I'm going to call this meeting to order. Chairman Hanna will not be attending attendance this evening. That's why I'll be running the meeting. So call to order this committee of the whole meeting. Roll call, please. All right. Belt. Here. Horan. Here. Carlson. Here. Decker. Excuse. Hammond. Here. Hanna. Excuse. Heidemann. Here. Coth. Here. Hiddleston is here. Maddachek. Here. Rinflaich. Here. Reisler. Here. Samson. Excuse. Van Akron. Here. Vanderweel. Here. And Versi. Excuse. Excuse. We have one, two, three. 12 members of our council are here. We have a quorum. All right, thank you. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And TV tonight. We are televised this evening. It is not live, I don't believe. But yes, we'll be televised. Looking for approval of the previous minutes? To move. Second. Motion made in second for approval. All in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Review, discussion, and possible action on tentative redistricting map for city of Sheboygan. Sue, I believe that's going to be you. Good evening, everybody. I feel weird being down here and not timing myself up there. We'll give you more than five minutes. Yes. We can start the watch. Would you like the additional minute? Would you like your extra minute? Yes, I do need an extra minute. We will give you the six minutes, but not too much. I know how it feels. I totally know how it feels. What we're going to do tonight is I gave you the map at the last council meeting, which was a shrunken version of your presence you have on your table right now, which is a bigger one you can read. This is a map that the county clerk Julie Glancy, who is here with us tonight, which is wonderful, because she can give us a history of how we do the redistricting. That is the result, as of now, of where we're at. And we're going to talk about the deadlines that we have to meet, talk about the wards in the districts, et cetera. So what we'll do is I gave you a handout, this one right here, that just kind of summarized everything we're going to talk about tonight. So I'll let Julie start and just give you a little bit of history on what the process is, because I'm sure many of you have not been through the redistricting process, so I think it's important, sorry, that you know. Julie? All right. Well, what I'm sure you do know is that we do this once every 10 years. We're required to do that after the census. And we have a couple of requirements that we need to follow in terms of size of wards. Of course, whenever you redistrict, your goal is equal population for every one of your districts, not necessarily size, but population for your districts. And when we start the process, the county is really supposed to draw their supervisory districts first. That's the plan we have April and May to get that done. Then the county adopts what's called their tentative redistricting plan, which we did at our May County Board meeting. And then it gets passed on to the municipalities to draw war lines and for cities to create aldermanic districts. Sue and I did it a little bit backwards for the city of Sheboygan, simply because we knew going in that the number of aldermen wasn't going to change. You were going to stay with the 16 aldermen with eight districts. The county, based on a decision made by our redistricting committee, opted to go with 10 supervisors from the city of Sheboygan instead of the 16 we currently have, because we're reducing the size of the board. And that in combination with the fact that the city did actually lost population, where the rest of the county grew in population, dropped you down from 16 to 10 supervisors in the city. So we knew going in that our county board supervisors were going to end up with all but four of them next April, having to run against one of their fellow supervisors if they all choose to run again for a county board. So we wanted to make sure that the aldermanic districts, which were staying the same, would contain the two aldermen they currently have within those districts. And we felt that was the easiest way to go, because we needed to divide the city of Sheboygan not only into eight equal aldermanic pieces, but then take those pieces and divide them into 10 equal county board supervisory pieces. We did that, and we ended up with a total of 23 wards. And that looks a little bizarre, but you have to remember that we have to cut the pieces smaller, because I have to take two pieces from over here and add it to this supervisory district and things like that. We also had to watch for the fact that wards in the city cannot be more than 3,200 people. So we couldn't create larger wards. We had to cut wards up a little bit more. So we had hoped to stay with 24, and we actually made 23 wards.  But we really worked on this and tried to make it so that we would have a large ward and then two smaller wards that we could combine into one polling location so that you wouldn't end up with hopefully more than the 16 polling locations you currently have because that would be significantly expensive for you to outfit an additional poll because you're required by a lot to have the election equipment at every polling place. So that would be expensive. So we tried to keep you to the 16 polling places that you had. You have, as a city, until July to enact your ward plan and ultimately your aldermatic district plan. Then once you're finished with that, it gets sent back to the county by July 22nd and the county has two months then until September to enact their final supervisory district plan. The reason we start with a tentative plan and go to a final is that if you look at the plan and you say, you know what, I think that line, instead of going down this street, you go down the other street, you're within your right to change that as long as you leave the county board's supervisory districts with the correct population. You can't create a situation where we suddenly have 100 or 200 fewer people in a supervisory district than we did before. You can move it a little bit and tweak it but you can't necessarily reinvent the wheel. But in case you do have some changes you wanna make, I know that Sue is looking at renumbering your wards a little bit. So you're gonna take care of all that and when it comes back to the county, then we use what you've adopted and enacted to enact our final supervisory district plan. Questions about that? Queries? Any questions for anybody? No? Okay, gotta get my glasses on for this. If you just follow along, I'm just giving you the key points in what is happening right now. The census information, I'm sure most of you know that it came in at 49,288 per population. The proposed plan that you have in front of you, the large map. It has eight automatic districts. It has 16 older people. It has 16 polling locations, 23 wards. And every district will have three wards with the exception of district seven. They will have two. Don't get excited, it's the same population. And then the next thing I did was I broke it down by district so that you know the aldermen are paired. I kinda call it pairing up. I'm not giving numbers except for the district number. If you look at district one, that would be Alderman Hannon-Raisler with a population for the whole district, mind you. 61, 36, and you go right down the list. Alderman Versi Carlson.  Basically you can see that it's basically 6,100 for most of them in that range and district eight is a little higher. I did that just for you Alderman Bourne. Then I have a list of the eight districts who would be up, their term would be up next year. So you can see for district one through eight which one of the aldermen, their term would be up. All the other aldermen that's matching in your pairs were elected this year, this election. So that's working out pretty nice. Then let's go to the next page. Now I don't know if you all want to pull your maps out or is it too big to do? I don't know if I'm gonna be heard if I move, probably not. Yeah, basically what we did was we had them blow up a mega map so that you could see it and the TV audience could see it. Basically the colored map that you have has eight district divisions and 23 ward divisions. The solid black lines indicate the districts. The colored block areas indicate each ward so you'll see a different color for each ward. The district numbers are set one through eight. However, I've not done the Aldermanic Ward numbers yet. That's coming. We need to have an ordinance that will be drafted with the legal description of each of the 23 wards to submit to the July 5th council meeting. It will lie over to July 18th and it will be submitted to the county by their deadline of July 22nd. The polling locations will be added later as we will be deleting, adding, and combining current locations so as to accommodate all 23 wards. That's important because with 23 wards, we have 16 locations now. We are equipped with machinery for 16. As Julie said, if we go to more than that, we're talking a major expense for the city and we're trying to avoid that. So what I'm looking at is possibly deleting some of the very tiny polling locations for example, I don't wanna say. I'll get people upset already. A very small location. We may take them and put them nearby in a very large location and have two wards in that location because it's a huge room and we can have, it's good parking and that's what we're looking at. So we're still working on that. It's not done yet. The Shookert Farms annexation that we just did. There's a population of three people there. That will be added to district four. So if you can see on the map here, Julie, if you wanna show the pink, the big pink area there, that Shookert is the white right there. So that will all be going into four, district four. Then we will have combined all of our annexations in probably for the rest of the year. We don't anticipate there's anything coming down the pike, excuse me, down the pike. So everything will be starting fresh as of January one. Like I said, the deadline is really important to submit to the county by July 22nd. The map or the plan won't be in effect until January one of 12. So it will be in effect for next year's election cycle. What I see is one of the major things with this. Question. Yes. If it goes into effect on January 1st of 2012, we take out our nomination papers on the first week of December. Are we supposed to go out and get signatures in our area that we have right now? You do it in your new area. In the new area. Really for your new area. Yep. All right. And then we will have like Alderman Born and I talked this morning or yesterday morning, whichever it was, about getting individual district maps so that you will know what your district boundaries are rather than carrying this around, going down the neighborhoods, you might look a little silly, but you'll have a separate map with that. Plus, okay, as we get to it, plus the ordinance that we have to draft, we'll have what we call, it's a legal description. What it is, is you go east from the lake to this street. You go south here, whatever it is, that will describe every part of your district boundary. If you notice on the map, we worked really hard to get on center on these wards. I know if you look at the last map from 10 years ago, the borders are horrendous. I mean, they're all over the place. So we worked really hard to get everything as straight and as even as we could, just so that it would be easier for you to campaign and it would also be easier to describe that district if someone says, do I live on the east side of the street, west side, who represents me, what polling place do I go to? Like I said before, the biggest thing that I see will be the education of the public. I think that's gonna be huge. We need to help them understand that they possibly will be in a new district and ward number, the names of their older persons and their polling location will be number one because I can see potential for, whenever you do a change like this, people just struggle with that. So we have some plans on what to do as far as education. Yes. Question. That's what I was gonna ask if you had a plan for what. Well, we're working on it. The education will happen probably in the, we don't wanna do it too soon because people will forget. So it'll be later in the fall, again before the election cycle starts and thereafter everyone, just to remind people, we believe that the state database will be kicking out postcards when the redistricting goes into effect that will actually be sent to all voters saying, this is where you vote, this is your district, on and on. So we don't know for sure, but right now it looks like that every voter will get some kind of. It appears that that's, we believe that. Communication. We've been told that. Here's your new. Yeah. Or current. Somebody has to do that. We can't believe the state yet. We also, 10 years ago, we published that insert that's in the paper, every election. What we did 10 years ago was we published individual maps of every district so that voters could look at, without looking at a big city and trying finding themselves. We did each individual district so they could look at that and figure out where they needed to go. So we really do try and get the information out there to them. And we also, with the polling locations, as soon as we secure some new locations which we're looking at in your area to get some polling down in that area and way in the south side, you're in Eric's area. As soon as we have that all figured out and we figured out who we're taking out, who we're adding, then what we will do is have it plotted on this map. We'll have the polling locations. We don't want to plot them yet until we know, otherwise I'm just wasting engineering time to do it. So I want to have a whole list of where we're going with this. So the next plotting will be the polling locations, which I said might take a few months for us to secure new ones and figure that whole thing out. But this was a horrendous project and thank God Julie was there to help with it because she's been through this before. We sat for Saturdays just going through and we try every different direction and see which way it would go and work. And finally we found it, we figured it out, we started in the upper left-hand corner I believe was our final one that we did and it just started to pull into place. So I hope you're happy with it. I think that this is a good map. This is a really good district map and I don't think it's going to disrupt a lot. You've lost some of your constituents and you've gained some. So, and there's no way around that. There's just no way around it. So I guess, are there any questions before I wrap this five minute thing up? I guess what we'd be looking for or I would be looking for is for this committee because we are on a time thing. I'd be looking for this committee to recommend having a draft ordinance drawn so that we can submit it to the July 5th meeting and then we'll take care of putting all the legals in and everything so we can get it through by the 22nd. Now the recommendation, if that's the will of this committee to direct the attorney McLean to draft that legislation or that documentary talking about, does that need to go to the council first? It'll go to the council and we probably will just lie it over to the 18th of July and it'll be passed and then we'll get it over to Julie's office right after the meeting. I see Alderman Hammond had a question. Nope, I was just going to make the motion. Okay, before you do. I know in some cities and some areas redistricting certainly is causing quite a headache beyond just the formalities of adding, counting people and drawing lines and so on. I want to give my compliments though when I see this map and see boundaries that are relatively straight. Isn't that wonderful? Right forward. The questions of seemingly three corners are in one district but I have the fourth corner and you see competitive science I guess is eliminated. I also like it's not a question of who lives within the districts. It's straight and easy lines that people within the district have easy access to their vote and they're all like that as well. As you can see if you look at the map, I see top district one, seven and eight down below. The gerrymandering is only because of our outside city boundaries and nothing to do with their inside city boundaries and everything else looks fairly clean and straight so I thank you for doing so. You're welcome. For those if this is passed that are no longer in my district I thank you for your support and those that are coming in, I apologize in advance. We did, Alderman Carlson and I talked a little bit about the logistics of people with their signs already made up. Their numbers are gonna be different. How do we handle this and Alderman Carlson made a good suggestion, Alderman Boren did too that he's done this in the past where if you have elect so-and-so for district whatever you can get a little label or sticker or something and just slap that on there, still use your signs. Duck tape works fantastic. Duck tape, whatever works. And it's best friend. And obviously we'll be changing business cards and things like that, that will happen down the road. Alderman Hammond, you had a motion? I would make the motion, we direct the city attorney to draft an ordinance and send it to council reflecting Ms. Richards' plan. Second. We have a motion and a second to basically approve the plan. Thank you so much. Is there any other discussion regarding this issue? See none, all in favor of that motion say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye, opposed? Motion carries. Oh thank you Alderman. We'll take care of it. Any questions, you can always come up to my office. Before we move on I will give everyone a chance to roll up their map. Slightly like the area of the red area you gained. Is it a different number? All right, moving on. Next we'll have the presentation by IT manager Dave Augusten, Audiovisual Process Demo. Looks like this may be a minute or two yet. Are you ready? Yeah, well, just about. Setting up, I'll give you a fantastic run down on the river for- The floor is yours. Layout in the room, thank you council members. Little while ago I was given the task of outfitting our council chamber room to set it up for Audiovisual to display our agendas up on the walls so we could start to look and work towards a paperless process. So what I have done is contacted three vendors to get some quotes on equipment. Currently we selected Camera Quarter and right now along with us tonight is Alan Hamere from Camera Corner who has graciously got some equipment so we can run through the demo. You know, run through a demo to give you a look and feel as far as how it will work. Tonight we're projecting on the back wall that's not our intent for the design but because of logistics and where we could broadcast for all of you to see this is what we're gonna do for this evening to give you the gist of the demo and how it will work. What our intent is for our technology is we're gonna equip each corner with a screen. Alan, that was 80 by 50, correct? Our screen size was 80 by 50? 80 inch by 50, correct. 80 inch by 50 inch.  All the screens in the corners and the monitors will be showing the same picture so it isn't like that's gonna show one thing and that's gonna show another and they're all gonna be showing the same picture or the same thing. It will then be in Sue's position where we'll have a computer setup where we can pull up the documents, the agendas so that way we can show as we walk through them for the council members. The whole intent of the process to start forward or the initial setup would be to out on the website put a link so that way you'll be able to go, Sue would put the documents agenda, all supporting documents out on the website. You'd be able to go there the Friday before, retrieve them, pick them up, copy them down to your laptop so you can review them in your own comfort at home or wherever, kick up on the chair, whatever, put your feet up and that way then you can be prepared for council meeting on that Monday. Now will those documents, I know that we have the wireless hookup now for public and I have not been able to actually access it through my wifi and my phone yet or my laptop. Would that be something that all the persons or the public could bring and go through the particular items on their laptop? Cause I know the question comes from Consent Agenda, item or documents are enacted rapidly. A lot of things are going through that if those wish to go through and pull them up without printing them out, we could actually do it here, is that correct? That would be an option. We do a public wireless here where we would get out to the same site or when you're at home, you could pull them down to your device and then your computer and bring it in as well. Okay, so at home anybody could see the agenda up front, see the documents up front and all we're showing here that is as we go through, that's what we're showing here. Right, okay. And I also have an example made up where we can then also show you, give you a look outside how it would work too. So it'll be to the public access. Then the other link we'd have is for history. So all the history council meetings would have then a tab for this meeting, the next meeting's in a row so that way they'd have the original agenda, the minutes, as well as in all the supporting documents for that as well, so that way we can go back for historical purposes and look and review. So if you need to check on something, that would be available as well. Sorry, which is actually something that we don't have the ability to do. Correct. And if we're tying into previous documents, we can actually look that up then. Now we're not talking about any equipment for, a computer equipment for the older persons, we would have to use our own. Right. At this point in time, but we would have the access to do so. Correct. Pull up previous documents to the question of, I don't see the attached, whatever, we can look at that attached agenda. Okay, thank you. Sure. The other part with this, and I mean, there's a couple different flavors, which I'll be moving over there to show you and walk through shortly while Alan's still getting set up is how it started out is we were just gonna show the agenda then go through the consent agendas and all that. What we're doing, Alan and I, we're providing the technology to help with this paperless workflow, but the key to it is it's still a workflow and a process that we have to together fine tune to see what works the best for everybody. I can't emphasize that enough. As far as it's a workflow where we all have to agree and work through it, it's a process. With the equipment, I know the finance committee has given their recommendation of approval to purchase it. However, I am in no rush, or I'll be in as much of a rush as council members are to go out and get it until it's the process is perfect and we're ready to go. It isn't like something I wanna go out and buy and say, here we go, and then it's not. I wanna get it perfected first, so it's another point I just wanted to let everybody know, and that's why we're here tonight doing a demo so we can walk through. You can get a gist of the process, and we can go from there, okay? Okay, I'm gonna switch gears and come over to here and I'm gonna borrow my mic. Testing, sorry. So, in addition to having everything out on the website, we will still also send copies of everything to the senior center, as well as the Mead library where that way it'll be available there, or like I said on the website, if somebody doesn't have a computer, they know how they could go to the library and use the computers to access it, or the senior center, however, so we have other means of accessing for people as well. Okay, I'm just gonna drive on my laptop here. So this is simulating a computer that Sue would have up in her area. The other thing we can do with this is right now the TV station, WSES, also has the option with how we outfit it, it'll be a feed to them, so another benefit is is they'll be able to go back and forth and additionally show this up on the TV as well, so people at home can see it. And then we can either talk behind the scenes or then they can pan back to who's ever talking or whatever, so that's some options we have as well as far as workflow for capability. What you're seeing right now is basically what I put together is just a general agenda, where we had, and these meeting minutes or examples are from the May 2nd, thank you, Sue, the May 2nd council meeting, okay. So basically what we would do is we'd have, going through our agenda items, then we come to the consent agenda. So ahead of time, Sue could have these opened up and then we could move to the consent agenda so we can see all the items on it. And what we can do is show two pages at a time, okay. I'm gonna clarify, it's one screen, same screen on both sides, but two pages on each screen. Yep, okay. Yep, so, and again as far as how long do we leave these up here for everybody to read, that's something we're gonna have to fine tune with as far as a process and workflow, is it, 10 seconds, five minutes, that's something we'll have to decide and work through. Okay, so and then once we do that, or depending upon how you guys go, do you work through each one and then review documents or if you look at it as a whole, then you just go through and then see the last. Got a question? Yes. Let's say for example, we were doing the consent agenda and one of the all our persons brought ahead, let's say wanted to do item number three, five that you have there as a separate vote and that's only kind of the header of the document, so I wanna bring up our document three, five for a second vote and for some discussion, then would we be able to bring up the entire document for the public to read while we're discussing it for that separate vote, rather than just the header. The header kind of gives an outline of the document, but it doesn't give a lot of specifics. Would that capability be available? We could do that as well, you know, incorporate that into our workflow. In fact, what I've done, here's an example, we could either embed some type of either hyperlinks or have them open in a folder, you know, kind of like this where all the supporting documents are, depending upon how we wanted to do it, is either a hyperlink, here that a document could be brought up and then we do view full screen and it could be brought up that way to review on the screen. That would be excellent because that way the people at home could see, instead of just the header of the document, what the need of the document is for the discussion, that would be very good. I think specifically amendments, when we're amending language within there and it's often confusing when we say, beginning with the word the and continuing through and, strike these words and add these words, nobody at home has any idea. This would give us that opportunity to pull the document up and, now it's just the document, it wouldn't be necessarily be, wouldn't be able to highlight that section or it's not functional at that point in time, it's just the document that pulls up. So if we were amending something, we would simply highlight what we're talking about and people at home would have to follow along, like we are on our documents. I could go like this right here and highlight that way. Are you ready for this, Sue? Oh, I am so ready. Yeah, and I'll keep in mind, there's gonna be, if we go down this path, there's gonna be a few trial runs at this to make sure, as far as perfecting the process of how it will work, I can't do that enough. The other thing I wanna comment is on is, what we're doing here with Microsoft Word, I would say consider this the Fred Flintstones version of doing this. I mean, there's other tools out there that we can look at that are more efficient to help Sue and her things as well in preparing this. But this is a starting point that we can start with, we have to start somewhere with it. So then when we're done with this one, we can close it with that document and then we're back to our consent agenda and then we can move on to the next ones. Now when we're done with our consent agenda, we can either just go back to the regular agenda. So let's say then we're gonna go with resolutions introduced with three, then with these opens, we can click on that. Same thing here, everything is. So all these would be open ahead of time so that way it's all ready to go for the meeting as far as set up. So once that's done, then we can come back to our agenda and just so on, so forth with the report of committee and I combine these six and seven, any ordinances that are gonna be added and are introduced. Once we go through the agenda, then it's a matter of okay, other public matters by law and then adjourn. This is how we'd walk through it. Eric. I'm in heaven. Thank you. I like the hyperlink idea, just throwing my two cents. I know Dave, you and I in Directive Monty have talked about this at Nausium, various different ideas. But I do like the hyperlink idea because it just flows a lot faster I think versus closing out, coming back into something. So if we are able to do that by the document number, just making that a hyperlink to the original document, I think that'll make it move a lot smoother. The other recommendation I'm gonna throw out there is that City Clerk Richards isn't the one operating the system. She's got enough to do when she's back there that we have somebody else behind there operating the computer, bringing up the documents and things like that.  I mean, I guess you could use your feet. But, just something again for the council and us to consider as we're looking at that, who might be a good, somebody to do that. The council president, chairman of the committee of the whole. Or IT guy. Or we could rotate it amongst everybody so they get a flow of it. Isn't that something, Sutho, you wanna see? I mean, is it, or maybe not a possibility for you to wanna do all? I mean, wouldn't you have to, until we got into it, how would you know? I mean, ooh, that's not good. Oh, that's not good. Come on, just one, Sutho. Dave, can you hear me? Of course. I will. I think that this is all part of, I, you know, all part of the process that we're gonna now go forward and start mapping it out. Because as with David, I don't wanna purchase anything, do anything until we have a plan. And then we'll work through the different parts of the plan because otherwise it's a waste of city taxpayer money. I mean, it doesn't make sense. So we have to go through some kind of a flow of how it's gonna work. We're gonna run into roadblocks and we'll have to figure it out. I don't know if it's possible for me to do it all. It might be. And I think following up on Alderman Hammond's comment about the hyperlink, is it possible? In my mind, I would think hyperlinking every single document would make sense. Because in every single document, an attachment is there. The advantage of that as well is when it's out on the web, people can look at the agenda. And the hyperlink would send them right to the document. They don't have to page through, you know, a ream of paper to get to the specific document number. It would be much easier for the people at home. And in concurrence with that, it's, instead of, you know, my vision initially was we'd have the agenda, the system we're talking about here, and so we'll have to go somewhere else in the city website to get the documents. And if we link them all together at one, as you were saying, Alderman Hammond, we're going to one location. I can see the agenda. I can pull the documents up as we go. It's, you know, one single source versus multiple areas. I think it's an excellent idea and it's workflow to continue that. I know this is not the issue that we're dealing with right now, but this is an issue that I've been asked to talk about. I think it makes some sense. If the goal of this is to make it easy for those at home or in attendance to follow along versus the paper, as well as saving money in terms of the printing cost and the ink cost, the making a symbol for people at home issue, the votes. Is there any way that a system like this, we can also wrap a voting system around, perhaps that's the manual up front and then enter it into the system so that we can see if it's a voice call, eyes have it, if it's a roll call, who voted in what way. And if we can tie that into a voting system as well. Because that's the question that I get a lot is people can't hear who's voting I and A and sometimes while eyes have it and people are confused of how that vote went. So that's the other thing that I want to throw out there as well. We're actually jumped on the game here and we have done research. For instance, Luther and I, most of the universities, all the kids going to class with what looks like a credit card. I have them in my office where they're on loan from a company that we're demoing and it literally is ABC, I, nay, abstain. And that could possibly be tied, we're looking at that. So that's another thing that if you had ABC, yes, no, abstain. You could do it for amendments. It'll kick out a report. We don't know how far it goes as far as up on the screen but I'm sure it can tie in and that would be brilliant. And that'd be the question. Whatever we buy, I'd like to make sure that we buy something that we know that's gonna be a tool coming forward that we need to tie into that. It's my understanding that that system, it will be able to project up onto the monitors when we take the roll call vote. That's my understanding of that. And then everybody would be voting at one time. On time, right. And, yeah, right. Okay, one more. Which seems to be good. Thank you. I would just want a system different than when the county board is using because when I watch the county board meetings, they've got that big screen up there and then the clerk says, you know, vote and then it flashes up there.  It's just, so I'm wondering if there's gonna have to still be some kind of a voice system or some kind of a system that the people can see at home because the way the county does it with that screen is impossible. It's absolutely impossible. I believe that it can be a larger, you know, when it comes up for each one. I think that it's a possibility that you can see they voted on document five dash three. Everybody pushes their button. It records in there, I believe. I mean, that's what we're looking at. We wanna be able to have that vote go up on the screen that people can see. And that vote would stay up on the screen for a period of time, Alderman Bourne. Very similar to anybody, kind of Joe Finley, but anybody watch C-SPAN, you know, they got the votes up. That's how it would sit up there for a little bit of time, my understanding again. It would sit up there for a little bit of time after everybody votes. So it wouldn't be just a quick flash and you're done. It's just the way the county does it, so poor because when it's on the TV eight screen, it's so far in the distance that there's no way you can read it. It's terrible. Part of the situation with the county is it's not fed into the TV system. It is the camera from parallel corner shooting across and you're right, it's hard to pick up. If you're in the room, you can read it no problem. And if we have a direct feed to the television switcher, as we will with this, visibility, the ability to read won't be a problem. Great. Have you been in contact, obviously, with the IT department in the design of the system so far? We haven't, expert witness here. Yes, we've been in conversation. Scott reports to me. Yeah. I talk to Dave every week. All right. Thank you. That's one thing with this, sorry, Julie. That's one thing with this system is with the PC we're gonna get, it's gonna feed directly into WSCS so they'll be able to toggle back and forth between the feed from this versus the camera. So we'll be able to do some of that. The other thing with the turning point software, turning point is the name of the software is, the other thing we'll be able to do with it after, you know, when the meeting's over, we'll be able to extract reports of how each person voted for each thing to vote and we'll be able to post that right on the website too for historical information. So that way we'll be able to post, so if everyone wanna look back to see how people voted, we can do that. So I'm gonna have, Alma-Cath has next. Yes, thank you, Chairman. When the agendas come out for committees, how difficult would it be to have the hyperlinks in reference to each document that goes to the committee? Yeah. Yes, well the council meeting when each document is referred to the committee and then we get that agenda, if each document that was referred would come up as far as, you know, a hyperlink that, you know, we could read the finance agenda and decide if that's something that we wanna, this or attend. So you're saying that if we were sitting in finance in this building here somewhere with the link that we could actually then continue to be paperless in that committee meeting as well, that we would be able to bring those to the committee level and get the documents that way. Well, we would not be, those emails would not be emailed to us as far as the finance. We would go to the website, the city website and pick up those, is that not all on picking them up and then doing the hyperlink. I think Alderman Hammond has the answer for that. That's part of the long-term vision for this thing is that, you know, not only as a council but then committees would be, you know, we're trying to again take it one step. The original impetus for this, although the added benefit is that I think it does make it easier for those at home to follow along, is to go paperless. You know, that was the primary reason for this. So anything we can do to get that down to the committee levels, you know, absolutely. So it's kind of where we're starting with the crawl and then eventually walk and run. So I fully envision at some point, we will be paperless even at the committee levels and very similar to the committee agenda for finances published. And there's hyperlinks on each of the numbers to whatever document it was. But how hard would it be to do that now? I mean, after. Well, again, a little more difficult than you think. It's workflow. It's just a workflow. I think that no one has the intention of purchasing a program or software or a system that doesn't do that, but they're not going to come out of the box and do that. We have to kind of design it as we work. So I think that, you know, I certainly won't support anything that doesn't do that in the long run. You know, where I'm paperless here, but then I got to print all the documents up later on, makes no sense to me. But I think that's an excellent point that, you know, keep that in mind that ultimately our goal, if we're going to paperless somewhere, we're going to paperless everywhere. There are some solutions that are out there now that are, I think of it as in the cloud computing that solutions that are out there where you can manage your agendas with the documents and it's all through a web interface where you click and go and looking at a few of those tools as well. You know, so again, that's more of a long term. Again, what our intent here tonight is, and this is great conversation, you know, with the ideas you're coming up with, this is good.  Like I said, what this is for, this is basically simplest terms as far as to get a starting point. Is this a starting point that we can build off of or, I know historically in technology in the city, we do jumps and starts, we start somewhere and then when we go somewhere else, we have to start over somewhere else to get to that next goal. So that's what I want to make sure. Our initial investment right now that went to finance committee is just for the equipment and that will plug into whatever software we use that will run on that PC. You know, that's one thing we're making sure of and why, you know, partnered with Allen from Camera Corner. We did go out for three bids and Camera Corner was the only one who came on site or offered to come on site to examine our room, come up with design. So the projectors, we do get the lenses are balanced correctly and we're actually gonna get a crisper, better picture than what you're seeing here. This is actually a lower scale demo that we'll be actually getting better units that we're getting with. So that's why I went with that. Other also is Camera Corner is also on the government contracting price scale. So that's another reason why so. Thank you, I don't mean to monopolize this. We've just been spending a lot of time working on this. Dave and Jim more so than us, but one of the other concerns that has been addressed is well, you know, people on TV eight lander are looking at this, you know, how are they gonna see them? So one of the things that we've discussed and I believe, you know, Dave, if you wanna jump in here on this is having asking TV eight to, or WSES TV eight to scroll the documents for the hour preceding the council meeting. So people could sit at home for the hour preceding the council meeting and see all of the documents in a slower fashion prior to the council meeting. So for those that don't necessarily have internet access can do that. Yes, you get two hours of council. The first hour would be essentially the documents would literally just be scrolling through. Again, we'll have to fine tune the timing, but they would scroll through and then people would have a least a little opportunity to read the summary portion, not obviously all the documents, but the summary of each prior. We could put that in the PowerPoint and even put it to music and the whole nice thing and really go on so. Currently, the documents are available. For anybody who has internet access, is that correct? I don't have that set up yet. I was waiting to see where we're going with this all if we should be proceeding or how we wanted to proceed. So I haven't set it up yet to set it up. So the public can get it isn't gonna be that hard. I've already been working with Chad on the new website and we can put the link on the old website too to get this going. I'm just comparing public access right now for documents. If I remember the public right now without any systems like this, without the internet access, how do I get a document? If I want to delve deeper into something. Sue? So even the email, I still need internet access. If I don't have internet access, I have to get the document. Okay. Okay. Or you could go to this, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Or you could go to the library or senior center and do it that way. And beyond that then what we're offering then if we go with a system like this is to tie in, give the camera operator something else to do besides look at my bald head, is to also look at the documents. And then those at home have access to get those documents which they don't currently have. Is that correct? Correct. Okay, thank you. Additionally they'll also have archives because right now all that's archived are agendas. I believe in the past, they're not even minutes, I'm sorry. Minutes, yes, minutes. Minutes, miss both, I apologize. But now we'll have the agenda, the documents, the minutes and eventually how they voted. Correct. Forever and ever on the FTP, I'm sorry. Website. On the website. It's time. I'm Carlson. The question I have is I know currently the clerk's office spends a lot of time collating, printing and just getting all the actual paper documents together. And I'm guessing that was factored into the price savings or the cost savings. Are we also taking into fact the amount of time that it's gonna take to like create all the hyperlinks because I mean that's not, it's easy but it's not a quick process in word. Just overall the time spent putting all this together. I know initially it's gonna take a lot of time but even going forward are we looking at that in terms of man hours out of the clerk's office. And if that's gonna save money. Because essentially this is to save money, correct? Guessing. Access and paper. Beyond the access. I will. Dave and Don if you want to take that. You want to jump or should I? Well with the hyperlinks that kind of came up tonight. So that's another factor where the scope just changed a little bit. So I'll have to look at that. Like I said with Word to get that going that's 1990s type technology. There's other technologies we can look at to make it much easier that we own in-house already that I can see that'll already help slim down that time what it's gonna take. But you're absolutely right if we have to make a hyperlink for every document, that's gonna add time to prepare. And Carlson we hadn't, again that was something that came out of tonight. Prior to that there was some, the payback was very very short. A year-ish, which again in business that you get a payback under two years or a year you're doing good. So the payback was pretty good. The hyperlink will have to take a look at that and figure out how much time it'll take who's gonna do it. That's part of the workflow process. But my gut feeling is that there's still gonna be some cost savings and it will be a nice little workflow addition. And there's, as Dave was saying, there's technology out there that will help make that process a lot faster too. Correct. So do you know offhand just your paper for council costs were last year? If you had an approximation. I mean, not including ink or time, just paper. I think it was about 4,800. About 5,000. About 5,000 just for paper. And that does not include your own paper that you've used to print things up as well. Any other comments or questions? I'll be more. Thank you. Then with the system we're talking about with the hyperlinks and everything, does it look like there would be a possibility that we would be able to get our documents assuming Sue would keep the same deadline of, let's say, Wednesday at five o'clock? Is there a chance of getting those documents by Thursday rather than Friday? I mean, I just don't have a concept of how that would work. Would it be any better in that respect of getting documents earlier? I think Sue would like to answer that question. Do you want the microphone? I would like mine at 5.05 Wednesday night. Well, this one is a real, this is a question. And I think Alderman Carlson is right in looking at this because if it's not going to save money and it's going to cost more, we have to look at that. I will just tell you that other municipalities have a much shorter, not a shorter, a longer deadline for their documents. I mean, many of the municipalities, it's the week before council. You've got to have your documents in and if you don't have them in they wait for two more weeks. So I mean, we really, we're down to the wire and I'm a little worried so I'm waiting to see how this is going to pan out. Doing this whole process, getting them all linked, it's a fabulous idea. But if it's going to take us into the weekend because our deadlines are the same, then we have to look at that. I think that that's going to have to all kind of come out of this process that we're going to be in for the next week, two weeks, months, whatever it takes. I don't know if that helps. Alderman Bult. Bult, excuse me. Just a quick question. If we're going to have all of these documents in our agendas with a hyperlink and then we're going to go to our committees and we're going to review all the committee documents. We're going to submit them back to you.  I mean, it would save time to cut the next thing. From the council agenda to the committee agenda, you mean? And then back again to the next committee or the council agenda. And that's something I think those shortcuts will come up as we get into this a little bit more. You're absolutely right. To edit a document from scratch is going to take a lot longer than copy and paste. And as long as the documents all keep the same name and are stored in the same spot, yes, the hyperlinks will work. Just a quick question for Alan since he drove down here from Green Bay and we don't want him to be bored back there. This type of technology, how long can we expect these screens and monitors, or the monitors and the projectors and what kind of maintenance are we looking at? As far as the technology, you could expect this about seven to 10 years. Okay. What will drive this is the technology changes. So as laptops, as PCs, if they convert to HDMI, the projectors that we're looking at already have HDMI so we could do that. Then making sure that it's going to be compatible with Scott's system in the back. So those things we don't control, but for the most part we're thinking seven to 10 years. And what kind of annual maintenance expense can we expect for like the projectors and bulbs burn out, those types of things? The bulbs are rated typically at 3,000 hours. And I don't believe that this will be used much like a classroom. So I truly believe that we'll just take the number of sessions that we have, committee meetings and divide that and figure out what the lifespan would be. Thank you. All right, and any questions or comments? Anything you like, any final comments you'd like to make to the committee? This is just a discussion item it looks like on the agenda. Is that correct, Sue? No, Ashley, can we take it? Okay. Correct, but I just thank you all for your time and sitting through and this is a good conversation that we've had so we can make this workflow work for all of us. So, thank you. Thank you so much. Next on the agenda is adjournment. Is there a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. Motion made and second to adjourn. All in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. We stand adjourned. Recorded.


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So this will be my umbrella device remember when we are talking about some of the opportunities some companies after fee for world cup they are companies that we are winning to give what you call of NOC to their employees to look for other jobs or to look for other opportunities in one way or the other but the requirement on one condition it was that you go out that look for a company that can give you an offer later then you bring it to your company then they will definitely issue with what you call an NOC remember when a company is issuing you with what you call an NOC it's going to give you even what you call the computer card and also part of the NOC and remember most of the companies they have to be verified not every company that has given you offer later is going to be generally accepted and it's like they are going to give you the job these companies as you submit that NOC later or what you call the offer later they definitely go into the system and try to verify whether the company provide it is a little bit genuine so remember the people who got that opportunity who got jobs at the end of it all they are those that do not get the job but remember they are still people outside that do not have the jobs after the fee for world cup cutter so what do I argue to you I know it's a kind of great condition right now we are in the country you may not know what it is but definitely I'll just kind of ask for people if you have any connection and you know anyone that is willing or anyone that needs it please just try to connect just try to connect around people such that they can also get something to do because remember the money that was given to them is all being consumed but what called accommodation and feeding at the end of the time and even as or even you wherever you are and you still have that opportunity or you still on that you take it very serious first guard it first keep it for me one as the time keeps on moving remember when we are talking about this period that we are in the period from after the fee for world cup until the period when we shall have the normalcy we never know what is going to happen within we never know what it is exactly that will happen within the period and definitely to find that you need to take extra care of yourself when you are at that job because remember most of the companies some companies have what you call excess and they do not need it anymore they do not need you in case you get go over over whatever you have to do they do not need you that is why it's even getting a little bit very harder and very harder when you go to a ministry to change to change your bit to take a longer process at the end of it all and remember the more time your your employer is noticed but then definitely it's going to to to to reject and it's going to to file a case against you on what you call ups calling and the end of it all you are going to end up paying what you call penance or even given a burn in one or the other so meaning that yes we know there are a lot of people out here that not to have the jobs because of the fee for world cup but however something that I also need to question or something I need to tell those people that not have the jobs out here and you still love you do not have the job if any opportunity take up the opportunity this is a time that you to accept and say whatever has to come on table I have to take it to make sure that I keep my my my my my residence status in the country and not to get in trouble because if you wake up and like I don't have a job I'm waiting for that job that I have a skill or that job where I graduated or I went to school you may end up not getting that job at this critical period meaning that if you don't have the job and there's another opportunity someone's passing over to you or there's another opportunity someone is passing over to you please take up the opportunity make sure you take up until you keep yourself until the situation comes back to normal then we shall all get in what you call order remember this is a situation that is not going to be a short period of time and remember right now we are getting into a period of what you call Ramadan Ramadan we have reduced working hours which is over to six hours to some companies and to some to some government offices meaning that there is no more opportunity until when we have the Ramadan period that is the Ramadan period ends in around May or even around June so by the time you have casually have to wait for June for the bigger companies of the good companies over the job good jobs to come your way that means you should have gone in almost three quarters or a quarter of the year and definitely you will be in left established and not have anything with you so that's kind of advice that will go for people who have not have the jobs or you do not have the jobs of the people welcome please try to connect around with people and I argue those that do definitely have the opportunity please pass on the opportunity to people get to share one another that's that because we end over us all we are all here because we came to look for the place thank you so much for coming waxiano and thank you so much this makes always giving you the updates giving you the information and anything in between by the way if it's your first time don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to place on what happened or the the link or drop a comment in the comment section always be very happy and more than happy to get back to you thank you so much see you again in the next video


My name is Chris Coyne and I am the F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Today I'm joined by Dr. Robert Higgs who's a senior fellow in political economy for the Independent Institute and the editor-at-large of the Institute's Quarterly Journal of the Independent Review. Bob, thank you for taking the time to talk to me today. Glad to be here, Chris. I'd like to spend a few minutes talking about one of the main themes in your work, which is the growth of government, and I want to focus on your 1987 book, Crisis of the Leviathan. And in that book you put forth this idea of the ratchet effect. You develop this framework and then you apply it to a host of historical episodes in the growth of government. And so can you tell me a little bit about the ratchet effect framework, what it entails, and also how it helps to explain the growth of government both historically but also how it applies to more contemporary issues as well? The ratchet effect in the abstract is the idea that something is moving in only one direction, at least to the extent that if it moves in that direction it can't be fully returned to the direction or location where it was before. Most people know about ratchet wrenches for tightening nuts on bolts, and so you keep moving the lever in the same direction and pulling it back and forth, but you don't loosen the bolt you only tighten it or vice versa. A ratchet effect in relation to the growth of government is a phenomenon in which government grows perhaps during some discrete episode, and I've focused on national emergency periods, but it grows abruptly and then it later declines, but it doesn't decline back to where it was before the episode or even to where it would have been had the previous growth trajectory continued instead of being displaced by the events of the the the Lurch. Now a lot of economists have studied the growth of government and the general tendency has been to study it as a trend phenomenon. If we look back a century or more we can measure in various ways how big the government was and we now see by those same measures that it's much bigger, and so the idea is more or less to connect the dots or in order to put in all the intervening data and then draw a trend line through them, and then the objective is to explain why that trend slopes upward as it does. Now if one if one does look at all the intervening observations in a long period of growth of government such as that, what one sees is not however a movement along a smooth trend line. There are some economic and social data that do move smoothly like that. If you look for example at the growth of population over the last century or so in the United States you'd see a very very smooth growth trend. It's rate of growth may shift a little bit from time to time, but you could draw a trend line through the population values for the United States over the last century and it would fit very closely the actual yearly observations. But if you looked at any of the common measures of the size of government during that same period you would not find a trend line tracked closely the actual movements of the size of government. You would find instead that there were a number of discrete episodes especially those associated with the two world wars and the Great Depression of the 1930s and to some extent later a period from the early 1960s to the early 1970s and then later than that a period from 2008 for the next several years through four years at least in which once again you had a discrete lurch in many measures of the size of government. So I was drawn to try to understand what relation if any exists between these aberrant periods of sudden growth in the size of government and the fact that there's a long run upward trend. Are they just independent for example? Many economists had treated them as independent. In fact some economists had performed their analyses by excluding these periods from the analysis especially the war years. They said well that's that's not what we're trying to understand. We're trying to understand why over the long run the government has grown bigger and it won't help us if we look at statistical outliers. That was how they conceived of these these particular episodes. As an economic historian I had learned a good deal about the details of what happened during these particular national emergency periods and it seemed to me right away that to throw them out of the analysis was to throw out information that was actually critical to understanding the long-run movements that indeed what happened during these national emergency periods was critical to the fact that there was a long run upward trend in the growth of government that without them that trend might have leveled off even or even reversed itself conceivably at some point. So I began to work with a focus on the national emergency periods to try to integrate them into the study of the long-run growth of government and my book Crisis and Leviathan which you mentioned published in 1987 was the product of about five years of work along those lines in which I studied the period from the late 19th century to the late 20th century when the book was published. Now there's a way to stylize one's conception of the ratchet effect which is divided into phases. Actual historical processes don't fall into patterns nearly so neatly but it's very helpful to stylize the conception of the ratchet effect and so the five phases I identify are the the pre-crisis normality that's when nothing unusual is happening. Government may be growing but if so it's probably growing fairly slowly. Then at the onset of a national emergency a government begins to take actions that result in quite significant unusual growth of government's size scope and power. That is government begins to do a lot of things it wasn't doing before or it begins to do some of the things it was doing before at a much higher level. Then the third phase is the crisis phase itself the crisis it takes a while to to play out before it passes away and during that phase the government remains at a high level of operation. Crises in the past have always ended and when they've ended as say the wars ended then there's always been some retrenchment. Some of the government actions taken during phase two the upward lurch are abandoned or scaled back but the retrenchment has in all these major episodes been incomplete so that when we arrive at phase five the post-crisis normality government may be growing no faster than it was before the crisis but even if so it's growing from a higher level. So the trajectory of the long-run growth of government is displaced upward by each of these crisis episodes and in my historical work I've tried in a variety of ways to discover why it is that the retrenchment is incomplete and there are several reasons why I believe that it's the case. Now other economists had studied ratchet effects perhaps the most notable previous study was by Peacock and Wiseman to British economists who had used this notion to describe the growth of fiscal variables in Great Britain during the early part of the 20th century and Peacock and Wiseman had discovered for example that British spending government spending or British government taxation revenues had all been displaced tremendously upward during each of the world wars and they had fallen back after the wars but not back fully to the pre-crisis level and so there there'd been a definite ratchet effect in Britain as a result of each of the world wars. Almost everybody who studied ratchets or thought about them before my work had thought about them in terms in terms of fiscal variables because that was the normal way economists had measured and continue to measure the size of government. How much money does it spend? How much tax revenue does it collect? How many people does it employ? Sometimes how much money does it borrow? How much does it guarantee in private loans or whatever? There are many ways to measure the magnitude of government's current activity but all of these are ways that economists like because there are quantitative data that can be found to describe what's happened and to analyze it econometrically. As I've said before many economists think if you can't model something you don't have anything so if you're going to fit an econometric model to to the growth of government you need some quantitative data that will facilitate your doing so. Now my conception of the ratchet effect in the growth of government is it's quite different because of my conception of what we mean by the size of government is more complete I think. I'm interested not only in the level at which government operates how much does it spend for example. I'm interested also in the scope of government activity. How many questions that were previously answered by private parties in the private sector of the economy have now come to be answered by government officials, legislators or bureaucrats. When there's an increase in government's decision making that displaces that same kind of decision making previously made by private parties without interference from government then we have an increase in the scope of government. So government over time has become involved in many many things that was not previously involved in and that widening of the scope is a very important way in which government changes the operation of economic life. Even though it may not necessarily spend a great deal more money and sometimes it won't necessarily spend any more money. It simply broadens the authority it exercises over private decision making and it may use that authority in ways that show up in private accounts. For example if government takes responsibility for for pollution control it may pass laws or create agencies like the EPA that tell people they have to take certain actions to to prevent pollution or to moderate the extent of it. But when private parties undertake those compliance actions that's money spent on the account of firms or individuals not money spent on the EPA's account. So an increase in the scope of government activity is is critically important as well as an increase in the amount of money spent or the number of people hired on the government payroll. And the third aspect of government that I include in my notion of the size of government and therefore in my notion of the ratchet effect is government's power. Sometimes a government exerts its power changes the degree of power it exerts in ways that don't show up either in measures of scope or scale. Recently for example the government is undertaken to to impose mass surveillance on the entire population and not only the entire population in the United States but many people in the rest of the world as well. So the activities of government agencies like the NSA and have placed people's electronic communications under surveillance in a massive way. And the government is now exercising this power of surveillance which places all private actors under a cloud of suspicion. They're being watched by government because government thinks they are potential criminals. They're potential terrorists. They're potential wrongdoers of some kind. Cow molesters, taxi voters, drug dealers. You name it. But it turns out that once you put people under mass surveillance and you're watching everybody and accumulating information on their emails and their phone calls and any other form of communication that leaves an electronic trail, you put the government in a position to be very selective about whom it prosecutes, whom it goes after, in some cases whom it kills peremptorily as it does now killing people in many parts of the world with drone rockets. So this increase in the power of government through use of surveillance is a critically important thing but if you were looking at normal measures of government's scale or scope, you might miss it altogether. So I've been at pains throughout my work to pay attention to the size, scope, and power of government and to see how all of those things have changed during episodes I characterized as eventing the ratchet effect.


Upgrade your smart phone with Appalachian Wireless. Get $300 off selected models, capture memories, stream and stay connected with the latest technology. Visit one of our stores or Appalachian Wireless dot com right now. The Johnson County Trail Town Committee will kick off the Johnson County Trail Days with Do The Dawkins Saturday, June 17th. The 4.5 mile ride will kick off at 8 a.m. and is free to attend. We'll be starting off at Griffith Family Farm, which is a fantastic local business. And I really enjoy their various products and stuff. So we'll be there a little early and we'll be actually kicking off the ride at 8 a.m. So it's the early part. And we'll be riding back toward the trailhead at Ginny's Creek. And this is a beautiful section of the trail, very minimal. It's almost flat or downhill, really, through that section. And we always see all kinds of wildlife. There's always white-tailed deer and lots of birds. If you're a bird watcher, it's just fantastic. Do The Dawkins is one of the first organized rides since the paving of the formerly gravel Dawkins Trail. The ride will end at Ginny's Creek Trailhead. People ride the Dawkins Line Trail for various different reasons. Some people are really into the fitness side of it. I'm kind of ridiculously into seeing birds and rabbits along the way. And I really do enjoy talking to people who are visiting our area from other places. The number of people who are here for adventure tourism. And this is just on the Dawkins Line Trail. We have so many other things going on. Our water trails and our ATV trails have been just tremendous drivers of tourism. People coming into this area. For more information and to register for the ride, go to Johnson County Trail Days on Facebook. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.


Hello everybody, Hooded Cobra Commander 78th here, and this is just a quick look at the 1990 Destros Frogman codename Undertow. And this is a figure that I acquired not that long ago, but it really is interesting. It's an interesting addition to Destros iron grenadiers. And the accessories he comes with are really fascinating. He has this sea sled, and it actually has a small missile attached to it that can be removed. He has a face mask that is made of a softer plastic. It fits over his head. This is a diving mask. He has a green mask under that.  He comes with a trident, because why not? If you're going to rule the depths, you probably need a trident. He comes with a pair of swim fins that attach to his feet. And of course, these are convenient because with them on, you don't have to use a figure stand. And finally, he comes with a fish. Yep, that's a thing. Undertow seems to be a popular figure, and I can kind of see why. I liked this figure from the moment I got it. Undertow fulfills the role of the Cobra Eels for Destro, and he would be a formidable opponent to GI Joe's underwater operatives. I will enjoy doing a full review on Undertow when I get to it, but that's just a quick look at the figure for now. Just a reminder, there will not be a full review this weekend. I'm taking this weekend off, but I will be back next weekend with something new. I hope to see you there. Thank you everyone for watching, and I'll see you next time.


Have you had a sense of uneasiness lately? Like something big is around the corner? Like a major global shift is about to occur? If so, you're not alone. Many sense that something unprecedented is fast approaching. Something gets positive, others insist that it's negative, yet few understand the spiritual dynamics at play. There is more to our world than the material. Whatever you may believe about what's happening here on this earth, I can tell you that heaven is responding. In the last few weeks, my ministry team and I have been seeing an increase in supernatural activity. Paralysis has been healed, demon-possessed people have been set free, sicknesses of all kinds have miraculously disappeared. We've even had angelic visitation in our services. Now, none of this is new, but the increase in the intensity in these things is pointing to one thing. A great spiritual awakening is upon us. It's happening now. Many are repenting of sin and turning to Jesus.


Morning traders, Patrick Munley here with another intraday wave analysis session. We'll draw your attention to KiwiDollar on the four-hour time frame. We've been able to identify an impulsive move to the upside here from the Lowe's 6940, which is subdivided into a five-way sequence. Now looking at a potential corrected pattern developing of the initial ABC and trying to make an advance to the upside. It looks like we're stalling out here around 72-44. And if we do reject this level and trade lower, what I'm looking for will be a WXY, a double corrected pattern to play out. Looking for bullish reversal patterns 70-73, set long positions, targeting a minimum of retest of the prior highs above 74-40. So always try to plan the trade.


Two persons have been confirmed dead in a Kano accident in Dabi Village, Ringimloku Government Area of Jigawa State. Spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Lawan Shizuwadam, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday, September 11th, said five persons were rescued while six others are still missing. The PBRU said that Kano was convened 13 passengers going for a condolence visit from Dabi to Senyago when eats heat and objects broke down and capsized at about 12 p.m. on Sunday.


YouTube what's up, man? This is Weekend League action and it's getting a little special because I'm actually playing Ryan Hollins Yeah, the NBA analyst ex NBA player if you guys don't know He's really hip in the mad and plays a lot of mud and actually streams mud as well streams Mad so check him out on twitch I don't believe his twitch is just Ryan Hollins at first. I didn't know this was him I stream live as you see I got the eye black on we are ready for war in the Weekend League streets Definitely was drinking this game as well So, please don't judge some of the passes that I made I didn't know it was him till probably about the second quarter I really because obviously his name is not his name And my chat told me if you guys want to be in a chat twitch.tv slash dub dot and A lot of times when you don't know what it is you kind of just wing it the first couple plays First drive here he goes sending everybody I have be wide open, but just can't get away from Patrick Willis I'm assuming he has some type of 49ers theme here He goes user rushes with Shazier literally sending every single person in 3-4 It's a little unconventional because he moves these guys out so far It's really tough to roll out of the pocket and that's what I want to try to do right away Vers any type of blitzing defense. He's in this strong wing Really just a shitter offense really but you know it caught me a little bit early in the game You know there goes got this little dump off to Gronkowski I believe he has like matchup nightmare tanked so he can truck.  That's what I have on Aaron Donald That's and you'll see it makes it easy for him to get one-on-one matchups because I blitz every person Right here. He's gonna show me this post route This is his bread and butter play that he goes to it has a corner route on Kittle And it has a post route as we barely trip up Eric Dickerson there and has a post route outside receiver Both of them are kind of you can't really guard them I'm gonna continue to send this pressure because that pressure leaves Aaron Donald one-on-one and he beats the center so fast He's in the backfield, but once again that post route starting to kill me But you know I figure out how to stop this play as we were containing the run pretty good I'm not gonna sacrifice my run defense to stop this play. I know I can do it with the people I have try to put earlacker there in a hook zone did not work through it over his head as you know linebackers aren't that great in coverage and He scores a touchdown on that so now after that first drive I'm pretty much gonna abandon trying to make the computer guard that route He's not gonna do that post route again. That's pretty much my goal. That's his bread and butter But at the same time I have to stop that corner out the kiddo So we'll figure out what exactly to do To stop this play. I don't think it's good But once again, he's presenting everybody at me once again be as wide open for a touchdown Just cannot get away from Patrick Willis. I believe if it is 49ers chem. He gets me again If it is 49ers chem, he's 96 speed that Patrick Willis once again He said that time he bliss palm out to eight people coming at me. So now I got to sit up and like actually play I just can't try to hit bombs hit big plays down the field and you'll see the adjustment I make in the second half of this game or a rest away But first all I want to do is hit bombs. That's what I want to do and Blitzing as many people and moving them out is giving me a little bit of trouble from doing that But we'll have to play some John Madden football once again, just dumping this off underneath Lawrence Taylor making a play So we got a guard that's underneath throughout the grunk once again He throws it just holds on Aaron Donald actually tackled on the past too. They're in ten here We go again that same play. I'm gonna cover the post route. There it is Taylor Mays Taylor Mays has lurker Tackle supreme and enforcers. So now we're gonna go ahead and he's on the detackle right there quick snap them And we do a little drag route but one thing about when somebody blitzes everybody through everything is open You can pretty much press a button and this is what I'm gonna go through the whole game and looking back as I edited this video And I'm doing this game But I literally could have put RB on a hitch every single play for eight yards But sometimes you don't realize like people are never gonna adjust to it You know see throughout the game like he's never gonna do anything about that as I hit a little quick slam Tell you you can literally snap throw press a button pretty much Vic has a great release is why I like him over Lamar and that's how we get away from Patrick Willis I like him over Lamar I like him over my homes because he can pass in a pocket really fast Once again hitch right here RB taro loans I should have put Calvin there because I actually believe I have curl specialists on Calvin But literally all play now this time I'm running out of time in half here as I use my time Also, it's tough to keep throwing that as I go for a bigger play Just nothing man if I try to let things develop downfield Patrick Wilson is 96 feet is coming to get me Once again taro loans, I'm in field or range right now time out.  This is a time where it's like, bro I don't really have a lot of time to do anything special once again hitch again taro loans He drops that one didn't really matter because I really need to clock stop more than I need those four yards That time he gets around the edge, but I get out there. Can I get over top the Calvin? No Drops the ball. So I settled for three there But like I said, I switched it up, you know, I'm not gonna try to roll out every single play Like if you're gonna give me this eight yard hitch I have to take it man And that's the thing about these pressures man with people especially this time of year I know you guys are probably dealing with this three four all these outside linebackers are so fast that it makes it a Little bit tougher to move the ball early in the year, you know when there's 85 speed linebackers I mean it was a little bit easier to pop as no time left in the half He goes up top over here to Calvin, but I got night train lane comes down with the pick We're gonna have time I said, I mean the first two drives I was playing around rushing things and then getting any points on the board But I got to sit up lock in and just make some good plays on offense.  We're gonna have that pretty much strapped What I'm gonna do actually is as you guys know, there's a corner out to the tight end And what I'm gonna do here is my outside corner.  You'll see it. Boom bang a cloud flat would have went too far to the outside But a deep quarter runs right with that corner out and stops it and I still have Lattimore manned up on him And I can go guard that post route on the left side So really just a nice adjustment I made there to able to get that pick with Sean Taylor right now I feel like he's never gonna score another point literally that is how I feel like this offense will never score another point on me As we blow up the run right there clowny. I don't care how outdated his card is He is just a glitch forever a glitch throws in a flat here to that gronk boom truck Sean Taylor So now I got to start worrying about that little flat past the gronk But the one thing about when you're sending seven people every time when he puts somebody out in flat right there He's gonna look to throw to the guy in flat So if gronk is on a route as I put Sean Taylor that time in a cloud zone pick them off and tell you Just make the right adjustments for right thing Right now. I feel like this game is this game is going great That's how I feel nothing else gonna happen. Just take it nice and easy hitch again. Just literally this play is wide open the hitch There you go again on that time. I assumed He would go guard the hits, but he literally has never guarded hitching. It drives me crazy As there was Aaron Donald again getting crazy going wild. Just keep sending that pressure Aaron Donald's gonna make some plays Sean Taylor's make that tackle right there on gronk and we're good Nothing really worry about once again. He max protects. I got the post there's Aaron Donald again killing it four sacks for Aaron Donald Oh, I said you can't I just have to keep doing this hitch. I have to keep throwing the hitch He's not gonna guard it. He's not gonna guard it. He's not gonna guard it Let me see here again like I just got to keep Keep peppering it but right there. I see he manned up the outside corner on the hitch Yeah, I saw that you know so the next play, you know what we're going to going up top Tyreek Hill Great though by Michael Vick from the pocket and we're gonna take that to the Baja I see what you're doing. Don't try to be cute man That's the one thing man One even when you get sacked or we go in completion try to look where the secondary is after you get sacked or after You don't in completion because it can give you tips to what type of covers They think is working versus you and they're gonna keep going to that's how I'm exposed now I'm up 10 points man. This game is cooked. I'm not losing to a NBA player NBA analysts There's no chance no matter how how good blitz eight people is and how good running stretches I you should never I should never lose to an NBA analyst ever Once again, here we go when he puts that running when he puts that tight end out on a little baby route He draws home. That's pretty much how this offense is once again grunt going out throws to him again And he just disintegrated my whole defense Julius peppers cannot catch grunk grunk is just a beast I haven't a tight end. I don't have any abilities on him But I have him a tight end just cuz he's a big body I guess the card is old now, but I still use him a tight end. So here we go Now we're back in the game because grunk disintegrated my secondary and Would you I keep keep making some plays here and the first play we're gonna do a pick like I told you Don't judge somebody's decisions. I made huge play right here by grunk by making this tackle Just trying to get greedy. I don't want to go to hitch every play.  Just being impatient.  We're in a tie game right here Let's just go back to the bread and butter. He has not covered it all game hitch right there Know where to go with this time. He's actually in coverage. Man. I want to go to X. I want to go to X I want to go to X. Well, man, but just take right there first down We're gonna use a little clock now because if I do get stopped He can't go down a score and get a field goal door underneath the grunk fall forward just a little bit get a nice Eight yards. That's fine. We're gonna use a little bit more clock Underneath the Westbrook. That's one thing about what makes the blitz eight so good It's tough to really get yards out of the catch. They get the first down the blast That's what I like about the blast. It's tough to get yards of it And this is crazy that his blitzer actually went for a pick and drop the pick Absolutely insane if it gets to that Once again, that's how much I tried to go to the right side curl when I should just do the hitch again This time doesn't guard the hitch again actually picked me off Just running underneath grunkowski Picking that off. But like I said, that's why we use that clock before to have so he really doesn't have that much time Left he tries to go up top need an interception right there One thing that's good about this game is that more often than not when they throw a cover pass like that You get an interception Sean Taylor making a huge tackle right here on grunk. He's running out of time 12 seconds left and we'll go get him right there Dion Jones. We're gonna call time out. Make sure he punched me the ball Can we make a play one thing I hate why do we not catch that punt like the dash should be a coaching adjustment to Catch every punt now. We have one second. We're just gonna try to run blast right here We're gonna get busy. We're gonna go to the right. We're gonna make a play here comes Mr. Mays And he's gonna bless me and luckily this did not go to the crib You know, so we're going to overtime now. I noticed during the game man I noticed man my eye black was fading a little bit. It was fading a little bit So, you know, we got to spruce it up man. You can't go into overtime You can't go into overtime with the sloppy eye black, you know, this is what we do when we can leave You have to be locked in you can't be messing around. You can't give these kids advantages You know and the other thing I keep by the desk all the time.  Oh, that was rough Now I'll tell you guys maybe guys play football smelling salts are no joke They will wake you up make you focus little hits right there to terror loans now The one thing about these blitz eight guys man They leave soft squats and you got to put a flat and a streak and had the nuts to just stand there and Chuck it up wide open Touchdown GG's in the chat make the right adjustments make the right place man So many these guys want to blitz eight and leave soft squats. That's just not going to get it done You got to take your right chance to go ahead and block and because he was moving his linebackers so far out It took him a little bit longer to get to the quarterback giving me enough time to make that play