Get this and get it straight crime is a sucker's road knows who traveled wind up in the gutter the prison of the grave. I Didn't know it, but I was caught in a smokeout that led from a search for a lady in black past murder of a highway in the gunfire Ling warehouse For a girl already dead in the mall From the pan of layman Chandler outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character in the adventures of Billard Marlowe Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story to smoke out Leapless night that leaves you with raw nerves and sandpaper eyelids Always followed by a day that never ends Kind of long tough days. It keeps you on the move until life in the city Finally reduced to no more than a confused clatter of think of exhaust fumes And an aimless marvel shallow people milling around looking for nothing but a chance to count each other Out of a lousy buck This is no exception Because when I finally decided to quit to get out of it to go someplace quiet and relaxed I found myself instead in a hurry all over again I was on my way to a very public building on Spring Street a stubborn instigation of one detective Lieutenant Matthews of homicides The phone call 20 minutes ago. It caught me as soon as I opened my apartment door Well, you've been Marlon or if you ever check in at that office of yours and on days like this Matthews What's up? Tell me all you know about Vera Hamlin Who's Vera Hamlin a girl?  Are you real sure you don't know a positive? Am I supposed to? Uh-huh. Maybe she used another name pretty blind about five six a sweet kid apparently I can think of a lot of women who fit that description Matthews. Yeah, you could I didn't get it then I haven't been to my office at all today. Why you wanted to help How do you know? Well, we picked it up from the imprinted an open packet stationary in our apartment Better come down take a look at it Bill. Take a look at it. Where is she? In the morgue.  Accident? What makes you ask that Marlon? Your dubious tone of voice Matthews. Well, was it an accident? I guess so. Maybe I've been a cop too long. I get suspicious myself on dark night. I can understand it. Come on down to the light of way I'll meet you there Hi That's good time This is Mr. Connor the morgue attendant. I'm certainly glad to know you, Mr. Marlon. Is this your first visit? No, I've been here before Connor.  All right, let's go Connor. Step this way please gentlemen. Follow me. Happy fellow is me. Well, civil sir. Here to the right. Now, let's see. Here we are. No Look Matthews, I told you on the phone. I didn't know would you get me down here? That led it to you as one of them. Got the letter? No, no, I read the whole thing in from the lab and that imprint they worked on. She was worried. She wanted you to investigate something for her. You were supposed to call her today. Oh, anything about her? Yeah, she came to LA about six months ago from Omaha. She worked for a guy named Brasso's or Proto's Wholesale 77 Market Street. Lately, she was seeing a lot of him after office hours. What's wrong with that? Nothing.  She was getting out of her car and Brasso wasn't home at the time. He has a fair alibi. He puts him out on Highway 101 north of Santa Monica. Excuse me, gentlemen. I better get the phone. Yeah, yeah, do that. What about the motors, Matthew? No motors. Well, then why are you so upset? Why was she so upset? What did she want you for? That's not enough. If I weren't that one answered, I'd know where it goes. Oh, I know, but you're fending a murder rep. You're not even a murder rep.  All right. Thank you. Excuse me, Matthews. Hello, this is Matthews. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A witness. Says it was murder.  Yeah, a woman. So what happened, huh? Great. Who was it? The lady in black. Where'd he get that? It sounds corny. Where did you get that? It sounds... You mean there's a story about it out now in the L.A. Journal? Yeah, I'll be back there in five minutes. And listen, get a hold of the reporter who wrote that story and hang on to him. I want to talk to that wise punk. How do you like that? How do you like that? I feel a Hamlin murdered with an eyewitness to prove it. Only the police department is a laugh outfitting town to know. Come on, Phil. Where to this time? To buy a newspaper, find out what's going on. As we left the morgue and headed to police headquarters, we made one stop on the way to pick up a copy of the journal which he read as I drove. The kind of smoky, well-illustrated sensation was in the car this year. The police were concerned. Black revealed exclusively to the journal tonight that she was an eyewitness when a mad killer purposely swerved his speeding car in a spacious, blonde, beauty Vera Hamlin outside her lover's Brentwood home late last night. If that's journalism, I'll eat my bag.  Yeah, but I got taste. The lady in black will appear at police headquarters at 9 o'clock to reveal license number and description of the murder and the shocking death which police have already labeled accidental nuts. Come on, Mullet. I thought I was sorry for Matthews because the way things were breaking the Vera Hamlin deal was the stench to become one of those involved screwball affairs. When nothing goes according to the book all I wanted to do was drop Matthews off, get away from the whole thing, and try to forget about it. That's when we piled up behind the waiting squad car at headquarters, a gang of nightspeaks the cops were draping the stairs. Stop them. And I'm just your witness on a show? It's fine, I'm a button. Where's the lady in black? How do I know I didn't find out there was a witness till I read it in a journal?  Hi, Abbot.  You guys ought to keep points like that journal's squirt in line. Don't blame us for that guy. He's throwing up Hamala? You blame him? You know as well as I do, the journal picked up that witness right here. Kept her under wraps until they had time to break the story. Well, he shouldn't let it throw him. You know guys like that, you usually hang them shut. Sure, after the damage is done. See, all sides might check. Good night. Think about I drove back to Hollywood and tried to double scotch in a quiet bar. That didn't work. Half hour later, I ended up in my office with Vera Hamlin's letter open on my desk. There was a pile of bills in a souvenir postcard from a place called Moon's Point on Highway 101. Penciled across the back with a word, I think this place means trouble to Dave Russell. I don't know why, but I remember the girl's face in the mall. Maybe it was a stack of wrinkled tens on my desk that made me do it. At whatever it was, I went to my car, drove out past Santa Monica, and it took me an hour to get to Moon's Point on Highway 101. An isolated huddle of grimy filling station rickety sticks cabin auto caught in weather-beaten lunch counter and bar, squatting beside the highway. I pulled up at the parking lot and went into the bar where the source of the quaint name Moon's Point met me. Moon himself. It was round, pale, and soft as a lump of green cheese. What can I do for you, Mr. Dave around? Dave who? Russell, want to see him on business. What kind of business? I don't know. Okay. Two of Brussels here. Out in cabin number four, there's Mr. Stippler. You can grab that back there if you want to. But I don't think you'll have much time before you tell it. Why not? The late paper, it just come in. The L.A. General. Is that all? I got much later news than that for him. Agent Sine asked him for Dave Brasso.  What have you got in mind, begging? There's love lost between you and Brasso, I'll tell you. I believe in a night for night and tooth for tooth, see? I used to be a driver for Dave Brasso, and yesterday I got canned. Oh, now, pull off my truck of fire, for no reason at all. So? Oh, so I've been sticking close to him, just waiting for a chance to pay him back. And I've been finding hot things. Things you might like to know. Well, for instance, he had a fight. A knockdown drag-out argument with that Vera Hamlin girl there. Just an hour or so before she was run over. She claimed he was seeing another woman. What's that called, begging?   And that's why he's hanging him out out here. Also, why it ain't gonna do him one bit of good. I've got plenty to tell about that. Wait a minute, hold it, hold it. Yeah, that's Monday. Stippler walking the door to number four here. I gotta get out of here. I've got plenty to tell, but so when you're finished in there, I come on over behind the grease rack at the filling station. I'm waiting for a while. Well, how you feel, Dave? You're on edge. You've got reason to be there. He's already told it. Wait a minute. There's somebody outside here. Yeah, that's right. I want to see Dave Brasso. And Mr. Brasso is pretty busy right now, Mr. Not too busy to see me. Oh, you a cop? No. And he must be a company reporter, so scram. You look Mr. Brasso up at his place of business. Some other time. You mean after he skipped town to keep the witness from putting a finger on him? Well, you were stripping. Well, nobody. Wait. Who are you? What's your diet, Georgian? Name's Marlowe, private detective. I'm here because Vera Hamlin wrote me a letter yesterday. Vera? I'm going to get lost for a couple minutes. What do you want to talk to this guy? Don't you? Go on. Go on. Beat it. Well, okay. All right, Georgian, come on in. Okay, so you're big, Brasso.  About even getting into a car. Oh, that's that one. Go by it, Georgian. Where's the letter? Locked up in my office. What'd you see in it? Wanted something to look into. Said this was a good place to start. The fight was about last night? Fight. You do find things out, don't you, Georgian? That's my business. Well, maybe you know who this lady in black here in the paper is and what she's going to tell. Maybe.  Who is that? You mean somebody killed her? Come on, Brasso. Let's get closer to the truth.  For instance, Vera wanted me to come to this dump because you weren't simple to hold up here. Why? That doesn't concern you. It's business. Sure. And when a girl accidentally gets in the way of the business, she's run over by it. Is that the way you work? You keep talking on the same thing, Georgian. I don't like it. I was in love with Vera Hamlin. Maybe you're trying to use that to nail me in a frame.  Maybe you didn't get any letter from Vera at all. So get out of here and think up a new one. Your theories are getting way ahead of you, Buster. Who's weather? Jerk. I said get out, too! That's back for an answer, Georgian. You can get more of the same. There's only a one hundred seventy-seven miles of street. The shoulder behind it. I held me out of the door and tried on my back in the gravel. This tallied my interview with him at zero with one minor exception. My spiteful informer bag had had some basis in tact for his story, so I invested myself off and made to the rear of the deserted filming station where the grease tracks stood. There was nobody wrong. I waited a few minutes for a minute. I skirted wide around the auto court with a window at the bar. Stipple was there with his nose in a beer glass but no bagging. I settled the building quietly, found nothing but indignant spiders and dark corners and decided to try the grease rack again. When the back door to the bar opened, moon came out with a flashlight and a pair of garbage. It was halfway to a rack of cans when he froze. Like a bird dog with one foot in the air. Holy mackerel! A flashlight stabbing at a man's hand, hanging out over the edge of a shallow ditch. Look, this there. There's somebody laying in the ditch. I wonder I couldn't find him. It's bagged with a knife in his back. Our star Gerald Moore. We continue with the second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's story, The Smokeout. Using Pudgy's circle known as Moon was already worrying less about why murder was spoken than what the violence playing of the truck driver was going to do to his roadhouse business as usual didn't make the whole thing. Dave Brasso, that Monday Stipple, all of them. They can take their trade and they're trouble-summer's else. I gotta make a buck like the next, but I sure ain't just gonna do it this way for overnight. Wait a minute, Moon. What troubles are you talking about, Brasso and Stipple, I mean? What is it?  It may be important. To who? To me and the law, to bag it here. A girl who died a little ahead of her time. A girl who worked? A little bit of talking and scripting. Yeah, sure I am. And we don't have time for that, do we, Moon? Yeah, let go of me. Are you gonna talk? Well... Okay, okay, I'll tell you. You didn't know any of that.  All right, but make it fast. What's that up? What is it, Moon? Too much complication. Another so-do-top did run by a guy named Mike... He's been picking Brasso's cuffs off on US 101 every other night. Sometimes it's a well-planned ice-and-dent, and sometimes it's sloppy high-jagging, but it all hurts, it's trouble. Trouble Brasso can't prove, is that it? Yes. That's the reason for Mondi, Stipple, and their meetings out here. Stipple's supposed to get the proof for what they're doing. They want a guy going for the comics tomorrow. Oh, that's Brasso, Moon. Oh, and like I said, I've had enough. For my dough, it's time to call a cop. Brasso was out in front by no more than 30 seconds, so as I ran toward my car and the wall of death's tires had kicked up, I figured I had an even chance of catching up with him before he got back to Santa Monica and into heavy traffic. But I figured differently when I had one hand on the door of my car. I had to. Company said so. I'm holding it down. Please don't move. She was standing someplace behind me, and when I did her toes, she moved around in a wide, careful arc until we faced each other across a chunk of dark night. It revealed only two things. One, she was holding a gun until there was no mistaking her. This was a lady in black.  Go in here for me. Now, wait a minute. I'm sure we can talk. Please, let me handle it. Okay. Now what? Now, whoever you are, you can look for these while I drive. Hey, listen. I don't want to be in the crowd. Now, wait a minute. Oh, I get it. You're afraid something will jar the sale price you've set for Brasso, huh? Yep. What are you talking about? That ever-stinking routine known as blackmail. It'll be very specific. A mystery witness, you, the lady in black, will almost get to the police to tag a killer. Almost that she could scare that killer into a generous frame of mind when next they meet. In other words, baby, it was all an act of pressure play on Dave Brasso. Now it's time to collect who I want. No, you don't. You just do as I say. You just turn around and walk. And think a little. Think about the pistol shots that you neglected to mention, which somebody took at me while I almost went to the police. Or did I do that myself? Also, for the sake of Mr. Brasso's frame of mind. It's possible. I don't think so. Now go and start walking. You don't make much sense standing here. Then move away from her. She backed off quickly and caught a car that was nuzzling a high gate near the far side of the road house. So I knew that any move I intended to make had to be done right, then and there. She must have known just as much because that was when the gun she held got mad enough to start spitting my wrist. I drove for the gravel at my feet. Then practically followed my way across a dozen uncomfortable yards of chop rock to the shore of a line of flash cans. All of which left me scarred, and in time there was nothing more effective than a swear. I had a pair of peeping pere lights on a green sedan that were already winking out of sight. Didn't help much. Let's give it again. Now, what's it this time? So Brasso's typical asian? Well, he isn't. That's funny. No, I don't think so. I only think you're funny. The Panic Marlowe. Moon and I have been watching you comb that gravel out there, searching for the key.  And just so you don't go on looking that way, don't bother playing so wide-eyed about Brasso being in here either. You see, I know you know he isn't. It won't work, sunny boy. Maybe a little pressure will. I doubt it. I don't bend easy, Marlowe. Also, I don't happen to know where Brasso went. But just so nobody gets too upset or quick with a gun, maybe we have to go back over to the bar to chat. Moon's expecting me. Sorry, this is cozy you're there. It won't do. Once the cups start pouring in, incidentally it makes it your turn not to play dumb. I mean Ernie Baggett being very dead out in the back. Even Stephen. Hi, Marlowe. Yeah. Okay. I know about Baggett. From Brasso. I said I heard you. Nice night. What do you mean, Marlowe?  What? Nothing Brasso can't pay off anymore. You said I was protecting him. I worked for Dave Brasso, period. Maybe knocked off a couple of people and I'm not saying he has. It's got nothing to do with me. What's done is done. It doesn't include the girl. True. Not with this. What's the difference? What happens to her? She's living on bad time right now anyway. Look at her. Why? Because of what she knows? No, no. Because of the way she handles what she knows. All that gab in the papers. Now, she's lucky those three shots that were thrown at her only came out of a pistol. Could have been a howitzer considering the advance notice she gave. Hey, Moon. What? The cop's here yet? No, they ain't. I heard the girls take five minutes, ten minutes to go. I sure wish they'd get here. Don't worry, they will. No mama will it be. Hey. Hey, private detective. Come out of it. What's up? Around here, simple nothing. Nothing at all. Where are you going? The 77 Market Street. The Brasso produce company. I think it's where both your boss and the lady in black are going to get together. What gives you that idea? A hunch, simple. Just a hunch. Goodbye. It was a half a block of corrugated metal warehouse crouched behind a wide loading rack with your 2 a.m. button with enough noisy fresh vegetable business to turn night into day. When I was out of my car clear of the whirling electric hand shot I'm picking my way in the same crowded lettuce place for the cage-marked dispatcher. I kept wondering how a guy who built an outfit like this single-handed could have possibly made the mistake. I think it was him. I stopped wondering whether they should have been stolen from a horse left himself falsely inside of the cage and yelled at me. Well, what is it, mister? What's up there? Well, I'm busy here. My phone! Brasso's not in his office, mister. I'm not sure where he is. I'm not sure.  No, private detective. With expense account, will five help? He just paid 10. Oh, let it rain. Come on, bust through this account. Yes, keep it down, will you? She's been around for maybe 20 minutes before she's got talking to me. Not a bad-looking doll, is she? All right. Come on, you got your 10 cents. Hang on just a minute. Where? The old shed in my back. Used to be a warehouse. They've got a real private office there. You'll probably catch up there if you're robbed. I'll probably try. Thanks. A medley huddle of posh cob of teetering at the edge of a deserted cobblestone hour. A flicker of lights from an open door deep inside of a building in front of a garden. It was no surprise. I didn't want to be interfered with. I meant out that. Now without shouting, who are you? The one thing a private detective named Philip Marlowe. Another guy is still working for Vera Hamlin. You... You were working for Vera? That's right. But not swinging in the dark. Which means what? That you never saw Vera Hamlin killed in the first place. And that all this lady in black was as old as her strictly a smoke out. Vera was my sister, Marlowe. Her letters told me all about Dave Braco. A footy mentor. A rapper run around she was getting from him. So you added that to her only hit and run accident and decided to pose as a surprise witness. So that Dave Braco would try to pick you off and reveal himself as your sister's killer. If you look through it. Right. And now Marlowe, you... Marlowe, quick. Get back. Braco just turned that light off in there. He's coming out. Then I'm going to meet him. No, don't! Listen! If you want to help, say where you are. Keep quiet. One slow step at a time taught a long-distance triangle of light the open warehouse door spilled across the sawdust flooring. I slid my 38 from shore to host the right hand of the hand on the back of my next car to the crawl. And suddenly there was nothing to do but wait. You can stop right there, Mr. Braco. Huh? Who's there? Who are you? A girl named Pamela, Mr. Braco. Friends of Pamela. A girl who knows all about how my sister really is. It was only a sudden flash of light when I was taking it. It was a pistol raised and aimed at the back of Pamela's head. It was all the cure I needed. Drop it! Braco!   Molo, Molo! Quickly, Braco, sit up. Yeah, but he's harmless, honey. He and Stipple are on the same team as far as your sister's concerned. Did you hear that, Braco? Yeah. I heard you, Molo. But then... then Stipple killed my sister. Call Molo. I don't know. He's the one to ask about that. All right. Why, Stipple, Dave? Why did you do it? Dave, stay back. Why?  You worked for Weber for the guy who was wrecking our business. No! Yeah, Dave, please. I didn't know what I was doing. She was going back to you to tell you what she saw. You... You must be double-crossing her! Hey, hey! That's enough! No. No, it isn't. Please, Dave. I've got something to finish. Pushing our deadline on a bulldog assistant. Yeah, yeah. We work for daily papers, man. You've been holed up in that warehouse with Molo on that heavy for a half hour now. What gives? Hey, how bad is Stipple's wound? Well, the wound is nothing. It's just scratch, although I wouldn't say he ain't hurt. But the story, you'll have to wait until I'm done at headquarters. I haven't got it all myself. Oh, there's lots of time for it. Listen, Abbott, Monty Stipple killed both Vera Hamlin and Ernie Beckett.  I'm tired. Tomorrow, huh? No, no, no, no. We can talk then. Well, it's something like this. Back at Moon's Point, Stipple told me how lucky the lady in black was. Only three shots were thrown at it. And he has no way of knowing how many shots had been thrown, huh? He's a better boy. Unless, of course, he'd throw them himself. Sure. The planters had a smokeout plan which was an inspiration to me because knowing Stipple was a liar and proving it was two different things. So you led him to the warehouse and while Liz Hamlin, he had guns for Brussels, Stipple had guns for her. You're so right and good night, Lieutenant. Oh, no, no, listen, Marlowe, I guess... Good night, Lieutenant. Okay, okay. Good night, Phil. Good night, Lieutenant. Good night, Lieutenant. Thanks, Marlowe. And... And what? More questions? Uh-huh. But not under vital statistics. Oh. Uh, Marlowe, one way or another my crazy plan has worked, right? I guess so. Well, then tell me, now that Stipple's caught and let go all over, am I supposed to feel good? I don't know, baby. Maybe that's what's so scrolly about revenge. Cut all the permanence of a smoke break even when your positive is justified. Figure it. I had one that started fed up with this city and the aimless, milling mob of shallow people. But now as I drove through the quiet, empty downtown streets, listen to Francis Tamsen talk about his sister who had never done anything but nagging about those money rubbers. I thought instead about the ones like you getting in trouble because other people won't realize the world is not for sale. These are the ones to keep in mind. And that was when I decided that I was only tired, not whipped, not fed up. This is Raymond Chandler's most famous character, star Gerald Moore and are produced and directed by Norman McDonnell. Script is by Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Lynn Ellen, Bonnie Phillips, John Daener, Jack Krushen, Polly Bear, Edgar Berrier, Byron Cain, Hugh Thomas, and Bill Wally. The sexy lieutenant, Matthews, is played by Larry Dobkin. The special music is composed and conducted by Richard Oron. We'll be with us next week when Philip Marlowe says...


So, yeah, my name is, as I said, Jose Garcia working in the Android team since the beginning of 2017. So I'm going to talk about the, the, the hospital considerations in this session. That is basically meaning how we can use the application in order to show data in, in, in the map. So, you know, the, the idea is to we have different resources that can be listed in a map. So one of them can be the track identity instance, you know that you can design a target entity type to record to collect the GPS coordinates. You can come to coordinates with the Romans with events with the elements and attributes, you know, you can define a diamond or an attribute that is which type which value type is coordinate. Okay, and also the, and also the unit. We're going to see how we can use these concepts in the test to how we can use them in, in, in Android, in the application. So the basically that in the two main data coordinates that we can collect in in the access to at least that makes sense for Android polygons and points. Okay, so polygons we basically is a representation of polygons in a map, an area. That is defined with several coordinates representing the latitude and latitude. Okay, and then we have points. And also to say that the, the polygons coordinates are not like supported yet by by that elements and attributes. Okay, only this makes it solely for the, well, this only supported for the eyes and Romans and events. While the points at the end is just a single coordinate with the latitude and latitude. So in the Android application we in the Android mobile application we support both kind of coordinates polygons and points. So basically how can we set up this in the in the in the access. So if we want to track coordinates at the track entity instance level. So we need to go to the track entity type. I want to show you in a moment in a demo. Let me go through the slides we need to go to the track entity type and then in the track entity type that in this case we are using the person. There is a there is a field that is called feature type so basically there we need to select the point as the as a feature type. Okay, and then the point of polygon. These are the options and then when we are recording a case a COVID case so we can like specify always for collecting data. The current location if we click on this button over here or then we can set up any location that we want in a month just clicking in this in this button over here. Okay. The track entity instances, the same for the enrollments, the romance in this case we need to go to the program itself because I'll run and of course, all of you know that belong to a program. So in the Roman details we, we will see this field here that is a feature type and we have to select point of polygon. And then it's the same we can do in that entry, then we are going to have an enrollment screen of entry we are going to have a field that is a Roman coordinates. We can represent what is the current location or send select any location in a month. For, for events here that I use case can be where the person is when the person when the when the event is recorded collected so so in this case it will be in the in the program stage level. In the, in the details. So there is also a feature type. So here we need to select this point of polygon. So if some of these are active. So then, yes. Can I share the question from the from slack. The question is, when would you choose a point or a polygon. So, well it really depends on the use case. So for instance, well, probably, if you want to show a location of a household or where the person is where a person live where the village, where the location of the village is. Maybe you normally want to, to use a point as the GPS coordinate, and a polygon maybe is just for for defining an area in mind that you need to conduct an investigation in a particular area because there are many COVID cases or there are many malaria cases is quite useful in in surveillance scenarios. In this case, you will say okay I would like to define my focus area on this particular I know your graphically. Yeah, area and then you can select like the different GPS points in the map as well. For that. So yeah we say that this is the most common use cases for focus investigations. As answer the question. I think that's okay. Thank you. If not, please send the following questions in either slack or the chat. Thank you. Okay, so this is for programming stages. And then for the elements and attributes and attributes. You in this case I have defined one that is location of the village that can be but as I said before one use case can be where the patient has traveled. Okay. And I have like a collection of points that can be an attribute or a element is more or less the same depending on on the on your design that you can specify with them like where the patient has been went in the, I don't know in the last week or in the last month in the last year. And that's as a new case for this. So in this case you need to mark the location of the village which value type of coordinate value type. And then in the one in this case this represents an enrollment so you can see here the value of the of the of the attribute. And in this case we are really accepting points not volumes. Okay. And for the elements is the same. And the last one is the is their unit attribute. Okay, so you know that we can define also an attribute that which value type is our unit. And in this case, it will represent like a during that entry, you will have a draw not likely in this case it represents the Sierra Leone, your graphically in which you have to select first the district the type of rooms and or the district of regions that the type of rooms until the facility level. Okay, and you have to select one by one. And then you select the district and then they will show the different regions under the district and then you select a region and we show up the different chapters and under the region. Okay. And so, if I'm going let me go now to the test to just to do a quick recap of all this. So, in this case, I am with my if I'm going to the track entity type. I'm a person and you will see that the future type is selected as a point. So, so you can see that's a polygon but in this case, in my case is is point. So this means that whenever I am like this. We have a program which targeted type is person. So you, you have the option of collecting the coordinates for that particular. Okay, so this is for track entity types. And now let me go to the program view. I'm going to, I guess you have you all of you all of you have access to this program the control registration and follow up so we are going to do the exercise based on this program. Okay. So if you click here. Okay, and then you will see that in the moment details, you have also the, the, the feature type over here. So this means that you could also collect GPS points at the moment of enrollment of the person. But part as part of the program, not that the, not that I can do the instance, but part of the program. And then what, as I said before, we also can collect coordinates at the event level. Okay, so in this case, I have just select one of this of these symptoms. And in the symptoms, you can see here that we also have future type here. So it is, it's been set up as a point so we can also collect now a GPS point at the moment of the creating an event. Okay, and also, well, I have the final attribute. Okay, that is the location of the village. Okay, I'm basically this attribute. The value type is correct. Okay, so it will also collect GPS. Okay, so let me this is regarding the configuration but now how can I use this in the in my Android app. So let me go back to my presentation. Okay, these are the different features that we can visualize in a map in the assets in in Android. So we can visualize track identity instances we can visualize enrollment events that I am in our attributes, this is new from two dot four, but not our unit. Okay, for the unit if you are collecting, because an attribute or an attribute is which is a value type of an attribute is an or unit. So we will be able to collect the data as an or unit but we are not going to be able to show that or unit in a map. Okay, this is not have something implemented in Android application yet. Okay, so, so now I feel that, well, you have all the options in the presentation, but I'm going to run a demo, then you can, you can see the presentation whenever you want. So let me. Okay, hopefully, you all can see this. I am showing the Android application now, if you cannot see, let me know. Okay, thank you. So, I am going to as I said before, our program for doing the exercise is going to be this one, the content registration and follow up so I click on this one. Okay, so we have a list of the eyes here. Okay, so let me filter by. I see this coin. A bit slow now. Okay, but let me filter by the Roman date. Okay, we have kind of a delay with the screen so I'm going to share the screen again so about the technical difficulties. Let me close this. So I'm going to select the last month. No, it's going. Okay, so now I have selected the last month and now it's only me only the T is of the last month and now you see that we have a button here that is to represent the T is in a map. So I click here. Okay, so this is the T is that are in the in the map so I can like move through them. And also you see here that we are going to have like a carousel in the bottom. So, and I can use that carousel to move between the, between the different, between the different. Okay. And you. So you can navigate quite easy using the using the carousel moving to the right or to the left. Okay. And here we are going to only to show this point only to show the, the T is that has a basically corvines, otherwise we cannot represent the minimum. So we have also like the different buttons over here, this button represents the where the, where is the current location. So if I click on this button, it will like, it will zoom the, the application to the current location where the user is in this particular moment. Okay, so this is working. Okay, this is where I am right now. Okay. So, as you can see we have also this bottom that this represents basically the, the layers of the, of the, of the that we can use in the in the map.  And in this button I can like show. I can click. Okay, I can like select between the street view that is the default view that we have in the application but but also a satellite view. I can click on the satellite view and see that how everything changed to basically basically a satellite view. Okay. And then we have also like other layers here so basically the, the, the default one that is selected is the, is the, is the TI coordinates. Okay, but we can also see, as we have selected, you know, we have set up the, the, the program stages, the symptom program stage with, with a coordinate with the feature type with point feature type and also we have, we have the location of the village that is the attribute and we have the, the also the, the enrollment so we can select all of these in the, in the, in the application. So I'm going to go through my presentation because this is going a bit slow. So, sorry about that, but basically I think that you can follow well here as well. So, these are the different buttons that we have the map layers that has that is what I was paying before the current position that they will show you click on this button and it will like zoom to the current position of the user. And you are selecting a particular TI. You can like also navigate sweet using the, the, any map application that you have stolen in your device. So in this case I have Google maps and maps me. So in my that you that the user is a health worker that needs to conduct an investigation for malaria for COVID in a particular household. And then, if you have recorded the household with a GPS point, then you can easily navigate to the, to the, to the location of the household using this, this button over here. Okay, so I think that this is quite useful for this kind of scenarios. So in the in the map layer in this case what we can see is the that we can select the as I said before, the vast satellite satellite as our base map. Okay, but also, we can select all the layers by default is the we are going to have the, the T is the T I coordinated in a map. Okay, as the default layer, but also we can, as I said, we can like show the enrollment coordinates, the symptoms, but in this case symptoms, you know, it's a program stage of the content registration program. Okay, which features that is point location of the village because we have an attribute, which value type is coordinates, and also we can show the also hit maps as well. So if I am like selecting here, for instance, the in the map layers I'm setting the, the T I coordinates and the location of the village. Well, in this case is for attributes, I have selected the location of the village so it's, we can see that now the T is have been represented with you can see this kind of a square over here because this is the icon that represents the this layer here. So basically now these, these two points, GPS points represent the location of this, the location of the list of these persons of these days. We can also show like different layers at the same time, of course. Like here we have like, if we want to show the, the events we can, at the same time, we can show the T I coordinates that are represented with a cycle over here, and then the the symptoms that are representing with this kind of figure. Okay. So, I mean, a use case for this is can be the T is represents where the, the person lives, and then maybe the, the event, symptoms event represents where the person has been tested. Okay, can be in this particular area. Okay. So let me, let me see if I can like now. Okay, so I don't know if you have any questions or about the difficulties. Jose, I have the emulator running in case you want me to demo something I can do it. It's working fast for me. So I think there's probably your screen sharing. So let me know if you want anything. Okay, so, yeah, maybe you can share this green Jaime. Yeah, I can see a screen. So, yeah, basically, okay, as you go to the control registration and follow up. Okay, and then you can like, yeah, but you can filter by the, the enrollment, the date of the last month, because otherwise you are going to have the enrollment date. The enrollment date is, yeah. And the last month. Sorry, I was muted. Sorry. I was saying that I think it's when you share because for me was working much faster when I'm not sharing, but yeah. So you have the sample. Okay. Yeah, so, so now, okay, so all the TIs are there so probably if you go to the map layer. Okay, so there is where yeah we have the, then the, the location of the bill is the location of the bill is the attribute that we have set up the symptoms, the events. So if you click on the symptoms, Jaime, as well. Maybe you can zoom in a bit. Okay, so I don't know why those are black. But basically there, you can zoom out a little bit. We can see at the same time, like, TIs, the coordinates of the TIs, but also the coordinates of the where the event has been collected. So we can have like the both both core type of layers at the same time. Okay, so basically that in the north is the is the coordinates of the events and the one that is in the, those ones that Jaime showing now and if you go to the, you zoom out a little bit and you go to the south, we can see the coordinates of the TIs. So, yeah, we can combine any layer here. Yeah, and I think that enough for the session if there are no questions, sorry about the difficulties if there are no questions. Maybe we can go through the exercise. Going to share my screen again. Thank you Jaime. Okay, so the exercise. Well you have 15 minutes to commit to exercise now. So at the VATs are to know how to add coordinates to the track identity instance. Okay, to know how to visualize them in the application and to know how to use the different map layers that we were showing like a five minutes ago. So basically what you need to do is that you need to enter three cases in your country city with different locations. Okay, so the important the program that you need to use is this one. Okay, the contact registration and follow up program. Okay, so you need to perform that entry that entry on this problem that everyone has access to. Okay, there is also an in an attribute that is an image attribute. So whenever you are adding creating a new K, a new TI, be sure that you can take a photo, please use that attribute because then we will actually show all the, all the results in a map. Okay. So take a screenshot or maybe you can add a picture from the gallery for the gallery. Yeah, so use this use that attribute to collect data as well. And then you have to visualize your case in a map. And if you have like collected these attributes so then you will see the image collected, and then you need to synchronize your case with a server. Okay, you have to do these things. Remember to use the correct program contact registration and follow up. And about the submission. We want to see the three screenshots of the map showing the three days that you have collected. Okay, with the image. So this needs to be one screenshot per TI. Okay, and then play a little bit with the zoom and one screenshot where all the days are visible in the map as well. So before screenshots in total. Yeah, I don't know if it's clear or you have any questions.


Aga in America is a Polish YouTuber known for her raw vegan fruteria diet that has garnished quite a bit of attention recently. She showed videos of her newest baby boy and it's very apparent something is very wrong.  Even when clothed, it's very apparent he is starving. A Polish girl sent me pictures from Aga's Instagram story of the child without a shirt. Truly horrifying. This is the definition of rickets, a disease of children caused by vitamin D deficiency characterized by imperfect calcification, softening and distortion of the bones, typically resulting in bow legs. I guess he's just not doing the vegan diet right. Or is he detoxing? The only thing I've ever seen her feed her first child, her daughter, is raw fruit. The child even throwing it out half the time it was given to her. Ridiculous things like blended slop smoothies and mason jars half the size of the child. Both her and her significant other look like a pair of Scandinavian bones and clothing. They can play resurrected corpses in any medieval video game. Her cook of a husband is looking more and more like her every day. I think she might be bigger than him at this point. The facial development of their first child hasn't suffered much yet or at least deviated from what is the norm now.   Then these demons have the nerve to go for another child. Aga, being proud of her skeletal figure, even just moments before giving birth, clearly way too thin and deprived of nutrition. When the baby was born, he had a severely receding chin, notably different than the previous child. Looks like Aga is just about out of those animal nutrients from her past life thriving on meat. In a video where she announced her diagnosis of a brain tumor, her husband had the nerve to imply they were more educated than professional doctors on certain topics. When we have our meetings with these professionals, we ask a lot of questions. Oh yeah. And we usually were well researched before we have the meetings with them. And so we sometimes know a little bit more than they do about certain topics and they're kind of surprised at that.  Then he starts talking about detoxing after her pregnancy. Now after the pregnancy, we had already discussed the idea of her going to or detoxing afterwards. She's wanted to detox for a long time, do some kind of a fast or something. But I couldn't because I was pregnant and you can't redo that stuff, don't do that stuff when you're pregnant. Right. So we've always been putting that on hold. And so we were kind of waiting for a good time to do it. I did do the juice cleans, if you want to call it like that. People use all kinds of phrases and words to describe it. But anyways, I did make a video about it and I'm not sure which one will go first, this one or the juice one. But I did do two weeks on juices only and then the whole month or even more than a month more really because I still mostly drink now. I eat, but I mostly drink juices. So I did that. This was something that I wanted to do. I can't make this up. She literally did a juice fast after giving birth to her second child. A period of time where the mother is normally breastfeeding her child on nourishing foods, getting it to develop optimally. That being said, this woman did have her breasts removed several years ago out of fear of cancer. Then this dimwit genuinely thought a juice cleanse would shrink her tumor. I was pretty positive about it. I felt that it would either be the same size of a nickel or maybe even smaller because of the juice cleanse and the fact that she's had a really good diet all through the pregnancy. I was very optimistic. But guess what happened? She didn't even wait too long. She said, it's high, how are you? And normal thing. And then she sat down and she said that, unfortunately, she said the tumor increased in size significantly, she said. And that meant 25%. So it's 25% bigger than it was before I got pregnant. The last scan a few months before I got pregnant. Which is? Almost right before I got pregnant, I think. Which is about, I think it was about two centimeters or about the size of a quarter. And she thinks her juice cleanse was healing it. Oh my God. Now the oncologist said that it's possible that I had a headache. I had the headaches because of the brain tumor that I have. Which I don't believe in such a coincidence. To be honest that it started happening at the same time when I was juicing. So I left me finished. So when Nathan said that the tumor is doing something, that there's something happening inside. Then I thought, okay, so what if I did that? What if the juice cleanse started doing something with the tumor in my head to get rid of it? And that's why things started happening. It's a busy healing. Yes, because I do not believe in such a coincidence that my headaches mean symptom of the tumor started happening at the same time when I did the juice cleanse. I just, you can take whatever you want and you can have your own opinion. But I personally don't believe that this is the case. Well, the fact that after the juice cleanse, your headaches went away. Right, when I started eating, I would still have the headaches. And then when I started eating, and I still drink a lot, but I eat also. So when I started eating, then my headaches started giving me smaller and then they stopped. They decided not to opt for surgery. I was reading some YouTube channel and in a comment, somebody said, you know that Lauren Lockman guy seems to have all this stuff really figured out. And that was it. I said, huh? Well, that guy sounds pretty confident in a mud. I'll go check it out. So I wouldn't check out Lauren Lockman. Discovering Lauren Lockman, another vegan whack job. 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to my channel and welcome if you're new here spring has sprung it is 67 degrees today so I was feeling like a yummy spring dessert I wanted it to be not only clean eating but also WW friendly and what screams spring more than lemon so I am making a WW friendly clean eating a lemon bar these are phenomenal seriously these are so incredibly delicious you can have one every day because they fit well within your smart points so if you want to see this little fun spring baking video stay tuned for today's spring baking recipe we're gonna be doing a healthy lemon bar both my husband and I love lemon bars so I cannot wait to make these so let me show you what's in today's recipe you're going to need some flour of your choice you could use all-purpose whole wheat I opted for the organic oat flour from the Thrive Market I will have Thrive linked down below for you guys you know I love it so much it's a great online resource for organic good whole foods they have food household baby pet you name it there's even a link down below for $20 worth of free product when you join the Thrive Market so you're gonna see a lot of products from Thrive in today's videos and in most of my videos so this oat flour comes from there also from Thrive I have this organic coconut flour coconut oil maple syrup eggs salt honey and a big lemon so let's get started on today's dessert so the first thing we need to do is put together the crust of our lemon bars so I have three quarters of a cup of my flour and again I'm using oat flour but you could use really whatever flour you want to use we also have one third of a cup of coconut oil so add that one quarter cup of maple syrup and then we want about a fourth of a teaspoon of salt so I just have some pink Himalayan salt here so we're gonna go ahead and add that give this a stir you want to make sure everything gets combined really really well you want it to form a wet dough kind of like you would if you were making cookies a similar to a cookie dough and then we'll get this ready to go into our baking pan and into the oven go ahead and grab out an 8 by 8 pan and a piece of parchment paper we're gonna go ahead and take the crust mix and put it into the bottom of our baking dish and then we're actually going to use our hands to spread this out nice and even in the bottom and this is going to go in a 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes we want the crust to pre-cook so when we make our lemon it stays on top like a traditional lemon bar instead of soaking into the crust so we want to give our crust a little bit of a bake before we add in the lemon so our crust is ready to go into the oven 350 for about 15 to 20 minutes while our crust is in the oven we're gonna go ahead and put together our filling so first I have six eggs that I went ahead and just cracked separately you know me and shells so I always crack my eggs separately we also have one half of a cup of fresh squeezed lemon juice and one third of a cup of honey this is the raw honey from Trader Joe so it's nice and thick compared to traditional honey so make sure we get all that out of there we're also going to add the zest of our large lemon it wants about four teaspoons of lemon zest which is pretty close to what that large lemon did and then I have four teaspoons of coconut flour and last but not least just a pinch of salt give this a good whisk you want this nice and combine do be aware that it is going to be runny and don't panic if your lemon curd is pretty runny because it is supposed to be that way I made sure I read that part in the instruction so I didn't panic myself so give that a good mix until everything is nice and combine all right the crust is out of the oven we're gonna let this cool for just a couple of minutes and then we'll go ahead and add on the lemon portion of our bars and get this back into the oven all right and the last step is the lemon right on top of the crust and then this is going to go back into the oven for 30 additional minutes and then we're gonna let it cool completely before we cut our bars but oh my gosh this looks so good my bars may not be perfectly square but you know this is my first time doing this recipe so we're gonna go with it so this is going back in the oven all right I just pulled the lemon bars out these look so good they do need to cool completely before we cut them we are going to add a little bit of monk fruit powdered sugar to make them all the things like real lemon bars so as soon as these cool we'll get these cut and I'll be back to show you our completed dessert and give you the smart points all right so here are the lemon bars go ahead and cut them into 16 servings I have some more sitting over here but these are the completed lemon bars these look so good you guys they have that nice thick kind of graham crackery crust the lemon on top I just dusted them with some of the monk fruit powdered sugar for zero points so you can have one bar for five smart points on both the blue 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Will the Minister ask Ellie MelQu가nt, herby on her time this afternoon. But can we move on now to members' business? In the name of James Dornan.等 dim on congratulations to The Witch campaign to call time onzd dating on nousford's calls in Scotland as well as the thumbnails that can urge members or ask members who wish to speak in this debate to press their requesthold now. I call on James Dornan to open the debate. I would like to start off by congratulating which on their continuing campaign to end the scourge of nuisance calls. Over the past two years, my office, as I suspect, has received a disturbing number of complaints from constituents regarding the volume, timing and intimidating nature of those calls, which I had been plagued with myself. I hadn't realised that my memory was getting so bad that I kept on forgetting all the accidents that I had been involved in. For me, it's a bit of a nuisance. For many of our most vulnerable citizens, this has led to scams that have deprived them of their savings, their security and their dignity. This is a vile practice and completely unacceptable. I have a number of examples here where people, one woman from Scotland who was done out of £6,000 for solar panels and once she handed over the money, she never heard from them again. There's a number of other cases where people have been distressed by it, but where they've been severely affected by it both financially and psychologically. That has highlighted that 81 per cent of Scots has received a nuisance call in the past month, with 41 per cent of respondents citing a feeling of intimidation as a result. They also report that 79 per cent of people support greater accountability for the actions of these companies. As a Glasgow MSP, I'm delighted that I'm the one who's been able to raise the issue. Glasgow, unfortunately, holds the title of having the largest amount of nuisance calls—52 per cent of calls made in Glasgow are nuisance calls. That is something that needs to be dealt with very seriously. I was delighted to see the cabinet secretary, Keith Brown, announce a £50,000 fund to install call-blocking technology for those most at risk on nuisance calls. I think that that is a very important step forward. That is an issue where I thought the whole chamber would agree on two things. One, that we all applaud these practices, and I believe that we all do. I've got no doubts about that. The other was to just welcome the Scottish Government's funding to introduce these new measures. I forgot about Mike Rumbles, didn't I? It appears that Mike Rumbles' tactics these days are to wait for a Scottish Government announcement, claim it was his idea and then criticise the Scottish Government for not doing enough. My mum used to tell me that if I couldn't say anything nice, then not to say anything at all. That's advice that I'd give to Mr Rumbles, but at that point I think I'm going to move on. The witch campaign and the task force has highlighted a number of issues that have shared responsibility across businesses, the industry regulatory bodies and, of course, Government. Clearly, businesses should improve their direct marketing practices and ensure compliance with laws surrounding consumer consent to direct marketing. It is treated at a board-level issue under corporate risk and consumer trust. Also, active consideration should be given to join accreditation schemes. Boards should also commit to implementing the information commissioner's office guidance on collecting and buying of data and ensure that opt-outs are adhered to respect a six-month time limit on third-party consent and recognise that third-party consent is insufficient to override telephone preferences services. A business therefore must ensure that all telephone numbers purchased are screened in advance and, finally, businesses should also record standard information as proof of consent. Industry bodies of their roles to perform too, codes of conduct should place anonies in their members to follow good practice in guiding and purchasing, recording and sharing of personal consent. Any member found in breach of that practice should be accountable and face sanctions. The Competitions and Markets Authority should identify systemic harm to consumer protection and work closely with the ICO and fellow regulators to gain an understanding of the problems and identify what future action could be taken. The ICO has an opportunity to build on the existing market guidance to develop a model for firms to provide consumers with information on opting in and out, third-party consent and the controlling and revoking of consent. The new model should be produced in tandem with other stakeholders such as the chamber of commerce, the federation of small businesses and the voluntary sector organisations such as SCVO and GCVS. My view should assess what level consumer awareness of TPS is reached for landlines and mobile phone users and consider if there is a need for increased awareness and then be at the forefront of any future campaigns. Of course, all those bodies and organisations should be closely collaborating anyway to dovetail their efforts in reducing the problem stemming from useless calls. Of course, there is a role for Governments across the UK to take in the future to help to bring to an end the abuses of the current system. Firstly, directors or board-level executives should be made legally accountable for any abuses in their firms till they come to marketing operations. At the moment, the company is fine for any transgressions. However, companies can be dissolved and reformed under new names with the same directors, the same addresses, selling the same product, a practice known as phoenixing. Directors and other responsible-named individuals in firms may be a bit more mindful of the fact that we are going to be imposed on their personal finances instead of a firm that they can close the next day. Governments should participate in cross-sector business awareness campaigns such as the ICO, OFCOM and others to encourage the adoption of accreditation schemes. The department of culture, media and sport should review the news and calls action plan to assess the recommendations and give consideration to any new recommendations. Also, Governments should adopt an anti-news call policy and execute the procurement process for call centres. I would like to draw the chamber's attention to the Canadian national do not call list DNCL, which is designed to reduce the number of unwanted telemarketing calls. All telemarketers must be registered free of charge with the national DNCL. The consumers must register to have their mobile and home phone numbers included. Their details are added within 24 hours after registration and companies are 31 days to update their calling list. Registration is permanent, however, consumers can have their details removed on request. Regular telemarketers include those who make calls to sell or promote a product or service or request donations. A subscription must be pursued for the purchase of the area codes intended for use. Numbers must be downloaded from the national DNCL, then deleted from active calling lists, which firms must maintain but never call. If a consumer is asked not to be contacted, their name and number must be added to internal do not call lists within 14 days, and those numbers must never be called. The DNCL downloads must be no older than 31 days. Firms must identify who they are and ensure that the number is on display, and they can only call between 9 am and 9.30 pm on weekdays and between 10 am and 6 pm on weekends. The guidance must be complied with at all times. I am sure that we all have constituents who have been irritated or suffered worse from those calls, as I mentioned at the beginning, which have clearly demonstrated the public's feeling in this matter and have provided what I consider to be positive and realistic recommendations for business, industry bodies, regulators and government to implement and show leadership on.  Thank you very much, Mr Dornan. Normally, these debates are at the end of the day, and there is plenty of time, but today we are quite restricted. If members could keep their contributions to four minutes or less, I call Graham Day to be followed by Maurice Corry. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Let me begin by wholeheartedly congratulating my friend and colleague James Dornan on securing this debate, even though I have a depressing feeling of deja vu and rising to contribute to it. This is the third such debate that I have taken part in, the two previous occasions being in 2012, and almost two years ago to the day. We are making progress on the issue of nuisance calls, so let's acknowledge that, but the fact that we still have costs to consider it in the chamber shows that there is some considerable way left to go. It is a hugely important issue, deserving of all possible action on the part of Government at all levels. Back at the beginning of 2016, I hosted an event for which to inform members of its nuisance calls campaign. Ahead of that, I was interviewed on Good Morning Scotland. Trailing the interview, BBC Scotland ran a package in which members of the public were taking great delight in recalling how they personally dealt with these calls. Some had old abuse or wound up the call as well as others blew whistles down the phone. I have never found this matter remotely amusing. It is all very well and good for those of us who can to wind up or be abrupt in dealing with these callers, but some people, many people, do not feel able to put the phone down, let alone send the callers—that is, if there is anyone on the other end—packing.  It is frankly unacceptable that these folk reach the stage where they are unwilling to answer their phone. From the previous debates that we have had in this place on this subject, one contribution that has stuck with me was made by Liam McArthur, who revealed to the chamber that he had an elderly constituent who had been persuaded over the phone to purchase an internet security package, even though she did not own a computer. For me, that sums up the risks associated with this practice. In all your states, exactly why, as I noted earlier, Governments at all levels must take every possible action to deal with it. I welcome the Scottish Government's recently published action plan. Powers over this matter largely remain at Westminster, but there has been some limited devolution here, and it is important that we seize the opportunity that that provides. Of course, the Scottish Government itself was innocently caught up in this issue a couple of years ago, when rogue companies were cold calling, claiming to be doing so on behalf of the Government, to inform people that they had to replace their central heating boilers. I had a number of constituents getting touched, and my staff had to reassure them that the Scottish Government was demanding no such thing. People should be confident that a call purporting to be from or on behalf of the Scottish Government is legitimate. I therefore welcome the measures announced in the Scottish Government action plan in relation to this particular aspect, as I do the provision of call-blocking technology for vulnerable people and awareness-raising about protection options. I also note the call for a simpler reporting system. James Donnell referenced earlier the situation in Canada. I will not rehearse that in detail again. Suffice to say that whilst introducing such measures here might not reduce people's annoyance about calls, they would certainly afford an opportunity to determine whether the source is a number that they recognise or to get details to report the call if they so wish. The problem is not going away. If anything is growing in scale and annoyance value, data from September last year shows that 39 per cent of calls that people receive were nuisance calls. The research, as is noted by the Scottish Government, also shows that there is more of an issue here in Scotland. The voluntary steps that the Scottish Government can encourage businesses to take are, of course, welcome and would serve to highlight the firms not acting in this way. Unfortunately, we will always have companies that do not want to comply with what many of us might see as minimal best practice. It is about having a will across Government, frankly, to drive these cowboys out of business. The campaign is called calling time on nuisance calls and texts. I sincerely hope that, across the lifetime of this Parliament, we managed to persuade Westminster to act more decisively in this area than it has until now, and we can indeed call time on nuisance calls. Maurice Corry is followed by James Kelly. I thank James Dornan for bringing this very important issue to the member's debate today, which, as we know, has conducted a great campaign to raise awareness of the widespread issue that affects so many people throughout the country, and, according to their figures, nine out of 10 Scots received some form of nuisance call in the month prior for launching of their petition. In fact, the majority of members here in the chamber today will have been on the receiving end of one of those calls. Whether it is regarding personal payment insurance, otherwise known as PPI, or the possibility of being in a car accident that wasn't your fault, those calls are not always without their merits. For example, some of my constituents have received PPI compensation to which they are entitled, highlighted as a result of receiving a relevant phone call. There is, of course, a point at which those calls become a nuisance. That said, there are far more sinister phone calls that have a varying effect on different groups within our society. It is the most vulnerable of those that we need to ensure that we protect. Last year, there were over 1.8 million cases of financial fraud reported in the UK, which resulted in the total loss of £768 million. A large percentage of those were the result of unsolicited calls. Within my region, a more specifically Western Bartonshire, there was a recent sophisticated telephone scan that involves constituents being contacted by an organisation claiming to be Scottish Water regarding contaminated water supply and informing them to visit a specific website for more information, the purpose of which was, in fact, to receive their personal information. Many other members will have heard similar stories from their constituents. One point that was raised by which, within their petition, was the importance of protecting the most vulnerable groups in our society and helping to ensure that they are aware of ways to prevent these nuisance calls. For example, BT now provides on their phones, as we all know BT call guardian, which enables the homeowner to save numbers and block unwanted calls. It is important that those who would benefit from such a device are made aware of these benefits and availability. Given the scale of the problem in Scotland and the fact that these nuisance calls are ever on the rise, we must be more robust in our approach to preventing them. Perhaps, when the Scottish Government is looking at the matter, it could consider bringing some more awareness and tension to what constitutes a breach of law to help businesses to stay within the regulations, as well as cracking down on businesses who do break the law on nuisance phone calls and holding the relevant business executives to account where it occurs personally. Going forward, it is vital that we as a Parliament do not produce or create policies that encourage, whether directly or indirectly, an increase in unwanted telephone calls in order to protect vulnerable groups so as not to add to general nuisance calls, which is the vast majority of the experience in our lifetime. In conclusion, it would appear that the genuine issues such as PPI, which affect a large number of individuals, could be dealt with in a less direct and intrusive way, such as through television and radio campaigns to provide awareness to the public without causing nuisance or, in some cases, cause alarm to the people in their own homes. In my opinion, we should be protecting people and their right to privacy and peace within their own home and doing everything that we can to prevent nuisance calls in the future. Thank you. As we roll timekeeping, Mr Corry, James Kelly is to be followed by Bruce Crawford. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I start off by congratulating James Donan on securing today's debate on a very important issue. I know that Mr Donan has a consistent record campaigning on it. It is an issue that every member across the chamber will not only have personal experience of, but will have been approached by constituents in their regions and constituencies expressing real concern and anxiety about it. From that point of view, we should congratulate the work that has consistently done in raising awareness around the issue and prompting action from Governments and business on it. I think that when you look at the scale of the problem, 81 per cent of people have received a nuisance call in the last month, but it is not just the numbers. As Graham Day spoke about in his contribution, and I remember his excellent contribution in the debate that I hosted two years ago on this issue, it is the impact that it has on vulnerable people, particularly pensioners. Not everyone can dismiss a phone call that comes down the line. Some pensioners have difficulty in putting the phone down and sometimes feel that the calls are genuine. What is despicable about it is that a lot of companies are up to scams and are out to try to elicit people's bank details in order to participate in fraudulent activities and to take money off people through unjust means. That is what gets to the number of the issue and causes the real concern and alarm. In terms of how the issue should be combated, there are a number of things that can be done, first of all, around information awareness, which has been very active on. I know that I had a recent meeting with the local citizens and vice bureau, rather than in Canvas Lang and that Sharon Hampson and the team there have been very effective in getting the which packs out over the course of the campaign that they have been running. That makes people aware of the activities of those nuisance callers and helps to combat them. On a practical level, as a number of speakers have highlighted, it is important to support the introduction of call blocking technology. That can cut a lot of those calls off its source and ensure that they do not get through to people. There has to be more responsibility on companies. Those who participate in telephone activities—some will obviously do it legitimately—but there has to be a notice on those companies to ensure that their activities do not interfere with people's personal freedoms. From that point of view, the which campaign in order to ensure that companies have a director who is responsible for telephone calls at director level ensures that they take on more responsibility. Finally, action across all Governments is absolutely essential. From that point of view, I welcome the Scottish Government's action plan. An excellent debate has been brought forward by James Dornan. It affects many people and there is a notice on, as all MSPs, Governments, companies and information campaigns, to provide leadership in order that we combat those ineffective nuisance calls. First of all, like others, I thank James Dornan for bringing this very important matter to the chamber today.  I would like to use my time today to focus the effect of nuisance callers on vulnerable older people, those who might be suffering from dementia or similar debilitating illness who are at home alone. In my constituency, I am aware of one harwing case of an older person who reached out for advice after being contacted by someone claiming to be from HMRC. This was a particularly aggressive form of fraudulent nuisance callers that attempted to persuade my constituent to pay tax. They claimed that she was liable for. The caller suggested that she should do that by purchasing iTunes vouchers, passing on the relevant codes and threatening her with court action if she did not comply. Thankfully, although highly distressed by the situation, my constituent questioned the validity of the caller's claims and eventually contacted Police Scotland to report the incident. Others will not have had such a fortunate end story. This particular case demonstrates only one of the more sinister attempts to victimise vulnerable older people. It is clear how such messages cause alarm and distress among those who are on the receiving end. The problem is huge. According to research conducted by Age UK, telefon scams affect more than 10 per cent of people aged over 65, meaning that more than 100,000 older people in Scotland have been targeted. 12 per cent of those who were contacted responded to scams. However, for the over age 75 group, that figure rises to 16 per cent. It is clear therefore that the older and more vulnerable person is the more profitable they are seen by those predatory companies and individuals who would seek to exploit them. Those figures demonstrate a sign in reality in our society where vulnerable people are being used, but perhaps the more appropriate term is abused in those cases. People are losing to what for them are vast amounts of money to opportunistic and vile sharks who relentlessly deploy scare tactics against them. Nearly two thirds of people who have been scammed have not reported it. Even many are stating that they were too embarrassed to even tell their close family or their friends. From this debate today, I think that there is one thing that should ring out loud and clear, is that no one should ever be afraid or embarrassed when it comes to nuisance calls. Those calls, to use a very descriptive Scottish word, are good at what they do and can be very persuasive, but that does not mean that they cannot be stopped. Report it to the police, speak to your friends and family and let those around you know that people are being targeted in this way. I welcome the Scottish Government's investment into co-blocking technology for the most vulnerable people. It will bring some peace of mind to many older people, but there is still a lot of work to do to stamp out this activity by raising awareness. I hope that the debate that James Dornan has brought forward today achieves just that, because it is probably the biggest thing that we can do from this particular debate. His motion also draws attention to other further action that we can take to improve matters, so that I thank him for bringing the debate to the chamber today. Thank you, Mr Crawford. I call Jamie Halcro Johnston. Can I first refer members to my register of interests in relation to the business of J. Halcro Johnston and Sons, which I refer to in my speech? I also congratulate James Dornan for bringing this debate. I welcome an opportunity to debate what is an important issue for my constituents in the Highlands and Islands and what is one that is causing increasing frustration and many cases of alarm. Other members have spoken of the extent of the problem with nuisance calls in Scotland, but in addition to the wide level of irritation that is shown by calls and surveys, which showed that 40 per cent of people's surveys were also intimidated by the calls. Ofcom's research showed that around one in 10 people found the calls distressing. Those are naturally the most serious concerns, but for many of us they are nuisance, but I would ask members to consider the following scenarios, one that is likely to be played out across the Highlands and Islands at times.  In the middle of the night, the phone rings, you have no idea who it is, but you answer. There is no one at the end of the line. You do not know if it is just another nuisance call, you do not know if it is a family member or friend urgently in need of help, you do not know if it is something more sinister. Let us be very clear, nuisance calls are not just a nuisance. For many, particularly the elderly and the vulnerable, they can feel like an intrusion into their home. Some people are being forced to make themselves almost uncontactable to friends and relatives, simply to get peace from persistent callers or the volume of calls from separate organisations. I would like to touch on the experience of some in the Highlands and Islands particularly, including a personal one. We, both as a farming business and on domestic numbers, receive calls consistently from nuisance calls. Calls from overseas call centres, which almost immediately hang up the minute they are questioned, calls that ring with no one at the other end when answered. Recently, and most frustratingly, calls from companies that claim, and with some justification in some cases, to be from organisations partnered or working with the very providers who have a role in providing services and which should be working to combat nuisance calling. Only a few weeks ago at our farm, we received a call from an organisation claiming to be that our BT contract was coming to an end, needing to be renewed and a new deal was available. That was done and a sign-up confirmation was sent from BT themselves. However, when I rang BT, they clarified that our contract still had well over a year to run. They also admitted that the company that contacted us were authorised by BT to sign up customers on their behalf. We were contacted by an organisation that appears to have a relationship with BT, which is cold calling BT customers and customers from other providers, and that selling them services simply do not need. BT had done nothing to question the new and unnecessary contract, despite being on the records. I am sure that we have all heard of utilities providers providing details to partner organisations, which they then use for what are essentially cold calling sales. That certainly seems to be the case in my own example, and I will write to BT to highlight our case and ascertain what protections apply for these data sharing arrangements. It is not just the utilities. In 2014, the Highland Trading Standards even reported scam calls coming from organisations representing themselves as being able to prevent nuisance calls. I am not necessarily to keep James Dornan happy, but I hope that he will. I welcome the action taken by the Scottish Government in relation to nuisance calls, including the increase in provision of call blocking technology as part of a UK-wide work that is taking place following the March 2015 budget. Of course, which has been working closely with the UK regulators to signpost nuisance calls and tackle them under the current legislation? That has paid off with a £350,000 fine issued to a PPI sales company in September for an incredible £146 million unsolicited calls. However, there is also an important role for service providers to play to, whether it is identifying and cutting off the offending companies at source, or in providing better systems or equipment that prevents calls from reaching the home or the businesses being targeted. Combatting those calls requires government, regulators, businesses and public bodies to work together. I would like to conclude with another example of the real impact that those calls can have on example. It has done you a good time to do with another example, if you must include please. I will just move on and say that those calls are not nuisance calls, and they are certainly not victimless. Thank you very much. I wanted to make space for Liam McArthur. Mr McArthur, please. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I, too, thank James Dornan for bringing this debate. I also assure him that I will take him off the mailing list for Mike Rumble's pressure releases in the future. I can also join others in thanking Wits for their tireless campaigning on this issue. As Graham Day said, there has been progress here and they deserve much of the credit for that. However, as everybody has pointed out, there is a considerable amount to do. Those are not simply a nuisance. I think that a number of colleagues have highlighted the scams and the financial loss, particularly for some of our most vulnerable people in the communities that we represent. I think that Graham Day rightly drew attention to the most egregious example that I outlined in a previous debate. However, it is also distressing. It is also isolating. I sent an email earlier this week from a constituent who works in the care sector, and she says, I work with the elderly in their homes and many will have several calls a day claiming to be government boiler schemes, etc. They try to get down to the phone too fast and put themselves at risk physically. She also goes on to highlight the particular problems for dementia sufferers and how distressing they can find. However, boiler schemes appear to be the source of many of the problems at the moment. I welcome the Scottish Government's action programme and, indeed, the commitment from the Cabinet Secretary's colleague Kevin Stewart, who confirmed that the Scottish Government for none of their schemes uses this method of calling. The UK Government and the correspondence have had with them. I have not been able to offer a similar commitment. That is an area perhaps that further work needs to be done. However, for now, I again thank James Dornan for bringing this debate, allowing Parliament again to strengthen a strong and unambiguous message about the attitude that this Parliament takes to the nuisance calls and our commitment to continue efforts to eradicate it. I thank again which for their, as I say, tireless efforts on this particular issue. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much, Ms McArthur. I call in Keith Brown to close for the Government. Cabinet Secretary, seven minutes are there about, please. Well, not seven minutes, six minutes are there about, please. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I also congratulate James Dornan for securing this debate. I also commend the work of my colleague Patricia Gibson MP in the House of Commons for the work that she's done, which has led to some of the developments in terms of penalties now being proposed. I chaired the nuisance calls commission and very recently published an action plan highlighting what the Scottish Government will do to reduce the impact of those calls, given the powers that we have. As the motion says, which have been pretty relentless in bringing an attention to this issue and, quite rightly, and I mean relentless in the most positive sense, we've worked very closely with which and I'm grateful for their work, not only to help consumers protect themselves, but also to highlight the particular scale of the problem in Scotland. Research has been mentioned showing three Scottish cities were receiving the highest percentages of nuisance calls in the UK. It's clear that we have to do what we can do in the Scottish Government, although regulation lies with the UK Government. We know that, to the rise of what are called nuisance calls, harm individuals. For most, they are, as Graham Day said, a recurring annoyance interrupting dinner or family time, and sometimes unforgivably, I'm sure that James Dornan can relate to this, arriving just as a champion's league coverage starts. For some people, circumstances people are very particularly vulnerable. The consequences can be much worse, and they can be a source of anxiety, distress or even financial hardship. We all know the story, some of which you've heard today, about people conned out of savings, frightened every time they answer the phone, and they don't want to just stop using their phone because they want to be available for family members, and they fear the worst every time the phone rings, only to be offered, as Liam McArthur mentioned, perhaps a boiler deal that they are not interested in having. Although Bruce Crawford's example is one that I have had as well, it seems so random and so odd that somebody would pretend to be from the tax revenue and ask people to go and purchase itunes vouchers. It just seems very odd, but this is a very common situation. I had a constituent who was told to go immediately to Tesco to buy these vouchers and not tell anybody about the call. She's an older woman and was only stopped from leaving her home by somebody else who she mentioned it to in confidence. The effect that she would have had on that woman in terms of paying tax, which she had no liability for, would have been substantial, but the concern and the anxiety that were caused were unforgivable. It can be much more than a nuisance call. I think that it is a serious issue, and that issue has certainly been brought home during the nuisance call's commission. I would say that, on the Mike Rumbles's press release, it is purely miserable and ill-informed. It doesn't treat the issue as seriously as it should be treated. I think that a councillor on Angus has again just used it as a means of having a go at the Scottish Government without having informed themselves about the powers that we have or don't have. I think that it is very important to realise where the power lies in relation to some of the regulatory aspects of that. We can do some things, and that is why we have launched a fund to supply call-blocking technology to some of our most vulnerable citizens. Trading Standards Scotland has worked closely with the third sector organisations to make sure that the call-blockers go where they are most needed, and almost all units have already been allocated. Some local authorities have done a great deal of work in this area, especially in areas in which they know that there are collections or an intensity in numbers of people who are vulnerable. We are very pleased by the take-up, but it is yet another indicator of how many people those calls affect. It leads me on to the suggestion that Ofcom follow the Canadian model, as James Dornan mentioned, of requiring telecoms providers to provide technological solutions. Only a solution that blocks calls on a dramatic scale can really change the pattern of nuisance calls, and telecoms providers are best placed to make that happen. However, Ofcom have explained to the commission that we held that Canada is further behind the UK system, which explains why the regulator has imposed a duty, so its position remains that imposing one here would have little tangible impact. We are, despite that, seeing some positive steps that BT, despite what was said quite rightly by a member previously, and Vodafone, for example, offer free services to their customers that put them in control of who can contact them. Nonetheless, even people who have subscribed, for example, to the telephone preference system are not immune to receiving those calls. We would like to see telecom providers do more to follow the lead of BT and Vodafone in this area. I have written to the UK Government to urge further action if the market themselves does not provide the solutions, and I believe that the UK Government should act. In that same letter, I also urged swift action on both director accountability, which has been taken forward, and a ban on cold calling on pensions specifically. The potential harm for those most at risk is too great to delay this for much longer. I had to write the letter in the first place, which highlights that we are very constrained in the actions that we can take. I know that there has been some criticism that the commission did not achieve enough or did not go far enough, and I do not accept that. If anybody here has a suggestion but an action that the Scottish Government can take that we have not considered and proposed in terms of awareness-raising, co-blocking technology, it had the chance to write it and tell us that, and it did not do that. Even now, I am willing to accept any further suggestions if we can help to reduce the plague on people's lives that this represents. If I can end on a more positive note and highlight the progress that has been brought about by the commission, even with the limited powers, I have mentioned the co-blocking fund, but the action plan sets out a number of other steps, including a commitment to building a wider scams strategy so that vulnerable people are protected from all kinds of unscrupulous practices, amending the business pledge to include support and protection for vulnerable customers and also ensuring that Scottish Government schemes, such as the home energy efficiency initiatives, are developed in a way that minimises the opportunities for road companies to hijack them and prey on vulnerable people. The launch of the plan marked the beginning of a consumer awareness week on Euston Scalls, which we worked with, with which on. I think that James Dornan and one or two others also appeared at Glasgow Central station to lend their support to which campaign. As mentioned by James Kelly, Citizens Advice Scotland is involved in the commission, as are many other people, and I have been instrumental in leading work to raise awareness so that consumers can better protect themselves and their loved ones. That collaborative working underpins the actions in the plan as the only way to solve the problem. I encourage all my colleagues in Parliament to join me and continue to press for more UK Government action where necessary and to finding our own solutions where possible.


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