I'm an urban planner who's been doing bicycle facility planning design and implementation for over 15 years Including I Had the privilege of working on sort of North America's first European style parking protected bike lane the cycle track on 9th Avenue in Manhattan And in all those years, I've never had a junket to go see the Mecca to see Amsterdam Copenhagen have never seen any of of them in person so Hoping that just putting this out to people around the world Looking for my junket to go see great bike facilities Meredith, can you help fantastic? Yeah, you are always more than welcome To definitely to come and I think there might be some interesting people in this call who also run study tours And I've also been on on study tours before including including Scott Bricker here from Pittsburgh But but yeah, it would be that would be fantastic Yeah, I just I just can't help thinking about travel with all of us cooped up and on zoom all the time So but with those intros I know you didn't want to hear about me and my desire to to travel around you're here to Learn about Oakland slow streets, and I really appreciate the invitation and happy to to to talk about it we're in a really unprecedented time and it's so tragic and sad what is happening around the world and I've Hear us talk about opportunities and silver linings and I do want to just start by cautioning the use of that language given what so many of our community members are are going through and And What you'll learn is that what we're doing is very much in response to where we are right now and While I am cautious on the opportunities and silver linings language. I've of course started this presentation with Cartoon that was in a national publication in the Bay Area Pointing out that our slow streets program is indeed a potential silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic and for us to get this kind of attention has been quite Flattering and exciting and The but I do want to talk about the background and how how we got here, you know first of all When COVID-19 hit the Bay Area is one of the the first regions to go into a shelter-in-place in Mid-March and immediately we were thinking about how we could as a Dott serve our community and just for background the Oakland Department of Transportation is a municipal Services agency in the city of Oakland and we manage the rights of way. We fill the potholes. We pave the streets We maintain and build the traffic signals the stop signs Stripe the crosswalks Enforce the parking regulations. We don't operate public transit and We had been You know, so the very specific problem that we saw Where we're sort of two two problems that Oakland Slow Streets is reacting to one Public spaces that are not the streets are our parks. We have a beautiful centrally located park Lake Merritt. We have an earthen lake with a park around it. It's kind of like a central park and On the weekends and on nice days we have tons of nice days here in Oakland People we had social distancing concerns people were cooped up. They needed to get out go for a jog go for a walk and We saw crowding at those attractive parks in our city. The second problem that we had was that With traffic volumes way down. We saw the small amount of traffic that was happening driving faster than it normally would and we saw people doing a lot of walking and biking for essential services to go to the grocery store to get their food or to stay in their neighborhood and Move around for health and sanity purposes in their neighborhood and when they were doing that what we saw was kind of the social distancing dance to Folks approaching one another on a sidewalk and saying oh, which one of us is gonna veer out into the street so that we can keep the physical distancing People going for runs recognizing they didn't want to sort of spew There are particles on people so choosing to do those runs in the roadbed families Who would normally be doing you know soccer leagues and going on camping trips just doing a neighborhood bike ride? on Streets that we wouldn't have normally seen kids small kids biking on and so we saw a lot of use of the road bed immediately by non motorized street users um to In response to cobin 19 and it was getting kind of awkward as everyone tried to keep their distance so we had these two problems and Slow streets was really conceived in reaction to that One of the big questions was where should we do this and Cities were really grappling with this notion of an attractive nuisance That if we were used to closing streets for a parade or a block party or a sick la via type event and we'd like to do those things you know get rid of the cars for a celebration and oakland has a great tradition of Of using our streets the public rights of way for coming together But we're actually not supposed to be coming together Um supposed to be sort of staying apart And so the concern was that if we closed the street right next to the lake people would be excited And we might bring more people in and start an attractive nuisance Or that if we even just closed a few streets that we would sort of create the feeling of a block party and so we really coordinated with our county public health department who was who was the lead during the pandemic kind of setting the rules around our shelter in place And pre vetted this concept with them and the concept is that We would find streets in more residential areas That have a transportation purpose. They're not cul-de-sacs. They're not the the smallest of the small streets and Where we could do an intervention to help people stay in their neighborhoods not come to the attractors And do that essential travel that sanity travel that exercise and that family bike ride And what we realized in this sort of iterative brainstorming process Was that we had a plan that was less than a year old adopted unanimously by our planning commission and city council Let's bike oakland to the oakland bike plan update Um strongly encourage you to check out the oakland bike plan Easy google search away And one of the layers in that bike plan were what we called the neighborhood bike route Layer part of the bicycle network Those are often called Bike boulevards or neighborhood greenways in different cities and the neighborhood bike routes kind of had this venn diagram overlap with Exactly what we were thinking Was needed during covet Um their streets that connect But aren't the bigger streets that emergency vehicles essential deliveries Are being used in high numbers? and so We said This system of streets are what we should sort of build our slow streets program off of and where we should encourage people to walk Bike or run or go on that family bike ride in in the road bed Uh in total that system was 74 Uh miles you see our mayor announcing the program um one of the things that for better or for worse um the word closure the the the The media does not um Use i'll stay on this slide Doesn't get nuances so the the big headline was we're closing streets um 74 miles of streets when what we were actually doing was saying no through traffic on those streets and that we would do interventions soft closures to sort of discourage and prevent that through traffic And recognize that bicyclist pedestrians non motorized street users would be the majority user and a motor vehicle Would be a guest and that was important Because people need to get to their homes. We have essential workers who need to commute. We have deliveries You need to get your food. You need we still need to collect the trash. We still need the post to be delivered so the soft closures were really the um The uh way we were doing this and it got a lot of attention because we were closing the streets, but the operational um aspect is what's really kind of interesting to me and I think the Steel we broke for government at least sat and sadly in america united states and many places Is that the notion of endorsing pedestrians children cyclists skateboarders on the road bed at the same exact time as motorists Overall, we've gotten very uh positive responses and we'll talk about That and but we've also had a lot of concerns about uh, historically underserved and minority communities Um concerned not just about process but about this intervention being the priority during covet 19 Given the challenges that uh communities are facing um, so 74 miles was the headline, but we were actually again didn't want to create block parties. So that's why 74 miles was the headline and um What we did that first friday was the next day after the headline we did five miles or 4.5 miles And then the next six days later Um, we did a second round and got to nine miles And so we're we're literally we we're not one month into this program. The first launch was april 11 Six days later april 17th was phase two. We then took a two-week break and we've been out there on May 1st and we're going again on may 8th And we'll be at 20 miles as of tomorrow um We've been iterating and improving as we go particularly around community out outreach with community partners and via surveys community-based organizations We established ways for formal input via that survey and to call 311 our sort of government health hotline Our partners developed flyers Our advocacy groups have been real partners here new flyers new branding and that has been added to the the barriers and barricades um We worked to integrate the slow streets program as part of our emergency operations center the the the whole covet 19 Response and we're being very proactive with partner agencies and I mentioned the county public health department Just zooming along As the map has evolved Right now on the ground. We have these 14 miles installed. That's the the the purple The public has the purple and the orange The blue is uh the candidates we released We've been doing iterations of release and give us feedback and a number of those blue lines five miles of them will be implemented Uh tomorrow, um, there'll be a press release Um later today where we announced that work um So there's been a lot of logistical things behind the scenes in in getting this up and running Uh Our own stock of barricades and signs and cones has been quite low and depleted So a lot of work around purchasing. Um, you might be more interested in evaluation and monitoring and how we we've both I used our parking enforcement team to sort of uh go around and see if barricades have been moved and and make adjustments and then uh the survey work and Observation work that we're developing to sort of evaluate the program We're actually asking advocates to go to the streets and take pictures at set times To sort of create sort of a visual database of the use of slow streets um community engagement has been uh Uh a real important part definitely A big lesson learned is that even in an emergency And you're racing and you want to serve your community We we'd had a rainy weekend We were really concerned about it social distancing issues on a beautiful weekend that was coming and we wanted to get those first streets out We did not make a number of phone calls that we should have made to advise Uh communities that we're building trust with communities who've been underserved by government historically and and really creating the perception that you know, this city Did something to a community as opposed to did something with Even if you're moving fast, even if you have an emergency Nothing keeps you from making those phone calls to making that advice and and we missed that and we've been doing Sort of uh rebuilding that trust ever since We've been having standing weekly meetings with our both our advocates and the community-based organizations Who are who we want to partner with to evolve the program which we'll talk about Um and we're also getting input For ideas for streets that weren't in that neighborhood bike route network of 74 miles So what we've done is eliminate a lot of candidates from that 74 mile Pot of streets from our bike plan, but added others based on The need of the emergency right now Including ones closer to our downtown near the lake to sort of take people Um uh to give people an alternative sort of suck them away from from the lake if you will um By the way, I love that picture of a couple kids skateboarding and on the ground There are actually some murals that we've allowed communities to to paint murals in a number of our streets in oakland So it's a combination of uh some programs that we have Past and present in oakland so um Our community survey We've been really pushing a survey to get feedback and um We'll talk about the findings. I'm actually going to go through these slides because I'm going to switch my screen Just jumping to uh evaluation you might be of interest to This slide might be of interest Really looking at how we can evaluate this program again. We're all working in a really rapid and nimble environment um Looking at the goals of the program um And sort of how do we find data that? Can feed an indicator as to whether we're achieving these goals and so um Uh, you see up there the goals around safety physical distancing And getting folks to and from essential services and making sure that we're not Not uh disrupting those essential services as part of that work So overall, um, we're iterating in uh as we do this work. Um Oops sorry Uh once we get to our 20 miles uh tomorrow, uh may 8th installation we're going to sort of Take the model that we've had and and sort of tweak it in that rather than put out these specific candidates and have people vote And give us sort of feedback and instantly go out with the streets We're going to have a little bit more focused conversations particularly in the historically underserved areas Where uh, we're getting ideas for streets, but there's also concerns that uh, the slow streets wasn't a program That was meeting their needs. Um, one of the evolutions we're looking at right now is Again, the slow streets picked streets that weren't heavily trafficked or particularly high speed in the first place And it did not treat our arterial roads the bigger roads where with traffic volumes down where buses trucks And folks are using in higher numbers, but we're seeing a lot of speeding And so we have a lot of crossings that could be made much safer Where people are going to a convenience store or a grocery store or an essential service So we're looking at is there a slow streets crossing treatment that we could do To help make some crossing safer. It's not as it won't get as many national headlines as a 74 mile closure initiative But it would serve the needs of the community, which is what we've been hearing in our feedback So, um, really excited about the use that's happened. I just want to before I sort of turn it over Just go through a couple other things on my screen. How's everything can I get at you? You're seeing all the pictures and the images in my voice everything good great Um, so I've got a few other tabs just to encourage people if they're curious Um, you can go come on zoom If you go to twitter and just check the hashtag oakland slow streets and click photos You can get a nice visual tour of some of the amazing things that we're seeing Parents letting their kids on road beds where cars can travel. This is you just don't see this much in uh, non sort of Cold to sack communities anymore and in urban communities with grids People have stopped letting their children use road beds. And so you see Images like this throughout and I'll just sort of cycle through um, this is actually uh a famous Buddha statue on one of our Streets in oakland. That's a whole nother story in a podcast um Just seeing our murals Uh as you go around get a feel for oakland Just um our volunteers who've been going around putting the oakland slow streets posters and information and flyers on the barricades It's been a really great partnership with our advocacy community again, uh lots of use by families um Just images of the backs of the barricades where we put the posters and the flyers um there and so encourage you to go to that um That hashtag this is in chinatown. So Again per that that neighborhood bike route network did not have any chinatown streets, which is more downtown more arterial type So but then we heard that there was a demand for that and we developed um, Alice street as a slow street, which is off the neighborhood bike route network. Um, so we so, uh, we implemented that last friday And then some images you'll see people have been inspired by our format of signs and barricades and have supplemented it With their own they've mimicked ours. And so the tactical urbanism That is very hard for government to endorse. Um, has been sort of growing Uh along with the slow streets program And one of the things we'll think about is is how that evolves, you know a lot of chalk art um people branding the street here um And a lot of kids have come out and and done done chalk art on the streets and then Last this is our great volunteers organizing coming to city hall every saturday handing out the flyers um So that folks can go socially distant go around they bike around every saturday and put the Flyers and posters up on the oakland slow streets And I want to thank by geese bay walk oakland bike oakland Transport oakland.  It's got a history of our our press releases and um I would bring you your attention to the f a q and the details here some photos, but at the bottom the documents There's a survey findings um power point and this is um We're trying to be extremely transparent about um who this is serving And who we're hearing from And we need to be frank that this has been something that has been increased extremely popular with professional white higher income telecommuting type Families and the usage and the replies have been um Uh biased to our wealthier zip codes and we have all of that data here we can um and we're you know We're being transparent that the respondents are likely more likely to be white More likely to be high income And so that is why we think this program needs to evolve to serve all of our communities And so while it's been great and popular it's not um It's it's not meeting everyone's needs. So um that survey, uh, we released last week a preliminary results That's what i'm scrolling through now And i'll give you a preview today We're going to release a dashboard or a uh There's all these fancy terms here a a google data studio with what we've learned in from our input and so um Uh, i'll just sort of pop through that here real quick, but again giving people access to that data being transparent demographic uh data income race Geography and answering really interesting questions around whether you know, do do they approve of slow streets? Um, do they use slow streets? Um, what are your other needs that would be served? So, you know, just an example here By different geographies in our city showing that um north oakland, which is our wealthier Um urban but wealthier parts. You see we had 134 use positive uses but central east oakland Which has a quarter of our population only 14 people came to our survey and said this is working for them So we're really trying to be uh transparent and adjust to the program So i'm excited to release that to you all so that is um uh the the um The overview the details. I think this is a great, uh um Learning opportunity for us. Um, like I said We're focused on getting serving our community during COVID-19 and doing what people need right now in terms of you know, the kind of clear questions of like what happens after Our governor has talked about we we really can't even really think about after right now um we um We're not turning we're not going back We're not flipping a light switch to turn the economy back on it's more like a dimmer switch, right? And so we are going to be adjusting to sort of new slightly different realities over time And what we need to do is to sort of anticipate that next step and say how does What we're doing now serve in this sort of next step as the dimmer switch turn so Um, we do think that Having the barricades and the slow streets out there are in essence a wonderful kind of Pilot of getting people aware of your streets can be different And here's a way they might be different And so what do you think we can get feedback and say should should an intersection treatment similar Uh to what's out there now be put in in a permanent way, and I think that will help us have dialogue with our communities I think one thing in this world of planning a cycling city that you all think about a lot is how much and what should engagement with communities be like and I think as much Um work that we do To to to proactive is a hey, we're having a community meeting. Hey, we have an online survey. Hey talk about a bike plan Hey talk about a street redesign You're just not going to get everyone to react to something They have to see something and there's something about us having put something down in the street That's sort of really energized our conversation with our public And I think that more than the thing Is really almost the silver lining the putting something down quickly is giving is is sort of accelerating our conversations And during covet 19 it's important that government Be on an accelerated pace because the needs of our communities are are evolving Uh, so quickly so with that Uh, thank you. I'm glad the screen didn't crash again. And uh, I guess I'll turn it over to some q&a Thank you so much Ryan and and the one crash it just gave us a chance to have a little chat Um, that was amazing and I feel like we really got through quite a lot in not very much time So thank you so much And I'll just say that I really appreciate how Your focus is on helping your community and to to me as a campaigner particularly That it's just so important that we don't forget that in our rush to try and get cycling infrastructure And prove we've been right all along We just have to make sure that our priority first and foremost is helping our community and everything else will Hopefully work out down the track But I did promise meredith the first question so meredith here you go. It's your chance Thanks, thank you so much ryan. That was uh, that was really inspiring. Um And I was I've also been reading some of the uh, some of the questions that have been um, Pouring in over the past a couple minutes as well So, uh, maybe I can try to um, well my burning question. I guess is you mentioned, um that You know, you're in a nimble environment that really stood out to me.  Um, and then in thinking about the the relationship with the with the slow streets I mean, what were those organizational tactics that you leveraged to accelerate this Program. Yeah, I think um nimble in part Is comes from a willingness to take risks And you know that doesn't come natural to government and so, um You know again, like I mentioned the breaking the seal of hey, we are gonna have people are in the roadbed We could Blind eye to that or we could say they're there. Let's do something to make it better But once we do something we own it and we own the outcome and the consequences and so um You need a bit of courage as an organization um To to be nimble. So, um, it's not just a a bureaucratic sort of mindset, um And I think uh The other thing that really benefit from is strong partnership with our advocacy community um, I think they they they find a great balance between pushing and partnering um and uh I think we actually didn't provide exactly the thing they were pushing for which they would like to see us close the streets Right next to the lake. Um, but we developed something sort of with their input um that that um They ultimately have become you know an amazing amazing partner on and have really Embraced and I think you know internally Like you're trying to be nimble, but you also want to collaborate. You don't want to just have like if it was just like The first idea I cooked up and we directed everyone to to do that We would probably we would have a really bad idea on the ground that would have already been removed because it would have So, you know, you have to have trust on your team your engineers your planners your community Um, you're you know, you're political and and communications people I think we again moving fast We did make some mistakes around communication and around community engagement And sort of those are lessons learned But we only learned those lessons by doing something and I guess if we did nothing We wouldn't even have had those lessons much less the program Great. Thank you. Thanks rock and to do when I go next. Yeah. Yes. There's so many questions So I'm trying to work out which one is a good one to follow on from that I think one thing that I really took from this as well and that I'm seeing a pattern around the world With the cities that are taking quick action Is that they haven't had to make this up from scratch? They've actually already had a lot of work in progress that they've been able to switch on But maybe in a cheaper way So you said you already had these plans that you were looking at and you've just had to adapt them to work in this situation I'm noticing that in other places as well. Um, that'd be correct assumption or or have you really felt that you've had to come up with things from scratch Yeah, I I think this is a really interesting um Sort of topic I would say like I said, there was this Venn diagram between the neighborhood bike routes and what we were trying to achieve so We did have the benefit that we had done a lot of thinking analysis And community engagement around establishing this layer of streets um So we were able to build off that plan and that was a great insight that we got in terms of But one of the things in our plan was we put a very robust network in the plan But we had committed to community engagement as those interventions would have rolled out, you know So traffic circles and bike full of our treatments wouldn't just Show up one day. We would talk to the communities particularly communities that have been so historically underserved and that part there was a lot of um There was a reaction to us saying hey, we did this great plan and you were part of that process thus we're cool Just just let us go do this without that conversation that I said, you know the that advice that we sort of left out um so um So yes build off your plans, but also think through what's what's right for this this moment Excellent Right.  I'm going to wrap up magically into one and I guess we could um Call this your your first responders or your emergency agencies. There's been questions about um You have you been able to do this without police enforcement when they've clearly had a lot of other things that they need to do also you has there been um discussion about risks of terrorism and I think that probably relates to you don't want a destination You want this spread out so that you're not creating a place with the risk of terrorism And also have there been issues with first responders having um longer timeframes to get places So how have all those kinds of organizations reacted to this right? Yeah, and so I think is this is all a great reminder That I think people in your in this work know that we our public rights only aren't just for storing and moving private automobiles and we say it should be moving people and bikes, but it also you know the pipes underground and collecting trash and delivering mail we think a lot less even about those So, you know our our trash collection contract got very nervous when they saw these headlines and Again, it was a matter of explaining that these are we're going to put these barricades in a way that Trash collection vehicles can get through Explain to fire department that the fire trucks can get through and and once they really understood that they can There's enough room for a big enough opening for them They were okay and that even if the in that the barricades frankly could be knocked over If if it was you know if it ended up not being a wide enough opening um So that's an important. I think it's always important to think that through and I think that the the reaction Certain group of people reacted so well to closures like giving it back to the people and other people who do essential services Amazon delivery the the fear of closure was so big Um, so that was really important on the enforcement side. You know, I think that um, yeah our police department Oakland is not the wealthy city with a ton of resources You know arguably we have one of the a very small police department compared on a per capita basis and um, yeah It was important for them to make clear to us that if a car comes in and drives two blocks and that's technically Through traffic don't expect us to pull Cars over to say you were through traffic on that street and our communities didn't necessarily want that or some did Some didn't we think as designers and operators of the public realm when you have to rely on enforcement You've kind of failed as a designer and I think you this audience kind of gets that and so it was never our intent to design something With the need for enforcement So the big leap Was would those cars that went on that street act in a and if I may go off topic just a little bit Just would they would they make choices to drive as kind of guests in that space? And again as big a leap as that was we do have public spaces where Families walk and cars drive. They're called big suburban surface parking lots and they're But we've never those are on the other side of the property line and we've never operated Our public rights of way with that same sort of like cars are just going to their final destination and so For our police department That was actually the tough leap too because they're a public safety agency and said well our cars just going to come in and And hit the people and then the flip side is are the people going to feel comfortable With the cars there at the same time and what's amazing, you know, we're in america the bay area We have a lot of helicopter parents Who you know grab a kid if they even look at the asphalt on the road bed You know never step in there and in the slow streets treatment You see parents with three four-year-olds on a micro scooter giving 100 150 feet of leeway Letting them scoot down the street even though a car is turning on and coming to its final destination, which I was really kind of um Blown away by that level of comfort and the choices. So I I think that does reveal us as designers of public space really what we can achieve With with Our our design tools because we weren't using a particularly robust or expensive tool I completely agree with that I think that's what people just don't realize how much we can actually change people's lives their entire lifestyle with A few barriers to create better spaces And I think this crisis is actually helping us trust each other a lot more in so many ways in our communities But hopefully we can get some more trust on the roads If you've got a quick answer for this one because then my next question is going to be a nice juicy one They're just on the more technical side of things how many more signs and reminders and various things Have you had to put in between each of these interventions? Or is it that this is such a big deal now that maybe people know to expect it everywhere they go Yeah, so I think each corridor We have a traffic engineer who sort of looks at say a mile one of these corridors and says which intersections need The barricades we don't do it at every intersection. We do it It's sort of major intersections key points and think through that the system and what's a rational uh system we have It so we don't have a specific rule about how frequent they are. We're sort of judging the context of each street. So it hasn't We are getting feedback that's in sometimes that People might not feel comfortable that we might not have put enough In and so some of the drivers are still sort of getting on and then driving like it's a regular old street and not making those good choices so that process of Iterating and design adjustment is really just kind of kicking off. I think that gets to your question Yep, absolutely. And I think we all have to accept nothing is going to be perfect in these schemes We just need to get on with it and keep improving Um, yeah, I would while you get the next question I I want our web maps to show where the barricades are We've just got the lines now and so that people like you could look and see like how often we put that so That's something you should follow up on and hopefully we'll get to and see like how frequent do you really need to to get those good choices Excellent, right for the juicy one and the one that I think We're all afraid of is um the the the blockers from other departments and then the The critique how are you defending that critique? How are you overcoming those blockers? Sort of merging together a few questions here But I think you know what I mean just the people who just aren't Going to let this happen if they have their way Yeah, um well I think we haven't had major sort of You know internal folks. We've we've just had really great partners in our city administration amazing leadership from our mayor mayor Libby shaft And leadership is just so important. It's just a through line in what I've been able to work on And uh, which I'm so grateful for just working for great leaders who are willing to take risks I think that's Or just a super important ingredient. I'm sure you talk about that in this work all the time um So that's a key condition um The the survey I think has been helpful even though we acknowledge it's not been Representative the level of popular response to this has been is really strong to point to to say like Hey, three quarters of oaklanders who come to the survey say this is really good for them and what they want um And then the the last part is the sort of this conversation around underserved communities where it's not higher income Telecommuting folks and saying this isn't this isn't what we need given and given the challenges We're facing and I think that's a very legitimate critique and you need to take that on and sort of engage with that conversation and see You know how you can evolve your program because we shouldn't just be creating programs And we've seen that in cities where the bike lanes go in in areas and you end up with a very Disproportionate bike lane map or you end up providing a service that isn't serving all of your community I think you have to you have to listen um Be humble engage and and and adapt uh on based not get you know defensive or get your backup Yep, absolutely. I'll let um meredith take um meredith This could be the last question So if you could wrap up those final little points that have come through as well I'll let meredith Please that session and then hopefully we can just switch off the recording and have a good chat for those who've got some time Great. Um, yeah, I think uh, well, there seems to be some folks from uh, california also here in the In the chat room, but then um, you know, we're we're a global network here I'm in amsterdam. There's uh, you know the uk Um, I think I see somebody from um from australia somewhere um, so You know, what can what is the transferability of this type of of initiative and um, and or You know, what can others learn? um And then if you can be more specific about how The program will last or what's what's the legacy? You know after the pandemic You know, I I've again had the good fortune to work in New york city the largest city in the united states city of eight and a half million people in six thousand miles of streets and the city of oakland four hundred twenty thousand people um, and you know, roughly the population and population density of a borough of statten island and so um, I just think as planners as of some of the planning background context is Just kind of the first thing that you filter things through So, you know, and there's a this new added context of where a paint, you know, the status of your pandemic in your community so communities have to sort of Make the decisions of sort of work in their culture, but know that there's always room for leadership and innovation and I do think that It so one context is really important and your community is your advocates have to make the kind of their own assessments But two there's a universality I think of the desire of people to be in in public space and move and And and maybe there's a civic mindedness like I think you were alluding to that We can kind of get out of this that hey, we we forgot something. That's actually not that long ago New York City we Nostologize about stickball in the streets in Brooklyn And yet there's was really resistance to the notion of putting people in the in the road bed You know, I think even in in our communities in oakland There's a history of people playing in the streets that we've sort of gotten away from um That I think we maybe are Rediscovering at this moment with traffic volumes down so much and hearing hearing the birds and seeing the fresh air So I do think there there are things we can learn and maybe hold on to as we go forward That's wonderful. Thank you so much ryan. I'll um, I'll just say now. Thank you to everybody for coming along Thank you so much ryan for sharing what you're doing in oakland, but also for leading the way by doing it um I'm certainly uh, I have a meeting next week and I'll be talking all about What oakland is doing and hope that we can we can learn from you here in cambridge. So um, thank you so much Thanks to george for recording and george has said that this will be up on the youtube channel Tomorrow, um, and george has also shared all the suitable links for the urban cycling institute planning the cycling city course Um, if you're not already part of what we're doing I'm sure that marco would love me to pitch the mook get involved And join us because we are working on world domination. Aren't we marco who's um too busy cycling?


See, essentially the word Isha means that which rules the existence or that which is the source of this creation is Isha. So yoga means that which allows you to reach to that dimension. The important aspect of Isha yoga is, here we do not ascribe to any particular philosophy or belief system or even a certain form of yoga. This is about calibrating different methodologies of yoga for individual people. This is the most significant aspect of yoga that what you give for one person may not be suitable for another person, depending upon how you are or how each individual is. Accordingly yoga is calibrated, that's what is very unique about Isha yoga and it is transmitted, it's never thought.


Okay, welcome to the Bookmap Platform webinar, and we'll go through the details in the platform, answer any questions that you have, and understand what you're looking at in Bookmap and how to start to leverage it in your trading. Risk disclaimer, trading equities and futures involve substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Reach out to us at support at bookmap.com. You can go to bookmap.com for more information, you become a member there, and there's lots of free resources. So let me show you where you can find Bookmap, it's here on the home page. And I should cover as well, there are two separate webinars now, and we've made this decision to have one webinar that's open to all traders, and this webinar we're going to go through some of the details in the platform, some of the live order flow, and then answer any questions that you have about the platform. The reason being is that the structure we had before was starting to kind of slow some people down. They would come to the webinar and want to learn more about how to integrate Bookmap within their trading, and instead they're getting bogged down within just going over some basics in the platform. So those that are in trial or are customers or subscribers at the moment, then in half an hour at 11 Eastern we will have the second webinar. It's only open to those in trial or those current customers, so that way we know we're reaching the right group to go over more advanced features and then how to integrate it in. So you can attend both if you're in trial or you're a current customer, but this one is for all traders. So you understand what Bookmap is and how it can give you an edge here in your trading. So let's explore here and we'll come down and come to the pricing area here, connectivity and pricing. So there are two versions of Bookmap. There's the basic version and the advanced version, 49 per month, 99 per month build quarterly, and for each of them you get a 14-day trial period. Now there's also these two here that are package deal with DX feed. So you will need, if you are connecting to futures data, then you will need data provider. They are listed here for connecting Bookmap. You can see them all here. And there are also partner brokers that we have as well. And the DX feed is just a partnership we have with DX feed and this will allow you access to U.S. equities. And you can get the DX feed with the basic or advanced. It's just that you would purchase it separately. And here you get a little bit of a discount with the package deal. The differences between the Bookmap basic and advanced are the add-ons and the one-click trading here for the most part. There are some other differences as well, but those are the big differences. Bruce, the second session is recorded. In fact, I need to send an email out to you guys for that recording. I recorded it yesterday as well. So that's where you can find Bookmap. Give it a try. If you log into Bookmap in the portal, you will have access here to all of the components and features and education, the video snippets, recorded webinars, et cetera. You can also find them here on our YouTube page. There's the features and components here in the playlist, the order flow video snippets, which are very short, concise videos that go through the phenomena that we see here daily in the webinars, just a very, very concise version of it. You can also see here the educational course that we put together. Parts one through four. Highly recommend you go through that. But do this when you're in trial. It would be more beneficial for you when you're in trial so that you can start to play around with Bookmap at the same moment that you're learning about what is showing you and how to use it. Recorded platform webinars are here, this webinar. And then you can see a professional trader here. Futures Trader 71 has some videos as well. You can also follow us on Twitter here. OK. All right. Well, let's jump in and take a look at the S&P, I guess. I mean, we have some movement here in the charts. You can see the bonds are going crazy to the upside here. Gold as well and the Euro. No, the Euro is not really moving. And let's see. The ES sold off, but it's kind of hovering now as well. And the NASDAQ also sold off, but it's hovering down here. And it did not make a new low. So that's surprising. And the oil as well also sold off. OK. So write down where you can see yesterday where it broke from to the upside. OK. Same with the ES and the NQ. All right. So yeah, let's take a look at the ES. That's fine. And all right. So here's the book map chart. And let me go through the basics here. And I'm going to. Are there a lot of new traders in here? If anyone can let me know here who's new to the webinar here. Would love to love to hear it. OK. Bill, welcome. OK. All right. Yep. Jason, OK. And John, excellent. OK. All right. Well, welcome. And so the reason I ask and we go through the basics here, this is exactly the intent to show you what book map is displaying. So we're going to start with this candlestick chart. And we're all familiar with the candlestick chart. We have also a volume subpanel here. OK. So this is a five minute candlestick chart of the S&P. You can see the open here and the volume that picked up. Immediate drop. OK. So this is open, high, low, close in a five minute period. So we're all familiar with that. But there's a massive problem here. And that problem is there's so much data here that we're just not seeing. And looking at maybe some wicks and how these periods open and close, it does give some insight. But it can be so erroneous. You're basically looking at 5% of the data here in the marketplace, just with this view. OK. We don't know about where the volume traded, how much, what type of volume. We have our subpanel here. That's good. That's helpful. But we have no idea where the traders are on this candlestick chart. OK. We just know the period. And that's a problem. OK. So let's start to layer on some of the information. And I'm going to just start with the best bid and offer. OK. And you can see it now here. This is the current market window. The dash green line is the best bid. The dash red is the best offer. And this number here is the last traded volume. This section over here is the dome. And then you can see everything to the left of this vertical white line here is historical. And right on that line, we can see that this one candle is now forming, is following that best bid and offer. OK. So now, just with the best bid and offer, it's already we get more insight. OK. So let me expand the chart a little bit. And you can quickly zoom in book map. You can use the tools up here. But you can also just use your center mouse wheel. And you can very, very quickly zoom in and out. OK. All right. Patrick, welcome. You're new to trading as well here, to book map. Yeah. So you're interested in trade of eight. Well, I think with trade of eight, they offer the two fold, you can get the desktop along with the web version. OK. So you might want to inquire with them. But the desktop version will be with CQG. OK. And I believe that allows you access to the web version as well. All right. OK. So historical best bid and offer, we can see it here. Now we're starting to understand a little bit, a little bit more. We're starting to understand and gather some information on some of the microstructure about how price started to pause and go have a retest here, and then drop down, and then kind of test back up, and then drop down again. That's what was inside this candlestick. OK. But we still don't know the volume. OK. So that's the issue. We can just see the volume here in the subchart. OK. And we have no idea what type of volume. And that's going to be critical. So let's turn on the volume dots. OK. Now let's make these just a little bit bigger. OK. Just give a little bit of size to it. OK. Now we have a much more complete picture. And this is just the volume alone. And it's very much like a footprint chart. OK. You can see where the volume took place within the price action at the price levels. OK. And you can see the circle size here is basically, it's a graphical representation of those numeric values in a footprint chart. Now you can get those values with the rollover tool, just hover over the dot, and you can see how much volume is trading here. You get the date, the time, what was on the ask, and the volume at that price level. Right. And there's another zoom trick here. Let's click on the move tool here, the hand icon.  I'm just going to use my center mouse wheel. OK. So now we can really see what unfolded within this. And let's go actually a little bit further. OK. So each vertical dotted line is one minute. And then our five minute period is here. Now we have an understanding of where the volume really took place and where the traders are being committed or committing themselves into this market. OK. And we can see that it's a battle back and forth here. There's some buying and selling. It's pretty equal. The pie display here, let me zoom into this area right here and show you what's going on. OK. The pie display is just that so many trades took place here so quickly that we don't have enough space in the pixelated screen to show it to you. So we just give you the overall size to give you the reference to how much volume. And this was over 1,000 contracts that traded. And I can continue to zoom in though. As I continue to zoom in, notice how I'm breaking apart all of those trades. OK. So now we can see really what constituted that trading activity. And this is just millisecond level. And still, we can see algorithmic activity here. Hitting the bid pretty hard here, then hitting it again here. OK. Not the most mechanical here. I mean, we can see other examples very clearly. But anyway, you'll see it all the time here. And now, as I start to zoom back out though, note how I give you the book map gives you the overall here of this volume dot. So you can understand really what happened here. And it's like basically 2 thirds of this was selling volume. And 1 third was aggressive buying. You can see by the dots here an aggressive buy is a market buy. Someone hit the Market Buy button. They crossed the spread. That's the aggression. And they took liquidity off of the best offer. And the red is they took liquidity with a market sell on the best bid. All right. And as I zoom out, you can see we just visually aggregate this data. All the data is still plotted. Each event is still plotted. So for those of you trading algorithmically or mechanically, you probably will be zooming in here to really check out what. Look how we can just take apart all those trades. And you can understand what occurred in this area here and see how your algorithm is behaving. That's actually why book map was developed in the first place was to test algos. Anyway, but we give you the overall when you zoom out. So you have an understanding just by visuals here of what occurred. So without a doubt, I mean, the majority of the trading took place on the lower half of this candlestick. And that's insightful. We can also see the type. I mean, there's a lot of buying. But then the selling picked up right down in this area here. We're probably going to see a lot of absorption here. That's the next thing to go over. We've got the volume. We've got the type of volume it is, the size, and the location. And now let's go over the auction process, the intent of the traders at these areas. And that we usually see in the dome. Now there's a problem though with the dome. This is the book map dome here. And we also have this is the dome here in bar representation. And then we have some volume columns here. And I've split that out. But let me right click and aggregate that back together. All right, there you go. All right, so the dome here, this is your best bid and offer. And then you can see the depth here on the offer and the depth here on the bid. And what's beyond these two white lines is historical best bid and offer. We don't know until we go up and refresh that data. But this is the lit book in this area right here. 10 deep on the bid, 10 deep on the offer. Now the problem here is if you trade the dome, then you understand that there's a lot to remember here. And you're just going to have to do it mentally. You're going to have to remember these areas. You're going to have to remember the high liquidity that was there. Did they pull? Did they stay in the book? Did they get filled? What about the areas behind it or in front of it? Were they less bearish? Or were they bearish or bullish depending on how they behave in that area? And then what about on the bid? Were they pressing going the other way? And then you'll have to remember those areas when price returns back to those zones, those price zones. So that's the issue here because you can see as I scroll forward, the numbers change and then that previous number is gone. So we don't have that recording of that data. And that's where Bookmap can help you because we can turn on the heat map here. So what the heat map has done, and let me go back to the current market here. So I want to show this window here. In this window here, the current market window, you can see there's this gray scale heat map. And the liquidity here is higher when it gets brighter. So these are very bright areas down here, 1,600 contracts. In these areas here, they're starting to get bright here at 1,400, 1,1443 over here at 72. So we're getting some insight here with the high liquidity. Now, you can change the heat map to configure it in any way that you like. If you want to look at little brighter areas, well, you can do that and just play around with these. And you get a lot more insight here potentially for you. Little flip of the book right there, notice that. And high liquidity that was here on the offer has now flipped over to the bid on 71. And we see aggressive buying here. These guys are going to be trapped down below and try to run the stops maybe up above here into 73. Anyway, a quick analysis on that just because this popped in like that. And it's nice to see that phenomena. It's just great, great stuff. Anyway, so now you can start to gauge the intent of these traders bidding and offering, providing liquidity. And let me bring down that setting a little bit. So we just want to target some of that high liquidity. And the reason being is the high liquidity usually, these are the longer term players that stay in the market and they mean to trade at these levels. Now, that really depends though. But we can still gauge their intent when we come up and trade into these areas. So a lot of traders, they say, well, the liquidity here, it's all fake, you don't know. Well, that's not necessarily true. I mean, it's a FIFO market. First in, first out. If you want to get filled with large size, you're going to be using limit orders or hidden orders. And you're going to be waiting at your price level. Because once you start to hit that market buy button, you're going to be driving price against you. Because you're going to be sweeping all of the liquidity at each price level. So you see a lot of absorption with the larger players like down in here. And this gives you a lot of insight to what's going on. So let's zoom into this area and let's see. Did they stay in the book or did they pull? A lot of it pulled surprisingly here. But we also see the transactions that took place. Now I'm going to turn on the one more layer here, the indicator display. And I'm just curious, because every time I see large players like this starting to pull liquidity, but you see transactions, I'm looking for iceberg orders. And actually, I don't see many here. I'm surprised. I was anticipating seeing quite a bit here in these areas. But maybe a little bit lower. Really, the icebergs were actually here beforehand. 626 and 191. And there is a 107 here at this level. So anyway, now we're starting to understand the intent of these traders at some of these levels. A lot of transactions, a lot of sell side. But look at all of this volume here, and it moves price like two or three ticks. And then we go sideways for a bit. And then we can see that they're starting to lift the offer with some volume on the other side. And then what that leads to is what we just saw here. We did get one more little rotation here, and you can see the breakout here. So anyway, now you've got a complete picture of the limit order book. You can see where they're bidding and offering and their intent. These guys up here, did they stay in the book? No, I mean, they were one tick away and they started to pull. As you can see, as they got darker here, that's what these striations represent. So if I hover over here, it says date, time on the ask, 1,400 contracts, 1,432. And then if I just go over it into the darker area, they went down to 1,377. And then they bumped it up, 1,408, and then back down to 1,373. So they don't really have, I mean, they're still staying here until this point, but they are pulling as well. And that's showing kind of bearish behavior. All right, nice iceberg here, as you can see on the best bid. And then we saw a couple other little phenomena that we go over all the time. And that is the flip of the book. They were here on the offer, they flip over to the bid, and here they are aggressively again on the bid. And we saw it here as well. This is a better example right in this area here, 1,500 contracts, and they're pulling. So I'm still anticipating movement to the upside, and I'm targeting, well, we originally were targeting 73, and we're already there. I don't know, let's see, where is it opened here? So if we continue to the upside, then I'm looking for this 76 up here in this area. And you can already see traders lining up, providing liquidity there. Okay, so now we've got a complete picture of the order flow, not just the transactions, where they're taking place in the tape, and what type of volume it is, and who's winning the battle, and the speed of the market, all of these important distinctions that you really don't see in a candlestick chart. And well, you don't see it all. I mean, there's some speed here you see in a candlestick, but you don't, this little micro swing area here, you don't see that, right? It's lost. You get all of that here. And why is that important? Well, because what usually occurs here is we trade in ranges, and then there's a breakout of that range. And then it's usually between high areas of liquidity, okay? High areas of liquidity here at 68, and then it was up here at this 71 and three quarters. Then they got aggressive here, and actually started to press down on price. Looking to me, like, you know, now this is the distinction here. And we covered this just the other day, yesterday and Friday, I believe, or Thursday in good detail. About making that distinction between that longer-term liquidity that has the intent to trade and that shorter-term liquidity that does not, okay? They're looking to skew the auction, okay? Slam in here with high liquidity, but only for a short period and then pull it, okay? When there is all of a sudden a lot more supply than there is demand, well, you know, price is probably gonna drift to the downside, okay? And in this case, who knows if they were successful or not?   This is kind of what I was looking for earlier, all right? But anyway, and then they get aggressive here, bidding up at a higher area, bidding up again, yet again at a higher area, and then we see that flip of the book. We are now in a new trading range up in this area, all right? Okay, all right. So I think any questions, what you're looking at in book map? I'm just trying to start off very simply, but you can see. And I'm not trying to get too advanced here. It's just, I'm just looking at the structure, the microstructure, how the auction is behaving within these structures. Are they adding? Are they pulling? I wanna understand their intent. And I'm also looking at where they're actually transacting. And that's basically it. And putting that all together. So in your dome, I mean, we still see 1,355 contracts here, okay? If we get a retest to this area, I'm very curious to see if they're gonna stay in that book and remain here and wanna get filled and support price in this new trading range. Okay, but we'll gauge that when we come down to it. Right now, they're staying in here. And we're trading between the high liquidity here at 71 and a half and 74. Okay, let's see, John. Does it also work on higher timeframe like 15 minute, one hour? Absolutely. This is a great thing. And I really enjoy it, although you can only see that while I open my book map here before 8 a.m. and we have three hours of data here, okay? So when you open up your book map, you start collecting the data. Now, you can collect it and keep your book map open all week. A lot of traders do that. And you have a week's worth of data. But absolutely, I mean, there are many traders looking on higher timeframes at this data. And let me show you why. Okay, we're just going to really target that higher liquidity here, okay? This is why, coming down to a level of their interest, they wanna see if traders are lined up. And you can see that here. Okay, off of this timeframe, half hour between each vertical dotted line here. Okay. And you can start to also gauge targets on that higher timeframe, 74, 76, all right? So, you know, you'd be looking at your trading plan. You'd be looking at, let's take the candles off for a moment. And starting to understand some of these areas that we pierced through it, but they lined up in the book down here. And then we can see them, you know, lift the offer here. We do get a pullback. And where do we get a pullback to? You know, we don't come back down and test the lows. Instead, we test only to this little, this high volume node here, this little cluster of trading here. That's where the initiated buying occurred. And you can see the sellers didn't take them on. And then again, the buyers here lift the offer pretty aggressively, okay? All right. So, that's the, one of the beauties here is that dome data now is useful on the higher timeframe. Now you can read the order book on a higher timeframe. And yeah, just start to understand how liquidity behaves, just like you understand how volume behaves. All right. All right, guys, well, let's wrap it up. We'll call it a day and we will continue on tomorrow and see you and if you guys are in trial, we'll see you immediately in the following webinar, okay? All right, yeah, thanks for coming. We'll catch up with you tomorrow. Bye-bye.


Welcome back, and yes, it's time for Winner Home and Afternoon Express, where we follow three young talented designers as they transform three empty properties at Valdivia State into dream homes, using finishes provided by Caesar Stone and Plaskon. And at the end of it all, we're giving away one of those completed apartments worth over 3 million rand, to one lucky viewer. Earlier on in the week, our three design contestants met up with their mentors to look at their bathroom plans and be inspired by the wealth of experience their mentors have to share. After narrowly losing out to Rudolph in the guest bedroom challenge, the pressure is building for Joanne as she needs to wow the judges with her bedroom design. And what's going to happen here? We're going to put white tiles all the way up, all the way, and then on the ground as well. So we have this white tile shower, and then we're going to go with grey, or should we go with grey on the floor? Or aren't you going to do a cement or concrete floor? I think that would be great. Your bath is white? Yes, and white walls. And I think it's very important that you pull the colours that you had in the bedrooms and in the other parts of the room, and pull it through into the bathroom. Because it is actually part of that bedroom. Okay, great. So you should try to incorporate the copper somehow. Yeah, we definitely will incorporate the copper. That's what we're going to have for the vanity. And we have the concrete basin that Sioux is making for us. I think it's brilliant that you're bringing in the natural materials and it will be a very good contrast, the warmth of the wood against the coveness of the concrete. Okay, and a mirror? We have a large floating mirror. It's going to be about this far from the wall. And I love the idea that it's standing away from the wall, and it will just create the dead. Yes, yes. No, I think it's fabulous. I just liked Minent Le's use of colour in the guest bedroom, but he's going to have to up his game from a design and salability perspective if he plans to catch up with the others. In terms of our references, do you want to take me through exactly what you had in mind for walls, floors, ceilings, what's our wow factor, how are we going to set ourselves apart? I think what's going to have us stand out is having this huge feature wall. So I have this idea of having a mosaic feature wall. For the mirrors, I want to do something different whereby I take up this concept of the frame, which is I get from the guest bedroom. With the palette that I came up with from the guest bedroom, I'm taking it into the bathroom in the very early colours and I'm going to have it up with some plants as accessories around the bathroom just to give it some life. Remember I said I'm going for the ceilings and you recommended the other one. Yeah, you wish you went that one. We couldn't use the same ceilings. As much as I probably would have wanted to as well, but those only make those hard decisions where you actually do it because it's strategic. I think focus on firstly the technical drawings and just really get into grips with the planning and that.  I think the season start is crucial because we didn't have element in the last challenge, so make sure that that one's really strong. I'm definitely honest, I'm very excited that this project we got this. Rudolf may have come out on top for the first challenge, but with no time for complacency, he's already looked waste to set his bathroom design apart from the competition. Michelle, I really like this puravido range, which is white, one of my favourite colours. And something, what do you think of the shower aid? I really do like the shape of it. It's really organic. It's really a nice piece by itself. I like it. I think it's going to add the spa-like feeling of your bathroom and I think it's a designer piece. It's going to add huge value to the bathroom. What I do like about it is that it will fall straight down and with the main bathroom, we have a much shorter shower than in the guest bathroom. Well, let's go and see what it looks like. Let's go. So, Michelle, this is Michelle David from Unsquad. Hi, nice to meet you. Michelle, I would like to know if this is going to be the right choice for me. I really like the puravido range. I am concerned about the splashing that's going to happen in the shower because I don't have shower doors and also about the eco-friendliness. It's obviously a valid concern for any bathroom and this particular shower head is great because it uses eco-smart technology. It combines three parts air with one part water, which uses only nine litres of water per minute, but you've still got your triple XL size shower head factor, which means if you look at the human body from the top, it forms a rectangular shape.  Would you like to see how it works? Yeah, sure, please. And do you have a matching hand shower? Of course we do, Rudolph. You can have a look at this rather voluminous puravido hand shower here and it's got the white chrome, which matches your overhead shower head. One of the functions is a massage function. I like that. I really like that. This is great. Yeah, especially for a smile. Wow, now with only a few days left, the pressure is really on. Another factor our design contestants need to take into consideration is who will be purchasing the apartment they're designing. At different stages of our lives, we all have different needs. Now, Bonnie's on the couch to learn more. So as people progress through different life stages and their family structures and financial situations change, so do their housing needs and preferences. We have Tim Akinusi with us in the loft, who's the head of sales and client value management at Nedbank Home Loans. Welcome back, Tim. Thank you. Lovely to have you with us again. Thank you, Bonnie. So typically when you first leave your parent home, you're looking to possibly rent an apartment. I mean, what should we be thinking about at that stage of our lives when it comes to eventually owning a home? So yeah, I think to start off with, you know, when you do leave your parents home and if you perhaps maybe don't get a windfall of some money to put into a new place, the typical route is to start to rent. Because at rental, you then just limit and you cap your expenses to just the rental. The intention really is that you don't go in there and just rent and continuously rent over a prolonged period of time. But really, when you start renting, you should be thinking about how to get into property. So therefore, you should be saving from the onset. We don't think that there's any particular life stage that one needs to get into property. It really is about when you are economically active and you have some savings, you should get in and find something that suits your life stage at that point in time. Right, so the next stage of life is you've moved out of your parents' home for a while and then you understand that you need to start investing in your future and buying your first home. What are the most important considerations? I remember when I first bought my home, I think I made a few mistakes. I know far better now. Hindsight's the best side. But what do I need to consider? I think firstly, when you are in the process of deciding on buying a house, you should start to think about it from the time you even rented. It's not enough to get into the investment market and property is one of those investment classes that you can get into. And the idea is that when you buy your first house, you stay in it long enough to pay some equity into it by paying down the debt. And over time, you expect that the house, should the market conditions be correct, should appreciate in value. And when you eventually do sell that because your life stage has evolved, you now found a partner, you want to settle down, you then have the ability to have some savings based on what you've paid into the house as well as the appreciation of the property itself to then put a nice down payment into the next house. And by doing this, what it allows you to do is to influence your loan to value so banks can see that you're committed to this particular property. And secondly, you have more influence over the rate that we give you on your property. And so that sits you off on a good course to continue to do the same thing. Pay more into that property, the house appreciates, and as your family enlarges, you can then look at buying your third home. Or even if it's just to be able to start to create some level of wealth by paying down this house and then leaving it as a legacy to your kids or to do some of the things with it from an investor standpoint. Does there such a thing as being too young to buy property? That's the great thing about it is that you're never too young. As long as you are economically active and you can afford it, it's the right thing to do because you are putting yourself in a position where over time you can create something that will be left for you over the next five to 10 years. So my view is that the narrative on property being for the older generation to change because as long as you have an intention of paying for the place and looking after it, it should serve you all as an asset. Thank you so much, Tim. I'll definitely make better decisions when I'm buying my next property. Netbank can help and assist you through all the different stages of life wherever you might call home. 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My name is Jimmy, his name is Jake and this is the Weekly Dumb.  Spass mouthing! Banging a mountain. Visiting his sister, which is very nice. Very nice brother stuff. There's nothing romantic about it with that. Alright Jake, let's get straight to the sports. Yes! Straight into it. Straight to the sports dude. You want to do the first sports story? Nah second one. Yeah, actually Ben Macadoo Jim former Giants Legend Jim great hair. He got in front of the press couple hair guys He impressed by not impressing is what I'd say first question asked. It's too sunny in here for you We're first question by good asked by the media is a great question by the media Who's your starting quarterback? Yeah, great question. They're like a Sam Darno. You starting quarterback said yeah That's like the number one question for every person asking about a football team They don't know about and then a minute and a half later in the interview He was like another thing I got to get better at is talking to you guys and not earlier. Yeah I said Darno is our starting quarterback. I shouldn't have said that should not have said that It's not really my decision. Are you saying Darno Darno Darnold. No, what do you think about the name Ben Macadoo? three two one Five and a half eight But Benjamin Macadoo is like an eight James. It's the talk of the office right now. You said hey everyone listen There's an almost a breakdown. I must tell you about two bears one trampoline not a porn I love trampolines.  Just clocked her came down right in the forehead. She woke up had a bruise. I laughed So hard lost all my bear takes turn your story Jake.  I watched it as a kid It was awesome. They saved his ball like you think they saved his ball the surgery and then he saved his ball Tom green Revolutionary guy. Thanks, Manscape saving balls Jim. We're talking about ball sticks and woodpeckers Here you're my hockey guy though. Yeah, so these woodpeckers are pecking a hole in the hockey stick It's a giant hockey stick outside in ice arena It weighs a lot of pounds much 61,000 61,000 pound hockey stick. It's in Canada and They had a bird expert in the news story. They're like what what strategy should we use here in the bird expert was like Why don't I? Best strategy is to give it a new home. We would love if the bird wasn't here. I love experts Yeah, I'm an expert in my field and I think the best way to get the bird to not be pecking wood here Is to give it some new wood to peck somewhere else. These woodpeckers will peck wood so we should get them out of here Rinds me of the job Jackass when I remember they put a wooden like condom on Pontius and they had the bird peck his wiener. Yeah Jim there's a knot sports that you went through the office and you're like there's a knot sports I must tell the people about today and it comes from Wellesley Wellesley college is urging students to not kiss the runners Boston Marathon runs through and a bunch of female students.  For my buddy Jake and have the sign say do it for Zach He's watching from above they would make that for for you and then it would motivate you also They would give you a little kiss if you wanted it But now they're being urged to not kiss the runners and urged is an interesting word, right? It means like strongly advise which means this is nothing nothing urge means nothing I strongly advise you to not touch that phone I'm gonna touch it. Yeah, you just you say you're not allowed There's a simple rule to kissing that I learned on day one. No such thing as too much tongue No, that's what you always tell me that's what you always tell me if someone wants to be kissed by you You can kiss them If they don't I wouldn't kiss them unless they're your family got to be some broken teeth Right guy running by trying to get a kiss on the fly full-speed kisses are tough How many how many people enter the marathon just at this scream tunnel just to get the kisses in I'd rather do that than run in Zach's dead honor It's the employee of the week It's the employee of the week that's it doesn't matter though because we're doing the employee the month Rip it up, baby Zach and his sister for rekindling their Sibling ship This jacket is wet and smelly. It's smell what happened was the water has now released a cat piss odor From probably the goodwill. We got it. Can you take a whiff of this to confirm? Please how am I always please just confirm that the wet jacket smells it I kind of got a puke like I don't smell the wet part and confirm it Oh confirmed congrats to Zach for winning employee of the month Today's episode of the weekly dumb was brought to you by Manscaped are you ready to be blown away? You asked for it and they listened our friends at Manscape just relaunched the ultra smooth Package same thing Jake calls his dick.   Do you guys want me to throw up?  I've worn it. I hope it doesn't stay now We almost had chunks on cam


Now, what is complex substituents you see suppose I will write down this example heading you write down complex substituents complex substituents are those substituents are branch which contains branch branch contains branches suppose this example 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and at this position we have this group ok. Can you tell me the longest chain? Can you tell me the name of this compound? What is the length of the compound? 2.5. 2.5. So, is it 2.5? 1 2 3 4 5. What is the length of the compound? Oh, it is 2.5. So, you see here one thing the parent's stop talking the parent's chain is this right and this group is attached to the parent's chain right. Now, this group you see the I know rule is what to number this substituents actually the substituents you can either take this as the parent's chain in the substituents or this as the parent's chain. You see this is attached to the parent's chain you can either take this as the parent's chain if you take this as the parent's chain this becomes a substituent of the substituents ok. So, if I take this as 1 or 2 then this will be methyl is the substituents of this ethyl group correct. If you take 1 and 2 here then this methyl becomes the substituents of this ethyl group right. Do you see the branch is what suppose if I take this example suppose the simpler one is this 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and here we have this look this what is this ethyl right. Now, in this ethyl one hydrogen here is replaced by with what 1 methyl group right. So, this methyl is the branch of this substituents right. So, the branch itself contains branch. So, this substituents is what it is complex substituents. So, which one would you consider the branch? Wait money complex substituents complex substituents you understood right branch itself Now, in this the rule is what to name this complex substituents you have to start the numbering in this complex substituents from the carbon atom which attached with the parent chain ok. We cannot start from this carbon 1 2 3 nickels right. We have to start from this carbon the carbon atom with which the parent chain is attached right. So, if this is 1 you can take either this as 2 or this as 2 1 2 3 nickels because continuous we have to write down the numbering right. So, if it is 1 this is 2 or this is 2 if this is 2 this methyl is the substituents of this ok. So, the name of this compound if you want to write we know the position of this complex substituents that is what that is at 4th position ok. So, 4th 4th dash here we will have the name of complex substituents ok and then how many carbon atom 8. So, it is octane ok you can write this bracket or you if you do not write that is also fine here simply dash also you can write. So, 4 dash 1 methyl right 1 methyl and how many carbon atom in the complex substituents 1 2. So, it is ethyl not ethane 1 methyl ethyl octane ok. So, 1 methyl ethyl is the name of this complex substituents. The position of this complex substituents is 4th position 4 dash 1 methyl ethyl octane is the name of this compound. Sir, there is a space between ethyl. No, no, there is no space. Sir, what is profile? Sir, only profile. Profile is the only profile. Profile is the only profile. Sir, because the numbering from that carbon that is attached to the energy. See, if it is profile then what is this? Sir, if it is profile then what is that? What is this profile then what is this? Sir, it is profile. What is this there? Is this profile? Sir, what is the. 1, 2, 3 it is in the parent phase. Part of the parent phase. We are already counting this in the snow that is how we know the area. 1, 2, 3. So, this one is propyl 1, 2, 3. If this is propyl, this cannot be propyl. The purpose of IUPAC nomenclature is what? Each and every compound will have a different name. If this is propyl, this is not propyl. But this one is not propyl. Why? Because we have to start numbering from the carbon atom of the complex substituents, which is attached with the parent chain. So, in case of this complex substituents, this di term, di tri tetra if you write, that will consider in alphabetical sequence. Do not ask me why it is the rule. I said what, when the complex substituents we have, then di tri tetra will consider in alphabetical sequence. In simple substituents, di tri tetra are not, we would not consider that into the alphabetical sequence. That is why here you see D ethyl and methyl we have. So, E and M we are comparing. Now, some other example, need to copy this one? I will write down some other examples. Tell me the name of this one. Wow. Wow.  Now we can take this as 2 or this as 2 or this as 2. Suppose I take this one as the second card. The name of this is 1 comma 1 dimethylethyl, okay. So the position of this is 5, dimethylethyl we have here. This is profile and this is methyl. Ethyl profile methyl, which one we should write first? First we write ethyl, then methyl and then profile. So, the name of this compound is at fifth position we have 1 comma 1 dimethyl dimethyl 2 dimethyl, then we will write 2 dimethyl, 2 dimethyl, so 1 will be for a 3 dimethyl profile So, 2 carbon, right? So, ethyl and at first we have 2 methyl group, so 1 comma 1 by ethyl This one, this is the variation is this This is the parent here, right? So, it is one substituent, another substituent So, the name is longer than the compound, what is the point of naming it? If you draw the comma, you will get one, so the worst case is what? You lose 4 marks See, there are 2 different types of notches, so you will have 3 different types of notches You won't have 3 different types of notches So, the worst case, you don't dimethyl, dimethyl, the difference will be trust in the end Not because of that, because it is complex substituent, the parent chain has 2 carbon atoms So, it is ethyl, so we have to write this in the last, all the parent chain, the carbon atoms will write in the last known etch So, if you name only this, it will be 1 comma 1 dimethyl ethyl, because 2 methyl is a part of substituent The chain is this ethyl But, there is no other substituent here, suppose if you write down here one including ethyl, suppose if I write down iodine, I like this 1 comma 1 will write dimethyl first, because then this dimethyl and iodine we are comparing Right, but we have only one substituent, one kind of substituent, that is dimethyl only So, here that thing is not there Yes, the parent chain is 2 carbon, so it is ethyl for that It is not the substituent, it is the parent chain of this complex substituent This complex part gets priority What priority? What is the priority? The parent chain You know that we will see only alphabetical sequence Only alphabetical sequence Sir, I did not get a complex substituent You have a complex substituent No, second or second No, I am not getting a complex substituent Sir, I start numbering by that Sir, I start numbering by that Sir, I start numbering by that Sir, I start numbering by that Sir, this is the reason we have this boundary The nature Sir, I see- How complex it is But we can't say Sir, for example At the end there should be Theme In this they are pelvis Sir, there is a complex So now it goes like this. I have already done it. Sir, sir, we have a change. Sir, I will do this one. Sir, you do this one. Sir, you can do that. Sir, you can do that. That's simple one. From here, we'll start the... Yeah. Sir, it'll be three years. No, that's just... Right? We'll do this and then we'll see. Sir, it'll be three years. Okay. In this one, we'll start. How many from the left side? Sir, four. Left side? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine. Okay? Now, in the fourth question, we have Ithail. And here we have... Ithail, Ithail, Ithail, Ithail. One Ithail Ithail. So what will you write here? Four Ithail, five Ithail, Ithail. First we'll write Ithail or Ithail Ithail. Ithail, sir. Four Ithail, Ithail, Ithail. Ithail, Ithail, Ithail. Five, one Ithail. Ithail, no, Ithail. Ithail, no, Ithail. No, Ithail, no, Ithail. No, no. Sir, but in both the branches, Ithail, the complex one, also the best, you know, the complex one has Ithail. It is a variation of the complex substitutes. Both here Ithail, then we compare this. M here. E comes first. In this one, the variation is what? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Three times Ithail, four, seven, eight, take it. Okay. Three, five, Is this a complex of children looking at? Yes. No. It is. It is. Okay. So the numbering is what? So, one eta is one eta. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Yeah, right? Correct. Is? One file, no file, one, no file. No. The profile is 300 ml. Get all right to face. Thanks. See you. See you. Bye.


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