Hi everyone, this is Gio. As always, welcome to my channel. Now what I wanted to do is give you guys a little heads up that I'm going to be taking a short break for a couple of weeks. We're in mid-February right now and I'll probably be back at the beginning of March. And basically what I do, if you've been following my work online for a while, you'll know that I refer to these breaks. They may be short, they may be long. This is sort of a shorter one. I refer to these breaks as Bill Hicks breaks because what I end up doing is sort of, I end up watching a lot of Bill Hicks and reading some of the stuff that he's done. I sort of organize things from my end, take a look at what I need to get done and go about sort of grounding myself or preparing myself for my next phase of whatever project it is that I'm working on and this is one of the projects that I'm working on, right? So we'll definitely be back in a couple of weeks beginning of March. As for who Bill Hicks is, just in case you don't know who he is, his profession was basically a stand-up comedian but he was, people consider him to be much more than that and I'm one of those people. He was, I consider him to be one of my greatest teachers that I've ever come across in my life, right? And basically just through his writings and through his stand-up, you know, I never interacted with him. He passed away in 1994, I believe, and he was active for a long time. He was in David Letterman like 11 times and the 12th time they censored him or the 11th time they censored him because corporate media and stuff like this. But basically let me give you sort of a lowdown on who Bill Hicks is and I'll link to an article I put together because every now and then throughout my presence online I do end up taking Bill Hicks breaks and every time I do this I sort of make a little post on my site mentioning that, you know, announcing that I'm taking a Bill Hicks break so I'll provide a link to the last Bill Hicks break that I took and I believe that was in 2013 or so, okay? And there's, you know, a couple of videos, two or three videos on that post and, you know, I have a little write-up introducing who Bill Hicks is and what I want to do is sort of read you a couple of things that I posted on that post on my site, okay, on my blog and on that post there's also a really good article that I came across from the Irish Times that was written in 1997 and I've linked to archive. I think it's not online on the original site anymore but there's a link to it to the archive.org and I've, you know, cut and pasted it on that blog as well so you can read up that write-up, okay? But basically, let me read you the title and the first two intro paragraphs that I wrote on that post and I'm going to read you some quotes from Bill Hicks which should give you an idea of who Bill Hicks is, okay? So the last post I made, I titled it taking a Bill Hicks break, what it means to be free, okay? Every now and then I take a little Bill Hicks break to remind myself of what it means to be free. It's that time again. Just to give you an introduction, one of my personal enlightening moments from Hicks came when I first heard him ask why there was never any positive drug stories on the news. If the news were truly impartial then there would be, there would have to be positive stories but there never is. This took me weeks to digest, okay? And really when I first heard that, I sort of brushed it off and this was years ago, right? Years ago before it became prevalent how information is controlled. And it was obvious back then to those who really looked into it and this is a time before the age of the internet, right? So our sources of information were very limited, okay? So it took me a while to digest this when I first heard that. And let me read you the quote that got me thinking about this, okay? Expose me to this. This is from Bill Hicks, a sane man that he did in 1989. Okay, quote. You know what's wild? You never see a positive drug story on the news, do you? Have you ever seen one? Isn't that weird? Don't you think that's strange? I mean, the news is supposed to be objective. Isn't it supposed to be the news? But every drug story is negative. Well, hold it. I've had some killer times on drugs. I'm not promoting it, but I'm not denying it.  That's from Bill Hicks, sane man, 1989. Now, anybody that's looked into this, you'll know that much of our civilization, our culture, technology, biology, much of who we are can be accredited to people experimenting with consciousness, I guess, okay? From Carl Sagan to Francis Crick to Steve Jobs to much of recent history and all of human history, okay? And Bill Hicks usually, with that little routine that he does, questioning the news, why it's not impartial, why there aren't any positive drug stories on the news.  Now, coding again, Bill Hicks. Today, a young man on acid realized that all matters, merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are all the imaginations of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather. Now, Bill Hicks has a lot of content online, and if you've never been exposed to him, I highly recommend you check him out, really. He would have been, he would have thrived in this age of information, age of technology, right? What I like to do is end with the sort of routine that Bill Hicks usually ended his act with, okay?  But I'll read them to you as well, and then I'll see you guys in the next video. Quote, The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, and it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, hey, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered it, and they come back to us and say, hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride, and we kill those people.  I've got a lot invested in this ride.  Look at my frozen worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This has to be real. It's just a ride, but we always kill the good guys we try and tell us that. Have you ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because it's just a ride, and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings on money. Just a simple choice right now between fear and love.  The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world right now to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which we would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded. And we could explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace.


Greg, what do you got? Yeah, Mark, I think when we talk about bias, let's talk about one of the most famous cases of a missing child in history, Lindy Chamberlain, who had her child taken by Dingo's, and nobody believed her because her affect was off. Let's talk about baselining a person because you can't look at Lindy Chamberlain, you can't look at these people like you look at me or like you look at Chase. We have to pay attention to the person and what they're doing. If you've ever watched Dan Ackroyd, who I think is just phenomenal, he does this guy over and over and over in many cases, that forceful voice with lots of information and too much when he's telling you. He does that all the time. This guy is almost a caricature because he does, he leans on data. The more data he gives you, the more believed he is. It doesn't mean he's hiding something necessarily, but as we listen, anytime we hear him using data, he'll feel comfortable. He'll not adapt. He'll not do a lot of those things. He'll not stammer or stutter. What we will see is change when he runs out of data. So it's interesting to watch that.


Gweithio itwm, dyma'r gweithio. I'm Catherine Meenon, and I'm chair of the German group, so it's nice to be able to introduce a topic that goes way beyond some of the topics we talk about, which are just Germany. So, we're very grateful today that Dr Scholz is with us. Dr Emma Scholz is the acting director of the German Development Institute, and she's been deputy director since 2009. Felly rydw i'r eistedd iawn yn sicrhau chi'n myfnigol, yn rheswm dyddiol Chifenysig ac ynmell魚fau yaynig. Rydw i'n myfnigol i'n gymaint a'r ddaddiol Cynllun Swyb deill. Mae gennym o'r gweithio'r teimlo i'r diolchau o gweld 18 anodol addiad sy'n gweithio'r ddysgu'r ddoddau amgylcheddol ac rhaid i'r hunain gwneud yn ddoddiad. Yn ystod, wrth gweithio o'r reidio hefyd, yn dweud eu dTION sy'n gweithio'r mae'n dweud o ymgyrch o'r RhACKFORD. Dyn ni'n bod ydych chi'n cael ei ffynisiad yr hyn yn ymgyrch? Dweud я am ei bach i gyfroedd yma. Llywodraeth jyfodd ar y teimlo wedi'i gwybod arna mewn o'r inniodol sy'n ceisio i'r ddiolion ni. Cyngorol yw'n rhan o'r ysgol, ar y ddweud yma yn ymgyrch yn ddweud. Mae ydych chi'n ymgweld yw'r ddechrau yn y rhan o'r ysgol a ydych chi'n gŵr ymddiadau ymddiadau er mwyn. Yr 1st, y gŵr yn gyntaf i'r ddweud eich cymryd yn cyfroedd cyfweld cyflodiadu cyngorol rhaid, o'r rheshwyl yn y strategiaeth yw'r cymryd yn cyfrannu'r cyfrannu, ond rhaid i'r cyfrannu yw'r sefydliad yn bwysig ac yn ymgyrchau ydych chi'n gwneud cyfathol. Felly mae'r gyfrannu cyfrannu ac'r byddai yn fwybu yn ymgyrch. Y dyfodol y pethau eisiau, ydych chi'n cael ei pethau cyfrannu? How does it come about? And the one way to explain it is that... there are many supporters of sustainability... in political parties in various sectors of society. And in a way, this support has grown. But, at the same time, Germany is in a situation... where changes towards more sustainability require transformative stress. More radical change than just implementing environmental policies. This tension is expressed in this contradiction between having an ambitious conceptual approach to sustainable development and weak implementation. The third point I would like to address is what is the relevance of sustainable development and the German approach in it. yw'r ysgrifennu sy'n gyffredin yma o eu cynnig i eu maeth europea, ac yn eich syniad o gyfan. Felly, yna y dyfodol fel ymddangos, mae'n gobeithio'n gyffredin yma, yw'r ysgrifennu, yw'r ysgrifennu, yw'n gobeithio ymddangos, yw'r stratega o gyffredin cyfan, ac mae'n gweithio'n ceisio'n ceisio. Felly, yna'r ceisio'n ceisio. Mae'rbod yn ddau nhw ddoddach yn meddwl ystod, fyddai'r ddweud chi'n ddiddordeb, wrth gyd ar y cyhoedd, sy'n ddau'r ddau sydd. Mae'n ddoddach yn ei ddweud ystod o ddadegau ddau siad. Mae yr hyn ar y ddoddach yn gwneud y celf ar gwaith. Mae'n ddoddach yn ddweud ar y ddoddach yna, yn y bedi i ddadegau'r deillig, yn y oniad mewn ar y celf ar y ddoddach, ..y gallwch chi'n rhoi byddwch yn ei wneud yn ei wneud yn bwysig... ..ym yn y gallwch chi'n mynd i'w gwahau allan!  Bydd ydych chi'n fawr i'ch gweld eich strategaeth, ac mae'n ddosio'r fawr i'r ysgolion oedd y parlydeidio yn yr wych. Felly mae'r gweithio chi i ddulliannisol yn ddweud o'r ffordd mewn aws diolch a oson o gyllideb ddifesio'u dysgu wedi'u wych yn cyfnod ysgrifennu ymgyrchu, felly ond sefydli i bobl yn cael ei fath, dwi'n creu ajon aws ymweld â'i bobl yn ugrif yma. If you take Berlin, 18% of the Berlin population live on social transfers. 18% is quite a lot. We know that children of single mothers have the highest risk of living in poverty. What poverty means in Germany, obviously. But the aim there is to achieve or to maintain the situation that poverty rates in Germany are below European average. I don't think that is ambitious. Then gender, for example. The objective is to have 30% female CEOs by 2030, I think. We already have 30.9%. I wouldn't define that indicator as being very ambitious. But the real difficulty we have in Germany is when we look at environmental indicators. You know that we are not missing our CO2 reduction targets. We have increased the share of renewable energies in electricity provision. But the share is not growing quickly enough. We are not good at reducing biodiversity loss. We have too much nitrate in our groundwater. The EU has already criticised us heavily for that. We know it for years and we are not able to change the production patterns which lead to those problems. When you look at emissions, you see also that the Ministry of Transport, for example, is absent from the agenda. We know that transport is creating a third of CO2 emissions. You see that the level of ambition is just like a bottom-up approach within the executive. Those ministries like environment, development and social affairs are more engaged. Those who do not engage themselves are not forced to get engaged. That is also my last sentence on that card to do with the fact that many of you are focusing on Germany. Whether you have heard about the autonomy of ministries in Germany or so, is a very important feature of our public administration in Germany. The co-ordinating power of our Chancellor is not to be compared with the power the Prime Minister has in the UK. The autonomy of the Ministry to define its policies is in a way sacrosanct.  They know the logic of their field best, and that is why they need to have autonomy for making rational and effective policies. But today, the problems we are facing are integrated problems, what we call wicked problems. Most of the problems cannot be solved only by the Finance Ministry or the Economic Ministry or the Environment Ministry. These problems are caused often by actions in another policy area and therefore require integrated approaches. That is what the 2030 agenda is all about. The SDGs are defined as a network of targets. This is not sufficiently reflected by the German Sustainable Development Strategy. That was also the result of the peer review, which was done by a group of international experts headed by Helen Clark. I now focus just on the executive. If the executive is so non-united about this, why did they adopt such a comprehensive approach? At least when you read the introduction to the strategy, you think everything is fine, the Germans will do it. That has to do with the fact that in the public there is considerable support for this comprehensive and ambitious approach. The German negotiation leaders in the process in New York City under the UN were led by the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Development. Two actors have a strong interest in ambitious policies. The rest, they care at a very late stage what it actually meant. They did not need to care very early in the process because they could use their autonomy for just keeping the level of ambition for their areas of interest law. In the society as such, we have many civil society organisations in development and in environment which push very strongly for the agenda. We have newcomers in the field. The social welfare organisations in Germany, this is also an area where non-state actors are very strong. They realized that the 2030 agenda could be an important lobbying framework for them as well because it's a universal agenda, because it's not about developing countries, it's about change everywhere. The social basis which understands the agenda and pushes for it has been broadened. When I entered the Sustainable Development Council in Germany in 2009, it was clearly in the hands of the environmentalists. Sustainability was identified with environmental concerns, not with social concerns. It was definitely, if international, then more with poor countries. This has changed as well. I think that was quite an investment which was necessary for that. It's not like that in other countries like in France, the environmental NGOs, they don't agree with the agenda. They don't think the agenda is a flag which makes sense to a whole. You will find, maybe you invite someone from France to talk about that. You also see some changes because in the private sector we have a split of enterprises which very much have based their business case on maintaining things as they are. The car industry awoke to electrification very recently now because of the diesel scandal. There are many firms which base their business case on sustainability, on technological innovation, on decarbonisation, on rational or efficient resource use, but also in the financial sector. The German Finance Ministry, when we were having the German presidency of the G20, they were still looking at green finance issues with a lot of mistrust. They were not very comfortable with it. But then we had the process in the EU on sustainable finance going, and now the German Finance Ministry has decided to develop a German strategy for sustainable finance, which I think can be a real lever for mainstreaming sustainability issues across the economy in many sectors. I think that is very important, but it doesn't mean that the Ministry of Finance now says that we lift the flag of the 2030 agenda and the SDGs. So that is an important question. Do we make progress in transformation towards sustainability because we lift the SDGs flag up? Or are the SDGs helpful for pushing such processes? So should we invest a lot in that? Or is it more important to focus on specific problems and be aware that problem-solving has to consider the various facets of sustainability, the social, economic, environmental one, and go towards integrated approaches? I think that is something we could discuss, because what you always find in public administration, but also in CSOs, because everybody has to market what he or she is doing, is to go for an identity. Do we get best results if we say we concentrate our efforts on the 2030 agenda, or do we get best results when we focus on the problems as such, identify them, and keep it for the experts to focus on the actual relations to the 2030 agenda? This is something I would like to hear from you too. And the third part, what effect does the 2030 agenda or importance have for the German-European policy and foreign policy? When we had the G20 presidency in 2017, the Germans decided to put the 2030 agenda and the SDGs as overarching goal system on top of their presidency. They weren't so successful at that time to really convince them a finance ministry about it, but in the long term the finance ministry is now changing, as I have just explained. And they used it also for campaigning for their seat in the United Nations Security Council, because they knew or they guessed that developing countries would be sympathetic to a country which said we will put the SDGs and the agenda 2030 at the top of our agenda. It is also, I think, a helpful framework when you want to combat the roots of the crisis of multilateralism we are going through now. These united, fragmented societies certainly are at the core of populist and nationalist my country first political forces, because it's when a sizable share of the population feels forgotten or fears to lose status. We were talking about Germany. In Germany this is the mixture which makes up the rotors of the AFD. Then it's easy for our political forces to mobilize them for my country first policies against multilateral and international cooperation. And I think the 2030 agenda goes against all that. So you could in a way say the 2030 agenda is a transformative agenda, while my country first movements are like a counter transformation movement. So the 2030 agenda offers a framework and a vision to orient international foreign policy, to orient also to guide European policy, but as I said in Germany it is still identified with belonging to development policy and belonging to environmental policy and that makes it difficult for the agenda to develop its full potential, so to say, also in the international relations of Germany. Recently I participated in a consultation on the reflection paper of the EU and what I realized was that people in Germany from the government feel very disappointed about the three scenarios proposed, the three scenarios of the EU reflection paper for how the EU could implement the 2030 agenda. So I fear that there won't be much positive energy for pushing that process forward, so I would be very happy if the Irish government did that. The last point also for discussion, what I would find interesting to hear about you, how do you rate the transformative strength of sustainable development policies versus climate policies. If you look at Fridays for Future, I don't know how strong they are here in Ireland, in Germany the Fridays for Future are developing immense political impact. It's been like 300,000 kids on the street last Friday and I think that this relates to the other question I was making before but I wouldn't say that because they are pressing for climate policy it's a big part of what I would describe as a sustainability policy but it may be interesting to compare these two fields and see how a sustainability informed climate policy would have to look like for achieving most of convergence between these two areas and concepts for the future.


Now we're going to talk about nervous tissue.  And nervous tissue is what sends impulses throughout your body to control your muscles, things like that. So nervous tissue is made up of two types of cells, neurons and neuroglial cells. The neurons are the cells that actually conduct those impulses and send those impulses throughout your body. Nervial cells are the majority of what nervous tissue is made up of, it's about 90% of nervous tissue, and those support the neurons. So we're going to take a look at what a neuron looks like. This is a motor neuron, and we're going to talk about the parts of a motor neuron that you need to know. This part of the motor neuron with the nucleus is the cell body. So the rounded part with the nucleus is the cell body. These projections off of the cell body are called dendrites. This long projection, and it can be very long. Some nerves run the length of your legs, they can be very long. One cell body is an axon, and the axon runs from the cell body to the rest of where your cell is going to, where your neuron is going to conduct its impulse. This at the ends of these projections are called synaptic bulbs. When you learn a little more about how neurons conduct impulses, you'll learn more about the role of the synaptic bulb, but you'll need to know that part of a motor neuron. So those are the parts of a motor neuron.


Hi friends and subscribers, welcome back to my YouTube channel. My name is Daniel Rosal and this channel focuses on life on the ground in Jerusalem and in Israel. A good chunk of my energy over the past few months has gone into moving apartment. This really wasn't how I planned on spending my summer, however like many people who find their renting is their only means of living in a certain locality, moving has become a sort of unwanted fact of my life for pretty much the past decade. Another unwanted fact of life for me has been that visiting Ikea stores has become something of a regular ritual. You know how you make a list of everything you need only to find that you forgot about that one shelving unit you needed in that random corner of your apartment between the fridge and the balcony? This is basically the story of me and Ikea. As is well known, the cost of living in Israel is extremely high. In fact, recent data by the OECD show the prices in Israel were the highest among the organization's member states and a full 38% above the organization's average. This is a really appalling statistic that took me a while to wrap my head around. Not only is Israel effectively as expensive as Switzerland, but Israeli consumers are paying almost 40% more than those in other developed countries just to cover the cost of basic necessities like food, water, and shelter. However, when looking at the cost of living, the actual price of things is only a part of the picture. How far your money goes matters greatly too. This is captured in the idea of purchasing power which is something that the OECD index attempts to account for between countries. Economists frequently try to estimate the cost of living by deciding upon a make-believe basket of goods which are together thought to be representative of your average consumer's purchasing needs. This often makes its way into statistics as the consumer price index or the CPI. To simplify things further, economists have sometimes tried to benchmark the cost of living against pretty universal goods like the cost of a Big Mac and McDonald's. Because falafel is a staple street food throughout the Middle East, a falafel index has also been floated to try to regionalize the benchmarks. Another possible angle of attack is to look at IKEA furniture as one aspect of the cost of living. IKEA stores in 61 countries throughout the globe and many of its furniture parts have the same names in Swedish. Like in Israel, IKEA is pretty much where everybody goes in order to purchase furniture, so it's kind of almost a semi-captive audience. Fortunately for armchair commentators like me, this means that we only need to hop on a computer and change between a few VPN endpoints to get their pricing information in different countries. For the sake of this video, I decided to put together an imaginary list of five items that I might credibly require to furnish a home office. I looked up the prices of these items on the IKEA website on September 14th, 2023 at midday. So my imaginary home office basket is the Milberget office chair, the classic linman table in its 39 inch or 99 centimeter configuration. For olive adjustable table legs, these are commonly sold in combination with linman as the linman olive combination set. For storage, I decided to start to replicate the actual storage system I have in my real home office. This consists of two 226 centimeter ivar modular storage units, as well as six 42 by 50 centimeter shelves in order to give me storage. People are always telling me that my home office is drab and lifeless, so to keep those people happy, I decided to also throw in a rotblotta wall clock so that I could know the time in style. This definitely isn't a purchasing list for the Rolls Royce of home offices, but then again, if I were looking to furnish the Rolls Royce of home offices, I probably wouldn't be shopping for furniture at IKEA. Rather, I thought it would be a kind of credible home office shopping list for a student or a first time homeowner. Anyway, here are the screenshots and for the sake of comparison, I'm converting everything to the US dollar, the same time as I took these screenshots. Please note that IKEA says that the prices that appear online are supposed to be the same as those available in bricks and mortar locations, although it doesn't guarantee that this will actually be the case. So the online prices are more like indications of the RRP you'll find in the stores, rather than guarantees as to that. Finally, I used a VPN to attempt to get around the geolocation related redirect and attempt to find the same prices as are available to consumers in these actual localities. In IKEA Israel, the cost of the Milberget office desk was 695 shackles. We'll compare that into dollars shortly. For the Linman table, it was 95 shackles for the 100x60cm version and the Linman olive combination together cost 335 shackles for the 160cm table and 4 legs The 226cm side unit for the IVAR modular storage system would set me back 150 shackles when I took the screenshots. Finally, for a 42x30cm shelf, the cost for one of these was 45 shackles per unit. The Rotblota clock I mentioned was 195 shackles. Swapping my VPN over into a US point, I got the following prices at the exact same time of taking the screenshots. The Milberget chair cost $129.99. The Linman table top cost $24.99 and the version with the four olive legs sold as a set was $84.99. The IVAR side unit this time denominated in inches but the same dimensions was $30 and one of those pine IVAR shelves retailed for $7.50. The Rotblota clock to finish off the home office buy was $39.99. Finally, moving into Ikea Ireland by changing to an Irish VPN point and browsing on the Ikea Ireland website, I was able to get the following prices for the same basket of home office essentials. Our swivel chair, the Milberget cost €129. The Linman table top was €20 for the 100x60 version and for the Linman olive set with the four legs in white, it was €70. The side unit for the IVAR 226x30cm would have cost €17 from Ikea in Ireland and it was €7 even for each of the 42x30cm shelves. Finally, the Rotblota wall clock cost €40. I put all this data into a spreadsheet to see exactly how much more the items in Israel were costing. Summing up everything, my total bill in shackles would have been 1,515 shackles. At the time of doing this cost comparison, that worked out to be $396.27 so really just shy of 400 bucks. However, the same basket of goods if I was shopping in an American Ikea only came to $317.46 so it was almost $100 more. In Ireland this basket of goods came to €283 which at the same time that I did the foreign exchange rates came out to $302.81 versus $317.46. The cost in US dollars of the order in Israel was $396 so this was a price difference of $93.46 or again almost $100 cheaper to buy the same basket of goods in Ikea in Ireland. After doing the currency conversion calculations we can see that some of the price differences in goods are really substantial. For instance, when I took the prices the Milberget office chair was 695 shackles which came to $180.70. However in the US that was $1,299. That means that the price in Israel was almost 40% higher than the price in the US. The same chair in Ireland cost €129 which works out to be or worked out to be $130 so again we're seeing a price difference that the same product in Israel costs 31% more than Ikea in Ireland. Averaging out the price difference between the basket of goods in Israel and the same products in the US we see that the Israeli store costs on average 25% more than in the US and the difference was more marketed when benchmarking against the Irish Ikea on average the difference in Israel was 1.42. In other words the Israeli Ikea was 42% more expensive than Ikea Ireland for the exact same products. This is of course just a basket of goods intended to represent the cost of living in Ikea but I think it does show that it is true as most people claim that the price of furniture in Ikea Israel is more expensive than in Ikea in other countries. Want to get more videos from me about the cost of living and other socioeconomic issues in Israel then please do consider liking to this video subscribing to this YouTube channel and sharing it with your friends.


Now the state has discovered that it can control the means of production without owning them. Yeah, fascism. So brilliant, brilliant in a sense that expanding, not being narrow, not affiliating itself with any political position. On stage he calls himself a libertarian. Now I don't think that's ideal, but it's so much better than calling himself a conservative or calling himself a right winger or calling himself any of these easily put into a bucket and he defines libertarianism in a reasonable kind of way without it coming across as wacky or crazy. He constantly talks about freedom, freedom, freedom. Freedom is what makes you rich.


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mechanism of choice and under this mechanism of choice I am going to explain for you the third mechanism that is mostly utilized in today's world that is the mixed economy. Now the question comes why we are going to explain or select the mixed economy. As we have studied before that there can be one version of the market structure and there can be one version of the garment intervention. But the garment interventions they are if excessively utilized so they may have a capacity that they can not only increase the productivity but sometimes increase in the productivity deals in that matter that it has a number of factors that reduce the productivity means the cost of production that can be more and the cost of management can be more than the total output. If we say in simple words that many times the facility which started for the job but the problem in managing it has come so far that the actual situation of the facility has been over reduced. So due to such a problem in many government interventions if we say it is called government failure and in the same way in the market structures if the accumulation of wealth becomes a power and some factors or sectors take more power as we say can be monopoly and in the form of monopoly people can hold some resources or in this form if they are using excessive utilization then they can affect the environment, affect the sustainability so the externalities aspects are. So to overcome these issues now the best method is to take both the positive aspects together so that can be the mixed economy or the mixed method. Now what is done is that certain forces of the market structure they are allowed to work as a self-correcting mayor independently they will be allowed to work but under certain rules certain under regulation accumulation of wealth control government strong taxation policies under the licensing system. Every person will not have the permission to enter but some pre-requisites will be made for him who will be able to complete those pre-requisites or those basic rights in the market and after that they will have to pay for their business, their business and their income. And you will also have to tell that how much the environment, society, social structures are affecting. Now if we say here then I will give you a very simple example that if a person has the permission to apply a tube or a well then it is his right to apply it but if he does not do such excessive drilling of water which is his responsibility of his heart then the level of the water of his land should go down. So while looking at these rights the social forms and social structures for the government will make some rules which will follow the agents working in the market forces. And if we look at the basic in this then the role of the government will be here that the government wants to maintain equality in the wealth distribution or we should say in other words that the assets that we have after completing the request of the people in the market or the income comes in their hands, the assets come, its distribution, its distribution is kept in a uniform way so that only a few people in the whole economy become aware of that. And on the other hand the government's duty will be to make policies for economic growth, to grow the economy, to develop the economy and to set up its objectives for it. So these mixed structures are taking a lot of our countries with them and this is feasible for us.


That's a hard 98 overall is the Tennessee Titans And it definitely does not disappoint. This team is nuts. Where do we even start? We've got 399 overall I take it back. We have 499 overall wide receivers, Randy Moss decided to play for the Titans for a tiny stint So we get gold 99 Randy Moss. You've got 99 of Robert Woods It's gonna be weird for him not being a ram But you've got gold 99 Billy Johnson Frank Weitschak You've got Derek Henry Chris Johnson, and you've even got Adrian Peterson who had a little stint with the Tennessee Titans Steve McNair gold 99 lots of ultimate legends on this team. You got Taylor Luan, gold 99 Bruce Matthews, Kevin Maway, Quentin Spain, and Jack Conklin. Literally like I don't associate any of these players with the Titans But they all played for the Titans at some point. You've got John O'smith, Jared Cook It's just funny how many players have just ended up in Tennessee at some point. Julio Jones free safety Genevieve Clowney, Jayon Brown, Zach Cunningham, Brian O'Rackpole, Bernard Pollard, who is amazing I love him, Christian Fulton, Javon Curse, Tier Tart, Billy Johnson times two, Jeffrey Simmons, Desmond King, and Randy Moss corner Logan Ryan 99 on the bench.  I feel like that's a very Titan's thing to do But we can also go off with CJ2K. Steve McNair should get some salad yards I think read option will be really fun with this team But you know what? We also have just amazing everything so we can really do whatever we want Gigantic a massive shout out to Tyler. Tyler your theme team is so sick. Thank you so much Tyler I appreciate you bro 98 offense 98 defense 98 overall and to thank our boy Tyler I'm gonna go get him a dub on head-to-head season everybody's team that I've used recently has been in the playoffs So I'm really hoping okay. He's not in playoffs, but he has two more wins This man is setting phase out everybody five and oh, you know what? 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You can pronounce all the ingredients in this It's incredibly natural. It feels like it and it smells like it. That's why I love their stuff Also, they have like a million different scents. It feels like so it's super exciting Just to try a new one once I run out of a bar. They have other products too. I always use their deodorant This one's alpine sage shampoo and conditioner as well. This is fresh falls Conditioner I stay behind the products. I work with them for years. So you should definitely check it out and to get a little discount You can use code dsq mmg for 20 off orders of 20 or more That's for new customers. Take advantage of the offer. There's a link in the top of the description Definitely check it out and enjoy the rest of the video McNair, Randy Moss, Billy Johnson all ultimate legends He's got Phil Sims. That is a Giants theme team. No question about it Titans versus Giants Weird matchup, but I'm excited. Let's see what the score was the last time the Giants played the Titans The last time the Giants played the Titans. It was 17 to zero. So the Giants literally didn't score Second in 10, he's gonna heave one to anger who is wide open. Let's see what he's got here Making some motions. I'm gonna try and get to the quarterback. Oh, maybe not. Oh, right side right side. Open. Oh, maybe not Randy moss was dangerously close Can I lurk it? No yikes. Dude, this guy's got a really nice set. He's moving on me He is marching. No questions asked right now. He does go with a handoff. We're back there All right, you know what if the Titans d-line can do a lot more of that I think we'll be all right. He fed that through the middle. Dude, we were right there I can't believe he fed that. I expect a run. I'm getting back there for the run. There's no way he's passing this, right? I hope I'm not wrong. I'm right. Oh, that's fourth and inches or fourth and one All right, I'm gonna blitz over the middle. Does he run the ball again? He runs it again He stuffed What he didn't get the touchdown but he got the first. Oh, all right He got it finally the Giants are already doing better than they did in real life All right, let's see what his offense has or sorry. Let's see what his defense has in store I do see a wide open Derek Henry underneath. I'm going to take that every single time Let's go read option. We got to try it. Dude. He's sending these heavy blitzes bite Oh, he doesn't bite when we make the right read still not not much going for us there right down the middle Is John who smith? All right, let's keep marching boys Let's see if we can counter the blitzes with some outside runs. See how it looks. Whoa. What are you doing up there? Oh, it's ed too tall. John's golden ticket. Yeah, that's gonna be tough to run through not even get alive Yes, sir great blocks. That's what I'm talking about. Let's go Derek Henry. Oh, I forgot to check my abilities What abilities do we have on here? Henry's got bulldozer tank. Wow.  I didn't know people were in both gunslinger protected pocket that I I trust the I trust this guy knows what he's doing Oh, look at that. He calls another time out. He can't handle it right now, dude He can't handle it. He thinks he knows what I'm doing and that's when we hit him with play action Maybe that's when we just saw some right here Darn it. Darn it. Darn it.  Look at the safety safeties are all up in here. You think I can run it anyway I'm gonna try it. Let's go blocking at two tall Jones. Let's go He can't stop Derek Henry right now Look at us blocking too tall. Oh in the air truck. It's unbeatable I don't know why I'm passing for two when I had so much success before oh right there ready Oh, he broke it up Second and ten. Let's see you're thinking Philly. What are you thinking Philly boy? Am I on that? I don't think I am Just about to say I'm about a yard under that. I can't make it No way, that's what I say. Is he gonna make that throw with like two dudes on him right side? Dude, this guy has laser beams everywhere. He knows the plays. This is gonna be tough The good news is I get ball at half. So we are done by eight right now We got 47 seconds to figure something out Oh, okay. Good juke. I agree box. Oh timeouts though. I only have two Right over the middle barely gonna get it to Jonu. It's called one of those two timeouts He like frequently leaves Jonu open. There's oh, no, no, no I have only one timeout left and we're not in range. We got to figure something out. Okay. Wait a second You can get out of bounds. I'm on the 48. I cannot kick this field goal But I think the game underestimates how many yards I can get if I can get 10 yards I can kick a field goal and then call my timeout Ah We have to score here. Shit. I needed to like catch that and go down instantly. Maybe the game did. No, I had to go Yes, sir, I just think why was I passing ever? I can't pass against this guy Derek Henry has freight train lit up, right? Is that freight train? No tfl's and we're good. Oh, that looks like it Nope, what about tfl except I broke the tackle. Let's go. Yes, sir. Great blocks. Let's go Imagine trying to stay like Najee Harris in the wheel of mud super bowl You can't stop this as long as freight train stays up to he is just screwed another 12 11 rushes 100 yards and it touched down the only shot I have against this guy He's never gonna be able to stop it like that. Look at this. Look at this 12 rushes 118 yards It's definitely titans football. Yeah, look at that. He's coming down. He's getting ready for it I'm bringing it right side. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.    Yes, sir Spectacular blocks. You can't stop it.  Oh, there's Derek Henry. Yes. What? Oh my god We we dropped both two point conversions.  It's a nine point game Let's go. That's what we need right there as a sack. I'm into your tart and I'm not supposed to be at Hey, that's a totally fine pass. That was fully clamped 14 you put this what do you do on Philly? We could actually go up by some points right now if I get six It's 18 14. Yes. I go for two again. I'm probably I might go for twos right now though All right, let's bring this left side. Let's go.  I don't know what that animation was, but I don't care broken tackle third and two I'm gonna take this one straight at him. Come here.  You can't stop it Shit like why haven't I been running for my two point dude? I can't be stopped I'm embarrassed that I ever tried to pass the ball in this game 20 to 14 It's gonna be a clock game here because if he scores all he needs is a p-18. He's leading. Oh Interesting run play.  It's scored. No time left. I'm gonna blitz Let's go God, he's in a box right now 30 21 curse has been amazing Mine Mine mine. I thought that was picked for sure. Nice ball. Canaries tony finds a way to get open Dude, I thought that was an int 100 percent All right, good hit He's at first and goal if he scores to get to two point a field goal still wins it for me It's just one of the first times in a while that my two point conversions are biting me in the ass Okay, if he runs the ball, I'm in trouble. Okay. Yep. I knew that was gonna be trouble. Oh good grab Let's go second and goal. We got a time out. Oh, he is passing Oh, yeah, that that passed the hat back out of the back feels really strong Honestly, this is fine though. I get the salvage by two time outs and I have 45 seconds Oh, the problem is I'm so run dominant right now I don't know if I'm gonna have clock to run with Derek Henry. I might have to actually figure out some pass plays Uh, let's believe boys. Okay. Okay. Gotta go gotta go. No huddle don't have time to think about this good block Okay, 24 seconds on the clock. I'm on the 41 This is so nerve-wracking. We just need a field goal. I intentionally didn't score a touchdown because all I need is a field goal He's gonna ice me. I just gotta hit the ice kick. It's game over 23 to 21.  It's actually a little close I actually have no idea if I'm accurate here.  He left the I think he just thought I was gonna run or throw underneath We tested his user through right at him. Gotta shoot him a gg, bro That was one of the best games in the theme team series. No question Phil sims threw like a perfect game. He was so good. He was a laser machine. I could not pick him off I could not throw off this pass game 236 two touchdowns. McNair thinks of that last pass I think it looked a lot better. We didn't throw any touchdowns. We also didn't throw any int so that's good news 19 attempts 166 averaging 8.7 three touchdowns seven broken tackles freight train activated early Why didn't he not run commit ever? He never run commit on me because if he run commits one time and gets there Cannery in the backfield, then I lose freight train jonah smith the game's the leading receiver with that final bomb right there Big thumbs boys. Hey, I hope you guys enjoyed one amazing game for the tennessee titans theme team and i'll see you guys in the next one Thanks for watching as always see you boys soon. Peace


Welcome to Nursing School Explained in this video on heart valve disorders. Pretty much we have to distinguish between two different types of disorders here. And those are synosis and regurgitation. In heart valve synosis, there is a problem with the opening of the valve, which can be due to a narrow valve and this can be a variety of reasons, but also congenital. And then there can be calcium deposits. So as we age, more calcium deposits in our arteries or in our blood vessels also make the blood vessels stiffer. And the cardiologist once told me that the older we get, the more likely we're going to get these calcium deposits and have synosed valves. And the most commonly synosed valves is the aorta. So aortic synosis is a very common disorder. As you can see over here, I highlighted in red the O from synosis as well as the O of the opening. This is something that I like to remember. So synosis is the problem with the opening, that way you can kind of relate this back. Now the second problem that can happen with the heart valve is regurgitation, which is a problem with the closing of the valve and sometimes referred to as insufficiency or incompetence. So now when the heart valve is synosed, it basically, if it would typically open up this way, when there are calcium deposits, the valves get more stiff and the leaflets can't really open. Where in regurgitation, there's a problem with the closing. So now that the valve closes, it might not close all the way or one side might close one and the other. So there's a problem with the closure. And really, if we look over here at the anatomy of the heart with our right and left side, on the right side of the heart, we have the tricuspid and the pulmonic valves. And then on the left side, we have mitral and aortic valves. And either way, whether the valve is synosed, not opening all the way or regurgitating, meaning not closing all the way, the blood flow will be not as smooth as it would usually be. And then what occurs is that the blood will kind of back up into the previous chamber. So if there's a problem with the pulmonic valve, then the blood will back up into the right ventricle and then into the right atrium. And the same thing could happen on the left side. And if we think about that usually in our blood vessels, the blood flow happens pretty steadily and kind of like a straight flow. But if there is any kind of obstruction happening, so not if that valve is not opening or not closing, that blood flow is going to leak through because the valve is supposed to be closed, but the blood is going to leak through and kind of cause a turbulence here. And this turbulence that occurs here, we can hear that with our stethoscope, which leads us to over here signs and symptoms. So many times the first sign of a valve problem is an audible murmur that somebody detects maybe a routine physical or during some sort of an exam or all of a sudden, there might be a little bit of a murmur here, which is that turbulent blood flow as the blood leaks through the valve, whether it's not opening or not closing appropriately. Most common hard murmurs are aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation, just for your information. And then as things, as the blood flow through the heart doesn't occur in the normal and atomic way and there's that black, that backup signs and symptoms of hard failure will develop depending on where the valve is that is affected. And you probably already know signs and symptoms of heart failure. So left side of heart failure typically backs the fluid back up into the lungs resulting in shortness of breath and crackles. Those are the most significant symptoms that the patient might also have signs and symptoms of angina as well as syncope present with dysrhythmias and or complain of palpitations. Now when the valves on the right side are affected, the fluid will back up into the body causing weight gain, edema, JVD, as well as hepatitis minimally insignificant or severe cases. And then looking at the diagnostic tests here. So an echocardiogram that ultrasound of the heart will give us a better idea of the heart valves. Are they closing appropriately or maybe they are regurgitating? There's some blood flow when they're supposed to be closed. And it's a very nice test also to give us an indication of the size and the blood flow through the heart valves as well as the chambers of the heart. Certainly a chest X-ray would be a very important test to see if there's enlargement of the heart from maybe more advanced heart failure. A stress test will test the heart under stress so either medication induced or exercise induced to see how much worse does the heart valve perform under stress. A cardiac catheterization might be needed to take a closer look inside to kind of evaluate the patient for angina and dysrhythmias and maybe take a closer look at the valves right there inside the chambers. And certainly CTs and MRIs can be indicated to evaluate the valves in more detail. Now treatment for heart valves is treatment of heart failure because that is the signs and symptoms that we're going to see. Those include all those medications that we also treat patients with heart failure with, ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, A&RIs, angiotensin oryloctin receptor inhibitors which is kind of like a brand new drug class that's evolving in the treatment of heart failure as well as diuretics to deal with all that fluid that's backing up. Now when the valve gets significantly impaired then sometimes valve replacement is required. And there are always new technologies and new methods of how to do this so please read up in your book and see whatever the last of the latest version is for valve replacements. But typically there are two different ways of doing this which is the valve can be replaced with a mechanical valve or a tissue valve that would come from a cadaver or maybe an animal such as a pig. And when there's a mechanical valve the patient after valve replacement will need to be on anticoagulants for life because there's a high risk that things will attach to this valve such as platelets and other coagulation factors and kind of stuff that helps us with our immune response because it is a form body and so the mechanical valves are at higher risk for developing clots or even just developing growth and then the valve forgettable being impaired. Well with tissue valves typically the anticoagulation is only needed for about six months post-op and then the patient can come off the anticoagulation of course they'll need close follow-up and monitoring. But either way whether it's mechanical or tissue replacement the valve they both need to be or both of these types of patients need to bring prophylactic antibiotics for dental work because there is a risk that bacteria could get into the bloodstream from the dental work and then it could basically latch on to the artificial or the replaced valve and that could lead again to problems and severe complications and maybe even malfunctioning of the heart valve. So those are very important things to do these prophylactic antibiotics and this is something that likes to come up on exams as well. Now as for nursing care certainly if we're caring for a patient that we know has a known valve disorder or maybe that will undergo or has undergone valve replacement we'll need to monitor the vital signs very carefully as well as have them on telemetry to see any kind of dysrhythmias that are occurring. We will have to pay close attention to their cardiovascular system and monitor them for all these signs and symptoms of heart failure or peripheral circulation impairment. Then because we know that it's heart failure related we need to monitor the patient's daily weight as well as eyes and nose very carefully and monitor their fluid status. And teaching is always a very important part of the nurse's responsibilities and the more we can teach our patients about their medications that they need for treatment such as these for heart failure the more compliant the patient will be. And besides the medications for treatment we also need to emphasize the need for the prophylactic antibiotics for the patient to share this information with their dentist so that they can be aware as well. And then the need for anti-coagulants because as you can imagine a lifelong need for anti-coagulants of patients with mechanical heart valves that can be some compliance issues because of some concerns the patient might have or maybe forgetfulness or maybe they don't think it's necessary anymore. So this teaching here as with many topics in nursing is very very important. So thank you for watching this video on heart valve disorders and the difference between regurgitation and synosis. Please also watch the other videos specifically the one on heart failure to kind of refresh your memory on what that all entails how it develops and signs and symptoms that you might see. Thanks for watching. See you soon here on Nursing School Explained.


where the state says for this set of reasons that isn't going to hold. So let's imagine that that is then, it's all of a sudden no longer consistent with what we think either. Developers propose something that either we say no to and the state then says yes to. Where does the local coastal plan come in then in that instance? It seems like then you've got two state entities fighting with each other rather than us. Great question because there certainly are instances where we would say there are state policies coming down from HCD and from the legislature that are seeking to really promote housing production. And yet there's a tighter level of controls on the coastal zone and through the coastal commission. And you actually see this in some of the legislation itself because a lot of the legislation in recent years, SB 35, for example, which we saw with 831 water, SB 35 does not apply in the coastal zone. And so there are specific carve outs that the legislature makes to say, yes, we want to promote housing and we recognize that the coastal zone is a special place. They don't do that for all of the bills. AB 2097, which we discussed earlier today, the parking restrictions, those are applicable inside the coastal zone as well. So the state is recognizing that that challenge and is sometimes seeking to directly exempt the coastal zone from those laws. And sometimes they're making the stance that they expressly want to make sure the coastal zone is included. So yes, there is that tension that continues to exist between some of those state level policies as it relates to the coastal zone. I predict this will not be the last time we discuss this topic. Let me move on to another issue. Thank you for that answer. The council member Brown raised the question about workforce housing. And I think we're, I don't think there's anybody here not interested in that. If we were to add language in objective 2.1D that said, I'll let you get there first. Tell me when you're ready. 2.1D? 2.1D as in dog. Is it a new policy? Wondering about this. If at that point, what would you think of adding language? It said, consider implementing a program that increases workforce housing and market rate multifamily projects with adequate financial incentives. I'll be glad to go over that again if you'd like me to because I know it was a few words here. Consider implementing a program to incent workforce housing units in market rate multifamily projects with adequate financial incentives. So the incentive is the financial incentives. Yeah, I mean, I think. Wondering if that is any heartache in terms of how the state would view that is that that's not a barrier and an impediment that might actually, as we're saying that, considering. Right, I think a couple of things. I do think that we'll want to wordsmith it a bit to be more definitive about what, because HCE, we actually have a lot of policies that are crafted in this manner and one of the things that we're gonna be doing over the next week is refining how those policies are very definite in terms of what the action is. So that would be some, but we can certainly, the base of that is just fine and we could wordsmith that and work with the subcommittee to come up with language. Thank you. When we get to a motion, whoever's going to make it, I'll ask you to either in your motion or I'll ask you if you would accept a friendly amendment to the motion, whoever makes the motion to include that. Let me go to another issue here. This whole issue around protection of tenants. We do some things in that regard programmatically here and through the budget and so on providing assistance there. My goodness, that's a subject matter where there's a lot of folks with a lot of needs in that regard. I wonder what you would think, again, whether or not you imagining that you're HCD and trying to determine whether this concept would fly or not fly. If you put in something, for example, on page two dash 18, adding a policy 4.3 and I'll wait till you get there. We have, oh, adding a new policy. Got it, so this would be a new policy, great. So we good, where you are? Okay, thank you. If we were to add something which said to the effect that providing protection for tenants from unaffordable rent increases or excessive, excuse me, or excessive application fees. This doesn't, I wanna be very clear. This community's fought over the question of rent control. This is not a rent control being run in in the dead of night here. That isn't where I'm trying to go. I'm trying to see that when it comes to these two issues, is there anything we might be able to do that is not called rent control? Because we've been there, done that several times in the community. So I'm trying to look at a somewhat different issue here. Sure, so we do have some protections right now, specifically related to large rent increases that the council has approved and those are in place. And I think we've got some policies in here that speak to how we can help promote that protective policy in low income areas of the community in particular, but throughout the community in general. And then the excessive application fees, that is something that we've heard from COPA with respect to the individual applying for a apartment having to fill out and pay a $50 application at multiple. I do think there could be some potential opportunity there, how that is implemented. I think we might look to some community partners to assist with that, but I think on its face that sounds like something that's worth exploring and we can work with the subcommittee to wordsmith any of the languages. Let me move to Paige. Let me stay there and ask a question about if we were to add an objective 4.3.b that would read something to the effect of considering an ordinance to ensure that rental application fees comply with the provisions of state law. I wanna make sure you get that first and then I'll... Implement an ordinance to ensure that rental application fees comply with the provisions of state law. Yeah, the issue there is similar to the issue above and you hear from more than a couple of renters and people searching for rentals and so on about these application fees which some folks see as an infected is for some folks a barrier to even getting in the game to rent a place. So if there's no, do you think that has any would be objectionable in any way to HCD? I don't think that would be objectionable. I also think that it reminds me of some of the things that we heard we heard her speaker at the planning commission say for example that they see advertisements that say no section eight and as we all know, there is no discrimination based on income and so section eight you cannot discriminate against individuals for that and so I think that we may even be able to expand a policy in this respect to address multiple aspects of consistency with state law. Thank you, sir. Could pay if you would if you'd go to page six dash two four. Which objective or policy? Under the fair housing policy objective 6.1 G add a G to it. Again, consider this, I will read it to you then what I'm looking for is some assessment as how each CD may receive this. Establish a community based displacement housing task force to advise the city council on the potential displacement effects of proposed policies or projects and recommend policies to reduce the potential displacement impacts of new development. I'll be glad I know that was a lot of words. You tell me how much more you need and I'll go back over again. I got it. Very good. You're better now I'm at that then. So we have a policy and actually let me go back to where I wonder if it's the same one here. We have a policy in here that speaks to displacement and bringing information back to the council. I want to compare those two. So that is, it's actually I was looking at 5.5 B in relation to HUD's upcoming equity plan requirements evaluate the effectiveness of existing anti-displacement strategies and tools and present to council best practices and recommendations for additional anti-displacement policies and programs such as additional anti-retaliation policies and revised first right of refusal to tenants displaced to new development. I think that we rather than do mine could you simply add into that policy and consider an anti-displacement task force. We'll put that in there. That may fit better where you're talking about because I think that's the only new idea suggested in the sentence I read to you. Right generally I think it is. Okay, good. Let me wrap this up with a couple other questions. I know wrapping up meant stopping. This business, we've been over this and the council subcommittee's been over this and every member of the city council has gotten input on this. So I want to do it once here in open session. So on those site inventories that you had where you showed at Nellie pond and there were three I think, right? There was a map with three on it. Yeah, golf club drive and hands Nellie pond and so on and so on. So the county building, thanks. And the county building, right. And so my recollection at the subcommittee and in our discussions also on this is that with respect to the golf course, golf club drive parcel or parcels that the issue there is that from planning's point of view this would be very, very difficult to have an area plan put together. If I understand it, at least the current thinking is that one of the property owners at least would seriously object to that, to having their parcel included in an area, I think it's an area plan. Am I right about that? Yes, it does call for an area plan. The general plan calls for an area plan. And then there's another, I'm sorry. The general plan calls for an area plan. Yeah, okay, thank you. And then there's another property owner who says I really want to do that. So you've got one that says I really want to do it, one that says I don't want that done. So my threshold question is can an area be, can area plan be undertaken if a property owner in the area doesn't want it? Absolutely. Absolutely, that's what I thought. So who is the moving party when that happens? Who starts that area plan process? So for, so several ways that that could start. The council could give direction and allocate funding. We would typically bring in a consultant both to assist with the development of the plan and a consultant, typically a separate consultant to assist with the CEQA analysis, the California Environmental Quality Act analysis. And so the council could give that direction and allocate the funding towards that. There are also opportunities that they, and we have said in this instance, I'm looking at your reaction. For this particular site, we've looked at grant opportunities for citywide projects. And we have focused those in areas that have greater citywide benefit. For example, the downtown plan expansion to the south, which is grant funded, and our objective standards process, which were grant funded. There was advocacy on behalf of the, some property owners in that area to seek grant funding for that. And what we've sought is looking at dedicating those grant funds and seeking to acquire those grant funds, which are limited in nature and staffing is limited to areas where there's a greater public benefit. There is a very significant private benefit and out on golf club drive. And the provision of housing also is a benefit to the public, but in terms of amenities that the greater community will enjoy, things like the objective standards have a greater citywide benefit. So we've focused our efforts in those areas and said that the developer can choose to propose that they fund the staff and consultant work and present that if they want to do that, then we could present that to the council and say, here's the proposal that's before us. The developing community is looking to fund this. We would take the lead on that effort so that we stay in control of the process and direct how that area is shaped in coordination and communication with the community. And then we would present those findings to the planning commission and city council. So it can happen in multiple ways. We have suggested up until this point that it is a privately funded matter and that if the developer wants to come up with the funds related to that, we will then look at how we would be able to potentially accommodate that or hire a consultant, even a consulting staff member to supplement because as you can see from the housing element that's before you, we have many tasks and we will have to report on an annual basis on how we're accomplishing each of those tasks. And so inserting large work efforts that are in addition to what we have in this are going to be challenging to achieve and that's where we would also look for that developer to likely fund a consulting staff member that comes in-house in addition to the consultant. So probably more than you needed to know. No, it isn't. No, thank you for that. I appreciate your nuanced responses to these questions. These are not simple questions. Well, mine might be but other council members ask complex questions that deserve complex answers. So thank you for that. Staying with that subject for a moment, looking at it through the lens of the property owner who would like to develop housing there on that site or part of that site anyway, the part that that person owns. If I understand it correctly, I think what you've said to me is if we were to put it in now, if we were to put the golf club drive in and nothing happened on that in this round and then next round it stayed in and nothing happened, the developer then has a by right ability to develop that property, is that correct? Those sites, I believe each have development on them. It's like a single family house. And so I would expect that the HCD would characterize those as developed property and not undeveloped property. And so upon those sites inclusion in the next inventory they would become ministerial. Third. No, second. Second. As soon as they're in the second, as a developed site, as soon as they're in the second, it becomes ministerial from day one. Say it again, Matt, I'm sorry. From day one, they would be ministerial in the next element, so eight years from now. So nothing. Thank you. Thank you. No, I got what I needed to get on that. I think I have a better understanding of what you're talking about. Let me, the matter is, let me see, have we gotten public input yet? I don't remember if I did or didn't, all right. Anyone with us, wish a comment? Anybody online? We have how many folks online? With their hands, right? Okay, good. Let's go with the first one. Good evening. Yes, hello. Hey, it's Garrett. Hey, MBags 3700 plus housing unit extortion building demands only makes sense if the communist indoctrination facility on the Hill, AKA UCSC completes its plans to load the asylum with thousands of new extra combat recruits and the groomers to add many thousands of such, which I personally would not look forward to. We know some of the MBag allocation was because those racist deemed Santa Cruz too white and thank God we weren't considered too affluent or the number would have been even higher as they think injecting core people, which they also assume are people of color into wealthy or white communities is some kind of virtue. Now you haven't yet, but you must acknowledge California is in a decade long population growth rate decline which has now turned negative for a number of years as well as the county and now the city has without UCSC housing demand, quantity demand otherwise is a big fat lie. The recent city population drop confirms this. The reasons for a continuance of this trend are many including a decades long decline in male fertility, boomers dying off and aging population, a rising age of first born, COVID deaths, a troubling persistent new excess mortality, lowering life spans and a lot of people leaving California to do the sky high taxes or horrific business regulation climate and another be as politic. These are not replacement units. They are new additional households which without UCSC growth could easily result in a massive permanent increase in vacancies, even 13% without more people. If that occurs, it's a disaster, but hey, maybe there'll be a lot more affordable housing done on the hard way. No, massive vacancies are not the ticket to prosperity. The timing could not be worse as interest rates are causing housing to be on the verge of a bubble bursting. Overbuilding into a financial housing bubble burst is about as dumb as a rock. Think Stockton in 2009, there could be mass casualties. The idea of solving overcrowding by stuffing people into historic density housing in block long, six plus story high, monoliths with cigar back studios, smaller than my garage is a very strange thinking. The idea you solve, my rent is too dang high by offering people to rent half a sandwich instead of sharing a whole one at the same price isn't my idea of a bargain. Yes, it is possible the housing mix should change for that the cost efficiencies of high density will attract people out of their present housing situation, but a very poor permanent vacancy could easily occur without UCSC. The idea you should assist by giving away public land belonging to all is subsidy to further this risky cause to benefit the very few is a government meddling in the free market and quite socialist communist method. Government subsidized low income housing can invite poverty into the city. The states and now you're seemingly brainless push for density removal of travel freedom. I suggest ignoring some acts of agenda 21 control methods which seal a crowded jail off with the inmates inside. Thank you very much. Ms. Bush, we have one more? Three more now. Three more now, all right. Next person up. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening, mayor and council. I'd like to draw your attention to table G2 and appendix G which lists UC Santa Cruz housing as a, all of it is in the very low low or moderate. And that's just flat out wrong. There is no undergraduate housing on UCSC campus that is not completely exorbitantly priced. And so I'd like, I'm looking at the 2023-2024 apartment rates. So for example, a double room in an apartment which is an independent living unit which would count in the arena numbers is $1,735 per person. So that's 3,400, almost $3,500 per month for two people to share a bedroom in an apartment with multiple bedrooms. So there is nothing that you'd have. I mean, there's different configurations. They do not list the prices per apartment. So you have to do a whole bunch of sleuthing to get that. But I would like staff to address that appendix G. That's an error. And it is in line with UCSC's false narrative that they're providing affordable housing for undergraduates is the most expensive rental housing in Santa Cruz are none. And that is part of the problem because they will never build enough housing to house more than 50% of their undergraduate student body because they can't fill it at those rates. And so that's also, they also made false representations in front of the Regents in terms of their new LRDP about the price of housing. Chancellor LaRieve has promised 30% below market when in fact their own cost of living studies show that the on-campus price of housing is significantly about two to three times above the off-campus rate. So I would like staff to address that. Where did they get those numbers? Why did they use them? You can look up it's online on the UCSC site. Just go to UCSC and put in housing space rates and you will pull up the current rates for apartments. I don't even bother with dorms but just for the apartments which include kitchens and bathrooms. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Two more, Ms. Push. Good evening. Good evening, Mayor and council members of the store office on Enfield. First, I just wanted to thank all the hard work that the staff and the subcommittee have been doing on this project. This is not an easy task. And I think we're in a really good place for being this relatively early off in the process. We still have a long ways to go. I just wanted to remind the council that the rate of production that the state expects of us is nearly double the rate that we've experienced in the last few years. And just really want to encourage the council to think boldly about what sorts of policies we can implement to continue that or to accelerate essentially unprecedented growth within our existing zone capacity. The sites on the site inventory, we're not planning on rezoning any of these sites. This is already what we're already allowed to build. And at the planning commission meeting last week, one of the commissioners brought up an interesting point which is like, why do we spend so much time on the review process for projects that already meet all of our standards, all of our general plan and zoning standards and that we actually can't legally disapprove. So we really should be thinking about ways that we can streamline that process when we have to approve them anyway. We've made some recommendations to do that. I think there's a number of ways the council could go about doing that. But I think that's a really helpful way that we could encourage production in Santa Cruz that not a lot of other cities are looking at and help us accelerate our production to meet our housing goals. I also also wanted to agree with the last caller about the concern about UCSC's low income numbers. I would like to see some more evidence from the university that those units actually will be as affordable as we're hoping that they will be. But overall, and finally just one more thing about the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, people have mentioned using SB 10. And I thank director Lee for pointing out that SB 10 requires a finding of Affirmatively Furthering for housing to use it. And we really should be thinking creatively about replacing our segregated living patterns with integrated living patterns. And that's what using that tool would allow us to do. So I hope that we continue to push for that. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Sonnenfeld for your participation in the process. Ms. Bush, one more? Two more, all right. Good evening. Good evening, Darius Mosnine here. A couple of comments, one frame is a question. Is this basically this whole arena cycle, housing cycle, essentially paper exercise? Basically lays out a housing inventory. Where units can be built, but at the end of the day, the city does not build housing, developers build housing. How many of these sites are either A, too small for the big guys, or too big for the small guys? And then how financial are some of these programs? Take a look at the urban, whatever the urban project, with no parking requirements.  Housing with no parking. So again, it's comment slash question, is this really, will we realistically see, I predict maybe a quarter of the arena numbers would actually get built. The second, I would be careful on using ADUs as a hero of meeting, helping the arena numbers, particularly in the climate of increase in tenant protections. We now have SB 567 on the table, where it looks to close loopholes in AB 1482, the Tenant Protection Act, in terms of just causing fiction. Tonight, as there are landlords in Oakland, in Alameda County, going to bed, going to sleep for the third year in a row with a tenant that hasn't paid rent in three years, committed numerous violations, and they cannot evict them because of the moratorium. And of course, Oakland, Alameda County, extreme data points, I get it, but they are progressive cities as is Santa Cruz. So it just established a precedent that yes, it is possible to have someone in your house as a roommate or a junior ADU, or on your property's native U that has, you cannot get rid of. Anyway, thank you. Thank you very much. One more, Ms. Bush. Is that correct? And good evening. Good evening, mayor and council members. Ryan Mechel with Santa Cruz, you'll be here to start with saying I agree with everything that Rafa said, and with the caller prior to our office said about accountability for those cost estimates for the university housing, it'd be great to see some proof that they will be that low. And I do hope they are that low because we need more affordable housing for students in the city. I just wanted to add, well, first of all, I want to congratulate the city and staff for meeting the fifth cycle target. That is great work. And I believe what it's 6% of jurisdictions have done that. So serious pats on the back all around. That's awesome. Just to make sure that we do hit that again for the sixth cycle. And I really hope that we do, but in order to hold ourselves accountable, I would love to see the city commit to a mid-cycle review. So at that four-year mark, halfway through this next cycle, looking at how much production are we seeing and are we on track to meet that at the end of the eight years? And if we're not seeing that, have some policies, some incentives, maybe a rezoning plan, whatever staff seems appropriate to make sure we can up our production at that point and at the end of those eight years, meet or exceed our goals. That's just one more thing I hope you consider. We also sent a letter in. I hope you'll read that and consider those policies as well. That's it, thank you. Thank you very much. Ms. Bush, anyone else online? Very good. Matters back before the council. Ms. Brown. Thank you, mayor. I would like to make a motion and I've sent multiple versions to Bonnie, but hopefully you got the last one just trying to respond to some of your questions and comments, mayor. And so, and I recognize the hour is late. I recognize these are new for you to see here and I also just wanna say they've mostly all been covered in our conversation here in the Q and A with the exception of one item, which I'm not even sure is in the right place, but.  Oh, I'm sorry, that's right. I meant, I thought. I know you meant to. I'm sorry. Okay, so here's the motion. So the motion is to accept the sixth cycle draft housing element update with the following conditions on page two dash eight under affordable housing. This is a revision to the inclusionary, to objective 2.1, to state to review the inclusionary ordinance to determine if amendments are needed to ensure that the inclusionary requirements provide the maximum number of affordable units or deeper levels of affordability without being a barrier to housing development while considering implications for how developers will use density bonus. I have included here in italics and blue, the revision including considering higher levels of affordability for density bonus projects and so on. That's the language that's in there. Add objective 2.1 D to state, consider implementing a program that increases workforce housing units in market rate multifamily projects with adequate financial incentives on page two dash 17, add objective 3.7 B to state, support and facilitate the efforts of the Santa Cruz City School District to provide housing for its employees on page two dash 18, housing assistance of a series here, add policy 4.3 to state, provide protection for tenants from exorbitant rent increases or excessive application fees. I guess maybe that's an and. Add objective 4.3 A to state, support programs that provide legal assistance to tenants challenging unlawful rent increases. Objective 4.3 B to state, consider an ordinance to ensure that rental applications follow the provisions of state law. And this is the one that's maybe out of place. Add objective 4.4 to state, consider rent stabilization measures for mobile home parks in accordance with new state law. And then on page two dash 22, I believe I have found the location to add language to objective 5.5 B to state. In relation to HUD's upcoming equity plan requirements evaluate the effectiveness of existing anti-displacement strategies and tools and present to council best practices and recommendations for additional anti-displacement policies and programs such as additional anti-retaliation policies and revised first right of refusal to tenants displaced due to development and consider the establishment of a community-based displacement housing task force to advise the city council. There is a motion, is there a second? I'll second that motion. Under discussion you may open Ms. Brown. So I have include, I've asked some questions about this. I know that the mayor also asked some questions related to the possibility of including some of these more specific references. And so I thought I'd give it a shot to get some of these into the language for the draft housing element as we move forward. On the motion, Ms. Contari-Johnson. I just had questions about, sorry. Can we put the motion back up please? I'm sorry. No, it's quite all right, take your time. Take your time, we're fine. Oh, I can't move it. Okay, so policy 4.3, provide protection for tenants from extrovert rent increases or excessive application fees. When you brought that up, council member Brown, could you remind us of what your response was? Was that in there? Was that, I've heard somewhere, God. Mr. Butler. Thank you. We do have a large increase ordinance on the books and with respect to excessive application fees, I think there is a way, I think that frankly for every one of these, we need to have flexibility to wordsmith them because this as written, it seems that the city might be doing some of these things and we may be working with partners to do some of those things. And that's what I mentioned previously is that if we were to look at an application fee and individual application fee that is used with the universal application, we would be seeking assistance likely from the housing authority, for example, to see if they could help implement a program to that effect and I don't see that that would be implemented in-house. So that's where, you know, if the council finds agreement on some or all of these policies, I would still be asking for the council to give direction to us to come back and work with the subcommittee to work through how the actual policies are drafted. Okay, because I, yeah, I just. Wonderful, what we might do in that regard on that point is add to the motion exactly that, that whatever direction is contained in here that we have added tonight is for the purpose of general direction here, you would come back with the appropriate language after consulting with the subcommittee and so on. Is that how it would work? Would that work? Yeah, either a friendly amendment or if you wanna amend your motion. Yeah, I'm happy to amend the motion and I was gonna say, you know, I had thought about setting this up as a direction to work with the subcommittee on it so we can change that initial part of the motion too. Right, yeah. Ms. Bush, did you track that? Are we? Okay. It's late. I wanna make sure. No, not at all, not at all. So I think what we just did is said that these additions that are in blue that are being added by the council are being essentially referred to the council subcommittee and to the planning staff to take the spirit of these directions and bring them to the council subcommittee with your recommendation for appropriate language and for us to then consider that as whether we integrate or don't integrate that as we move along. Ms. Contar Johnson, you see where we're going with that, would that be okay? And it's all of it, right? The ones in blue are what you've added to it. Exactly, yeah. And then I had one. That'd be all right with you? Yeah, yeah. And I just, just to make it, hopefully make your job a little easier here. So the first sentence in that motion would be accept the Sixth Cycle Draft Housing Element Update and direct staff in the council subcommittee to consider the following additions for the final draft or for the draft. I like that. We start with that, then we go through what those are. The direction is clear to do, is that direction clear to you, sir? That is helpful as then we can wordsmith these and come to an agreement both with the subcommittee now. I want to make sure you seconded that motion. I recall. You did. You did. You did. I knew it was somebody smart. I was about to, but you beat me to it. I did. Well, I'll agree to it then. But I want to make sure that gets your issue. That gets to the issue. And so I won't ask a lot of the rest of the questions I had because I think that gets to the issue. But I do want to just say something about the, if you could scroll down, the housing displacement task force that you brought up, Mayor, I think we just need to, and we will, we will all be really thoughtful about how that's formed. If it's going to be formed, how that would be formed and what that looks like. Cause I have some concerns about that particular piece, but we can continue to discuss it in the subcommittee and then move it back. Very good. And Mayor, Council, if I may just weigh in on the motion. I might also request an addition to have referring it to staff and the subcommittee for consideration. It's also exploring feasibility. What's being recommended here. I just didn't hear. Explore the feasibility. Feasibility. Of what's being recommended, which is, you know, it's implied in consideration, but I want to be really clear that there's- Objection, Ms. Brown? No, no. Objection, Mr. Keely, no. All right. Further on the motion. Debate or discussion? I just wanted to- Ms. Goldberg, certainly. I think the question was more for you. Just, and maybe it doesn't need to be asked because it can be discussed at a later time, but when you said excessive rent increases, there's already some state law around that and there's like a certain percent. So do you mean in exit, she looks like she wants to say something. Really, what I think my intention in trying to address this is, yes, we do have an exorbitant rent increase ordinance on the books here and there is statewide rent control and it is violated that those rules are violated constantly and tenants have no way to address them if they can't afford an attorney. And so we're talking about how we can support those kinds of protections being operationalized in practice with community partners. That's my intention. I'm not suggesting that the city start considering a program as much as I would love it. Yeah, just for me, the word excessive just seems vague and then I'm not gonna belabor the point, but we have had a rental in town for 19 years and we just started breaking even this year. And so when you say rent's expensive, mortgages are expensive. On top of that, we pay the water and that's going up 100% in the next 10 years and I can only raise the rent in a certain amount and I don't wanna raise the rent. We don't wanna raise the rent more than that because we like the people that are living there and they're wonderful and having said that, I know there's a lot of people in the community that are monpaw landlords that are trying to do the right thing and I wouldn't wanna unnecessarily penalize people with vague terms like exorbitant. I don't know what that means without a percentage and I know there's percentages and we follow the percentages and that's what I'm saying. Can we get help from staff on that? Sorry, because we have an ordinance on the books that's been adopted and so whatever those figures are is what I'm talking about. I wonder if the way to go on that might be if that sentence read provide protection for tenants from unlawful rent increases or unlawful application fees. Perfect, I like that. Thank you very much. Ms. Bush, you got that or unlawful application fees. I don't know that there are laws on the application fees but we'll give us something to research. Give us something to talk about in the subcommittee. It's time to find more items to talk about. All right, for the comments, Ms. Brunner. Yeah, some of my questions I think are being resolved in the fact that we added that intro first sentence because otherwise we'd be here wordsmithing. I see some duplicative direction potentially and I have several questions so thank you for incorporating that first sentence and I hope that staff and the subcommittee can explore each of these suggestions that are being asked to be considered. Thank you. Very good, thank you. Very, very last comment. Thank you and all of your staff. Please get in contact with Ms. Donovan Teller that we all said thank you. Yes, thank you for saying that. Not happy about her retirement, but thank her. She was terrific during this portion of the process. Thank you very much. Clerk, we'll call the roll. Council Member Newsom. Aye. Brown. Aye. Watkins. Aye. Brunner. Aye. Calentari-Johnson. Aye. Vice Mayor Holder. Aye. Mayor Keely. Aye. Is there further business to come before the council seeing and hearing none, a motion to adjourn and be in order. The vice mayor moves to adjourn and Mr. Newsom seconds not debatable and favor signify by saying aye. Opposed? Aye. We stand in recess. You're a good man. And he also put on light. Very well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.