Hello and welcome to another edition of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies, before we get going. What are we drinking? We're drinking and gonna feel this one. It's Carfax Abbey Belgian Ale with English Hops. Percentage? Eight and a half percent. There we go. Today we're gonna be talking about kind of a topic that's been floating around quite a bit on the internet. The importance of having and collecting physical media. It's a good idea to have at least some in your possession.  Now the lowest cheapest cost is gonna have commercials in it. And then you have to pay more to get the higher tiers where they don't have commercials and they have more content etc etc. It just sort of sparked it in us that you know we have vast libraries of physical media. That's kind of what we like. That's what we're into. So here's 10 reasons why it's good to have physical media. And the first one jumps right off that. Is you don't have to rely on your internet connection being stable. Going down on you. And you don't have to rely on a streaming service to have the things that you want to watch on it. Yeah you're not at their mercy right. And that's the thing is you're very much at the mercy of these streaming companies. They keep upping the prices on you every year. So they get you that way.  And pop up on another platform. Well I gotta go pay for this now because I want to watch this over here. And again the cost that keeps going up because of that. Yeah it's like that problem that you ran into when we were going to watch. We're supposed to watch one of those movies for a review. Baby blood was wonderful. Baby blood yeah and so you already had the one streaming site but then the movie was actually running from another site through the one you had. So you had to get the other one.  They got you by the balls. They got you by the balls.  Exactly as long as you give it back. Put that beard down. You know your internet goes down. You know it doesn't happen often these days. Grab a DVD, a Blu-ray, 4K, VHS whatever you want. An album. Put it on and that's your entertainment for the night if you need to be entertained by something. Star Trek is another like good example of this where we're lucky in Canada here we still have Star Trek on Netflix.  You know for me personally like if once Star Trek leaves Canadian Netflix I may not keep it because that's one of the only things I watch on Netflix anymore. Point number two the fact that you can borrow and share your media with people that you know friends right. It's a good chance if you're a collector you're friends with collectors. Yeah exactly like I have Quantum Leap and I remember like a long time ago me and Adam did this thing where we would buy each other a season I'd buy Adam a season of Kung Fu and he'd buy me a season of Quantum Leap for a birthday. Yeah the only one I'm missing is the fourth one actually the fourth season. But anyways I have the Quantum Leaps if Adam wants to watch him. Which I do. Which I do. I messaged him like a week ago saying can I borrow Quantum Leap I have a hankering for it. I said yeah come on over and get him. And it's that simple you know I don't have any streaming services that have Quantum Leap on it so. Yeah. But I got my best friend right here who could lend it to me you know. That's right. Same thing goes for me I got some things that you don't have of TV shows movies you don't have to hunt for it and to try to download it or buy it yourself you borrow it from me. Exactly. You might have an investment on your hands. That's right. Case in point I remember buying some of these records Prince albums for example 4 bucks 4.99 for a Prince record when I bought it. Yeah. You can't find Prince records for 4.99 anymore man. As soon as Prince died at least 30 bucks sometimes 50 bucks for records for deceased artists you know. Same thing goes with like Bowie man like I got a bunch of Bowie albums 4 bucks for Bowie's Lo. You're not going to find this for 4 bucks anymore. Yeah. I basically have an investment on my hands because I bought them when the media was considered dead. Yeah. Right you know. That's right. I got a bunch too.  Partying with them yeah. And then if you do they're worth a fortune now. Yeah. Why I don't know like especially for AC-DC but. I think it's because trends happen right. Yeah.  Yeah. You can't buy vinyl for a couple of bucks anymore man because the demand right. Exactly. Blind demand. Yeah. Well and. They're not being manufactured anymore so there's no supply and now it's a trendy thing so there's demand so price goes up. That's right. And with VHS too right. VHS has recently been spiking. It's gotten back into the mainstream again. It was dead. Yeah. Like after when they stopped making VCRs around what 0506 or something like that. Yeah they made their last VCR around 07 or something like that. Yeah.  It's hot again right and you know and we do because we bought a lot of our VHS when they were cheap. We have a lot of investments because now that stuff is worth money. That's right. The nostalgia factor of it right. I mean there's nothing better than putting in an old VHS tape from our childhood. Yeah. You know and you see those old trailers start to play and it just takes you back. It makes you warm and fuzzy inside. It's watching it the way you remembered it. I always remember when Labyrinth came out on DVD. Yeah. And I got the DVD put it in and it was like it's not the same because the trailers before the movie is not the same. It wasn't the same viewing experience because those things were part of the viewing experience. You know and case in point this exact this edition of Labyrinth specifically the Embassy Home Entertainment one is only edition it has the trailers that I remember as a kid. Yeah. So if you want to relive your past you need this exact one right. And it's a good trailer in the beginning is it's the trailer for the name of the rose and it's all scary and everything too right. The three amigos on VHS like me and this was one of the very first movies that me and Adam bonded over when we were four or five years old when we first met. Yeah. I mean this goes back a movie like that goes back to our roots the very beginning. Yeah.  With the bat and everything making Mr. Right. The trailer. Yeah. It's like yeah you see that and it's like yeah and if it's not there you know it. Yeah. And you feel it. The three me goes is a movie that I refuse to watch in any format besides VHS because I want that experience. Yeah. I don't want the other experience of not viewing it without those trailers. Yeah. You need that. People don't want to let go of their childhood you know and it's good to revisit it every once in a while. Yeah. Reason number five to collect physical media is there's a lot of stuff that's lost to old formats of media. That's right. Movies for example there's a lot of movies lost to VHS. If you don't have that version like you may be able to find it on YouTube or whatever but like you have a piece of lost media.  Never rented it. I always wanted to because I was a big John Belushi fan as a kid. Never rented it and I found it like a couple weeks ago at a thrift store I bought it. I've always kind of been curious about this. It took it home, looked it up. It's lost to VHS. Right. It's never had a digital release. Yeah. So you know the only way to watch it is on VHS. Now I can finally watch it. It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. And apparently it's kind of a bad taste. A bad done and bad taste. I tried watching it. It kind of doesn't depict John Belushi very well. It's like no wonder it was panned but I have a piece of lost media. Yeah. And that goes like for a lot of stuff we have like a lot of the VHS tapes and everything when you look it up there's like lists on the internet you can find. And it's like we have lots of stuff actually that you can you would never be able to find on DVD or anything that's come out in recent history. Which is awesome. Another example actually is this movie, very cool interesting movie called Jack B. Nimble which it's now available on I think Blu-ray through vinegar syndrome but when I bought it, when I found it it was not available. This is the only way you can watch the movie when I actually found it. So it was like yeah awesome.  And there are the odd movies it's actually kind of rare but there are the odd movies that have never even been put to digital format at all. You can't even stream them. Right. And so that's the only way to own them. In music too like think of all the weird underground one-off bands that released a record. One record on vinyl or something that was never on like a main label that's lost to vinyl. Yeah.   That's right. So there's a lot of cool vinyl. It may not be great but it's lost to that medium. Point number six you gotta make is that you can find a lot of unaltered versions or also watch or listen to a lot of the media as it was intended to when it was originally released. Right. Exactly. I think one of the biggest biggest things we can mention here and I know a lot of people know what we're thinking Star Wars. Yeah. You can't stream or even buy digitally on Blu-ray, DVD, whatever the unaltered versions of Star Wars. Yeah. That's probably one of the hallmarks. Yeah. Like if you want to watch Star Wars the way it was originally released you have to have either the laser disc if you want the best looking version or the VHS. You know, in case and point the widescreen edition. Yeah. If you want to see Star Wars not, you know, in full screen but widescreen well I happen to have the widescreen versions of relatively unaltered. Yeah.   You know, you change the whole song the jump jump song or whatever it is supposed to be like Yeah.  It's funny. Remember that article that I sent you of that just, I forget the guys I don't know what the guy's name was it's just a random article I read where the title of it was in search of the original release of such and such and then I sent that to you.  He was like because it's old and Yeah, I remember that. It was like in search of the originals but I won't look even consider VHS. Well then you're not going to find it.  If you want to look for it and find it, that's how you're going to find it. That's the only way you're going to find it. Or laserdisc. In the case of Star Wars right that's the best version for unaltered Star Wars is laserdisc. Reason number seven you should have some physical media in your possession is special features. Streaming a movie you can't get the director-actor commentary you can't get the making of vignettes, deleted scenes, alternate scenes that you'll get in DVDs and Blu-rays. All that stuff has a lot of value to it.  And it gives you a different viewing experience. I remember this past Halloween I was like I've seen all these movies so many times I made it my mission to finally watch all these movies that I have on DVD with the commentary. Cause why not? Yeah just to learn more. You bought the DVD with the commentary put that to use and you'll learn so much more. Records like LPs vital with liner notes and the big artwork and all that stuff. You don't get that with a digital copy you don't get all the fun stuff when you open up the record and read the liner notes read all the lyrics all that stuff it's something you can hold and have an experience with. It's a piece of artwork a lot of times a lot of times the artists or the studios or whatever have released these things to make them look a certain way make them look captivating.  Yeah CDs were expensive back in the day. Especially at HMV and apparently they're coming back. Why? Is anybody asking for HMV to come back?    You don't get that with anything online right?  Yeah and same thing like when when Gary Newman had all of his albums re-released by Beggar's Banquet there were special edition albums and each one of the booklet sleeves had a whole right up many pages of the making of the album. I remember buying the albums putting them on my headphones and my disc man at the time. But on the bus ride home from the store, reading about the making of the album through the booklet. Right.   Speaking of thrill of the hunt diamond in the rough you brought it up already this labyrinth VHS for example I've been a hunt for this for ages yeah and it was available on eBay to buy and I remember looking at it a bunch almost clicking on it and buying it but like no it's something I want to find in the wild saying I found this. I didn't just go online and bought it I found it. It's like finding treasure it's like it's something it's to be proud of I found it. That's right and not just this too but any like nowadays especially horror movies on VHS format seem to be all the rage so now it's like you get excited when you find the one one horror VHS tape at a thrift store it's like whoa okay even if you have it you still buy it. Forget it. Just cause.  And you laid out on the couch or on the floor feeling like that.  It's like a high yeah you know it's like a high for collectors at least yeah and for me I like a good deal. I'll give you a 30 cents for them sealed VHS tapes.   Especially see that people like that I don't mind trying to knock down. Yeah. Because I think they deserve it. They do. Like they shouldn't be asking $20 for a some generic VHS tape. What are you doing? Yeah. That's ridiculous like I'll give you 30 cents. Reason number 9 you should have some physical media on your hands is if you don't have a whole bunch of streaming services that you want to pay for and you just get the free ones like Tubi and you know like YouTube for example while there's commercials there. If you have the movie in your possession you can pop it in and be guaranteed there's no commercials on that movie. Yeah. You put in the album there's no commercials going to happen in between the songs on that album right you listen to it the way we're supposed to listen to no interruptions put in the album. Yeah exactly put in the goddamn album point number 10 they're a talking piece of a conversational item right Yeah. And not just not even the media itself I even go a step further the player. Yeah.  Yeah right it is and like people when people walk into our houses yeah and they come into our rooms and they see what's in here and it's like wow and then like every single piece in this room is a talking piece. Yeah. When we have parties and our friends come over we hang out in this room and we just stand here and like oh this movie and we'll pull it out and we'll talk about this. I remember when and then oh this movie and it's literally me and you and Carl can stand in this room for hours and just like talk about things that are on the shelves. Yeah. Just like even people who aren't into this stuff right.  And they haven't seen it for years. That's right. They walk in they're like look at this I remember this. That's right.  That's right. Hey man come inside help me set up the nerd room. Top 10 reasons to own physical media whether you want to be VHS CDs vinyl DVDs 4K whatever your jam is it doesn't matter there's a piece that is lost when it gets turned into a digital format right. You can't touch. Yeah. When it gets put up into a cloud that you can't you don't have ownership of it. I think of Frankenstein or the original Frankenstein when the monster adheres the music and he's trying to touch it. Yeah. It's like that. Yeah. It's there but it's never in your hands. It's not there. Yeah. And the sad thing about it is that you pay for it right. People pay for it and it's never. Yeah. It's never there until next time happy hunting for your physical media whatever that may be. And until next time keep drinking.


Welcome back. Time to look at what the papers have to say, the front page filled with very interesting juicy headlines. But before we do that, Merci, Ebopo is with us this morning. Merci will take us through the first paper. But Chris Cainewando is our guest. He's already standing by. Chris, good morning to you. Good morning. Thanks for having me this morning. All right. And of course, I'm not here alone. Merci Ebopo is with us. Merci. Very interesting headlines coming on the front pages this morning. Which one are we going to start with? Well, I'll start off with the leadership newspaper. And Chris, thank you so much for staying with us despite all odds. The leadership says insecurity may disenfranchise 11 million voters in southeast. Quite worrisome. That's a lot. And it's been stated categorically that if urgent action is not taken, then you might probably have 11 million voters are not being able to take part in the elections. Underneath collection of new 930,000 PVCs in shaky start, seated home orders, extolls exercise in Anabran, Enugu, Imo. But you know, the big question a lot of people are asking is these persons who are carrying out this action, are they not already declaring themselves, you know, the enemy of the state and enemy of the state because anything that truncates a democratic process or the election is really a threat, a big threat. And sure that get the PVCs would be charges, security agencies, and these are the riders underneath the caption. And hunger on employment as president, says article question would be how? And you find a firefighter nice move to vat to exclusive least, I take that again, move vat to exclusive least past state please bill. Well, another talks about federal government cancels COVID-19 tests for all travelers. Federal government cancels COVID-19 tests for all travelers. Does it really mean that you know, we're over with COVID and it's gone. World Cup Croatia Argentina locked on for the final sport. And 2023 vote only competent candidate, not an elder still Nigerians. And just before move away from the leadership newspaper, Tunibu, Shatimar in Kaduna ahead of Northwest campaign rally. These are some of the headlines very interesting on the leadership. Let's go to the nation newspaper. Five killed in attack on another INEC office in Southeast, like we said, the top training segment. Undukar Baigman is hypocritical stand, the grandstanding on public morality is a, I think it should be an opinion piece in the, in the nation newspaper. Very interesting. We embarking on the media war. No, he's the publisher of, of this day needs to brand the owner, of course, of arise TV. Well, the nation is said to belong to another family, you know, political family. Let's leave it at that. PDP crisis, wiki Okowa or Tom in airport drama. Governors in hiding seek 6.5 billion Naira project inaugurated in Makori leader that on the nation. Well, we have the daily trust newspaper. It talks about the ultimatum from the DSS. That's by DSS ultimatum. Petroleum scarcity persist in states. Product sells for 310 Naira in Kaduna, Kano, others. Cues ease in Lagos and Abuja.   DSS begins secret operations. Travel guidelines. Federal government cancels COVID-19 tests and face max wearing. It's fine. Three iPop members killed in emo INEC office attack. And please invite NSITF MD Oval Forge NYSE certificates. Some interesting headlines this morning on the daily trust newspaper. All right. And the final one, the punch will go over that quickly. INEC PDP offices raised scores killed in Southeast Kaduna. You know, politicians sponsoring attacks on INEC offices. Censors or them a gunman. Soldiers clashed in a boy. Soldiers come communities. Attack villages, military invades, full attack at Kaduna. Local government errors. Traitors, artisans, civil servants flee. As gunmen enforcing, sit at home, invade the Bakliki. Market burnt. Some headlines on the front page. You look at more as we go on. But because of time, let's quickly bring in Chris Kander, one who is already standing by. Chris, we'll start with this situation in emo state. And the INEC office raised, we've looked at pictures and looked at that story already on our earlier segments. What are your thoughts on this? Because this is not just emo state. We're hearing that scores have been killed generally in the Southeast since some sort of seat at home was declared. Of course, you know about the whole back and forth between leading figures in IPOB about whether a seat at home is authentic or not. So what are your thoughts on this? I think it's now the receiving end of some of these attacks. The government of emo state, like the paper said, says politicians are sponsoring the attacks. It's a very sad narrative coming from my state of humor. We woke up yesterday to that bomb attack at INEC office and then later we saw some pictures of social media, some alleged perpetrators of that, also the killing of this man. That is quite unfortunate. This is just coming a few days after the chairman of INEC and INEC officials during a meeting with the cinema executive, cried out over the recent attack on their facilities and their offices. That was one in our state and there have been attacks in some part of Southeast. So that coming yesterday was a big shock again. But it only raises the question and also might be a kind of insight on what's going to happen in 2023. And I hope that our security agencies are on top of the game. The governor, my governor of Noho Pusa Thema, was took me to accuse politicians of being behind it. If he's aware of the politicians, why is he not naming them? That to me was very, very hasty. And the worst part to me is the fact that three days after some unknown people issued a five-day CTR2 directive in the Southeast, iPod came out to wash his hands off that directive and said that Nigeria's and Istana should go about their normal duties. That is an arrest then. But who are those behind this? And I don't want to believe that it is beyond the security agencies to be able to and be able to make sure that they fish them out, except they are telling us that they handicap and they don't know what to do or don't know how to do a party. These are no-goes. These are people living within these communities and within these states. And they attack and keep people at will and not being done about it. That means no-goes. I'll ask whether on the leadership, we still talk about this, but in another dimension, the fact that 11 million voters may be decent franchise and that's on the probability. But the clause or the statement that follows afterwards is that the federal government needs to take an urgent action. Why does the federal government need to come to this one? We're talking about states that are sovereign and they have the state apparatus to ensure that everything is in place. The federal government controls security. They control the army. They control the police. They control the defense. They also control all the security agencies that deal with the issue of security. The state's practically no mess to nothing. The governor is more of a demdog. But I still have to blame our leaders and governors on the southeast. Mostly, you could see how, to the largest state, where protected the southwest is. And that is because the southwest leaders and governors are taking issue of security very, very seriously. And that is why they initiated the Amoteco security agent. Mostly, there were a last few weeks, there were a lot of kidnapping on the Lagos expressway. I'm sure you heard about that. So many people were picked up. But we did this. The governors of the state rose up to the occasion. I'm able to put some kind of joint patrol between Amoteco and the police. I was in your state, I was in Amoteco at the weekend. Let's say I would tell you that maybe after every three kilometers or five kilometers, you will see Amoteco security agents and also policemen manning that express. That has brought totality and has been able to make sure that that level of security along that route has been dealt with. I'm expecting the governors of the southeast to do this. But what I'm just doing that they're just going about blaming politicians and rest of them. Even the one or two that have come up with a bug which is a bonus thing. You see how the government of the state are using it. That security agents, those security agents should be fighting and arresting opposition leaders. That is all they are for. They are not doing what they're supposed to do. So on the leaders of the southeast rise up to education and make sure that they need this security in the court. We continue to have this. These people are perpetrating this violence, as I said. They are not invisible. They are not, they are known even within static communities. And given the necessary information, I'm sure our security agencies can deal with that. They're coming to about the issue of 11 million protesters in the country. I don't believe that. It was worse during the before the November election and the election was held in November without any kind of security challenges. And I'm sure that our security agencies know what to do. And so that the people of the south will be able to exercise their franchise on February 2020, January election. All right. Thank you very much. Let's go to the next news report. And of course, this particular one from Daily Trust makes an interesting read. We all heard the DSS coming up with its ultimatum last week, 48 hours. And from investigations by Daily Trust, they're saying the scarcity is possessed. People are even paying more now for the product. For instance, excuse me, in Cardona state and in Canada state, where they say the product sells for, that's petrol now, sells for 310 naira per liter. Though in some parts of Lagos, we've seen the Q's ease in the budget that the paper says the investigation has showed, but it persists. It's the DSS, finally, you know, showing Nigerians it's a toothless build up. What that news broke, I love to buy it, it is laughable. DSS, what we did about petroleum, is that their job? Is it the job of DSS to be running after all your marketers? We are not talking about the issue of security challenges in Nemo state and South East. What have the DSS done about it? I think they should focus more on issue of internal security. They are our secret police and I believe they have a lot on their table and they have a lot on their desk to run after petroleum or petroleum marketers. Despite the optimism that I was giving by DSS, the issue of petroleum scarcity is not just about it's not about force. How many people can you deploy? How many filling stations do we have in Nigeria? How many numbers of DSS officers do we have? I think they should focus on their core mandates. The issue, we know where the problem is coming from, everybody knows. It is marketers and the problem we are having is that NNPC imports over 90 percent of the petroleum product in Nigeria. So if there is scarcity, it is NNPC that needs to be blamed. The marketers have said that these of this, this importation, very central back also do the by making sure that dollars are make available to us. Give us a license to import most of these products instead of depending on NNPC. If anything happens to the NNPC importation or the value chain within the oil sector, definitely it affects us and that is a, don't forget this is also Christmas period. It's always come at this point in time. But the most important aspect is that we should be looking at why our refineries are not working. Despite all the promises made in 2020 that we are going to revive the refineries and build more, not a single refinery have been built. I think that area is where there is a difference. In case they are interested, we should be looking at how the money that was pumped into reviving our refineries we have spent. That I just run in after I'm just in shadows. To me, it doesn't make any sense. If they like, let them give us to work from now to 20 years. That's what will happen. They have no capacity to be able to make sure that this scarcity is redressed. We are praying that Dangute Petroleum will come on stream and we start pumping fuel in Nigeria. That in itself has the challenges of monopoly. That means that when Dangute sneezes, all of us will catch cold. Quite interesting analogy right there. The leadership, away from that, the leadership talks about the issue of vat and of course state policing, the decentralizing powers to the unit. That's according to the demand or appeal made by the Kaduna State, you know, Governor Nasser Eroufai, asking that the National Assembly should consider, you know, moving vats from the exclusive list. Right. Don't you think that we're ready? This is this particular issue. It's like a broken record. Yes, it is. Don't forget that we already won some cases in court over the issue of exclusivity of vats and he won at a high court. I know that some state like get the girls join that suit. I don't know where that suit is. I said whether I caught up with them or Supreme Court. And I think they were asked to maintain status group and we're waiting for the judgment. It has been said time and time and number that the issue of vats should be a bit decentralized. The way I'm managing the government is saying about it and collecting tax exclusively on certain issues and certain products does not give room for the kind of system that we're supposed to have. You come to Lagos, you collect almost 60 to 70% of vats from Lagos. Are you not distributed among 35 other states and even states that are not, you collect alcoholic vats from states like Lagos, Reapers and other states that allow alcohol and the states that refuse and say that they don't, especially in the North, that refuse alcohol that whenever they see vehicles moving with beer into the North, they arrest those vehicles, break the bottles, damage everything. They end up also collecting vats from those alcoholic products to me. It doesn't make any sense. So the case is already in court and I hope that the Supreme Court should as quickly as possible be able to give a judgment on that so that we can have some level of, I don't know how to put it, so that we can have some kind of a judgment that we stand the test of time. We are still able to collect the vats and if they have to remit to the federal government, they remit certain percentage to federal government. The way it is, it is not looking good and you know that most of the states that are really struggling, based on the fact that they are not making enough from the IGR, even the oil that they depend on going to Abuja every month to collect returns is not looking good. We are not exporting as much as we are. The pipelines are being vandalized on a daily basis. We are using at least about 100,000 paris of crude oil to oil tap every day. Those are areas that the federal government will be looking at and trying to see how to nick that in the post so that we can be able to make more from sales of oil and other products that we should be looking at, we are looking at talking about the culture, we are looking at other minerals and the rest of them. But the issue about as it is, is multi-tied to the federal government and that is also what we are talking about and location, where the federal government has about 51% and in living about, increased about maybe about 40 or so percent to 36th and FCT. That in itself is not what in food to federalism. There is no way the Niger system can be able to survive on that and that is why you see that the government is not looking at the local government in Nigeria. All right Chris, thank you very much Abto. We have some more time, was about to round it off. But let's look at a few more stories. I mean, the situation in the PDP is really, really a serious one. The drama between what we hear is Okowa and Wike avoiding themselves in the Makode airport, where they both went to campaign. The nation puts it this way on its front page. PDP crisis, Wike Okowa, Ottoman airport drama. I've read a bit of that story and it seems that the gentlemen were in the airport at the same time. Wike was going there to commission some projects, I think, for the better state governor who is a part of the G5 group of governors and Okowa was there as part of the PDP campaign trail. These are both members of the same party, history well documented. It's reported that Ifai Okowa reportedly avoided Wike at the airport in Makode, the Benway state capital. The PDP drama is going to new heights. This is just one of the scenarios that we've been seeing. Your thoughts on what's been playing out so far? I believe we tend to sort it out. It's politics. One day is two not a day when it comes to politics and it's, you'll be shocked that we didn't inform us, you'll be surprised by what we have. Wike have said that it's not PDP. I don't know the issue with that thing. That his only issue is the national chairman of the party and that he's going to converse for the PDP but he's silent on who to vote for, doing the presidential election. So he's passionate for directing on that. And let's say that I have the answer. What happened in Makode in 60 parts of politics, as I said, Okowa was his name. Governor Tom was at the airport to receive Wike and Okowa landed, and the metric Okowa, they spoke and Niku landed and they drove off. They didn't wait for Niku to land. Niku landed and they moved to their campaign. But to me, this is just because I'm tuned from the PDP and I hope that they can see we have barely less than 80 days to the presidential election and the earlier they put their house together, they put their house together. The better for them. I've always said that APC is more vulnerable than it was in 2050. And if PDP or people part three were able to put their house together Chris, I've been told that we have to go but just quickly and in a second, it has to do with COVID-19 and the fact that the federal government has cancelled all the travel guidelines, no max wearing. That's on the daily trust by the way. Do you think that what's done with COVID, COVID has disappeared globally? I wonder why this is taking too long. Let's say I've traveled to several parts of Europe in the past few months and the issue of COVID is a long term issue. They don't ask you to put on mask, you enter a airplane, or wash your hands, and you don't do that. It's just one country, not one country. One or two other countries have been to the past few months. It's Nigeria that will still try to do if you get into there, but you see somebody setting a no-smacks of $109 and selling to you at $500 just before you enter and rest of them. But it's good that this in itself will boost tourism and the vibration industry that is particularly on its near. So there's no big deal with it. I don't think that COVID is long gone. It's only in China that they are having issues. And you see the protests going on in China where they are even trying to put on some restrictions. People are very mentally protesting against it. So it's a welcome development that is up at you. All right, Chris, thank you so much for your time. And we look forward to having you again next week. And of course, I wish you a fantastic day. Thank you very much and have a nice day ahead. All right, that's about what you can take with that segment on the breakfast. That's still ahead. We'll be looking, of course, at Google who has released the list of most secure words on the search engine in Nigeria and around the world. It's quite interesting findings. We'll have someone from Google West Africa on the program to talk about it with us in a few seconds. Stay with us.


Today, I fought three of my friends in a Minecraft manhunt. I've done one V1 and a two V1 already, and those were fairly simple, so I thought this would be two, but I wish I could explain just how wrong I was. It was super hard and intense, so if you ended up liking this video, please consider subscribing. Since I actually put a lot of effort into these videos, and only a small percentage of the people watching are actually subscribed and also, uh, uh, no, I'm not trying to copy dreams, so please don't get mad at me. Enjoy. Bum bum on the tree, bap bap bap bap, I'm on a tree, bum bum bap bap, I'm on a tree, bap bap bap bap.   Bap bap bap bap bap bap bap bap bap bap bap bap bap bap bap. What are you doing? I'm on a tree, and I'm gaming. Stop that now. He's going, he's going, he's going, he's going, he's going, he's going. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. What's the plan? Well, I want to know that.  Oh, is the plan that a wavy falls back? Yeah, that's the whole plan. That's the entire plan. Yeah, it's just that's it. That's the guaranteed way to win a wavy fall back. Well, 100% win if that happens. Yep. Evie's chasing. OK. A wavy come here, a wavy come here. I found a way into the place. Hold on, I'm getting needed materials first. OK, I'm going into the place that has the thing. OK, did you just fall? Oh, OK, never mind. I want more talkies. Hold on. I'm throwing. I'm throwing. Good. I'm actually choking. Holy. Oh, birds getting stoned. Age. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. OK, I got it. I'm so nervous. I'm so there's three people. I were you. I watched my back. I don't. Why am I watching my back? I mean, it's smart. It's smart, but why do I need to? Just giving you some some tips. Thank you. Yeah, exactly. Well, I appreciate the tips. No matter how scary they may they may seem. I appreciate them. Wavy, I'm using X right now. Yeah, I got here using X, right? I got just play. You got to try it out. No, not iron. Who knows?  There's no way it can be iron. You're lying.  You could have found it in a chest. Yeah. Oh, I'm so nervous. Three is like going to be very difficult. Three what? There's only one way. Oavy has iron. Oh, no. She doesn't. What would give you that? Yeah. I don't. I think I'm just yeah. I'm not sure if I'm okay actually. I think I'm seeing things. I think so too man. Or are you? Yeah, I am. I'm seeing things. Nice. Ooh. Oh, no, it's night and it's raining. Ah That's fun. No, that's like not fun Well, it is fun though And now I got gifted That's No, don't kill my dog. That's my dog We're actually gonna murder it in the most gruesome way.  So I just burn slowly.  Oh, I can go get your stuff then Yeah, you can try. Oh that my pizza.  I died to a spider Awkward out Okay, I put the rest in there.  All right. Now's the time for action Now's the time for me to do what I need to do All your muffin heads are dead.  I think I already did. No, don't no, my dog's alive.   He's just standing there.  Could I like tip you guys off to like side with me? Yeah, sure. All right, perfect. So Oh, wait, that's evie. That is an evie. That is a that is a evie noises.  No, I think I'm good Oh, you don't like your dog dying like that. Yeah I think I think I'm good No one fear. I have arrived.  No, god dang it I see I'm a good teammate Even made it all the way back relatively quickly, which makes me think that you guys have a bed Bird I threw you one of these Thank you Do you guys like find a village or something? Yeah I mean, no, it's kind of weird that we got a choir of hardware before getting anything else, right? True.  Of course Everyone has Everyone's had that dream Oh, it's like pitch black. What the heck? I thought it was night already. It was day Yeah, oh my goodness.  What are my whereabouts?  I have no food All that is perfect for me No, you can't tell what I'm saying. It's code Nom nom's is obviously code for food. Do you have any nom nom's not you can't tell that you can't tell that We're going into savannah Thank you I'm trying to find more Some nom nom's Finally It's been what like At least 15 minutes Nice I know You know Well, it is another dungeon. Oh my gonna stop finding good stuff. Okay, that's bird Kyro is Kyro is currently uh occupied right now you can talk to him again later I don't know why you're in the same cave I am not I saw you on chef. I saw you on chef. I saw you on chef. I'm not in the same cave I saw you on chef.  I'm above I saw you on chef. Can I throw this and you make it hot? I'm throwing it. Oh, you're low. You're low.  I have a bed set that I mean I don't of course you have a bed set. Okay. Good to know I knew it. I knew you did because you got back too fast, but Oh my goodness.   I've never done that Evie no I broke my bed Is that what I think it is? Yes Oh my goodness. Yes Don't need you. I don't need you. I don't need you. I feel message wrong L Wait, no, I need sticks. What the heck? What am I doing? I just threw sticks out of my inventory.   This is kind of kind of not pog champ for you I have a question. No, I he found us. No, what's your question?   Click the subscribe button right now. You better do it. Yeah, come on. No I'm gonna get oh no. I'm about to get kicked for fly. Ah Lag you to jerald jeffrey Gerald jeffrey is that their name?   I've I've this is a triple ooh moment There's not one not two but three a huge ooh Then I have Gapples three gapples I wish Check it a music disc.  Do it if you're cool. No, you just want me to waste time. I know your tricks and traps and nicks and naps Do you do it?  No, I didn't find a lava pool It's insane. This is insane Did you find more diamonds? more diamonds I feel like you found more diamonds. I feel like that's what you're That just be cringe Yeah, I agree. Ooh big ooh boys big ooh What did you find me?  After how many years if I found you I'd be at your lava pool How'd bird how how'd bird get it at like the same exact time that I did? I found two lava pools right next to you Oh, well, so did I that's why I said triple ooh. I'm not going to tell you what the third who was 30 was the village right next to you. No, you go. There wasn't a village So no, there wasn't a desert temple All right, we've made it to the nether boys That's a lie About time honestly. Yeah, honestly. I it took me 10 years to find that lava pool Okay, I'm not even I'm not even ashamed because it wasn't even my fault. There just wasn't a lava pool Oh, there's a mosquito. There's a mosquito. Yeah, I'm not even bullshitting right now. Are you kidding? I'm not even kidding. I did you find more Did you find more I swear you found more diamonds Oh my god, stop using x-ray stop using x-ray. Yeah, honestly stop hacking. What are you doing?  Who's bro bro mama? Bro mama I'm sorry that was horrible. Yeah, I was Please die and man. I'm so we can work. So like are you guys gonna come say hi because I want friends. Yeah, I will I've been running for so freaking long. I won't say hi in full diamond You don't have full diamond Yeah, there is no guys does he have full or you are obviously going to say yes to scare me Yeah, he has it.  That's what's funny about it.  I don't know how it got in but it did Eat it Do you just say feed it It's oh eat it. Oh, I'm not gonna do that if you want me to feed it. I think it's doing that itself I'm lagging and there's oh, I just oh, no Why did that have to happen? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, no. Why did that happen?   We know it's okay.   Why am I this dumb? Why are you this dumb? What can help me to be this actually a great question? We know You don't need to go deeper. Yeah, I'd actually prefer if you went, you know, the the opposite direction You know like the not deep Undeep, I think it's called in some places Chiro's literally using wood and seeing he literally used wood We can see your wood chiro Welcome back Nice. Okay, let's just follow. Let's follow the drill. Okay You weren't gone for super long. Why what were you doing? I Kind of ran out of data Oh, you're getting a new data plan just for me Yeah, I believe it or not. It might run out again, but now I use it. I hold my hands so EV you shouldn't have I'm going to cry myself to sleep at night thinking of you Wait cry.  I love you. I love you so much. I love this guy so much Well, that's the whole point for the one hunting not you you don't need to know where we are This isn't hide-and-seek. Give us your location. It is hide-and-seek Chiro, I'm serious. I love seeking and hiding. I'm not dropping my cords in chat Bro I don't need to do you're in the nether. What we're what are we supposed to do? Are we supposed to guess and run around? Nope? I don't need to drop my cords You need to drop your cords. We're supposed to be able to track you. No, I know you don't understand what I mean now I know you don't understand what I mean now, but you don't need to drop. I don't need to drop my cords Guys, do you know where he is?  What are we supposed to do?  Okay No, I don't I don't need to put my cords in chat.  Ask your teammate Ask your teammate I'm literally gonna leave. I'm not even kidding.    I'm murdering her I literally can't use my shield. Yeah, because I disabled it Away be your be your cords I'm not in the nether Thank you. Where'd you go? Where the heck did you go? Oh Oh my goodness. Drop your cords in chat.  How's the end of the upper world? Already screw it. I'm making you for real. Where did she go?  I need his cords Uh, just in the overworld in the ocean right next to it. Oh, we have dolphin. Yes He's right. He's right. Get in the boat. Okay. There we go.  What's the cords? I need the cords I'm I'm lmaoing right now. What did he just negative 500 negative 2? Where'd he go? Where'd he go? Where'd he go? Where'd he go? Where'd he go? Where? I'm far Dolphin, please dolphin, please. Yes. He's so low. He's so low. He's so low. Go up there. Go up there. He's gapling bird get it Hidden twice with an axe.   You can have it if you want. Sure. Yes, please weakness weakness Your axe does no damage. Oh my goodness Yes, come back here bird. Come here bird Keep running keep running Come here. I can keep it. I can Oh, baby. Come here. Oh, baby. Come here. Oh, baby. Come here. Oh my god. Oh my god. Go Come here. Okay, so they can't hit us. I'm full health. I'm waiting for the potion effect to wear out Okay, we can stop them from mine. Okay, I have to put zero seconds left Hey, Kara. Hey, what's up? Hello, how are you? Oh, there's two skeletons This is now turned into a four of you on There's so many all of the monsters are after me What the heck? Good They see me first Guys, what's your course? Oh my god. How far am I? Uh negative 395 negative 3,240 Julie, where were you telling us where he was? Hmm Why wasn't there no way be telling us where you were? Yeah, I don't know. She was literally just like not even talking I was right there and she was she was just saying absolutely nothing Oh, do you not have one? Oh, I thought you had one. Yeah, you don't get diamonds from villages You do actually Yeah, but like in blacksmiths, which are Listen, okay, there's just there's no way that you have full diamonds. I'm not buying it. I call baloney I really want him to see you now. I call baloney I can't wait. Oh bird. Are you still telling me? I'll take that as a yes Oh my question literally just got answered perfectly Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. I love how you're just humming Peaceful humming Leave me alone.


A little man definitely getting used to having his brother home. So it's definitely been a challenge, but it's definitely been great. Appreciate you. Okay, so what did you bring the guy like to make some new kind of next-level award to bring it up for you? I want to say, necessarily, it's a challenge. It just makes the game plan. You have to know a little bit more of the details of what they like when he comes into the game. Where he's lined up at, what position he's playing, and what they like to do when he's at that type of position. But I wouldn't say it's a challenge. You've got to know where he's at. And as long as we do that, we understand our keys, we take care of the ball game. Definitely, as we've seen a couple of weeks ago when he broke the record, that guy was on fire. I think he had, well, one or two incompletions to the whole game, and you see how deadly that can be. So it's going to be definitely key for us to make sure he's moving a lot in the backfield, not letting him sit there and just straight us apart. So it's going to be key for us up front to make sure we put the pressure on him and light up the low for our DBs. Oh, definitely. Oh, yeah, we always look forward to it. Our goal, you know, to stop teams from scoring and keep them out the end zone. And, you know, they can get in the end zone.  As long as we do that, man, it should be a good game for us. Oh, definitely. Running by him is not the goal this week.  You kind of want him to get out the pocket and start running around. You chase him down. He's the older guy. I don't want to say he's slow, but he's not a guy with wills. So you kind of want to get him out the pocket and move around and let our guy chase him down a little bit. As long as we can get him moving around and not sitting there, sitting in the pocket, baking a cake and sitting back there, you know, ripping us apart. Our goal is to get him out the pocket, getting in the pocket as much as we can. Ball stroke. He's a short guy back there. So we want his linemen in his lap and our hands up in the air as much as we can to start deflecting balls. Oh, it's going to be huge. He's a talented, shifty guy. Light the outside edges. We got to make sure we set those edges. Right there, force him to go downhill and let our guys in the inside basically play ball. And as long as we continue to do that, we keep him in check. But that's a guy that uses him all kind of way to flex him out, bring him back in motions, hit him with screens.  It's going to be key for us to make sure, like I say, same with Tyson. Understand where he's at. Understand what they're going to like to do in certain sets. And if you understand the way the saints play, it shouldn't be too hard of a bargain for us.


So hello everybody, welcome to this Wikimedia session about alternative text to images as co-authors with structured data and commands. I'm Mathieu Lovatov-Sturmfgunz. So you can find me online at CycosLive within our Wikimedia projects and have me as a member of the Wikimedia Accessibility User Group. By the hand of this session, hopefully you will be able to understand what we are talking about here, why it matters and how to make things go forward. So first, some context to better understand why it doesn't matter. So within our movement we have a vision which is that every single person and health should have access to the sum of all knowledge. And into a narrow focus we have the 2030 strategy which states that we want people which were left out by structures of power and privilege that lead them to a situation which is better from a knowledge equity perspective and in the same time to make our community more diverse and break down social, political and technical barriers that prevent people to access and contribute to our projects. So what is textual alternative? We have the definition here given by W3C in its accessibility guideline which states a lot of things but I just will focus here on the fact that it should serve the same purpose as a visual or auditory content but provided as text. So even if we are more focused here on images you can keep in mind that it also applies to videos and also to audio content. So we also have to better understand and at least highlight what is mean, what will mean to be blind or visually impaired. For that I took here a part of the definition given by the National Federation of the Blind which is a MAMIUKAN association which highlights the fact that it's about people using alternative methods to access and manipulate information in our case. And we also have the World Health Organization which is giving us some statistics like there are more than 2 billion people who have knee or distance vision impairments more than 100 million people with low vision and more than 40 million blind people. So that makes a lot of people for who we need to be sure that we provide alternative methods to access the knowledge we are providing to the world. Just a little focus on the Wikimedia Accessibility User Group We were born into May during the last hackathon we already exchanged more than 100, 1000 messages within our telegram group where we are more than 50 people we were able to identify 8 main scopes and more than exactly 6 topics on which we are currently highlighting including this very one we are talking about right now and to better grab what we are talking about we can make a little experiment I will read out loud here two descriptions of two different images you can close your eyes if you want to extend the experience so the first states O'Malley 34794 Czech McCoy, Istanbul, Turkey you will pattern my pronunciation especially about locations it's not something that is always easy to come with and it's another possible accessibility issue that we won't deal with today but it's still interesting and the second description is a village girl Palengan, Kurdistan, Iran at the beginning of spring Kurdish people are coming to their customs and culture celebrate a celebration called Nourouz or came in fire Nourouz and Kurdish clothes are symbols of Kurdish culture and Tadar has two images that were just described if you tell me that you were expecting a butterfly and for the first one I will be very surprised and the second one came with a description which is already far better but still we are missing a lot of details like the girl is holding a flare she has a lot of color in her clothes she has some specific hat I don't know the name we see that there are people in the background we have specific architecture and we have some background with a landscape maybe it's maintained I'm not sure but it's a lot of details that are not given within the description that we just saw and that can be fine in certain contexts it's a point where we can state that we don't necessarily provide the same alternative text for the same picture in all contexts but we always should have at least one default description to which we can fall back and that is not the case today so by the way the second picture was the winner had the third place of the 2019 picture of the year so it's a picture that received a lot of broadcast and well many people were able to access it and still we don't have the most great description for it so what can we do to improve these current situations well it will be fine maybe to have a board of statistics about description how many images the turn have one what maybe has assessment of a quality if they are some so if something exists today I'm not aware of that but we know we can maybe improve states of quality structure data and commands that is data that has stored some wiki base that's something that she's already integrated within wiki commands but which is still often empty we can develop partnerships to try to improve these situations we might maybe even use some artificial intelligence to leverage an existing description more generally we can have some structural process that can achieve for which we could achieve better things but for that I will pass now to Kasten Kasten Hein is a documentary filmmaker writer and photographer he worked with blind people on photo projects since 2011 and see wikipedia as embodying the good side of the internet so in the group of blind and seated people in our photo studio we have made some incredible stories the most spectacular one is blind people who are constantly dealing with image descriptions developing image comprehension and image knowledge that surpasses the many sighted people they are proving and developing convention their jobs as blind museum reporters and the work is blind photographers the single image description has not much impact but when image descriptions are on the present like every image that is around is described the situation changes completely and blind people get access to photography they get access or re-access to the visible world imagine an internet with all images described by casually hearing or reading all texts blind people can get an intuitive understanding of what is easy we want the internet become accessible for blind people and we want wikipedia to be more front of this enterprise in order to take wikipedia accessible for blind people we want to supply its images with short eye texts and successfully with longer image descriptions I think everybody understands that and everybody agrees with it by providing every picture with adequate eye text it takes a lot of time every eye text needs some minutes of work and so we aren't talking about the uncountable number of images on the internet we are still talking about 70 million images in wikipedia how can we reach that goal first we need many volunteers we need a good environment but I am still new here and I am still understanding the structure and possibilities of wikipedia therefore I am thankful for every help in our specific project journey we reach out to schools, universities, community colleges etc to let the students art, artistry write and edit eye text and inch descriptions for wikipedia in all of these subjects images and descriptions are all on the curriculum anyway and the good pedagogical reasons to rinse to describe an image with a person in mind who is not able to see it makes us look more closely and charge us with our perception that it precisely develops our articulacy and to know that you are helping blind people is an additional incentive our experience with students as image describers are very good you have to tell them to do so but once they are doing it they even like it it's a pleasant task our project is supported by the federal office for accessibility and many organizations for the blind in Germany their goal is the accessibility of the internet and we convince them that wikipedia is the best place to start with we are also supported by some german museums due to the accessibility policy of the european union they are obliged to get the images described and they are interested to get the images presented in wikipedia because the wikipedia articles are often better attended than their own websites even more since wikipedia's info boxes are featured in google search google prioritizes images in wikipedia articles and it prioritizes images with our texts so in terms of search engine organization everybody wants his image to appear further up in google search should attach an alt tag to it finally we are also reaching out to tech companies they are developing image description ai they need what they call ground proof i.e. image descriptions and corrections by people to feed and train their algorithms we glam image description ai is lagging far behind image recognition ai and translation ai but if you want all images to be described we will need automatic descriptions in order to facilitate these corrections it will be necessary to structure ground proof therefore it would be vastly helpful if structured comes this would furthermore allow the combination with translation ai which is also far better developed than image description ai and can also help to develop it further but i understood in sunday's session on structured comments that they are designed to help authors to find fitting images for their articles they may search for pictures by Leonardo da Vinci they will not search for all pictures with smiling ladies in the Mediterranean landscape so currently as i understand there is no need for visual search there is no need for alt text how could we bridge that gap of course if we would need alt text of find the new qualities we would write them in order to make Wikipedia accessible for blind people we need very minor volunteers to write alt text and image descriptions how could that be organized two we suggest an accessibility editorial three we have to store alt and image descriptions for blind people in wiki comments which is not the case yet structured data and structured comments should get every support available in my point of view so now we are nearly done and i have to announce our unconference that is taking place in a minute in the rainbow in building 6 floor 5 that's what i had to say so can you subject Matthew ok thank you can i also show my i don't know if the slide is still being shown yes great so i wanted to add some thanks first especially to the wiki media staff that make all that possible because of the wiki media accessibility user group so wiki media community at large i wanted to thank you for your attention and wanted to make you further aware that you can join us on our telegram group if you want to discuss on the long run i would like you maybe try to play with some room there is a random media link on comments try to click a few times in that and look at the descriptions that may be fun and maybe you could improve the descriptions where they have room for that and finally has so we are going into an unconference just after that it will be in the building 6 floor 5 and we still have one yes i guess so here is a credits for the pictures that were used and not yet credited and if you have an equation let's see 30 seconds left so if you have an equation i invite you to join us into an unconference thank you very much


All right, it is five o'clock. I will call the Shabuigan Transit Commission to order. For those present, would you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance? 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. All right, so I'll call the roll. Alder Sorensen is here. Alder Trey Mitchell. Present. Dean Decker. Here, Ryan. All right, Mike. Chief Domigowski. Chad. Right here, Charles Windsor. All right, election of officers. How should we do this? So we need new chair and new vice chair. Yeah, that's correct. With former Alder Wolf now becoming city administrator that left the vacancy for the Transit Commission chair position. You currently hold the vice chair position, correct? Okay, so I think you can just open up the nominations for election of officers. And if you get nominated for the chair position, then they would backfill, or you could backfill for the vice chair. Sure, sounds fine. I'll open up nominations. Any nominations for chair? Chad Palacek. I'll nominate Ryan Sorensen. Okay, I'll second that. All right, there's been a motion and second to nominate myself. I'll accept. Any other nominations? All right. There's been a motion to close the nominations and cast unanimous ballot. Is there a second? Second. I need a discussion. All those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Aye. Chair votes aye. Thank you, everybody. I'd like to open up nominations for vice chair. Chad Palacek. Dean, do you accept? I'll accept. All right, and then there's been a second by Mike. Any other nominations for vice chair? Any other nominations? All right, there's been a motion to cast unanimous ballot for Dean Decker for vice chair. Is there a second? Second. Second. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor of casting unanimous ballot for Dean Decker for vice chair, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. That's approved. All right, congratulations. Moving along. Minutes, June 30th. That was a while ago. All those in favor of approving, or is there a motion to approve the minutes for our previous meeting? Motion by Chad. Is there a second? Second by Mike. Any further discussion on the minutes? Seeing none. All those in favor of approving the minutes, please state aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. The minutes are approved. All right, moving along. Public hearing for fair changes for shoreline metro specialized transit services. Director Derrick. Thank you. Today we are holding a public hearing for proposed fair changes to specialized transit services provided by Metro Connection. Standard fairs being proposed, which would decrease the current ADA pair transit fare from $3.50 per trip to $3 per trip and increase the current county elderly and disabled program fare from $2.50 per trip to $3 per trip. If you wanna just go through each one of the bullets and the 3.1 through 3.5, Ryan. Yeah, sure. That works for you. So 3.1 is verification of compliance for the public hearing. Just wanna make everybody aware here that we did post notices on each of our revenue service vehicles, both fixed route and paired transit buses. These have been out for past the 30 day period. I believe both of them are encroaching on 30, 40 days, excuse me. An ad was placed in the Sheboygan Press. The ad was placed on Saturday, August 22nd, excuse me. So one month ago today. And then we did have some changes to the room. So additional notices were published on the entrances to both conference room 106 on the first floor and conference room 305 here as well. So we did meet the compliancy on the public hearing notices. 3.02, I don't know, doesn't seem like anybody's here for public input. So I'm not sure how much you'd want me to go through this. It is pretty straightforward, cut and dry on the fair increases. Basically what we wanted to do was just create one fair that was consistent across the board. As my IFC states, it's more or less just an opportunity to streamline this for our customers, make it consistent. The county is gonna plan on taking up the same issue at their October Transportation Coordinating Committee meeting. So upon approval at that meeting, this would go into effect and upon your approval here, it would go into effect on January 1st of 2021. We did receive some public comments ahead of the meeting. I'm not gonna go through those as they were supplied to you guys in advance. If you have any questions on any of the public comments or on the proposed fair changes, I guess I would take them now. Any comments or questions, Mike? Sure. The question by Mayor van der Steen was to address the letter that came in from our home Christian ministries talking about the $17 agency fair. The agency fair, first off, I'll just say that this location is on Usberg and this location is serviced through the county's transportation program, currently known as the $2.50 fair. The $17 that is being talked about is charged to social service agencies that receive funding through different state or federal programs that also do include transportation services. The reason why we have an agency fair in place is so that agencies that are already receiving transportation aids as part of the benefits that they're distributing to their clients, they aren't able to double dip and further subsidize those by taking advantage of our per trip out of pocket fair. The $2.50 and $3.50 rates are meant for customers that are paying for their trips out of pocket, not being subsidized by other agencies. This is the basis as to why we have the agency fair in place for almost 10 years now. The $17 does not represent the entire true cost of the fair. It is really recouping almost 75% of the fair cost associated with that. We've tried to keep that about 75% recoup over the years and it might increase here in the near future, but as of right now, that's what the agency fair represents. Thanks. Any other questions? Anyone else wishing to speak for the public hearing? Anyone else wishing to speak for the public hearing? Anyone else wishing to speak for the public hearing? Seeing none, is there a motion to close the public hearing? Motion to close public hearing. Motion by Dean, second by Mike. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of closing public hearing, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Aye. Chair votes aye. The public hearing is concluded. Moving along, action on public hearing item proposed fair changes for Metro Connection. Any other additional comment, Derek, on this or? No, just that I'd be seeking approval, again, to adjust the ADA Pair Transit Fair. That's really the one that the Transit Commission has control over. Again, the county will take a separate motion on their fair here in October. And again, this would be for January 1st of 2021. All right, motion to approve the fair change. Motion by Dean, second by Chet. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. 4.2, approve the Transit and Parking second quarter operating statistic report. Derek. All right, thank you, Mr. Chair. No surprise here on the second quarter reports here for Transit and Parking, as was forecasted already back in our June meeting, we were gonna be significantly down in not only revenues, but also ridership revenues basically are down, obviously, because we haven't charged fares in April, May or June. Fairs came back online in early July and ridership had been down significantly during that period as well. Slowly coming back now as school kids are back in session and more and more people are traveling, but we still are significantly hindered by the pandemic, both in revenues and in ridership. You will see on the fixture outside, most notably, revenue trips were 6.05 trips per revenue hour. We've had a significant decrease in our productivity from last year and that continues as the pandemic lingers. Last year we did have almost a record high as far as ridership goes over the last 20 years. So it's no surprise that our numbers are gonna be very, very much down. Metro connection also substantially down. Ridership down about 39% with revenue down about 44% for the year. Again, just looking at the second quarter alone, we had significant decreases in ridership over last year, second quarter, and productivity continues to be significantly down as well. Can I ask a question? Yeah. So that everybody... I wasn't prepared. Can you address the, so the CARES Act funds will offset the revenue? So I'm guessing you've tracked the people that were on the bus during those months and will you be getting dollar for dollar reimbursement for the revenue losses? Yeah. So in the general sense of how the CARES Act funds work, we are able to not only recoup or use CARES Act money towards increased expenses due to, let's say cleaning, equipment, personnel, things like that, but we're also able to recoup our loss and revenues as well. I just worked on this calculator for 2020 and a proposed calculator for 2021 on how much CARES Act money will be infused over the next couple of years. It's a rather complicated calculator, if I might say, but it looks like for 2020, we'd be using about a million to a million two and next year about the same range, maybe a little bit less our revenues or forecast would be a little bit better. But either way, we're looking at a million dollars this year and next year to offset our losses and revenues and our increase in, but there's a lot more to it. The funding is a lot better through CARES Act as it's 100% funded over our traditional federal and state dollars. So we're trying to maximize the amount of money that we can use through CARES Act and then also how much money we can save the city as far as their portion of the tax levy in 2020 and 2021. So I'll be working with city administrator Wolf and his finance department later this week to talk about those numbers. All right. Is there a motion to accept the report? I do have the parking numbers yet. If I just might add in there, again, parking numbers, let me see here. Yeah, they're significantly down. Again, we never stopped charging parking rates simply because it was be too difficult to not enforce and also get the word out on it. But we've had significant decreases but we are seeing people come back. Parking permits are growing. We're changing over permits this quarter as a matter of fact but revenue continues to lag. Again, we're gonna be looking at some significant changes or maybe increases to what we've known as the assessment over the last couple of years. Assessment numbers for this year and next year could look very much similar to what they were in 2019. So we'll continue to monitor that but again, revenue is significantly down. Any questions on the quarter report? It says that the parking utility revenue was down slightly in the quarter over the same period in 2019 and the next sentence says overall revenue is up 21.4%. Did you highlight this and or did I? I have a highlighted copy. Okay, I have to look at that. I just realized that at this point but our revenue was significantly up in the first quarter and we did have revenue in the second quarter but I think a lot of what happened was there was a lot of revenue that was turned back or that was refunded because of people turning in their parking permits. So it is possible. Our lag is gonna be in this next quarter as far as where parking numbers are gonna be. So I can follow up and just verify that numbers, I can tell you the first sentence is absolutely correct. I can tell you, I'll look up the second number or the second sentence in that first line just to make sure that that's accurate. Are there comments or any motions to accept the report? Motion in second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please stay die. Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. 4.3 2020 Community Block Grant Agreement. Derek. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, a matter of formality here. This is the latest CDBG application agreement. I will close that into your packet for review today. Again, our amount that we applied for and were granted $42,493. The agreement is to accept those funds as part of our award for that grant. And I do have copies here today that would be signed by the chair and then also allowing me to sign as a witness. Any further discussion or motion to approve? Motion to approve. Second. Motion in second. Any further discussion?  Aye. Chair votes aye. That's approved. 4.4 Public Transit Agency Safety Report. All right, thank you again, Mr. Chair. This is gonna take a little bit of time to go through.  But the document in front of you is our Public Transit Agency Safety Plan. As I put in the background analysis, this is required of all public transit systems, surface transportation systems here going forward. The original requirement was middle of this year but due to COVID, FTA has not been requiring this in place until the beginning of next year. So the document in front of you has been put together by staff of Baylake Regional Planning Commission and staff within my office. We do have Jeff Agio-Io online from Baylake Regional Planning Commission whose staff work significantly and tirelessly on this document. I must give them a shout out and say what a great attractive document it is. Looks really, really put together. And I wanted to say thank you guys for that. The document really is a formality. A lot of what is contained in the document that is required of Shoreline Metro and the State of Sheboygan are things that we've been doing all along. Shoreline Metro has been, at least over the last eight years since I've been here, one of the safest transit systems in the entire state of Wisconsin. I don't wanna jinx that today, but I wanna elaborate on the fact that a lot of the details that are contained in this document are things that we've already been doing. We've embedded a safety culture in our organization. We've created a safety supervisor position and I'll introduce Jack here in a second. And we've also created extensive policy and procedures for our organization. FTA has now required us to formalize that and keep that into a living breathing document that is basically part of our organization in which all team members are required to participate and be active in. So like I said, the document in front of you today contains all the mandatory parts, both moving parts and stationary parts that are required of this plan going forward. At this time, I'd like to just introduce Jeff and allow him to add any additional comments. Don't think we can hear you, Jeff. Jeff, we can't hear you if you are talking. In the meantime, maybe I will just talk about a couple of things here today. This document today is requiring approval by you, the Transit Commission. You are the oversight body for Shore Lane Metro and the operations. The second page really shows a bunch of sign-offs today that and shows you guys as the board of directors. So what you're really authorizing me to do today is to be the accountable executive and sign on the document. There's two key players in this document going forward. Myself, which is known as the accountable executive. I believe I actually have a couple other terms in here as well. And then also there's a safety manager position or a chief safety officer. And I just want to recognize Jack Sawinsky, who is our current safety education and training supervisor. Jack does all of our in-house training of our drivers. He is also the oversight for our safety and our safety programs. So he's a natural fit for this task. Jack started as my original replacement when I was promoted to director by this fine body. And he has really worked up the ranks. He's really dedicated himself to training and safety within our organization. And he embraces this opportunity to continue to lead our organization and the safety culture that we have. So I'm really proud to have Jack on my team and alongside me in going forward with this plan. So, Jeff, are you still muted? Not by choice? Yeah, I was never muted. Can people hear now or not? Yep, hey, we got you. Jeff, why don't you add some comments about? I had to bring some technical support in. I'm a product of the 80s. So I had to bring some technical support in to help out. Yeah, we work pretty diligently with Jack and with Derek on this plan. I think we had several teleconference meetings while we've been working from home. We're back in the office here for about a month or two now, but during the throes of working from home over the summer, had several teleconference meetings with Jack and with Derek to put the plan together. The main body came together fairly quickly. Pendices A through C and the last two appendices G and H came together fairly quickly. I think the most challenging part was D, E, and F in terms of getting those together, but in terms of kind of the log for recording safety incidents and things like that. But I think it came together quite nicely. Chris Garcia, who works with us, who was kind of my understudy transportation planner put this together in InDesign. So I give him a lot of credit for putting that together. I think you've kind of read the document, so I don't know if there are any questions or anything like that. Thanks, Jeff. I'll add additionally that I did provide printed copies for each of you today. Just want to make a note of that in the minutes that it was distributed physically for you guys. This isn't a very important document and our Triennial Review, which was originally scheduled for August of this year, has been pushed out to the first quarter of next year, and they've already indicated that they're gonna take up the public transit agency safety plan. So I just wanna make sure that we're crossing our T's and dot our I's on this as well. So if you have already printed, great. If you haven't, you gotta copy and please keep in your records going forward. So I'll just wrap up. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Otherwise, today the request is the staff recommends the approval of the public transportation agency safety plan for Shoei Metro place on file. I will additionally add that this document then we'll get forwarded to FTA for their review and concurrence. That review shouldn't take very long, but we should get that back. And once they have a concurrence on it, it will be on record and ready to go. And we can roll out the next steps in it. So we're ready for January one implementation. All right. Is the motion to accept? Motion second. Second. There's a motion second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. That's approved. Motion point five, 2020 transit asset management plan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm gonna defer to Jeff. I'll let him do the oversight or overview, excuse me, on the TAM plan and giving updates for the 2020 version of the plan. Jeff. Okay, thanks. Is there a way to share the screen at all or do people have copy? Yeah. Yeah, Scott can share the screen. So just give one second here and he's gonna give you permission to do that. Okay, like he already did. He moved things around here. So we have our draft transit asset management plan. I think this is probably the third or fourth, one of these that we've done. Calendar year 2020. Chris Garcia, who works with me, put this together. We have, see our title page. Table content, our transit asset management plan policy is stated in the agency overview where we talk about the fixed wealth buses, paratransit vehicles, sport vehicles, pieces of equipment, then the two facilities, which are the transit garage slash office and the transfer station. We have an introduction to various transit asset management plan elements are discussed here. Various definitions, state of good repairs, standards policy. We have a table that shows Shoreline Metro's asset performance in 2020 in terms of the goal and the actual performance and then useful life benchmark. What we do here, we look at our various assets for vehicles, for example, turning to page seven, we have table two, where we break down the revenue vehicles and then the non-revenue vehicles. We have heavy duty and medium duty buses that are listed in the revenue vehicles and light duty or sport vehicles for non-revenue. So we've set the target for revenue vehicles to be about 35% of revenue vehicles would be allowed to pass beyond useful life. Non-revenue vehicles or sport vehicles would be 0%. I think that this percentage is going to improve over time. If you've looked at some of the recent awards that have been coming out, you have the congestion mitigation air quality program that awarded five buses this year. You've seen the Volkswagen award that came out within the last couple of weeks. This percentage is probably going to go down as we gradually put these plans together over the next few years. So I would expect to see that equipment-wise. Some of our equipment in table three is quite old. A bus wash, a forklift, a waste in the scrubber. It's still physically, according to everything we hear is still performing well, but age-wise it's quite a ways beyond its useful life. And we acknowledged that in the target for equipment. Facility-wise, as I stated, we have two facilities. The administration maintenance and storage facility, otherwise known as the bus garage. It's back to 1975. Useful life for facilities is typically 40 years. We're a bit behind beyond that now. It's also had some issues such as a roof-need replacement, things like that that are being addressed. The scale from one to five, it's considered two or adequate. But, and then the transportation, that was dedicated in 1992. So it's still below the 40 years. On a scale from one to five, it's considered a four in good condition. So we're allowing 50% of facilities past beyond useful life. Do bear in mind that some capital improvements like a roof replacement that's underway right now for the administration maintenance and storage facility is are going to hopefully improve the condition of that particular facility. And there may be other items that are programmed that will improve things as well. And we discussed decision support tools and management approach. In a table here, investment prioritization, plan review. These targets get reported in the National Transit Database that gets reported to the Federal Transit Administration. And we have our conclusion. And the contacts are Derek and myself. The Shuegan Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Technical and Policy Advisory Committees recommended this for approval on September 3rd. The MPO or Metropolitan Planning Organization approval occurred on September 11th. So this is the last approval before this gets sent off to Federal Transit Administration. So that's what I have in terms of the TAM plan. Like I said, this is probably about the third or fourth one we've done. And I would expect particularly for the vehicles to see considerable improvement as buses get replacement buses get programmed over time. Awesome, thanks, Jeff. Derek, do you have anything to add on that one? I do not, Jeff did a great job summarizing that. Is there a motion to accept the plan? Motion and second, any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. All right, 4.6. Yeah, thanks, Jeff. Revised 2021 parking utility budget. Derek? Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to go back to number 4.2 and just clarify the 21.4%. Revenue is actually down 18.3% from 2019. I did not change that number from the first quarter report. So thank you for catching that. Okay, 4.6. Bringing back the 2021 proposed parking utility budget, had an opportunity to meet with city administrator Wolf and his staff last week on preparations of the 2021 budget. What we decided was to go a little bit more conservative on the revenues that were forecasted for 2021 and then also try to more accurately depict the or forecast the assessments for that. So what you are going to see in the attached budget are the highlighted sections, which are the adjustments that were made. Now you're gonna see some for 2020 that were in there. Those are the forecast models for this year, but then also there were changes made to the 2021 requested revenues. And then you're gonna see also a significant jump in some areas for the parking assessment districts of note. And like you just to compare where 2021's assessments are forecasted and compare that with the actuals from 2019. So you can see in pad one, it's going to be in the $80,000 range for that assessment as you continue to move forward into the other assessment areas, riverfront is substantially lower than 2019. You look at riverfront, or sorry, pad four, which is didn't change. And then also south pier, which did not change. And those numbers are gonna be in line. Those didn't change because we don't have collected revenue in those districts. Only pad one and the parking admin have collected fees such as meters and or parking permits. The last note that I wanna make is that parking admin is going to be relying on nearly $42,000 from its fund equity to balance the parking admin part of the budget. The original proposal was about $10,000. So you can see the COVID pandemic has hit the pad admin area in the tune of about 30,000 extra dollars to make that area balance out. So I have presented this. I've worked with again, city administrator Wolf and his staff, and they are in agreement with this revised budget. So I ask staff is today recommending the acceptance of the revised parking budget and allowing that to be used by city administrator Wolf in his executive budget. All right. Any questions for Derek regarding the budget? Sure. Yep. Sure. For those listening, Ted Peleshek had asked if I would touch base on the upcoming parking study that we are going to be doing that's gonna be primarily focused on the assessments, the assessment districts and how parking utility expenses get paid. So Chad's correct. We did hire consultant. It's WGI, they are actually the former walker group and John who we worked with in the past is no longer with the group. So we have a new consultant and she seems very knowledgeable but we decided to go this route and fund an additional parking study to analyze the parking districts and how the parking districts are basically funded both from a revenue standpoint and an assessment standpoint. We've acknowledged over the last couple of years that the parking fund and the way that the assessments are administered may not be in the 21st century and we might need to look at better ways to fund the parking in Sheboygan. I would be the first to tell you that the rates and the fees associated with parking have not increased with inflation over the years. It wasn't about two years ago, we raised the meters from 30 cents to 50 cents. So if that puts any perspective on this, we definitely need to research on how we can maybe run a more sustainable, cost effective parking utility with perhaps not as much reliance on the assessments or expanding assessment boundaries and looking at ways that revenues can work more for businesses and things like that. So it is our goal to work together with the consultant, provide the information, do some comparables and bring back a parking study that we can present to you guys that mostly will be used as an internal document but something that you guys can review and allow us to further research ways that we can be more effective in administering parking services. Any other discussion? Is there a motion to approve the budget? So moved. Motion in second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. That's approved. 4.7 director's report. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I won't go through most all of this. I wanted to provide you guys with a pretty good insight as to what we've been doing since the last opportunity to update you back in June. The COVID-19 pandemic, again, I've talked about the revenue and the ridership part of it but what I really wanna say is it's given us a great opportunity to review a lot of what we've been doing, policies, procedures, how we administer fairs, how we collect revenues, things like that from Jack and Ann that are here today with us to everybody else in my organization including my bus drivers who've been very, very flexible. We've really rolled out some pretty incredible things to say that we're going tokenless on our Pair Transit services. And then after today to say that we've lowered our Pair Transit ADA fair and some of the other things.  So, and also to roll out same day services and things in our Pair Transit, we've been doing a lot of good things that we've been merely talking about for years and finally put into action. So, I think I speak on behalf of my staff and I can say that we are truly excited on the opportunity the pandemic has given us. We're not as thrilled as far as what the pandemic has done but this is a great opportunity for us to kind of change course, do things a little differently and still be as productive if not more productive in the process. Few other items just to touch base on today. Again, I put some ridership stuff in here for you guys to show what we're doing and how we're now tracking it differently using some new technology that we've had. I've touched base on the parking assessments forecast for 2020, Jeff stole my thunder on the Volkswagen but again, I'm really excited about this opportunity. As I've stated in my email that we've, we rewarded more buses than we actually have local funding for. I've provided some additional information to city administrator Wolf and our finance director Marty Helverson. We'll continue to have conversations on whether or not it's appropriate to take advantage of more of those vehicles but we have an awesome opportunity that by 2022, early 2023, we could have 100% of our fixed route fleet within useful life, which is an incredible feat. We have a roof project underway right now. Jeff mentioned that a little bit before. We have two projects. So the first project is the roof itself. The second project is now to replace the decking which was approved last night at the city council meeting to say that we're declaring an emergency on it is an understatement. We actually have the roofers wearing harnesses on top of our roof. That's how dangerous it is. So we definitely appreciate the opportunities and the support locally and federally to make this project happen. But the project too, we're able to use CARES Act funding for. So this will really bring our facility up to way, way, way past par, if you will on this. So we're excited for that project. And then lastly, just wanna say thank you on behalf of everyone at Shorley Metro.  Also a big shout out to our former chair and current city administrator Todd Wolf for his ongoing support and direction. We never had an opportunity to properly recognize Mr. Wolf before he abruptly departed for a better opportunity apparently. But we really appreciate your support, Mr. Wolf, over the last five years or so on the Transit Commission and leading our organization in a better direction. So really wanna appreciate the work that you've done. So thank you, sir. And then lastly, before we end today, city staff has also been tremendously supportive of the department. And again, I'd like to, for the record, thank my staff, everybody on the Transit Commission, everybody in the city of Sheboygan that has helped us out during the pandemic and a shout out to our customers who I'd like to think are the best in the industry. So again, thank you to everybody for your ongoing support and support of myself and entrusting me to run Shorley Metro. Thank you. Awesome. Thanks, Derek. Is there most to accept the veteran director's report? Motion to accept. Is there a second? There's been a motion second. Any further discussion or comments or questions for Derek? Seeing none, all those in favor of accepting the report, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Aye. Chair votes aye. Next meeting, November 17th, seeing that we've exhausted the agenda, is there a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn. All those in favor of adjourning, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Aye. Chair votes aye. We are adjourned at five, 44. Thank you, everybody. Thank you.