones you can't vote on later. This will be number eight right? Our own number. No this is the remainder of the license. Oh I get it. Oh the little. Okay. Along with the bad hearing is the bad site. Motion to prove all other licenses. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Right so that passes. Now we're number eight. Our own number 1522-23. 1516-22 by City Clerk submitting various license applications change of premise. Yep so these are all changes of premises and two of the businesses asking for changes of premise there's like a whole bunch of different ones they're asking for. The ones being issued to the John Michael Kohler Art Center and the legendaries we're recommending granting those contingent on their obtaining the street festival permit that just needed to happen before we could issue it. Okay. Make a motion granting them contingent upon obtaining a street festival permit. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. That passes. Then the rest of the licenses should be granted. You're not you're not affiliated with the Art Center Amanda? I'm not. Nope. Okay. Just vote for her. Just vote for her now. Okay. So do we do have a motion to grant all the licenses on this RO? Yeah. Second. Discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. That passes. Number nine. RO number 1522-23 direct referral by City Clerk submitting various license applications. All right. So this also has a number of changes of premises and when sidewalk cafe couple things we just need to take care of separately as to the changes of premises being issued to Il Retrovo we're recommending granting them contingent on obtaining the street festival permit just like the legendaries. So we should do that one on its own. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Granted contingent. Motion to approve granting upon contingent contingent on obtaining a street festival permit. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Motion. Chair votes aye. Motion passes. And second one on here a change of premise being issued to time and a half. That one we're also recommending granting contingent on obtaining street festival permit but also contingent on their confirming that they're going to maintain a required five foot walkway required by Americans with Disabilities Act. Their map didn't have enough information and there is a small area of their sidewalk cafe that or of their change of premises area that they're not going to be able to put anything there. Last time it sounds like all they did was mill around and it'll be fine but we just we need that confirmation so that we are not issuing a license of violation of ADA. So we're recommending that you grant contingent on those two contingencies. Can I ask a question? Is this for one day or is this for? Yeah. This one is I believe a one day it's either one or two. It's either one day or it's like a weekend. Okay. It says a one day event to be held on 6 12 22. Yep. There you go. One day. Great. Yep. Yep. Okay. We'll make a motion to approve with staff recommendations. All right. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. That passes. Then we're recommending all other licenses and applications be granted on that arrow. Motion to approve all other licenses on that arrow be granted. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Chair votes aye. That passes. And discussion regarding the time of future committee meeting. So there's two issues that we need to talk about. One is the four versus five o'clock thing. And one is when are we going to hold the next meeting? And I'm going to start with the second one first. So the next meeting because we have five Mondays in May would not actually be until three weeks from today. You mean June? There's five Mondays in May. So we're going to have a lecture week before we get to the first the session in June. So there's no council meeting next week. It's two weeks. Okay. And then LHPS is three weeks. Because of that and because we're at liquor license renewal time, that's going to be the last LHPS meeting that we can deal with a lot of this stuff. However, that also is when both attorneys in my office cannot be here on the 15th because that's our annual conference. So we're hoping because we're going to have some hearings, I mean if we're just going to be going to grant licenses, I would have just said fine just do it without us. But you're going to have to have hearings. And so I'm recommending that you're going to probably have to find a different day to do that meeting. And you can do what you want. I know you normally meet on Wednesdays. If you met the Wednesday before, it would be just two days after the council meeting. I don't know whether you only meet to do like required hearings and things like that at that time and hold the normal date on the 15th just for piddly stuff. That would be one way to do it. So it's sort of what you're used to. Another way to do it might be to do it the day before. But I know a couple of you are in public works. And so we'd have to be done before you could get there. So that's potentially a problem. Especially if there's hearings, you never know how long those can be. Oh my gosh. But that's kind of that's kind of our thought. It is instead of June, I think June 15th. June 15th is the normal day for the meeting where they can maybe June 8th. The only and you could make actually make that for the most part your regular meeting date because the RO from the committee should be done and ready to go. It's just it'll be a little quick for us to make the turnaround on the RO. But we also try to make sure that this was the big one. Hopefully most people got in on this one and not the next one. Okay. So here's the thing. If we do it on the A, we move it to five o'clock. I have to leave at 5.45. Can't do that then because we shouldn't do five o'clock. So if we do four o'clock and if you think we'll be done with hearings by 5.45. Shouldn't we do five o'clock? We don't have to anymore. No, we could do four o'clock. She has to be done by 5.45. And if it's a year, I have to head out to Huesburg. I have to be in Huesburg. I can't miss this. I promise I'd be at his graduation because it's a hearing. Right. You don't want to miss it. So I'm thinking of four o'clock. The four o'clock would be that should work. I would expect you would be done I would expect so. These are not the two hearings that I expect we might have are not complicated. And it's not so far. Yeah, so far. Although, yeah, if they haven't applied by now, they've kind of missed their right to have a hearing so quickly. Whereas these people that there's the one that we talked about and then there's another one that we denied that will become that the appeal will be coming through likely on that. Or could we move it to Tuesday the 7th? I will not be here. We have like Carlson. I have a I have a Carlson judgment. Okay. Oh, yeah, that's the night of the FNP meeting on that. There's going to be a lot of Alders who are going to want to be at that. Yes, you're right. Yes, you're going to say that. We have to serve the people too before that, right? Yeah. So that's and I mean, we didn't even notify the one guy yet that he's getting denied. Right. And then he has to. It's going to be tight. It's going to be tight in any case, but yeah. Or we could go to Thursday night. Does anybody have anything on Thursday? Thursday night. It's the last day of school. Oh, yeah. I don't have kids in school. I don't have to worry about it. And how the conference you leave? Are we on the 15th? Well, it's the it's it's Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 15th, 16th, 17th. But the problem of course is being the 12th is FNP the 11th is or 11th is FNP 12th as public works. And we can't push that an extra. We're not allowed to make it another week, right? Because do they have the right to be here? Yeah, they have the right to have the hearing and then have the common council make a decision based on your hearing decision before the end of July. So the council has to meet on the July 20, unless unless there was a special meeting and I don't like forcing special needs. Okay, so we got to do the it but is it okay if she were to leave? What would happen if we had some weird thing where we got a dead lock and she's gone? Then what happens? A tie is a tie. A tie means that whatever you're voting on fails. It's like a defeat. Okay, I just wanted to clarify so we can make sure we all understood what would happen, right?  You think take an hour and 45 minutes? I think we would probably do the one that I think is a closer call first, just so you could get it right, get it done. Yes, okay, because I don't want to get where we can't make a decision and we keep voting and we keep coming up with a stalemate. That's what I was afraid of. So I wanted to double check just to make sure. So we need the tie breaker. So the eighth at four. The eighth at four o'clock. Okay. Then the other issue and then probably we won't need to then do the 15th at four at all or five. The other issue is then once we go in late later in the year, we had moved this back to four o'clock at this, you know, the idea being that I know last year we needed Betty for you for a while and then for all their last year. But our understanding was we didn't need to do that anymore. And the issue that we have, and I think the clerk's office has as well, is if we're five o'clock meeting, we have to either pay overtime or give comp time. And the issue with comp time and it's come up in a couple of departments, our policy is that comp time can only be given that week. And if you find out that you're only finding out, it's flex time. Comp time can be carried. It's not under the FLSA and not under city policy. It depends on the handbook of the company. They're all different. Most of our employees are covered by FLSA and all the people that would be involved with this other than me. So we're suggesting four o'clock. And the other thing that goes with it with both of our offices is because this meeting falls on the Wednesday of the week after council, it also falls at the time that we're trying to put together the council agenda and go through documents. And so if suddenly we were to have, you know, and we were to go till, you know, from five till seven instead of just four to six, we'd still have to play four to six, we'd have to play a little bit with overtime, but we're adding more to that. And it is at exactly the time of the week, the time of the two week cycle when we most need to have our employees have their full amount of hours because we're crushed already. Can I ask a question? Do we have to start at the top of the hour? Like, could we even push it like 15 minutes? 15 minutes. Start at 4.15, 4.15, I would be. At 4.15 would be. The next 15 minutes would actually make a big difference. I'm off of work at 3.30 and it's, yes, you can start at 4.15. So we're allowed to do 4.15, you know, God forbid if they change schools again, I can't, I had one that was getting out at 3.45, that was the problem last year. But now she'll be getting out at 3. So, I mean, it would be okay. Yeah, I have to do by four. That's fine. I understand the city, you know, that's not fair to you guys either. Yeah, I could make 4.15 if it's like really snowing in the winter, it might be really snowing, but I will do it, make it work. What happens if we're late? Is that like an issue like we're going to? You know, a lot of meetings are short for now, for my office, 5 o'clock is really the comp time issue, not 4.30. Because we've kind of worked it out to keep our office staffed through the noon hour. I do believe the clerk's office closes at 4.30. So many meetings that go over 15 minutes, they might have to deal with it. But they're also, I mean, Cathy takes the minutes, not them. So, Cathy, 100% has to be here. And they're like, Melissa's not here today. I'm trying not to inconvenience you, but I'm trying to think, you know, at 4.15 it would help you and you guys, you know, help you guys to not have to not be speeders and stuff, try to get over here. I definitely was not speeding on the way. I can't be here. We'll let you know. And then you have to speed. Would 4.15 then work for your office? I think it works for us. I mean, I like that IT is still here at that time because so often you're right. That is a good... Okay. And they're here till 5? No, 4.30. IT's here till 4.30. But they can, once they get a stop. But Cathy's in here early, getting it set up and stuff all the time. So that's what she's looking at, if she has any issues. So I'm here at 4 o'clock on June 8th, but then after that I go to 4.50. Yes, please. Yes, please. And I apologize for the inconvenience last year with school and COVID, the way they were doing things was real weird. So we didn't happen to really release. But I don't even let someone else pick up the tool. It's depending on the school. Well, depending on the school they didn't let you cross. Okay, we're looking for a motion to adjourn because I think we've covered all the items now. You didn't have to make a motion on this whole discussion. It's really a discussion because she always has the control over what the agenda is. If she would just suddenly decide it's at 4 a.m. She could. All right. Wow. Move to adjourn. Second. Okay, all in favor say aye. Aye. Close may. I vote aye. So that means it's at 4.50.


How to Defeat Putin. I know how to stop Vladimir Putin once and for all. I here offer my strategic wizardry to the Western Empire free of charge. Before I reveal my unstoppable plan, we must first understand that the Associated Press has just informed us that it is a baseless conspiracy theory that the US is responsible for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines, which were set up to carry Russian gas to Germany, and that this baseless conspiracy theory is being promoted solely by Russia and far-right conspiracy groups. The Kremlin and Russian state media are aggressively pushing a baseless conspiracy theory blaming the United States for damage to natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, and what analysts said Friday is another effort to split the US and its European allies, AP tells us. The Russian position is also reverberating on social media forums popular with American conservatives and far-right groups. The suggestion that the US caused the damage was circulating on online forums popular with American conservatives and followers of QAnon, a conspiracy theory movement which asserts that Trump is fighting a battle against a satanic child trafficking sect that controls world events, AP reports. This information may come as a surprise to the many people who are unaware that promoting this claim means they are necessarily either Russian or far-right QAnon satanic pedophile conspiracy theorists, like for example, Poland's former foreign minister and current sitting member of European Parliament, Radek Sikorski, who openly thanked the United States for exploding the pipelines. The news that this conspiracy theory is baseless may also come as a surprise to those who've noted that both President Biden and his undersecretary of state for political affairs, Victoria Newland, explicitly said that Nord Stream 2 would be brought to an end if Russia invades Ukraine. That the US sanctioned those who built Nord Stream 2. That DC insiders are on record saying that they want Europeans to be more dependent on North American energy than on pipelines from Russia. That Germans had just been angrily demanding an end to US-led sanctions on Russia in a reopening of Nord Stream gas. That US naval forces were recently conducting unmanned underwater vehicle drills right where the pipelines were attacked. That unmanned underwater vehicles have been found carrying explosive charges near Russian pipelines in the past. That Poland literally just inaugurated a gas pipeline that will transport gas from Norway through Denmark and the Baltic Sea. That US military helicopters were recorded traveling between the two blast points and along the Nord Stream 2 pipeline shortly before the explosions. That the US Empire has an explicitly stated policy of ensuring that no power is developed that could challenge its global hegemony, including in Europe. And that the CIA has a known history of blowing up Russian gas pipelines. But it's in the news so it's definitely true. They're not allowed to lie. The US is not guilty. So if it's a crazy Russian-Satan pedophile QAnon crackpot conspiracy theory to believe the US government or its imperial proxies may have had something to do with the sabotage of Russian pipelines, who did it? Well, this is going to blow your mind because of how wildly counterintuitive it is. But here's the answer. Russia. This is according to such ever impartial and totally trustworthy experts as former CIA director John Brennan, who says that Russia certainly is the most likely suspect, and NATO think tanker Alexander Vershbo, who says Putin blew up his own pipelines instead of simply closing a valve because he wanted to show the world that he is a madman. The sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines further reinforces the image of Putin as a madman, which might persuade some allies to push for a ceasefire in negotiations that would inevitably mean Ukraine giving up significant amounts of territory. Vershbo told the Atlantic's Susan B. Glauser. So there you have it. Russia, not the US empire, is responsible for destroying billions of dollars of its own economic and energy infrastructure and releasing hundreds of millions of dollars of its own gas and ending its crucial point of leverage over Europe in direct facilitation of US geostrategic interests and in direct subversion of its own because Putin is a crazy lunatic. If it wasn't true, they couldn't report it in the news. So are you ready for my brilliant strategy on how to defeat Putin? Here it is. Simply stand back and wait for him to explode the rest of Russia. This is, after all, the same madman who The New York Times informs us has been ordering his troops to shell a nuclear power plant they already control. If Putin is a gibbering, irrational lunatic who always enjoys blowing up his own stuff for no reason other than to act crazy, surely if we just stand back and leave him to his own devices, he will soon turn the Russian Federation into a steaming pile of rubble. Honestly, I can't believe it's taken me, a humble blogger, to figure this out on behalf of the US empire. You'd think with all the brilliant minds in the US government and the mainstream news media they'd have figured this one out by themselves, but apparently they need a little help sometimes. Any DC think tanks are welcome to call me for any lucrative employment offers they care to extend. You are welcome in advance. Here's looking forward to Putin's self-inflicted downfall.


Information Technology, Hyderabad. I'm here to present Freedom Box. Freedom Box is a project started by Eben Morgulan. He's the founder of Software Freedom Law Center. And, okay, we use many devices daily. And we use these devices to create, access, share data. And we, for these services, we use other private, third-party company products. And these third-party companies are actually data mining companies. They put up on a face as email service providers or social networking providers. And what they do is actually data mining. If we are individuals who think product our privacy, we may have already started searching for alternatives. Okay, let's take this case. Suppose we have a device at our home, which can save data, which can sync data with all our devices, and which can be accessible from all over the world, from anywhere. And Freedom Box is their device. So, Freedom Box is a Debian plan, and it can be installed on any single-board computer. This is a commercial version of Freedom Box. And setting up Freedom Box is so simple. It can be set up even by non-technical people.  You'll get hotspot at your home, and you can have it services. Slide seven. Slide seven changing. Okay, let me continue. Freedom Box has other aspect. And, okay, let's take this case. In India, we got our, cities are connected with internet around 1997. But even being it, after 20 years, being it 2017, there are around thousands of villages which are not connected with internet. And we at Freedom Box are empowering villages in India. We are using this Freedom Box as an internet Wi-Fi router service there. I have slides over, slides for it, but slides aren't changing. Better. So, we are giving, Is there, is there something, anything of, sorry, something's wrong with the computer? No, something's not coming over. Shall I go into the car? So, we are giving Wi-Fi services there, and we are empowering villages with free internet access and free vibe calls, and audio services, and digital library for content. And to our surprise, we have seen cases where people are using it for services like MNREGA, which is a government-run policy where each citizen is given a guarantee of 100 days of work in India. And even students in villages are using it for their projects. Actually, this village doesn't has any internet connection, internet cable, so what we did is we had a point-to-point radio link from other village, which is around four kilometers from this village. These are the images there. So, coming to the goals of Freedom Box, we aim at decentralizing, decentralization of network, and community ownership of internet services, and digital equality. So, even we want to cover up all the villages in India with internet services. So, it is one of our next future works, and it is built by community and run by community. It is actually being, the internet services, I'm wrapping up, the internet cost for, it is being paid by the government there. It is a local village government. And if you would like, if you would like to contribute to Freedom Box, you can check it out at freedombox.org. And we would like you to build an app or code, design, anything you would like to do and contribute to us. Thank you.